Business of life

On this week’s show we are very lucky to be welcoming someone that has fit more into the last 20 years than most do in a lifetime. We have former pro sailor, global adventurer and wildlife conservationist Nick Bubb. To summarise what he has done in a paragraph isn’t really possible, so I've bullet pointed the main highlights below:

· Engineering degree from the University of Exeter.

· 10 years sailing all around the world professionally, including once around the world non-stop.

· Raced solo across the Atlantic, competed in the Volvo Ocean Race and many of the world’s biggest offshore races.

· For 4 years he was an investment manager for one of the UK's leading investment companies - Brewin Dolphin.

· Re-enacted Shackleton’s famous voyage from Antarctica to South Georgia, sailing across the Southern Ocean in a 23 foot wooden rowing boat wearing vintage clothing.

· For over 6 years now has been the Business Development Director at Fauna & Flora International- the oldest wildlife conservation organisation in the world. Working alongside the likes of vice-presidents Sir David Attenborough and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in trying to preserve our planet and its inhabitants.

· Gave a very popular TEDx talk on the roles within modern wildlife conversation, see below.

· Was a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party in the 2019 General Election, returning the 11th highest vote share from all 485 candidates nationally.

· Along with all his sailing, has taken on masses of land based endurance events and expeditions, including Ironman and ultra-marathons, adventure racing and ultra-biking.

This guy is the epitome of an adventurer forging a career out of doing what he loves and taking on his passions as a way of life.

Key takeaways:

Building a career on doing what you love

Importance of Working as a team

Importance of using your intuition

Discussing how parliaments are acting on wildlife conservation issues

Some of the challenges of sailing around the world

Living out of a bag to follow his dreams of sailing professionally

Importance of having a strong support network

Living for experiences rather than money

What some of the most pressing issues are with our environment

The link between human health and our planets health

How complicated and interconnected our world’s political systems are

Nick was very open and honest about life and career and proved to be very valuable as a guest on the show. Below are a few links to his career. I hope you guys enjoy it and would love to hear your thought on the conversation.

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On this weeks show we have Businessman and young entrepreneur Drew Patel who founded and owns the Tele-marketing company, Your Lead machine along side his brother in Southampton. They are in the process of trying to change the way people perceive sales and have become very successful on a local and national level with this ethical approach.

Fortunately over the last 6-12months Ive really got to know drew and his business and was really pleased when he accepted the offer to come on the show.

Drew Discusses a number of topics on the show including how his Indian heritage has been difficult but also how he's used it to his advantage. He talks about how changing his mindset has helped him to change his thinking on life and provided him with the catalyst to starting his own business.

He goes into detail about he's used the power of visualization in many aspects of his life and how acting as a dad to his younger brother over the course of his life has given him the motivation to give him a better life.

Key takeaways:

Always work on your mind and body

Art of communication

Changing your network of friends to help you push for the better in your own life

Using negative people as internal drive for yourself

Not letting failure get the better of you and using it to your advantage

Finding a purpose bigger than you.

Remembering where you came from

Accepting that you should never stop learning.

I have to say it was a really enjoyable conversation for me and i really got to know Drew over the course of the conversation.

I hope you guy's enjoy it and would love to hear your thought on the conversation.

www.yourleadmachine.co.uk

@your_lead_machine

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This week we have Business man James West. (Clean slate websites, ONLE Network)

He owns and manages one of the fastest growing network events in the U.K along side his wife Kelly called ONLE. What's really interesting about this, is that they went from 0 meetings per month to 22 within 2 years and i believe they have attended nearly every one in that 2 years.. Crazy right?

James also had a career in journalism for a number of years, where he wrote for an IT magazine and also has a company which builds websites called clean slate websites.

There's also another topic which we go into great detail about on the show and that is the struggle James had with his mental health... He was struggling from crippling depression for a number of years before he met his now wife and business partner Kelly. He talks at length about the struggles he used to face with this on a daily basis and how he coped with it, but on a more positive note, how he came out of the other side of it.

Some of the key takeaways from the show

Mental health and some of the difficulties surrounding it.

Building a culture within a business.

Striving for happiness.

Dynamic of running a business with your wife.

Mindset.

Difficulties of running a business.

Sacrifices.

Successes in business.

Friends within business.

Marketing and knowing who your market is.

Having a vision for your business.

It was a really enjoyable conversation for me and am very grateful to James for being as open as he was about the issues he's faced in his life. So i hope you enjoy.

If there is anyone that listens to this show or is subscribed to this email that is struggling with their mental health at the moment, there is a great podcast series called Feel better live more by Dr Rangan Chatterjee.

On quite a few of his shows he has experts within the field of mental health, come on the show to give actionable tips and help you to understand why you maybe having mental health issues. The links are below.

I highly recommend them as someone that has experienced mental health issues in the past myself.

https://drchatterjee.com/how-our-childhood-shapes-every-aspect-of-our-health-with-dr-gabor-mate/

https://drchatterjee.com/is-everything-you-know-about-depression-wrong-with-johann-hari/

James's Links to business.

https://theonle.network/

https://www.cleanslatewebsites.com/

I hope you guy's enjoy it and let me know what you think.

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We've got The Big Man Ian skinner (The business Improvement Group and Diverse Cleaning)On the show to answer 10 questions on what to do with your business in this difficult time that we are in regarding COVID-19.

We talk about what you can do to keep your business moving and also go into detail about what he has done to make sure that his business is well prepared for the present and the future.

Key takeaways:

What things you can do with your time.

What mitigating measures you should be putting in place.

How to stay focused and in a routine.

How to use this time to your advantage.

What Ian is doing with his time.

How to prepare for the future.

This is the first in a new series of shows called Business bites and would really appreciate any feedback.

#bizoflifepod #bizbites.

On this weeks episode, I'll be having a conversation with Sales coach and Businessman Simon Tucker

He owns a company called profitable Conversation where he teaches people and companies how to become better at selling. He works with companies and individuals to firstly understand where they are going wrong and then comes up with a solution so they can start to hit their targets.

Simon has quite an interesting story...

Him and 3 other partners built a company in finance and training with a yearly turnover of £25million in just 7 years!

Whats more interesting though is they did this all within the financial crash of 2008 too. Staggering right!

We go into detail about how him and his partners managed this feet and how he himself had to teach himself to become better at business by reading numerous books and going on training courses. Proving that self development is so important if you want to succeed.

Simon was very open about how he used a mentor and coaches to help him not only build the business but also exit the business. Something which at first he wasn't entirely sure he should do.

Some of the key takeaways are:

No matter what business you have, you are always selling.

Self development is key for personal and business growth

If you believe in something just get started and learn on the job.

Having mentors and coaches are critically important

Knowing your market is vital

Sometimes taking a risk is what you need to do to succeed.

There's no substitute for hard work but leveraging out your weaknesses to others does make it slightly easier.

Simon Tucker - Profitable conversation

https://www.profitableconversation.com/

I hope you guy's enjoy it and let me know what you think.

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On this weeks episode, I had a conversation with Richard Harris who owns a business called EQ Coaching & Consultancy.

Richard helps businesses by providing them with coaching services to build better and more efficient teams.

He works with board level Employees to uncover what the bottlenecks are in their business as to why they aren't working as well as they could be and then finds the solution.

He also worked for central government in being part of the team that wrote new policies around providing new Social care solutions for the education sector and helping them to deal with families that are going through difficulties.

We talk in detail about how he has managed to do this.

We talk about some of the commonalities that successful business people have in common and also some of the commonalities which haven't been so good.

If you would like to hear from Richard or see what he and his business is up to then head to his Linekdin page or to his website

www.eqcc.co.uk

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See you next week guys

On this weeks episode, I'll be having a conversation with Alix Inch.

Alix owns and runs the Forex Organisation (@the_forexorg) which is a Forex education platform which he's setup to teach people how to trade on the currency markets.

He's also the second half of Bitesize forex which was another trading platform he set up with his old business partner Ryan Chandler

After working on sites, builders merchants and other jobs, Alix decided that the life he was living just weren't for him, so started trading. He and Ryan then quickly realized that the level of education for Forex was terrible and not transparent, so decided to teach people but they both didn't quite realize how big it would get to and effectively created a monster, so decided to go there separate ways and work on their own individual education companies.

In the show we touch on how, although hes been successful financially and in business, he still didn't feel fulfilled until quite recently, due to the fact that he took some time out to think about what was important to him and then rearranged his business to suit his family life.

We touch on his motivations and his why, his love for his sport memorabilia, how he teaches people and why you should just go for it in Life.

Hes a straight to the point guy that doesn't pull any punches and I do have to warn you there are a few swear words in the show.

I hope you guy's enjoy it and let me know what you think.

If you think this podcast would be beneficial to anyone you know please pass the message on and don't forget the #bizoflifepod for any social media posts regarding it.

If you'd like to discuss any of the topics on the show, you can send me a direct message on my social @guyrichardson90

Or send me an email to [email protected].

I really hope you enjoy the show and hope to see you back here next week.

Hi Guys

On this weeks show, we are fortunate to have Dr Nilesh Satgurunathan who's on the show to talk about Life style medicine.

Nilesh Is first and foremost a GP but hes also a Certified Lifestyle Medicine doctor, Health coach an Occupational Medicine doctor. He is also the regional director for the British society of Lifestyle Medicine and his misson is, To re-frame the narrative around lifestyle interventions and show that they do work and are worth it.

Nilesh has also started doing a number of informative talks in schools and universities where he educates his listeners on the impact Healthy lifestyle choices can have on your health. We discuss a number of topics related to health, but whats really key is how the habitual daily choices you make have a massive effect on your health.

Some of the points we cover are: Nutrition, Alcohol, Connection, Social aspects, Stress, Sleep, Caffeine use all things that are related to the human body plus many more. As i said before i feel very lucky to be able to have had this conversation and feel Nilesh is someone that i feel can make a huge difference in society.

If you would like to follow what he's up to, head to his instagram page @DRSATGURU and continue the conversation there. If you like the show then please share using the hashtag #bizoflifepod and i would really appreciate your feedback.

Thanks for listening Guy

n this weeks episode, I'll be having a conversation with The big man Ian Skinner (Business Improvement Group, Diverse Cleaning South, All round great guy and last but not least my mentor)

Ian or Big Ian as he's referred to in business, owns a successful cleaning business called Diverse cleaning South and a mentoring/training company called The Business improvement group where he mentors people on how to become better in business, He was also in the navy for 9 years, where he honed his leadership skills and has also managed and owned many businesses previously to that.

We discuss a number of topics related to business but also just life in general. In particular, the importance of understanding people and how business is very much based on people and their emotions.

As per, we discussed family life and childhood and how finding a balance was a challenge.

His drivers to keep on going and also what keeps his feet on the ground.

We spoke about some of his challenges he's faced with his character type and how he's had to train himself to overcome that.

We touch on his passion for developing people and the success he's had with that and we also go into detail about the people skills which can be transferred into all businesses.

Enjoy the show.

In this weeks episode, I'll be having a conversation with Ex army officer and Leadership Consultant Major Kate Philp.

Major Kate is an inspirational women! She's had a successful and long career in the army which led to her getting promoted to a major officer. She served on a number of trips to Afghanistan with the last trip not going to plan. This leads to her story which she tells me on the show. Major Kate was a commanding officer when her and her troops armoured vehicle got hit by an IED on a routine patrol.

This led to a number of casualties but also very sadly a fatality. Kate also suffered a very bad injury to her leg which led to her having to make a decision as to whether she was going to have her leg amputated, or keep it on. She took the bold decision to have it taken off and as part of her recovery, Kate set off on an expedition to ski over 200 miles, with a prosthetic leg, accompanied by others including Prince Harry. It really was a remarkable feat. She and her team endured temperatures of around -40c just to put it into perspective.

Kate goes into detail in the conversation, of the events leading up to the accident as well as the aftermath. She talks about how having a goal helped her to overcome her challenges and the resilience she needed to get herself back on track.

We also talk about her new career in Consulting, (Corran Consulting) where she is helping other business owners and people by teaching them leadership and management skills. We also spoke about her Keynote speaking which she is now being asked to do on a regular basis. If you ever get the opportunity to get to one of her events and here her speak. I would highly advise it.