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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[Everyone's chasing the next edge. The new platform, the new model, the new market. But the founders and operators building anything worth building right now are reaching for something older. Diversification. Liquidity. Patience. Not as financial concepts — as business posture. In this episode, we break down why the most resilient businesses we work with treat these three principles as operational tools, not investment clichés. What it looks like to build diversification into your revenue arch...]]></itunes:summary>
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    <itunes:summary><![CDATA[What are the people advising the best luxury and premium brands actually focused on right now? No theory, no trend reports, just the strategies that are actively shaping how our clients are building, protecting, and repositioning their businesses in the current climate. We get into where positioning work is breaking down and what it takes to fix it, why de-risking yourself within your own business has become a non-negotiable conversation, the data protection questions that most founders and b...]]></itunes:summary>
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