Business Growth Talks

This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature length episode with Shawn Khorrami, who is an author, business scaling expert and entrepreneur.

Shawn has a breadth of experience and knowledge, and she shows this when we start with the difference between an employee and an entrepreneur. We delve into his upbringing and experience with his dad’s construction business.

We talk about the importance of building a successful culture in businesses. Shawn decided to have formal education after selling his first business because he felt it was important. He tells me that this doesn’t guarantee success though.  

Shawn talks about his high tolerance for taking risks and how this is a successful trait of an entrepreneur.

Shawn wasn’t keen on writing books, but he has written one with a Covid slant on business, but he is excited about his new book coming out later this year. 

This is a fascinating interview and I hope you enjoy it! 

3.26 – What does a business mindset mean to you?

4.44 – Difference between an employee and an entrepreneur?

6.23 – Mindset vs skillset – which is more important?

8.38 – Shawn’s upbringing

12.50 – The benefit of being able to walk in someone else’s shoes

13.23 – Culture in businesses

16.04 – Running is business isn’t like an army

17.05 – First business

20.01 – The importance of formal education for Shawn

23.19 – Shawn has never done a CV/resume

26.34 – Mentoring young people

30.25 – Building and scaling a business

32.25 – Shawn has a high tolerance for risk

37.33 – Shawn’s books

41.15 – “Your Business is your product”

46.58 – Cross selling and referrals

50.25 – Quick fire questions

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This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature length episode with Ken Rusk, who is an author, entrepreneur, and blue-collar advocate. This is something a bit different and I loved the conversation. 

Ken talks about his early years with his marine father and his need for money led him to odd jobs to fund his dreams. 

We talk about how blue-collar skills have been lost in the education system, which is a shame. 

Ken tells an awesome story where he planned to buy a Porsche in 7 years and with visual manifestation, he was able to buy the car. We talk about the skill of creating things that help us in life. Ken is passionate about helping his employees to attain their goals without creating a lot of debt on credit cards. 

Ken’s risk tolerance is high, and this is reflected in his business decisions. He plans goals and builds his life around attaining these goals. 

I loved this conversation and lots of goals can be attained without creating lots of debt, this is beautifully old-fashioned. 

Enjoy the podcast!

3.13 – What does a business mindset mean to you?

4.38 – Entrepreneurial employees and winning

7.05 – Origin story and odd jobs as a child

8.35 – Ken’s father as a marine

9.45 – Children and entrepreneurship

10.38 – Blue collar trades and children

15.15 – Ken’s story about buying his favourite car by saving

18.01 – First job 

22.01 – The skill of creating things in life

25.07 – The story of Ken’s first book

27.50 – Risk appetite and entrepreneurship

34.34 – Why Ken helps his employees and people

40.20 – Long term goals vs dreaming

40.43 – Attaining goals without debt

42.49 – Plan for the next few years

45.00 – Quick fire questions

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This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature-length episode with Chris and Karene Lambert-Gorwyn, who are founders of Grow Your Heart-Centred Business.

This is an interesting conversation as he has a husband and wife duo. We talk about Chris and Karene’s early careers in osteopathy and consulting. Chris is very open about his struggles with credit card debt and the “ah-ha” moment. 

Karene talks about being a good role model to their daughter. We then go deep into their mission which is to teach a thousand people to be a millionaire with a heart-centered business.  Karene shares her experiences in property which was interesting. 

Lastly, we talk about why their relationship in business and personal life works so well.

Enjoy the podcast!

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This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature length episode with Jan Cavelle, who is an author, writer, and speaker about entrepreneurship.

We talk to Jan about her early years as a child on a farm and the transition to entrepreneurship. 

We talk a lot about the struggles of starting and building a business, and the key points of resilience and persistence to grow the business. Jan talks about physical and mental health struggles. 

Jan talks passionately about her writing articles and two books which have been pivotal for her growth as a person. 

We then talk about how governments aren’t helping business owners and perhaps a few ways they can help. 

Enjoy the podcast!

3.18 – What does a business mindset mean to you?

4.43 – Started writing articles on entrepreneurship

7.08 – The flow state

7.43 – Jan’s upbringing on a farm and reading

11.53 – Teenage years from farming into entrepreneurship

12.31 – Moving to London 

14.57 – Started a furniture business as a single mother

17.11 – Resilience as an entrepreneur

18.21 – Acquired a furniture building business

19.00 – Early days to make the business work

21.53 – Burnt out with the business

22.28 – Selling the business

23.20 – Mental health conversation

27.27 – Writing for Real Business

29.01 – Social media and being open about struggles

32.25 – Challenges being the female boss

36.03 – Jan’s journey of writing a book

41.30 – Governments helping or not helping entrepreneurs

46.50 – Plan for the next 2-5 years

47.45 – Quick fire questions

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This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature length episode with Marty Greenbaum, who is a franchise educator, consultant, and matchmaker. This is a fascinating conversation where we talk about everything to do with franchising. 

We talk about his upbringing and how he studied marketing and set up his first franchising marketing agency, which he ran for 15 years. 

Marty decided to expand his knowledge and became a franchising educator. We then go deep into the idea and requirements of franchising. The industries which are recession proof and what you get when you start a franchise like technology and training. 

Marty talks about how he matches people to franchise companies which he is passionate about and I enjoyed our conversation about entrepreneurship or management being the key component to success. 

Marty is an expert in franchising and I hope you get something from this conversation. 

Enjoy the podcast!

3.34 – What does a business mindset mean to you?

4.57 – Continual learning

5.30 – Marty’s family of entrepreneurs

8.11 – The role of confidence mindset for entrepreneurs

10.29 – 1st company created and franchising

12.29 – The foundation knowledge of franchising

13.05 – Marty helps people find the ideal franchise business

15.50 – Franchise marketing agency for 15 years

19.31 – Changed his life with franchise educating

21.30 – Franchising through an economic recession

25.00 – Healthcare and franchising

30.15 – Support from a franchise with technology, training, and experience

36.20 – Different industries for his clients

39.56 – Entrepreneurship vs management in franchising

41.11 – The plan for the next 2-5 years

43.09 – Quick fire questions

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This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature length episode with Mark Herschberg, this is our second podcast conversation, where we talk about the role of media and his new app called Brain Bump. 

Mark believes that content is moving from a traditional push method to a new pull view on content. He is making this happen with the creation of his new app called Brain Bump. 

This app is where content providers add hints and tips from their content and the user either schedules or searches for these tips. This means you can gather the hints from Mark’s book in seconds. Brain Bump supports podcasts, books and blogs. 

We talk about the features of the app, and this is in the context of media and the why people consume content. 

I give Mark an opportunity to ask me some questions, and we focus on my content and how I would like people to consume it. 

I ask Mark about his exit strategy to this business which is interesting. We discuss the amount of fun he is having creating and developing this app.

Enjoy the podcast!

3.22 – Future of media

5.05 – How and where we access media content?

8.13 – Push vs pull content to our listeners/readers

10.37 – The relevance of shorter video content

12.42 – Creation of app called Brain Bump

16.22 – Passive consumption of content

17.10 – Key ideas from content providers for the user of the app

19.10 – Brain Bump vs Blinkist

23.35 – User experience of Brain Bump

28.45 – Searching on the app

30.14 – 3 seconds to find hints and tips

33.20 – Best way for Mark to consume content

35.45 – Mark’s questions for me

40.13 – Feedback from my podcast listeners

44.22 – Mark’s exit strategy from app business

48.02 – Focussing on business content at the moment

50.31 – Mark is having fun!

53.03 – Last question to me

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This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature length episode with Ibrahim Abdel Rahim, who is Managing Partner at Moonbase Capital. 

This interview is something different, we cover an area of business that I wasn’t aware of. 

Ibrahim talks about his early experience in his father’s business. He then spent time in management consulting where he learned a ton. He then re-joined his father’s business and sold it to a larger company, then grew this business. 

Ibrahim spent time at Stanford where Search Funds were a hot topic and he decided to start a business. Search Funds are a way to buy and grow SMEs with the right investor/mentor. We go into a lot of detail about Search Funds, which you might find useful. 

 We discuss his future plans for his business Moonbase Capital which is very interesting. The quick-fire round is revealing.

Enjoy the podcast! 

3.30 – What does a business mindset mean to you?

4.20 – How do you build team in your career?

8.08 – Ibrahim joined his father’s family business

10.50 – Learning from his time in a consulting company

15.29 – Doehler buying his father’s business and ran it with 600 employees

17.24 – How to scale a business

19.42 – Being inspired by Search Funds with an explanation

23.23 – Building a Search Fund business

28.44 – Finding the right business for searchers

30.38 – Finding the hidden gem for buying businesses

32.55 – Success of Search Funds

36.28 – Countries in Europe that are having success in Search Funds

38.16 – Ibrahim’s business partners at Moonbase

40.01 – The plan for next few years

42.11 – Quick fire questions

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This is a podcast where I talk to my guests about their journey to success. We talk about their education, experience, current business, and future endeavours. 

A feature length episode with Sebastian Schieke, who is an entrepreneur, CEO mentor, business angel and investor. 

We talk about Sebastian growing up in East Germany and the role of Communism on his world view. He moved to West Germany and was inspired by entrepreneurship by his relatives. 

We talk about the importance of goal setting and health wellbeing. This is interesting to hear from a successful entrepreneur about how he sets goals. 

Sebastian tells me about his jobs as an IT consultant and founding his first business. We discuss running a successful business, but hard times were part of his journey. 

How do you have difficult conversations? Sebastian tells us. 

We also debate what he would do if he was to sell his current business. 

3.08 – What is a business mindset?

3.52 – Upbringing in East Germany in 1975

5.50 – Move to West Germany after Berlin wall came down

6.08 – Sebastian wanted freedom and live life on his terms

8.50 – Goal setting with wheel of life

13.30 – Health and well being

17.45 – Sebastian as an IT consultant

18.10 – Founded SCITUS – first business

20.14 – Hired first employee

23.03 – Running his business

28.18 – Mental Health

31.38 – Difficulty in understanding self

35.14 – Having difficult conversations

38.22 – Biggest lesson from business

41.48 – Would Sebastian sell his business?

46.11 – Quick fire questions

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This is a necessary podcast where I am going to talk about the economic outlook in the UK now. 

It was inspired after reading a summary from PwC. I give my views on these findings and I hope you enjoy the content. 

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We are changing things up a bit this week and we are going old skool.  This episode is me talking to a microphone and camera about effective networking tips. 

There are 12 tips that cover pre-networking, during networking, and post-networking. 

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