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Today I sit down with Kevin McShan. Kevin talks us through his journey of navigating the pandemic and how after losing his contract at the start of the pandemic he pivoted and is now running a very successful youtube channel - let's have this conversation.

Kevin also talks us through how important it is for employers and companies to consider hiring disabled people, being disabled himself Kevin knows first hand how much a quality job and a purpose can provide a disabled person.

This is a great podcast, to view Kevins channel head over to https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8O46hFoibuN-doUrAfOvnw

National Disability Employment Awareness Monthhttps://www.dol.gov/agencies/odep/initiatives/ndeam

In this podcast I interview Justin bailey the Managing Director of the Wymap Group. Justin talks us through his inspirational story of what it took to build a large business.

In the podcast, Justin emphasises the 3 key things that have served him well and helped him to build and maintain success in business.

If you own a business and are looking to expand this one is a must-watch. To check out Justin's business head over to www.wymap.com.au

I hope you enjoy this podcast, for more information head over to www.tonycaine.com

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In today's episode, we put making money to the side for a second and focus on the importance of our mental health.

COVID has knocked us all around and today Dan Hunt and Ashton Sims talk us through some key techniques to prevent and to react to mental health problems in the workplace.

This episode was one of my favourites and I hope it helps you to understand the importance of staying on top of your mental health.

To find out more head over to:

www.mentalhealthmovement.com.au

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In today's podcast I sit down with Scotty Schindler, Scotty talks us through how important it is to have a system in your business. Scott has a rule of 100 which is an awesome tool for goal setting in your business.

There are some great lessons all throughout this podcast, to find out more or work with Scotty, head over to https://www.youtube.com/redirect?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.scottyschindler.com%2Fandv=Rm12HUB_yRcandredir_token=QUFFLUhqa3VMcGVXZ2lzdk9nV2pVLTVDc29KeU83c2FGQXxBQ3Jtc0tsbWxrV19qeWItMGxKZU4tVHlER3V5ZE9PMXlqSTJRMUI1UWtDdnZ0LWhHMlF6YlMxam8tZDg5MjVzc1NWaVF1SUJ1VXh0eVdiNk52ejJqZGxCdmlwSFI4bFZQREtReVBKQVRYN1ZqdlB5UURnak5zcw%3D%3Dandevent=video_description (https://www.scottyschindler.com/)

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Welcome to the Next Level Business podcast, this is your host, Tony Kane. Thank you so much for hanging out and joining us today. I've got a real treat.

I've got John all joining us today. The owner and operator of a business called Fornix. Sir John specializes in office furniture and John stories, an amazing tale. How a young man came all the way over here from the UK, started the family, was working on wages and decided one day that everything had to change for John to build the life that he was after. Unlucky doing this job. I get to hear firsthand and learn so much from all my guests about how they built and run amazing businesses.

So get the pin ready because there's gold riddled all throughout these podcasts and John's little tips.

So insightful of how you can both build an amazing profitable business. But also you're going to notice how much John cares about his staff and how important it is for him to create an amazing culture inside of his companies. And I'm sure that's led to John having some success. But also, John's really conscious that people are doing it really tough out there. So I hope that if nothing else, she can just get some inspiration from John Story to keep on going through these tough times.

So without further ado, let me get into it.

And I really hope you enjoyed my chat with John Old today. So, John, thanks for joining us today, buddy.

Thanks so much. It's really good to have you on. And I need to ask you off the bat, so take me back. How does a young kid from Scotland make his way over to Australia and come to own a very successful business?

Well, I moved to England when I was when I was very young and I was a bit of a sportsman. And my father managed to get himself swept up accidentally in a local rugby league team, not an his choice at all.

OK, soccer and we we brought a few players from a small town just north of Brisbane called Redcliffe in the late 80s. And we brought five players up from there as part of a link up with the rugby league in the UK to develop teams in non rugby league areas. Right.

And. Kind of long story short, in about 1990, I was studying physiotherapy, my my soccer career was going nowhere. I mean, physiotherapy.

And I got an invite out to Australia for the wedding of one of the players that had come over in the late 80s and made the decision to write to a few soccer clubs in the area in the state league. And I decided to come out to Australia for a year to kick the ball around and go to my my friend's wedding.

Right, so you you say you flew to Brisbane, I assume, for the wedding, started playing soccer? Yes.

Then did you make the decision pretty quickly? That's where you could see yourself living on term?

Well, the first thing that struck me about living in Brisbane in those days was that everything was so unbelievably cheap. So I found myself within six or nine months with a beautiful girlfriend. And I are living in a rented rented house, four bedroom house up here in Redcliffe with a swimming pool and feeling I was Posh and Becks before Posh and bags were invented.

I imagine the the ray of sunshine didn't hurt either.

So now it's like being on a permanent holiday. And, you know, my rent was a quarter of my wage working in a warehouse. I was getting a few dollars them for kicking a ball around a much. But, you know, it was good. And my girlfriend at the time he became my wife was working part time and we just did it in those days. It was ridiculous. Semi perfect.

So you're playing you're playing soccer. And then what about. So when did you start to sort of get you sort of start to get a different direction? John?

Well, sort of. The soccer really was, you know, my weekend drinking money. And I got a job in a small office furniture business, basically selling office furniture and unloading trucks and children came around quite quickly. So at that stage, sort of like drifted away for ten years. Well, we had three three kids. I worked in an office...

In today's business session I host Linkedin Marketing Guru Nathanial Bibby from Bibby Consulting Group - www.bibbyconsultinggroup.com.au

Nat shares some great tips and insights on how to use Linkedin as an effective marketing tool to grow your business.

Thanks for listening, for more information on my courses and coaching programs, head over to tonycaine.com

Cheers

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Next Level Business podcast, this is your host, Tony Kane, holding up OK out there at the moment. They're extremely tough times for a lot of us. And I hope that today's podcast just gives you a little bit of inspiration to keep going to know that there are better times, hopefully just around the corner. So today, I'm really excited. I'm interviewing two guys that I've known for a really long time, and they've been a huge inspiration to me. And it's been amazing to watch how the business partnership has grown and grown. And that created a hugely successful real estate agency in Sydney. And as you can tell from listening to this podcast, their success hasn't been based on luck. They've worked extremely hard to build an amazing business. Thanks for joining us. I hope you really enjoy today's chat. Matthew King and Kieran Bresnahan from a real estate agent. James, thanks so much for joining us tonight. Savoy's to kick things off.

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Speaker 1: I know your story. But for to listeners, can you talk us through the journey of how it came to be that you've gone on to build and operate one of the city's most successful real estate agencies?

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Speaker 1: Thanks. Thanks, Tom. Lovely introduction. And obviously, we all started as a real estate agent, as a 32 year old, Clifford McGrath.

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Speaker 1: Long story short, I convinced John to open the garage kanala we that that eventually happened and we put imatinib. We put a bit of editorial in the paper and here and read it, contacted John Time and joined us while we were still in Edgecliff and we started working across from each other. And the rest is history. We he made me laugh, so I thought I'd give the key to give you a bit of a start.

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Speaker 1: And how many years, how many years is the acking?

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Speaker 1: That was about 18 years ago, 17 years ago, somewhere in that vicinity in January 2003.

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Speaker 1: So if you guys are bringing business together for 18 years, starting off right, sitting across from each other, did you ever imagine that you do it up the size of company that you have now? You know, now that you've done it, would you have done would you have done much differently?

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Speaker 2: Would we have done things differently? And I think so now, looking at how it's and of course, big picture now, I wouldn't have done anything different. Of course, we made mistakes along the way. Some heavy mistakes. It's cost us a lot financially and culturally, but I don't know. What do you think? Oh, I think I'll do anything different.

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Speaker 1: I don't think we do anything differently, Tom. And I think we have made mistakes. But we've made a hell of a lot more good decisions of this because they have cost us money. But we've also made decisions that have made us money at the same time. And that's what Julia was talk about, is no catch. There's no party in business. So we've we've managed to run a tight ship and run a successfully profitable business. But we have we have also torn up some money and made some mistakes. But I reckon the biggest thing is this, is that when I say this is a lot of young people that work for us today, that when Karen and I started it, really our vision was to be the best we could be as agents. And because we focused on that and being being good at what we did and we naturally were interested in the people around us because we're both quite old and we now have important time so we can about the people working around us that but there was no other vision other than just plain, really good agents that did the great job and hopefully made it a good time for our families. And then I think what happens off the back of that is opportunities arise. And when we started it, we thought we'd have one little shop and, you know, that was going to be for us and we were going to be very happy with that. And then as time progressed again, we did a good job...

Today I sit down with Celebrity Chef and Businessmen Matt Moran.

Matt's story is truly inspiring and I really enjoyed speaking with Matt and understanding what it took for him to get to where he is now and how he is managing through COVID-19.

Check out this podcast if you want to get some inspiration from a world class chef.

Make sure you head over to his website to get a hold of one of Matt's books or to make a booking at one of his restaurants:

https://mattmoran.com.au/shop-online/

In today's episode I sit down with Peter Dunworth a Bitcoin expert who break down bitcoin and answers the following questions:

What is a Bitcoin?

Is Bitcoin Safe?

How do you Buy Them?

What's the Future of Bitcoin?

If you are anything like me you have had plenty of conversations about Bitcoin without really knowing what you are talking about.

Peter, gives us some legitimate info on how they work!

To get access to the sites that Peter uses, feel free to visit:

www.sendwyre.com (based in the US)

www.spendher.com (based in Australia)

www.IndependentReserve.com (Australian exchange used for larger purchases)

Amber.io (app for dollar-cost averaging into bitcoin, great to put $5 a day in bitcoin)

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If you have been looking to create an online business and grow a huge online following, this one is for you.

Today I sit down with Superstar Magician, Jackson Aces. Jackson's video's have gone viral and he has used social media to build an amazing business and now has 4m followers worldwide.

He talks us through how a passion turned into a huge online business. He talks us through the power of social media and growing a huge digital profile.

Make sure you check out Jackson here:

https://www.magicianjacksonaces.com/ (https://www.magicianjacksonaces.com/)

Tiktok: @jacksonaces

Instagram: @jacksonacesmagic