This Week with Taylor & Gordon
Business & Finance
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A weekly vidcast/podcast for small businesses
Episodes
- Season 7 - Episode 246
Show week Sorting out collection of props – old and more recent – some valuable, some not Spreadsheeting all the boxes Printing a Book Box with a living hinge for the cast Running out of filament at one point Not a great deal done on a sho…
- Season 7 - Episode 245
The Diary of Anne Frank Tickets for 14, 15, 16th May 2026 – https://www.parlourplayers.co.uk Sending large files over the internet – 4.8GB wetransfer.com – maximum of 2GB for free accounts Blaze Quantum – for larger files – https://blaze.c…
- Season 7 - Episode 244
Internet went down Thursday Night – and took a week to get back up Lots of hassle getting it fixed Cloud smart home devices all stopped working Reflection – looking at yourself through a friends eyes One thing they think you do well and on…
- Season 7 - Episode 243
Client Handling – Losing a Customer Delays on both sides Need all content before we start work on the site The sitemap grew from 12 pages to 42 pages Communication with the client was not good New design requested When the content is deliv…
- Season 7 - Episode 242
Rehearsing for Anne Frank Co-Working for half a day a week Keeping the other person accountable Using your skills to help the other person Not wasting time chatting Progressing projects quicker Would this work for you? Time is scheduled ev…
- Season 7 - Episode 241
Shows all over Easter Waited 19 years for this… I had a call to see if I wanted to upgrade to Fibre Upgraded my internet to Full Fibre (FTTP) which is now available, last Tuesday Fused fibre cables together with a £4000 machine 20Mbps (on…
- Season 7 - Episode 240
Last Remaining POP! Jobs Bubble Convention Videos – post process All videos complete and uploaded for attendees Adding a process to the website for video distribution and purchasing Limits in place for who can view and purchase them Using…
- Season 7 - Episode 239
Didn’t manage an episode last week Pop! Bubble Convention – filming all sessions, talks and demonstrations 4 rooms to cover over all 3 days, 3 sessions happening at the same time Collate video and audio, edit them and upload before the nex…
- Season 7 - Episode 238
Convention for Professional Bubble Artists – AOIBA Filming lectures and shows People attending get access to the videos Capture, edit and upload as we go, so I don’t have a ton of work to do when I return home DJI Mics for speakers Cameras…
- Season 7 - Episode 237
Ambient Dashboard – Magic Mirror… An interactive display showing whatever is important to you Running on a Fire TV stick in kiosk mode Showing upcoming meetings, sports events, time to leave with traffic taken into account Heating, Home Au…
- Season 7 - Episode 236
Lots of small tasks completed this week Two 6 hour coding sessions for Taylor Blackpool Magic Convention is happening next week Longing this year by 1 day or 33% Worlds biggest Magic Convention Catching up with friends you don’t see very o…
- Season 7 - Episode 235
Herman Miller Chair – https://ukstore.hermanmiller.com/collections/seating/ Fully Adjustable – very high quality chair Expensive but very good. Purchased second hand one on Facebook Marketplace, 1 hour away Built June 2025, so very new No…
- Season 7 - Episode 234
What Makes Today a Success – web app myThreeTasks – currently in beta Gamifying Productivity Lots of ideas to improve the app For streaks, only working days count Invite only – great marketing User gets to choose what their tasks are – big…
- Season 7 - Episode 233
Helpful Triggers Create triggers to give you good habits Obligation is a good trigger Rewarding yourself for doing tasks that maybe you don’t enjoy doing Putting the Kindle in the right place to make picking it up easy Put things by your c…
- Season 7 - Episode 232
New Season, New Colour Pantomime week Filming shows, taking photos, rehearsing and performing Next job is editing System created a couple of years ago to allow for streaming Doesn’t really make a profit – but I do it for my own reasons, an…
- Season 6 - Episode 231
Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Visit the website: https://www.thisweekwith.co.uk Drayson Design Website – https://www.draysondesign.com The Creative Tinker Website – https://www.thecreativetinker.com Fac…
- Season 6 - Episode 230
Busy performing for Christmas New 3d printer delivered, which was better than my last delivery Tracking information wasn’t great but the delivery was fine 44kg in weight – need to make sure I was in Heavy even after packing taken off Taylo…
- Season 6 - Episode 229
Another new location – which do you prefer? Discovering an empty room, since Taylor moved out Best use of the new room Upgraded guest room to a larger room and a double bed Removed single bed and put up shelving to make a storage room Soli…
- Season 6 - Episode 228
Busy season – lots of projects to finish The Budget was this week Managing expectations – Yodel delivery company Two different delivery times on two different days missed – not even attempted They hung up on me when I called them Web chat…
- Season 6 - Episode 227
Back at Gordon’s Home New Bambu Lab 3d Printer Talking about the H range of 3d printers How to deal with filament purging H2C introduced to combat this Purge towers and induction heating Duel heads, 6 swappable nozzles Automatic Material S…
- Season 6 - Episode 226
A week off due to Taylor moving into his first flat. Taylor bought his own flat after a six-month process and had to purchase and assemble nearly all new furniture. The move temporarily reduced Taylor’s work output as he prioritised making…
- Season 6 - Episode 225
Most episode in this season so far? Wispr Flow – speech transcription – https://wisprflow.ai Easier to speak than to type – works better than Siri Removes Ums and Ahhs, and is context aware Smart by including people that have been mentione…
- Season 6 - Episode 224
Putting Your Life on Hold When other things happen Shut down for a week long show Resting for months at a time due to health issues Income Protection and Critical Cover Insurance for Income if you are unable to work Cover for customers We…
- Season 6 - Episode 223
Only Newcomer’s Award at the local magic club 3D printed plate stand for Taylor Squash Plate award SEO and the changes that are happening A brief history of how SEO has worked in the past Search engine results are now showing an AI summary…
- Season 6 - Episode 222
Origins of our podcast Home Assistant – https://www.home-assistant.io/ Using recent experience to make the experience better Creating a universal notification hub Using ChatGPT to create automations Creating a list of entities for use with…
- Season 6 - Episode 221
Project design signed off after lots of work Revisiting – organising and hosting our local community day QR code would show them a live schedule, which could be changed on the day Software that powers it has changed since last year and isn…
- Season 6 - Episode 220
Perspective Training plan at the gym – restarting Giving yourself a forfeit if you fail Give yourself a motivation “I only have an hour and a half”, or “I have an hour and a half” Looking at the situation with a different perspective Forfe…
- Season 6 - Episode 219
Another week has passed Stingers – after credits on a film Wednesday night cinema trip Automating the timings for leaving, travel, time to eat and then time to enter the screen to miss the adverts Bonus extra content during and after credi…
- Season 6 - Episode 218
Essentialism – The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Stop saying yes to please people Setting core values to allow you to make decisions Do you have the bandwidth to do things? Declutter projects Delete projects, no archiving Saying yes to help…
- Season 6 - Episode 217
Back from holidays Renovating my Gordon’s Magic box of tricks Jezo Bond took on the project, vinyl graphics printed by Rob Gaffney Went to see Jezo perform at a holiday park in front of a real audience Can be a difficult audience, need to…
- Season 6 - Episode 216
Last episode before holiday How Gordon research’s Look at what I use a product for and what I want to use one for in the lifetime of a future upgraded version What is the product capable of, what do competitors versions have, what features…
- Season 6 - Episode 215
Voicepal (phone app) – Ghostwriter in your pocket Helps to rid yourself of writers block Transcribes your verbal thoughts and then asks questions using AI Learns from examples of your writing style How strict or free do you want it to be C…
- Season 6 - Episode 214
Planting seeds in the minds of your customers Busy week performing as it is the end of the school year Moved from December to Summer over the last few years Sowing the seed for another show next year – pointing out the positives Performing…
- Season 6 - Episode 213
Visiting Jake Woods in Ireland Main platform is WordPress, but also a little bit of Shopify WordPress is open source and easier to work with Which is better – depends on what you are selling Shopify allows only 3 variants of a product Star…
- Season 6 - Episode 212
Taking Time Off Watching F1 at Silverstone Laptop hardly got used, no work was done First time podium for Hülkenberg Great infrastructure for getting people in and out Systems in place for emergencies Feeding huge numbers of people Celebri…
- Season 6 - Episode 211
New 3D printer accessories arrived Printing infill patterns Tidying Up Loose Ends – last 20% of a project takes 80% of the time New systems in place to track and complete projects Checklists to make sure everything is done New workflow wit…
- Season 6 - Episode 210
A very expensive week New roller banners – replacing with good quality ones New bunny hutch to replace one that is nearly falling to bits New MacBook Pro M4 – rewarding himself for working hard Raycast – https://www.raycast.com/ – your sho…
- Season 6 - Episode 209
WordCamp Europe 2025 Showing off WP Extended Putting faces to names from forums Mini celebrity in a small niche Talking to vendors Site Mait – WordPress AI Voice Agent – https://sitemait.com/ WP Umbrella – manage multiple websites themes,…
- Season 6 - Episode 208
Our episode recorded in Basel, Switzerland (no mic so sound is not as good) WordCamp EU 2025 – largest of the WordCamps in the world Networking and meeting up with friends WP Entended – https://wpextended.io/ Functionality that should be i…
- Season 6 - Episode 207
Bank Holiday Weekend setting up Home Assistant Automations Lights on and off in office Playing Apple TV will dim the lights and turn them back up on pause Wordcamp Europe 2025 – Basel, Switzerland – https://europe.wordcamp.org/2025/ Talks,…
- Season 6 - Episode 206
Home Assistant – Home Automation Discussion on Home Assistant and its relevance for Taylor’s flat Purchasing and setting up the Home Assistant Yellow Details about the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Experience with the component issue and c…
- Season 6 - Episode 205
Trix – Children’s Entertainer Convention Meeting and networking with other professionals I was in Stoke on Trent from Sunday through to Wednesday Seeing people you only see once a year – stopping and chatting Lectures, Talks and Shops Chat…
- Season 6 - Episode 204
Gordon performed in a VE Day performance at The Magic Circle this week Wordsearch Game Creation Generate a wordsearch that is customised with certain words like a birthday childs name AI Code Creation using an app called Cursor – http://cu…
- Season 6 - Episode 203
Frustrating Things… Very annoying especially when you have no control Waiting for a new battery pack for devices like my phone Found it cheaper elsewhere after the order so cancelled the order and re-ordered Lost in the post TWICE Royal Ma…
- Season 6 - Episode 202
5 year anniversary for This Week With News: The chatbot on the website will now show you which episode content is in. Expense Tracking – looking to move out and getting finances sorted Subscriptions that get forgotten Figuring out existing…
- Season 6 - Episode 201
Special Guests: Marc P Summers & Leo Summers Travel with family Tracking flights with Jet Lovers app Training Leo to find his way around an airport Maths – using numbers for anything you want Fibonacci as a middle name No limit to Maths Pr…
- Season 6 - Episode 200
EPISODE 200 Special Guests – Marc P Summers and Caroline Ainslie Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro for a second time at the age of 64 in January 2026 Looking for more people to join Caroline’s team Using your skills to achieve success 20th annive…
- Season 6 - Episode 199
Special Episode leading up to our 200th episode next week We have guests, Marc P Summers, Automated Marketing Agency and Caroline Ainslie, Bubbly Maths AI in Business – The Portrait Agency – looking for high value customers using AI to che…
- Season 6 - Episode 198
Embracing the Unusual Magic Show and Magic Workshop Surprise Birthday Party – he was blindfolded Working with another entertainer Also a party in a marquee in a scouting field 1.5 hours straight with no break Used my EcoFlow power for soun…
- Season 6 - Episode 197
Next Steps when hitting a brick wall Stepping away to think about things Or breaking down the problem into smaller chunks Projects taking longer than they should because you have to think and decide on the way forward Making notes about pr…