Entrepreneurs Survival Guide

Ep13: 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 LinkedIn headline is -Official Member at Forbes Coaches Council, Career Fulfilment Coach, People Connector Jelena has impressive techniques and exercises that can help you find a career or business that is congruent with your values and passion. Episode summary In the first part, we discuss the 1st secret and forgotten step to career transitioning - Unpacking your gift. This vital step is all about values, strengths and goals. Jelena shares exercises you can complete by yourself to start the process of unwrapping your gift. We look at what are values, and where do they come from?  Investigating what you enjoy and love can lead to surprising truths about what you like.  By completing the exercises and unwrapping your gift, you'll magically reveal your non-negotables. Non-negotiables are the essential criteria for your next role or business when career transitioning The most challenging type of career move is one where you're looking to do something completely different from what you're doing now. Maybe you're an accountant looking to become a freelance photographer. A complete change to passion-based work is the scariest style of a career change. Jelena explains how to go about and what you need to prepare for. Example accepting that you will need to more time and money if going from one sector to another. After you've unwrapped your gift, what do you next? Jelena explains this is what she called the 'explore' stage — doing things like Qualifying and analysing future opportunities.  Grading jobs or business ideas against a matrix that includes values and more tangible measures like salary, location and industry.  For business owners - This is all about creating your business plan and paying particular attention to setting up something you will love doing and is congruent with your values. The last part of this episode looks at the applying stage.  In the world of applying online, many people follow a process, and as such, their application looks like everyone else's. Jelena shows us how to develop a narrative based on experience, achievements, competencies and skills.  Distilling all these down into an elevator pitch and then writing that in the body of an email when sending a CV, can be a great way to stand out and become memorable  By being smart like using the body of an email to show more of you as a person, you really can bring your mission alive and become memorable.  Make your next career transition successful download or connect with these free resources: Free tool to measure your Career Fitness and how fulfilled you are in your current work: https://whatwork.lpages.co/career-fitness-quiz/ 10 Questions on Ultimate Career Clarity here: whatwork.co.uk/10-questions/ Find Jelena on LinkedIn

Ep12 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 ultimate top tip for being successful in business. 

5min: Which book should you read next to increase your success in business

7 min: How can instantly find what book you should be reading next. This will save you turns of time reading book recommendation blogs. 

8 min: Discover the book that all the top billionaires are reading and why you should too

9 min 30: How do you turn knowledge into results. Escape the trap of just feeding your brain with knowledge and not getting anywhere!

14 min 30: Looking for more time to read business books? We uncover where you can probably find time to read at least 2 books a month, if not more

15min 40: Why at 16 years old did James end up homeless and how did he turn his life around

18min: Learn how to stay focused and energized. 

22min: The simple formula for changing from average success to world-class success and why business success is more than just money.

Find out more and hop on a free seminar with James:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesburkebusinesscoachmanchester/

Due 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 bigger and harder challenge. 

Gary Lumby MBE shares his secrets to scaling a business. Currently helping 24 business owners across the UK and running three companies of his own. Gary knows a thing about growing and scaling a business. 

Gary explains  5 essential resources you need to grow a business, how you need to take informed risks but can avoid taking a gamble on your future.

After receiving an OBE from the Queen for his services to financial services, Gary left the industry, but how did he get 6 of his clients to call and ask for help immediately? What did Gary do to build a personal brand?

One of my favourite parts you've got to listen to in this podcast is Gary dispelling the myth of having to niche your business and in fact, you probably shouldn't.

These are just a few of the important topics we discuss with Gary in this episode.

Find out more about Gary by following any of these links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garylumby/

https://www.focus-on-success.co.uk/

Have 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 because of a magic time machine, I don't think so anyway! 

In this episode Victoria Maguire explains the processes she uses with her clients so they can achieve more by doing less. 

We also explore how society gives the impression we should be doing more and more; and a  lot of us are failing because of this constant hamster wheel. 

Victoria is really open and honest about how she learnt the hard way. Victoria, wants you to learn from her mistakes, so you can maybe save your life from crashing like hers did. It's a story of how her home fell apart and the inevitable divorce occurred, but she believes by following the advice in this podcast you will learn how to prevent this before it's to late. 

If you would like support and help from Victoria, please visit her LinkedIn page - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vicki-maguire-7803b869/

Lee 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 towards becoming a coach and successfully running his own business. 

How did Lee's 'why' keep him going despite the massive setback and what can you learn from this?

Taking a look at how this journey took Lee into the world of coaching, we learn more about what makes coaching so powerful and how it helps people to achieve their version of success. 

Lee reveals some top questions you can ask yourself if you don't have a coach by your side. 

If you would like to find out more about Lee and how he helps people to become their best versions, you can find him in the following places online:

Find Lee on LinkedIn

Visit Lee's website

Connect with Lee on Facebook

Tweet Him

In 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 James gives some top tips on how to get a balanced and rounded perspective instead of one that is through the filter of your personality type.

If you can always get in touch with James on his LinkedIn profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-powys/

Would you like to watch the podcast? https://youtu.be/YEYxkoEPkqU

By 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 something in this interview for us all to learn from.

James explains the planning and preparation he did years prior to going self employed and then how he test two business models he had conceived.  

I recommend after listening to the journey James went though - take a couple of minutes to reflect on your journey. Where are you now and where do you want to be? What will your journey be like and what obstacles can you already see?

In just over a year James has created a successful business and he did this through foresight and utilising his network. 

You can watch the under edited video on my Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/successacademyuk/videos/626674244440891/

If you have a story you would like to share with the world, please get in touch : https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinrodgersderby/

We 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. In the podcast I'm just sharing my experience. I would love to hear your comments and views on new year resolutions and how to make them stick. Visit me on facebook/successacademyuk and let me know your thoughts. I do go into a little more detail on my main website https://thesuccessacademy.co.uk/the-secret-tool-that-will-ensure-your-new-year-resolutions-stick/ Make sure you try out this powerful way of feeling gratitude and let me know if and how it helps you achieve your new year goals.

I'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 massive impact on how you treat other people. Listen now to learn the lesson I did about buyer personas and why they are so important. Once you've listened to this episode, follow this link and uncover your buyers personas. Or as I prefer to call them - Client Profiles Use our client profile creator by following this link - http://bit.ly/clientprofiler

Using 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 and how to always get someone to make you a cup of tea. If you would like to watch this episode recorded live, please visit my facebook page facebook.com/successacademyuk If you would like the free tool offered follow this link - http://bit.ly/clientprofiler