Running your own business can be a tough and lonely place at times. Add on the stress and demands of modern-day life and it can result in a massive negative effect on our mindset, health and wellbeing.

Is there any wonder that sometimes it can all feel too much? You start to question yourself, limiting beliefs and negative self-talk kicks in and before we know it you have fallen into a bad rut. 

So, how do you knock yourself out of this rut and create a positive, bulletproof mindset to achieve success in business and life?

Well, that’s what I teach you in this coaching podcast episode… 

I transformed my own business and life and have now helped over 20,000 other business owners to do the same. 

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. How to stop those negative thoughts, feelings and limiting beliefs and replace them with positive results, confidence and happiness

2. How to smash through your comfort and fear zones and break into and dominate your growth zone

3. How to get pumped up, fired up and remain motivated to run through brick walls to achieve success

4. Discover the 10 steps and actions to create a bulletproof mindset and become unstoppable

5. How to change your circle of influence and surround yourself with positive people who will help lift you higher

If you feel like you need a kick up the backside to knock you back on track… You need to listen to this episode NOW!

Remember to head over to our ⁠Trades Freedom Club Facebook Group⁠ and tell me which episodes you have been listening to. Share with me what ACTIONS you’re taking and what RESULTS you are now achieving. 

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Do your customers call you, text you, WhatsApp you and email you on evenings and weekends and expect you to be at their beck and call? 

Or how about when they ask you to do extra work that was not included in your original quote and then complain when your invoice comes in as they expected it done for free?

Do you feel like your employees or subcontractors are taking this piss? 

They won’t wear your uniform. They turn up late to your customers' jobs. They constantly call and text you asking stupid questions and they are always playing on their phones. 

If you do not establish your boundaries and rules with your customers and your team up-front they will start to take advantage of you. Leaving you feeling angry and frustrated. 

In this coaching episode, I share with you how to identify and implement your boundaries and rules, so that you can take back control of your relationships and time. 

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Understand why it’s vital that you must own all relationships in your business

2. Learn how to develop leadership skills to become a confident and strong leader

3. Find out how to establish and implement your boundaries and rules with your customers

4. Learn to stop your employees and subcontractors from taking the piss

5. Dicover to get your entire team to do what you want them to do and to your standards

If you are fed up and frustrated with how your customers and team are treating you… You need to listen to this episode NOW!

Remember to head over to our Trades Freedom Club Facebook Group and tell me which episodes you have been listening to. Share with me what ACTIONS you’re taking and what RESULTS you are now achieving. 

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Be honest, do you understand or know how to work out your gross and net margin figures on your jobs?

Do you know how to tell if your business overheads are crippling your business and destroying your net profit? 

How the hell can you build a business that will look after you and your family for the next 30 years if you are winging it with your numbers? 

In this episode, I coach you through the exact numbers that you need to explode your profits and how to work out your numbers.

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Learn why you are burying your head in the sand and ignoring your numbers

2. Find out how to work out your gross and net profit on any job or over a given period of time

3. Discover the mathematical equation on how to work out your margins as a percentage

4. Find out what you must do with the numbers once you have worked them out

5. Discover who you need to have a meeting with to sort your finances out

If you are losing money, breaking even or not making the profits you deserve for the time and effort you are investing into your business… You need to listen to this episode NOW!

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If you're losing self-motivation, you’re not generating pre-sold ready-to-buy leads, not making enough profit, have little or no automated systems in place and can’t find trustworthy, reliable, hardworking staff… Then you need to listen to this episode.

In this episode, I coach you through the 5 most important areas of growing and scaling your business. I call these "The 5 Pillars To Profit" These are the backbone of your business and without these, you will struggle for time and make little money. 

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Discover how to get fired up and motivated to develop a positive unstoppable growth mindset.

2. Find out how to identify what product or service makes you the most amount of net profit

3. Learn how to get rid of time-wasting customers and replace them with “Pre Sold Ready To Buy Customers

4. Discover to systemise and automate your entire business freeing up all of your time

5. Understand how to build a team of trustworthy, reliable and hard-working people to run your business for you

Trust me you do not want to miss out on this killer opportunity to identify the areas that are causing you stress and discover how to put them right.

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If you do not have bulletproof T&Cs, subcontractor agreements and other legal documents in your business you are leaving you and your business wide open for people to exploit you.

Without having the correct level of protection you could lose your business and even your home by not protecting your assets.

In this episode I sit down with legal expert Michael Long, Director at MJL Law. We delve into the crucial world of legal documentation for trades and construction businesses.

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Discover the critical importance of having bulletproof legal documents to safeguard your trades and construction business.

2. Learn about the common pitfalls in creating terms and conditions and how to avoid them to ensure your business is fully protected.

3. Gain clarity on understanding the 5 key types of legal agreements every trades business should have, including terms and conditions, subcontractor agreements, and more.

4. Benefit from the expert advice of Michael Long on ensuring your business's legal footing is solid, reducing the risk of disputes and financial loss.

Contact Michael Long on:

Website: https://www.mjllaw.co.uk/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-long-03095579/

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Are you doing almost everything yourself in your business? The marketing, surveying jobs, pricing, quotes, invoices, dealing with customers, organising labour, and ordering materials.

This leads to rushing around like a blue-arsed fly, firefighting and becoming disorganised. Right?

In this coaching episode I share with you one tool that will help you save hours of time each day, help you become super organised and get more done in less time.

This tool is what we call a DEFAULT DIARY and I'm going to teach you how easy it is to set one up and use it.

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Understand what a Default Diary is and how do you use one?

2. Discover what White Space is, why you need it and how do you create it?

3. Find out how to dramatically increase your productivity and get more done in less time.

4. Discover time management skills and strategies to effectively manage your 168-hour weekly time bank, optimising both work and personal life.

5. Understand the importance of setting preservation goals, and personal goals to ensure quality time for yourself and your relationships

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How frustrating is it when you waste your time and money on marketing strategies that do not generate you quality leads? Or you're wasting your own valuable time on time-wasting customers? Or having to work until 10 pm at night doing your quotes, paperwork and sending emails?

I feel your pain.

In this coaching episode, I teach you about building a marketing strategy that will vet out time wasters and tyre kickers and replace them with pre-sold ready-to-buy customers.

On top of this, I share with you how to wow your customers by creating an automated customer journey that will also stop you from having to work until 10pm.

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Learn what a marketing strategy actually is and what content goes into it

2. Learn about the customer journey. Get a detailed breakdown of the 'before', 'during', and 'after' stages of a customer journey

3. Discover automation and systemisation. Leverage technology to streamline processes freeing your time up and improving customer experience

4. Gain practical tips. Real tried and tested methods of implementing these strategies within your trades and construction business to avoid being a "busy fool."

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In this episode, I share with you the 3 critical stages of business growth that trades and construction business owners navigate through. WARNING!! You must avoid stage 2 at all costs.

If you get stuck in stage 2 you will end up working 60+ hours a week, making no profit and stressed out to the max. You will never be able to go on holiday for a week without your customers and team constantly emailing, texting and WhatsApping you. This will drive you and your family nuts!!

It doesn't matter if you have literally gone self employed this week and you are new to business.

or

You have been established for 15 years turning over 5 million and have 25 members of staff. You must listen to this coaching podcast to identify which stage you are in and what you need to do to move stages.

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Discover the roadmap to identify what the 3 critical stages are

2. Uncover what you must do to avoid years of costly mistakes if you are in stage 1

3. Understand what you must do to get out of stage 2 before our business takes over your life

4. Find out what the benefits are to your business, you and your family by achieving stage 3 status

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In this first episode of "Rise of the Trades," I share my honest story of how I went from a stressed out, overworked and skint carpenter and joiner. Working 90 hours a week, having cash flow problems and how my business controlled me and my time. I tell you all the classic mistakes, the same mistakes you will be making right now.

I share the catalyst to what made me have a shift in my own mindset which led to me building, growing and selling a hugely successful construction company setting me and my family up for life.

And how a meeting in a back street working mens club in Sheffield in 2012 helped me to become the UK's original and #1 trades and construction coach. I've now coached over 25,000 trades and construction business owners to build, grow and sell their businesses.

My journey so far has been one hell of a ride as I'm sure yours is too.

Key Learnings & Actions From This Episode:

1. Find out what the purpose of this coaching podcast is and who is it for

2. Understand the pivotal moments that led to a shift in my mindset and transforming my business and life

3. Learn strategies for going from a busy fool to entrepreneurial success

4. Discover lessons learned in business development and personal growth

5. Find out my advice to aspiring entrepreneurs and tradespeople

🎧 LISTEN TO ALL OUR PODCAST EPISODES HERE: https://tradesfreedomclub.com/podcast