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Rainmaker 2015

50 #sharingeconomy coffees in London

This is the formula I have been looking for. I want to put my balls on the line in a decent way. I am no longer feeling depressed and crushed I have suddenly become a balanced and realistic human being. The last few years of depression have taught me when to say no, when to go home and what to eat turning me into an invigorated 'thing' that is loving making a ruckus in 2015. My love for my Wordpress Rainmaker FM site grows deeper every day and I am still gagging to do a little podcast on my o

My Bulletproof #LondonMarathon 2016

So I had to admit defeat when it came to training for the London Marathon and the race itself. Rather than walk around looking like a woman on the verge of nervous breakdown for the next six weeks I bit the bullet and admitted it was not to going happen this time. I called my mate Chris, from Publicate.it to ask his opinion of the situation. Chris is one of those people that 'squeezes' in a couple of Triathlons each weekend, he was being nice but I could tell where his true advice lay. Don't.

Losing my religion?

That's me in the corner..... I have been thinking why things annoy me. Most of the time people don't really set out to annoy me - I get annoyed with them. Then I get upset and they will never know. If you think about it you are flattering yourself if you think people sit around plotting how to upset you, if they are they are INSANE and that is very different from you thinking they are setting out to annoy you each day. In my world #babybernie 'tries his luck, and I'd rather have a curious child

What do you most know about #blogging Bernie?

What do you most know about blogging Bernie? Is a question I am never asked. If I was an industry expert and was 'often' asked that question I'd be able to start this blog by saying 'I am often asked by my clients...' I have to say by this stage of the game it is all about fear, not tech, crafting words, SEO or anything useful and billable. Just fear. Even more than the type of fear a Tory politician experiences when asked to sign an transparency deceleration. Honestly I am quite sure that e

Why blogs beat podcasts....

I had to stop listening to podcasts. Every time listened to one I would copy something said into my own podcast. I craved to be part of the podcasting gang. "I listened to your episode"was what I thought podcasters would expect me so say. This meant I listened to every episode just in case they asked. They never did. Even worst I could not help but borrow ideas and lines to the point where I became paranoid. I feared that people would know I got that question from Mitch Joel or Neville Hobson.

Why I'm not a writer - YET

Ramsey has a blog post by Blog Tyrant that I make myself go back to every so often. "Why you are not a writer" is a list of what we do instead of writing. That list of important things like ‘getting set up to write’ that take longer to get ready than actual writing. I spent last week beating myself up a bit I because I set out to blog everyday in 2015. Blogging everyday is not going well, I write everyday but I don't post every day. I 'forget' or 'wait to finish' a post. Chose yourself The

Write as I am.

So here how the day goes. Or rather how my writing goes. What I think I mean is "how my writing does not go." This time I am aware of it. I wake up, I POWER out cutting edge prose on 750words.com and then get ready for something. Does not matter what, it involves trying to leave the house with a small child and get to a bus stop. I then gaze out the window of the bus and reflect on how good I am to have written everyday for so many days. (Short aside) A big part of being 'fixed' / mended /

Neill! Neill! Orange Peel!

So #babybernie has moved it all up a gear. As I write he has piled up the cushions from the sofa and is lying on top of them by way of protest. The 'disruption' is over cooling down his porridge which spoon to use. You would think I had put all his toys and his best friend in a microwave, turned it on full power and was making him watch it all melt into one - with the volume turned up. Yesterday we stood in our road for fifteen minutes while he refused to move. There was something like 100 m

LinkedIn - YAWN

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Should I write the title first?

Ok so I'll come clean, I have been thinking about this post all week. It was partly written and I was ready to go and then I was not. The one I had ready to go would have been way better than the crap you are going to read now, don't say I did not warn you. In fact I don't really know where to begin. So I'll begin here. Sometime last year me, Andy and Mitch were hanging out at Google in London and Mitch started talking about writers block and James Altucher - actually it was not about James g

I think the post I have been avoiding writing all day is this:

I am very happy here in Buenos Aires and don't really want to get on that plane at the end of the weekend. This has been one of the best trips of my life. I feel bigger, faster, stronger - that is a song BTW - I know what I mean. The blazing sun and blue sky that follows #Babybernie and I on the way to the super market to by drinking yoghurt in the morning will be missed, I am even scared what it will happen to me when I hit the rancid grey sky of London. When I step outside the door I can fee

Falling towards Tigre....

This episode is brought to you from my favourite place on earth, no not the front row of a David Bowie concert, the jetty of our friends house in Tigre, just outside BA in Argentina. I am still trying to work out how we are lucky enough to have friends that decided to ditch their flat in the middle of BA to move to the very inconvenient and very amazing Tigre. Tigre is a Delta outside BA, I thought Delta was an airline, but it is a recently formed collection of islands - recently I mean 200 ye