What One Thing?
One business. One lesson. Every week.
Real businesses. Real stories. Real-time.
What One Thing? is the straight-talking weekly podcast for growing UK businesses with a team on the move — building, scaling, and figuring it out as they go.
Join co-hosts Hayley Baxter (Corbar Accounting) and Phil Davenport (Affirm IT Services) as they uncover the single most powerful lesson that’s helped business owners make real progress — and share how those insights apply to your world too.
Recent Episodes
When Success Isn't Enough | With Lisa Johnson
Lessons Learned Running a Business in 2025 (Honest Reflections from Two Founders)
What We Learned Running Our Businesses This Year | What One Thing Podcast
What We’ve Learned From Running a Weekly Podcast as Business Owners| What One Thing
Taking Radical Responsibility in Business: How Jo Simpson Survived the 2008 Crash
Can “Nice” Leaders Scale a Business? Systems, Culture & Growth with Neil Shaw | What One Thing Pod
Recent Blog Posts
Super Yachts, £6.99 Chinese, and the Real Meaning of ‘Enough’: Lesson…
If you’ve ever hit a goal and thought, “Is this it?”, you’re not broken, it happens to most people. In our latest episode of What One Thing, we sat down with Lisa Johnson, a business owner who has built multiple seven‑figure…
Looking Back on a Year of Business: What We Learned (Often the Hard W…
There’s a point in every business where you stop reacting and start reflecting. Usually it happens quietly.Often it happens late.And almost always, it’s slightly uncomfortable. In our latest What One Thing episode, we did something we …
From Freelancer to Agency: Why Pricing (and Letting Go) Changed Every…
In this episode of the What One Thing podcast, Phil Davenport (Affirm IT Services) and Hayley Baxter (Corbar Accounting) chat with Jade Hallam, founder of Clever Clicks, a Nottingham-based digital marketing agency specialising in SEO and B2B marketi…