RadEO

In this episode of RadEO we speak to Grant Gavin about building a multi-Billion Rand business, coaching people and finding purpose in your work.

With business interests in Property, both Real Estate and Investment, Business Coaching and Public Speaking , Grant has built his various businesses on the back of an incredibly successful tenure as the owner of the largest Real Estate Company in the North Durban Suburbs.

http://www.grantgavin.com

Intro to yourself and business 1:32

What was the figure the listed? 2:49

Training people is your core strength to your business – how do you do this 4:29

How long did it take you to win franchise of the year? 6:00

“Top entrepreneurs focus on things they can control” 9:30

Tell us your cross road 11:05

What is your passion and purpose? 15:45

A lot of entrepreneurs move into coaching, do you think there is something in that? 19:33

Do the people in your company enjoy giving back and doing charity or is it something that you drive 21:12

What drives you to partake in EO and the entrepreneurs club 23:00

Do you take a coach for everything? 26:25

How do you coach people in your organisation? 27:19

How do you distribute this across your team? 29:30

Say yes to opportunities 35:00

What are you reading and listening to at the moment? 35:45

- RadEO is a podcast for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneurs. It is hosted by Ross Drakes and Rich Mulholland and produced by the Entrepreneurs organisation in South Africa. Tune in every 2 weeks to hear conversations with business owners who will share their experiences and stories of what they have learnt building their business and what drives them to keep going.

If you have a business and want more information on EO, get in touch.

In this episode of RadEO we speak to Richard Rayne about the future of learning and how you can use mindfulness and meditation as a tool in your business.

Richard Rayne, founder & CEO of iLearn. A 16 year old business, started at the age of 21, with a focus in providing corporate transformative learning experiences in business that has a measurable impact.

www.ilearn.co.za

Pause, is a state-of-the-art mobile ‘pod’ that shuts out the buzz of workplace distractions and takes the user on a journey of mindful stimulation.

www.pause.life

Tell us about your company 0:30

What problem do you solve in the world 1:14

Tell us about your EO journey 1:27

How do you make stupid people into amazing people 4:00

Have you used any of your learnings from EO in your business and visa versa 7:00

Is it possible to have an ongoing learning structure or do they go from one to the next 8:05

Where did it all start? 9:40

Give us a highlight of a big scary with the learnings 14:35

How did it feel to hear “no” so many times 20:26

Tell us about the “sleeping pods” 22:19

Tell us about the course in mindfulness 25:27

Could you offer mindfulness as one of your products 31:20

Have you shared this mindfulness meditation with your team 33:00

If you could go back 16 years what would you tell yourself? 41:25

In this the third instalment of RadEO we interview Justin Drennan about his entrepreneurial journey. We talk about fall back in love your business and how to really make a difference in the lives of your people. Check out his company at https://www.parcelninja.co.za/

Justin Drennan is the CEO and co-founder of Parcelninja. Parcelninja is a cloud based warehousing and delivery service geared towards South African e-commerce businesses. The business provides small to large online retailers with cutting edge plug-and-play integration into Parcelninja's warehousing facilities and delivery networks. This first of it's kind solution provides real-time reporting, stock visibility through the entire fulfilment journey, allowing ecommerce business owners to focus on selling products, while Parcelninja ensures customers receive their orders.

Justin Drennan also co-founded WantItAll.co.za. WantItAll.co.za is an online shop based in Johannesburg, South Africa that sells over 14 million products. WantItAll has over 25 employees and is ranked as the third largest webstore in South Africa in terms of sales and the second largest in terms of visitors as per Alexa Internet rankings, with 200 000 customers and over 150 000 products shipped from the US to South Africa.

Justin enjoys Pina Coladas. And getting caught in the rain.

Justin Drennan from Parcelninja

Tell us about your EO journey 1:47

“Overestimate what you can do in 1 year and over and underestimate what you can do in 10 years” 3:14

What your business does and what your role is? 4:15

Parcelninja was a system developed to solve a problem that you were having your business wantitall.co.za explain how this happened 5:05

Who would be one of your customers for Parcelninja? 6:47

Do you help start-ups scale 7:40

Can you tell the listeners about an AHA moment that didn’t go the way you expected but actually turned out better? 9:00

How do you split your time between multiple entities 14:50

Forum is a board of directors on your life – group of people that you share learnings once a month 16:41

Do you have a good way of handing a business over to people run it? 18:08

Have you committed a certain amount of time to wantitall 19:36

When Groupon crashed how did it affect your business? 21:26

Do you think the e-commerce market in South Africa is going to keep growing or is it static 24:37

Is there scope for the different LSM in the e-commerce space? 25:54

WRT Groupon issue – did anything in your forum offer you help 27:19

What advice would you give all entrepreneurs? “Overestimate what you can do in 1 year and over and underestimate what you can do in 10 years” 29:00

What does success look like to you? 30:00

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome." - Warren Rustand

How do you reduce theft in your warehouse 36:00

Teach staff how to manage their money 38:45

Challenge – make a small difference in the people who work for you lives 40:45

In the second episode of RadEO we speak to Arlene Mulder, CEO of WeThinkCode_ (http://www.wethinkcode.co.za) We discuss coding, the future of education, moving to Cape Town, the internet of things and how to put AI to work in your company.

After seven years as an investment banker at Rand Merchant Bank, Arlene left the finance world to start WeThinkCode_, and pursue her dream of starting a tech business that aims to democratise and revolutionise education in order to deliver the world's top tech talent.

Arlene is passionate about driving the development of the tech industry as well as establishing innovative digital problem-solving capabilities in Africa. She has always loved exploring the power of tech and mathematics to transform the way we face challenges.

When she isn't working with rockstar coders in the making, she spends her time on a mountain bike, in her trail running shoes, ticking off her travel bucket list or reading three books at the same time.

More about WeThinkCode_:

Corporates looking for talent can contact us at: [email protected]

Website: http://www.wethinkcode.co.za

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wethinkcode

Twitter: https://twitter.com/wethinkcode

Show notes:

Describe for the listeners what your business does 0:44

What subjects/topics you are covering 1:30

Which of the topics excite you the most for the future of this country and personally 2:20

Is there scope for South African’s to have a play in the machine learning market 3:14

If people want to use machine learning or the internet in their businesses, how do you see a small business/entrepreneurial business can make money from it? 5:47

How do people hire people coming out of WeThinkCode? 7:45

Tell us about your journey through accelerator into EO 8:45

Go back to your 22 year old self and give her some advice – what would you say? 9:45

What support would you like in your business at the moment? 10:47

How did you get your funding and what do you plan to do with it? 14:19

Is there space for this trend globally of social good companies? 15:30

Is education shifting to your method of teaching? 17:58

Will businesses start building own courses in house? 20:20

How do you enrol the right people? 21:15

Do you select candidates based on your values? 23:48

Is this your first business? 25:06

Now that you are opening up in Cape Town, how do you plan on running 2 campuses? 26:00

What are the digital tools that you use to manage meetings? 27:18

Talk through your sales strategy 29:55

Share an experience that you would have had only in EO 34:10

“I firmly believe magic cannot be taught, it can be learnt but cannot be taught. How can I know what you need, what you should do, what you should think.” by Tommy Wander from the book of Wander

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RadEO is a podcast for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneurs. It is hosted by Ross Drakes and Rich Mulholland and produced by the Entrepreneurs organisation in South Africa. Tune in every 2 weeks to hear conversations with business owners who will share their experiences and stories of what they have learnt building their business and what drives them to keep going.

If you have a business and want more information on EO get in touch. www.eonetwork.org

Find out more at www.radeo.co.za (Disclaimer might not be live at the time of the first publishing)

In the first ever episode of RadEO we speak to Christoph Magnussen. An EO member of 9 years if you also count accelerator. It was recorded at the Global Leadership Conference in Frankfurt Germany. Follow him on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/christophmagnussen

Christoph is an entrepreneur since high school. After graduating from St. Gallen University, he co-founded a mobile phone reCommerce company which grew from 1M to 31M in revenue in less than 5 years. To scale the business he wouldn’t just add manpower. Instead, he was obsessed with increasing individual productivity through latest online collaboration tools and new work methods. This new digital setup triggered many requests from fellow entrepreneurs to support them in building the same environment in their companies.

This is how the idea for http://blackboat.com was born. A tech-focused company designed to help leaders increase team efficiency by leveraging cloud tools and fast communication.

Show notes:

An into to Christoph and how he freed himself from working in an office every day. 3:15

What are the upsides and downsides of sharing your content and trade secrets? 4:42

Should more entrepreneurs be using the mediums available to them to communicate their knowledge? 6:18

How do you own your opinion? 7:48

Do you think that shouting into the void and brushing it off and repeating it, has it given you resilience in other areas or helped you with your business in other ways? 9:46

Are these tools you creating helping you to market your business? 11:42

Do you think this taps into the new age of branding and marketing, the last thing that we have left is honesty and trust, do you think it’s using that to the benefit of your brand? 19:17

What advice would you give our listeners to start the own podcasts? 15:55

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RadEO is a podcast for Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneurs. It is hosted by Ross Drakes and Rich Mulholland and produced by the Entrepreneurs organisation in South Africa. Tune in every 2 weeks to hear conversations with business owners who will share their experiences and stories of what they have learnt building their business and what drives them to keep going.

If you have a business and want more information on EO get in touch.

Find out more at www.radeo.co.za (Disclaimer might not be live at the time of the first publishing)