Rob is pacing around the studio with a handheld mic — literally can't stand still — because something has properly lit him up. A hobby that started three or four months ago has snowballed into a new business idea, a Shopify build started at 5am, and a growing TikTok community. This one's all energy.

What We Cover

The Physical Media Obsession Rob's a self-confessed gamer and film nerd, and a few months back he started reselling physical media — DVDs, Blu-rays, 4K steelbooks — picking them up at car boots and charity shops and relisting them on Vinted and eBay. It began as a wedding fund project. It's become something bigger.

His TikTok, @AnimalSpence, now sits at around 1,600–1,700 followers with 10–15 new followers a day. The content covers his reselling journey, movie opinions, and all things physical media — and it's finding an audience, particularly with a younger generation rediscovering DVDs, CDs, and vinyl.

Animal Media is Born The entrepreneur brain kicked in. Rob spotted a gap: people are sick of streaming subscriptions, but they still love films. There's no friction, no event, no ritual — just endless scrolling. He wants to bring back the experience of watching a movie.

So he's been building animalmedia.co.uk on Shopify. The concept: mystery movie boxes (a film picked for you, no scrolling required) and movie night hampers — a random film plus popcorn, sweets, hot chocolate, the works. Available as one-offs or monthly subscriptions. He's also sitting on around 2,000 DVDs at home, so the stock problem is already solved.

The Flow State Rob references The Talent Code and the concept of flow — that state where you're so locked into something that time disappears. He woke up at 5am to list DVDs, switched to website building, and didn't surface until 7am. He admits he forgot to wake his fiancée with a coffee. He regrets nothing.

Why This Matters Beyond the Hobby This isn't just about DVDs. Building Animal Media is teaching Rob Shopify, e-commerce SEO, AI-generated imagery, short-form video production, and paid social — skills that feed directly back into his work with clients at Paragon. It's a live sandbox. Everything he tests on Animal Media makes him sharper at his day job.

The Yes Man Lesson He had Yes Man on in the background while building. The takeaway lands: opportunities are everywhere, but most people say no to them out of habit or comfort. Rob said yes to this one. He doesn't know exactly where it goes — but the learning, the creating, and the energy it's unlocked are already worth it.

Key Takeaway

A hobby with an audience is a business waiting to happen. Say yes to the thing that excites you, learn as you build, and let the momentum take you somewhere you didn't plan to go.

Follow Rob on TikTok at @AnimalSpence and visit animalmedia.co.uk to grab a mystery movie box or sign up for a monthly subscription.

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Rob sent a meal back at a restaurant on Saturday night. He doesn't do it often, and he doesn't take it lightly — especially given his background in hospitality. But the story that followed turned into one of the clearest customer service lessons you'll hear.

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The Night in Question Rob, his fiancée, and their almost-one-year-old headed out for a casual Saturday dinner at a favourite local venue — nothing fancy, but reliably good value and a nice atmosphere. What followed was a cascade of minor problems: thirty minutes to get a drink, wine glasses delivered with no glasses, and then a plate that arrived with someone else's dinner baked onto it. The dirty wine glass that arrived shortly after was the final straw. Rob sent the food back, asked for a fresh glass, and said he'd come in at the end of the meal for a refund.

He was clear with the young lad behind the bar: it's not on you, mate. There was one member of staff, a wedding on, a queue at the bar. Management should have been on it.

The Recovery At the end of the night, when Rob went to the till expecting a refund on the one dish he'd sent back, the manager refunded the entire bill. The full £55. His fiancée's meal, the chips, the wine, the lot — all of it. Rob had been willing to pay for everything except the food he'd sent back. They went further.

Why That Decision Was Brilliant Rob was already prepared to return. The refund sealed it. Now he'll recommend the venue, tell people where it is if they ask, and go back specifically because he wants to pay them for a good experience.

This is the principle of reciprocity in action — one of the most powerful drivers of buying behaviour. You do something for me, I want to do something for you. A customer who has a problem handled generously is often more loyal than one who never had a problem at all.

The Amazon Comparison Some businesses make you fight for a refund. Proof of this, evidence of that, three emails and a photo. Amazon doesn't. Something wrong? Refund sorted, done. That frictionless recovery is a core reason people keep going back. The lesson scales from a local restaurant to a global retailer.

The Question for Business Owners When a complaint lands, what's your instinct? To defend, dispute, and delay? Or to look honestly at what went wrong and ask: what do I need to do to keep this person? The time and energy spent arguing with a customer rarely wins you anything. The goodwill you generate by handling it well can pay back many times over.

Key Takeaway

Customers don't expect perfection. They expect to be treated well when things go wrong. A mistake handled with grace builds more loyalty than a flawless experience that's taken for granted.

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An impromptu one — but sometimes the unplanned episodes are the best ones. Rob's had a run-in with a hater this week. Not a faceless internet troll, but someone in the Leicestershire business networking community who's had it in for him for a couple of years. He's telling the full story, naming what she did, and using it as a jumping-off point for something every entrepreneur needs to hear.

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The Universal Entrepreneur Experience No matter how successful you become — whether you're Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, or a small business owner in the East Midlands — there will always be people who slag you off. People who preach positivity, champion mental health hashtags, and then quietly go about undermining anyone doing better than them. Rob's seen it everywhere. This week, it landed on his doorstep.

What Actually Happened A lady in the Leicestershire networking circuit — who works in business development for a college and has also authored a novel — has had it in for Rob for two to three years. Every time Rob promotes his networking event, Fresh Networking (running since 2019), she responds within the hour promoting a rival group. Fine. Rob has no problem with that.

What crossed a line: she went onto Fresh Networking's Facebook page and commented on a "Meet the Member" post, tagging a competing networking group and implying Rob had stolen their idea. A direct, public dig.

Rob responded calmly and professionally, pointing out that Fresh Networking has celebrated its members since day one in 2019. He then messaged the lady directly — friendly, measured — and got blocked. She deleted the comment. He has the screenshots.

The Backstory Two or three years ago, Rob went out of his way to support this woman. He bought her book. He had her on his other podcast, How I Failed in Business, to promote it — and by his account it was one of the best episodes he ever recorded. Later, a separate guest mentioned a piece of light-hearted banter involving her — completely in context, completely in jest — and that episode happened to go out before hers. She was upset. Rob pulled the relevant segment within hours. Her own episode was never aired and remains on a hard drive. He did everything right. She's been bad-mouthing him ever since.

The Lesson Here it is, plain and simple: you will never get slagged off by someone doing better than you. Elon Musk isn't scrolling Facebook to complain someone's copying his ideas. Jeff Bezos isn't walking into bookshops demanding to know why they exist. The hatred flows downhill — from people who aren't where they want to be, aimed at people who are moving in the right direction.

Rise to it if you have to — but do it calmly, do it with receipts, and let the quality of your work do the rest.

Key Takeaway

Haters are a byproduct of success — not a sign you're doing something wrong. If someone's going out of their way to undermine you, ask yourself one question: are they doing better than you? The answer will tell you everything you need to know.

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After two heavy episodes, Rob made a deliberate decision to keep this one positive. No complaints, no court cases, no politics. Just a genuine milestone and a renewed sense of excitement about what's coming next.

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Happy Birthday, Paragon Creative Studios Two years ago to the day of recording, Rob received the keys to the studio space in Countesthorpe, Leicestershire. Paragon Creative Studios (PCS) was born — not all at once, but bit by bit, piece by piece, gradually built into what it is today.

To mark the occasion, Rob and the team have just invested in a refresh. New reception desk. New white and cream sets. Plans for additional sets in the pipeline. The studio is looking cleaner, fresher, and more capable than ever.

An Honest Admission Rob holds his hands up: PCS has effectively been treated as a side hustle. Given everything else going on in the business, it hasn't received the attention it deserves. But he's sitting on an asset that could genuinely thrive — and he knows it. That changes now.

What Reignited the Passion Two things:

First, competition. A contact of Rob's has just opened a new studio in Leicester — and it looks great. Rather than feeling threatened, Rob says it's given him exactly the rocket he needed. Being pushed by someone doing good work is a good thing.

Second, content. Rob's hobby content around movies and physical media has pulled him into a deeper understanding of cinematography, social media strategy, and what makes content actually work. All of that is now feeding back into how he thinks about PCS — and it's exciting.

What's Coming A redesigned website, an overhauled social media presence, new sets, and a renewed push to make PCS the go-to content studio in Leicestershire. Watch the socials.

If You're in Leicestershire Whether you need a space for a podcast, talking head videos, social media content, or photography — PCS has the kit, the capability, and the know-how. Rob would love to welcome you in.

Key Takeaway

Sometimes the thing that reignites your passion for a business you already own is a competitor doing well, a hobby that teaches you something new, or simply a milestone worth celebrating. All three landed at once here.

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Following last week's raw, difficult episode, Rob is back — still frustrated, still honest, but this time pointing his anger somewhere specific. Businesses are closing around him, and he wants to talk about why.

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Knight and Garter — Leicester Loses a Good One Knight and Garter, one of Leicester city centre's last genuinely good independent restaurants (run by award-winning operator Sam Hagar), is closing. Not because of bad management or poor food — but because business rates imposed by Leicester City Council have become unsustainable. On top of VAT, rising food costs, fuel costs, NI increases, minimum wage hikes, and a drop in footfall — the business rates were the final straw.

The High Cross Hypocrisy The same Leicester City Council recently wrote off approximately £3 million in business rate debt accumulated by the High Cross shopping centre. A generic chain-store mall that — by Rob's count — has around 30% of its units vacant. The contrast is stark: independent operators who actually make Leicester worth visiting are being squeezed out, while a largely empty shopping centre gets its debt wiped.

The Big Difference Company Also in the news: the holding company behind the Leicester Comedy Festival has struggled to pay its comedians and has now been locked out of its own venue after falling behind on rent. Rob connects the dots — if people aren't coming into the city centre, venues can't trade, can't pay rent, can't keep the doors open. The ripple effect hits staff, suppliers, local breweries, and everyone downstream.

Simpsons, Birmingham It's not just Leicester. Simpsons — a Michelin-starred restaurant that held its star for 25 consecutive years — has also closed, citing the same unrelenting cost pressures. When businesses of that quality and reputation can't survive, something is seriously broken.

The Bigger Argument Rob's point is simple: you cannot have workers if there are no businesses to employ them. Councils that keep raising rates while letting city centres decay are killing the very ecosystem they depend on. The answer isn't another event in the town square — it's making city centres accessible, attractive, and worth the trip.

A Direct Invitation Rob calls out Sir Peter Soulsby of Leicester City Council by name: come on the podcast. Explain the thinking. If anyone working in local government or high street regeneration is listening, Rob genuinely wants to hear the other side.

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No studio. No plan. Rob is recording from his car, minutes after letting three members of his telemarketing team go. In eight and a half years of running his business, he's never had to do this before. This is as raw as it gets.

Note: the audio quality reflects exactly where and when this was recorded. That's the point.

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What Just Happened Three good people — Rob's words — have just lost their jobs. He's clear it isn't their fault. He largely takes the responsibility himself, while also naming the factors that backed him into this corner.

The Two Clients Who Didn't Pay

Regular listeners will recognise both of these:

The first signed a six-month agreement, allocated Paragon's resources were built around that contract — and then walked away three months in, with no legitimate cause. Because Paragon had already invoiced for the work, HMRC expected VAT on income that never arrived. Rob is taking them to court.

The second signed a three-month agreement. Paragon delivered results, went above and beyond, communicated throughout. The complaints only surfaced when Rob started chasing payment. He's taking them to court too. He has the contract, the evidence, and every confidence he'll win both.

The Economic Backdrop

Non-paying clients don't operate in a vacuum. National insurance increases, rising wages, business rates, utility bills, insurance — the costs of running a business have climbed significantly. Rob spoke recently to a charity whose bottom line had increased by half a million pounds year on year from these rises alone. Add the natural summer slowdown in sales and marketing, and several pressures converged at once.

How It Feels

Rob is genuinely struggling with this. He's not trying to make it about himself — he's very aware that three people are going home today without jobs — but he's honest that this is the hardest thing he's had to do since starting the business. He doesn't know how larger companies cycle through redundancies repeatedly. To him, this isn't a number. It's people's mortgages, their families, their dignity.

He ends with a direct apology to those who lost their jobs today — and a promise to himself that he'll do everything in his power to never be in this position again.

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Episode Summary

Something is changing at Paragon. Rob isn't ready to say exactly what yet — it's still too fresh, too raw — but this episode is his way of processing it out loud. A reminder to himself, and to anyone listening, that staying still is its own kind of risk.

What We Cover

Change Is Coming — Details To Follow Rob is candid from the off: there are decisions being made in the business right now, some already done, some in progress. He's not ready to spell them out. But he knows they're overdue. Eight and a half years in, the core of what Paragon does and how it does it has stayed largely the same. And while that's not failure, it's starting to look a lot like stagnation.

The Kilner Family Warning The story that brought it into focus came from Clarkson's Farm. It turns out Jeremy Clarkson is related to the Kilner family — the famous glass jar makers who once dominated their market. Their mistake wasn't bad products. It was failing to embrace technology while competitors did. They went from market leaders to irrelevant. A warning Rob takes personally.

Paragon Sales Solutions has been a market leader in telemarketing and lead generation for nearly a decade. But leading in a market that's shifting under your feet isn't enough. The current climate — economically and politically — is making that clearer by the day.

Why Business Owners Resist Change Rob gets honest about the psychology of it. Fear of what clients will think. Fear of what the team will think. Fear of what family will think. But the world is big and your business is small — and if you're so worried about outside perception that you won't evolve, you're already losing.

Nervous, but Excited That's where Rob lands. The change is happening. He's not sure how it'll look from the outside yet, but he knows it's necessary — and there's something energising about that, even when it's scary.

Key Takeaway

Every business either changes or gets left behind. The Kilner family didn't fail overnight — they just didn't move fast enough. What's the change you've been putting off in yours?

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An unplanned, slightly chaotic episode — recorded at 4pm with the England pre-match build-up on in the background, because Rob left the original recording on the SD card at the studio. Classic. But amid the chaos, a genuinely honest reflection on what being your own boss is actually for.

What We Cover

The Accidental Home Studio Rob forgot the SD card. So he's cobbled together a setup at home — microphone straight into the laptop, sitting by a sunny patio door — and is recording with England kicking off at 5pm. The irony isn't lost on him.

Why He's Working From Home More Often Rob's partner returned to work a couple of months ago doing two days a week in clinic. To avoid paying for childcare until funded hours kick in September, Rob looks after their daughter — now nearly 11 months old — one day a week. His partner's mum covers another day. Between them, they've carved out a solution that saves money and, more importantly, gives Rob time with his daughter that he'd otherwise miss.

When she's awake, the laptop is closed. He's fully present. Work happens in the nap windows. He admits it adds some stress — his output is lower on those days — but the trade-off is obvious to him.

The Real Reason to Own a Business Rob pushes back on the culture of bragging about absence. The business owners who wear it as a badge of honour that they haven't seen their families, missed bedtimes, skipped breakfasts for meetings. His take: that's not success. That's a priority problem.

His daughter won't remember these days — but he will. She'll see the photos and the videos and know he was there. And that, to Rob, is a bigger flex than any business win.

You can rebuild a business. You can restart a career. You won't get the first year back.

What Entrepreneurship Is Actually About Not just money. Not just growth. Time. Flexibility. The ability to solve a childcare problem by showing up. That's the real upside of being your own boss — and it's easy to forget when you're buried in the doing.

Key Takeaway

Being present isn't a weakness. It's the whole point. If your business can't survive you being a parent for a day, you've got a leadership problem — not a family problem.

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Rob's back from holiday and keeping this one short. But the topic is anything but small. A principle he once believed in, drifted from, and is now recommitting to: always hire people who are better than you. Two stories — one from Henry Ford, one from David Ogilvy — and one honest admission about where drifting from this has cost the business.

Key Takeaway

Stop hiring people you have to carry. Hire people who make you faster, sharper, and more dispensable — in the best possible way. A company of giants starts with the courage to admit you don't need to be the best person in the room.

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Before You Go Away A few practical suggestions from Rob:

• Remove email and LinkedIn from your phone
• Use a VA or PA service to handle admin in your absence
• Get a call answering service to cover incoming calls (Paragon Sales Solutions offers this, by the way)
• Build the team and systems that mean the business doesn't need you for a week
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Key Takeaway

Humans come first. Work comes second. Send this episode to the busy fool in your life who needs to hear it.

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Rob opens this one at full volume — and for good reason. Two companies are currently refusing to pay their invoices, and he's not staying quiet about it. No names, but plenty of detail. If you've ever been stiffed by a client, this one will feel very familiar.

Key Takeaways

• Invoicing someone and not receiving payment doesn't exempt you from paying VAT — HMRC treats a raised invoice as income. Know this before it catches you out.
• Watch for the red flags: changing goalposts, complaints that only appear when you chase money, sudden silence, Companies House changes.
• If you're struggling to pay a supplier, have the honest conversation. Most business owners will find a solution. What they won't forgive is being lied to.
• Fight your corner. Court exists for a reason.

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BNI has wound Rob up again. In this week's unfiltered episode, he takes on the hypocrisy at the heart of some BNI chapters — not the concept itself, but the behaviour that contradicts everything the network claims to stand for. Two specific incidents this week brought it all to a head.

Key Takeaways

• BNI works for plenty of people, especially those in trade. Rob isn't disputing that.
• What he won't accept: using your platform to devalue other businesses, or ignoring your own members to use AI instead.
• If you're in BNI and you refer Rob business that converts, he'll pay you properly. No gold star required.
• There's more to business growth than one networking group; keep your eyes open.

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Key Takeaways

• Content creation is a skill that compounds — the earlier you start experimenting, the faster you improve.
• Combining two existing interests (reselling + content) is a smart, low-friction way to build something new.
• Creators build; voyeurs consume. Which one are you?
• You don't need perfect equipment. This episode was recorded on a laptop and a mic, and it still went out.
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Find Rob on TikTok

Search Animal Spence on TikTok — physical media, reselling, and whatever else Rob decides to throw at it.

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Rob Spence was doom-scrolling Facebook when a post from Keir Starmer stopped him in his tracks, and not for the usual reasons. For once, something the Prime Minister said actually resonated. In this episode, Rob breaks down Labour's record on small business since taking power, reacts to Starmer's late payments post and the newly introduced Small Business Protections Bill, and gives his honest, unfiltered verdict on whether this is a genuine turning point or too little, too late.

Fair warning: Rob isn't here to do politics. But he is here to do business, and right now, those two things are impossible to separate.

Key Takeaways

• Labour's changes since taking power — NI hike, wage increases, SSP reform, business rate changes, dividend tax — have added thousands of pounds per year to the cost of running a small business.
• Late payments are a genuine crisis for small businesses. The domino effect of one unpaid invoice rippling through the supply chain is real and damaging.
• The Small Business Protections Bill has some genuinely useful measures, particularly the mandatory payment term limits. But several of these protections already existed in law — the issue has always been enforcement.
• Big firms will feel the pressure of the new legislation. SMEs, already squeezed by the government's own policies, are a different story.
• Rob's bottom line: welcome, but read the room. The business community needs costs to come down, not just another bill to add to the pile.

About From Bedroom to Boardroom

Hosted by Rob Spence, From Bedroom to Boardroom is the podcast for business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone thinking about taking the leap. Raw, honest, and always unplanned. New episodes every Wednesday.

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Eight and a half years into running his business, Rob Spence has identified one of the things that's held him back recently — and it's something he used to be brilliant at. Making decisions fast.

In this episode, Rob gets brutally honest about the fact that slow decision-making has started to stagnate his business. He backs up his gut feeling with research, quotes from some of the world's most successful business leaders, and a tangent about why he genuinely doesn't understand people who hate Amazon. As always, this is unfiltered, unplanned, and real.

Key Takeaways

• Slow decision-making doesn't just delay progress — it actively costs your business through stagnation, missed opportunities, and a compounding backlog of unmade choices.
• You don't need 90% of the information to make a good decision. 70% and moving is almost always better than waiting for certainty that never comes.
• Indecision doesn't give you a free mind — it fills it. Unresolved decisions quietly consume your headspace, even in your downtime.
• Empowering your team to make decisions isn't just good management, it's a speed multiplier. Approval chains kill momentum.
• The worst outcome isn't a wrong decision — it's no decision at all.

Other Podcasts from Rob

• 🎙️ How I Failed in Business — Rob and co-host Megan dig into the world of business failure, what goes wrong, and the lessons that come out the other side.
• 🎙️ The Sales Circle — Focused on sales, sales training, and business growth. Currently on a brief pause, but worth following for when it returns.

About From Bedroom to Boardroom

Hosted by Rob Spence — multi-award-winning entrepreneur and founder of multiple businesses — From Bedroom to Boardroom is the podcast for business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone thinking about taking the leap. Raw, honest, and always unplanned. New episodes every Wednesday.

Production

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Ready to start your own podcast? Head to paragoncreativestudios.co.uk or click the link in the show notes for your free consultation.

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Why Are We Tied Down by our Emails and Inboxes?! | Episode Thirteen

A slightly different episode this week — Rob is recording from home (yes, ironically, the week after the WFH episode) because his partner has just returned to work and baby duty calls. The audio might not be quite up to its usual studio standard, but the conversation is every bit as honest.

The topic? Email. Specifically, the quiet, creeping obsession that turns a simple communication tool into a full-blown source of anxiety. When did we start feeling obligated to reply to emails instantly? When did the inbox become the boss? Rob unpacks his own complicated relationship with email, shares what he's done about it, and makes the case that most of us need to step away from the inbox — and stop apologising for it.

Key Takeaways

• Feeling obligated to reply to emails instantly is a habit — not a requirement. Most things can wait.
• Push notifications are productivity killers. Every coach, every performance expert, every high-performing business owner says the same thing: turn them off.
• Adding friction to your inbox (like Face ID) is a surprisingly effective way to stop mindless checking.
• The best test of email urgency? If it really matters, someone will follow up — or pick up the phone.
• Being an entrepreneur means you set the rules. You don't need to justify your schedule to your inbox.
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Rob Wants to Hear From You

Are you enslaved by your inbox? Have you found a system that works? Or do you think business owners should be checking emails constantly?

Drop your thoughts in the comments on Spotify — and let Rob know whether you think he's right or wrong on this one.

A Note on This Episode

This episode was recorded at home on a slightly different setup than usual — Rob's partner returned to work today (Wednesday 6th May) and he's on dad duty. Normal studio quality resumes next week.

About From Bedroom to Boardroom

Hosted by Rob Spence, From Bedroom to Boardroom is the podcast for business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone thinking about taking the leap. Episodes are deliberately unplanned — raw, real conversations about business life, leadership, and the things nobody else is saying out loud. New episodes drop every Wednesday.

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In this episode, Rob Spence tackles one of the most hotly debated topics in modern business — working from home. In true From Bedroom to Boardroom style, this one is unfiltered, unplanned, and pulls absolutely no punches.

Rob openly admits to being a hypocrite: he loves working from home himself, but as a leader running a telemarketing business, he found WFH for his team added enormous pressure, constant check-ins, and a serious drop in accountability. From police misconduct hearings to a live Amazon search mid-episode, this is a candid, at times darkly funny, and genuinely thought-provoking look at why trust alone might not be enough when it comes to remote work.

What We Cover in This Episode

Rob's WFH Contradiction Rob sets the scene — he has a great home office, he's more productive when he works from it, and he gets all the benefits everyone talks about. But when his team started working from home? A completely different story. Constant report-checking, chasing people down, and an unmanageable workload created by the need to monitor others.

The Moment That Said It All A team conversation about WFH took a turn when a team member casually mentioned their dad places something on the keyboard to look active — and then just plays games on his phone all day. In front of the whole team. Rob explains why that moment cemented his position on WFH once and for all.

Leicestershire Police & A Pattern of Misconduct Rob shares four real-world cases of police officers — people who should, arguably, be the most honest and accountable in society — caught abusing WFH policies

The Mouse Jiggler Discovery (Live on Air) Mid-episode, Rob goes on Amazon and searches "mouse jiggler" — a USB device designed to keep your screen active and show you as "online" on platforms like Microsoft Teams. What he finds is eye-opening:

• Multiple products available, some as cheap as £5.99
• One product alone has over 5,300 reviews
• Another with 8,800 reviews had over 300 purchases in the past month alone
• Rob reads actual customer reviews — including one reviewer (let's call him Dave) who proudly declares the device "keeps the status light green and the bosses none the wiser"

The Bigger Picture If the people society trusts most — police officers — are faking their work from home, what does that say about accountability across the board? Rob argues that for every genuine, hardworking remote employee, there are far too many willing to exploit the arrangement. The result? More pressure on leaders, less trust, and a culture where the good workers are dragged down by the dishonest ones.

Are you pro-WFH or against it? Do you think Rob's being too harsh — or is he spot on? Are there genuinely great remote workers out there, or does laziness inevitably creep in?

Drop your thoughts in the comments on Spotify — Rob would love to hear where you stand on this one.

About From Bedroom to Boardroom

Hosted by Rob Spence, From Bedroom to Boardroom is the podcast for business owners, entrepreneurs, and anyone thinking about taking the leap. Episodes are deliberately unplanned — raw, real conversations about business life, leadership, and the things nobody else is saying out loud. New episodes drop every Wednesday.

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In this week's episode of From Bedroom to Boardroom, I talk openly about ongoing cases I have against people who are refusing to pay their invoices; and I know that this is a problem that many businesses and business owners face on a daily basis.

Should we, as a collective economy, allow for bad business owners to ruin it for the rest of us? Or, should we stand up, name and shame, and collectively stand up to the bullies of the business world?

Rob Spence is a multi-award winning business owner, founder, and Managing Director, with a huge passion for studying, learning, and development. 

Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy. Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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One of the best books I have ever read was Managing Oneself.

This book reminded me of the importance of managing yourself like you would a business; delivering the best possible service, looking at revenue in to your 'business', monitoring expenses and costs, and ultimately doing what you can to take yourself to the next level.

In this episode, I discuss openly my fears for the next generation, how I managed myself professionally, and my recommendations on what we can all do to ensure a fair, even and equal workforce.

Rob Spence is a multi-award winning business owner, founder, and Managing Director, with a huge passion for studying, learning, and development. 

Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy. Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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Can I be honest with you? Some of the hardest moments in my entrepreneurial journey haven't come from a bad month, a lost client, or a cashflow dip. They've come from the people closest to me telling me it wouldn't work.

Sound familiar?

In this episode, I'm talking about naysayers — and trust me, if you're building something, you've already met a few. Whether it's a family member who thinks you should "just get a proper job", a friend who keeps planting seeds of doubt, or even that little voice in your own head that starts to wonder if they might be right... this one's for you.

Here's the thing — naysayers aren't always bad people. Sometimes they genuinely care about you. But that doesn't mean you have to let their fears become your reality.

This is a topic I'm genuinely passionate about, and I think it'll resonate with a lot of you who are in the thick of building something brilliant right now.

Don't let anyone talk you out of your dreams.

Rob Spence is a multi-award winning business owner, founder, and Managing Director, with a huge passion for studying, learning, and development. 


Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy. Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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Let me ask you something — have you ever looked at your bank account and thought, "I'm making sales... so why is there no money there?"

You're not alone. And in this episode, I'm getting into one of the topics closest to my heart (and honestly, one that trips up more entrepreneurs than almost anything else): cashflow.

I've seen it time and time again — brilliant businesses, great products, happy customers — but the cash just isn't there when it needs to be. And that's a dangerous place to be. So I wanted to have a really honest conversation about why cashflow is the thing you should be keeping your eye on, and more importantly, what you can actually do to fix it.

Grab a brew, get comfortable, and let's talk about it.

Rob Spence is a multi-award winning business owner, founder, and Managing Director, with a huge passion for studying, learning, and development. 


Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy. Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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We all know that clients, and customers are the lifeblood of any business, but what happens when you start to attract the wrong kind of clients?

In this episode, I want to share with you my experiences of bad clients, bad customers; what they can do to a business, and what red flags to look out for them so you never get trapped with negative, toxic customers and clients.

Rob Spence is a multi-award winning business owner, founder, and Managing Director, with a huge passion for studying, learning, and development. Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy. Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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I experience it so often:

I call into businesses, I call them up, I email them, or contact them on social media, and I end up walking away and debating my choice to work with that company.

I say that without an ounce of arrogance. I say it because the team member I end up speaking with has had no sales training whatsoever.

Worse than that, and this is happening more often than not these days, those team members haven't even had any basic customer service training.

If you look at the most successful companies and businesses in our history, they have all implemented solid sales training into their employment processes.

Even McDonald's crew members have sales training - and I will bet my bottom dollar they have sold to YOU, without you perhaps even knowing. In this week's pod, I talk about sales training, and customer service training, and I go into detail as to why you need to start training your team. Now! Please don’t forget to subscribe and/or follow so you never miss an episode!

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Eight years in business.

Time really does fly when you are having fun!

I really cannot believe eight years have gone by so fast; I still remember the very first day of starting my new ‘job’.

Having that anxious, nervous feeling when I sat down at my desk, in my bedroom for the very first time.

Not only was I about to embark on my business venture, but I had effectively started a new life, and a completely different one to the one I had for over eight years previously.

In this week’s podcast, I talk openly about the feelings, thoughts and emotions that I went through when I set up my business, and how those first days went.

I like to say this every single year; thank you to everyone that has supported the business in any way shape or form over the past eight years. It truly, means a lot. Rob Spence is a multi-award winning business owner, founder, and Managing Director, with a huge passion for studying, learning, and development.

Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy. Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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This morning, I woke up to an email that NO business owner ever wants to read:

Termination of service. It’s the kind of email I have received numerous times over the past 8 years of business, but, it still hits hard.

If you are a business owner, you will know the feelings and emotions that occur when you hear of a customer or client wanting to leave.

For me, it has become easier over the years. But, it still hurts.

In this week’s episode, I discuss the feelings and emotions of what happens when a client decides to leave, and I also discuss the steps I take when this occurs.

Rob Spence is a multi-award winning business owner, founder, and Managing Director, with a huge passion for studying, learning, and development.

Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy. Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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We all get opportunities thrown our way every single day.

Some of these opportunities are small. Tiny little opportunities that may go unnoticed.

Other times, these opportunities are huge. They are life changing.

Either way, I strongly believe that if we take on board any opportunity that comes our way, our lives will flourish.

So many people turn down opportunities and wonder why their life is stagnant. They wonder why their career has stalled. They wonder why their love life is dry.

And yet, when you look at it, the people that get out there, grasp every opportunity by the scruff of the neck, and just go with it, it’s always them that seem to go on to do good things.

Perhaps, this is YOUR sign to say YES to things, and most importantly, sit at the front.

Rob has authored three books on sales and is known for his creative approach to sales, marketing and business training and consultancy.

Rob is also a podcast producer, and host, with his own studios situated in the Countryside of Leicestershire.

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In this podcast, I’m sharing the truth behind what it’s really like to build something from scratch — the emotions, the lessons, and the moments you don’t always talk about when you’re “meant to” be the confident business owner.

I started my business on an old desk in the corner of my bedroom.

Now, I run a company with two office sites, a boardroom, and a team of over 12 staff.

This podcast is a space for the real stories — from the last eight years of building my business, and the week-by-week experiences I’m still living through right now.

The hope is simple: that if you’ve ever felt alone in business, you’ll find some comfort here… and a sense of community too.

Because we’re not meant to do this on our own.

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I see so many people start a business, and very soon get stuck in a job they create for themselves. For some people, this is absolutely fine, and works out for the best. For others, they soon feel a sense of resentment and perhaps disappointment towards what they have grown and built. After all, before long, you can so easily just end up swapping time for money. In this week's episode, I talk about how I turned my business from a job, and into a business.

I also discuss how you can stop trading time for money, and how you can grow your own enterprise.

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Thank you for joining me on the every episode of From Bedroom to Boardroom. 



This is the business podcast that has been planned to be unplanned, where I, your host, Rob Spence will talk about the highs, the lows, and the journey of being an entrepreneur.



In this week's episode, I wanted to take some time to introduce myself briefly, and to introduce my latest podcast. 



If you are a business owner, an entrepreneur, or thinking of starting your own podcast, you have found the right podcast!



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Paragon Creative Studios - www.paragoncreativestudios.co.uk

monday.com - https://try.monday.com/9fu602qtcgca

Xero - https://referrals.xero.com/i5kqkglg3n3w-nx0cim

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