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Ready to start using Zoho Mail with your own domain name? It’s not as hard as it sounds — and in this episode, Charly walks through the process step-by-step so you can get it done with confidence.
✅ How to add your domain to Zoho Mail
✅ The DNS records you need to verify your domain
✅ Why DKIM is configured per email service
✅ Why SPF and DMARC are set per domain — and how to avoid conflict
✅ The pros and cons of manually adding records vs using automation
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Life is busy and there's just so many things to remember. What tools do you use to help you keep on top of ALL the things?
It's easy to react or respond quickly to messages and the like. It's better to do that mindfully. That's why I try to Practice The Pause.
Many small business owners spent 2025 chasing the latest tech trends while the boring fundamentals quietly kept their businesses running. In this year-end review, Charly reflects on what tech actually delivered results, what disappointed, and the valuable lessons learned along the way.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ Why properly configured backups, DNS, and regular updates remained the unsung heroes of business tech throughout 2025
✅ Tools that delivered on their promises, including password managers and email authentication systems like SPF and DKIM
📌 The disappointments of the year, from AI overpromises to platforms prioritising their interests over users
🛡️ Why building your business on rented land remains a significant risk and what preventable failures taught us
📌 The key insight that consistency beats perfection, and why systems and processes matter more than perfect technology
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Many business owners start the new year with great intentions, only to fall back into the same tech chaos by February. Instead of making resolutions you will abandon, consider building tech traditions that become recurring practices throughout the year.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ Annual reviews that actually save money, including subscription audits, password checks, backup testing, and domain renewal verification
📌 Quarterly and monthly maintenance tasks like website health checks, broken link testing, backup verification, and data cleanup routines
🛡️ Weekly habits for email management and software updates that prevent overwhelming backlogs
✅ How to build systems that stick by using calendar blocks, attaching new habits to existing routines, and documenting your processes
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Are you worried that artificial intelligence is about to take over the world and replace your job? Before you panic about the robot uprising, you might want to see what happens when you ask AI to play chess against itself.
In this episode, Charly covers:
✅ Why purpose-built chess computers like Deep Blue and AlphaZero mastered chess decades ago, yet large language models struggle with basic rules
📌 How ChatGPT moved a pawn backwards, which breaks the fundamental rules of chess and demonstrates AI's pattern-matching limitations
🛡️ The hilarious moment Google Bard hallucinated a chess piece into existence and confidently claimed checkmate with a knight that never existed
✅ Why AI is brilliant for drafts, summaries, content generation and repetitive tasks, but should never be trusted to make decisions or reason through problems
📌 How Charly uses AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude to save hours every week on social media posts, whilst still quality assuring every output
🛡️ The practical approach to AI ...
