I found this quite frustrating to listen to. Your questions were great, and reflect your open approach. His answers felt guarded and I dont really understand why he wanted to do the interview.

This guy clearly had things he didn't want to tell. He made his first money by selling his publishing business. How did he start that? Where did he get the funds for that from? Many holes and gaps in the story and the questions were very soft ball not actually probing into the really interesting areas.

Loved this question: "How did you get your first million in the bank by the time you were 28?" Ans:  I was a failed Uni student living hand to mouth up to my mid 20's then I sold my magazine publishing business for bucketloads and hey presto bingo bongo million done.  Like WTF!  Where did the magazine publishing business come from?  Did you start it from nothing?  Did you manage to save enough from your hand to mouth existence?  Family money?  Hell, did he get the money to start the publishing business selling a bit of pooch at uni?  From nothing to the first million was a huge struggle for me full of amazing stories but somehow this fellow did not even have one story about that achievement.  Disappointed to the point of dismissive from this point forward.

Funny how the competitior story resembles what he did with the harbour club where he learned his trade and started competing with them 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️

Would he come back on and talk about what went wrong with Welcome? That would be some serious learning right there

Who’s the bastard who disliked the video!? This is gold

Comfortably the best business podcast episode I've ever seen! I think it's pretty clear why he says he doesn't want to sell...He basically told you earlier in the episode - he's a great negotiator and doesn't want to openly come across as a motivated seller!

Which contacts in your team do you need to this.

Accountant sols brokers banks etc ?

Great interview, both of you offer some really great insights. I have a request though. There are so many videos about seller financed business purchases, but nobody ever mentions the tax implications. In the UK sellers are liable to pay CGT on the total sale price at the time of sale, even though they wont earn that money up front to pay the tax.  Surely this creates a lot of problems?

At 34 minutes Jonathan tells of how he wished the bank would return his calls. You would think the bank would be using their own time to learn how he was achieving so much. It’s really surprising but then nobody I worked ever got curious about how the stupidest person in the office kept buying more houses.

Finding old james sinclair videos after watching everything up to press. I knew 5 minutes in. Can almost guarantee these nurseries wont be going anymore, quick google and they went into admin. Surprise. Would have thought youd have seen through this guy to be fair

this guy wouldnt make a very good bucket with all them holes.

This is quality love this what a humble man 👌🏿

I'm from Wolverhampton :(

Such a pleasant surprise to see you two together. I listen to one of you most evenings on my nightly walk. Superb conversion 👍👍👍

I love these direct questions. You are asking all the questions I want answering.

Great conversation to listen in on.

James I must say I have been listening back to a lot of your podcasts and video.  I have learnt so much in the past few weeks I have already put some of your ideas into place in my own my own business. In particular when it comes to staff. Keep up the great videos

,James love your banter

Get Samuel Leeds on