Starting a business has become the dream of our time, as millions of people in the past few years have quit the day job to become their own bosses. The journey can be an exhilarating, and a fraught one, as this episode’s discussion uncovers. Gordon compares life working for ‘the Man’ with life as an entrepreneur in a frank conversation with business owners Clare Dales and Mike Stevenson.

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