Today on the podcast we talk to Darren Taylor, author, speaker and CEO of Taylor and Grace, a medium sized agency that invents or re-invents brands for small and medium sized businesses. Darren shares his story from being a regular employee and taking a marketing apprenticeship to building his own branding business. He highlights the importance of branding for a company, whether big or small, and how it can make a business successful.   What is covered in this episode: Services of Taylor...

Today on the podcast we chat with Darren Bourke, a business coach, mentor and consultant to small and medium business owners for 15 years and author of The Fourth Moon. Darren shares his story from his humble beginnings as a regular employee to building and owning his successful business. He specialises in coaching business owners to replicate his lifestyle design using his tried and tested methodology in achieving sustainable business success.   What is covered in this episode: Who is...

Today on the podcast I talk about the fourth stage in the Attract process – Resources.    There are three areas we focus on in the resources section - time, money and connections. In this episode I cover: The importance of focusing on those activities that you enjoy doing and get you into a state of flow The daily routine of writing out your intentions each day How to map out your time allocation Writing down the ten things you love and hate doing in your business to understand where you...

Today on the podcast we have a laugh with Morry Morgan as we explore his entrepreneurial story and what led him to cofound a comedy school having never been a comedian himself.   He shares his learnings from living and owning a business in China and how his teaching background and an on-stage technical failure lead him to create The School of Hard Knock Knocks.   What is covered in this episode: How his entrepreneurial journey has led him to create a business around teaching comedy...

Over the last few weeks we have looked at values and personality as important aspects of creating a business that attracts people to you.  Today we look at the third component - Life Stages. If you don't know where you are and where you want to go, how can you plan for the future? You need to know what you want in order to set your business intentions.  What age are you is the first thing to look at in Life Stages.  Age can often determine your current values and life priorities and...

Elphie Coyle is master at knowing his strengths and how to build a team around his weaknesses. Hear his journey to entrepreneurship and how his particular background and style is reflected in all his businesses. We discuss how he uses 5freedom areas as his guiding principles in life and business and the impact owning a computer at the age of 7 kicked off of his entrepreneurial journey.  Listen as we dive deep into the mind game that is entrepreneurship and how choosing to work allowed him...

Last week we looked at values -  the core foundation drivers of your business that you have to match to your business in order to persist.  Persistence is the thing that gets your 1%. This week we look at personality and how to design a business based on your personality. Knowing your personality allows you to know the best way you should be in your business, your best role within the business, what team do you need to fill in the gaps and how best to go to market.  It is important to...

Rohan Kopfler is a man following his own path. From high school teacher to entrepreneur, hear how he made his mark in his industry doing it his way.  As the owner of East Coast Kayaking, Rohan got started by purchasing an existing business rather than starting from scratch. We discuss how he has expanded his business by creating additional revenue streams through an online store, and how he has harnessed the power of video to make personal connections with his customers. Learn how Rohan...

The concept of values is as old as Greek philosophy but we are not talking about right and wrong. More the core areas of life that determine how we spend our time, money and energy. There are seven that we explore and how they influence the choice of customers we engage and business we operate to be truly fulfilled.

Yana Martens has combined her Judo teaching skills and modelling experience to create a business on her terms. She understands both sides of the camera and now helps photographers and those in front of the camera to get the images they want in her Posing People Workshops and mentoring. It is said you only have 4-8 seconds to make a first impression, especially with your photos.  We discuss techniques to get images that help to reflect your personal brand and capture the essence of your why....

Taruni Falconer created her own business from a young age and has travelled the world doing what she loves. During our conversation we explore the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and business ownership. We discussed the importance of self awareness and learning leadership through the living and working with discomfort until you are comfortable.   What frustrations you can expect to during transition points in your life and the need to practice listening to your intuition so you can...

Today I talk with Hank Vander Zee who has been a bricklayer for 20 years but is now transforming his life with a new business, Exclusive Entrepreneurs. He is helping people to grow a business through their thoughts and ideas, rather than their hands and labour.   Hank talks about the pitfalls of having a business in the construction industry and what drove him at do business differently at the age of 60. We talk about how he has successfully build a business within 90 days through through...

What if you could combine the training and mentoring opportunities that come with a corporate role, with the satisfaction of running your own business? In this episode Jacquie Pretty from Grammar Factory joins me to talk about what led her to set up her business helping entrepreneurs write awesome books, how she grew her business from being a sole trader to employing a team of editors, and what drove her to succeed. We also discuss how she has found returned to a corporate role whilst...

Have you considered leaving the corporate world and starting your own business? Waving goodbye to a secure job to follow your passion can seem daunting but the potential rewards can be life changing. Today I’m joined by Carol Benton of Words2Win and we discuss what motivated her to leave her corporate job to become a successful business writer and communications consultant, why her network was such a key contributor to her success, and how Carol found a new career that would both challenge...

In this first episode the tables are turned and my podcast producer puts me in the hot seat. We talk about how I turned my skills, knowledge and expertise in digital, marketing and branding into my own successful business, Social Star, how both personal resilience and willingness to evolve has been key in my journey, how creating a robust and nimble business has enabled me to be flexible in my work/life balance, and why I believe there are no shortcuts to success, that it’s a marathon, not...