Episode Notes:

Guest Overview:

• Stuart Morris: Neurodivergent entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and CEO of the International College of Professional Celebrants.
• Author of 1 in 1,000,000 Life, a book about intentional living.
• Owner of High Trend House, a retreat center in Yorkshire.
• Career highlights include mentoring entrepreneurs, teaching at Henley Business School, and co-creating a billion-dollar startup.

Key Topics:

• Embracing Change: How Stuart pivoted careers and businesses to create a fulfilling life.
• The Value of Celebrancy: Training celebrants to lead personalized ceremonies and foster connections.
• Living Intentionally: Designing a life and business that align with your values.
• Affordable Risk: The concept of starting small and testing ideas without risking everything.
• Empowering Teams: Why letting go and trusting your team can be transformative.

Takeaways:

• Balance passion and practicality to build sustainable businesses.
• Celebrate failures as learning opportunities.
• Start with the customer, not the product.
• Build a business that works for you—not the other way around.

Resources:

• Join Stuart’s intentional living community: https://oneinamillion.life

Key Questions

(02:21) Can you kind of give us the synopsis of how you ended up where you are today, and the kind of the journey along the way?

(09:13) Do you have any tips on how to look for the, or be aware and open to the next opportunity without just having shiny object syndrome?

(11:50) With your retreat, do people just come there and you facilitate things? Or is it like companies come and then they do their thing? All of.

(14:52) On this two aspects, how do you get in front of people for the retreat side as well as people for your the celebrancy training aspect?

(21:16) Have you been using LinkedIn or just cold outreach?

(29:12) What do you think is the biggest roadblock from you reaching those various goals?

(32:20) What's the best advice that you have ever received?

(35:30) What's the best advice you have ever given?

(37:01) Do you have any advice on de-risking entrepreneurship?

(44:49) With everything that you have going on, how do you make sure that the appropriate things get the appropriate attention at the appropriate time?

(49:41) Is there something that you would like to talk about that we haven't yet?

Stuart Morris

https://oneinamillion.life

https://hightrenhouse.com

https://ticpc.org

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