Business Mastermind Podcast

In this week's show, Gavin talks to Steven Kuhn, an experienced investor and turnaround specialist, about building businesses, selling them, and the best ways in which to buy and sell!

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 KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We cannot grow unless we are given the room to do so. Stepping into a larger pool allows us to grow and develop far more quickly.
• Sometimes we need to hit bottom in order to be given a new perspective, and give us the inspiration to grow and succeed.
• We must remove our own expectations. Only be doing this can we open ourselves to new ways of achieving or finding solutions.
• Creating momentum brings everyone up a level up. This leads to quality of life, no matter what the activity.

BEST MOMENTS

'Have the intention to create value by solving problems'

'If they are asking me then I must know'

'We fill the space we are given'

'A goldfish grows much bigger in a pond than a bowl'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

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ABOUT THE GUEST

Steven Kuhn is a decorated United States army combat veteran, speaker, author, and business turnaround consultant who helps leaders dramatically improve their quality life through the consistent, conscious application of Honesty, Integrity and Transparency. (H.I.T.) Steven and his team help leaders increase and scale their existing influence through mastering the art of relational capital through HIT-Honesty, Integrity, and Transparency. The HIT philosophy unleashes your inner authenticity, increases revenue, and supercharges your mind set to wield influence.

Many leaders only feel powerful in their own area of responsibility with a title or position, we focus on “amplifying” your Humble Alpha to dominate all areas of life. All rooted in H.I.T., Creating Space & Investing in Relational Capital in your life enterprise that then leads to massive quality of Life #QOL.

Steven and his co-author Lane Belone, a Special Forces Green Beret veteran released their critically acclaimed book “Unleash Your Humble Alpha” in September. The college ac credited certificate program is set to be released in February in Colleges and Universities over the year in 2021.

Steven says he is ever surprised and astonished at the things he can accomplish in life, not

because they are hard to do but because they are actually almost effortless now. He will talk about this and to give a hint, this is a big part of the book!

Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/StevenKuhnOfficial

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenekuhn/

http://humblealphabook.com

Clubhouse: @stevenkuhn

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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The pandemic has thrown many challenges up in the world of business, but it has also provided opportunities, including chances to scale. In this week's show, Gavin talks to one of businesses true entrepreneurs, James Sinclair, the mastermind behind Partyman, about how he not just survived during lockdown, but has thrived!

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• We can effectively shore up assets throughout the life of our business concerns, by making sure we invest in safe harbours, such as property.
• We should be constantly operating four companies:
  • The company we are today
  • The company we want to be
  • A media or marketing company
  • A property or investment company
• Find a product that people love, want and need. Perfecting this formula will lead to scale and growth as people come to you.
• As business founders and owners, we should seek to leverage tasks so that we can concentrate on important things such as buying businesses, doing deals and marketing the business.

BEST MOMENTS

'I wanted to build something to sell'

'Entrepreneurship plus management equals success'

'Does institutional want to to invest in what you are doing?'

'Find a product that people love, want and NEED'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN

Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc

Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat

Partyman - https://partyman.co.uk/james-sinclair/

James Sinclair LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamessinclairpartyman/?originalSubdomain=uk

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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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This week, Gavin talks to powerhouse business coach, strategist and speaker, Rose Radford, about developing the entrepreneurial potential in people by using "inner wealth work", focussing specifically upon female entrepreneurs and businesses.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Be less emotion-driven. Gather and look at data as though you are a CEO, even if you only have a six-figure business.
• Conversations about money should not be a taboo thing. If we brought this dialogue out into the open, we could do wonders for the equality issues in business.
• We must ensure that we are committed at all times to excellence. Excellence must be the lowest mark we're aiming for. This way we will always exceed expectation.
• Trust in yourself until that trust becomes a certainty. By doing so, we train our primal self to stop overreacting and panicking.

BEST MOMENTS

'Self trust to a level of certainty, stops the primal brain from freaking out'

'Gather and look at data as if you're a CEO'

'Money has always been very present. Conversations about it have always been very open'

'I learned to master money instead of avoiding it'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN

Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc

Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat

Rose Radford - https://www.roseradford.com/?r_done=1

Rose Radford LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rose-radford-42a37953/?originalSubdomain=uk

[email protected]   

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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It's the 200th episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, and to celebrate this, Gavin has invited a very special guest, one of the true business masterminds, and star of BBC's Dragon's Den, Solvej Biddle!

No one knows more about how to turn an idea into a product, having appeared as a contestant on the show, and successfully sold her Content And Calm travel idea in a fierce bidding war between two dragons.

In this show, Solvej discusses the ways in which you can turn your own ideas into reality, and how lockdown has affected the entrepreneurial spirit.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• In times of adversity, people's needs change. If you can solve a problem during these periods, then you can instantly find success.
• If you find a gap in your knowledge when it comes to the business you hope to found, talk to people who have walked the path before you, or educate yourself. It will increase your ability to succeed, exponentially.
• There is no substitute for enthusiasm and honesty when trying to find a buyer for your product. People are drawn to possibilities, not just figures. Openness and honesty become selling points in themselves.
• The secret to transforming an idea into a product is to identify the missing piece of life - the problem that needs solving, and which has so far eluded the world - and filling that need.

BEST MOMENTS

'My moment came when I needed something and I couldn't buy it'

'We really need to try and encourage people to have optimism and tenacity'

'Honesty is a selling point!'

'The first thing I did was set out the need - I made it very visual'

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN

Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc

Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat

Solvej Biddle LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/solvej-biddle-2a760415/?originalSubdomain=uk

Solvej Biddle Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/solvejbiddle/?hl=en

[email protected]   

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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This week's guest is independent wealth manager, Reece Brown, one of the most dynamic up-and-coming business minds in the country, about the importance of fuelling the fire beneath your passions, and how you can follow your dreams all the way to success.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Many in the entrepreneurial space have grown up in defiance of the pigeon-hole that society has put them in. It is the drive to break these boundaries that fuels their rise to success.
• Friends are the ones who stand by us, even through the tougher times. It's when things get difficult that the real friends step up and show their value.
• Disruptive tendencies and the desire to break boundaries, are qualities that can seem like troublesome behaviour if not channelled correctly. These qualities are essential ingredients to the entrepreneur.
• Perspective is everything. We must force ourselves to take a step back in order to take a more rounded view of the position we're in. This allows us to see our failings and our successes.

BEST MOMENTS

'If you'd been tenerife, I was eleven-erife!'

'All the problems in my life, I've given to myself'

'I take full ownership for my failures and for my success'

'Don't be afraid to go into that third-person and look at your life'

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN

Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc

Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat

Reece Brown LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/reece-brown-mcsi-61247a132/?originalSubdomain=uk

[email protected]   

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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In this week's show, Gavin talks to Cheryl Peel, an accountability coach who has devoted much of her expertise to helping professionals and executives to realise their potential through enacting lasting, effective change.

Cheryl discusses her ground-breaking system, The 7 Cs Of Conscious Change, which encompasses several different elements designed to provide lasting change, all of which can serve to energise and empower your teams.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Whilst traumatic events can derail us in many instances, they can also serve to remind us of life's priorities, and help us to realign - to recalibrate the things that are truly important.
• We are at our best, and at our most effective, when we are enacting change in others. By helping others to realise their potential, we fulfil the potential within ourselves.
• Our initial, emotional responses are programmed into us as human beings. We cannot help the way we feel in the moment. But what sets us apart is our ability to process this and take action after the event.
• People live through cause and effect, believing that the world happens to them, or that it happens for them. How we choose to live affects the impact we have.

BEST MOMENTS

'Change is something we experience all throughout our lives on many different stages'

'That holistic approach of supporting people is incredibly important'

'How we consciously choose to respond - that's up to us'

'I have no control over the events that have occurred, but how I choose to do about that - that's all on me'

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN

Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc

Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat

[email protected]   

ABOUT THE GUEST

Cheryl is a change and accountability coach who is passionate about supporting strong people who are challenged by change.  Particularly, professionals and executives who feel that if they hear “You're strong, you'll be fine” one more time when they're on the verge of collapse, they'll scream.

Using a variety of coaching models to help people on their change journeys, Cheryl developed her ‘7C's of Conscious Change' model which incorporates mindset and practical project management elements to provide a flexible structure for people, teams, and organisations to follow.

As a Change Coach who has, first hand, walked the path of surprising and challenging change, Cheryl has a clear understanding of where incremental improvement means a significant ripple effect.  In Cheryl's own words “Everyone needs help sometimes, an independent person whose only agenda is to help you through your journey to become a better version of you.”

www.theconsciouschangecollective.org/welcome

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

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Few people are more talented at spotting patterns in business and behaviour than this week's guest, Justin Breen, the author of Epic Business and the founder of BrEpic Communications.

Justine joins Gavin to discuss the importance of mind-set and how it can equate to a better network, and the value in creating an environment built upon vision, and how this can translate to abundance and investment.

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

• All entrepreneurs have generally, along their journey, overcome four challenges:
  • Bankruptcy or potential bankruptcy
  • Depression
  • The highest levels of anxiety
  • Likely and/or possible traumatic experiences as a young person or adult
• You have to know what it's like to hit rock bottom sometimes, in order to give yourself that propulsion that pushes you forward towards success.
• Success will follow if you partner with the right people, and if your vision is correctly aligned. It requires patience, but becomes something of a certainty after a time.
• By ensuring we work with a select group of highly successful people, we create certainty for ourselves, and add value to society as a whole.

BEST MOMENTS

'Most are two or three - the real successful ones are all four'

'You have to understand what it's like to be down here, to get up here'

'There's a lot of excuses but very little accountability'

'I treat my brain like a muscle'

 VALUABLE RESOURCES

The Business Mastermind Podcast 

To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN

Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc

Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat

[email protected]   

Justin Breen LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinbreen1/

Justin Breen Twitter - https://twitter.com/BrEpicBreen

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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