Entrepreneurs Survival Guide
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 4 years ago -A warm security blanket of stories, techniques and guides that help you to overcome the rarely spoken about struggles of being an Entrepreneur or business owner.
Reading through blogs and groups, everyone has made it big time, right? It might seem like that, but it rarely is.
What is an entrepreneurs life really like and what does it really take to be successful? These are the questions we look to answer.
Sharing my story 'from hospital bed to now' and interviewing Entrepreneurs who have overcome their own unique set of challenges.
Learn the truth about what business success takes.
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Episodes
Ep13 - Secrets to doing what you love and never working another day in your life.
January 26, 2020 19:42 - 43 minutes - 32.6 MBEp13: Jelena Radonjic Secrets to doing what you love and never working another in your life. Free tool to measure your Career Fitness and how fulfilled you are in your current work: https://whatwork.lpages.co/career-fitness-quiz/ Are you looking to career transition into a career or business that makes a difference to the world? Or you want to make a change towards making money from a passion? Meet Jelena a career transition expert who has worked with people all over the world. Her Linke...
Ep12 Homeless to 6 Figures Uncover James Burkes Shares Some Super Insights on Being Successful
January 15, 2020 15:26 - 26 minutes - 12.2 MBEp12 Homeless to 6 Figures in just over 3 years! Imagine being successful in your passion and then unable to do it any more? Find out what happened to James and how he turned his life around. Now a business coach James shares some incredible insights and tips about what he believes it takes to be successful in business. And, see as one of his clients is now turning over £18 million up from £1.8 million, I think James knows what he's talking about. Episode summary: 1 min: What is James u...
Ep11 Gary Lumby OBE - Accelerate Business Growth By Getting Comfortable in the Uncomfortable
January 07, 2020 13:48 - 30 minutes - 22.8 MBDue to getting busy and limited resources, your business growth rate can often stall or plateau shortly after launching your business. So, what happens after the honeymoon period of starting a business? How do you continue that same rate of business growth? What is the silver bullet that some business owners seem to have found? Running a business can be like climbing a mountain and as many mountaineers will tell you, getting to 1st base camp is the easier part. Going past that is the bi...
Ep10 - The secret of doing less and achieving more
November 24, 2019 14:16 - 25 minutes - 18.9 MBHave you ever wondered how some people achieve so much? Time Management is probably one of the most searched for terms or training requested, which is crazy really because you can't manage time. No matter what you do, the clock will tick one second after the other. It is in fact the one equal currency we all have. So, why do some people, famous people like Elon Musk, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Richard Branson, (the list could go on) achieve so much? When us mere mortals struggle. It's not...
Ep9 - Lee Chambers reveals he overcame adversity and learnt to walk again
November 12, 2019 22:05 - 42 minutes - 29.3 MBLee Chambers reveals he overcame adversity and learnt to walk again. Discover how Lee managed to take responsibility for his life and life's challenges. Listen carefully, and you'll learn how we can all take responsibility and overcome adversity even during the toughest times when Doctors are telling us we'll never walk again. Why wouldn't we run from the top of a burning building for £1,000 but we would for something else... In this interview, Lee Chambers opens up about his journey tow...
Ep8 Which is better introverts or Extroverts?
November 06, 2019 11:21 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBIn this episode Martin Rodgers from Success Academy discuss with James Powys from Insights Coaching Solutions the difference between introverted people and extroverted people. Uncovering the myths and stereotypes attached to these personalities leads to a fascinating discovery about how to harness the power of introvert and extrovert energy. James expertly explains the strengths of people with introverted energy, something that is often not talked about. Towards the end of the episode Ja...
Ep7 - How James Powys left the corporate world to create his own destiny
March 18, 2019 18:59 - 26 minutes - 49.8 MBBy listening to other peoples stories we can learn so much. Just other a year ago James Powys left a secure and comfortable role at Britvic to set up his own business. With the standard long list of commitments like looking after family and paying the bills, how did James find the motivation, energy and commitment to step outside his comfort zone and into a world of the unknown. You may have already set up your own business or are just thinking about it, whichever one you are, there is some...
Ep6 - The number 1 way to get New Year Resolutions to stick
December 18, 2018 18:18 - 16 minutes - 30.5 MBWe are coming up to the New Year and a lot of us will be making New Year resolutions. Shortly after we'll be off track and saying oh well, I'll try again next year. This recent event reminded me of a secret tool that we all own and when used has dramatic effects on your self-control and ability to achieve goals. It's all about what the state of gratitude does to you. Listen to the podcast to discover the easy way to find gratitude in your life, even if you are no good at visualisations. I...
Ep5 - Valuable lesson from a customer who made me cry
December 10, 2018 18:33 - 20 minutes - 37.6 MBI'm a great believer of 'everything in life has a lesson - if you look for it'. While I didn't realise it at the time a horrible customer encounter around 1997 taught me everything I needed to know about buyer personas. Even though the customer made me cry (listen to discover how) I still learnt so much. Unconsciously as a sales assistant I adapted and changed based on this one customer. There was also an important lesson about leadership and how working with great people can have a massi...
Ep 4 - The Highstreet is not losing because of price
December 01, 2018 13:08 - 24 minutes - 45.4 MBUsing my recent shopping experience I offer my view to why high street shops are closing. The battle isn't being won based on price alone. The media and high street retailers are telling us that they closing because the internet is able to offer cheaper prices. I disagree! While price may play some part for a small selection of customer. The majority of customers are shopping for VALUE and value is based on a massive range of different areas. In this episode you'll discover what they are a...
Ep 3 - It was time for a change anyway!
November 23, 2018 16:09 - 27 minutes - 51.2 MB2009 and despite a personal massive set back and the financial crisis I plunged into the world of self employment. Field of dreams 'if you build they will come' couldn't have been more wrong. It's a story of how I had worked for one of the most amazing employers ever; they had given me so much training, development and support. But while I worked in the same building, the company was very different now and not in a good way. I had lost my passion, my purpose and worse of all I was now in...
Ep2 - The Impossible Year
October 30, 2018 16:19 - 15 minutes - 28.1 MBThe story of the impossible. How when your WHY is big enough you can overcome anything and succeed. If you work in your own business often tasks can be shoulds not musts. In this episode I look at what was achieved when 'should' could not exist and everything had to become a must.
Ep1 Where it all began for me - The life changing moment
October 27, 2018 16:15 - 16 minutes - 14.9 MBThis is an introduction into where my journey began. The journey to where I am today has had many significant moments. In this episode I introduce the first one.