Business Mastermind Podcast

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Becoming A Winner With Chris Patterson Oct 13, 2019

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Gavin talks to Chris Patterson, the founder of the Live Large Academy, and the CEO of Interchanges, a Florida-based digital marketing company who have generated over $1.4 billion for their clients.

Chris is no stranger to success, and has joined the conversation today to talk about recognising opportunities, becoming a winner and getting past mind knots so that you see everything happening for you.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Chris' life was going nowhere until he attended a success seminar. There he was inspired by the speaker, Zig Ziglar, whose words connected with Chris. By chance, Chris met Ziglar, who became his mentor.
Most business people are stuck, not because the tools aren't available or not because they can't access knowledge or resources. It's because of their own mind. Chris calls these mental blocks “mind knots”
There are four levels in business life;
- Survival - Business people simply trying to get by
- Stability - A little bit of comfort, but still not where they'd like to be
- Success - Achieving your aims and goals
- Significance - Over-achieving to the point of comfort
80% of people do not have any goals. 16% of us have goals, but they're not specified or written down. 3% have goals and have stated them, but do not review them. Only 1% of people have goals and a path towards achieving them.
If you can get to a place where you really believe that challenges and successes are the vehicles that help you to grow, you'll have a different perspective when those challenges arrive.
Opportunities come from connections, people, other entrepreneurs. We should always be actively seeking people and opportunities. We should begin each day by wondering how our lives will improve

BEST MOMENTS

'The goal is the personal growth. If you can get that as your primary objective in life, it's amazing how much you'll be able to accomplish'

‘I was King of the losers I was hanging out with!'

‘It's your attitude, not your aptitude, that projects your altitude'

‘You can have everything you want in life, if you'll just help enough people get what they want'

'This was my lightbulb moment'

'Things happen for you, not against you'

‘Opportunities come in suits'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Interchanges

Live Large Academy

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

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

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.

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Hey Presto! Start Before You Are Ready Oct 10, 2019

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ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

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

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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Believe In Yourself And Come Out Fighting – with Kirk Elliot Oct 06, 2019

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This week, Gavin talks to Kirk Elliot of Pro Muscle Products, who has taken a small retail operation to a thriving international business.

Kirk joins Gavin to discuss his story so far, the ways in which he successfully scaled his business, how he unleashed his area of expertise, and the next phase of his meteoric rise in business.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Like the best entrepreneurs, Kirk saw an opportunity in his retail business; a need hat was not being served. By becoming not just the retailer, but the manufacturer of a better quality product, he took a risk, but it paid off handsomely.
The industry is moving very quickly. By employing a product developer, Kirk is able to meet trends, and satisfy the changing needs of his customers, as well as keeping himself on the cutting edge.
Kirk always believed in himself, and that he could make a success of himself. But he was unstructured, and needed guidance. He credits mentoring and development with shaping his success.
Calming yourself as a boss, and taking a breath from time to time, is essential to the culture of his business. Being a guiding light instead of a drama queen will improve staff morale, which in turn will make them work more effectively and reduce staff churn.
Leveraging is another essential ingredient to Kirk's success. Learning to let go and focus on your strengths is a requirement for any good business owner.
If you want to be a success, it will cost money. That's inescapable. But if you have self-belief, then you'll push through. You'll accept this is a matter of course.
Kirk spent a long time pretending to be something he wasn't when it came to building his online personal brand. He soon realised though, that people are far more attracted to the real side of someone. He soon started being himself, and found it to be far more successful.
It's so important to make sure your business fits into the life you want. It's no good spending your life on business and having nothing left for yourself.

BEST MOMENTS

'The only way I could grow was by making it myself'

‘You can't take no for an answer'

‘If you love it, it's not work. It's fun'

‘You've got to think of the macro, not the micro'

'They want to be part of your journey'

‘When your back's against the wall, you come out fighting'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Pro Muscle Products - www.promuscleproducts.co.uk

Kirk Elliot LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirk-elliott-579627102/?originalSubdomain=uk

Kirk Elliot Twitter - https://twitter.com/bigkirkelliott?lang=en

Chemical Warfare Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/chemicalwarfaresupps/

Kirk Elliot Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/theonelife_tolive/

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

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

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! Are you the smartest person in the room? Oct 03, 2019

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Why you don't want to be the smartest person in the room. Gavin shares the importance of making the time to learn. Prepare to be uncomfortable, to be challenged and to be least smart person in the room whilst you learn the strategies and tools to take your business to the next level, by sharing some of the stories from a recent event that created significant shifts for attendees and also how applying some of the new tools learnt will shift the valuation of a client's business by more than 10 times. Learners are earners.

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.

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Kevin Bennison on Uplevelling Your Identity. How You Can Challenge Your Identity & Put Down Building Blocks During Times of Momentum Sep 29, 2019

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In today's episode, Gavin talks to ex-paratrooper, and now entrepreneur, coach and trainer, Kevin Bennison about the question of identity, how to recognise the way we see ourselves, and how to change the parts that no longer serve us.

Growing your business successfully will require you to step back from time to time to challenge the way you think about yourself, and with Gavin and Kevin's help, you'll have all the tools you need.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Identity is created - It is our story. It is what defines us. It could be something that life imposes upon us. It is a collection of the disparate elements of life that we experience and adopt as part of our own story.
Why do I think this way? Why do I feel this way? These two questions, asked at any time in our lives can provide insight when needed. The first step to healthy change is awareness.
Life can be challenging and painful. The key to moving through these periods is to accept these challenges as building blocks for our character.
Self-development grows in far more effective ways if we challenge our identity. Identify our greatest strengths, understand how these elements have shaped us, and then experiment in areas you'd consider to be the polar opposite.
If you can shift the way you see yourself, and the way you operate, then it will absolutely enforce the way you live and work until you reach it.
By constantly placing building blocks in our lives, markers to show our progress, then we do hit walls, when we do feel as though we aren't moving, we can step back onto these building blocks to remind ourselves how far we've come, and how well we're doing.

BEST MOMENTS

‘In different environments, and different situations, I've come to learn to question why I'm feeling this way'

‘Life is going to be beat you to your knees if you let it. It's not how hard you can hit, but how hard you get hit and keep moving forwards'

‘If you want to challenge yourself, then start a business!'

‘People will see us in the way that we present ourselves'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

Kevin Bennison's Website - https://kevinbennison.com/aboutme/

Kevin Bennison LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinbennison/?originalSubdomain=uk

Kevin Bennison Twitter - https://twitter.com/kevinbennison

Kevin Bennison Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Kev.Bennison

Kevin Bennison YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTf7LlXdse3eyTuy7zZj8tA

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

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

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.

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Hey Presto! Questions are the Answer Sep 26, 2019

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Mindset is key to business growth. If your business growth has stalled it may have got to the upper level of your thinking. Change your thinking and change your results. The quality of questions we ask ourselves determine the quality of answers we get. In this Hey Presto! we explore a way of formulating questions that will elicit better answers.

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

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Mindest is Critical for Business Growth, With This Powerful 6 Step Mindset Model You WILL Transform Your Performance Sep 22, 2019

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The STRIVE Model

Every week, Gavin works with groups or one-on-one, helping them all to improve their performance, and in every single session, mindset plays a critical role.

In this very special exclusive preview episode, Gavin opens the book (literally) on his upcoming work 'Survive And Thrive', which is soon to be published, presenting for you today an entire chapter devoted to mindset, and the fascinating, empowering STRIVE model, which can instantly set you on the road to a healthy mindset.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Human beings are creatures of habit. Most of us follow the same routines daily upon waking and spend each day repeating the last.
We get in life what we focus on. If you focus on the negative aspects of your business, they'll grow. Dwelling on negativity re-routes our neural patterns so that negativity becomes our default brain pattern.
We can counteract this negative growth by asking how we can positively impact any decision or instance.
STRIVE = S - State. T - Talk (self). R - Rituals. I - Identity. V - Visualisation. E - Empowering Beliefs.
Pick a problem that you've been struggling to solve and work out which state would get you to your desired outcome: Creativity? Certainty? Insight? Determination?
Take each area of your life; family, business, hobbies, health and relationships. Now write affirmation goals for each and repeat them to yourself every day, either by diarising them, or recording them and listening back.
In a world in which people are constantly distracted by the next shiny objects on the horizon, consistency is a powerful differentiator.
Be grateful each day for the things you have in your life, and the tings that are going well. Visualise the day ahead, and try to imagine the feeling of having already achieved your goals. Carry that euphoria into your day.
The way that we see ourselves, and the person we see ourselves as, shapes how we feel about ourselves and determines the actions that we take.
When visualising our future, focus on the one you want, rather than the one you don't want. What kind of person will get there? How will they get there? Become this person and make it happen.

BEST MOMENTS

'Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill'

‘Whether you think you can or you can't - you're right'

‘Get the state right and everything else will follow'

‘Any action carried out consistently will gather momentum'

‘We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

ABOUT THE HOST

Gavin Preston

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

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 to lead through change Sep 19, 2019

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As we grow our businesses we need to get our team members on board with the changes that are required to deliver that change. I outline how you can pitch the journey ahead so that employees are more likely to be on board with the change.

ABOUT THE HOST
Gavin Preston

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Darren Galvin: From leaving school at 15 with a minimum wage mentality to Seed fund raising on Crowd Funding Platform Seedrs for his 8 figure valued business Sep 15, 2019

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In this week's show, Gavin talks to Darren Galvin of Expert Apps, who's currently in the middle of a crowdfunding campaign.

Darren has joined Gavin to discuss his journey so far, from humble beginnings to the founding of a company that has recently been the subject of a seven-figure evaluation.

From advice to prospects, and the mentors he's valued along the way, this is a candid conversation that pulls back the curtain on the story of a business, and of a fascinating individual.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Darren dropped out of school at fifteen with no qualifications, and according to the system, held no prospects. Darren felt misunderstood, and dissatisfied with the processes, and needs by the system to judge everyone on the same scale.
Every time that Darren thought of an idea for a business he would protect the company name and details officially. This taught him a valuable lesson about due diligence, as later in life, these records seemed to show him up as someone flighty!
You can tell yourself that you can do it, all day long. But there's a moment in everyone's life when those words begin to burn inside; when they never feel more true. And that's the moment to go all in.
Darren and Expert Apps chose to scale up their business through crowdfunding, specifically through Seedrs. But after self-analysis, they realised that their company was not quite ready.
Value in a tech company is calculated in a totally different way to traditional ones. Value is added by adding strength and respect through more intangible means.
Expert Apps have chosen to take growth slowly, making sure the software works, and is resilient. Having tested internationally in Holland, they've proved that they can expand, but will continue to grow slowly.

BEST MOMENTS

‘You should've let me build the board game, and then bring in a team of people to make it look better, because that's what life's all about'

‘You don't have to let your past define your future'

‘What's worth millions is the core, the founders of the business who are adding value'

'There are venture capitalists willing to fund'

‘Deep down I do still want that significance'

VALUABLE RESOURCES