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	23 Mar 2020	Daniel Tolson	00:49:18
*‘No sales are possible without empathy – it's about being able to understand the other person'* Daniel Tolson is Australia's No 1 business consultant specialising in sales and emotional intelligence. His specialism, emotional intelligence, helps companies improve sales. Those with higher emotional intelligence are more successful in their roles and the evidence shows there is a good return on investment for companies running emotional investment programs. Listen in and hear about Daniels journey and the reasons why top companies are investing in emotional intelligence in this engaging episode. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Emotional intelligence is a fluid intelligence that is about getting along with others and communication. *Improving emotional intelligence* You need to begin with self-awareness understanding the way you feel and do what you do. You have to understand your personality style to be able to develop your emotional intelligence. Desire– you have to understand what you want and have the burning desire to get that. Decision– when you make a decision you have to burn your mental bridges – refusing to go back to the way it was before. Determination– you have to have the determination to start and to keep going with things following through to the end. Discipline – you have to be willing to do what is hard. Most people who get what they want get very angry and use it in the right direction to propel them forward. If you want to make a change you have to move out of your comfort zone and change one habit at a time. *Key pillars of emotional intelligence* Self-awareness– why you think and feel the way you do understanding your strengths and weaknesses Self-regulation– being able to manage mental and emotional blockages. You have to learn to manage your emotions and thoughts so that you can continue to achieve. Motivation – people run out of motivation and the energy to reach their goals. You have to be motivated to keep going when people say no often repeatedly Empathy – the ability to read other's emotional makeup. If you can't do this it will result in conflict and you can't have clients. Social regulation– this is the communication if you can't get your message across people won't buy from you. BEST MOMENTS I've never met a successful person who doesn't have goals or a failure that does' ‘As humans, we are motivated both towards what we want (the carrot) and away from what we don't (the stick)' ‘We are very lazy as humans and always looking for an easier way to do something' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Daniel Tolson website 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	17 Jan 2022	Revive: The Antidote To Burnout – with Manuel Astruc	00:58:49
On this episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, Gavin is joined by psychiatrist, Manuel Astruc to talk about how to identify the signs of burnout, how to address and turn around from experiencing burnout and the antidote to burnout. Manuel share his own experiences and those of countless clients that he's worked with. KEY TAKEAWAYS 12 years ago I found that something had to change in my life. I was experiencing burnout after my twin sister passed away. Even though I was healthy and my business was doing fine, I was miserable and I made a decision then to enjoy the ride no matter what which has led to a lot of changes over the years to get me where I am today. There were some things that happened immediately: 1) Committing to stop wallowing in my negative thinking. 2) Turning away from things that were negative in my life like the news, listening to sports radio and began listening to podcasts and audiobooks that helped me learn and grow. 3) Changes to what I ate – I changed my breakfast from bagels to smoothies. 4) Started exercising – minutes a day that was sustainable and I built it out as I created the habit. 5) Sleep was also something I'd been neglecting, so I put in a regime. When burnout starts, it starts small and gets bigger and turns into things that are more than just burnout. The early signs are unrelenting exhaustion, cynicism/bitterness, starting to feel like you're losing effectiveness which intensifies to actually losing your effectiveness at work. The roadblock in my head, with growing my practice was hiring other people. In my head that was adding drama, complexity and an additional source of frustration. But it was suggested to me; what if you employ people that you get on with and are good at their job? That one question removed that roadblock. When we give ourselves uninterrupted time off, where you don't connect with work, it starts a virtuous cycle where we get renewed, refreshed, more creative, more focussed when we come back, we have more energy. If you don't know what to do with your time off you should build a structure of what you're going to do – that's not work. BEST MOMENTS ‘Even though I help others. I had to take a good, hard look at myself – what I was thinking and doing with my life.' ‘Success was supposed to lead to happiness, but when I got there every day just looked like a treadmill.' ‘We can use 3 key phrases to help ourselves and others when they're having a hard time, emotionally: There is hope, change is possible, and you don't have to be alone.' ‘What areas of your life are you still enjoying? Come up with 30-40 things that light you up. This will get you out of the mindset of cynicism.' ‘Success doesn't create success, happiness drives success.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES After seeing the change that consciously making an effort to embrace the journey and block out negativity made his own life, Manuel Astruc knew he needed to share the knowledge he had with others. Manuel started ‘Your Next Act' to help high-achieving entrepreneurs find the mental strength to not just survive their ventures, but thrive. Manuel has been working as a psychiatrist for over 20 years, the last 15 years in his private practice in general psychiatry. He also works in the addictions field as the medical director of Saratoga County Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services. Manuel has previously worked as the medical director of the Saratoga Hospital Mental Health Unit. https://manuelastruc.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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	03 Dec 2020	Parker Stevenson, Co-Founder Of Evolved Finance, On How He Helped Online Course Creators To Turn 2020 Into Their Biggest Year	00:41:07
This time, Gavin talks to Parker Stevenson about how he came to found Evolved Finance, in order to help online creators to better keep their books. The idea has helped some of the largest names in the world of course creation and online education to make 2020 the biggest year yet, despite forecasts saying otherwise. Listen in and find out how he achieved this! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS 2020 saw a remarkable uptick in online teaching due to the fact that many people were at home, and could take advantage of the time in order to develop. Businesses, too, felt that time could be well spent in developing their people's skills. Entrepreneurs who are thinking globally, and not focussing so much upon home markets, are suddenly reaping rich rewards. We should always aim to think bigger now that we have the tools to reach wider audiences. All the marketing in the world can't fix a problem if it's at the core of the business. We need to develop our own understanding of the why Many clients focus on the hunt for cash and customers. When they find success, the question becomes "What do I do with this?". Careful planning and expert advice at this stage are essential. BEST MOMENTS 'People were at home, They had more time. They were paying attention a lot more' 'If your business isn't profitable then you've got an expensive hobby' 'Book-keeping has become so commoditised' 'That's the game most of want to continue focussing on' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com parker@evolvedfinance.com https://evolvedfinance.com/about/ 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	30 Dec 2019	Applying the Values Discipline Strategy Model to launching a new product	00:47:03
This week's show is a very special affair. You're cordially invited to sit in on an invaluable conversation between Gavin and his special guest, Traci Cornelius, the host of hit podcast Women Rockin' Business, as they discuss the best ways in which Traci can maximise the launch of her new venture by using two steps of Gavin's six-step growth model, The Strategy Compass. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod 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 Traci's product is made to increase your visibility with confidence. The outcome she is hoping for is a feeling of being comfortably uncomfortable; to make people “camera ready”, and to increase the likelihood of their being able to deliver their company message effectively. If people want to build and scale their businesses, then they need to be prepared to put themselves out there. If they are shy or lack confidence, then it's advisable to address the reasons at the root of this, so that they can make their voice heard effectively. The Values Discipline states that if you truly want to create value with your product or service, there are three points to play on, but only one at a time: Product Leadership Operational Excellence Customer Intimacy Gavin's SCALE mnemonic: S - Systems C - Cash A - Advance L - Leadership and Culture E - Effectiveness BEST MOMENTS ‘Visibility is credibility' ‘I'm a gesticulator, too!' ‘The creativity is now flowing' ‘Your model helps with that' ‘What I'm looking for is patterns' ‘I used to be revolutionary. Now I'm evolutionary' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Traci Cornelius - https://tracicornelius.com Women Rockin Business Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/women-rockin-business-podcast/id1458617999 Traci Cornelius Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TraciCornelius22 Women Rockin Business Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WomenRockinBusiness Traci Cornelius Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/TraciCornelius ABOUT THE GUEST 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! 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	18 Nov 2019	2020 Business Planning: Collaborative Show with Nick Bradley	01:02:02
Gavin Preston and Nick Bradley of the ‘Scale Up Your Business' podcast are spending time together discussing the next year and decade as we enter the last quarter of this year. They explore multiple aspects of business planning, structure and customers and offer practical advice so you can create a plan for your business that will take you successfully into the next year. Mindset is critical and this episode explores in depth the mindset it takes to drive a business forward achieving the results you want and taking you towards attaining your vision. At a time when we are required to run faster and faster, we actually need to go slower to be able to plan in the time to focus on thinking so that moving forward is successful and this episode explains how you can achieve this, there is something for everyone in business in this episode.   Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS When Planning you need to reconnect with the vison what are you trying to achieve. Once you know where you are going then the next question is how? Instead of thinking incrementally you can look at where you want to be, then work backwards planning the steps you need to make to get to where you want to be You can't have a big enough vision – I have a twenty-year vision, which is huge but every year I look at it then chunk up Goals – set goals for all areas of life including relationship, business and emotions. The goals are formed from what you want to achieve in each area If you are not getting the results you need to change something Change the things that will get you the outcome Look at the environment your customers are working in and find out if their pain points and wants have changed because you may not be meeting their needs You may have a range of products and it may be due to agile innovation that those products are no longer relevant because the world is moving more quickly Even if you've had the best year ever you must re-evaluate because it doesn't mean the next year will be the same. There are many lenses with which you can look at your business the most important thing is to match what the customer wants with what you can provide. If you haven't got a good insight into your business then you need to seek external support to ensure you have the information required to plan well for the coming year. There are key questions to ask  - What am I not seeing at this point that may cause me problems further along the line. If you are a business of a certain scale there are more businesses out there than ever before If you are planning to sell, for private equity to be interested there is a threshold. A planning strategy you can include is one of possible merging with another business of a similar size to make yourself attractive to private equity investment when you are seeking a successful exit.   BEST MOMENTS ‘The power of visualisation is a key to moving forward' ‘It's the view you have of yourself that can be limiting – your limiting beliefs' ‘What is it I need to change in my objectives to be able to reach my goal?' You've got to have a bold goal with manageable chunks that you can then work towards    VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Scale Up Your Business Podcast 90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website ABOUT THE GUEST My name is Nick Bradley. I'm an entrepreneur, author, speaker and investor. My background is in growing and scaling VC and Private Equity backed businesses. Having successfully built, bought and sold a number of companies, and removed myself from day-to-day operations, my focus now is on helping entrepreneurs get to where they want to be, in business and in life. As well as investing in growth businesses and backing turnarounds - with the ultimate aim of creating value from significant capital events. I'm passionate about personal and professional development - showing up and being the best version of myself ... every day. My bigger vision is to help bring entrepreneurial skills, experience and mindset to people in developing nations - so they can follow their dreams, live life more on their terms - utilising entrepreneurship as a global force for good. CONTACT METHOD https://twitter.com/nickcbradley nick@fielding.global www.fielding.global   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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	07 Jan 2021	Hey Presto - Happy New Year - Refocus New Tiers and Fears into a New Gear for your business	00:16:31
With a new year come new challenges. In this week's Hey Presto, Gavin talks you through why now is the right time to focus on the positives, and switch up gears to face those challenges down, and get 2021 off to a flying start! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Beginning the new year in lockdown provides not just a business challenge, but a mental one, too. Finding the right mind-set is everything. Disconnecting and unplugging is a smart way to give ourselves that sense of refresh and recharge that we sorely need right now. For many businesses, 2020 was about surviving. 2021 is about taking your business into a new gear and starting to thrive again. BEST MOMENTS 'I saw the need for recharge!' 'People didn't take breaks last year with anywhere near enough frequency' 'Control the controllables! Stay focussed on what you want, not what you don't want, and don't get sucked into the conspiracy theories' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	26 Aug 2020	Jeff Chastain on The Entrepreneur Operating System ( EOS)	00:42:24
Jeff Chastain talks about the Entrepreneur Operating System (EOS), why your business needs Vision, Traction and Health and why these are ever more important right now! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Without the foundations in place, any new measures will only seek to amplify issues that have perhaps gone unnoticed. Sometimes it's not about looking for revolutionary ideas, but searching out there for the tried and proven methods of developing and improving. EOS is a very basic set of tools and processes that look at vision, traction and health. By focussing on these key areas, we dynamically energise our prospects and concentrate our thought. Bringing in an outside coach can add not only a new level of expertise and perspective but also an 'outside' accountability. BEST MOMENTS 'The tool by itself is not going to solve anything' ‘I don't have to reinvent the wheel' ‘I know where I can pull the levers. I know where I can change things' ‘It's little stuff, but it really impacts down the road' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Jeff Chastain LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffdchastain Admentus - https://www.admentus.com ask@admentus.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	21 Jan 2021	Hey Presto! - Quarterly Strategic And Action Planning	00:13:02
Today Gavin talks about planning! It will have been something you have been surrounded by the past few weeks. But, if you haven't quite got started yet or want to revisit it and want a strategic, process-lead way to plan then listen in to todays episode of Hey Presto for some great tips and ideas from Gavin! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	22 Feb 2021	James Sinclair, CEO Of Partyman Group, On Scaling Your Business In A Pandemic	00:49:39
The pandemic has thrown many challenges up in the world of business, but it has also provided opportunities, including chances to scale. In this week's show, Gavin talks to one of businesses true entrepreneurs, James Sinclair, the mastermind behind Partyman, about how he not just survived during lockdown, but has thrived! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We can effectively shore up assets throughout the life of our business concerns, by making sure we invest in safe harbours, such as property. We should be constantly operating four companies: The company we are today The company we want to be A media or marketing company A property or investment company Find a product that people love, want and need. Perfecting this formula will lead to scale and growth as people come to you. As business founders and owners, we should seek to leverage tasks so that we can concentrate on important things such as buying businesses, doing deals and marketing the business. BEST MOMENTS 'I wanted to build something to sell' 'Entrepreneurship plus management equals success' 'Does institutional want to to invest in what you are doing?' 'Find a product that people love, want and NEED' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat Partyman - https://partyman.co.uk/james-sinclair/ James Sinclair LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamessinclairpartyman/?originalSubdomain=uk gavin@gavinpreston.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	28 Jul 2020	Survive And Thrive - James Lavers On How We Can Improve The Way We Connect And Move People Through A Camera Lens	00:47:27
In the run-up the launch of 'Survive And Thrive: How To Secure, Scale, And Succeed In Business', Gavin presents a very special mini-series to help you get the most out of this incredible new work. In the second edition of the series, Gavin talks to communications specialist and coach, James Lavers, about the three crucial ways in which we can dynamically improve our engagement and web presence in the new world of Zoom networking and conferencing! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The way we communicate and sell through a camera lens needs to pivot and adapt depending on the product we are selling. Each item requires a different approach. Remember that web communication is still essentially a conversation, and requires a degree of engagement when it comes to eye contact. Find the lens and talk directly to it! Focus on your outcome. What is the ideal result for your communication? Pinpointing your “why” and communicating your call to action, clearly and often, will drastically empower your calls. Communicating an idea or selling online requires a completely different physical state. Compare the difference between the way we sell and the we consume through a screen. The difference between the two is obvious. BEST MOMENTS ‘Basically, I had this live laboratory' 'They're on the other side of that little round window. They're not in the box on the screen' 'Stop looking at my boobs! Eyes up, please!' ‘I turn my selling into an event that can be fun for all of us' ‘I see this as an athletic pursuit' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Survive And Thrive: How To Secure, Scale And Succeed In Business - https://gavinpreston.com/survive-and-thrive/ James Lavers - https://lazycoach.kartra.com/page/jameslavers James Lavers Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jameslavers/?hl=en 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	28 Jun 2020	Multi Millionaire Property Investor & Entrepreneur, Rob Moore on How he Bounced-Back From Lockdown Losses to Seizing New Opportunties	00:37:15
Rob Moore is the owner and founder of the biggest property training company in the UK, as well as the host and creator of two of the UK's biggest podcasts: 'The Disruptive Entrepreneur', and ‘Money'. On top of this, Rob is also a best-selling author, a hugely influential mentor, a prolific influencer and content creator, and a multi-millionaire property investor. Rob joins Gavin today to discuss not just the effects of lockdown upon UK business, but the solutions and mind-set he has developed in order to ensure that he and his many business interests have not just survived, but thrived! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS You can only control the things within your control. There's no sense in attempting to predict outcomes based on data you don't have. Influence your own destiny based on what you know. Circumventing obstacles and challenges is the art of developing a constructive mind-set. It is the practice of taking a measured view, and devising several different contingent strategies to deal with different eventualities. All problems, all solutions, all happiness, and all fulfilment, come from how we utilise our awareness. Many business problems stem from an imagined awareness in the past being projected onto our perceived future. Planning, in itself, is an act of self-belief. Many formulate strategies in order to see them through troubled times, but then lose their bravery when the time comes to deploy. The most successful realise that the bigger the problem, the bigger the opportunity. In the wake of solving problems, bigger problems arise, but so too do bigger chances for success. BEST MOMENTS ‘The benefit of a plan is in the planning, not in the plan itself' '99% of the things we worry about never actually happen' ‘You've got to have faith that what you don't know today, you can figure out tomorrow' 'The world's biggest problems are the entrepreneur's greatest opportunities' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Rob Moore LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979/?originalSubdomain=uk Rob Moore - https://robmoore.com ‘Money' and 'The Disruptive Entrepreneur' - https://robmoore.com/podcast/ To book your copy of 'Survive And Thrive' visit https://www.surviveandthrive.cc/coming-soon1591762256 ABOUT THE GUEST Rob Moore Rob Moore is a triple best-selling Property Author, public speaker, entrepreneur, and multi-million- pound Property Investor. He co- founded the UK's biggest property education company Progressive Property in 2006 with Mark Homer and has since helped over 100,000 entrepreneurs towards achieving the same, including consulting for many established multi-millionaires and keynoting at some of the UK's most important business events. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	10 Dec 2020	4 Steps To Tap Into Your Own Creative Intelligence - with Vineet Bhartia	00:50:02
Everything we require in order to succeed is already within us, and yet we often look externally for our sources of success. In this week's show, Gavin talks to Vineet Bhartia, founder of the Natural Business Group about the ways in which we can tap into our own innate creative intelligence, and by doing so improve and energise our own path through business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We all seek validation, but many seek it externally. The most important and valuable validation comes from within. The first step is always to create our own unique vision - the business landscape upon which we are able to plant our ideas and watch them grow. We must embrace our own individuality and nurture the uniqueness within ourselves. By doing this we create a sense of identity and what we believe in, as well as establish our goals and values. We create a bridge between where we are now and our vision for the future, by tapping into our creative intelligence. BEST MOMENTS 'Focus creates reality - what you focus on creates a reality' 'An acorn has within it, everything it needs to fulfil its true potential' 'Where is the power...?' 'Life is too short to do what you don't really feel called to do' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com Vineet Bhartia LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/vineet-bhartia-a7a1076b/?originalSubdomain=in 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	31 May 2020	Jennifer Peak of Peak Advisory on Growing Your Business Through Acquisition	00:38:34
This week, Gavin discusses the technique of developing and strengthening businesses through mergers and acquisitions, from one of the most experienced people in the world in this field, Jennifer Peek of Peek Advisory. Jennifer talks about the importance of having impartial guidance through the acquisition process, and why now may be the ideal time to begin thinking about mergers in your own company. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Business owners in the twilight of their business life, may well be looking at the post-COVID world, and wondering whether they have the energy to pivot effectively. This makes it a wonderful time to be in the market for acquisitions. A great place to get started when thinking about expanding is to contact your professional network (lawyers, accountants etc), who may already be in contact with companies open to merger. There is bound to be an initial period of frenzied activity when businesses jumpstart back into life, but this will be followed by a lull, and that is when opportunities will be at their greatest. A loss of enthusiasm or energy for your business may not be a signal that you need to sell, but that you need to hand off operations to someone who does have the necessary energy levels. BEST MOMENTS ‘You don't want everyone's biggest dream to become their worst nightmare' ‘If you're looking to buy a business, assume that you'll have to have some kind of active role in it' ‘I don't want to try and catch a falling knife' ‘You've expanded exponentially your ability to exit the business' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To secure your place on the Game Changer Summit, go to www.bit.ly/gamechangergavin Jennifer Peek LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jenniferjpeek/ Peek Advisory - https://peekadvisory.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	02 Aug 2020	Neil How on His Book Run Fast; The Definitive Guide to Accelerating Technology Projects'	00:36:44
This week, Gavin talks to Neil How, the author of ‘Run Fast: The Definitive Guide To Accelerating Technology Projects' about the best ways of improving systems, processes, and subsequently the value of your business. It's an insightful, dynamic conversation covering everything from remote working and increasing engagement, to value engineering and super-charging the storm experience. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Change is often over complicated. If we see it as a fundamental desire to make something better, incrementally, it will positively affect your entire outlook on change. Business is currently in the midst of a great evolution. Organisations are seeing less need for physical presence, and more need for positive networking solutions, which has opened up new avenues of learning and opportunity. The key to making the most of freelancers is to harness their collective powers, forming a unified seat of learning and empowerment through effective communication. Fail, but fail fast! Failure shows us the fissures and faults in our organisation, and allows us to focus on the areas that need patching so that it does not happen again. BEST MOMENTS ‘People don't see it as change. They see it as just another widget or piece of software' ‘Everyone thinks a meeting should be a formal place to talk' ‘It's about cultivating the can-do attitude and maintaining the right tempo' ‘Failure is just as important as success in a business' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Neil How - http://www.neilhow.com Neil How LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilhow The Ten80 Group - https://ten80.group 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	15 Aug 2019	Hey Presto! More Sales, More Margin	00:10:00
Welcome to the Business Mastermind Podcast! In this Hey Presto! Episode, Gavin discusses the A to D grading of customers and the incredible power of Product Staircases! *"So I want you to think about what you can do to build your own product staircase; What that might look like?"* -Gavin Preston 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	06 Jun 2021	Mike Moll from Market Me on getting cut-through with your Digital Marketing and why Inception Marketing is so effective	00:33:51
On this episode Gavin is joined by Mike Moll form Market Me Consulting, who shares his tips on inception marketing and how that gets you cut-through and connects with businesses in the crowded space of digital marketing. Mike loves helping small businesses to take control of their futures by helping the reach the perfect customer base through digital marketing. He gives great insight into how to pinpoint the best decision makers and how to approach them in the first place to introduce yourself and set up a relationship without the hard sell, which is more attractive than being pushy. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Inception marketing is where businesses get the emails of the people they want to attract, load them into Facebook or LinkedIn which then shows you whether you know them so you can tailor your ad to those people so you have a better chance of getting engagement. LinkedIn Sales Navigator allows you to drill down into companies to find the decision maker you're looking to reach. Connect with those people and, once they've accepted, send them videos via LinkedIn Messenger as a warm introduction. You need to use a combination of digital advertising as well as building real relationships with people who make the decisions. People will take time to tell you why the meeting isn't right for them right now if you send a video to them, which isn't a ‘yes', but it is an engagement. Then try again in a few months or ask for a referral. Showing that you understand a company's pain point is an effective tool when pitching to a prospective customer. BEST MOMENTS ‘I learned digital marketing and Google Ads over a weekend by watching YouTube.' ‘Why would someone buy into me? If I can explain how this will make them money and how much, that's a really compelling reason for them to trust me and want to work with me.' ‘What are you selling? Are they easy to go to digital marketing?' ‘You need to create a platform where people look for you.' ‘People don't like being told what to do, when you tell me I need to do this for my business I think ‘get out of here!' Invite them in to a further conversation if they think what I'm offering is valuable.' ‘I haven't come across an account that we haven't been able to produce a profitable Google Ad for.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES https://Marketme.co https://go.marketme.co/leads 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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	18 Mar 2021	Hey Presto - Find Your Pivot, Iterate Faster!	00:12:58
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	28 Jan 2021	Hey Presto - The Importance Of Trust And Certainty Through Change	00:10:19
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	09 Nov 2020	The Art Of Building Your Brand Through Podcasting - with James Burtt	00:36:02
In this episode, Gavin talks to James Burtt, the founder of the Ultimate Podcast Group, and the man behind the legendary Building The Brand podcast. James is multiple iTunes Top 50 Podcaster, a certified performance coach, and has helped hundreds of clients to build their own brand through podcasting and media training. James talks about how he has grown his podcasting empire, how it can benefit businesses and individuals seeking to develop their brand, and how to make your podcast stand out from the rest! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS There is no substitute for experience. Coming from a broadcasting background, James found the transition to podcasting a natural one. New podcasters take a long time to learn the techniques that broadcasters already know. The coaching space is too crowded with people who promise much but who cannot deliver. When selecting a guide for yourself, look to the people with a proven track record. We discover our worth when we create a service that benefits others. In James' case, his podcasting expertise add tremendous financial value, allows freedom and changes lives. There is nothing wrong with following a trend. Many have joined the podcasting space to build their brand. The mistake being made is that they are not doing anything different or iterative. Look for ways to stand out! BEST MOMENTS ‘A coach, a mentor or an expert is only as good as the results they can help the client to get' ‘I understand that a business is there to make money' ‘I help people to create revenue-generating, ROI-inducing podcasts!' ‘Podcasting was the catalyst for me changing my whole world' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat ABOUT THE GUEST James Burtt is a multiple iTunes Top 50 Podcaster, a certified Performance Coach and having launched 100+ podcasts for clients, an in-demand Media Trainer. His love of radio and broadcast started 14 years ago when he ventured into the world of Broadcast PR which led to him working with some of the world's biggest household name brands and eventually led to him becoming a radio presenter. James is an international keynote speaker who has shared the stage with the likes of Les Brown and Eddie 'The Eagle' Edwards and - via his own shows - has interviewed the likes of global influencer Grant Cardone, Elena Cardone, Trunki inventor Rob Law MBE, global fitness influencer James Alderton and a ton of other leading industry figures. team@ultimatepodcastgroup.com www.ultimatepodcastgroup.com www.ultimatepodcast.training James Burtt Instagram - www.instagram.com/jamesburttofficial James Burtt LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesburtt James Burtt Twitter - https://twitter.com/jamesburtt 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	10 Oct 2019	Hey Presto! Start Before You Are Ready	00:06:41
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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	19 May 2019	Preparing Your Business For a Storm	00:28:13
The Impact of Political and Economic Uncertainty on Your Business There are a number  of indicators that we are at the top of the economic cycle. Many observers are expecting the economy of the UK to be flat over 2019 and others are expecting that beyond 2019 there will be a decline and slowing down of the economy. As a result of the political situation business owners are holding back from investing as they wait to see what is going to happen. In this episode, Gavin shares his expertise and provides pertinent and practical steps that you can take to build cash reserves forward and go lean with your business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS With a world of uncertainty as business owners what we want is more certainty. Building cash reserves is very important for any business. Lots of business owners only manage their business by the amount of cash they currently  have. They do not necessarily have robust cash flow forecasts about what the situation will be in 3, 6 12 months and beyond. If you have a cash flow forecast you are projecting and planning your cash flow and are able to plan for additional funding at points when it may be required. Having a scenario plan is key to understanding the possible impact different business opportunities will bring and the effect on your cash flow. If there is an economic slow-down you want to ensure you can survive it and have enough cash flow. Alongside building your cash reserves you can ‘go lean' When a company is growing and scaling it can often be running with staff and resources that in the long term it will not require. By going through the details of every area and aspect of your business you can identify changes that will help you to optimise the efficiency of the money you spend. Ask yourself, do we really need it, if we no longer had this would it be detrimental to the business? Is there a cheaper alternative? The aim of the exercise is to cut costs in order to survive. If you cut back too far the business will not be able to survive so it's vital to keep your view on recovery. There has to be an equal balance between cost efficiency and developing new sales and customers. In times of uncertainty controlling the aspects of business that we can such as cash flow provide you with the most certainty and the best opportunity to be able to respond positively to a situation. BEST MOMENTS ‘There are a number  of indicators that we are at the top of the economic cycle' ‘Cash is the life blood of a business' ‘It's like your own personal insurance' ‘Everybody is going to survive,  and it will be ok' VALUABLE RESOURCES Built to Last book by Jim Collins 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	03 Jan 2022	Getting Out of Your Own Way; With Akhtar Khan	01:04:11
Gavin interviews Akhtar Khan, successful business investor, property entrepreneur whose mission is a commitment in supporting others to build wealth through property and business so they can live life on their terms. Akhtar talks about his journey from a difficult childhood to a successful career and property portfolio allowing him to retire at the age of 37 and concentrate on guiding others towards their financial goals. KEY TAKEAWAYS Akhtar grew up in a challenging environment where his parents split up when he was 5 years of age. He was the eldest of 5 children in a single parent family.This left him with trauma and self confidence problems which caused him to go off the rails. He was expelled from his grammar school and got in with a bad crowd and ended up in a string of low paid jobs but eventually became a DJ. Eventually he became involved in recreational drug use. Eventually, feeling at a dead end, Akhtar moved out of home and moved into his own one bedroom flat in South London. He got to know his landlord and asked him how, at his age, he became a property owner. This is how he learned about becoming a property investor and how to use his money to build a property portfolio. It took ten years for him to finally overcome his self doubt and take the plunge. After meeting a business coach in passing who recognised his ability and skills Akhtar gained the confidence to move forward. He started selling training packages to corporations which allowed him to recognise his own talents and begin to develop them and to address his self sabotaging behaviours. Learning Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Hypnotherapy allowed him to see patterns of behaviour in himself and other people. There are phases of implementation of change. The first is Euphoria ; the exciting phase of discovering a new goal. At this point you have confidence but you are lacking knowledge. The second phase is Epiphany ; when you realise its not as easy as you thought and you lose that confidence. At this point you may experience past trauma emergence. The third phase is Evolution phase ; when you realise you have to change your patterns of behaviour into a new comfort zone. Self examination is crucial. We need to find someone we can really confide in on how things are really progressing. Entrepreneur's tend to only want to share their successes with the world but this does not benefit moving through difficult times, past trauma and blocks to your progress. Be it a friend or business coach it pays to have someone there who you can really express your difficulties to. Understanding that your motivation must change from a “should do” to a “must do” to achieve is of utmost importance. Try to to pin point the results of not achieving your goals to fully power your efforts. Once you understand consequences you are less likely to fail. BEST MOMENTS ‘When it came to doing stuff I'd procrastinate. I'd talk myself out of it. I'd think “what if it goes wrong?”' ‘You have to find one person with who you can be honest. It could be a mentor or friend, someone you can confide in..' ‘I got to a point where I realised my life isn't working, this isn't getting any better.' ‘It's too easy for us as entrepreneurs to want to hide and only show the world when we've smashed it out of the park when behind closed doors we have challenges and its not going so well.' ‘Sometimes you have to have a bigger reason than yourself and if you don't have that big enough reason you not going to be motivated to push through that resistance.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES Akhtar Khan is a successful entrepreneur, business and property investor. Through careful and targeted investment Akhtar was able to retire form work at the young age of 37. He now mentors others on how to achieve the same results through his coaching and mentoring organisation Reaching Excellence LTD. He is author of the book “The Code of Reaching Excellence” and contributed to the book “Play the Game ; How to Win in Todays Changing Environment”. LinkedIn https://uk.linkedin.com/in/akhtarkhanproperty Property https://www.akhtarkhanproperty.co.uk/ Coaching and Mentoring https://www.reachingexcellence.com/ Book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Play-Game-Todays-Changing-Environment/dp/1784529532/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2IL6LEPOKAXTL&keywords=play+the+game&qid=1639520819&s=books&sprefix=Play+the+game%2Caps%2C160&sr=1-1 You Tube https://www.youtube.com/c/ReachingExcellence 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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS • Website: www.gavinpreston.com • LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ • YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ • Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	14 Jun 2020	Patrick Powers. Why Your Network & Business Relationship Are More Important Than Ever	00:35:24
Have you ever asked yourself the question: “Who are the ten most valuable people in your network right now?” Today may be the time to explore the answer, as Gavin talks to Patrick Powers, the founder of the Entrepreneurs In London network, and the author of the book 'The New Marketing Manifesto', about what you should be doing for the people in your network to add the most value, and why now is the time to do it! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Too many businesses think that marketing is simply about grabbing someone's attention. Just because people know about you, doesn't mean that they will buy from you. Networking online requires us to be more proactive. We must shy away from being reactive. Finding a middle ground, and become valuable by being “aggressively friendly” Comfort and acceptance come from perseverance, and forcing ourselves to push through the mental barriers holding us back. Grabbing someone's attention is much easier if you're doing something unique and different. By standing out, you become instantly fascinating, and more importantly, memorable! BEST MOMENTS ‘Influence is all about understanding words and energy' ‘You have to work out to influence one person and make a sale' ‘Anything new is uncomfortable' ‘I won't connect people with each other unless I trust them' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Patrick Powers - https://patrickmpowers.com Patrick Powers LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickmpowers/?originalSubdomain=uk Founder Nation On Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/FounderNation/ Entrepreneurs In London On Meetup - https://www.meetup.com/entrepreneursinlondon/ Get your three free chapters of Patrick's incredible new book by going to https://patrickmpowers.com/marketing-manifesto-sample/ 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	19 Jul 2020	Julie Barber Talks About Her New Book "'Investor Ready" & How to Make Your Business 'Investor Ready'	00:33:15
This week, Gavin speaks to Julie Barber, the author of ‘Investor Ready', a guide for start-ups, designed to help them attract more investor interest. Julie discusses the reasons behind the book, the common mistakes that people make when seeking investment, and how to best appeal to investors when your time comes. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The biggest mistake that people make when seeking investment, is the lack of outer perspective they have on their own company. We need to see our business through an investor's eyes, not our own. In order to be able to see a company as an investor would, six steps are required: Vision Structure and scalability Market Numbers (financial and KPIs) The route of potential investment Pitch Investors want road maps of how their money will be spent, if they do decide to give it to you. It's vital to have a plan for the future from the outset. Investors do not want pie-in-the-sky graphs showing infinite growth upon the acquisition of their capital. Be realistic. Show the steady growth and plateaus. Investors want honesty. BEST MOMENTS ‘If you don't know who you're pitching to, then how can you pitch effectively?' ‘If you cannot appraise your company from the outside-in, then you cannot see where the holes, gaps and weaknesses are' 'There's nothing worse than wasting your time chasing after the wrong people' ‘You can only scale well if you've got those things in place' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Julie Barber - https://juliebarber.co.uk Investor Ready at Amazon Are You Investor Ready? - https://areyouinvestorready.co.uk Julie Barber LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/julieabarber/?originalSubdomain=uk 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	31 Jan 2020	Hey Presto! Q&A Growth Strategies in Uncertain Times	00:05:12
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	14 Feb 2022	The Business Mastermind Podcast – Revive: Introducing results based pricing in your service business with Robin Waite	00:53:39
On this episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, Gavin is joined by Robin Waite, the founder of Fearless Business Coaching, to talk about how to avoid under-pricing/under-selling yourself. How to double business revenue in 3-6 months and why charging by the hour is unethical. KEY TAKEAWAYS Fearless isn't about being reckless. Fearless is about fearing the thing in business ever so slightly less that would ordinarily hold you back. Things like doing a 60 second pitch to a room full of strangers at a network meeting. Some people are terrified of doing that, but if you don't do it no one's ever going to know anything about you, and you won't be able to grow your business and sell stuff. Most business owners will only ever put their prices up once a year or two years, and even then just by 5-10%. They have a belief that if they put their prices up clients will leave. Actually that's not a bad thing. There are two different types of clients: your existing clients who will be anchored to a specific price point and are more price-sensitive, but you've also got prospective clients who haven't been exposed to your prices yet so aren't anchored, there's no tension, you can pitch whatever you want to them and if they feel that's a good value for money they'll go ahead. The money mindset that's been drilled into us by our parents between the age of 3-7 can be quite negative. The education system needs to talk about money and love more. These are two big questions in life: how do I find a partner to be with and how do I make more money? If you have a negative money mindset we seek evidence to back this up in our businesses. If you're always looking back at the past, you're always going to be looking at the blueprint that already exists. In order to change that you've got to look to the future; you can have abundance, you can charge more, you can have cash flowing through your business and you can create the opportunities that you want. This is something you can change in 30 days, maybe less. Too many business owners want to keep control over absolutely everything. But why would you hire someone just to look over their shoulder the whole time, then two people are doing the same job. It's pointless. Perhaps implement SOPs (standard operating procedures) and review them every month or two to make sure they work. I'll take family fit first, skills afterwards. They have to get on with the crew first, we can train them afterwards. In business there are only two things that can go wrong: Either you look a bit stupid, or you lose some money. That's it – unless you do something grossly negligent or nefarious. You can always come back from looking stupid and losing money. BEST MOMENTS ‘We should try and bring in some of our core values into our business, it's much more authentic.' ‘The core belief you have to have is “I'm worth it”.' ‘Focus on your goals (how much you want to earn) and working backwards (what do you offer) is a good way of working out if you're charging your clients enough.' ‘Record all your sales calls and meetings (with the other person's permission) and listen back to them to see if you were communicating clearly and listening properly. Or do sales roleplay to increase your confidence.' ‘Delegate responsibly, don't delegate responsibility.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES From the age of 18, Robin Waite spent four years as a systems analyst for a medical devices company, helping them increase their turnover by 50%, from £1 million to £1.5 million. From 2004 to 2014 he ran a successful design and advertising agency serving over 250 clients. During this time, he delivered workshops and masterclasses that helped over 1,000 business owners improve their marketing, product architecture, pricing, websites and digital advertising. Robin loves helping businesses to become more successful, and getting results for his clients is what gets him out of bed each day. Websites: https://www.robinwaite.com/ and https://fearless.biz/ Podcast: https://podcast.fearless.biz/ 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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	13 Mar 2020	Hey Presto! Time Tactics That Work	00:08:34
Extracts from Gavin's Kindle Book, Time Tactics That Work 107 Ways to Get More Done https://www.amazon.co.uk/Time-Tactics-That-Work-Ways-ebook/dp/B00JUJHASC 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	31 Mar 2020	Keep Your Boat Afloat in COVID-19 Times: Daniel Tolson on Understanding The Emotional Journey we Will go Through During COVID-19	00:31:59
Welcome along to a new mini-series designed to help you steer your business through the uncertainty of the COVID-19 situation: Keep Your Boat Afloat: A Business Survival Guide In COVID-19 Times. Having experienced COVID-19 near to the source, Daniel Tolson, a frequent guest on the Business Mastermind Podcast, is well-versed to relay a message of hope and optimism to everyone here in the UK. In Taiwan, where Daniel is based, life is beginning to go back to normal, albeit with a few changes. Daniel is here today to let you know that hope is on the way. Having survived much of the outbreak, the light at the end of the tunnel is clearly visible, and his first-hand experience of getting through the COVID-19 pandemic will be a welcome message of optimism for anyone affected by the crisis. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The Taiwanese government implemented strict controls almost immediately, and as a result, masks, sanitiser, and other necessary materials were not just rationed, but distributed by the government itself. This halted the spread of panic-buying, and ensured that materials were available to all. The grief cycle is incredibly important to understand. All of a sudden, the futures we had planned have evaporated, leading to a sense of loss and misplacement. We need to deal with each concurrent stage of the grief cycle as it comes. The five stages are: Denial Anger Blame Depression Acceptance The Five Levels of Maslow's Hierarchy Of Needs are: Survival - Food, nourishment Security - Safety and security Love/Belonging - The need for relationships and a sense of belonging Self-Esteem - Confidence and esteem Self-Actualisation - Becoming everything that we can possibly be Self-actualisation is currently being flipped on its head by COVID-19. Self-made billionaires are suddenly seeing fortunes wiped out, and are reverting to survival needs. For those in need of security, how can you act to ensure your security lasts? Can you bring value to your business in any way? Can you strengthen relationships? Make sure you are a person of high-value. No employer wants to see their people in harm's way. If you're an employee, make sure you give your employer the benefit of the doubt, as in most cases, they will be doing everything they can to make sure you're taken care of. We are designed to survive. This will pass, and we should remain positive. Remember that mere survival right now is completely acceptable, and we'll be better off as a species when it's over. Ask for help if you need it, and don't feel ashamed for focusing on your survival. BEST MOMENTS 'They're not vitamins - they're laxatives!' 'The world is still turning. Business is still operating' ‘Denial is not a river in Egypt' ‘Employers will be down at the pawnbrokers right now, I guarantee' 'This too shall pass' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Complete Success - https://www.completesuccess.co.uk Get your free copy of Gavin Preston's invaluable guide now - 'Keep Your Boat Afloat: Business Survival Guide For COVID-19 Times' at: Bit.ly/keepyourboatafloat Daniel Tolson - https://danieltolson.com Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs - https://www.selfesteemawareness.com/five-levels-maslows-hierarchy-needs To contact Gavin about how he can help you and your business, email gavin@gavinpreston.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	02 Sep 2020	Chris Marco Flores About His Book 'The Weight is Over' And How to Turn Health And Fitness From a Chore Into a Way of Life	00:30:46
Gavin is joined by Chris Marco Flores, author of “The Weight Is Over”, a fascinating new book designed to help those in search of wellbeing and physical health, by turning health and fitness into not a chore, but a way of life. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Developing the resilience and the will to succeed allows us to power through any challenge. We may not excel, but we will overcome. Fitness and health requires work. We must do battle with our physicality and our brain. It's a tough task sometimes, and requires us to live “unnaturally” in terms of internal resistance. We must create the mindset that returns us to health as a default. By nurturing this self-belief and desire for wellbeing, we create a new default. One plan cannot possibly fit everyone. Each plan must be approached on a bespoke basis, taking in such factors as body type, metabolic makeup and allergy concerns. BEST MOMENTS ‘You have to turn health and fitness from a chore into a way of life' 'Nutrition either gives you energy or takes your energy' ‘When you do have the unhealthy stuff, it's because we want it, not because we need it' 'The first port of call is to get the systems running properly' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Chris Marco Flores LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-marco-flores-1206bb161/?originalSubdomain=uk Chris Marco Flores - https://www.chrismarcoflores.com/home The Weight Is Over by Chris Marco Flores 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	16 Nov 2020	Steve Rodgers On Creating More Productivity, Profit and Purpose In Your Business	00:42:09
Gavin talks to Steve Rodgers, bestselling author of ‘Lead To Gold', and the creator of Alchemy Advisors, a coaching and consulting firm. Steve is also a former Warren Buffett CEO, highly sought-after keynote speaker and entrepreneur. Steve discusses the best and most actionable ways in which you can get increase your productivity, ramp up your profits and build a greater sense of purpose in your business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We all have days where everything seems to work in harmony. This is the state of flow. Being in flow is being aware that our mind plays a huge part in determining our outlook and mindset, and that it allows us to be more open to this state. We should seek to encourage a daily practice around the four B's: Body - eating well and exercise Being - soul, connection and inner self through meditation or prayer Bonds - your relationships with family, friends, or acquaintances Business - working on the business and in the business Many prioritise business over everything else, but if your body, being and bonds are not in harmony, then it'll be difficult keep any kind of flow in your business life for any length of time. Our clients deserve to get the best from us. We cannot possibly give of our best if we are not treating ourselves as the most important client of all. BEST MOMENTS ‘I'm here to encourage people to do more searching and defining in business and in life' ‘Ego is when you are Edging Good Out' ‘We are co-creators with the universe' ‘Anything you can track and measure, you can improve upon' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com ABOUT THE GUEST Steve Rodgers, Author of Amazon #1 Best-selling book “Lead to Gold,” soon to launch book “The IGI Principles,” and creator of Alchemy Advisors coaching and consulting firm, is a former Warren Buffett CEO who experienced a radical spiritual transformation that has evolved into a new mission as a purpose-driven consultant and entrepreneur coach, in-demand international keynote speaker, and bestselling author. www.steverodgers.net steve@steverodgerstoday.com Twitter - https://twitter.com/srodgerstoday Facebook - https://facebook.com/thealchemyadvisors 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	11 Oct 2020	Scale Your Business By Harnessing The Power Of Marketing - with Kevin Urrutia	00:37:10
Gavin is joined by entrepreneur and scale-up expert, Kevin Urrutia, the founder of Voy Media, a specialist in helping businesses to grow their revenue stream through creative digital marketing based around speaking “fluent internet”. Kevin discusses the ways in which the business landscape has changed, and how he grew and scaled his business into a multi-million dollar revenue concern. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS In the nascent days of the internet, many businesses discounted the value of SEO. Kevin was able to be more forward-thinking, harnessing its power, and creating a position as one of the more knowledgeable players when its popularity took off. We can only truly grow a business if there is a demand for the product out there. Too many build a product without first testing the market to see if it's required. The most important thing is to be happy. If you feel the need to begin again in some other business, then the wise thing to do is to hire someone who can run the business for you, so that you can free yourself to pursue other adventures. Systems and processes are the key to ensuring our businesses can run in the event of challenges. If we leave the running of the business to everyone without a roadmap, there is the danger of “too many cooks" BEST MOMENTS 'SEO is still the best thing!' ‘It's really hard to make something when there's no demand' ‘You need to hire people who are experts at what they're doing' ‘Don't let the business run you - you need to run the business' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Voy Media - https://voymedia.com Kevin Urrutia Twitter - https://twitter.com/danest Kevin Urrutia LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/urrutia/ 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	19 Aug 2020	Re-Engaging With Teams and Energising Trust – with Caspar Craven	00:45:50
Caspar Craven, author of 'Be More Human: Rethinking The Rules of High Performance Teamwork' shares how to re-engage employees after furlough, how to lead through uncertainty and why building trust is more important than ever. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS One we have a clear vision and goal of where we wish to get as a team, you will find a way or you will make a way. If the purpose is strong enough, you'll get there. If you do not have trust, then you do not have a team. We engender trust by being consistent and keeping our promises. Ask open questions, listen, and then act upon what you hear. The more engaged and empowered our teams feel, the strong the dynamic, and the greater the level of input. This can lead to a wealth of ideas and inspiration from all sides. No two people are the same. We cannot assume that we will be able to pick up where we left off. The key to re-engaging is to understand that our teams are coming from very different directions. Set your narrative down clearly. Provide the goals and direction for your returning teams. With a clear goal ahead, we can then focus on enabling each member on a one-to-one basis. BEST MOMENTS ‘Let's sit down with a blank piece of paper and rewrite the story of our lives' 'Trust is the first building block' 'The best ideas float to the surface. The best ideas win' ‘Focus on the Pole Star rather than being distracted by the lights of all the passing ships' ‘Listen to people. Really listen. And then listen some more' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Be More Human by Casper Craven (Amazon) Caspar Craven - https://www.casparcraven.com Casper Craven LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/casparcraven/?originalSubdomain=uk Caspar Craven Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/cravencaspar/?hl=en 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	08 Sep 2020	Trish Marks on Getting Over Self Sabotage And How Her Own Thinking Was Getting in The Way of Her Recovery From Cancer	00:30:08
Gavin is joined by Trish Marks, the founder of Marks Consultancy, who discusses the best ways to overcome self-sabotage, and how her own thinking was standing in the way of her brave recovery from cancer. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Sometimes the only way of healing or developing is to get out of our own way, and force ourselves to not live in fear of the feelings overtaking us. People often believe that they are being helpful by describing the pain we must be feeling, but this does nothing but reinforce the feelings instead of helping us to overcome them. Self-enforced challenges can help us to rebuild the trust within ourselves that we may be lacking. It helps to provide certainty through the day. The key is to understand emotions and learn from them. Limiting beliefs are deep rooted in all of us. When we lose concentration, step out of our comfort zone, or even feel fatigued, these limiting beliefs return to hamper our development. BEST MOMENTS ‘I went through fear and loneliness, thinking that no one would understand' ‘I was blaming myself for not getting up and getting on with it' ‘I have to be brave enough to feel doubts, to find out what I've got in me' 'I'm living my life by default here, not by design' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Marks Consultancy - https://marksconsultancy.com.au trish@marksconsultancy.com.au Trish Marks LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/trish-marks/?originalSubdomain=au ABOUT THE GUEST As an executive coach and trainer who specialises in Communication, Trish works alongside business leaders & teams on improving their communication skills and ability to lead and create changes in performance. Trish's focus includes sharing information, engaging with others, managing conflict, negotiations and leadership, with her extensive experience in the sales industry she understands that Successful Communication is a two-way process in helping build and sustain quality relationships. Trish firmly believes that one of the most important factors in communicating with others is our nonverbal communication. She is passionate about helping people understand the key in determining our behaviours is how we ”send” and “receive” verbal and non-verbal information in order to build trust quickly and authentically with clients. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	17 Jan 2020	Hey Presto! Fixed of Growth Mindset	00:11:18
Gavin draws from the work of Mathew Syed in his book Black Box Thinking and explores whether you have a culture of learning and growth in your business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod VALUABLE RESOURCES The 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. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	17 Oct 2019	Hey Presto! How Flawless is YOUR Customer Experience?	00:11:17
Is the experience your customer has of your product or service remark-able? Gavin shares a story of the arrival of a fin tech bank debit card is worthy or remark and an exercise you can do to improve the experience of your customers. 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	20 Mar 2020	Hey Presto! Donald Moore on becoming a B Corp and business being a force for Good.	00:15:43
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	04 Mar 2021	Hey Presto! Intelligence without Social Empathy and Context is a Hindrance	00:10:05
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	28 Mar 2020	Keep Your Boat Afloat in Covid 19 Times: Richard Bearman, The British Business Bank on package of support for British Businesses	00:23:54
Welcome along to a new mini-series designed to help you steer your business through the uncertainty of the COVID-19 situation: Keep Your Boat Afloat: A Business Survival Guide In COVID-19 Times. This episode sees Gavin in conversation with Richard Bearman, the Managing Director of the British Business Bank, who are playing a pivotal role during this particular crisis in providing support and funding measures for businesses through the ground-breaking Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan scheme. This is an incredibly useful and insightful episode with a key person of influence and value, that will provide business owners with answers surrounding available support in these uncertain times. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The support at the British Business Bank is in good hands, as Richard's experience is vast, and has seen him at the helm of key positions in such institutions as HSBC. The British Business Bank is the government's economic development bank, and is 100% owned by the government, providing support on their behalf. The aim is to improve financial markets for smaller businesses, so that they can operate in a more effective and dynamic way. The British Business Bank is currently acting as the main intermediary between the government and businesses in providing loans and financial support through the Coronavirus Business Interruption Loan Scheme. The scheme allows businesses to borrow up to £5,000,000 in order to cover overdrafts, asset finance, invoice finance and other expenses. The first route to obtaining funding through the scheme is to approach your bank. If they are not already an accredited member of the scheme, then direct contact can be made through the British Business Bank itself through its website, which will be happy to provide a complete list of partners. If the loan requested is below £250,000, then effectively funds can be provided without the usual securities required. In terms of timing, the best practice is to speak to the bank as early as possible, in order to determine your needs, and to decide whether now is the best time to apply, as the scheme will certainly be overwhelmed to begin with. Through any time of change, and despite tragedy and drastic changes in the business world, innovation and creativity will always flourish. People will think of business operations in new and exciting ways, and we will come out of this stronger and more capable of defeating anything similar in years and decades to come. The most forward-thinking in business are already planning how best to capitalise on the return to normality when it arrives. Plan to be on the front foot, instead of waiting to be reactionary BEST MOMENTS ‘Our scheme is very much directed towards helping businesses in this time of crisis' ‘We're trying to turn what may be a “no” into a “yes”' ‘Keep the communication open. Keep talking to the bank' 'There will be innovation. There will be creativity' 'The small kindnesses will count for a lot when we're on the other side of this' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Complete Success - https://www.completesuccess.co.uk Get your free copy of Gavin Preston's invaluable guide now - 'Keep Your Boat Afloat: Business Survival Guide For COVID-19 Times' at: Bit.ly/keepyourboatafloat Richard Bearman at British Business Bank - https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk/our-people/richard-bearman/ The British Business Bank - https://www.british-business-bank.co.uk To contact Gavin about how he can help you and your business, email gavin@gavinpreston.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	02 Dec 2019	Visibility and Authenticity; Collabcast With Traci Cornelius (Women Rockin' Business)	00:50:44
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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod 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 The Business Mastermind Podcast 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. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	12 Jul 2020	Paxton Gray, CEO of 9th Floor on Attaining & Retaining Top Talent and How You Can Optimise Your Conversion on Digital Marketing Campaigns (with some effective data analaysis)	00:56:32
Paxton Gray is the CEO of 97th Floor, an award-winning software and digital marketing agency, with clients such as Discover, Celebrity Cruises and Salesforce. Paxton joins Gavin today to discuss his incredible business journey, and to give his invaluable insights into how best to attract, recruit and make the most of new talent, as well as the best ways in which you can optimise conversions on digital marketing campaigns using effective data analysis. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Serving the customer and adding value to their experience is not just about meeting needs, but about empowering them in ways that will help them grow. Nurturing a working environment built around results, focus and autonomy, increases retention by allowing workers to perform the job on their own terms. It also encourages innovations in 'efficiency'. Benefits and advantages, such as health and wellbeing, add to the sense of belonging and security among teams. By feeling cared for, workers begin to view the workplace as a second home. Sometimes traffic rates on sites slow to a halt. The way to squeeze more conversions from this is to use Conversion Rate Optimisations: looking at increasing conversions by looking at different metrics. BEST MOMENTS 'The main goal was always “How do we provide the most value to our clients?”' ‘Everyone is intrinsically incentivised to find more efficient and better ways of doing things' ‘Good talent begets good talent' 'The marketing team don't work for your business - they work for your customers and clients' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Paxton Gray LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paxtongray/ 97th Floor - https://www.97thfloor.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	26 Apr 2020	Keep Your Boat Afloat: Supporting CEOs & MDs Through Challenging Times With Lily Shippen	00:43:55
The COVID-19 outbreak has caused uncertainty across the world, especially in the economic sector, where jobs are being nervously propped up by companies who have no idea when life will return to normal. But as Gavin and his special co-host, recruitment expert Lily Shippen discuss this week, it's equally as important to consider the wellbeing of CEOs and MDs at this time, who are facing equal, if not greater levels of uncertainty. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS It's important to consider CEOs and MDs when it comes to emergency planning and the impact of quarantine. They have families too, and the pressure facing them from the anxious workforce and stakeholders only adds to that pressure. Most business leaders, who are now being seen as “emergency workers”, have not received the same level of emergency training as those in other vital sectors, such as the NHS and military. Communication is even more important at this time, perhaps even more important than simply setting tasks and providing a workload. Visibility is crucial. This situation has proven that valuable output can be achieved through working at home. We have learned many lessons about where costs can be cut, and how our businesses can thrive more remotely. It is our responsibility as employees to be there for those who are trying to keep the wheels moving. This is remarkable opportunity to prove your worth and to develop and deepen business relationships. BEST MOMENTS ‘A good PA can help a punch-drunk MD with the emotional side of this' ‘Visibility of leadership is massively important' ‘We should be thinking about pressing the START button again on the business' ‘Do your best to deliver, deliver, deliver!' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Lily Shippen Twitter - https://twitter.com/ShippenLily Lily Shippen - https://lilyshippen.co.uk 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	18 Aug 2020	Chris Lowe On Transforming The Performance Of Your Sales Team WIthout Help	00:38:17
Chris Lowe has run a national team for many years, and along the way has gained a wealth of experience in areas such as how to get the best from your team and how to better improve the customer experience for clients. In this week's show, Chris shares the three things that you can do to bring your post-furloughed sales team back up to speed, and improve their performance! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The first exercise must be to look at the team itself and attempt to ascertain what it is that sets the top performers apart from those who are less successful. What are the specific qualities and activities that elevate them? We must ensure that our KPIs and metrics are appropriate and valuable. If we chastise our top performers for not meeting box-ticking exercises, then we risk disheartening or even losing our core sales strength. The best way to make sure our sales team is “match ready” after this period of furlough, is to talk to them each individually. We need to find out how each and every person is feeling, and what concerns they may have. Sales targets upon return to work must be set conservatively. Don't stretch too far. There will be many opportunities, but we must be realistic in terms of prospects. BEST MOMENTS 'You've got to follow proven models that will increase your chances of taking someone on a journey to a “yes” decision' ‘People sell what they love most' ‘Motivation and confidence links directly to performance' ‘You have to focus on it. You have to measure it. You have to coach it. You have to support it' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Chris Lowe LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrislowe1/?originalSubdomain=uk chris.lowe@insight6.com www.insight6.com Call Chris on 07818 015317 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	18 Jan 2021	Somayeh Aghnia On Tech-Enabled Business Strategy, Digital Transformation in SMEs, and Creating A Digital-First Culture	00:31:38
Somayeh Aghnia, the founder of Geeks Ltd, is a true powerhouse in the world of growing business through technology. In this week's show, Gavin talks to Somayeh about the ways in which we can create a digital-first culture in our organisations, as well as the practical ways in which she has enabled businesses to scale through tech-based strategies. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Digital solutions for any business depend on the client business characteristic, the kind of profile the business currently has, and their understanding of how tech adaptation works. Technology budgets must always divided into three parts - the funds required to keep things running efficiently, funds for growth, and research and development funds. These should be adjusted accordingly depending on future ambitions. One of the fastest growing trends in technology right now is the automation of the basics. This area has long held back the scale ambitions of SMEs. Far too many businesses still operate using outdated and un-scaleable methodologies that hold them back from true growth. In the next five years, digital transformation will allow these businesses to achieve growth and agility. BEST MOMENTS 'We create a roadmap for the digital transformation journey' 'Most companies don't know what kind of problems they are actually solving' 'Surprisingly, there are still a lot of businesses operating with paper!' 'The biggest practical trait that you'll see in the next five years, is businesses invest in real digital transformation' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com Geeks Ltd Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/geeksltd/ Somayeh Aghnia LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/somayeh/?originalSubdomain=uk Somayeh Aghnia Twitter - https://twitter.com/somayeha 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	24 Oct 2019	Hey Presto! Are You Successfully Stuck?	00:14:28
Has your business growth plateaued? Do the things that used to work, no longer work? Are you successfully stuck? Even worse, as a result of the day to day challenges of running your business have you lost sight of the dream you had when you founded your business? Gavin invites you to reconnect with the reasons you set up your business and re-ignite the passion in your belly necessary for renewed growth. 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	23 Apr 2020	Hey Presto! Emerging Strategic Trends	00:21:09
For this very special 100th episode, Gavin shares some emerging strategic trends, and aligns them to the six steps of his revolutionary business growth model, The Strategy Compass. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS More so than ever now, our ability to shift from survive to thrive using mindset is critical. Stepping outside of our present and looking towards the future will be the skill that makes the true difference going forward. Growth of community-focussed efforts within business are on the rise. The companies who energise their altruistic activities will benefit greatly after quarantine. Many are looking to the end of lockdown as their future goal-setting period. We need to look further than that. What will your business look like in one year? Two years? Beyond? Collaboration among suppliers and businesses will be a key driver of success going forward. The lockdown has taught us the inherent value of effective mutual participation. BEST MOMENTS 'Sometimes we have to zoom out and look forward' 'Now is the time for humanity' 'This is a call-to-arms to become the very best that we can be' ‘Don't be the victim. Be the victor!' VALUABLE RESOURCES The 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. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	04 Apr 2021	Branden Lark- Marketing and Brand Strategist On How Consultants and Coaches Achieve $10,000 per month In Revenue	00:35:42
This week, Gavin is joined by marketing and brand strategist, Branden Lark, for a look at how consultants and coaches maximise their potential incomes, and the marketing strategies that can dynamically energise your fortunes. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Effective marketing strategies are built upon looking ahead, not just at the now. We must be thinking many steps ahead at all times. A business's revenue is just another metric used for measuring success. It is the barometer by which we can tell if the plans we put in place are taking hold. Life is all about moving forwards and adding new knowledge to our toolbox. Never be afraid of growing older, as it means you have the chance to find more out! Don't be too eager to reach the next level as quickly as possible. There is power in a pause - there is strength to be found in reflection. BEST MOMENTS 'As good as I got, he could always see so many steps ahead of me' 'I look at money as a measuring tool' 'If you work hard and apply yourself you can accomplish anything' 'You're never not able to learn' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com Branding By Branden - https://brandingbybranden.com/company/ Branden Lark LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/branden-lark-97002944/ 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	04 Oct 2020	Daniel Mangena On Deliberate Creation And Why You Should Stop Meditating	00:39:34
In order to achieve success, we must focus on not just the outer game, but the inner game. In this episode, Gavin talks to Daniel Mangena, a transformational life coach, speaker and author, about how to embody mindfulness, spirituality, and why it might be time to stop meditating and start taking action! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS It is not enough to simply visualise success. We must, at some point, connect the spiritual to the physical in order to achieve any growth or success. We must take responsibility for the things we have created in our lives, and use deliberate creation to interrupt the path of unconscious creation. In the morning, we should practice our visualisations for the short term, usually within the next 90 day period. At night, try to visualise further than that. Become comfortable with silence and get used to spending time with yourself. Success is like a guiding missile. It is always course-correcting. By developing a relationship with ourselves, we can spot the moments that need our own correction. BEST MOMENTS ‘It's sad to see the massive potential of this space not being tapped' It's important to remember that we're not just energy beings' ‘All of these things need to be brought into alignment with a clear outcome for us to experience anything' ‘We have to accept and acknowledge the capacity that we have to consciously create' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Daniel Mangena Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dreamerceo/?hl=en Dream With Dan - https://dreamwithdan.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	11 Jun 2020	Hey Presto! Raise The Bar	00:12:56
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	27 Dec 2019	Hey Presto! Build One Bridge First	00:12:07
Gavin shares more insights from the mastermind with Roland Frasier and Ryan Deiss including what you need to do to get people to successful refer your business and what all businesses become at scale and advice on how to avoid shiny object syndrome. VALUABLE RESOURCES The 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. 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod   CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	20 Jan 2020	Susanna Hancock- ADHD, M&A & Me	00:57:08
Susanna Hancock was diagnosed with a form of ADHD that means her attention to detail is reduced, but that her Hyper-Focus is enhanced. By focussing on the positive side of her condition, and employing her Hyper-Focus in the business world, Susanna has helped countless business owners to achieve realistic exit-strategies, meaning that their companies can operate successfully without them, leaving them free to retire or pursue other opportunities. Gavin is joined by Susanna on this week's show to discuss her abilities, her mission to do good in the business world, the strategies you need to consider in order to create an effective future for yourself, and why inclusion is one of the top concerns, and missed opportunities in today's business world. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Early business experiences led Susanna to realise that there needs to be more inclusion in the corporate world. There's a huge talent pool that is being under-utilised. Through interaction and education, Susanna came to realise that she does in fact suffer from an adult version of ADHD. The upshot was that she found herself in the very inclusion group she was trying to promote. Susanna has turned her ADHD and Hyper-Focus to her advantage in the business world, using her specialised abilities to their fullest extent, and trying to some good by helping business owners to achieve realistic and swift exit strategies. One of the great tragedies in business is a situation in which owners have not laid the foundations for a succession strategy. Sudden changes of circumstances and even unexpected illness can devastate businesses who haven't made effective contingency plans. The further you plan ahead, the more prepared you will be in the event of any issues. Susanna advises making sure plans are in place for the following as a matter of priority: Having the right staff in place Build in effective second-tier management structures Ensure that growth and accountability is well documented You have to get past your own ego. Thriving businesses often make the best use of their team. Owners need to stand aside if someone else is more capable. This means that their business will fast become an entity of its own, totally self-reliant and able to organically grow. Investors or potential business buyers will always be attracted to a business that is transparent, is people by a workforce that are happy and willing to work, and which has the potential to be even better. This can only be done by granting autonomy to the people you hire, and trusting them to fulfil their potential. When considering your succession plan, you must always count yourself as an individual. What does your pension look like? What is the ideal exit? Do you wish to pursue other opportunities, or retire completely? Visualisation is the key to attainment. BEST MOMENTS ‘I'm using mergers and acquisitions as a platform to do good' ‘I am part of that group' ‘Does the word “disability” mean that you're broken already?' ‘Doing good is good for business' ‘Ultimately we should all be supporting each other in this game' ‘You will achieve your purpose through the recognition of your own' ‘Am I in the place I need to be right now? If not, what do I need to fix?' ‘You can work it out yourself or you can get the whistle-blower in' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Susanna Hancock LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/susannakelly/?originalSubdomain=uk Susanna Hancock Twitter - https://twitter.com/SusannaKHancock 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	10 Jan 2022	Revive: Gen Z, The Engine Room for Growth – with Hannah Williams	00:57:52
On this episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, Gavin is joined by Hannah Williams to discuss generational differences, specifically about how employers/business owners/managers can engage with Generation Z to get the most talent and benefit from them. KEY TAKEAWAYS My dad was an entrepreneur ever since I can remember, 10 years ago at 12-years-old I went out with him to pick up the rent, he handed me his phone and asked me to close a deal on a duplex. It broke and rebuilt my self-confidence pretty quickly. He allowed me to enrol in online university at 14, I graduated at 18 with an international business degree. It just shows that you don't need to take the standard educational route. There is a massive misunderstanding between Millennials and Gen Z-ers and where they differ and companies are spending billions on recruiting and retention efforts on Gen Z that are millennial-based practices, and they're wondering why they're not working. So, I used this as an opportunity to help companies shift gears to become viable for the future, being proactive instead of reactive. 5 key differences between Millennials: 1) Pragmatism vs idealism. 2) Gen Z may be tech natives but we're not tech lovers. 3) Gen Z is more open to non-traditional education pathways than Millennials were. 4) Gen Z is much more loyal when it comes to companies. 5) Gen Z focusses on individualism over teamwork, which has pros and cons that leaders of Gen Z need to be aware of. Companies looking to attract Gen Z are going to have to do a lot of thinking and research on shifting their benefits and messaging to show Gen Z-ers that we care about their long-term stay with the company and their life habits. Leaders need to think about recruitment as creating talent instead of just recruiting talent. Instead of hiring college degree applicants, hire straight out of high school and develop skills-based training programmes in your company. This will be much more attractive and instil loyalty, especially when you're saving them thousands on a college degree. BEST MOMENTS ‘The world is not an easy place: You have to work for things and work hard.' ‘Gen Z was born between around 1995 and 2012, if you're 25 or younger this year you're a Gen Z. Millennials were born between 1980 and 1995.' ‘A lot of differences comes down to parenting, Millennials were told to think of the world as an open space for them to accomplish anything they wanted. Gen Z was instilled with the idea that hard work is necessary to get where you want to go.' ‘Gen Z-ers will be very sceptical and point out when companies are not walking the walk and talking the talk.' ‘NarcisStory: Gen Z's reputation is manifested through its actions, fashion choices, habits, work and personal decisions they make.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES Hannah Williams is the author of ‘A Leader's Guide to Unlocking Gen Z', in which she answers these questions: - Who is Gen Z . . . and why do you need to know? - What is the “NarcisStory” and why must leaders understand it to effectively recruit, retain, and communicate with Gen Z? - What do HR executives, recruiters, business owners, and forward-thinking managers need to do to remain relevant? - What are simple steps leaders and companies can take with Gen Z to unlock their potential? https://www.hannahgwilliams.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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	16 Jul 2020	Hey Presto! 4 Steps to Increasing The Adaptability of Your Business	00:12:18
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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	31 Jan 2022	Revive: Post-Pandemic Leadership with Tony Brooks	00:31:21
On this episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, Gavin is joined by Tony Brooks to talk about leadership, specifically what leaders should be doing differently in SMEs and corporates and where thy need to be putting their focus and attention. We've been through a mammoth period of disruption with remote working, people being on furlough, and we're now phasing back into the office, engaging with hybrid work patterns, there are people who have been on furlough for more than a year, some are reluctant to come back – much to the incredulities and frustration of business leaders. How do we get back to some form of normal and start to claw back the profits we were making 15 months ago? KEY TAKEAWAYS It's become complex recently and a lot of leaders and companies, to some extent have been in a more reactive mode over that last 15-16 months. Now is a really important time to shift back to being more proactive. But, be ready, willing and able to take feedback from their people, those on the frontline who have seen shifts and changes and engaging with customers and ask them what they think. It was – and still is – an unpredictable environment, going into and out of a recession. I believe that the majority of us and the majority of businesses get way too busy with their heads down doing the do. Without standing back from things and examining how you're thinking about your world, your people, yourself and your marketplace, you will not change the way you see things and you'll continue to do things in a similar way. That's a truism for life as well as business. How do we adapt our culture to a world that has, potentially, changed forever? How do we need to lead people differently to get the best out of them in this new world? We'll never go back to how it was 15 months ago. Use HR expertise to advise, in terms of how to handle things sensitively and the terms and conditions because it's going to be choppy waters to navigate through to deal with people's anxieties and the few people who are using it as an excuse. We are fundamentally quite tribal people and we like having leaders, rather than being solitary creatures. Even if you plan to have your staff working from home for good, have a physical meeting with them all at least once a month, bring everybody together. Start thinking about a social event in the second half of the year and perhaps make it a more regular thing. Think about how you're going to employ people, because they won't be able to get a feel for the role as they won't see a busy office and may not feel a part of a team. Companies need to remember that one of the things that retains people is that they have friends that they've made in the company, not just colleagues and the longer they're at a company the more friends they make and the less likely they are to leave. Keep wellbeing practices up, we're social creatures and it's risky not to take that on board. BEST MOMENTS ‘Some companies have had a rougher time than others, but now's a good time to stand back and see it's a different climate out there, where are you going to take you business?' ‘Recalibration could lead you back to the same place, but there could be some really important shifts in thinking and strategy. ‘We have to appreciate that people's anxiety levels are all different. Leaders need to be sensitive to that fact. There needs to be a sensitivity, but a line has to be drawn.' ‘Zoom has been amazing for communication, but you miss certain subtleties in body language and energy that's there in the room. Perhaps, going forwards, it makes sense to have an initial sales meeting over Zoom to assess whether it's worth sending salespeople across the country.' ‘People, for the most part can be trusted to get on a do the things they need to do and balance their work. But we need to be careful that it doesn't swing too far the other way permanently.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES Tony Brooks is a leadership psychologist with over 14 years experience working within the SME sector. Through his work as a motivational speaker and trainer, he has an enviable record of significantly raising the performance of leaders and their people, delivering sustained profitable growth and positive company culture. He's a speaker on leadership and leadership mindset and he's the author of the book PI Leadership: The 7 Positive Insight Steps To Peak Performance Leadership, which is a practical guide to applying positive techniques to the way we view ourselves, our situations and other people, to achieve greater success and fulfilment. Website: https://theleadershiptrainingworkshop.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonybrooks63/?originalSubdomain=uk Podcast: https://thetonybrooks.com/podcast-episodes/ 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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. 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	08 Sep 2019	Making the Impossible Possible - Interview with Steve Sims CEO Founder of Bluefish	00:46:09
*‘It's about the ability to communicate face to face'* Gavin is with Steve Sims, creator of Bluefish, the company that makes once in a lifetime events happen for the rich and famous. Steve and Gavin talk about resourcefulness, relationships, creating win, win situations and why having hope is important whoever and where ever you are. This podcast offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of an entrepreneur whose day job is to make the impossible possible and who's ‘I can' approach has taken him on the most extraordinary journey.   Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Making it frictionless, a win, win Everything has got to be a win; every relationship can be viewed as what do you bring to the party and what am I bringing for you. You are the result of your network, ask yourself would you want you as part of your network? If you have to introduce yourself  to someone then you don't have a relationship. Do a social audit of those around you. I always ask someone who is already in that person's sandpit to make the first contact it's vital you come to someone new through a credible source. Prison, everyone needs hope and a chance The first time I went along thinking it would be a cool story but it changed my perspective. Most of the people I train in prison have  between 60 and 120 years left on their sentences. It's about the ability to communicate effectively face to face you've got to be able to connect really quickly and understand the dynamic at that moment. When I take entrepreneurs into prison, with me they come along are shaken up, rolled inside out and put back into civilisation as a better version of themselves. They gain perspective, you are in a room you shouldn't be in talking to a person you never thought you'd be face to face with, you have to find a common thread to share and communicate. Doing something that makes you feel uncomfortable is where your greatest growth is going to come from. It's not about your IQ it's about your ‘I can' My mistakes and journey have been my education. I now class myself as incredibly educated but it had nothing to do with my school, it was because I had a greater ‘I can' than IQ. You can only get good if you get going. Anyone in my life has to be there because I like them. There is a difference between being easy to understand and impossible to misunderstand. I want to be transparent, the guy who is impossible to misunderstand, I strive to be crystal clear and transparent in everything I do.   BEST MOMENTS ‘We incorporate and impose friction for ourselves every day' ‘I never make the first call' ‘I realised I was in the belly of communication you couldn't get more real and ground level' ‘We as entrepreneurs need to get comfortable about being uncomfortable' ‘No TV show can prepare you for what it's really like, I was shit scared'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Bluefishing: The Art of Making Things Happen book by Steve Sims Stellar Speakers    ABOUT THE GUEST Steve Sims is the visionary founder of Bluefish: the world's first luxury concierge that delivers the highest level of personalized travel, transportation, and cutting-edge entertainment services to corporate executives, celebrities, professional athletes and other discerning individuals interested in living life to its fullest. In a world loaded with self-described ‘motivational gurus' who are far more interested in your cash than they are your consciousness, Steve refuses to compromise his principles, which include; Telling the truth – directly, blatantly, fearlessly and with no holds barred. Delivering visionary insights that are deeply rooted in pragmatic reality and practical action. Sharing everything he knows about being successful on a professional and personal level.   CONTACT METHOD Steve Sims website   VALUABLE RESOURCES The 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. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	22 Sep 2020	Buy And Build - There's More Than One Way To Acquire A Business - with Carl Allen	00:47:13
Gavin continues with a new mini-series, entitled Buy And Build, where each time, he'll be talking to experts in acquisitions, deal-making and investment, on the subject of why now might be the best time to grow and scale your business through acquisition. This time, Gavin talks to master deal-maker and founder of the Dealmaker Wealth Society, Carl Allen, about the many creative strategies that can allow you to acquire a business, beginning with finding motivated sellers, and developing a relationship that may open new opportunities for acquisition. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Learning to buy a business through acquisition is a relatively simple process. The execution is where most people fail. Creativity is the key when it comes to acquisition. Look for the opportunities and apply the relevant strategy. Capital up front is not always required. Sometimes we can think creatively and buy through other means. When starting out, those looking to acquire are far better served by investing in sectors in which they have knowledge, that are understood, and in which they can add value. The ideal company for acquisition should have assets, cashflows, or ideally both. If the business has assets, there are financiers that will lend against them. Lending against cashflow is essentially insured by the government, and can be another way to raise finance. BEST MOMENTS ‘You can always get better at the things in your life' ‘It's all about finding the right type of seller, building a relationship with them, and convincing them that you're a trusted, safe, credible pair of hands' ‘It's all down to seller motivation and building relationships' ‘Go with what you know!' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Carl Allen LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamcarlallen/ Dealmaker Wealth Society - www.dealmakerwealthsociety.com Train With Carl - www.trainwithcarl.com/mastermind 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	13 Dec 2019	Hey Presto! 3 Themes from Client Work in 2019	00:11:45
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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	04 Aug 2019	Stuart Lordan - The Secrets to a Good Pitch	00:47:15
Gavin is joined by Property developer, business consultant, and host of the Executive Juice podcast, to discuss business development and pitching. During his career, Stuart has mastered the art of the pitch and has come to realise that it all begins with a cohesive story. During this week's conversation, Stuart will share with you his formula for a successful pitch, the fundamental elements that make pitches win with clients, and the pitfalls you should avoid. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Like many who have entered the world of property investment, Stuart was driven by a desire to lead a more leveraged lifestyle, and to take control of his own future, without adhering to the natural formula of work-until-you-retire. When it comes to pitching, Stuart breaks it down into two elements; to be very clear about what the client is looking for, and subsequently structuring the response around their precise requirements Sometimes an ambitious pitch can involve several departments that may even be spread out across several different countries. It's vital to get everyone together around the pitch basis. Stuart always makes sure that everyone involved meets face-to-face at a single location to discuss the pitch in its component parts. Once the cohesive story of the pitch has been established and perfected, the pitch must then be rehearsed several times with the whole team, perhaps even with others present so as to gain new perspectives and feedback. One of the biggest mistakes in pitching is failing to engage the entire audience. Often pitchers will pitch only to the most “important” man in the room, such as a CEO, failing to realise that the group around him or her are equally as important when it comes to decision-making. We should ensure that out pitch takes everyone into account, and is presented impassively towards the company as an entity. It's important to remember that most pitches and meetings are based on the objective of bettering each other or coming together to work as a whole in order to benefit each other. Power games at this juncture are a somewhat outdated method of establishing a pecking order, and should be avoided. There will be occasions when a curveball is thrown, or a question is raised to which you do not have the answer. In these situations, Stuart has found that honesty has proved the most effective response. It's can be okay to say that you don't know the answer. Preparations are all built on connections. One of the benefits of Stuart's experience is that he has a large network. By utilising the network effectively, you can better prepare for who will be in the room, as well as the best ways of presenting to them. Analytical minds will require data. People managers will be more open to stories. Preparation is everything. The most ineffective times of day to pitch are usually after lunch or at the end of the day. Pitches in the morning tend to go better because people are sharper and minds are more active. BEST MOMENTS ‘I enjoy new situations and trying to support businesses' ‘Business, like most things, if done well should just be done really simply' ‘When we're all together face-to-face, there's something that happens about the creativity that I personally really like' ‘It's about being aware of who's in the room and being aware of who is going to be interacting with them' ‘Most businesses are talking about people' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast https://executivejuice.com http://www.lordpandaproperty.co.uk www.the-evolve-mastermind.co.uk 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	30 Sep 2020	Selling With Noble Purpose - with Lisa McLeod	00:46:21
Gavin talks to author, advisor, consultant and speaker, Lisa McLeod, about her book, 'Selling With Noble Purpose', and the philosophy behind it, designed to accelerate revenue growth, increase competitive differentiation, and ignite emotional engagement. Lisa discusses the importance of sales teams having a “North Star” to guide them, why it's crucial to not just make a difference, but make a different difference from your competitors, as well as some invaluable parenting tips... Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Conversations about how we can better serve the customer, and how their experience will be enhanced and upgraded through the service or product you offer, fuels a belief and a narrative that you can take to the customer themselves. Customers need to know that you care. More importantly, they can feel when you don't care. When all you're interested in is closing a sale, it will be sensed. If you are speaking passionately, and with purpose, it is far more effective. Sales teams need a “North Star” to guide their pitches, not a firm anchor around every point being made. Build a sales narrative that is guided instead of anchored. The world has changed irrevocably. It is possible that life will go back to normal, but drastic changes will come along with it. We need our teams to be knitted together by a core belief that they make a difference, instead of clinging in vain to an outdated sales model. BEST MOMENTS ‘What drives behaviour are beliefs' ‘Profits follow purpose' ‘You have to avoid the metric becoming the strategy' ‘You are not your business model' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Lisa McLeod - https://www.mcleodandmore.com/selling-with-noble-purpose/ Selling With Noble Purpose (Amazon) 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	08 Aug 2019	Hey Presto! Your Mind is Like a Sat Nav	00:09:41
Obstacles always get in the way of our goals. This analogy of your mind 'being like a Sat Nav' and asking Who before How will help you find alternative routes to your goals 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	19 May 2019	Your Marketing Superpowers; With Kelly Teasdale	00:34:14
*‘We are all delivering products and services in a noisy and busy marketplace so what is the reason someone will buy from you, what is your added value?* Gavin is in conversation with Kelly Teasdale from ‘Market my Product' Kelly is a Marketing Expert who uses her expertise and knowledge from the corporate world to teach entrepreneurs how to effectively market and grow a business. Kelly shares practical tips and advice about how you can begin to develop a marketing strategy that will work for your business, listen in to find out how. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS What really helps you grow a business are strategy, content and value. There are 4 common key mistakes: Shiny new toy syndrome – people look for the one ‘magic something' that is going to make their business successful. Operating only at a tactical level- it's the back to front way of marketing. No two marketing plans should look the same and an overview of the journey you are on is vital. The copy me syndrome – copying other businesses, you must communicate what is different about you and choose tactics that are right for your business, at this point because of where your target audience is. Content creation – business owners create content then do not use it. Using a content planning model enables you to repurpose content effectively. A marketing strategy is based on where you are, what you want to sell, who your target audience is, what your competitors are doing, where you want to get to, and how you are going to navigate to reach that point. A SWOT analysis can provide clarity when developing a marketing strategy. The strengths and weakness are internal to the business including elements such as resources and personal skill sets. Opportunities and threats are external to the business and include aspects such as competition in the marketplace. Creating a customer-centric business, revolving your business genuinely around your customer needs from product development onwards means the business is very close to its target audience. If you are serious about growth then staying close to your target audience is key. They are going to give you all the information you need to help develop and grow successfully. Successful businesses all share an understanding of  key elements; content creation, the power of PR, digital marketing, analytics, customer centricity, creativity, strategy and operational planning. When you have a strategy in place and before you commence with any marketing list your key messages, it's important that others know what you are doing and what your marketing message is. The minute you start making the right tactical choices everything changes and with a clear strategy the overwhelm of marketing disappears. BEST MOMENTS ‘In a crowded noisy world, people want something that speaks specifically to them' ‘Lots of small businesses are passion led and with this sometimes comes tunnel vision' ‘The smartest people win by  facing the reality and then being  strategic about how they get through the noisy marketplace to reach their goals' ‘Where are you on that journey and what is right for your business tactically at that time?' VALUABLE RESOURCES Kelly Teasdale Website Market My Product Website, 7 Marketing Superpowers Quiz ABOUT THE GUEST Kelly Teasdale Kelly is an award-winning global marketing expert, business growth coach and speaker. Over the last 17 years, Kelly has worked with multi-national corporate organisations, FTSE 250 companies and global megabrands, including Coca-Cola, GSK Consumer Health, Johnson & Johnson, AstraZeneca and The Walgreens Boots Alliance, as well as thousands of small and medium-sized businesses, to accelerate their growth. After graduating from Cardiff University with a First-Class Honours Degree in English Literature, an MA in English Literature and a Postgraduate Diploma in Public Relations, Kelly first began her marketing career in London. Throughout her career, she has worked in prominent global marketing agencies in London, Barcelona, Brussels, Paris and New York and has consulted for some of the world's best brands and businesses, including well-loved UK brands, such as The Hairy Bikers.  In 2013, Kelly became accredited in digital marketing and soon after, started working more closely with SMEs - applying big business thinking and techniques to small businesses and start-ups, making her one of the most renowned small business marketing coaches in the UK. In 2017, Kelly co-founded Marketing Saturday Live, Your Marketing Live and The Business Marketing Mastermind alongside social media expert, Matt Duggan. Together, Kelly and Matt work to make marketing accessible for small business owners in a jargon-free, honest, practical and super supportive environment. Kelly still consults for large global organisations and has been honoured to speak at business events worldwide. She has also been the recipient of several prestigious industry awards, including Top 29 Under 29 (PR Week), Young Achiever of the Year (Communique) and the Gold Quill Award for International Communications (IABC). 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	02 Mar 2020	Unfinished Business: How Turning 50 Can Mark The Start of The 2nd Half of your Business Career	00:52:24
Transforming at Fifty – The Undercover Entrepreneurs Interview with Carl Pate and Paul Hornsey- Pennell. DESCRIPTION Gavin is with Carl Pate and Paul Hornsey-Pennell who have come together following successful individual professional business journeys to create the ‘Undercover Entrepreneur'. They are on a mission to help people transform their lives at fifty bringing the perfect combination of IQ and EQ to help others on their transformational journey. If you want to become more and be more then this inspiring interview will help you to think about the questions you need to ask to begin to find out who you are and what you want from life. It's all about a rich journey of discovery and challenge that belongs only to you and facilitates your transformation moving forward in the next part of your life. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Being fifty is the most transformational point in life. It says you are halfway through with all the promise of what you can achieve looking forward based on the extensive experience you already have of life. You will look back having completed 30 years in a career and ask is this it? This is the time to start again and create something new in the future. People who are employees by definition are limited – limited to a salary, required to behave in a certain way, they are part of a group. If you follow your heart it's a very different journey. It's about how you move into the next part of your life; you have the opportunity to create something new and thrive. Asking questions stimulates the mind to consider the future, choices, connections and possibilities. When you are in business on your own you need access energy. Coaches and mentors are essential along with the people you actually spend time with as this is what impacts on your energy. You've got to be open to growing yourself and growing a team that you can leverage. People need to find the meaning in what they are doing, when you have a vision and mission others see and understand it and you can enrol them to join you on the journey and increase the energy around you. As human beings, we are fundamentally designed to keep safe but we are born to live and fully experience our capacity. It's not just about setting up a business it's about who you become that is the ultimate prize. If you can do something that you feel is nourishing and engaging and which brings others into your world who are thriving imagine the difference this will make to this period of your life. It's all about discovery and tapping into your life. BEST MOMENTS ‘People see older age as decline, part of the way people regard retirement is part of the problem of retirement' ‘How many people are genuinely creative but block it to meet the other needs in their lives?' ‘It's a rich journey, why would you not want to begin the journey' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast carl@undercover-entrepeneur.com paul@undercover-entrepreneur.com Undercover Entrepreneur website ABOUT THE GUESTS About Carl & Paul Video! 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	07 May 2020	Keep Your Boat Afloat: Neil Fellows on Emotional & Mental Wellbeing	00:41:33
As the owner of three businesses, no-one knows more about adjusting the work/home life balance during lockdown than Neil Fellowes. But as well the rudimentary concerns involved, Neil has also been forced to consider the emotional and mental aspects of quarantine, and the forthcoming return to normality. In this week's special episode, Neil discusses the importance of the personal touch when it comes to suppliers and customers, as well as the ways in which he is doing all he can to reinforce his own mental wellbeing during these unprecedented times. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Good health is a natural state of being. If we take care of ourselves in a proactive way, we can largely avoid many preventable illnesses and diseases. In this uncertain time, focus on what you need in order to survive, and on the small wins that elevate positivity. Anything above that is cause for celebration. The human touch can, and should, be used whenever possible in business now. By applying empathy and kindness to our dealings, we will make sure that we are remembered in a positive way once life returns to normality. Now is the perfect time to focus not just upon physical health, but mental wellbeing. Meditation and relaxation techniques will better equip us to cope with the strain of the return to work. When our children or families attempt to remove us from a stressful or working period at home, perhaps they are sensing that we need a break, and acting upon a subconscious impulse? BEST MOMENTS ‘I'm an explorer of health' ‘It's not about being perfect. It's about doing more right than wrong' ‘Get out of your head and get into your body' ‘Rather than an interruption, let's call it an intervention' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Stellar Speakers - https://stellarspeakers.com Neil Fellowes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/neilfellowes/?originalSubdomain=uk Total Wellness - https://totalwellness.club 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	18 Jun 2020	Hey Presto! The 4 Steps of Strategic Planning	00:11:49
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	27 Sep 2020	Robert Syslo of Syslo Ventures On Building Brands And Marketing Campaigns And How To Create An Abundance Of Relevant Content	00:39:05
In this episode, Gavin is in discussion with Robert Syslo of Syslo Ventures in Florida, brand and promotion experts, who offers a step-by-step guide on producing invaluable, empowering content on a day-to-day basis, and how by creating, he is able to more swiftly adopt the learnings into his own business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We can make sense of a teaching by looking for the illogical, the missing arguments in a lesson. By seeking the illogical, we create logic. Awareness of the type of content, the way in which it is presented, and most importantly, the channel through which the content is delivered, must always be considered. Content must be appropriate to its outlet Social media should not be used as a means of consumption, but as a barometer to evaluate our own feelings on a subject, which allows us to determine if it can be applicable in our own businesses and lives. By creating content, and teachings on a subject, we better learn about the subjects ourselves. The best way to learn is to teach. Consistency breeds creativity. By incorporating content creation into each moment of each day, we become a limitless generator of content. It should never be seen as a chore, but as natural as breathing. BEST MOMENTS ‘If you can open up that far then you have a limitless supply of information' 'The only businesses that will stand after COVD are those that promoted and stayed relevant' 'Success leaves behind it a trail of clues' ‘The brand for me, is familiarity' ‘It's not an idea of “I need to make time for this”, it's part of my day. It's a muscle' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Syslo Ventures - https://sysloventures.com Robert Syslo Twitter - https://twitter.com/robertsyslojr Robert Syslo LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertsyslojr/ robertsyslojr@gmail.com ABOUT THE GUEST Syslo Ventures aims to increase promotion and awareness of any company, product, influencer, or service into the marketplace in order to increase sales, following, and conversions. Robert Syslo, CEO and Founder, is ranked as one of the Top Business Leaders to follow in 2020 by Yahoo finance, featured in USA Today, Fox News and currently reaches over 3 million per month in marketing and promotion. Robert increase sales and scales brands through the use of high quality and message oriented aesthetic video content, graphic design, consulting, and web development along with social promotion campaigns. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	15 Sep 2019	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	01:01:42
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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod 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 The Business Mastermind Podcast Expert Apps - https://expertapps.online/who-are-we/ Experts Apps on Seedrs - https://www.seedrs.com/expert-apps 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	26 Jul 2020	Daniel Priestley on How Demographics & Technology Influence Strategic Trends, The Importance of Data in Marketing Campaigns	00:46:24
This week, Gavin is joined by author, speaker, and entrepreneurial mastermind, Daniel Priestley, who discusses the ways in which technology can influence strategy, the effectiveness and opportunities in podcasting and digital content, and the importance of data in making marketing campaigns more powerful. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Digital assets have three main benefits. They transcend time, space and wear-and-tear. Creating content now means that you're leaving behind a valuable footprint for generations. To accurately predict outcomes, we must analyse demographics and technology. Demographics allow us to see the groups we wish to target, and technology allows us to see the means by which to do so. While the tendency now is to regard the future as somewhat bleak, there are many opportunities out there to be had, and certainly a lot of money to be made. The best relationships begin when we know a significant amount about a person. It's the same in business relationships. The better we know our customers, the better we become at building and maintaining a relationship with them. BEST MOMENTS ‘If you're creating a lot of digital assets, then you're creating a lot of friends' ‘Wherever there's a problem, there's an opportunity' ‘You've got to figure out which magnet you're going to get close to' ‘A best friend is someone who has lots of data and knows how to use it' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Dent Global - https://www.dent.global info@dent.global Key Person Of Influence Scorecard - http://scorecard.keypersonofinfluence.com// Daniel Priestley LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley/?originalSubdomain=uk Daniel Priestley Twitter - https://twitter.com/DanielPriestley 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	09 May 2021	Jay Jay, Founder of Ace of Spades Agency, On How To Attract A Following On Social Media	00:33:26
After having helped countless clients to establish their own personal brands, and attract huge followings across social media platforms, Jay Jay, the founder of the Ace Of Spades Agency, joins Gavin to tell you why it's so important, and practical ways that you can do it! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Views and engagement stats don't tend to disappear. You're always accumulating, however slowly. When you hit a number that turns heads, it follows you across social media. Consistency is the key to building an audience. Don't be put off by slow growth at the beginning. Keep working and the numbers will come. It's not enough to simply pump out mediocre content. You have to put heart and soul into everything. There has to be a strategy behind each piece. Speaking is the number one way to build authority. By putting yourself out there, and providing a results-based narrative about yourself, you become a voice that people that will listen to. BEST MOMENTS 'I learned to leverage the power of the internet to get opportunities' 'Give them no reason to doubt you' 'It's always about "What is the result?"' 'Build that tribe and then leverage it from there' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com Jay Jay Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jayjaylive/?hl=en Jay Jay LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayjaylive/ 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	02 Apr 2020	Keep Your Boat Afloat in COVID-19 Times: Guard the Door to Your Mind & Be Kind To Yourself	00:12:34
“We want to emerge through this, not only with our business afloat, but our relationships—with family, with partners, etc.—stronger than when we came into it.” - Gavin Today on the Business Mastermind Podcast, Gavin wants to focus on how us as citizens, as individuals, and as business leaders can move and help our community during this global health pandemic. Gavin advises using this time wisely to think about the future of your business and to strengthen all relationships. This could be an excellent time to think and be open to new strategies and fresh opportunities. Tune in to know more. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS As (business) owners, the company's stockholders rely on you during this difficult time. As much as possible, always keep your boat afloat. Maintain a healthy well-being and mental state. Only choose what you consume on the internet. You can't really think effectively if all you see are negative political news. Lessen the time you scroll through social media. Increase your physical activities, as it can help to not get stressed during these trying times. Give yourself some me-time. Not necessarily spending most of it binge-watching on Netflix, per se. Consider meditation or technology detox, as these might give you the reset you need. You want to aim for stability, even during this crisis. Look at your cash flow. Seek some alternatives. Talk to your suppliers, contractors, etc, how you can minimise issues. BEST MOMENTS “You need to be kind to yourself.” “Give yourself a break.” “I'm really keen that outside of this, there's meaning that comes out from this and there are some improvements for the better.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Maslow's Hierarch of Needs - https://www.simplypsychology.org/maslow.html The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your free copy of Gavin Preston's invaluable guide now - 'Keep Your Boat Afloat: Business Survival Guide For COVID-19 Times' at: Bit.ly/keepyourboatafloat ABOUT HOST 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. Website: gavinpreston.com Linked In https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	05 Nov 2020	Hey Presto - Three Things That You Can Do To Improve Your Adaptability	00:15:44
A welcome return this week to the ‘Hey Presto!' mini-series, in which Gavin delivers a more personalised solo experience every week, designed to energise and improve your business acumen! In this week's edition, Gavin discusses three instant changes you can make in order to improve the adaptability of your business, a much-needed skill in the current business climate, where those who adapt quickly are finding their business interests thriving. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We are approaching the fastest and deepest technological disruption in history. We're seeing a huge shift from face-to-face to digital and remote working. Growth sectors are all centred around internet and tech. By 2022, over half of all employees will need retraining and re-scaling. Too many are being consumed by the immediacy of the current disruptions, instead of focussing upon the opportunities for growth that lay ahead in the coming months. In order to increase our adaptability, we must focus on three key areas of development: direction, flexing your capacity, and having a change-orientated culture. Encouraging others to come on a journey of change with us is the art of creating a culture that embraces pro-change behaviours. We must reward, encourage and incentivise. BEST MOMENTS 'Through times of turbulence there is opportunity' ‘Martial artists are trained to hit beyond the target rather than the target' ‘Direction is about finding your north star - where is your business heading?' 'The key part of flexing your capacity is improving your cost-effectiveness' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat AQ Adaptability Assessment - https://www.aqai.io 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	22 Aug 2019	Hey Presto! Growing Bigger Than The Problem	00:07:07
When you are hit with a number of problems at once, how do you respond? Overwhelm? In this episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, your host Gavin was interviewed about this very topic and he shared a story in his life when he was overwhelmed; A break up in a personal marriage & a business marriage and was then given another apparently devastating piece of news. Gavin shares how he grew bigger than the problem. VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	13 Jun 2021	Shaun Holt on Wealth Management on How We Can Leave The Next Generation In A Better Place	00:49:31
On this episode Gavin is joined by financial advisor, Shaun Holt to share advice on legacy, growing wealth and what you can do as your business recovers after the pandemic. Shaun is passionate about wealth management and sees it as the most important thing for families to prosper over time, increasing generational wealth. This means planning for the future by getting good financial advice around your business and personal wealth and setting up a solid financial plan in place so that you can enjoy the fruits of your work as well as leaving substantial wealth aside for your family. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Children need to be taught about financial planning; money is important but it's more important to teach people how to treat it properly. Good wealth management will allow you to manage your life so that you can enjoy your hobbies, family time and health as well as allowing you to pass it down to provide for your children. You'll see traits in families if you look at what each generation before did as a job. If a grandparent was in hard working job, the parent will likely be hard working and so will the children. Money should enhance peoples lives, going on a spending spree buying Range Rovers and holidays and blowing your cash might be a great experience. But, down the line they'll be worse off emotionally because the money will run out. We can pass down knowledge and wisdom, both the successes and the failures because you learn more from failure. For example, learning about tax – especially around death. Finance is the easy bit, time is the hard bit, so put a good financial plan in place. When selling a business, make sure you point out the potential growth strategy to the prospective next owner, so they're more interested in buying it before it's peaked. You wouldn't want to but something that's run its course, you want to make money out of your investment. BEST MOMENTS ‘Tax is a contribution, you may not be able to decide how its spent, but it contributes to society.' ‘Leave the world in a better place than you found it for those that follow you.' ‘Hand down money in a better way than just giving money.' ‘There are inspirational young people, but the last thing they need is their desire taken away from them by being given money so they don't need anything.' ‘How do you want to be remembered?' ‘If your business can run without you, it's a lot more saleable than if you're still involved in the day-to-day.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bushell-holt-wealth-management/ Bushell Holt Wealth Management: https://bhwml.co.uk/ E-mail: Shaun.holt@sjpp.co.uk 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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	09 Sep 2020	Coaching Call With South African Entrepreneur Anele Pasiwe	00:41:38
It's a special episode this time, as Gavin is in conversation with young South African entrepreneur, Anele Pasiwe, a passionate student of business and life, with a valuable set of life lessons already beneath his belt. Anele and Gavin discuss the power of mindset, instinct, coaching, and opportunity by means of a unique coaching call in which Gavin helps Anele to realise where his true business focus lies. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Through any period of adversity or challenge, there is always opportunity. What we need is the right energy, mindset and strategies to traverse these obstacles. The COVID disruptions have jolted the world into a sense of imbalance. The entrepreneurs are in an enviable position, though, as the great ones all possess the ability to search for and rapidly develop solutions to new problems, of which there are many. Many people who fail in business are those who have not taken into account the figures, and the scaleability of their ideas and concepts. Opportunities appear constantly for entrepreneurs. We must always pay consideration to whether or not it is the right time to accept or pursue it. An overabundance of irons in the fire can lead to overwhelm and a lack of quality attention. BEST MOMENTS 'This guy's got gold dust, and I want to share it!' ‘I want to bring light to those who are in the dark' ‘If business and entrepreneurship was a relationship, it would be my first love' ‘Don't let someone define what your tomorrow is' 'There's never a shortage of money in the world. There's just a shortage of creativity in order to access it' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Anele Pasiwe LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anele-pasiwe-763328a0/?originalSubdomain=za 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	06 Sep 2020	Carl Pate on His Journey of Leading a Multi-Million Pound Turnaround And The 5 Pillars of Personal Productivity	00:42:27
Gavin talks to productivity expert, finance professional and turnaround mastermind, Carl Pate, about his journey of leading a multi-million pound turnaround, and how his ground-breaking ‘5 Pillars of Personal Productivity' have helped him along the way! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The keys to personal productivity are: Energy - Giving ourselves the energy and drive we need through physical wellbeing Focus - Creating a laser focus that creates incredible power System - The effective management of all these things The Five Pillars Of Productivity are built upon Habit, Alignment, Balance, Integration, Tracking. Consistency in all areas of personal productivity, and the five pillars, should be the common denominator in all areas, in order to be successful. Following through provides results. Balance is perhaps the hardest pillar against which to adhere. By focusing on business, we lose focus on other things. By realigning, we lose focus on business. The key is to think about all areas, and work out how to bring them all into balance. BEST MOMENTS ‘Everything comes back to productivity - getting the most out of your time so that you avoid regret at the end of it' ‘Consistency is the secret sauce you need to spill over everything' ‘Get in line and stay in line' ‘Balance is one of those goals we should all have, but which we'll never achieve' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast carl@productivitypowerhouse.com Productivity Powerhouse - https://productivitypowerhouse.com www.dailylifetracker.com Carl Pate LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlpate/?originalSubdomain=uk Making S#!T Happen: The Five Pillars Of Awesome - by Carl Pate (Amazon) 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	19 May 2019	How to grow Digital, Business & Personal Resilience; With Jason Dunlop	00:40:22
*‘Successful organisations have a concept of lessons learnt, and learning from those* In this episode, Gavin is in conversation with Jason Dunlop, Director of Growth for Xcina Ltd and Lifeboat Operations Manager for RNLI at Penarth. He has also undertaken the role of Water Incident  Manager for the RNLI flood rescue team throughout the last 10 Years. Jason has considerable expertise and experience in digital and personal resilience and the development of leaders to enable them to move through a change process and evaluate dynamically. He shares the key elements required to build resilience and provides an insightful view of evaluating dynamically and the positive difference it can make. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We now live in a digitally reliant world. A world where everything around us, and everything we do is reliant on a digital environment - our phones, our homes, cars, the way we shop and spend is all driven by a digital medium. To understand how we survive, how we maintain and grow in a digital world requires us to think about and plan through scenarios of set-up, scenarios of maintaining, through scenarios of growing and scenarios of responding, what we do when things don't go to plan. Resilience is the ability of an organisation to respond effectively to challenges such as threat actors and growth or decline. A resilient individual is one who can look at a situation they are facing analyse it and then have the ability to think, focus, grow and move forward in a consistent way. The training and development of your staff are what makes your business resilient. When the people process, and technology element form an effective partnership your business will be able to digitally grow and achieve. We haven't yet understood how to process digital information. We can see emails, text messages, Facebook as potentially threatening and experience the heightened emotional and psychological responses associated with being under attack. If you change your mindset and remove that risk from yourself, you can work in a different way. In dynamic evaluation the objective is to move and gather information in order to make a decision, decide at what point to make the decision and then act on the decision. Successful organisations have a concept of lessons learnt, and learning from those lessons, reviewing and asking what you would do differently is learning. Evaluating dynamically before you act is relies on ongoing communication, gathering of information and constantly evaluating what is going on to enable you to move forward. This model is one of shared responsibility everybody is seeking to identify the risks, and everyone is seeking opportunities to make a difference. The ability of a leader to analyse what's going develops individual resilience as within the process of questioning and moving forward you are also evaluating yourself and your capability. Having a positive outlook is the way forward and there is no such thing as a negative experience only situations from which we can learn, getting to a position where you think of everything as an opportunity will change everything. BEST MOMENTS ‘There are opportunities in every situation the secret is going to find them' ‘Thinking and documenting  your possible threat landscape and having a plan to respond builds your level of resilience' ‘We don't make wrong decisions as humans We do things because we believe they are the best thing to do at the time' ‘You can think and run; you don't have to stand still' ‘The ability to buy time, gather information, make a plan and then execute it are vital elements' VALUABLE RESOURCES Xcina Ltd Jason Dunlop LinkedIn 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	21 Feb 2020	Hey Presto! Using The Meta Model to Get to The Specifics of a Problem	00:12:50
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	25 Jun 2020	Hey Presto! Are You Pushing The Boundaires Enough?	00:16:16
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	20 Dec 2021	The Business Mastermind Podcast – Season Two Introduction	00:08:02
On this episode Gavin lays out his plans for season two of The Business Mastermind Podcast, coming soon! In season two the episodes will be getting more in depth, like masterclasses, on the building blocks for real deep success. The work you need to do on character, strategy, people, scaling in your business in order to create and sustain tangible success and growth. Gavin will also be providing his own narrative, ideas and thoughts sparked by the conversations on the podcasts, separate from the conversation itself. These will certainly be packed with dense amounts of information that will become more valuable upon repeated listens. The theme of season two is ‘Revive'. This is more pertinent now since the pandemic began and the idea is to revive where you were in your business, bringing back and engaging your teams, reviving the commitment and the vision and passion for the outcomes you want to achieve, to reconnect with the values of the business, but also to be able to help people recover and revive in terms of their mojo, happiness and health. 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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	11 Jul 2021	The Future of Work and the Importance of Culture - with Rael Brick	00:42:02
On this episode Gavin is joined by entrepreneur and venture capitlaist Real Bricker, who now delivers workshops on building businesses and thinking outside the norm with experiences ranging from working 6000 feet underground to building an educational business with six campuses and 4000 students. The pair talk about the future of work and the importance of culture. KEY TAKEAWAYS I've always wanted to know how my role, such as working as an engineer 6000 feet down a mine shift, impacted on the gold we were getting out of the ground and on the greater organisation. So, I left the mines to do an MBa… not that makes you a specialist or even an entrepreneur. I did get to understand HR though. I love motivational speaking because I get to see the lights turn on in people's eyes, I want to see them get it and say: “I can be successful in business”. The key to growing my businesses has been giving up control to gain control. As soon as we started outsourcing certain tasks, it freed us up to grow the business. Putting trust in the right people and empowering them really makes a difference. I never ask staff to do something I wouldn't do. I've had staff that have messed up or staff that have taken advantage, but by opening up yourself as the boss (the good, the bad and the ugly) and being real with people it keeps your finger on the pulse of what's going on with your staff and your business. Don't overcomplicate your systems. If you can't explain the way your business works on one A4 piece of paper, it's too complicated. Also, communication is king and certainly don't lie or bend the truth, the truth will always out. BEST MOMENTS ‘Business is simple, sometimes you just have to dive in and adjust your course.' ‘Give up control to gain control.' ‘I was in the right place at the right time to start up the educational business, but not by design.' ‘It's an amazing feeling to be able to give back and make an impact and positive change.' ‘When did you last ask your staff about a better way to implement processes, or how their families are?' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com GUEST RESOURCES Rael Bricker's website where you can get a free copy of his book ‘Dive In': https://www.raelbricker.com/freebook Rael's email address: rael@raelbricker.com Twitter: @raybri Instagram: @raelbricker Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rael.bricker Clubhouse: @raelbricker 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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	20 Dec 2019	Hey Presto! The 5 Entrepreneurial Plateaus	00:13:16
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 The 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. 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod   CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	19 May 2019	How Role Based KPIs & Robust Systems Can Drive Business Performance With Jamie Keeling	00:35:22
‘When you can develop an interdependent culture, you empower the people in your business to find solutions' In this episode, Gavin is speaking to Jamie Keeling of ‘Optimise Me' Jamie explains the importance of role-based KPIs for a company and how they can bring a cohesive and interdependent culture in your business. If you want to understand the power of systems, processes and KPIs in driving your business forward, creating a virtuous upward spiral instead of a downward fall then listen in now. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS *What is business resilience?* Your perception of reality defines your reality it is about mindset. In our Universe, everything has a polarity. If there is a problem there is a solution if there is a challenge there is a route to overcome it. Your sole job as a business owner is to find solutions to problems *How do systems support solutions?* The flow of data between the different aspects of business is the key to success when you have blockages in the flow of data the business begins to fail. it is vital to have in place systems and infrastructure to find out what people need, create what they want and deliver it. It is vital to have the right data, at the right time and in the right place. When you have a system you have accountability, responsibility and an interdependent culture. *How can role based KPIs transform a business?* The key is to assign KPIs to the role this enables the individual undertaking a particular role to know explicitly when they are achieving success. The KPIs are both lead and lag indicators for a business. The higher level KPIs will be based around growth, profitability and retention, other role-based KPIs will be very focused on individual activities. The absence of structure and accountability results in everyone thinking it is someone else's responsibility to get something done. Rather than moving forward everyone is fighting fires all the day, the business is always in a reactive state. The KPIs allow you to highlight any part of the system that is not functioning properly. When there are systems, processes and KPIs in place people feel cohesive, they feel they can rely on each other in an interdependent way. Clearly defined responsibilities, accountability and KPIs enables people to have not only the mental capacity to successfully fulfil their own responsibilities but to also take on more working as part of a high performing team BEST MOMENTS ‘Systems, processes and KPIs all drive culture within a business' ‘We are now hyperconnected  and everybody wants to feel that they have made a difference' ‘Everybody has their own interpretation of success in a situation and it is necessary to have systems in place to ensure consistency ‘ ‘The KPIs allow you to highlight any part of the system that is not functioning properly' VALUABLE RESOURCES Optimise Me Now! podcast Optimise Me! website ABOUT THE GUEST Jamie Keeling With 13+ years of real-life business experience, Jamie is a business coach with a difference. Having spent 11 years working his way up through every department of his family's niche construction business and leading it through a phenomenal period of growth which took the business from a stagnant £2m to £6m in annual revenue in just 3 years, Jamie has gained unique insights into what does and doesn't work in the business. Jamie is passionate about performance in every way - from his unique approach to scaling businesses in the construction sector to winning a Tae Kwon Do World Championship title and climbing the biggest mountains in the UK, he knows what it takes to get results in every aspect of life. His current business focus is on assisting 6-figure construction businesses who are struggling with profitability, performance and failing systems, so they can increase their financial rewards, get the best from their teams, and develop fully systemised businesses that get consistently fantastic results and gives the owners more scale in business and more freedom in life. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	22 Nov 2019	Hey Presto! Giving Feedback to Your Team Members	00:14:34
If the thought of giving feedback to a member of your team causes your pulse t quicken and you to tense up, Gavin shares a 3 step process to having successful conversation and two ways of structuring that conversation. 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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod   CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	09 Mar 2020	David Beaty - Head of Business Banking HSBC UK	00:36:11
*‘An essential part of effective leadership is looking to the future and thinking about tomorrow'* David Beaty, UK Head of Business Banking at HSBC is responsible for a team of around 900 people who support 67,000 customers. They deal with customers on a relationship management basis and work with companies turning over typically up to 10 million pounds. Gavin and David discuss the challenges businesses face moving forward along with getting your work-life balance right and for customers the increasing importance of environmental and sustainability evidence within businesses. This is a fascinating insight into the trends and challenges that any business will need to engage with to be successful in the next decade, listen in and hear more. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS There is a move away from great customer service to providing great customer experiences. Technology changes and digital disruption and the way customers are adapting to this present significant challenges for any business. It's now typical for someone to order late in the day and expect the item to be delivered the next day so it's about how you deliver a good customer experience on top of good customer service. It's at this point that individual personalities and building rapport play an important role. Increasingly consumers want to do business with companies who can evidence the environmental and sustainable within their business. Businesses in the future will be differentiated by their supply chain and its environmental credentials. There is a backdrop of global challenge for every business which must be managed alongside providing the best customer experience today and tomorrow. There are always opportunities for well lead well-managed businesses and even when a business is doing well it should be looking to the future. The most important thing a leader can do is make conscious decisions. Whatever the challenges your business faces your competitors are also facing them. Successful businesses never stand still and an essential part of effective leadership is looking to the future and thinking about tomorrow. If you can learn from what's going on elsewhere then you are increasing your chances of success. You need solid foundations so that you can take up the opportunities on offer. Be ambitious for your business by either focusing more on what you are already good at or through being imaginative about how you move forward. As the leader, you set the attitude and the pace of the team you lead. BEST MOMENTS ‘I've enjoyed my career and I'm humbled to lead the team I do today' ‘We are pleased with the growth and customer satisfaction in our business' ‘Life moves fast and we need to make sure everyone comes along with us' ‘At HSBC we have worked hard to create a ‘speak up culture' VALUABLE RESOURCES The 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. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	25 Jul 2021	The Benefits of Cloud Accounting – with Gavin Preston	00:21:32
On this episode, Gavin brings to a close what is now Season 1 of The Business Mastermind podcast after more than two years with a solo episode. In this episode, Gavin draws on his background in accountancy and looks at finance and accounting systems in business, specifically how a lot of businesses are doing far too much manual input rather than using the power of cloud accounting which enables quicker, better data, better interpretation and saves man hours. KEY TAKEAWAYS I've found that there's a huge amount of manual inputting around financing; manual inputting of purchase invoices, sales invoices, re-keying and typing stuff in. It surprised my but made me think that you don't know what you don't know. So many business owners manage their business by the amount of cash in the bank, slightly more sophisticated business owners manage their business by profit and loss as well with an accountant, other will manage profit on a monthly or quarterly basis, which is still a couple of months after the month end and the data is then out of date. Even more sophisticated owners have management accounts within two weeks of the month's end and they increase the value of the balance sheet because they're building a business with an exit in mind. Apps like Xero and Quickbooks are much more intuitive to use, save you time and grant you access to an ecosystem of apps and software that provide massive bang for your buck. They also give you visual data on the dashboard so you can see the state of your finances through graphs, charts, etc. There are apps that also ways to manage cashflow and cashflow forecasting including Float and Fluidly which has AI that learns your transactions and help to forecast cashflow which helps you to scenario plan. BEST MOMENTS ‘I've used these tools with different clients and have massively saved them cost and time within their business.' ‘Xero and Quickbooks are fantastic for businesses turning over sub-£5million.' ‘The key thing with tools like these is you're saving a stack of time.' ‘Turnover is vanity, profit is sanity.' ‘There's an opportunity out there, have a look at it and see how where you can save money, see where you can get better data, see how you can make better decisions so you can put more money on the bottom line.' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat – https://survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.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 the creative strategies to accelerate 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 METHODS Website: www.gavinpreston.com LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/gavinpreston/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/gavinpreston1 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GavinPrestonGrowthStrategies/ Twitter: @gavinpreston Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	09 Dec 2019	Roland Frasier on Mastering Trends and Using Them To Your Advantage	00:29:59
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. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod 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 The Business Mastermind Podcast  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. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	30 Jun 2019	Strategy Compass Pt.3	00:46:55
In Part 3 of 3, Gavin shares with you stages 5 and 6 of his Business Growth Model, The Strategy Compass. You will learn the SCALE model to grow capability and enable you to scale your business and the importance of action and accountability. There are 6 steps you must get right for your business beginning with purpose and mindset (steps 1 and 2) Having clarity for your business and ensuring there is a clear message for everyone in the business, the team, your customers and the marketplace is discussed in detail in part 1. In part 2 we talked about steps 3 and 4, getting the outcome, being clear about the goal and strategy (how to view it through the lens of values discipline) and the ‘how ‘ Now we are clear about where we are going, have the right mindset and are clear on the bigger ‘why ‘and purpose and have a strategy about how to get there we need to build the capability to scale the business using step 5, capability and step 6 action and accountability from The Strategy Compass business model. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS *Step 5 - Capability to scale* Using the ‘scale' system will help you build Systems Cash Advance/innovate Leadership and culture Effectiveness Systems To scale you need to leverage people and systems, spending time on systemisation will help to optimise the process. Always be improving your systems for efficiency and quality and ensure that you have access to a specialist if this is not your area of expertise. Cash Growth is cash hungry. Cash flow is particularly important when you are scaling a business. Plan ahead and you will be able to see potential challenges and take action. Problems in business rarely arise from nowhere, you need to be planning 3, 6, 2 months ahead. Advance You've always got to be advancing or innovating. In business, everything is always changing Impacting on your business and the relevance of your service or product. To remain relevant and demand you need to be continually solving a problem or helping your customers to achieve a goal or aspiration. Leadership and culture Your culture is a combination of the values, beliefs, standards and behaviours Customer service and the quality of the product are indicative of the culture of an organisation. Culture is set from the top of a business through the actions and behaviours of senior leaders do they inspire, engage and empower? Effectiveness How you can improve personally should be a constant priority. Blocking time and working on the things that really make a difference is key in the journey to improvement and growth. Looking at an overview of your business and planning strategically enables you to map out the key things that will shift and move the business forward. *Step 6 - Action and accountability* Action If you take action on the things that are going to make a difference everyday it will have a compounding effect. Focus each day on taking the actions that will move you further forward What one move would have maximum leverage, maximum impact, maximum value? Accountability Find a mentor or someone who is going to hold you to account and agree on a timescale for achieving your goals. Accountability increases the chance others can count on you to deliver and it also increases the chance for you to count on yourself and that alone brings confidence, courage and commitment. BEST MOMENTS ‘Too many businesses are managed by only one metric – the amount of money in the bank' ‘Businesses that stay relevant look outside of their own ecosystem for inspiration and cues about trends' ‘Do your employees care about delighting the customer?' ‘Get this right and you can build a profitable business that exceeds your customer's expectations' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Time Tactics That work ebook by Gavin Preston The One Thing book by Gary Keller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People book by Stephen Covey Disrupt Yourself book by Jay Samit 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	25 Aug 2020	Eric Zuley on Getting Your Message Out to Millions And His New Book "The Influencer Effect"	00:36:09
Nobody knows more about reaching people than Eric Zuley. As one of the world's biggest social media influencers, as well as a man internationally recognised as one of the foremost talents at matching business and celebrities to success, Eric has achieved global renown, multiple awards, and a proven track record of success. Eric joins Gavin today to discuss his new book, “The Influence Effect”, and how its revolutionary system, known as the eZWay, can help you to get your message out to the masses! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The world is built upon relationships, and the art of how we nurture and grow from each interaction. This is why social media has been so widely and rapidly adopted around the world. Your show or content should always be about your audience, and not about you. It is up to you to find the tie that binds you to your audience. Creating content doesn't always come naturally. We can maximise our chances, though, by associating ourselves with platforms that are good at monetisation. If you're missing a skill, then make sure you surround yourself with people who can fill that gap for you. Producers, creators and writers are readily available and can help to build your brand in ways you can only imagine. BEST MOMENTS ‘Everything in business and success is relationships' ‘I had the attractor factor' ‘Get with a platform that can make you money' ‘Always make sure you have an outline and a plan' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast eZWay Wall - https://wall.ezwaybroadcasting.com Eric Zuley Twitter - https://twitter.com/ericzuley Eric Zuley - https://ericzuley.com The Influence Effect by Eric Zuley (Amazon) 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	28 Dec 2020	Jason Treu On The Ultimate Role Of Leadership	00:45:05
There have been some prime examples of great leadership this year, but there have also been areas where leadership has been found wanting. In this week's show, Gavin talks to author and featured TedX speaker, Jason Treu, about leadership, the best ways in which we can show up, and the responsibilities and opportunities that all leaders have in this new world of business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS At the outset of the pandemic, leaders went above and beyond in ensuring workers felt valued, secure and provided-for. This produced a galvanising effect that brought people together with one true aim and purpose. As leaders we should never be too proud to call in an outside perspective. This can grant us the new outlook we need in order to push through our instilled view of our abilities. Plans for scale-up in your business are directly tied to your abilities as a leader. If you inspire and encourage, then your business will organically grow as a result. There is no standard blueprint for traversing our way through the challenges of leadership. We have to take our circumstances into account on a personal basis - everything from family to mental health. BEST MOMENTS 'What you believe in your head, other people don't see, because your perceptions are off' 'The ultimate role of leadership is how effectively you can scale your business' 'Most of the time it's not how smart people are' 'There is no blueprint for every person' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com Jason Treu - https://jasontreu.com Jason Treu LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasontreu/ Jason Treu Twitter - https://twitter.com/jasontreu?lang=en 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	29 Sep 2020	Buy And Build - Structuring Protected Deals And Why Financial Engineering Matters - with Jeremy Harbour	00:39:39
In the latest edition of Buy And Build, a series of conversations with experts in acquisitions, deal-making and investment, Gavin talks to Jeremy Harbour, founder of The Harbour Club, about the importance of structuring deals in a way that protects people and wealth, and why financial engineering is crucial. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Structuring deals properly, with protections built in, is essential. A false move can see to it that we lose our personal assets. It's worth taking the time to make sure things are watertight. As a consultant, we may well be better off by trading our services for equity, rather than simple payment. The rewards can be far greater by thinking creatively. Taking capital out, creating capital events, are vital. Hanging on for too long can see values slide. You make money when you sell. The Deal Pie structure begins with finding out the figure that an owner expects to receive in exchange for their business, followed by working out best we can give this value without spending cash. BEST MOMENTS ‘It's very easy to be seduced by the excitement of a purchase' 'There are some fantastic opportunities. If you do them right, you can grow a year's worth of sales in one afternoon' ‘People don't want to give you the dusty painting from their attic and then find it was a Picasso' ‘I describe it as dragging your chair to their side of the desk' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Jeremy Harbour - https://www.jeremyharbour.com Jeremy Harbour Twitter - https://twitter.com/JeremyJHarbour The Harbour Club - https://harbourclubevents.com/ Jeremy Harbour LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyharbour/?originalSubdomain=sg Go Do Deals - www.godo.deals 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	12 Nov 2020	Are You Preparing Your Business For Your Endgame?	00:09:10
Are you keeping your business on course for your ultimate objective? Are you on track for the exit you've planned, the sale you hope to achieve, or for the management team to take over so that you can free up your time? In this week's Hey Presto, Gavin gives you some ideas and pointers about the things you should be focussing upon if you want to stay on course towards your endgame. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The general areas of error that many businesses suffer from in terms of their ultimate objectives, are failing to do enough to consider succession, and those who may have held on to their business for too long. Creating an effective management team provides you with new options upon your exit. A management buyout by the team you've built is a robust exit solution. It also provides a third-party buyer with the faith that the company can continue successfully. Lifestyle businesses are there to provide their owners with a lifestyle. But in the event of sale, you must reasonably be able to provide at least three years of proof of growth. BEST MOMENTS ‘What an investor is looking for is a tick in a certain number of boxes' ‘If you've got a cross in these, then it devalues your business' ‘You need to be building balance sheets and building profitability' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	25 Aug 2019	Stephen Law-Lyons: A Business Owners Advice on How to Reduce Inactivity And Increase Physical & Mental Resilience	00:47:45
Gavin is talking with Stephen Law Lyons from APC cardiovascular about his involvement as health and wellness ambassador for Cheshire IOD and the work he is undertaking to support leaders in reducing inactivity in the workforce and create solutions that will drive better health and wellness and as a result impact on the number of working days lost. This fascinating podcast provides an insight into the vital work the IOD carries out and the importance of connectivity between businesses. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The Institute of Directors (IOD) is about the connectivity of directors and offers both education and support. There is a level of integrity associated with the IOD. It is very much branch and region led through a network of like-minded individuals. As Health and Wellness ambassador for Cheshire IOD my goals are to help support business leaders look after their most vital asset by researching, sharing and supporting best practice on how to create work environments that reduce inactivity and as a result increase both physical and mental resilience. Decreasing inactivity is vital and just getting people to move has a huge impact on health and well-being. You can look at those small steps that make the difference, You don't have to be running you just have to be standing to make a difference. The biggest area of impact is getting people to move, getting an individual's number of steps up from 400 to 4,000 has a massive impact on their health and wellbeing. Research indicates the stress levels are lower in companies with a workplace wellness program in place. There is the element of looking after your team and the element of looking after yourself. If you are not able to carry out your function as a leader in the long term there would be an impact on the company. There are transferable skills between business and personal health, setting goals and objectives are a part of this. Little things all the time can make the difference, you don't have to be in training for something extreme. There are many things going on at all levels to get people moving. There is much that can be achieved from connectivity between businesses. BEST MOMENTS ‘As business leaders the only asset we have are our people' ‘There are simple ways to encourage movement, the bin and printer can be moved away from desks to encourage walking' ‘Sitting is now being referred to as the new smoking' ‘Peer support is a vital part of the IOD' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast The Institute of Directors APC Cardiovascular Active Cheshire 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	05 Mar 2021	2021 Budget Special	00:34:26
It's a very special impromptu episode this time, in which Gavin and his special guests, Chris Haley and Mark Burch, discuss the 2021 budget announcement from Rishi Sunak, and what it could potentially mean for those in business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS There are 1.3 million people now about to be taken into being higher tax payers. This may not have seemed like a tax rise, but many more people will be paying more tax. The rumour was that capital gains tax rates were going to be aligned with income tax rates, which would have been a huge problem for property investors. This has yet to happen, but could take place. All the companies who have benefitted from saving on payroll through the furlough scheme, may believe that the higher rate of corporation tax is not a bad thing. The higher rate of corporation tax does not necessarily make the UK a negative place in which to invest. 25% even at the highest rate, still makes it one of the lowest in the G7. BEST MOMENTS 'He's banking on a V-shaped recovery' 'You're dragging more people into the tax bracket' 'Innovation has come as a matter of course - that will be the secret of getting us out of this' 'The chancellor has been between a rock and a hard place' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast To get 20% off at Knowable, go to www.knowable.fyi and enter the code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com Praemia Consulting - www.praemiaconsulting.com Mark Burch LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-burch-26942a25/?originalSubdomain=uk Budget at Gov.uk - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/budget-2021-documents 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	31 Dec 2020	April Shprintz On Energising Your Mind-Set For The Challenges And Opportunities In 2021	00:38:08
As we look forward to the year ahead, and the possibilities and opportunities that come with it, Gavin opens 2021's account by talking to business accelerator, best-selling author and creator of The Generosity Culture, April Shprintz, about the simple steps you can take on a daily basis in order to refine and hone your mind-set and give you an energised advantage over the challenges ahead. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The great success stories in business are all subscribed to some form of generosity. By helping others to attain their goals, we actually gain the things we want in the long run. If we choose to lead, then we make a commitment to give the most valuable thing we possess - our time and attention. By doing so, we make a difference in performance, and also in the quality of people we attract. The way we treat our employees provides the model by which our employees treat our clients. Lead by example from the top and the results will be obvious, most notably on the client side. Often scale-up problems are simply a case of a choke point in the thinking of a founder, who created a business with an idea, but who now believe that they are the only one who can continue to execute. BEST MOMENTS 'You can have everything you want if you help enough people get what they want' 'I don't think being a leader is that different from being a mentor or a parent' 'I'm constantly amazed by the opportunities that come to me' 'What got you here won't get you there' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com April Shprintz LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilshprintz/ April Shprintz Twitter - https://twitter.com/AprilShprintz 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	14 Oct 2020	Selling On Amazon - Michael Begg On How You Can Optimise Your Listing For Prime Day, and How To Get The Best From Your Ad Spend	00:32:26
Gavin's guest this time is Michael Begg, a specialist in working with business owners in the eCommerce space. Michael discusses the best ways in which you can optimise your Amazon Prime Day listing, and take advantage of the benefits that eCommerce sales such as this can bring. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Many see eCommerce sales as a quick way to make money, but Amazon provides an engaging, empowering platform for businesses to grow their brands. Using foreign manufacturers for goods is wise as costs can be lower, but an eye must always be kept upon quality and rising shipping costs. Sometimes the trade-offs are not worth it. This year, sales are set to hit one after the other, so keeping inventory high is essential for those looking to take full advantage of shopping trends. Protect brand loyalty by implementing manual campaigns, examining search terms and including the top hits in any sponsored products campaign and sponsored brand campaign. BEST MOMENTS ‘It's a lot of investment and you really need to be building something more than a one-off project' 'There's a lot of interesting categories that people wouldn't have expected to take off like they did' ‘Having enough inventory and marketing consistently is going to give you a huge opportunity to make a lot of sales' ‘You want to make sure your top sellers are showing up on all your product listing pages' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast AMZ Advisers - https://amzadvisers.com/author/amzadvisers/ Michael Begg LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mbegg/ 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	02 Nov 2020	Arjun Rai On Growing His Business By 20000 Percent In 11 Months, And How To Go From Idea To Revenue	00:34:08
Arjun Rai is a NYC based entrepreneur who is on a mission to support small businesses with the power of visualised data science and artificial intelligence for digital marketing at HelloWoofy.com. In this episode, Arjun talks to Gavin about the incredible journey that's led him to growing Hello Woofy by an incredible 20000% in the past 11 months, the role that social media had to play in this remarkable ascent, how to take a concept to reality, and how AI can help you get there! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We can meet any challenge by grounding our attitude in resilience, and developing the persistence to see a challenge through. AI must be viewed not as a replacement for human ingenuity, but as a tool to empower us and exponentially increase our efficiency. The market for smart speakers has grown by 82% since lockdown. We must seek to take advantage of the fact that emerging technologies and AI driven software are allowing us to reach far more people now through these means. Customer needs have changed. We have gone from the intensive early days of Facebook to the more mobile-centric days of Twitter. Customers now want video and rich interlinked content. Software such as Hello Woofy makes this easy and possible for small business owners. BEST MOMENTS 'Small businesses are the ones holding up the economy and we need to support them' ‘Resilience and persistence always pays off' 'That's an idea, right there, of using AI to reduce the gap between thought and execution' ‘We're all visual people, and we're powering that capability for the price of a cup of coffee' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Hello Woofy - www.hellowoofy.com Arjun Rai LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/arjunrai/ Hello Woofy Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hellowoofy/ The Emoji Trend Report - https://www.slideshare.net/adobe/adobe-emoji-trend-report-2019 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	14 Feb 2020	Hey Presto! Here's to the Critics	00:06:08
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	21 Oct 2020	Alex Chausovsky On Why Being A Data-Driven Business Will See Us Through Uncertain Times	00:34:28
If you're a business leader, and are facing the prospect of making the big business decisions in the near future - if you're facing any kind of uncertainty about the world around us, and you're feeling unsure of how to progress, then this is the show for you! Gavin talks to Senior Business Advisor and Keynote Speaker at ITR Economics, Alex Chausovsky, a specialist in steering companies through their strategic planning, using the most reliable industry and company forecasting. Alex discusses the importance of being a data-driven business, how to best calculate rates of change in your business, and why having 5 to 7 years of data will enable you to track low points and pinpoint periods of recovery. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Now is the time to invest in the future, whether that's an eCommerce platform or customer journey, or strengthening and developing your team. Borrow where you can at low rates of interest. Government-subsidised lending schemes are an incredible way of seeing you through the tougher times. Cash is king! Banking data and using it is crucial in order to pinpoint our most viable recovery times. Keeping at least 5 to 7 years' worth of data allows us to see a broad spectrum of highs and lows. Business owners really care about is not how quickly your rates of change bounce back, but how it feels on the ground when it happens. Certain markets have been far more resilient in terms of volume and job losses, whereas retail sales, hospitality and leisure are still on a downward trend. There is no one-size-fits-all forecast. Focus purely on your own business. BEST MOMENTS ‘Right now is a time to be a data-driven decision maker' ‘You can make good quality decisions based on inputs rather than emotion and fear' ‘Hindsight is obviously 20/20 vision' ‘You've got to track your own performance. That's got to be the driver behind your decision making' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Alex Chausovsky Twitter - https://twitter.com/achausovsky?lang=en ITR Economics -https://itreconomics.com/itr-economics-podcasts Alex Chausovsky LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexchausovsky/ Methodology Calculator - www.itreconomics.com/methodology 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	11 Jan 2021	Business Planning For 2021 - A Collaborative Podcast with Nick Bradley	00:47:27
It's a meeting of masterminds today as The Business Mastermind Podcast's Gavin Preston meets the Scale Up Your Business Podcast's Nick Bradley, for a reflection upon the year that was 2020 in business, and the opportunities and trends that will make the biggest differences in 2021! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS 2020's effects, for many, showed how many people use different mind-sets in order to deal with change. This has led to a sense of exhaustion in some, but the results have been worthwhile. The upheaval of 2020 has also demonstrated the resilience that many have, but may not have been aware of. It has displayed the strength of will and purpose that many of us had not embraced until it was really required. There is a sense that the world has changed irrevocably forever in terms of business operation and remote working. But in the new world, although remote working will become far more common, there will never be a substitute for face-to-face dealings. It will have its place. Businesses that will leapfrog ahead in 2021 are those with increased adaptability. These are businesses with clarity of direction, flexibility of cost-base and capacity, and who are creating a pro-change culture. BEST MOMENTS 'We were just laughing about how wrong we were at the turn of 2019/2020!' 'I think we saw so many examples of how people deal with change' 'We can do more than we're capable of when we're focussed' 'What are the things that you can do to make sure that the people in your organisation run towards change and embrace it and accelerate it' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get 20% off at Knowable by going to www.knowable.fyi and using the coupon code GAVIN Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com ABOUT THE GUEST NICK BRADLEY My name is Nick Bradley. I'm an entrepreneur, author, speaker and investor. My background is in growing and scaling VC and Private Equity backed businesses. Having successfully built, bought and sold a number of companies, and removed myself from day-to-day operations, my focus now is on helping entrepreneurs get to where they want to be, in business and in life. As well as investing in growth businesses and backing turnarounds - with the ultimate aim of creating value from significant capital events. I'm passionate about personal and professional development - showing up and being the best version of myself ... every day. My bigger vision is to help bring entrepreneurial skills, experience and mindset to people in developing nations - so they can follow their dreams, live life more on their terms - utilising entrepreneurship as a global force for good. CONTACT METHOD Nick's Facebook Page: https://scaleup.vip/FB Nick's LinkedIn: https://scaleup.vip/LI Nick's Instagram: https://scaleup.vip/IG Scale Up Your Business website: www.suyb.global 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	16 Aug 2020	George McGehrin On Building Three Businesses After Losing Everything In The Global Financial Crisis	00:40:57
When it comes to business journeys, there are few more remarkable than that of George McGehrin, who from the rubble of the global financial crisis, built three incredible businesses that grew to 6, 7, and 8-figure revenues. In this week's special, and very timely show, George joins Gavin to discuss his take on entrepreneurialism, how he scaled three businesses in rapid succession, and the lessons he learned from the last recession that have ensured that he is much better equipped to face any challenges in the future. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Having worked through collapse in the past, George recognised that a cash buffer was essential. From 2009, 10% of all profits were saved in an emergency fund, meaning that he is now well-equipped to see his business through any future challenge. We should be cutting costs wherever possible and doing our best to increase profits. The 80/20 principle should be aimed for at all times in order to focus upon the areas in our business that are working for us. Know the value of your own time. Delegate the tasks you're not great at whenever you can, and don't spend your invaluable time on anything unless you know you can do it well. Business is just a big mathematical problem. When you boil it down to its essence, then by solving the maths at the heart, we solve the business problem itself. BEST MOMENTS ‘I did it their way, now let me try it my way' ‘You get to the point where you can't outsell your stupidity' ‘You need to know the math problem that you're solving' 'The beautiful thing about running a business is that you get paid literally to the penny what you're worth' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast The McGherin Group - https://www.mcgehringroup.com George McGherin LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/gmcgehrin/ George McGherin Twitter - https://twitter.com/exec_headhunter?lang=en 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	23 Aug 2020	Tom Libelt on Insight Marketing, marketing courses online and protecting 4 thinking hours per day!	00:42:39
Gavin's guest today is Tom Libelt, the CEO of Smart Brand Marketing, the publisher of over 5,000 books for Kindle, the brains behind We Market Online Courses.com, and a true journeyman when it comes to the world of business and entrepreneurship. Tom joins the podcast today to discuss the power of online development, and why everyone should be setting aside four hours each day to engage in empowering thought. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Partnerships are like a marriage. Be very careful when you enter into one as they're generally a long term prospect, and require constant work and attention. Selling is the art of “selling without selling”. In reality, we must endeavour to never appear to be a salesman. Online it's different in that we must enter into a relationship, understand the course to a solution, and provide it naturally. We all have a period in each day when we do our best work. We should embrace this time as our premium period, and adjust our workday accordingly. We are far too distracted these days. The key is to quieten the noise and align our focus, so as to drastically improve productivity. BEST MOMENTS ‘I have 4 thinking hours per day where I do my best work' 'The main thing is don't look like a salesman!' ‘Figure out how to build something once and sell it twice' ‘We need to put a lot more emphasis on focus' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Smart Brand Marketing - https://smartbrandmarketing.com Tom Libelt Twitter - https://twitter.com/tomlibelt www.wemarketonlinecourses.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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
	05 Jul 2020	Tom Kulzer CEO & Founder of Aweber	00:50:47
Gavin's special guest this week is Tom Kulzer, the CEO and Founder of Aweber, a business dedicated to delivering simple, effective email marketing solutions to small businesses wishing to grow and scale. Through Tom's ingenuity, Aweber have served marketing solutions to over 100,000 businesses globally, and still operate upon the principle of connecting people first and foremost. Tom joins Gavin to discuss how the world has, and hasn't changed since Aweber began, and how an early internet business has stayed relevant in an ever-changing world. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Technologies are rapidly evolving, and so are the important websites in terms of customer presence, but the core principle of Aweber's business has always been about connecting people; a principle that has never changed. Change comes incrementally, and by constantly educating ourselves about business need and changing technologies. In virtual environments, the content is often more important than the people. Attendance for digital events have swiftly overtaken physical events in terms of attendance and engagement. There has to be risk and apprehension when implementing change. You know when you're doing something important and big, because your adrenaline tells you so. BEST MOMENTS ‘It's really simple to this day; it's just that our tools change over time' ‘You have to listen to your customers, but also keep that innovative mind-set' ‘Do really well by your existing customers and they will tell other people about you' ‘Good change doesn't happen when you're comfortable' VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Tom Kulzer LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomkulzer/ Aweber - https://www.aweber.com To book your copy of 'Survive And Thrive' visit https://www.surviveandthrive.cc/coming-soon1591762256 ABOUT THE GUEST Rob Moore Rob Moore is a triple best-selling Property Author, public speaker, entrepreneur, and multi-million- pound Property Investor. He co- founded the UK's biggest property education company Progressive Property in 2006 with Mark Homer and has since helped over 100,000 entrepreneurs towards achieving the same, including consulting for many established multi-millionaires and keynoting at some of the UK's most important business events. 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 Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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