Jim’s Journey with Jim Penman
Title: Jim’s Journey
Subtitle: Entrepreneurship, History and the Rise and Fall of Civilisations
Guest: Jim Penman
Recorded: September 2025
What do a lawnmower, a history PhD and the rise and fall of civilisations have in common?
Jim Penman's life is an extraordinary Australian story. Born in England and brought to Australia as a seven-year-old, Jim eventually became a historian and PhD student fascinated by one of the biggest questions in history: why do civilisations rise, flourish and collapse?
Then, while broke and studying for his PhD in the early 1980s, Jim spent $24 on flyers and…
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