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The Fink Tank

Cam and Col Fink

A podcast for people dealing with the weirdness of running their own small business. Brothers Cam and Col Fink chat about work, life, and the confounding idiocy of themselves and others. They"ve been brothers for 45 years. You get to pick who"s older. Col helps people run successful small practices, and is an expert public speaker and trainer. Cam is an event producer and freelance videographer, and loves helping people bring their best selves to video.

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00:05:49

Compound interest

The Fink Tank ·

2025/05/29

It started with our shit original band and stupid holiday videos. Now it’s keynotes, coaching, and feature films.Compound interest isn’t just about money.In this mid-summit episode of the Fink Tank, Col and I chat about the cruel human condition of being overly critical of our progress or growth.About how we underplay our past accomplishments in our journeys toward mastery. This whole room of solo pros deliberately and meaningfully joined the dots of their history. And were called out on pointless

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00:04:50

Mistaken identity

The Fink Tank ·

2025/05/22

Eight years ago, I deleted an entire keynote I’d just filmed for Tracey Ezard.Not a file. Not a clip.The whole keynote. Gone. Like a magician, but sad.It felt career-ending.Tracey, somehow, was kind and forgiving. I, in return, filmed her next keynote free-of-charge and built a shame-fuelled foolproof backup system.It has never happened again. Mostly because I now treat footage like a live organ transplant.We all make mistakes. It doesn't feel like it in the moment, but there aren’t many you

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00:07:06

Outside the environment

The Fink Tank ·

2025/05/15

Day one: everything clicks. You’re in the zone.Day two: same task, same brain… suddenly you suck?Even experts like Adam Voigt and Kirsty Lush can turn in the occasional clanger.It happens. They’re still legends.So are you (probably).Before a bad day spirals into a full identity crisis, try this:Change the space. Change the feel. Change the day.It might be the context that’s off. Not your competence.In this Friday Fink Tank, Col and I talk about how performance shifts when your environment does, and

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00:04:37

Deceptive simplicity

The Fink Tank ·

2025/05/08

Ever watched someone speak, lead, or perform and thought, “Wait… that’s it? I could do that!”Except of course, you couldn’t.This episode of The Fink Tank is about deceptive simplicity. Watching mastery is often marvelling at how simple it looks in its final form!And it works both ways, because here’s the thing we forget:The stuff that feels easy to you now is usually the most valuable to someone else. The stuff that looks effortless because it’s been practiced into your bones. You’ve done it so many

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00:03:05

Me myself and I

The Fink Tank ·

2025/05/01

I sat down and gave myself a good hard talking to.Literally. On the Fink Tank matching chairs. In Budapest!My voice sometimes comes out of someone else’s mouth. If it’s one of my brothers, it’s often the exact sentence I would have said. In a voice that sounds exactly like mine.In the days of landline phones, someone calling the Fink house couldn’t tell which of the four male Finks in the house they were speaking to. In group conversation with friends, I can often hear my contribution come from

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00:06:34

Question everything

The Fink Tank ·

2025/04/25

Most people do the wrong prep for public speaking.Here’s a better approach 👇 1. Already have 5 different appearances in front of a thousand people booked across a single weekend.2. Treat it like a Q&A, even if it isn’t.Step 1 might be out of your control, but step 2 isn’t.After some top-shelf sibling dickheadery to open this episode, Col elaborates. He reckon most people would rather see you launch with gusto into good audience questions than watch you battle your way through 30 minutes of

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00:03:58

Practiced laziness

The Fink Tank ·

2025/04/17

“Now you know why I keep saying the same old shit” Colin Hay, writer of Land Down Under and other global hits, isn’t just a great songwriter. He’s a great story teller too. At his lives shows, he respects the audience by playing the hit songs. We’ll indulge some new or deep-catalogue songs mid-set, but don’t you dare deprive us of Who Can It Be Now!He respects the audience by telling the hit stories too.I’ve seen Colin Hay many times, and I’ve heard him tell the same stories again and again. And I

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00:05:40

Autocratic Democratic Anarchistic Meritocracy

The Fink Tank ·

2025/04/10

What would be the best leadership style in the universe of Dr Seuss?Col suggests an Autocratic Democratic Anarchistic Meritocracy.To be fair, he started a reasoned and interesting conversation about combining systems of governance into your approach as a leader. The Dr Suess bit was me. I later noticed a further similarity with John Travolta’s lines before he launches into “Greased Lightning” in the musical Grease (this car could be systematic, hydromatic, ultramatic). Important stuff.I

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00:04:58

I'll "just" do it myself

The Fink Tank ·

2025/04/03

I’ll “just” do it myself.I’ll “just” pay someone else do it.All of us have uttered those phrases, unaware of the horror that awaits.It’s easy to think we can solve a problem quickly and easily if we “just” do it ourselves. Or cheaply, if we “just” pay someone else to do it.When you don’t know what you don’t know, things can go comedically wrong at speed. Something you thought would be quick, easy, and cheap, turns out to be NONE OF THOSE THINGS.What can we do about it?

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00:05:54

Pithy

The Fink Tank ·

2025/03/27

If you’re good, it’s okay to be repetitive. If you’re good, it’s okay to be repetitive. When Lisa O'Neill starts telling a fresh audience a story I’ve heard ten or twenty times, I am delighted.I’m delighted for the audience, I’m delighted for me, I’m delighted for the shared experience we’re about to have!Lisa’s done the work to shape and polish her brilliant ideas into memorable and hilarious stories. She knows her pithy lines. The punchlines we remember and share later. Have you done the work

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00:04:32

The second arrow

The Fink Tank ·

2025/03/20

Mum’s request was objectively stupid.There was barely a problem to solve, and the “solution” added pointless extra faffing.Regardless, Col and I did it without question, because it was mum asking. Who doesn’t want to just make their mum happy?? Not us!Mum is a kind, generous, and loving parent and grandparent. If she occasionally has a silly request that doesn’t make sense, we’ll happily absorb it without question.As many a married person must ask themselves, “Would you rather be right or happy?”Is

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00:09:47

Dead Dad Club

The Fink Tank ·

2025/03/13

It's hard to prove something to a dead person.Col tried for a long time.When making the Fink Tank we don’t discuss our topics in advance. One of us brings a story or prompt and we go where it takes us. I surprised myself in this episode by asking Col if he was trying, in his twenties, to prove something to our dead Dad. We’ve somehow never really spoken about it directly before, so it was a bit of a moment. Trying to live up to the expectations - real or imagined - of our parents is something

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00:03:25

Be interesting, do interesting

The Fink Tank ·

2025/03/06

Have I wasted tens of thousand of dollars? Yes ..and no.I love all my fancy expensive camera gear, and the multi-camera setup we usually use for The Fink Tank. But our best performing episode of this year was shot just on a phone!Does that mean I should chuck all the expensive tech? Of course not, it’s critical for most of my professional projects.But it’s absolutely NOT where most people should start. If you want to build a credible professional video presence, fancy camera gear is a TERRIBLE idea

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00:06:20

Bloody Hopeless

The Fink Tank ·

2025/02/27

In the 1980s dad bought a home video camera that weighed about 12 kilograms.It was made up of three different units tethered together with cables the girth of jumper leads. I have fond memories of dad using me as a pack horse on his home-movie missions. The actual camera was the size of a phone book (a gloriously antiquated analogy!), there was a second unit which housed the brick sized VHS tape which recorded the footage, and a power supply about the size and weight of a car battery. The image

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00:06:57

Ruining parrots lives

The Fink Tank ·

2025/02/20

First there’s the buzz and excitement of a new community. You “find your people” and the world is full of possibility. Amazing things happen. The sparkle evolves and matures, and then…. fizzes out. Either the whole thing implodes or it’s time for you to leave. Friendships can be for a reason, a season, or a lifetime. Communities too. Why does this happen? What can you do about it? How do you cope?In this Friday Fink Tank Col and I discuss this over parrots.

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00:03:49

Whats the point?

The Fink Tank ·

2025/02/13

We’re both hypocrites. You probably are too. We’re doing exactly what we’re advising against, by recording something we said we weren’t capturing, and publishing it somewhere we say doesn’t matter.Regardless, this episode might be all the evidence you need it's possible to be both rampantly hypocritical and still make a decent point.Welcome back to The Friday Fink Tank for 2025! Col and are delighted to be here. How’s everyone doing out there?? What standards are you applying to others but not

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00:06:23

Seasons change

The Fink Tank ·

2024/12/26

Wrapping up season 2 of the Fink Tank!

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00:07:04

World class? More like world arse

The Fink Tank ·

2024/12/19

Do you aspire to be “world class”? Col thinks you should. I think that’s bollocks.Please enjoy some friendly sibling fireworks on what “world class” means, and whether it’s a useful or realistic aspiration.We started with Col’s interesting idea that people will forgive *one* element of something being a bit crap. But not two.I immediately warmed to this idea, and could recognise its truth. - If you’re a great presenter but you have crap slides, you’re still a great presenter. But if you’re ALSO

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00:07:04

Don’t shave that yak!

The Fink Tank ·

2024/12/12

We’re probably all guilty of shaving a yak when we’ve lost sight of our original goal. If you want to see THE classic example, skip to the last minute for some Bryan Cranston gold from in Malcom in the Middle.Allow me - through a 2005 Seth Godin blog - to explain.Paraphrasing Seth's example, Yak Shaving is the last in a series of steps toward something you want to do.“I need to drive to a meeting across town”“My car’s broken down, but I could borrow my neighbour Jill’s.”“But it would feel

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00:06:54

Baby Licence

The Fink Tank ·

2024/12/05

New rule: you have to have three kids before you're allowed to have kids!Today's Fink Tank starts with an admission from Col that despite having three kids, as a parent he's just making it up as he goes along.All new parents share this realisation (I've heard!): there's no amount of study or research that will truly prepare you for parenthood. The only real preparation is the act of parenting itself.This insight turns out to be true of nearly every challenge we face. The real

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