Fink Tank Origins

<p>The Fink Tank started in 2019. The first episode came out in 2023.</p><p>If you&#39;ve got an idea sitting on the launch pad, this one&#39;s for you.</p><p>It wasn’t called The Fink Tank back then. I didn&#39;t even know what it was. I just knew I wanted to publish something fun with my brother Col.</p><p>On the day this was recorded I&#39;d been producing a curriculum series for Jaquie Scammell in a rented filming space. Col dropped in to take advantage of the setup and record some work-related content. </p><p>I seized the moment. Just before pack-down I jumped on camera with him and we made this playful video.</p><p>I posted it on Facebook in May 2019 and people loved it. Hundreds of likes and comments. I was delighted. The idea had legs!!</p><p>And then… nothing.</p><p>In 2020 and 2021 I produced over one hundred episodes of the video podcast What&#39;s on Your Mind for Digby and Alicia. It was hugely popular. People still talk about it.</p><p>I made a hundred episodes of a podcast. For someone else. And still didn&#39;t feel ready for my own.</p><p>In early 2023 Col and I finally recorded content for the first few Fink Tank episodes. It still took me FOUR MONTHS to get over my block and publish episode one.</p><p>Since then we&#39;ve put out more than 120 episodes, a frankly astonishing and very un-Fink-like discipline and consistency.</p><p>It&#39;s built a small, engaged following. It feeds into our businesses. And, most importantly, it&#39;s a fun thing to do with my brother Col.</p><p>I look back sometimes and wonder what I was waiting for.</p><p>What are you waiting for?</p>