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Trading Up hosted by Jim Fitzpatrick and produced in association with EY, delves into the real businesses, personal stories, and remarkable journeys of entrepreneurs.
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Decentralised Growth: Why the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go (opens the original)
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In this latest episode of Trading Up , host Jim Fitzpatrick explores why traditional top-down central control holds scaling businesses back. Featuring business leaders across tech, retail, and travel, the episode reveals how delegating real authority to local teams drives performance and innovation. Steven McKeown, running Allstate’s European operations in Belfast, explains how shifting from rigid "on time and on budget" management to a product mindset earned them the global Tony Hsieh Award for
Oil Choke Points, AI's Reckoning, and the Great Education Slump (opens the original)
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In this episode of Trading Up , hosts Jim Fitzpatrick and Richard Ramsey tackle a sobering trifecta of global economic challenges. First, escalating Middle East conflicts and drone strikes on vital maritime choke points - such as the Bab-el-Mandeb strait - have disrupted major crude pipelines, pushing oil prices above $107 a barrel. Rising fuel, gas, and home heating costs threaten to reignite inflation and trigger central bank interest rate hikes. Next, top tech executives are unexpectedly call
Nathan Sno's Three Rules of The Game (opens the original)
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In this episode of the Trading Up podcast, host Jim Fitzpatrick talks with chef, media entrepreneur, and restaurateur Nathan Sno to explore his personal and professional journey. Nathan discusses his three "rules of the game." These are life principles forged through his own experiences. He opens up about his early struggles with unhealthy habits, a pivotal realisation during a trip to Australia at age nineteen, and his subsequent rise in the Michelin starred culinary world, which included worki
Nightmare on money street. Why bonds are coming for Trump and us! (opens the original)
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The global bond market is a $200 trillion beast, and it’s turning up the heat on our political masters. In this eye-opening episode of Trading Up , hosts Jim Fitzpatrick and Richard Ramsey expose how global investors known as "bond vigilantes" are intimidating the world’s most powerful leaders. From the UK, where Andy Burnham’s government is squeezed by £120 billion in annual interest payments, to a booming US economy choking under Donald Trump’s $40 trillion debt bomb and a costly six-month con
Ford, Kukoon, Seating Matters: Facing Reality and the Long View in Business (opens the original)
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Jim Fitzpatrick brings together three extraordinary stories of entrepreneurial grit and resilience. First, former Ford executive Lyle Waters reveals how facing reality saved an 'unsolvable' South American auto operation, turning a $1 billion annual loss into a $300 million profit. Next, brother and sister team Paul and Claire Vallely of Kukoon Rugs discuss surviving 'technofeudalism' on giant platforms like Amazon and Meta, where modern digital marketing costs can now exceed physical product cos
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