Business Growth Talks

A feature length podcast episode with Chris Craddock, who is Founder and CEO of Redux Group. 

We talk with Chris about his decisions on his education with an Economics degree and a Theology masters. He then became a pastor after an inspiring person who taught him to be a man. Property is a massive part of Chris’ life with flipping houses and growing multiple businesses like lending and agents. If you are interested in property this is an inspiring interview because he will show you how to build businesses 

Time stamp:

0.45 – degree in economics

1.52 - theology degree and why he became a pastor

5.51 – challenges of being a pastor

8.24 – “go bigger or go home” vision

8.42 – flipping houses 

10.44 – different areas of Chris’ businesses

13.13 – day to day roles in his businesses – “growing his world”

19.21 – lifestyle or empire building entrepreneurs

22.23 – What type of leader is Chris?

26.14 – Real estate package deals to investors

30.50 – Negotiation is so important for business

35.30 – Chris podcast called uncommon real estate

38.01 – Chris role in the next 2-5 years

42.42 – 6 quick fire questions

Email Address: [email protected]

Contact: David Mount, Assistant. [email protected]

Website: chriscraddock.com

LinkedIn Page: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-craddock-92100171/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ChrisCraddockBusiness

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A feature length second interview episode with Angel Ribo, this is a more relaxed conversation about his focus for 2022, how to deal with negative people in life and on social media. We delve into modern business working practises with some honestly by Angel about feedback on his aggressive behaviour in 1996. We talk about bringing up kids and the ways he enriches his life in eating nourishing food and a daily meditation group. This is a varied and interesting conversation. 

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1.08 – Plan for 2022. “why not”

1.50 - Focus on the positive

3.30 – how to deal with negative people

7.47 – power of silence

12.41 – experience of criticism on social media

21.00 – convey message as aggressive in 1996

24.11 – leaders can’t throw books in current world

27.04 – Are millennials are snowflakes?

33.10 – critical thinking 

33.23 – bringing up children in 2022

36.39 – eating more nourishing food

39.15 - meditating group every day

46.00 – use influence to do good in business and philanthropy

50.13 – Retiring from his business?

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A feature length episode with Wouter Delbaere, CEO and Founder of Mangtas. We talk about Wouter being a truly global citizen living in 10 countries. We discuss his early roles which was in sales and tech. The important point of Wouter’s life was quitting his job in pandemic times. Then we go deep into his business with the outsourcing model for his clients. This is fascinating to hear his approach by validating the market and the business is growing fast. It is exciting times for Wouter and his business. 

If you are interested in outsourcing parts of your business then reach out to Wouter. 

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Time stamp

1.46 lived in 10 countries

5.56 universal language of football/soccer

6.17 – education experience in business and IT

11.35 – resourceful and take opportunities

12.00 – importance of sales

18.33 – evangelism for agile methodology in tech sector

22.34 – quitting job 

24.58 – new B2B outsourcing business

29.38 – specialism of outsourcing different roles in business

32.54 – funding for Mangtus which was returned

35.13 – validating the market for Mangtus

39.27 – integrate other services with the business

39.47 – x10 growth

41.00 – quick fire question round 

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A feature length interview with Daniel Tolson, founder of Tolson Institute. Daniel’s early life was littered with difficulties with a learning disability and chronic fatigue. He spent a lot of time in physical and mental therapy. This gave him limiting beliefs which plagued his life in his 20’s. He felt he wasn’t smart enough, not educated enough with no degree; this wasn’t the end of his story. 

Daniel’s first role was as a real estate agent in Australia which he got from him uncle. He then went into a family business as a porn broker. He would buy second-hand goods and then resell for a profit. He then developed this business online with eBay and he could sell across Australia rather than locally. He left this business because he wanted to expand the business and the family disagreed. 

Daniel then went to Dubai, and he was excited by the hustle and bustle and the mentality of the expats in Dubai. He has an unfortunate experience in business, and he ended up on a construction site doing physical labour. This played into his limiting beliefs. 

He went back to Australia and joined Emirates as a plane assistant, which was a source of great fun and experiences. His business coaching business developed with a chance meeting with a coach on a plane. He then went into coaching with studying behavioural psychology, NLP, and personal development. His highest value was based on resilience. 

Daniel now has specialised in emotional intelligence and resilience. He helps people in their careers, and entrepreneurs to set goals for their personalities. The soft skills are so important, and he can transform people’s lives with this type of coaching.  His future focus will be on job matching and helping businesses find their best fit for the role. 

I hope you enjoy this podcast!

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A feature length episode with Michael Fried, who is a diamond buyers’ best friend. Michael started in an admin role in a diamond manufacturing company. One day he was asked to cover for a diamond salesperson. This meant he was able to develop a relationship with the buyer which meant he secured a one-year training on diamonds.

Diamond value isn’t like Gold with trading, the number of varieties make it difficult to invest and trade. Although the price of diamonds has increased every decade. 

The debate between laboratory and naturally grown diamonds is difficult and nuanced. There is very little difference between the two varieties but he can spot naturally grown diamonds when they are together. 

Diamond Pro the business has a website for information, and he will visit to any client anywhere in the world to assist and enable clients to buy the best diamond. Michael has spent a lot of time being a secret shopper and visiting retail stores around the globe and provides this information on his website. 

We talked about the manufacturing of diamonds in Africa and Michael talked about the difficulty to know which ones are blood diamonds. The diamond industry in Africa creates jobs for local people and alternatives like Russia also have human right concerns. He urged people not to avoid African diamonds. 

We talked about the fact that most men proposing to a women will spend 2 months of salary for an engagement ring. This was a marketing ploy created by De Beers and Michael doesn’t agree this is the best way forward. 

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A feature length episode with Joseph O’Connor who is an author and executive coach. This is a fascinating conversation about coaching from an experienced coach. 

Joseph was a performer, teacher, and musician of the classical guitarist. He learnt important skills to develop as a performer and coach. After being a musician, he immersed himself in NLP and wrote several books on the subject. This was a starting point for his fascination in psychology of people.

As a coach he wants to help interesting people in the best way. He set up the International Coaching Community which has helped 16,000 coaches develop their skills and knowledge. 

He has recently become fascinated by neuroscience and coaching. It is a complicated subject, and his book is trying to ‘iron out’ the difficulties and explain the subject in a clear way. This is new to coaching and understanding the brain can lead to insight coaching conversations. 

We discuss the role of leaders in business and Joseph explains how he approaches an entrepreneur and a corporate business owner. 

Joseph talks about how the brain is a prediction machine, how we use our experiences to create order and stability in the world. We often learn from our experiences and adapt our prediction machine so the brain can help predict the outcome of situations. 

This will give you great insight into coaching and I know I’ve learnt things from this conversation. 

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A feature length episode with Carter Williams, who is CEO and Managing Partner of iselect Fund. We talk about his post degree experience in the President Bush campaign. He left politics to spend time in industry. He then became an aircraft engineer, where he solved complex problems. There is an incredible story of the development of the first AWS and computation of complex problems from 1991.

He then moved to Boeing, and he was managing the research and development with $£2.5 billion a year fund. Lots of employees wanted to start their own companies but Boeing helped by setting this venture fund. Carter managed the R&D the innovation strategy.

Carter again demonstrated his passion for innovation with spending time in renewables industry in 2006. The complex systems problem of making renewables more efficient was the reason why he was attracted to this project. 

We then talk about his own VC fund called Iselect. This is split into 2 different areas firstly, food and health, with developing plant-based protein products. Improving nutrition by more protein but doing this without animal-based products. The second is helping high net worth individuals investing in entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs are the best way to solve problems not politicians. This is going to be fascinating how big this fund can grow. 

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A feature length episode with John Papaloni, who is Founder of Just Ask John and is a Real Estate Agent in Toronto. We talk about his early jobs in his life at McDonalds, pro-shop in a Gym and DJ-ing through school.

After college he started a print and marketing company where he printed business cards for local companies. He lost his biggest client, and he was able to wholesale for the small businesses. John burnt-out with the printing business, he sold the business to one of his suppliers, which was the best option for John. 

John moved into internet radio for music, he generated income through revenue from clubs streaming the music, banner ads on the screen rather than interruptions in the music. This was a detail heavy industry with trouble with connection to the internet. The internet radio station was a hit with its customers. He did have to close the business with his parents being ill. 

Johns returned to business by becoming a real estate agent in the Toronto area, where he helps buys and sell houses to people. He enjoys this experience of helping people. 

There is a launch of his new venture into coaching, it is called Just Ask John. He will be helping small businesses reach their potential. If you need help with your business, then Just Ask John. 

We then talk about his obsession with self-development with audio books and podcasts. He enjoys long car journeys with books about self-development.

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This is something different today, this podcast is 12 of the most important lessons learnt from my recent podcasts. 

I reference my last 6 podcasts and share the insight they gave me on my podcast interviews. 

If you enjoyed this type of podcast and you would like me to repeat this style of podcast then let me know. 

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A feature length episode with Shelly O’Donovan, who is CEO of Authentic Influence Group. We go deep into her expertise of non-verbals in conversation, but we start with her degree in Political Science. This experience designed much of her early career. 

Shelly started as an intern working with politicians after university where she learnt about the practical side of politics with her theoretical knowledge. 

We discussed her experience in healthcare system at Pennsylvania. She developed relationships to influence on state and federal level. Shelly was passionate about healthcare because it impacted everyone. 

She moved to GSK role, which meant with more people and a bigger budget she could become laser focussed on issues. The difference was that she was highly regulated, and the content had to be signed off by a legal team.

Her role at Authentic Influence Group is based on non- verbals, and why it is so important. Salespeople are often natural with non-verbals, but it is something that can be taught.  We discussed the importance of the skill of listening to people. 

We then go deep into communication through the pandemic period. Zoom has become the norm, but it has been a separator and a connecting vehicle in business. Now most people are going back to face to face and the role of open body language with masks was fascinating to talk about. 

Lastly, the thing I took from this conversation was that we all influence people every day. 

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