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What does it really take to disrupt an industry—and how do you know when you’re visionary rather than simply wrong? In this episode of The Tim Castle Show, Tim sits down with Walter de Oude, the entrepreneur who founded Singlife and grew it to a valuation of S$3.2 billion before launching Chocolate Finance, which now manages S$1.6 billion in assets. But this conversation goes far beyond business success. Walter reveals the experiences that shaped his relationship with money, risk and ambition—and why perpetual optimism has remained central to his journey. He shares how he challenged beliefs the insurance industry considered untouchable, handled the people who insisted his ideas would never work, and recognised the moment disruption became real. Together, Tim and Walter explore the decisions leaders must make when they don’t have all the answers: trusting your instincts, disappointing people, confronting underperformance and having the difficult conversations that define a CEO. Walter also reflects on the leadership lessons that cost him the most, the moments he came closest to giving up and how his definition of success has changed. You’ll also discover why Walter believes everybody has talent, why aligning people around a shared purpose matters more than simply fixing an organisation, and how emotional engagement can turn customers into genuine believers. This is an honest conversation about building remarkable companies, leading through uncertainty and creating teams that cannot wait to get to work. We discuss sales, mistakes founders make, how to align teams and get them rowing in the right direction and much much more. If you’re an entrepreneur, leader or ambitious professional who wants to make better decisions and build something people truly care about, this episode is for you. Follow Walter  Walter de Oude is the Founder of Chocolate Finance – a new way for you to save your spare cash. Forget fixed deposits, Chocolate Finance offers almost anyone, anywhere in the world great returns on their savings, without needing to jump through hoops to unlock them. It is built on the belief that people are looking for better returns on their cash, which in turn allows them to make their lives richer. LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/walterdeoude/ Sign up Chocolate Finance https://www.chocolatefinance.com/about-us 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

What if the education system is preparing our children for a world that no longer exists?  In this episode of The Tim Castle Show, Tim sits down with entrepreneur, author and Growth Machine founder Nat Eliason, now helping build Founders School, the entrepreneurship track of Alpha School, to examine a radical new model for learning in the age of AI.  The idea is bold: compress academics into the morning, then give teenagers the rest of the day to build businesses, sell, experiment and learn through real-world consequences.  But what happens when education starts measuring success through customers, revenue and profit?  Can failure still feel safe when parents are paying $150,000 a year?  Are schools developing grit, leadership and persuasion, or simply selecting for ambitious families already positioned to win?  And in a world where AI can increasingly write, code, research and build, is the scarce skill now intelligence or the ability to communicate, influence, take intelligent risks and make people care?  This conversation is about much more than school. It is about who we want the next generation to become.  Subscribe, share the episode, and ask yourself: what should education prepare children for now? Follow Nat  Website https://www.nateliason.com/ Enroll Now at Founders School https://founders.school/ 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

One of my favorites right here, Oli Budgen spills the beans on what he's been doing to make Bud Communications a rip roaring success.  With impact and influence as its core mission, brands are flocking to Bud Communications PR Agency. Whether no one knows about your business or you are in crisis management - Oli and the team have got you covered. We discuss how it is building a business and the tolerance with terror. How to invest in the team, when you don't have budget. How to challenge people and build a culture of curiosity. How to be compelling and attract the right talent to your business Oli felt the industry was broken and set out to fix it. He launched Bud in 2020, right into the pandemic, without an established network or a traditional founder playbook. Since then, he’s built one of APAC’s most respected communications agencies, working with ambitious challenger technology brands and deliberately putting culture, curiosity and authenticity at the heart of the business. But this conversation goes far beyond PR. We get into the reality of starting from scratch, the decisions that changed everything, the leadership mistakes that shaped Oliver, what scaling a service business really feels like, and the person you have to become when the company starts depending on you. We also explore one of the biggest questions facing communications today: If AI can create content in seconds, what becomes more valuable? Oli and I discuss why human connection, trust, originality and genuine influence may become more important — not less — as artificial intelligence changes the way businesses communicate. In this episode, we explore:  Building a company from nothing  Starting a business during the pandemic  Why Oli chose challenger brands  The hardest realities of scaling an agency  Building culture before scale  Hiring for curiosity and attitude  Leadership mistakes and changing your mind  What actually earns attention in a content-saturated world  Whether AI makes PR more or less valuable  Why authenticity matters more in the AI era  The beliefs that shape Oli as a founder  What success really means when you’re building something that matters#OliverBudgen #TimCastle #TheTimCastleShow #Leadership #Entrepreneurship #Influence #Impact Follow Oli LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliverbudgen/ Bud Communications: https://www.budcomms.com/ Bud on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bud-communications/  🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

Money can be moved, disguised and divided but can it ever truly disappear? In this gripping episode of The Tim Castle Show, I sit down with Afia Sengupta, licensed crime investigator, anti-money-laundering specialist and CEO of CAT Investigators, to explore the hidden world of financial crime, crypto scams and asset tracing. Afia explains how investigators follow money concealed through digital wallets, shell companies, overseas entities, family members and sophisticated financial networks. She reveals how seemingly insignificant clues can connect people, payments, businesses and assets that appear completely unrelated. You will discover what licensed investigators can uncover beyond Google searches, LinkedIn profiles and standard background checks—and why knowing where to look is often more important than dramatic surveillance. This conversation is about the multi-billion dollar scamming industry, it's about human psychology. We explore whether cryptocurrency is genuinely anonymous, why intelligent and financially experienced people still fall victim to sophisticated scams, and what victims must do during the critical first hours after discovering fraud. Tim and Afia examine the powerful connection between investigation and negotiation, revealing how one verified fact can transform leverage in a dispute, settlement, investment or commercial deal. How do investigators find assets that someone has deliberately tried to hide?  And what should you investigate before trusting someone with your money, business, information or heart? We talk about the role of compassion and empathy as an investigator.  Afia has worked on thousands of cases.  Listen before your next investment, partnership or negotiation, because the information you do not have may be the information that matters most. Follow Afia Sengupta CAT Investigators: https://www.catinvestigators.com/ Afia Sengupta on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/afia-sengupta CAT Investigators on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cat-investigators Follow The Tim Castle Show Subscribe for powerful conversations about negotiation, influence, leadership, human psychology and succeeding in the age of AI. 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

Context is the new cookie. Tim Castle is joined by Andrea Tortella, CEO of thrad, to explore the future of advertising in AI conversations. As consumers move from searching to asking, comparing and deciding through AI tools, brands face a defining opportunity: become useful at the exact moment intent is created. Andrea shares how thrad is approaching brand-safe conversational advertising, ad opportunity detection, AI guardrails, targeting in ChatGPT and LLM environments, and more meaningful brand interaction. They discuss why conversational ads could improve full-funnel marketing ROI, why speed matters in the new AI economy, and how the fastest-moving marketers may unlock one of the biggest economic-arbitrage opportunities in modern advertising. Interaction with the brand and the future of marketingHow Thrad and Conversational ads improve ROI and full funnel marketingWhy the companies that move the fastest will winAdvertising at the speed of culture and thoughtWhy Ads on LLMs is a massive opportunity for economic arbitrage for marketers who move fast For CMOs, founders, marketers, agency leaders and anyone shaping the future of AI marketing, this is an essential conversation. Key themes: AI advertising, ChatGPT targeting, LLM ads, conversational advertising, brand safety, ad tech, marketing ROI, contextual targeting, full-funnel marketing and the future of the CMO. If you're into AI and you want to understand how to negotiate and persuade in the modern world, get your copy of Magnetic Influence now. Also be sure to download the Magnetic Influence Framework for Claude SKILLS here https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

Today’s guest is someone who lives at the intersection of sales, performance, leadership, and personal transformation. Daniel burns shows up with Energy and Empathy.  He is the host of The Sales Problem Podcast, which I’ve had the good fortune of being on, and he brings a rare blend to the table: 22 years in sales and management, award-winning speaker, bestselling author, ICF-certified performance coach, personal trainer, and founder of BVME Coaching https://www.bvmecoaching.com/. Daniel shares how Jonny V walked into his sales room to do a training for his team and it changed EVERYTHING! He was a master communicator. Johnny V was funny, emotional, factual, asking questions that challenged your thinking.  If you every wanted to find out how to become the best version of yourself this episode is for you, we discuss what's holding you back, how to measure and track your pursuit of what you want. - Identity shift and self identity  - Destroying old patterns  - Expert speaking and communication - The power of reverse momentum - How to get unstuck  - Self awareness and how to create it - The difference between coaching and managing  - The signals of WINNING - The blindspots of high performers - The power of coaching - HPA's - Highest Payoff Activity  Follow Dan Check out BVME Coaching https://www.bvmecoaching.com/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/bvmecoaching/ The Sales Problem Podcast https://open.spotify.com/show/4HgE9dxQM6OepTny68i1J4 #coaching #selfawareness #speaking  🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

AI is changing sales faster than most people realise. But here’s the truth nobody is talking about: AI won’t replace great salespeople. It will replace average ones. In this episode, I break down: What’s REALLY happening in the job market Why traditional sales skills are dying The human skills AI still can’t replicate If you work in sales, recruitment, leadership, entrepreneurship or business development - this video will give you a serious advantage over the next 3–5 years. The game has changed. Most people just haven’t realised it yet. 👇 Comment below: What skill do you think AI will NEVER replace? Subscribe for weekly videos on: Negotiation • Sales • AI • Influence • Leadership • High Performance Get Magnetic Influence to learn how to negotiate and persuade in an AI centric world https://a.co/d/03gMjoCS #AI #Sales #ArtificialIntelligence #Negotiation #Leadership #SalesTraining #UKJobs #CareerAdvice #FutureOfWork #Influence #Business #SalesLeadership #Entrepreneur #PersonalDevelopment #TimCastle 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

What happens when one of the sharpest minds in Web3 and crypto sits down with one of the world’s leading negotiation and influence experts? In this episode, I’m joined by Kevin Follonier — founder and host of the wildly popular When Shift Happens Podcast, known for his raw, unfiltered conversations with some of the biggest names in crypto, AI, and the future of technology.   We dive deep into: Kevin’s Follonier story and where the idea for When Shift Happens came fromInterviewing billionaires like Michael SaylorThe exact formula to scale your podcastKevin’s First Domino clientHow to monetise your podcast effectively Crypto, investing and backing yourself when you’re up against itHow top performers think differently during periods of massive changeHow to deal with negative commentsThis is not a surface-level conversation. It’s a deep exploration of how to build and scale, gain momentum and win. Entrepreuners listen up. If you are starting a podcast, creating a new product, building a company and you want to learn how to stand out from the rest - this is the episode for you. 🎙️ Featuring insights, stories, and practical lessons from two people obsessed with understanding how to generate momentum, take risks, and back yourself. #crypto #podcasting #timcastle #entrepreneurship #investing #billionaires  Follow Kevin Follonier and check out  When Shift Happens. Website https://www.kevinfollonier.com/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/@when-shift-happensSpotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7JqCB5tnRky7XS7NRFWQJtLead With AI - Get $200 off the Advanced AI Leader Short Course with code Tim-LeadWithAI register at https://www.leadwithai.co/course/ai-leader-advanced Over two weeks (~30 minutes a day for 10 days), you learn by doing: building 6+ AI assistants personalized to your role, your goals, and the workflows that currently drain your time. Get Magnetic Influence out 3rd June. The Modern Negotiation and Influence playbook for the AI centric world we live it. https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Influence-Negotiate-Persuade-Disrupted/dp/1398627860 Learn how to persuade in high stakes negotiations, deal with difficult people and use AI to help negotiate better.  🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Pre-order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & #1 in the US for Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh 🧠 Courses & Training The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery Negotiator’s Edge Training Academy (AI + Negotiation) → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ 🎥 Community YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/@TimCastle Website → https://www.timjscastle.com/ 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

In this episode, I sit down with my friend Baptiste Garffin, Vice President of Sales for Happydemics for a masterclass in how to handle the pressure in sales, create a sales flywheel and the importance of not taking life too seriously.  We discuss: - how to meditate and the ideal daily process to centre yourself each day - how to approach sales targets  - how to adjust your sales strategy to new markets like Southeast Asia - how to scale companies fast - why brand measurement is important to marketers - How to measure, growth and optimise your brand Baptiste is an expert in sales and scaling businesses, he offers a no nonsense look at what it takes, the commitment and the dicisipline that goes on behind the scenes  to make sales look effortless. PLENTY OF GOLD NUGGETS in this one. Follow Baptiste on LinkedIn for more insights. https://www.linkedin.com/in/baptistegraffin/ 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

The world is changing, fast.  In this short, powerful episode of The Tim Castle Show, we explore why magnetic influence has become one of the most valuable skills in modern communication, leadership, sales, and personal growth. In a world shaped by AI, distraction, digital noise, and shallow connection, the people who win are not just the smartest in the room — they are the ones who can create trust, build emotional connection, and move others with clarity, confidence, and authenticity.  This episode breaks down why influence is no longer optional; it is a human advantage. Whether you are leading a team, building your personal brand in Singapore, negotiating high-stakes deals, or trying to communicate with more impact, magnetic influence helps you stand out and connect at a deeper level.  This conversation also introduces Tim Castle’s upcoming book, Magnetic Influence, releasing June 3rd — a modern playbook for human connection, persuasion, and influence in the age of AI. 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

If you’re building at a high level—but quietly running on empty—this episode is for you. On this episode of The Tim Castle Show, I sit down with Kerrie Lee Brown — Editor-in-Chief of SUCCESS Magazine, founder of RedLily, speaker, and author. At 39, Kerrie had a heart attack. Not because she didn’t know success. But because she was chasing it the way most people do—relentlessly, externally, and at a cost. Missing out on family moments, living for work, in the thick of the rat race and not able to give self care to herself. This conversation goes far deeper than business. It’s about the truth behind achievement. The unseen pressure. And the moment life forces you to redefine what success actually means. If you’ve ever felt driven but disconnected… ambitious but exhausted… successful on paper but questioning everything underneath—this will hit home. In this episode, we explore:  Why learning to say no might be the most powerful move you ever make  How to actually listen to your body before it forces you to  Letting go of negative energy, expectations, and outdated definitions of success  What real self-care looks like (beyond the clichés)  How to enjoy life while building something meaningful  The mission behind RedLilyLife.com—and why storytelling is a path to healing and clarity  A new definition of success that doesn’t cost you your life to achieve Kerrie shares her story with rare honesty. No performance. No filters. Just truth. And a reminder that success without health, presence, and connection isn’t success at all. This isn’t just an episode.  It’s a recalibration. Listen now—and remember what really matters. Kerrie shares her story so authentically, she gives back and shows us how to not take life for granted, and to stop and smell the roses. Follow Kerrie Website https://kerrieleebrown.com/home Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kerrieleebrown/ Red Lily https://redlilylife.com/ (no judgement story sharing) My Heart, My Self  Kerrie's Book https://amzn.to/40ZLmxF #authenticity #work #career #success #lifelessons #selfcare 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

You’re not just negotiating with people anymore. You’re negotiating with machines…  trained on more data than you’ll ever see in your lifetime. They know your pricing. Your patterns. Your pressure points. And here’s the uncomfortable truth… Most people are about to become predictable.” But the winners? They won’t be the smartest. They’ll be the most human. This is the shift most people are missing. Full breakdown in the episode 👇 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

What if the thing you’re searching for… isn’t success—but connection? In this deeply personal and powerful conversation, Tim Castle sits down with bestselling author Jon Gordon (The Energy Bus, The Power of Positive Leadership, 3M+ copies sold) to explore the role of faith, healing, energy, and our relationship with God in shaping how we live, lead, and connect with others. Before the books, before the global impact—there was struggle. Debt. Uncertainty. A life that felt like it was falling apart. And in that moment… a decision. A decision to move toward faith over fear.  Connection over isolation.  Light over darkness. This episode goes beyond leadership. It’s about what it means to be human. 🌿 In this conversation, we explore:  How to rebuild your life through faith, belief, and spiritual connection What it really means to have a relationship with God in everyday life The power of prayer and how it increases your capacity Why energy, love, and presence are the foundation of healing  How to navigate anger, frustration, and conflict with awareness and grace  The role of optimism, beliefs and actions in leadership How small acts of kindness and connection can change everything  What it means to “be a light” in a world that often feels heavy As the world becomes faster, louder, and more driven by technology… This conversation is a reminder: That healing is found in connection. That strength is found in faith. And that the most powerful force we have… is love. This is not just a conversation about leadership. It's about wholeness, getting teams to be more connected. It’s about coming home—to yourself, to others, and to God. This is how you raise the standard. 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

I had a fascinating conversation with Martin Bertilsson, Founder and CEO of Aimsoo, ex Google Veteran, about the future of marketing, the open web, agentic commerce, and the profound disruption AI is bringing to search, advertising, and brand discovery. Martin has an exceptional ability to look into the future — not through hype, but through data, systems thinking, and first-principles analysis. He connects macro shifts in technology with the second and third-order effects they create across business models, revenue streams, and the way companies compete. The reality is simple: timeframes are collapsing. What once took a decade is now unfolding in months. Search is changing. Commerce is changing. Marketing is changing. And many companies are still operating as if the old model will hold. In our conversation we explore some of the most important ideas emerging right now: Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) - How brands need to understand how AI models represent them. Does your brand appear? What does the model say? And what will sit next to that answer? Prompt → Answer → Commercial layer. Or Agentic commerce - A world where autonomous agents are sent into the market to search, evaluate, negotiate and purchase on behalf of humans. Which raises a new question: How do we sell to AI agents? What will the interface of commerce look like when the buyer is no longer a person, but a machine acting on their behalf? We also discuss: What publishers can do in a zero-click worldThe emerging commerce layer between platforms like ChatGPT and ShopifyAgent-to-Agent (A2A) ecosystemsThe rise of AdCP and machine-mediated advertising marketsHow 350 million SMEs remain visible when discovery shifts to AI systemsAI Native AdsOne of the things I love about talking with Martin is how he uses simple metaphors to explain complex shifts. He has a rare ability to make the future feel both understandable and inevitable. Honestly, I could listen to him all day.  If you’re a marketer, founder, operator, strategist, or executive, this isn’t just interesting. It’s essential.  This conversation is a knowledge upgrade. Follow Martin Multipole.ai https://multipole.ai/ Aimsoo https://aimsoo.ai/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-b-1195382/ 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...

Lose your job — or think you might? This is not the moment to panic. It is the moment to negotiate your future. In this powerful episode, globally recognized negotiation expert Tim Castle breaks down the exact blueprint for what to do if you’ve been let go, made redundant, or sense change is coming. This is not theory. This is a strategic reset. Tim has helped countless professionals rebuild their confidence, articulate their value, negotiate their worth, and create unstoppable momentum when it matters most. Because losing a role does not mean losing your power — unless you surrender it. Goal: Shift from reaction → influence. Inside this episode you’ll learn how to: • Regain control of your mindset immediately • Position yourself as a high-value candidate • Create momentum instead of waiting for opportunity • Generate multiple job offers — not just one • Negotiate from strength, not desperation • Build visibility when most people disappear Most professionals leave enormous value on the table — in interviews, compensation discussions, and career negotiations — simply because they misunderstand what modern negotiation truly is. This is not a coincidence. Tim Castle is the bestselling author of The Art of Negotiation, ranked: ✅ #1 in the UK for Job Interviews ✅ #1 in the US for Career Advancement If you need clarity, structure, and a proven path forward — this episode is not to be missed. ⚡ Your Immediate Action Plan ✔ Get moving — start now. Do not wait.  ✔ Make each day your masterpiece.  ✔ Plant seeds: your objective is multiple conversations.  ✔ Set the standard: 30 days to your next offer. ✔ Aim for choice — multiple offers change everything. ✔ Slow down time: treat each day like a mini-week. ✔ Execute “9 before 9am” — nine outreach attempts before most people wake up. ✔ Help others — generosity creates opportunity. ✔ Protect your mindset — standards are contagious. ✔ Train daily — physical strength fuels psychological resilience. ✔ Operate from abundance and gratitude. ✔ Don’t broadcast what you fear — focus on what you are building. ✔ Be visible. Bring people together. Create energy. Remember: Luck increases with the number of meaningful conversations you create. And above all — Believe it is possible. Free Resources 👉 Momentum Sales Model Blueprint:  https://www.timjscastle.com/themomentumsalesmodel 👉 The First Domino Bonus Materials: https://www.thefirstdominobook.com/extras 👉 Job Interview Mastery (Short Course):  https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery Topics: job loss advice, what to do after redundancy, negotiate salary, job interview strategy, career negotiation, mindset after job loss, modern negotiation, career reinvention, influence skills, executive presence. 🚀 Follow Tim Castle If you want to master negotiation, influence, and high-stakes decision-making in the age of AI—start here: 📚 Books Magnetic Influence – How to negotiate and persuade in a disrupted world → Order now: https://amzn.to/3M5HKq3 The First Domino – The complete playbook to go from $0 to $5M → Get it here: https://amzn.to/3Z0NrbJ The Art of Negotiation – #1 in the UK for Job Interviews & Career Advancement → Read it: https://amzn.to/3LSA6zh Claude SKILLS Magnetic Influence Negotiation Coach https://magneticinfluencebook.com/ Tim Castle's AI Negotiation Agent https://magneticnegotiator.com/ 🧠 Negotiation Training The Negotiator's Edge Training Academy → https://www.thenegotiatorsedge.ai/ Online - The Highly Skilled Negotiator (80+ Lessons) → https://www.timjscastle.com/the-highly-skilled-negotiator Job Interview Mastery → https://www.timjscastle.com/job-interview-mastery 🎥 Community Yo...