Business Mastermind Podcast

The STRIVE Model

Every week, Gavin works with groups or one-on-one, helping them all to improve their performance, and in every single session, mindset plays a critical role.

In this very special exclusive preview episode, Gavin opens the book (literally) on his upcoming work 'Survive And Thrive', which is soon to be published, presenting for you today an entire chapter devoted to mindset, and the fascinating, empowering STRIVE model, which can instantly set you on the road to a healthy mindset.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Human beings are creatures of habit. Most of us follow the same routines daily upon waking and spend each day repeating the last. 
• We get in life what we focus on. If you focus on the negative aspects of your business, they'll grow. Dwelling on negativity re-routes our neural patterns so that negativity becomes our default brain pattern.
• We can counteract this negative growth by asking how we can positively impact any decision or instance.
• STRIVE = S - State. T - Talk (self). R - Rituals. I - Identity. V - Visualisation. E - Empowering Beliefs.
• Pick a problem that you've been struggling to solve and work out which state would get you to your desired outcome: Creativity? Certainty? Insight? Determination?
• Take each area of your life; family, business, hobbies, health and relationships. Now write affirmation goals for each and repeat them to yourself every day, either by diarising them, or recording them and listening back.
• In a world in which people are constantly distracted by the next shiny objects on the horizon, consistency is a powerful differentiator.
• Be grateful each day for the things you have in your life, and the tings that are going well. Visualise the day ahead, and try to imagine the feeling of having already achieved your goals. Carry that euphoria into your day.
• The way that we see ourselves, and the person we see ourselves as, shapes how we feel about ourselves and determines the actions that we take.
• When visualising our future, focus on the one you want, rather than the one you don't want. What kind of person will get there? How will they get there? Become this person and make it happen.

BEST MOMENTS

'Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill'

‘Whether you think you can or you can't - you're right'

‘Get the state right and everything else will follow'

‘Any action carried out consistently will gather momentum'

‘We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

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As we grow our businesses we need to get our team members on board with the changes that are required to deliver that change.  I outline how you can pitch the journey ahead so that employees are more likely to be on board with the change.

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

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In this week's show, Gavin talks to Darren Galvin of Expert Apps, who's currently in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign.

Darren has joined Gavin to discuss his journey so far, from humble beginnings to the founding of a company that has recently been the subject of a seven-figure evaluation. 

From advice to prospects, and the mentors he's valued along the way, this is a candid conversation that pulls back the curtain on the story of a business, and of a fascinating individual.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Darren dropped out of school at fifteen with no qualifications, and according to the system, held no prospects. Darren felt misunderstood, and dissatisfied with the processes, and needs by the system to judge everyone on the same scale.
• Every time that Darren thought of an idea for a business he would protect the company name and details officially. This taught him a valuable lesson about due diligence, as later in life, these records seemed to show him up as someone flighty!
• You can tell yourself that you can do it, all day long. But there's a moment in everyone's life when those words begin to burn inside; when they never feel more true. And that's the moment to go all in.
• Darren and Expert Apps chose to scale up their business through crowdfunding, specifically through Seedrs. But after self-analysis, they realised that their company was not quite ready.
• Value in a tech company is calculated in a totally different way to traditional ones. Value is added by adding strength and respect through more intangible means.
• Expert Apps have chosen to take growth slowly, making sure the software works, and is resilient. Having tested internationally in Holland, they've proved that they can expand, but will continue to grow slowly.

BEST MOMENTS

‘You should've let me build the board game, and then bring in a team of people to make it look better, because that's what life's all about'

‘You don't have to let your past define your future'

‘What's worth millions is the core, the founders of the business who are adding value'

'There are venture capitalists willing to fund'

‘Deep down I do still want that significance'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

Expert Apps - https://expertapps.online/who-are-we/

Experts Apps on Seedrs - https://www.seedrs.com/expert-apps

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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LEGS (Leverage Exit Grow Scale) intensive extra dates released on 22-23 September in London.

For more information of content and to secure one of the remaining places go to

• Bit.ly/LEGS-GAVIN

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston 

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

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CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website
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Gavin Preston Twitter

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‘It's about the ability to communicate face to face' 

Gavin is with Steve Sims, creator of Bluefish, the company that makes once in a lifetime events happen for the rich and famous. 

Steve and Gavin talk about resourcefulness, relationships, creating win, win situations and why having hope is important whoever and where ever you are. 

This podcast offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of an entrepreneur whose day job is to make the impossible possible and who's ‘I can' approach has taken him on the most extraordinary journey. 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS 

• Making it frictionless, a win, win 

Everything has got to be a win; every relationship can be viewed as what do you bring to the party and what am I bringing for you. 

You are the result of your network, ask yourself would you want you as part of your network? 

If you have to introduce yourself  to someone then you don't have a relationship. 

Do a social audit of those around you. 

I always ask someone who is already in that person's sandpit to make the first contact it's vital you come to someone new through a credible source. 

• Prison, everyone needs hope and a chance 

The first time I went along thinking it would be a cool story but it changed my perspective. Most of the people I train in prison have  between 60 and 120 years left on their sentences. 

It's about the ability to communicate effectively face to face you've got to be able to connect really quickly and understand the dynamic at that moment. 

When I take entrepreneurs into prison, with me they come along are shaken up, rolled inside out and put back into civilisation as a better version of themselves. 

They gain perspective, you are in a room you shouldn't be in talking to a person you never thought you'd be face to face with, you have to find a common thread to share and communicate. 

Doing something that makes you feel uncomfortable is where your greatest growth is going to come from. 

• It's not about your IQ it's about your ‘I can' 

My mistakes and journey have been my education. 

I now class myself as incredibly educated but it had nothing to do with my school, it was because I had a greater ‘I can' than IQ. 

You can only get good if you get going. 

Anyone in my life has to be there because I like them. 

There is a difference between being easy to understand and impossible to misunderstand. 

I want to be transparent, the guy who is impossible to misunderstand, I strive to be crystal clear and transparent in everything I do. 

BEST MOMENTS 

‘We incorporate and impose friction for ourselves every day' 

‘I never make the first call' 

‘I realised I was in the belly of communication you couldn't get more real and ground level' 

‘We as entrepreneurs need to get comfortable about being uncomfortable' 

‘No TV show can prepare you for what it's really like, I was shit scared' 

VALUABLE RESOURCES 

Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen book by Steve Sims 

Stellar Speakers 

ABOUT THE GUEST 

Steve Sims is the visionary founder of Bluefish: the world's first luxury concierge that delivers the highest level of personalized travel, transportation, and cutting-edge entertainment services to corporate executives, celebrities, professional athletes and other discerning individuals interested in living life to its fullest. 

In a world loaded with self-described ‘motivational gurus' who are far more interested in your cash than they are your consciousness, Steve refuses to compromise his principles, which include; 

Telling the truth – directly, blatantly, fearlessly and with no holds barred. 

Delivering visionary insights that are deeply rooted in pragmatic reality and practical action. 

Sharing everything he knows about being successful on a professional and personal level. 

CONTACT METHOD 

Steve Sims website 

VALUABLE RESOURCES 

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

ABOUT THE HOST 

Gavin Preston 

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years. 

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change. 

CONTACT METHOD 

Gavin Preston Website 

Gavin Preston LinkedIn 

Gavin Preston YouTube 

Gavin Preston Facebook 

Gavin Preston Twitter 

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How you can use the E2P (Expenses to Profits) strategy to turn cost centres into profit centres. Hear how Amazon did it and also how you can apply it in your business

LEGS (Leverage Exit Grow Scale) intensive extra dates released on 22-23 September in London.

For more information of content and to secure one of the remaining places go to

• Bit.ly/LEGS-GAVIN

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston 

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

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CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website
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‘Looking after yourself is surprisingly difficult'

Gavin is in conversation with Dan Murray Serter, Creator of ‘Dawn', podcaster and cat lover.

He is an entrepreneur who has always pushed the boundaries and in this engaging episode he shares candidly the experiences and challenges that resulted in the creation of ‘Your Heights' and their mission to ‘elevate their tribe to achieve 1 million meaningful goals'

Dan's journey is full of very different experiences but the community is at its heart, listen in and find out why how you should be part of this tribe.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

The Beginning

My early experiences taught me that I needed a business partner to balance my creativity

I had a big student database and we used that to launch a daily deal for students.

As 2 guys we set up a company that was a success from day one with the first deal but we learnt that in the industry the expectations and reality are very different.

We learnt that we worked well together and that we wanted to work together and we had money in the bank.

It was a success because we were able to call it quits rather than be run into the ground.

Grabble

My business partner is very good at spotting trends and out next venture was ‘Grabble' a social fashion platform. We curated the best of fashion in the UK and put it in an APP as personalised feed updated every day.

It was the intersection  of social, digital, mobile and personalisation. We quickly accrued a huge amount of credibility but monetisation was impossible, ultimately it imploded.

I ended my twenties having been on an amazing journey, meeting great people but unable to make the business work.

Dawn & Your Heights

The idea that you could eat for your brain first fascinated me, there is no logical negative to prioritizing your brain health.

It's so logical, your mind is part of your brain, you are looking after your mental health.

It makes sense that if you nourish your brain properly you will be able to alleviate symptoms

We want to build a holistic brand for the brain providing good health for the brain everyday

Taking high quality  supplements is an option if you are unable to meet the nutritional needs of your brain through your main diet and our first product is a multi-vitamin for the brain currently only available to our subscribers.

We will be exclusively direct to the customer. Our plan is to help the individual to achieve want they want, achieve their goals through a continued relationship, this defines and is our crucial point of differentiation.

We want people to start the day right and think about themselves on a daily basis.

Our mission is to elevate our tribe to achieve 1 million meaningful goals.

BEST MOMENTS

 ‘You are applying your creativity to providing things that can help people right now'

‘Science is massively underrated'

‘The ability to put something creative into the world every day fulfils the need I have'

‘Compound improvements are what create change for people and I would love for Your Heights to be a part of that for people'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast

Dan Murray Serter, Growth Mindset Podcast

Dawn website

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast

Gavin talks about why you should hire the best people you can afford and then captivate and nurture them so that they stay with you and continue to add value to your business. Building on the conversation in Episode 23 where we spoke about replacing D Grade Customers with A Grade customers, Gavin explains the impact he has observed in teams where D Grade Players are replaced with A Grade Players.

Gavin then shares why you should create a culture that cultivates learning, curiosity and ambition and Build a vision of a compelling future for your business and put the rising stars in your business at the centre of it.

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

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CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

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Gavin Preston Twitter

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Gavin is talking with Stephen Law Lyons from APC cardiovascular about his involvement as health and wellness ambassador for Cheshire IOD and the work he is undertaking to support leaders in reducing inactivity in the workforce and create solutions that will drive better health and wellness and as a result impact on the number of working days lost.

This fascinating podcast provides an insight into the vital work the IOD carries out and the importance of connectivity between businesses.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• The Institute of Directors (IOD) is about the connectivity of directors and offers both education and support. There is a level of integrity associated with the IOD.
• It is very much branch and region led through a network of like-minded individuals.
• As Health and Wellness ambassador for Cheshire IOD my goals are to help support business leaders look after their most vital asset by researching, sharing and supporting best practice on  how to create work environments that reduce inactivity and as a result increase both physical and mental resilience.
• Decreasing inactivity is vital  and just getting people to move has a huge impact on health and well-being.
• You can look at those small steps that make the difference,  You don't have to be running you just have to be standing to make a difference.
• The biggest area of impact is getting people to move, getting an individual's number of steps up from 400 to 4,000 has a massive impact on their health and wellbeing.
• Research  indicates the stress levels are lower in companies with a workplace wellness program in place.
• There is the element of looking after your team and the element of looking after yourself.
• If  you are not able to carry out your function as a leader in the long term there would be an impact on the company.
• There are transferable skills between business and personal health, setting goals and objectives are a part of this.
• Little things all the time can make the difference, you don't have to be in training for something extreme.
• There are many things going on at all levels to get people moving.
• There is much that can be achieved from connectivity between businesses.

BEST MOMENTS

‘As business leaders the only asset we have are our people'

‘There are simple ways to encourage movement, the bin and printer can be moved away from desks to encourage walking'

‘Sitting is now being referred to as the new smoking'

‘Peer support is a vital part of the IOD'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast

The Institute of Directors

APC Cardiovascular

Active Cheshire

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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When you are hit with a number of problems at once, how do you respond? Overwhelm?

In this episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, your host Gavin was interviewed about this very topic and he shared a story in his life when he was overwhelmed; A break up in a personal marriage & a business marriage and was then given another apparently devastating piece of news.

Gavin shares how he grew bigger than the problem.

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast

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ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website

Gavin Preston LinkedIn

Gavin Preston YouTube

Gavin Preston Facebook

Gavin Preston Twitter

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