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Having a Wide Impact With Jez Wood
On this episode of the Lead With Purpose podcast host, Tze Ching Yeung talks to Jez Wood, one of the Founders and Directors of KOVE Properties as well as a mentor at Progressive Properties about his experiences with entrepreneurship from project management to fundraising, and marketing.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Property is a fairly new iteration to my career in the last 4 years. Prior to that I was in the charity/corporate sector with a commercial leaning, I ran a social enterprise training café for a few years, as well as spending time in hospitality with my own catering business. My experience is kind of broad, but it’s always had a business slant to it and it’s always had an entrepreneurial activity and pursuit throughout with a leaning to making impact in the charitable space.
- The property business has grown fairly quickly, securing £40 million of property for our clients in the last 3.5 years. We’ve got our own portfolio as well and are just launching a furniture and interiors company on the side to support what we do and provide an end-to-end process for clients. How I got into property was via an early midlife crisis, feeling lost in my career in hospitality which didn’t work out – you have to be so resilient to cope with it, essentially you’re firefighting all the time.
- Before that, I was all about making an impact on other people, but I hadn’t really thought about myself and where I wanted to be and do. If I control my life and create the life I want then I can better help people. That’s where I started to look into property. If I can create those conditions through passive income streams and multiple streams of revenue, then that gives me the safety net to then make a far wider impact rather than worrying about paying my rent. That’s why I got into property: It was a passive income stream that I could really get on board with and made a lot of sense to me.
- We’re a small company, employing 11 staff. That’s making an impact on those people. Our whole mission as a company is to help our investors meet their financial goals, so there’s an impact being made on their lives as these are people who want to build a legacy to pass on to their children or as a pension pot – they’re normal people, not wealthy investors from the middle east. Plus, we’re providing high-quality housing for people to live in which is another part of our whole mission – to make a difference in the property space by changing the way buy-to-let is done by not taking the same short cuts to create the shittest, cheapest house. We want to provide a quality home we’d be happy to live in.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Reading Rich Dad Poor Day and The Four Hour Work Week really turned my perspective of work and personal finance upside down.’
‘Property is a vehicle for gaining passive income in order to give you the life that you want.’
‘We give a percentage of our fees to Crisis, the homeless charity, to prevent homelessness.’
‘Failure is part of the process within business. It shouldn’t be feared. It’s better to have some failures along the way because those set-backs will make you stronger and those lessons will make your business better for it.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
Jez Wood is one of the Founders and Directors of KOVE Properties, a property investment company based in the North East, and who have the bold vision to improve housing across the UK. Our services allow our clients, wherever they are based in the world, to grow their financial security and wealth, hands-free by investing in property hands free.
Website: https://koveproperties.co.uk/
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 Jez Wood, one of the Founders and Directors of KOVE Properties as well as a mentor at Progressive Properties about his experiences with entrepreneurship from project management to fundraising, and marketing.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
- Property is a fairly new iteration to my career in the last 4 years. Prior to that I was in the charity/corporate sector with a commercial leaning, I ran a social enterprise training café for a few years, as well as spending time in hospitality with my own catering business. My experience is kind of broad, but it’s always had a business slant to it and it’s always had an entrepreneurial activity and pursuit throughout with a leaning to making impact in the charitable space.
- The property business has grown fairly quickly, securing £40 million of property for our clients in the last 3.5 years. We’ve got our own portfolio as well and are just launching a furniture and interiors company on the side to support what we do and provide an end-to-end process for clients. How I got into property was via an early midlife crisis, feeling lost in my career in hospitality which didn’t work out – you have to be so resilient to cope with it, essentially you’re firefighting all the time.
- Before that, I was all about making an impact on other people, but I hadn’t really thought about myself and where I wanted to be and do. If I control my life and create the life I want then I can better help people. That’s where I started to look into property. If I can create those conditions through passive income streams and multiple streams of revenue, then that gives me the safety net to then make a far wider impact rather than worrying about paying my rent. That’s why I got into property: It was a passive income stream that I could really get on board with and made a lot of sense to me.
- We’re a small company, employing 11 staff. That’s making an impact on those people. Our whole mission as a company is to help our investors meet their financial goals, so there’s an impact being made on their lives as these are people who want to build a legacy to pass on to their children or as a pension pot – they’re normal people, not wealthy investors from the middle east. Plus, we’re providing high-quality housing for people to live in which is another part of our whole mission – to make a difference in the property space by changing the way buy-to-let is done by not taking the same short cuts to create the shittest, cheapest house. We want to provide a quality home we’d be happy to live in.
BEST MOMENTS
‘Reading Rich Dad Poor Day and The Four Hour Work Week really turned my perspective of work and personal finance upside down.’
‘Property is a vehicle for gaining passive income in order to give you the life that you want.’
‘We give a percentage of our fees to Crisis, the homeless charity, to prevent homelessness.’
‘Failure is part of the process within business. It shouldn’t be feared. It’s better to have some failures along the way because those set-backs will make you stronger and those lessons will make your business better for it.’
ABOUT THE GUEST
Jez Wood is one of the Founders and Directors of KOVE Properties, a property investment company based in the North East, and who have the bold vision to improve housing across the UK. Our services allow our clients, wherever they are based in the world, to grow their financial security and wealth, hands-free by investing in property hands free.
Website: https://koveproperties.co.uk/
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/