Business Mastermind Podcast

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

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David Barnett: Adding new Revenue Streams to Scale Your Business Dec 23, 2019

Show notes

This week Gavin is in collaboration with fellow podcaster, David Barnett of High Performance Stylist, a specialist in helping hair salon owners grow and scale their business.

David has grown, scaled and sold a hair salon in Northern California for a seven figure sum, and so is well qualified to lead a valuable and insightful discussion about how business owners and entrepreneurs can apply the lesson he's learned to their own businesses.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Gavin's six-stage model is The Strategy Compass, which is divided into purpose, mind-set, goals, strategy, capability and action and accountability.
We have a choice in how we show up each day, and it all comes back to mind-set. If we project negativity, then that catches on, whether that's through colleagues or customers. We need to make sure we have the correct mind-set going into each day.
David applied his energies to a sub-niche of the salon industry (weddings) and devised an ingenious strategy to maximise revenue using traditional means and this new strategy. The results were astounding.
Education is an important part of the salon industry, which traditionally came through the product companies. The stylists now can build a following online, and can use social media top promote themselves and hold classes themselves, which has added immense value.
The biggest inconsistency in the salon business these days in the culture, a factor that seems to affect all industries equally.
Gavin's SCALE mnemonic:
- S - Systems
- C - Cash
- A - Advance
- L - Leadership and Culture
- E - Effectiveness

BEST MOMENTS

‘We work with salons all over the world'

‘A bad day has that ripple effect on everybody'

‘How do I make it work for both scenarios?'

'The bride can be a one-hit-wonder'

‘You have a great shaped head though, Gavin!'

'The best way to learn is to teach'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

David Barnett - https://davidbarnett.org/home-page

David Barnett LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/highperformancestylist/?originalSubdomain=uk

High Performance Stylist - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-high-performance-stylist-podcast/id1484941489

Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/highperformancestylist/

david@joinhps.com

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach. He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Gavin's energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

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Hey Presto! The 5 Entrepreneurial Plateaus Dec 20, 2019

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Gavin shares The 5 Entrepreneurial Plateaus and the three things you need to put in place in your business for predictable growth. Both are insights from the recent Scaleable Mastermind Gavin was part of with Roland Frasier and Ryan Deiss

VALUABLE RESOURCES

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

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Anna Parker-Naples: Entreprenuers Get Visible Dec 16, 2019

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‘It's about making it an adventure and a game and enjoying the journey'

Gavin is with  Anna Parker-Naples whose book ‘Get Visible has just launched and is already number 1 across 11 categories.

Her story is a powerful one and in this podcast, she shares her journey with Gavin explaining how she not only recovered, after being told she should not expect to walk again but was three years later standing on the red carpet in Hollywood as an award winner.

Anna changed the way she thought about herself and in doing this was able to get rid of her self-limiting beliefs and get visible achieving what she wanted in the way she wanted to, listen in now to hear this inspiring story.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

I was told during my pregnancy that due to a condition I had developed it was unlikely that I would walk again. I was angry, depressed, resentful and sad.

I got to a point where I realised I had to make a change and as a result visited a hypnotherapist and completed NLP Neuro-Linguistic Programming sessions.
He posed the question;
What if you could recover?
What if you think about yourself in a different way?
What would happen if I looked at the opportunities that were available to me?

It's all about mindset if you feel you are not worthy then you will not push yourself forward to get yourself and your business well known.
It starts with how you feel about yourself.
What are you saying about yourself? what is that inner critic voice reminding you of?  it is this that sabotages results.
My work encourages people to journal and become aware of themselves so that every time they say or write something self-limiting they can replace it with a positive. It's about creating new beliefs.
The reasons you think you are not good enough, stem from thoughts formed when you were very young.

We are all carrying around these self-limiting beliefs which were formed to protect us at that point, we didn't make the wrong decision we made the right decision at the time.
If you feel you are a person who should be doing more, having more impact and influence and are frustrated with the results you are getting changing those limiting thoughts can change your achievability and make you more congruent with your life.
Visibility is about what you are doing and why you are doing it.
Business is about that know, like and trust factor. It's about building rapport and people knowing what you  do.
We all come in to contact with around 200 to 300 hundred people per week as part of our daily lives and anything is possible if you get visible.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Do you believe a 7-year-old can know everything they are capable of achieving?'

‘Because of that level of visibility, I made connections that took me on to be an award winner on the red carpet'

‘I realised I had been continually talking about being resentful'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Entrepreneurs Get Visible podcast

Get Visible: How to have more impact, influence and income  

Anna Parker-Naples website

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

CONTACT METHOD

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Hey Presto! 3 Themes from Client Work in 2019 Dec 13, 2019

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ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach. He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

CONTACT METHOD

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Roland Frasier on Mastering Trends and Using Them To Your Advantage Dec 09, 2019

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It's a return engagement for investor, mentor and business expert Roland Frasier, who joins Gavin this week to discuss the best ways in which you can identify trends in the marketplace, and tie your business to their tailwinds in order to achieve maximum exposure and growth.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Marketing is developing in terms of personalisation. The “spray and pray” mentality, which saw marketers putting ads out ad nauseum, has been replaced by highly targeted, personalised advertising that has a much higher success rate.
The evolution and streamlining of the customer checkout experience, is another area that has seen drastic improvement. The archaic experience of paying online is being refined and mastered, and in many cases can affect whether or not a customer sees their purchase through to the end.
Companies like Drift are developing highly advanced chatbots, which if done well, learn from the customer's responses and communicate in such a way that the customer feels as though they are dealing with a human.
Technological advances are fleeting. They should be used effectively. Adapting to new improvements that draw in customers and expedite the process will succeed.
As a small company, if you can afford to hire an agency who can develop on your behalf, then take advantage of that, as their knowledge base will be vastly superior to your own.

Solo-preneurs and smaller companies often innovate faster than smaller companies, because they are getting instant feedback from customers. Larger firms are so often constrained by the processes needed to react.

BEST MOMENTS

'Trends are tailwinds'

‘How do you tie your business into that?'

‘Customers don't want to be talked at. They want to be communicated with'

‘Your growth is really dependant on an evolution of the product'

‘You're getting the benefit of the incremental knowledge'

'Those roles should not be siloed out'

‘You look to create the things you need to be informed about'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

https://www.rolandfrasier.com

Roland Frasier LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rolandfrasier/

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and

high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance

Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership

Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder

Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD

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Hey Presto! How often do you say Thank You? Dec 06, 2019

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How often do you stop to thank your team members, customers, suppliers, stakeholders, funders. Genuine appreciation goes a long way.

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach. He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

CONTACT METHOD

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Visibility and Authenticity; Collabcast With Traci Cornelius (Women Rockin' Business) Dec 02, 2019

Show notes

This week, Gavin collaborates with business expert, and host of the Women Rocking Business Podcast, Traci Cornelius.

Gavin and Traci candidly discuss visibility and how important it is in scaling and growing your business and your personal brand; the rights and wrongs, their personal definition of what it means to achieve visibility, the importance of authenticity, and the best visibility hacks that will see your content proliferate to a wider audience.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Gavin feels that his malaise caused by the efforts of contemporaries to “stay visible” has affected the way he drives his own visibility. Traci believes this was caused not by what these people were saying, but how they were saying it.
Everything you do is a conversation. A speech on stage is a conversation between a speaker and the audience. A live video is a conversation between speakers and their subscribers. Alarm bells ring when the persona off-stage does not match the one on-stage.
Authenticity comes when we truly discern our business's purpose, and are able to communicate that passionately and honestly.
When you can become an unapologetic version of yourself, it releases all pretensions and stress, and all that is left is the will and desire to serve.
Visibility is about being seen. But further than that, it is the act of becoming so seen, and so identified with your chosen niche, that you are perceived as an expert.
To increase visibility, Traci recommends Live Videos, pre-recorded videos, such as YouTube content, podcasting, public speaking, networking events. Ultimately, every opportunity should be taken to place yourself in front of people.
Increasing visibility is important, but it should never obstruct the ways in which you make your income. A strategy that may help is to create content back-to-back.
Work out what's stopping you in terms of visibility. Work out the pain cycle. Recognise that it doesn't have to be perfect. Perfection doesn't portray reality.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Visibility is being seen in different areas'

‘Why would anyone want me?'

‘I was kind of a deranged newsreader'

‘When you are unapologetically you, it is so liberating'

‘Visibility means that you stand in the way of opportunity'

‘If you're pedestal-ised, you're unapproachable'

‘Comfortably uncomfortable'

‘Be prolific rather than perfect'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Women Rockin Business Podcast

Founders Board - https://foundersboard.co.uk/?sc_ref=FHM5LGLDgxFc7TRC

ABOUT THE GUEST

Traci Cornelius

Traci Cornelius is a Speaker, Business Coach, Mindset Coach and mum to five Girls.

Like many, Traci's story is not really a succinct one. It is long with many twists and turns (which is like business and life itself!).

"Many of the twists and turns have helped me to learn, to grow and to become a successful entrepreneur."

On a professional level, she runs many businesses. On a personal level, she is a Mum to five wonderful, adorable, courageous, independent and challenging girls.

“I discovered exactly where I had gone wrong in my previous businesses. Everything I had been through, the good the bad and the ugly started to come together into the best discovery of all the “5 Power Principles”

I implemented them, first in my business and then in others and so they then became the “5 Power Principles” that other people wanted to know about!”

–Traci Cornelius

When it comes to starting and scaling your business, whilst juggling family responsibilities and taming your mind monkeys, Traci is your go-to-gal!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TraciCornelius22

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

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TraciCornelius

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/WomenRockinBusiness

Official website: https://tracicornelius.com

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach. He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.

CONTACT METHOD

Gavin Preston Website
Gavin Preston LinkedIn
Gavin Preston YouTube
Gavin Preston Facebook
Gavin Preston Twitter

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Hey Presto! How to Have a Productive December in Your Business Nov 29, 2019

Show notes

In too many businesses, as soon as the Christmas songs come on the radio and the mince pies and big tins of chocolates come out, productivity plummets.

In this episode, I share things you can do to have a productive December? What things will enable you to have a strong December in terms of Revenue, Profit and valuation of your business

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

CONTACT METHOD

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Plan Your Way to More Freedom – Interview with John Lamerton Bestselling Author of ‘Big Ideas, For Small Businesses’ & ‘Routine Machine’ Nov 25, 2019

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In today's episode, Gavin speaks with John Lamerton; Angel investor, business owner and author of The Routine Machine.
John has been called the King of Routine! John describes how the routine itself does not matter. You set the routines & the rules up to work for you.

What is the little hinge that will swing the big door? Make one change. Start small and level up. Keep levelling up. Schedule in your level-ups.

Even the most disorganised and creative amongst you will find yourself wanting to schedule some routine into your world after listening to this interview.

KEY RESOURCES

The Routine Machine Book (Amazon)

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

Gavin’s energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change.

CONTACT METHOD