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Handling Adversity With Dan Mather
On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Dan Mather about how to handle adversities in life and business and how important mindset is in how to handle these adversities.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- I never ever expected to be where I am today. Life set out its own pathway for me, I think. I never felt like I was that good as an engineer, I thought I was faking it. One day I had a falling out with the service manager because I didn’t agree with what she was doing. On the same day a customer asked me why he had to deal with her instead of coming straight to me, so I thought perhaps I should be the service manager. I fought for years to get to that position and when I did, I wasn’t happy. I wanted to become the operations manager, so I went for that and got it. Eventually I wanted to own the company. I bought 40% of the company and became the operations director and was quite happy with that for a while.
- My business partner used me as his patsy, he wasn’t paying suppliers or staff. I helped them all out but I realised this wasn’t sustainable. I was £100,000 in debt, I couldn’t work for anybody else, so I set up my own business. Some of my old customers came with me for the ride and got me some decent clients from the start and in a few years I managed to pay off all my debt and here I am today with a seven-figure business.
- During the bad times I started working on my mindset quite a lot and one of the first books I read was the accidental entrepreneur. I got myself a business coach who took me down the route of Grant Cardone who just gives you a kick up the backside. All I’ve done since is try to take massive action because I know that if you don’t then things start falling down. You have to keep pushing forward every single day.
- I can’t see a time that I’ll never push. Do I want to keep doing what I’m doing now? No. I want to remove myself from the business and I’m trying to build to sell right now and there’s a good team around me that will take it to the next level. That will enable me to go and do other projects, set up other businesses and investments and do it all over again. I’d like to take people with a concept for a business to take them from that concept to a scale up, six-figure business in a relatively short space of time, depending on the industry. The nuts and bolts of business are the same, so why not help other people do it?
BEST MOMENTS
‘My greatest strength and greatest weakness at the same time is, I always see the future, what the future looks like, I future-pace everything. Most of the time, when I'm future-pace, it’s unrealistic, but it gives you the drive if you do it with purpose.’
‘You need people cheering you on. You need to surround yourself with people saying “you can do this”.’
‘When they say 90% of businesses fail within the first 12 months it’s not because of lack of business, it’s because the people don’t know what they’re getting themselves into, they think it’s going to be easy and they’ve usually got a plan B, which is a safe option.’
‘I’ve got an addictive personality. When I smoke I can’t just have one or two, I’d have to have the whole pack and I’m not satisfied until the pack is finished. It’s the same with business: I’m not happy with being small, I’ve got to get bigger, and I’ve got to plan for growth.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
Dan Mather is the Managing Director at JKE Security, a company that provides high-quality installation of security products like CCTV, intruder alarm systems and fire alarm systems.
Website: https://www.jkesecurity.co.uk/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-mather-jke-security/
ABOUT THE HOST
Tze Ching started her entrepreneurial journey back in 2007 with the launch of a sustainable clothing and home furnishing ecommerce business. Next, she created a sustainable fashion brand.
In 2019, she launched a social enterprise to help raise awareness about the negative impact of fashion at schools and colleges.
Through the 15-year journey, she learned so much, but easily the most meaningful lesson learned was about the importance of marketing. She now focuses on channelling those insights to help others succeed, through We Disrupt Agency, a business coaching, mentoring and digital marketing company.
Tze Ching’s mission is to create a community of global change makers and to contribute to positive change in both people and planet.
CONTACT DETAILS
Tze Ching’s website: https://wedisruptagency.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wedisruptagency
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wedisruptagency/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/wedisruptagency
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tzechingyeung/
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On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Dan Mather about how to handle adversities in life and business and how important mindset is in how to handle these adversities.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- I never ever expected to be where I am today. Life set out its own pathway for me, I think. I never felt like I was that good as an engineer, I thought I was faking it. One day I had a falling out with the service manager because I didn’t agree with what she was doing. On the same day a customer asked me why he had to deal with her instead of coming straight to me, so I thought perhaps I should be the service manager. I fought for years to get to that position and when I did, I wasn’t happy. I wanted to become the operations manager, so I went for that and got it. Eventually I wanted to own the company. I bought 40% of the company and became the operations director and was quite happy with that for a while.
- My business partner used me as his patsy, he wasn’t paying suppliers or staff. I helped them all out but I realised this wasn’t sustainable. I was £100,000 in debt, I couldn’t work for anybody else, so I set up my own business. Some of my old customers came with me for the ride and got me some decent clients from the start and in a few years I managed to pay off all my debt and here I am today with a seven-figure business.
- During the bad times I started working on my mindset quite a lot and one of the first books I read was the accidental entrepreneur. I got myself a business coach who took me down the route of Grant Cardone who just gives you a kick up the backside. All I’ve done since is try to take massive action because I know that if you don’t then things start falling down. You have to keep pushing forward every single day.
- I can’t see a time that I’ll never push. Do I want to keep doing what I’m doing now? No. I want to remove myself from the business and I’m trying to build to sell right now and there’s a good team around me that will take it to the next level. That will enable me to go and do other projects, set up other businesses and investments and do it all over again. I’d like to take people with a concept for a business to take them from that concept to a scale up, six-figure business in a relatively short space of time, depending on the industry. The nuts and bolts of business are the same, so why not help other people do it?
BEST MOMENTS
‘My greatest strength and greatest weakness at the same time is, I always see the future, what the future looks like, I future-pace everything. Most of the time, when I'm future-pace, it’s unrealistic, but it gives you the drive if you do it with purpose.’
‘You need people cheering you on. You need to surround yourself with people saying “you can do this”.’
‘When they say 90% of businesses fail within the first 12 months it’s not because of lack of business, it’s because the people don’t know what they’re getting themselves into, they think it’s going to be easy and they’ve usually got a plan B, which is a safe option.’
‘I’ve got an addictive personality. When I smoke I can’t just have one or two, I’d have to have the whole pack and I’m not satisfied until the pack is finished. It’s the same with business: I’m not happy with being small, I’ve got to get bigger, and I’ve got to plan for growth.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
Dan Mather is the Managing Director at JKE Security, a company that provides high-quality installation of security products like CCTV, intruder alarm systems and fire alarm systems.
Website: https://www.jkesecurity.co.uk/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-mather-jke-security/
ABOUT THE HOST
Tze Ching started her entrepreneurial journey back in 2007 with the launch of a sustainable clothing and home furnishing ecommerce business. Next, she created a sustainable fashion brand.
In 2019, she launched a social enterprise to help raise awareness about the negative impact of fashion at schools and colleges.
Through the 15-year journey, she learned so much, but easily the most meaningful lesson learned was about the importance of marketing. She now focuses on channelling those insights to help others succeed, through We Disrupt Agency, a business coaching, mentoring and digital marketing company.
Tze Ching’s mission is to create a community of global change makers and to contribute to positive change in both people and planet.
CONTACT DETAILS
Tze Ching’s website: https://wedisruptagency.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wedisruptagency
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wedisruptagency/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/wedisruptagency
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tzechingyeung/