Welcome to Making It. This weekly show explores the lives and stories of entrepreneurs as they share their unique perspectives on their success and the path to making it. 

Episode summary: Matthew Kimberley is the CEO of Book Yourself Solid® Worldwide, and according to him, “making it” means you get to decide where you spend your time, your money, your energy, and your attention. Matthew is “rad” and easy going. He doesn't go for conventional marketing tactics, and he's not hardcore competitive. Matthew says that if people work together and understand each other, we will all be better off. 

He believes that it’s an absolute fallacy to be self-made. It takes a village to make it, and investing in relationships brings the greatest returns. 

“Making it means you get to decide where you spend your time, and where you spend your money, and where you spend your energy, and your attention.” 

– Matthew Kimberley

Guest bio: Matthew Kimberley is the CEO of Book Yourself Solid® Worldwide, the founder of The School for Selling, and the creator of Delightful Emails. Through their books, programs, and a network of licensed business coaches, Book Yourself Solid Worldwide supports hundreds of thousands of small businesses in growing their businesses.

This multi-faceted business owner is a host of Marketing for Coaches, a show that supports top-tier business coaches in growing their own businesses and their clients' businesses.

His bestselling self-help book, How To Get A Grip (re-released after 9 years with the title Get A F*cking Grip) has changed the lives of tens of thousands of people the world over. His clients’ reviews are a testament to his success. As one of his raving clients says, “Matthew understands people, why we buy, what we want to read, how to make us laugh, how to help us get out of our own way.”

Matthew was born in the UK. He lived there until he left, aged 18, and moved around the world. After stints in Malaysia, Belgium, and Italy, he settled in Malta. Matthew can't discuss the most interesting thing that ever happened to him, on account of signing the British Official Secrets Act.

• Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

1. Mirasee
2. Matthew’s podcast Marketing for Coaches
3. Matthew’s website 
4. Matthew’s books
5. Matthew’s LinkedIn 
6. Matthew’s Twitter
7. Matthew’s Instagram
8. Matthew’s YouTube

Credits:

• Guest - Matthew Kimberley
• Producer - Cynthia Lamb 
• Executive producer - Danny Iny
• Assembled by - Geoff Govertsen
• Audio Post Supervisor - Evan Miles, Christopher Martin
• Audio Post Production - Post Office Sound
• Music soundscape - Chad Michael Snavely

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Music and SFX credits: 

• Track Title: Time Swirls By

Artist Name(s): Matteo Galesi

Writer Name: Matteo Galesi

Publisher Name: BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

•Track Title: The Sunniest Kids

Artist Name(s): Rhythm Scott

Writer Name: Scott Roush

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

•Track Title: Only The Brave

Artist Name(s): Joshua Spacht

Writer Name: Joshua Spacht

Publisher Name:  BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

•Track Title: Dancing at Ocean Crest

Artist Name(s): Cody Martin

Writer Name: Cody Kurtz Martin

Publisher Name:  BOSS SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

•Track Title: Sweet Loving Waltz

Artist Name(s): Sounds Like Sander

Writer Name: S.L.J. Kalmeijer

Publisher Name: A SOUNDSTRIPE PRODUCTION

Episode transcript:

     I'm Matthew Kimberly and you're listening to Making It! I run a business called Book Yourself Solid and we help small business owners like you get more clients than you can handle. Even if you hate marketing and selling. 

     One of the greatest compliments I have ever received was recently when I was talking to my yoga teacher and he said I always assumed that (and I'm the poorest practitioner of yoga you've ever met. You know, I get cramp tie my shoelaces.) He said I always assumed Matthew that you were a yogi because you seemed very light and un incumbent and I found that to be a true compliment because I try to want for nothing other than making sure that my kids and health and happiness are looked after. 

     We choose to get into entrepreneurship and if you choose to go down that path remember their alternatives are open to you. You can go and get a job or maybe you think that you can't. But the very fact that you, as a Westerner, who is listening to this, who has made the choice to become self employed, you can either treat this as the most serious game of life or death in the world, which is the wrong type of game or you can treat it as a fun game, a theme park ride which is going to have ups and downs that you have, yourself, decided to ride and that puts everything into perspective for me.

     Boarding school wasn't for everybody. I had a fantastic time there. I elected to go. I told my parents, age nine, that I wanted to go to this school, which I had been to visit. It was a beautiful school setting, acres and acres of the British count...