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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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00:07:42

A brush with Hollywood

The Fink Tank ·

2025/10/30

My Airbnb roommate was a Hollywood movie star. I had no idea. I was at the Toronto Greek Film Festival for Ange & The Boss, and the organiser said, “You’ve got a roommate tonight. You’ll like him.”Five minutes later, he’s pointing at me going, “Wait… you’re the guy who made that Ange Postecoglou film?”Turns out he knew half the people in it. He’d actually PLAYED with them in the 1980s.His name was Costas Mandylor. When injury cut his football career short, he pursued acting. Quite successfully,

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00:09:39

Explanation or excuse?

The Fink Tank ·

2025/10/23

Hands up all our favourite “I think I might have ADHD” people This week’s Fink Tank kicks off with Col “diagnosing” both of us, before comparing ADHD to being left-handed. Something that only showed up in the stats once it became socially acceptable to admit it.We dig into the blurry line between explanation and excuse.When does understanding yourself help you grow, and when does it just become a way to justify bad behaviour? At what point does “this is how my brain works” turn into “if you can’t

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00:05:37

Flawed apples

The Fink Tank ·

2025/10/16

Ever meet someone’s family and think, ah, that explains everything?Mum, Col, and his eldest son Deakin came to visit us in Wellington. Our collective Fink quirks, gathered in the McKay family home (portmanteau options include FcKay or McKink, pronounced with relish), were suddenly much more visible to me than usual.We like to imagine we’re all unique, self-made individuals. But truthfully, most of us are just slightly modified versions of our parents. Flawed apples rolling a short distance from the

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00:03:48

Disc golf

The Fink Tank ·

2025/10/09

Ever noticed that the less you care about something, the easier it is?Everyone wants to grow. Almost universally, we want to improve and upskill, we want to look back on our journey and see how far we’ve come.And yet, we’ll reliably prevent ourselves from improving by locking ourselves away, playing small, and avoiding risks.I have no particular interest in getting good at disc golf, but funnily enough the very fact that I don’t really care about the outcome means that yesterday, given a chance to

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00:04:55

Choice architecture

The Fink Tank ·

2025/09/25

Do I want to eat more Twisties?If they’re within arms reach, apparently yes. But actually, no. We’re on the way to pick up a planishing hammer (bonus points if you have any idea what a planishing hammer is. I didn’t), and Col has a huge open packet of Twisties in the centre console.After a few mouthfuls I’ve had enough sickly orange grubs, yet I lack the self-control to stop shovelling them into my face. So I give the packet to Col to stash in his car door.Why?I have total agency no matter where the

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00:04:29

Be better

The Fink Tank ·

2025/09/18

Have you tried just… being better?Col’s recent poll revealed what many of us already know. Most people admit they’re bad at marketing and sales. We avoid it.Instead, we lean on referrals and word-of-mouth. We hoping the quality of our work speaks loudly enough to bring in the next client.Col thinks many of us would be more successful if we focused less on blaming “bad marketing”, and more on becoming brilliant at our craft.After all, being bad at marketing feels psychologically safer than facing the

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00:06:21

The bald truth

The Fink Tank ·

2025/09/11

Who cares most about my expanding bald patch?Me. Nobody else gives a shit.Except it’s kinda news to me. Some recent video footage really tells it like it is! When else do I see the back of my own head?Video shows us as we truly are, not as we imagine ourselves. One of my jobs is helping people get comfortable with how they show up on camera. It's tricky territory, and most people find this confronting to the point they'll often choose total avoidance.Nearly everyone has a complex about some

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00:05:34

Exposure Therapy

The Fink Tank ·

2025/09/04

Yes, that’s custom lycra at Burning Man 2012.PLOT TWIST at 90 seconds. And yes, there’s a genuinely useful business lesson hiding in there.In this week’s Fink Tank, we argue why you need to bang on about your core messages way more than feels comfortable.Because the thing you’ve repeated 100 times?Your audience has maybe heard… once.Which is once more than you wish you’d seen the moustache I was rocking in 2012.

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00:05:02

Spirit Score

The Fink Tank ·

2025/08/28

If my over-45s football league refereed themselves, every second match would end in a fist fight.But in Ultimate Frisbee, that’s literally the rule. Even at the elite level!Players call their own fouls. They debate it on the field. And at the end, the opposition gives you a Spirit Score. Like Uber ratings, but for sportsmanship.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Strong spirit. Weak deodorant.”And it works. Their unique culture means players regulate themselves.Quite a contrast with soccer/football! Imagine Lionel Messi

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00:05:53

A drubbing

The Fink Tank ·

2025/08/21

Our mate Luke’s son Henry lost footy 62-1.It was also... a good close game. What??Sometimes the scoreboard tells one story, but the game tells another. Watching from the sidelines, the contest was fairly even. Henry and his teammates were solid in the midfield, and defended well. But they couldn’t kick goals. Cue clunky segue to Col taking us through the five critical components of running your small business, and why you can’t afford to drop the ball (ba-dum tssh!) on any of them.1. Have something

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00:03:19

Insufficiency is Not Enough

The Fink Tank ·

2025/08/14

This is not a story about grit or perseverance.It’s about how the tiniest, dumbest mistake can unravel our best-laid plans.Col trained for ten years to master Frisbee.Then forgot to bring water.You’re a seasoned speaker with a dazzling slide deck. But forgot your clicker.I’m mid-zoom with 150 people, nailing my presentation.Then my hard drive ran out of space.Col reckons The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande is a blog post dressed in a trenchcoat. If it inspires a simple checklist that saves my

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00:04:46

Unicycle

The Fink Tank ·

2025/08/07

Here’s how a $32 second-hand unicycle changed Col’s life. For 15 years, Col did what so many of us do:* Sat at the desk.* Felt guilty for not being productive.* Refused to leave the desk until “enough work” was done.* Got… nothing done.One day, he bought a $32 unicycle on eBay. The rule: when the work stalled, he was allowed to get up and ride it for as along as he wanted.If he came back to the desk and was STILL unproductive, he was allowed to immediately go ride it again.It broke the loop. Moved

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00:05:35

Reunion

The Fink Tank ·

2025/07/31

Do you go to high school reunions?My recent Eltham College reunion surprised me in the best way.I LOVED it. I wasn’t popular at school. I had a couple of decent friends, but never belonged to the "main" groups. When I got to Uni there was no looking back. My flimsy high school connections dissolved instantly as I smeared myself in the Melbourne Uni social life smorgasbord. Those Uni mates remain my core group.So why, two years ago, did I LOVE my thirty‑year reunion so much?Half our year

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00:05:53

Visible mess

The Fink Tank ·

2025/07/23

How nervous would you feel if you had to spin the webcam around and show us the rest of your house? And your life? If you’re hiding the mess, the quirks, the chaos, this episode is for you.Most of us are hiding things we deem unprofessional.Col Fink’s Zoom background is neat and tidy, complete with a colour-coded bookshelf. Beyond the curated frame? Some friendly sheep, an untouched woodpile from 2022, and a rogue step balanced on a tree stump.But here’s the thing:Col’s best clients already know

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00:04:33

Two fish in the sea

The Fink Tank ·

2025/07/17

There might only be two fish in the sea.This is good news if you’re one of the fish.Leadership coach Belinda Thomas told me she felt like she was swimming in a huge ocean of competitors. Her confidence was down.I said “Sure, there’s a million videographers too. How many do you know?”And she said… “Two.”If Belinda needs a videographer, she’s not choosing from a teeming ocean. She’s fishing in a pond with two fish. And I’m one of them.Pretty good odds!Yes, I know more than two videographers. But

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00:05:30

Olympics anonymous

The Fink Tank ·

2025/07/10

KP’s been to SEVEN OLYMPIC GAMES as a performance psychologist. I had no idea until yesterday. That is RIDICULOUS.For the first couple of years I knew Dr Kirsten Peterson, she never mentioned she’d been to the Olympics SEVEN TIMES. She was an engaged participant in my Be Less Shit on Camera course during that time, creating videos talking about her work. I still didn’t know! It felt like she actively hid it from me.And she’s not alone.To get paid to do the thing you do, people need to know you do

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00:05:12

Sample Size Matters

The Fink Tank ·

2025/07/03

One 2003 ski trip. 50 mates. Plenty of dickheadery. And a warning about forming strong opinions from weak evidence.In this episode of The Fink Tank, Col and I talk about the beautiful human habit of overthinking the anecdote and underthinking the maths. About how we love to build worldviews from tiny, noisy data points, and then swear they’re true. Humans are notoriously poor at assessing probability, sample size, and causation. Where your business is concerned, this is probably costing you. What

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00:04:57

Hobby horse

The Fink Tank ·

2025/06/27

People are weird. Our lives of abundance have meant we often feel compelled to satisfy ourselves in illogical ways with our hobbies. Col is three sheds deep into a scientific enquiry into how humans often love buying stuff more than they like having it or using it.This episode is a sprawling ode to that deeply relatable, slightly unhinged truth. Humans have strange and dumb ways of finding joy and distraction in our post-capitalist hellscape of privilege.Also, is anyone out there willing to admit

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00:01:27

Frozen bananas

The Fink Tank ·

2025/06/12

Some childhood beliefs leave quietly. Others wait until you’re an adult to slap you in the face.The moments of realisation tend to stick in the mind, too.I turned beetroot red during my turn for roll-call in grade 2. It’s pronounced Penelope, not Penny-lope. (Mispronouncing words you learned reading is a whole sub-genre here. Good luck, Siobhan)Col’s primary school mate Tim thought bands played their hit songs live at the radio station for every broadcast.I genuinely slapped my forehead when I

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00:06:07

Workshop suitcase

The Fink Tank ·

2025/06/05

Your workshop isn’t a suitcase. Stop overpacking it.You’re trying to provide value. So you cram in every model, every framework, every brain nugget you’ve ever loved.The result? A learning day that’s chokkas.No space to breathe. No time to reflect. No energy left by 2pm.In this episode of The Fink Tank, recorded during the lunch break on the second day of Col's 2 day summit, we talk about the urge to overstuff, why it comes from a good place, and how to fight it.Shoutout to the random guy who got in

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