Brendan McGurgan on Scaling, Personal Transformation & Keeping Score of the Things That Matter
Description
Brendan McGurgan is the co-founder of Simple Scaling: an organisation that helps ambitious business leaders to 10x their business through accelerator programs, best-selling books, acclaimed podcasts, and the upcoming ScaleX Summit.
He’s also a certified Wim Hof Instructor and self-confessed sauna-junkie.
In today's episode we talk about:
- His first job picking apples as a boy in Armagh
- Why he quit his retail gig over a coke
- (And got hired elsewhere an hour later)
- What led him to go from feeling “bulletproof” to being humbled
- The number one thing that holds business owners back from scaling
- How parenting prepares you for entrepreneurship
- Why scaling could be Northern Ireland’s superpower
- His personal scorecard for life
- And how “simple” and “easy” are not the same thing
Check it out!
https://bestofbelfast.org/stories/brendan-mcgurgan
P.S. Click here to get tickets for the ScaleX Summit: https://www.scalexsummit.com/event-details/scalex-summit-2023
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