EP498: Ted Harrington - The Hacker Mindset: A Superpower For Business

Michael Palmer: Well, why would anyone attack me? I'm so small. I don't have much. I don't have much money. I don't have much information. I don't have much intellectual property. I've got my, you know, whatever, 10 clients, 20 clients. Why would anyone attack me? You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com, the proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to The Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I am your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be an absolute scary one sometimes. I think anytime I've had a guest on talking about cybersecurity, I leave scared and I probably— it's probably a good thing to be aware. Anyways, getting back to it, our returning guest is a cybersecurity expert and author of his second book coming out very soon, Inner Hacker. Ted Harrington, welcome back to the show. Good to see you again. Thanks for having me again. Good to have you. And I'm, you know, when I saw your name come up, I was like, oh geez, this is like, I think the world has completely changed since we last spoke. And everybody's using AI to help them. And, you know, businesses are changing and they're getting more efficient, which only means the bad people are getting more efficient and powerful and strong as well. So I can only imagine that's going to be a part of our conversation today. But you've, you've, this is your second book. Tell us a little bit. Let's start off what's happened since your last appearance on the show, and let's talk a little bit about your book that's being released.

Ted Harrington with Hub Analytics ad (October 28th 2025): Sure. Yeah, I can share with you that story arc. To your point earlier, my hope is that maybe people will leave invigorated and inspired and not just scared from our conversation today. So hope that'll— that's my mission, to give people something to do. Beautiful. Talk us off the ledge.

Yeah, talk you off the ledge. Exactly. So since I last was on your show, I had come out with this book called Hackable. At the time that book was out, and it led to this really amazing opportunity, which was that I got to go fulfill a life goal of mine and to go give a TED Talk. And so I got invited to speak at TEDx Frankfurt. And when I flew out