Inspirational success stories.
Learning the craft of business from the people who've already built one. This is the record of those conversations.
I'm Mitchell Carling. I started this podcast because the fastest way I could find to learn how businesses actually work, whilst building my own, was to sit across from the people who'd built them and ask. I've been doing that for a few years now. The conversations are here.
Young host, real questions
An aspiring young entrepreneur asking the questions others might miss. You get genuine curiosity and honest conversations, not rehearsed corporate speak.
Business leaders across industries
From startups to multinational companies. Each episode features successful entrepreneurs and executives sharing real insights from the corporate world.
Bossing It is a long-form podcast about how real businesses get built.
I talk to founders, operators, and investors across whatever sectors I'm trying to understand at the time. Early episodes are heavy on hospitality, that's where I started learning. More recent work has moved into the trades, into services businesses, into anywhere the lessons are interesting enough to follow. It's not a show with a fixed format or a tight thesis. It's a record of someone in their early career trying to learn the craft seriously, by going to the people who know it.
The Owner's Chair.
The Owner's Chair is a sub-series I co-host with my colleague Connor, focused specifically on HVAC and MEP operators in the United States. We sit down with the people who built the businesses and ask them how they did it. It has its own feed, its own audience, and its own home on this site.
Conversations with leaders.
Inspiring and informative conversations with business leaders who've built something real; people who've navigated the hard calls, learned from the failures, and figured out what it actually takes to succeed. No theory, just honest insight from people who've lived it.
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