Scale Up With Nick Bradley

Nick dives into the topic of finding focus when business growth has stalled. Drawing from his experience and insights, he introduces a straightforward yet powerful exercise known as the "rule of ones." This exercise encourages entrepreneurs to simplify their approach by identifying one clear target market, one core offer, one traffic source, one lead generation tool, one sales conversion process, and committing to a timeframe for implementation. Nick emphasises the importance of focus and persistence in entrepreneurship, sharing valuable strategies to help listeners refine their business models and drive future growth.  KEY TAKEAWAYS When growth stalls, it's essential to simplify and refine your business model by concentrating on key areas, such as identifying one clear target market, one core offer, and one traffic source. This exercise involves defining six "ones" to regain focus: one target market, one core offer, one traffic source, one lead generation tool, one sales conversion process, and committing to one year of execution. Deeply understanding your ideal customer’s needs, fears, and desires is crucial. Creating a detailed customer avatar can help tailor your marketing and product offerings effectively. Establishing a single lead generation tool and a streamlined sales conversion process can enhance efficiency and effectiveness in attracting and converting customers. BEST MOMENTS "It's about deciding what you're not going to do as much as it is deciding what you will focus on." "If growth has stalled, I want you to look at your main offer again and answer these questions: Is it simple and clear? Does it solve a problem that exists for your ideal customer?" "You need to give something away of value, ideally for free, in exchange for an email or something that can build your database." "Success in entrepreneurship is about two main things: focus and not giving up."   VALUABLE RESOURCES If you're interested in the mentoring that Nick talks about during this episode, message the word "MENTORING" to this email address: info@highvalueexit.com, or you can DM Nick on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/realnickbradley   FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick delves into the essential elements of creating a compelling pitch deck for entrepreneurs looking to raise capital or enhance their business communication. He emphasises the importance of clarity and simplicity, advising that a successful pitch should be concise, ideally no more than 15 slides and 20 minutes long. Nick outlines a structured approach to crafting a pitch deck, covering key components such as the problem and solution, uniqueness, business model, go-to-market strategy, competitive analysis, and financial projections. He also shares valuable tips on how to engage potential investors through personalised presentations, including the use of Loom videos.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Clarity and Simplicity in Pitch Decks: A successful pitch deck should prioritise clarity and simplicity, avoiding overly complex information. The goal is to communicate effectively so that the audience understands the key messages without confusion. Structure of a Pitch Deck: A well-structured pitch deck typically includes a title slide, problem and solution statements, uniqueness of the offering, business model, go-to-market strategy, competitive analysis, management team, financial projections, current status, use of funds, and potential exit strategies. Engagement through Video: Utilising tools like Loom to present pitch decks can enhance engagement. A personalised video presentation allows the presenter to explain the slides in detail, fostering a connection with the audience and increasing interest. The primary purpose of a pitch deck is to stimulate interest and secure a follow-up meeting, rather than to provide exhaustive details about the business. It should create enough intrigue to prompt further discussion. It's crucial to demonstrate an understanding of the market landscape, including competitors and the total addressable market (TAM). Investors want to see that there is a viable market opportunity and that the business can grow within that context.   BEST MOMENTS "The purpose of a pitch deck is very, very simple. It's to stimulate interest." "If you can do this graphically and simply, the better. If you have to explain it, it probably means the whole thing's too complex." "You do want to credibly, but at the same time, smartly build authority." "Your network is your net worth, so you need to be in those types of environments."   VALUABLE RESOURCES If you want a copy of the pitch deck template Nick mentioned in the episode, message the word "TEMPLATE" to this email address: info@highvalueexit.com, or you can DM him on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/realnickbradley   FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training   FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks to branding expert Greg Merilees, who shares his journey from t-shirt design to creating impactful websites for notable figures like Frank Oz and Sylvester Stallone. They delve into the essence of branding, discussing how it shapes perceptions and drives customer engagement. Greg emphasises the importance of clarity in messaging and the role of storytelling in building trust with audiences. They also explore the significance of unique positioning in a crowded market, illustrated through compelling case studies, including a Pilates instructor who transformed her business through a well-crafted online presence.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Branding as Perception: A brand is defined by what others say about you when you're not in the room. It's essential for a brand to resonate with customers and evoke feelings that encourage them to take action. Importance of Clarity: Clarity in messaging is crucial. Businesses should focus on clearly communicating what problems they solve and who they serve, rather than using jargon or clever phrases that may confuse potential customers. Storytelling in Branding: Storytelling is a powerful tool for building trust and authority. By sharing personal stories, case studies, and customer experiences, businesses can create a narrative that resonates with their audience and positions them as the guide in their customers' journeys. Incremental Improvement: A website is never truly finished; it should evolve over time. Businesses should start with a basic online presence and continuously improve it by adding valuable content, social proof, and trust elements as they grow. Unique Selling Proposition (USP): Identifying and highlighting what makes a business unique is vital for standing out in a crowded market. This can be achieved through competitor analysis and understanding customer feedback to draw out key differentiators.   BEST MOMENTS "A brand is what others say about you when you're not in the room, and it needs to appeal to your customers so that they take action with your brand." "If you don't have clarity in your message, people will leave your website. Clarity wins every time over being clever." "When people come to your website, they only care about what's in it for them, not about you."   GUEST RESOURCES Discover how to convert more of your website's visitors into hot leads and sales, take this quiz for FREE now: https://studio1design.com/nick   VALUABLE RESOURCES FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick shares valuable insights on building a rock star team, focusing on the importance of clarity and consistency in leadership, particularly when it comes to hiring and managing A players—individuals who not only possess the necessary skills but also align with the company's core values.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Clarity of Vision: Before building a team, it's crucial to have a clear vision of where you are (point A) and where you want to go (point B). Creating a vivid vision document helps articulate this clarity and serves as a tool for hiring. Right People, Right Seats: Ensure that the individuals you hire align with your company's core values and possess unique capabilities that are needed in your business. This alignment is essential for long-term success and reduces potential issues as the business grows. Hire A Players: Focus on hiring mainly A players, who are characterised by their desire to know if they are winning or losing, their emotional need to succeed, and their ability to see opportunities. Avoid settling for mediocrity, as it can hinder business growth. Five Key Hiring Principles: Implement a rigorous interview process, compensate generously, onboard effectively, measure performance consistently, and provide continuous coaching to retain top talent. Retention Beyond Compensation: Retaining A players involves more than just salary; it includes providing opportunities for training, development, and clear pathways for promotion. Additionally, be prepared to reassess roles as the business evolves, understanding that not all early hires will fit as the company grows.     BEST MOMENTS "The caliber of your team is the single most important component of successfully and efficiently operating a business."  "A players like to know if they're winning or losing. They have a high emotional need to succeed." "If you get it wrong, particularly in a key role, it's going to take you back a long way."  "You have to have absolute clarity on point A, where you are today, and point B, where you're going."  "It's not just about money; it's also about opportunity and what's in it for them."    VALUABLE RESOURCES If you're interested in the mentoring that Nick talks about during this episode, message the word "MENTORING" to this email address: info@highvalueexit.com, or you can DM Nick on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/realnickbradley   FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick welcomes Todd Hartley, CEO of Wirebuzz, to discuss the art and science of winning in business through effective sales and marketing strategies. Todd shares his insights on the importance of clarity, credibility, and collaboration in the sales process, emphasising how understanding the psychological needs of buyers can significantly enhance closing rates. He recounts his journey from a news reporter to a successful entrepreneur, highlighting the transformative power of video in sales. Todd also provides compelling case studies, showcasing how his training has led to remarkable revenue growth for Fortune 500 companies.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Importance of Clarity: Buyers need clarity about their problems and the solutions offered. If they are confused, they are likely to disengage. Salespeople should simplify their messaging to ensure prospects can easily digest the information. Building Credibility: Establishing credibility is crucial in the sales process. Prospects need to know that the salesperson has experience and can deliver results. This can be achieved through testimonials, case studies, and demonstrating past successes. Collaboration in Decision-Making: A significant portion of decision-makers evaluate options when the salesperson is not present. It's essential to provide resources that the primary contact can share with other stakeholders to facilitate the decision-making process. Utilising Video for Engagement: Video can significantly enhance the sales process by making communication more personal and engaging. It allows salespeople to convey their message effectively and connect with prospects on a deeper level. Relying on winging it can hinder growth. Establishing standard operating procedures and a systematic approach to sales can lead to predictable revenue and improved closing rates, especially as businesses scale.   BEST MOMENTS "Winning is easy once you understand the psychological needs of buyers and then you can just start to scale it up." "I sometimes speak thinking everyone understands what I'm talking about. But half the time, they've got no idea what I'm talking about." "If you want to win more deals, start teaching visually. The human brain processes visual information 90,000 times faster than it does with written information." "Perfection's not the goal, connection is. Your prospects are not expecting a Spielberg production out of your videos."   GUEST RESOURCES To receive free access to Todd Hartley's #1 bestselling marketing and sales book Accelerating YES, just go to toddhartley.com/scaleup   VALUABLE RESOURCES FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick focuses on how entrepreneurs can build businesses that provide freedom and financial independence without necessarily selling them. Drawing from his extensive experience in Private Equity and mentoring, Nick outlines a framework designed to help business owners transition from being trapped in the day-to-day grind to achieving operational freedom, and discusses the importance of shifting mindsets, optimising for profit rather than just revenue, and understanding the value of a business built for potential sale.    KEY TAKEAWAYS To achieve freedom and financial independence, business owners should shift their mindset from being an owner-operator to a real business owner. This involves working on the business rather than in it, allowing for greater strategic focus and less day-to-day involvement. Understanding how to create a business that is attractive to potential buyers is crucial, even if there are no immediate plans to sell. This includes knowing the value of the business, having a strong team, and being prepared for future transitions. As businesses grow, they often become more complex. Successful scaling requires the ability to manage this complexity while maintaining simplicity in operations. Implementing clear systems and processes is vital for effective management. Ultimately, the goal is to create a business that provides options for the future, whether that means selling the business or enjoying the freedom it offers. Having the ability to choose one's path is a key component of true entrepreneurial success.   BEST MOMENTS "The more valuable that you are to your business, the less valuable your business is." "If your business isn't giving you the freedom that you deserve, it is a fixable problem."  "Every problem as you grow becomes a who problem, not a how problem."   VALUABLE RESOURCES If you're interested in the mentoring that Nick talks about during this episode, message the word "MENTORING" to this email address: info@highvalueexit.com, or you can DM Nick on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/realnickbradley/   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick discusses the importance of systemising a business to achieve freedom and scalability with Lloyd Thompson, an expert in operations and management. They delve into the process of conducting an audit to identify areas for improvement, focusing on vision, values, and accountability. Lloyd explains how they help founders delegate tasks effectively and establish operational smoothness through rhythms, dashboards, and feedback loops. The episode highlights the transition founders need to make from micromanaging to delegating effectively, emphasising the role of a Director of Operations in streamlining business operations.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Focus on Vision, Values, and Accountability: Establishing a clear vision, values, and accountability within the business is crucial for effective operations. Task Audit for Time Management: Conducting a task audit can help identify where the founder is spending their time and delegate tasks effectively. Implement Rhythms, Dashboards, and Feedback Loops: Creating operational smoothness through rhythms, dashboards, and feedback loops can enhance business performance. Consider Revenue Ops for Sales and Marketing Alignment: Exploring Revenue Ops can optimise CRM usage and identify opportunities for sales and marketing alignment. Transition from Founder Involvement to Delegation: Helping founders transition from micromanaging to effective delegation is essential for business growth and scalability.   BEST MOMENTS "I often call it the first exit that a founder needs to go through." "I think it's important for people to know also where their strengths are." "I find that most of the businesses that I work with are marketing agencies and e-commerce, and that's largely because they're really high visionary folks." "There was an old saying when I used to work in the media industry many, many years ago. We used to say, don't let the creative run the agency."   VALUABLE RESOURCES FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick welcomes business mastermind James Schramko to discuss his journey from working in the automotive industry to becoming a successful online entrepreneur. James shares his experiences transitioning from a high-pressure job to creating a thriving online business that provides him with the freedom and flexibility he desires. He emphasises the importance of personal effectiveness, building a small team, having a good offer, and choosing the right business model. James also highlights the significance of focusing on customers, recurring subscriptions, and avoiding shortcuts in business.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Focus on increasing personal effectiveness by doing the right things, not necessarily working long hours. Build a small team to alleviate the pressure of having to do every role in the business. Have a good offer or product to make life easier; focus on customers and genuinely care about them for repeat business. Insist on having a recurring subscription at a higher price point for leverage in the business model. Avoid shortcuts, bad clients, and dodgy offers that sound too good to be true.   BEST MOMENTS "I went from zero to 300 grand a year in two and a half years" "It's about having a good offer. Like almost everything's easy if you have a good offer. If you don't have a good offer or you don't have a good product, life's going to be difficult."  "Focus on customers and actually care about them and then you'll find you get repeat, referral, lifetime relationship. I love having clients for 7, 8 years, 15 years."   GUEST RESOURCES James Schramko - https://www.jamesschramko.com/   VALUABLE RESOURCES FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick welcomes guest, Matt Chancey, to discuss the intricacies of tax planning for high-net-worth individuals, particularly focusing on strategies to minimise taxes during significant liquidity events such as selling a business. Matt shares insights on how to strategically plan for such events, emphasising the importance of early preparation and collaboration with a team of expert advisors. They delve into the concept of tax alpha solutions, exploring how investing in real estate and other tax-efficient strategies can help individuals retain more of their wealth.      KEY TAKEAWAYS Planning for tax implications before selling a business is crucial to maximise wealth preservation. Building a Dream Deal Team: Assembling a team of experts early on, including lawyers, CFOs, and tax advisors, is essential for a successful business sale. Investing in real estate can provide tax benefits and wealth preservation opportunities for business owners. Risk Management in Investments: Understanding the risks involved in real estate investments and implementing strategies to mitigate them is key to success. Early Planning for Tax Strategies: Starting tax planning strategies early, such as investing in qualified small business stock, can lead to significant tax savings in the long run.     BEST MOMENTS "The reasons that these things exist in the IRS code are based on really simple concepts based on economic growth and expansion. The government believes if you pay taxes, they take the money, and then they redistribute wealth based on whatever we do with our, you know, our budget."      GUEST RESOURCES Matt Chancey - https://www.mattchanceylive.com/home1615404071938     VALUABLE RESOURCES FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in     Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li     Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies. He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value business towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks to Graham Stephen, the co-founder of BizVal, about the process of demystifying business valuations.   Graham shares his background in corporate finance and entrepreneurship, highlighting the importance of understanding the value drivers of a business. They discuss key factors in business valuations, such as owner independence, effective processes and systems, unit economics, and customer understanding.   The conversation also delves into the significance of realistic growth strategies and the impact of customer dynamics on business value.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Business owners often struggle with the emotional aspect of selling their business, as it is tied to their identity and personal success. Having effective and scalable processes and systems in place is crucial for reducing owner dependence and ensuring the business can run smoothly without the founder's constant involvement. Understanding the unit economics of a business, including margins, cost scaling, and reinvestment adjustments, is essential for evaluating the cash profits a business can generate sustainably. A deep understanding of the customer base, market dynamics, and growth potential is vital for driving performance and achieving desired growth outcomes. Factors such as customer concentration, market size, and growth strategy play a significant role in determining the value and potential of a business for potential buyers.   BEST MOMENTS "I think a lot of business owners battle to separate that. So when they start to think about exit planning, it is something that they have to confront."   "I think what's really important, more than the unit economics themselves, is actually the owner or management's understanding of what those unit economics are."   GUEST RESOURCES BizVal - https://bizvalglobal.com/about-us/   VALUABLE RESOURCES   FREE TRAINING: Below, I cover 3 Simple Scaling Systems that will help you build a business that provides more freedom, makes you more money, and sets you up for total financial independence. https://go.highvalueexit.com/training   FREE DOWNLOAD: "Exit For Millions Blueprint” - This blueprint will help uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. https://go.highvalueexit.com/opt-in   Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com    Nick’s LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/realnickbradley   Nick Bradley is a world-renowned author, speaker, and business growth expert, who works with entrepreneurs, business leaders, and investors to build, scale and sell high-value companies.   He spent 10+ years working in Private Equity, where he oversaw 100+ acquisitions, 26 exits, and over $5 Billion in combined value created. He has one of the top-ranked business podcasts in the UK (with over 1m downloads in over 130 countries). He now spends his time coaching and consulting business owners in building and scaling high-value businesses towards life-changing exits.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick discusses the intricate world of mergers and acquisitions, focusing on sophisticated buyers like private equity firms. Nick emphasizes the importance of understanding the mindset of private equity partners when considering selling a company, especially for significant figures. He sheds light on the strategies and tactics employed by private equity firms, such as leveraging debt, maximizing returns, and the dynamics of partnerships post-acquisition KEY TAKEAWAYS Understanding the world of private equity and sophisticated buyers is crucial for successful business exits. Private equity firms aim to buy businesses cheaply, scale them quickly, and generate high returns for investors. When considering selling to private equity, founders should thoroughly research and interview potential partners. Selling a majority stake to private equity can lead to significant financial gains, especially if the founder retains equity post-acquisition. Proper planning and education are essential for founders looking to sell their businesses to private equity or sophisticated buyers. BEST MOMENTS "Private equity has for years had a very bad rap... However, there are many, many private equity firms out there, literally thousands, and they all have different ways of operating."  "When they go and buy a business, they don't just go and put their money into the acquisition. They put around 20%, maybe 30% of their money into the acquisition."  "Remember, this is the biggest financial transaction of your life. Selling a company for eight to nine figures is a life-changing event, bar none."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Kurt Stein, an IT consultant and digital transformation expert, to talk about the impact of AI on entrepreneurship and business, particularly in a rapidly changing landscape. Kurt emphasises the importance of embracing AI as an enabler rather than a threat, highlighting the need for businesses to adapt and innovate quickly. They delve into various AI tools and platforms, such as Microsoft Copilot and Descript, that can enhance business operations and efficiency, and touch on the significance of effective prompting in utilising AI tools and the necessity for businesses to build an AI-first culture to stay competitive in the evolving market.  KEY TAKEAWAYS It is crucial for businesses to embrace AI as an enabler of growth and innovation, rather than a threat. To excel in using AI tools effectively, continuous learning and practice are essential. Start small, experiment, and refine your prompts. Utilising tools like Microsoft Co-Pilot can significantly impact businesses by enabling AI capabilities within existing systems. Explore a variety of AI tools such as Descript, u.com, OpenAI, VEED.io, and WordTune to enhance productivity and efficiency in different business functions. Improving prompting skills is key to maximising the potential of AI tools. Practice, follow experts, and take relevant courses to enhance prompting abilities. BEST MOMENTS "If you want to go run a marathon, you don't just put on a pair of sneakers and just start running. You're going to hurt yourself. You're going to make a lot of mistakes. You're going to do everything wrong."  "The prompting really is the key. You don't have to be a computer engineer or a computer scientist in order to do that. So let that fear go away. You can actually work with it. You can be very successful with it."  "It's not AI that's going to kind of, you know, kill your business or kind of stop your employment. It's someone who knows how to use it better."  "So the one thing that's kind of level things as well is Microsoft, is Google. Microsoft more so. Google stumbled in the beginning with some of the things they were doing." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks to Justin Donald, the founder of Lifestyle Investor, about the concept of lifestyle investing and the importance of understanding wealth creation, freedom, and impact for entrepreneurs and business owners. Justin shares his journey from being an entrepreneur to becoming a successful lifestyle investor, emphasising the need to diversify investments and create passive income streams. They discuss the ten commandments of lifestyle investing, focusing on principles such as reducing risk, creating cash flow, and finding income amplifiers.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Establishing clear investment criteria is crucial for making informed investment decisions. This includes factors like passive income generation, risk reduction, and finding invisible deals. Prioritising investments that generate immediate cash flow can help de-risk deals and provide ongoing returns. Focusing on getting the principal investment back quickly allows for reinvestment and compounding of wealth over time. Seeking opportunities to enhance returns through preferred terms, equity kickers, or co-investment options can maximise the potential of an investment. Developing a mindset of attachment-detachment balance is essential in navigating the emotional aspects of investing and making rational decisions. BEST MOMENTS "I don't want to buy a job. I don't want to make the mistake of starting a business or buying a business thinking that, hey, I'm buying passive income." "Most entrepreneurs are over allocated into one single business. So all their eggs are in that basket, should something happen." "I think it's important just to draw a line onto this is that, you know, if you have a business, I often say there are multiple exits anyway, right?" "Most people are clocking their wins when it's just paper money. So there's a markup. There's a, like, this isn't real money that, or, or you have your money tied up in, uh, you know, in the stock market." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick discusses the importance of leveraging time effectively to maximise output in business and personal life. Drawing inspiration from entrepreneur Naval Ravikant, Nick emphasises the concept of leverage in time management, focussing on the detrimental effects of being addicted to chaos and trading time for money, and highlighting the need to transition to trading money for more time to achieve entrepreneurial success. KEY TAKEAWAYS Understand the power of leverage in business and prioritise it over just focusing on time. Avoid being addicted to chaos: Recognise and address any tendencies towards chaos that may be sabotaging decision-making and time management. Transition from trading time for money to trading money for time: Shift from being an employee in your own business to becoming an entrepreneur by investing money to create more time. Build a team strategically: Start by outsourcing administrative tasks, then focus on marketing and sales, followed by product delivery, and eventually move towards leadership roles. Aim for ultimate freedom: Work towards building a business that operates independently of you, allowing you to step into a leadership or board position and eventually achieve complete freedom from day-to-day operations. BEST MOMENTS "Time times leverage equals output." "If your business depends on you, you don't own a business, you have a job, and it's the worst job in the world because you're working for a lunatic."  "Most business owners, most leaders are focused more on time than leverage."  "You have to understand, you have to study and master actually the power of leverage." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by special guest, Anastasia Koroleva, who has been involved in multiple exits and is now focused on the psychological effects of exiting companies. They discuss the importance of understanding the psychological impact of exiting a business, including the challenges and changes that come with it. Anastasia shares insights on the post-exit period, emphasising the need for healing, self-discovery, and exposure to new experiences. They delve into the concept of finding purpose and authenticity after an exit, highlighting the importance of evolving and aligning one's values with their future goals.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Preparation is Key: It is crucial for entrepreneurs to prepare emotionally and psychologically for an exit. Understanding the potential impact on mental health and identity post-exit is essential. Taking time to heal and reflect post-exit is important. Entrepreneurs should give themselves permission not to know and expose themselves to different activities to aid in the healing process. Instead of asking "What's next?", entrepreneurs should focus on "Who is next?" This involves understanding who they want to become and aligning their energy towards a specific purpose. Entrepreneurs should be radically open to challenging their beliefs and assumptions, especially regarding concepts like freedom. It's important to channel freedom intentionally towards meaningful pursuits. As entrepreneurs satisfy one level of their needs, new motivators and drivers may emerge. It's crucial to recognise that there are other motivators beyond financial gain that can drive fulfilment and purpose. BEST MOMENTS "I think it's very important to give yourself permission not to know. It's very important to heal. Building a business takes a toll on our health and mental health. We just need to heal and respect that." "I think it's extremely important to focus on the 'who' first. 'Who' refers to you, but also as you correctly said, it also refers to people around you. Because we learn so much from just being around the right kind of people." "Understanding true authenticity, which is absolutely needed to find your real purpose in life, takes time because we need to deal with who we are, and then exit pushes us to do that, pushes us to ask questions." "It's a big challenge in terms of challenging it because most entrepreneurs, when I speak on stages and you ask the question about what are you doing this for? I usually ask three questions, and the second question is, you know, why does this matter?" VALUABLE RESOURCES Anastasia Koroleva - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiakoroleva Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Elliott Holland, an expert in due diligence, particularly quality of earnings. Elliott shares insights into the due diligence process, focusing on the importance of financial analysis and commercial and operational considerations. He emphasises the need for a robust due diligence process, especially for smaller businesses, to ensure accurate financial reporting and mitigate risks. They also cover key aspects such as working capital, key man risk, and strategies for successful acquisitions., highlighting the significance of differentiation in a competitive market and the importance of experienced buyers in securing successful deals.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Quality of earnings is crucial in the due diligence process for selling a business, providing a mini audit on private businesses to ensure accurate financial reporting. It is important to address key man risk, financial disrepair, and reliance on one vendor or customer to maintain the value of a business during a sale. Working capital should be carefully assessed and negotiated to ensure a smooth transition for the new owner and avoid financial strain post-transaction. Differentiating oneself in a crowded market of acquisition entrepreneurs can be achieved through experience, stability, and a willingness to put skin in the game. No money down deals are speculative and may not be feasible in most cases, especially for new entrants in the market. It is essential to have realistic expectations and be prepared to negotiate effectively. BEST MOMENTS "I think the no money down stuff is speculative and oftentimes not worth the juice isn't worth the squeeze."  "I think more people know about them now. And also, I think the skin in the game concept is real."  "I think the other thing is there's a metric in private equity, I'm sure you saw this, where when you swap out leadership and put in your own person, the general return on that is pretty high."  "I think it's primarily contracts and bonuses, but let's take a step back and say on this, let's be smart."  VALUABLE RESOURCES eholland@guardianduediligence.com www.GuardianDueDiligence.com (404) 441-2637 Linkedin.com/in/elliottholland @ElliottEHolland Youtube.com@guardianduediligence Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick and special guest Dan Cremons take a deep dive into the world of private equity. Dan, with his extensive experience in private equity, shares insights on maximising exit value for business owners. They also discuss the evolving landscape of private equity, emphasising the importance of operational expertise and value creation post-acquisition. Dan highlights the significance of building a business that aligns with the criteria of potential buyers, focusing on people performance and strategic planning for long-term success.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Begin with the end in mind: Business owners should start by thinking about what the business needs to look like to attract the right buyers for a successful exit. Conduct exit planning sessions early: Engage in exit planning sessions with leadership teams to align on the vision for the business and the exit strategy. Think like a private equity buyer: Understand how private equity buyers assess businesses and tailor the business to meet their criteria for a successful exit. Focus on building a business that buyers would want to acquire: Create a business that aligns with the criteria of potential buyers to maximise exit value. Prioritise people performance maximisation: Recognise the importance of having the right leadership team in place to drive value creation and enhance the business's attractiveness to buyers. BEST MOMENTS "I think my path has been perhaps made it feel a bit more approachable to me. But to your point, I deal with that a lot when dealing with founders who haven't dealt with private equity before." "The good ones have identified a series of activities that they can meld together to be both different and valuable." "The presence of a clear successor to the extent that the founder is trying to transition out or doesn't have or has acknowledged they don't have the skill set to carry it forward." "I love what you're doing about getting people ready to be CEOs and putting them in. But I also know that if someone's got training wheels and an acquisition gets done, that can be a big risk as well." VALUABLE RESOURCES Download our Exit For Millions Blueprint™ to uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. Get ahead of the game and focus on building a high-value, exitable business now, so you have the 'option' to sell at any time and on your terms. Get it today: ExitForMillionsBlueprint.com Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick discusses the key steps to prepare for a high-value exit of a business. He breaks down the process into three stages: strengthening the foundations of the business, scaling the value of the company, and being smart when you decide to sell. Nick emphasises the importance of transitioning from organised chaos to a well-oiled machine by focusing on areas such as talent structuring, systems automation, and data-driven decision-making. He also delves into the significance of understanding the M&A process, assembling a dream deal team, and crafting a vivid exit story to attract sophisticated buyers.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Focus on Strengthening Foundations: Ensure your business has a well-oiled machine by structuring talent, implementing systems automation, and making data-driven decisions. Transition to Profitable Scale: Move from inconsistent growth to profitable scale by optimising recurring revenue, considering bolt-on acquisitions, and focusing on margin expansion. Prepare for a Compelling Exit Story: Create a compelling narrative for the future of your business to attract sophisticated buyers and increase the value of your company. Understand the M&A Process: Educate yourself on the M&A process and assemble a dream deal team to navigate the complexities of selling your business. BEST MOMENTS "The dream, if you like, of a high-value exit, of exiting your business for millions, is something that is very much attainable to most entrepreneurs."  "It's going from curious amateur to worthy opponent. So you know how to firstly play the game, but you also know how to win."  "The higher the margin, the better. If you can increase the margin, It's also going to increase your profit and cashflow, obviously."  "Most business owners can't even talk about this stuff. If you can talk about this stuff because you've prepared in advance, can you see that that sophisticated buyer is going to lean in?"  VALUABLE RESOURCES Download our Exit For Millions Blueprint™ to uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. Get ahead of the game and focus on building a high-value, exitable business now, so you have the 'option' to sell at any time and on your terms. Get it today: ExitForMillionsBlueprint.com  Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Callum Laing, who shares insights from his experience in setting up boards for successful exits and emphasises the importance of having a diverse and effective board in place. They discuss the value of advisory boards, the journey to becoming a board member, and the steps individuals can take to join boards successfully. Callum also introduces his upcoming book, "The Boardroom Blueprint," which provides a guide for individuals looking to enter the world of board membership.  GRAB A FREE COPY of "The Boardroom Blueprint" using this link: https://boardroom-blueprint.com/nb/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Building Connections: Start by deliberately building connections with people already on boards to increase your chances of joining a board. Knowledge: Gain awareness of key themes like ESG and diversity to speak the language and understand board governance. Profile: Update your profile to reflect your board involvement, which can change how your network perceives you and open up new opportunities. Value: Focus on delivering value as a board member by thinking holistically about the business and finding ways to contribute effectively. Progression: Approach board positions as stepping stones, starting with advisory roles and apprentice boards to gain experience and build credibility before moving up to larger boards. BEST MOMENTS "I think the biggest thing for people to get their heads around is, agreeing to work for free. I keep pointing out it's not for free, it's for credibility." "The biggest thing for people to get their heads around is, agreeing to work for free. I keep pointing out it's not for free, it's for credibility."  "If I see something that you haven't seen, and you win and I win, right, so rev shares or whatever else, or certainly equity."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Download our Exit For Millions Blueprint™ to uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. Get ahead of the game and focus on building a high-value, exitable business now, so you have the 'option' to sell at any time and on your terms. Get it today: ExitForMillionsBlueprint.com  Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Amber Spears, to talk about affiliate marketing, emphasising the importance of diversifying customer acquisition channels and highlight the value of incorporating affiliate marketing into a business strategy.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Affiliate Marketing Basics: It's vital to recognise the different types of affiliates such as traditional affiliates, influencers, and ambassadors. Value of Diversification: Diversifying customer acquisition channels is emphasised as a key strategy for business growth and resilience. The importance of having multiple channels, including affiliate marketing, is highlighted to avoid dependency on a single source. Building Trust and Relationships: Amber and Nick stress the value of investing time and effort in cultivating relationships with affiliates, influencers, and ambassadors to enhance brand credibility. Strategic Partnerships: Partnerships can expand reach, drive revenue, and provide access to new audiences, thereby emphasising the mutual benefits of collaboration. Balancing Dependence and Independence: You need to find the balance between leveraging affiliate marketing for customer acquisition while maintaining independence and diversification in marketing strategies. Nick and Amber address concerns about over-reliance on affiliates and the importance of a well-rounded marketing approach. BEST MOMENTS "I think it's a missed opportunity that most business owners don't understand."  "I've started doing this thing recently to mitigate my point beforehand, where if someone wants to do a 15 minute call to ask a question, I'll get people kind of like ask me."  "I think first and foremost, when you're thinking about. How do I add, I would say first, do you want to add this in as a channel of customer acquisition into your."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Amber Spears - https://www.ambermspears.com/ Download our Exit For Millions Blueprint™ to uncover gaps across 15 danger areas that could sabotage your dream of achieving a life-changing exit. Get ahead of the game and focus on building a high-value, exitable business now, so you have the 'option' to sell at any time and on your terms. Get it today: ExitForMillionsBlueprint.com  Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick interviews Trey Taylor, author of the book "A CEO Only Does Three Things: Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite." Trey shares his personal journey of unexpectedly taking over his family's multi-generational financial business and the challenges he faced in learning the role of a CEO. He emphasises the importance of culture, people, and numbers in the CEO's job and how these three areas are interconnected. Trey discusses the significance of articulating and ritualising company values, sharing stories that exemplify those values, and creating a strong culture. He also highlights the role of the CEO in setting the agenda for the organisation and the importance of aligning the culture as the business scales.  KEY TAKEAWAYS The CEO's job is the most lonely job in the organisation, as they don't have peers and must make decisions that chart the course of the company. Vision is important, but it is more tactical than the three core areas of culture, people, and numbers that a CEO must focus on. Culture is crucial and should be articulated through values and behaviors. Ritualizing these values helps embed them into the organization. People are a key aspect of a CEO's role, from hiring the right individuals to ensuring they are supported and aligned with the company's values. Numbers are also important, and while the CFO may handle the execution, the CEO sets the agenda and ensures alignment with the company's goals. BEST MOMENTS "The CEO's job is the most lonely job in the organisation. That's the joy and the hurt of it."  "Vision is a lot more tactical than these three things are."  "Culture trumps everything."  "The reason you start a company is because something isn't true in the world and you want to be the one to make it true."  "Job performance is not results, performance, none of those things are. Culture performance is what is going to keep you on the path."  ABOUT THE GUEST Trey Taylor is the Managing Director of Threadneedle, the Taylor Family Office, Chief Executive Officer of Taylor Insurance Services, Managing Director of trinity | blue consulting and Founding Partner of Ascend Partners. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in History from Emory University, & a Juris Doctor degree in Tax & Corporate Transactions from Tulane. In 2020, Trey published his first book, A CEO Only Does Three Things.  Since that publication, he has appeared on 60+ podcasts and been featured in publications like INC., Entrepreneur, SHRM and others.  He speaks frequently as a keynote speaker challenging audiences to be more intentional, find more focus and get the right things done. In his private time, Trey is a WSET certified sommelier and a recent private pilot with a Cirrus SR22T.  He and his wife, Sheya, are the proud parents of Ret, Emmaline and Mary Salter.  They make their home in South Georgia, and travel frequently for work and pleasure. VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by JB Brown, an experienced entrepreneur and mergers and acquisitions advisor. They delve into the topic of partnerships within businesses and the challenges that can arise, particularly when preparing for an exit. They discuss the importance of understanding each partner's goals and motivations, as well as the need for a solid partnership agreement from the start. JB shares personal experiences and insights, highlighting the significance of clear communication and trust in maintaining successful partnerships. They also touch on the role of private equity in resolving conflicts and creating win-win situations.  KEY TAKEAWAYS It is crucial to have a solid partnership agreement or operating agreement in place from the beginning to avoid conflicts and misunderstandings. When dealing with partnership disagreements, it is important to seek first to understand each party's true goals and motivations. In situations where partners have different timelines or end goals, creative solutions such as buying out the partner or structuring payment over time can be explored. Due diligence on potential partners is essential to ensure alignment of business philosophies and values. Trust and open communication are vital in partnerships, and regular monitoring of financials and company operations can help prevent issues from escalating. BEST MOMENTS "It's always our fault. I believe in radical accountability."  "The first thing I feel my responsibility is, is to seek first to understand what exactly each relevant party really wants."  "It all starts with a really solid partnership agreement and/or operating agreement."  "What saved me was when we were doing negotiations, we had also started a new brand." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig JB Brown - www.whitebuffaloadvisors.com Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick welcomes back Adam Coffey, a renowned expert in scaling, growing value, and exiting companies, to share his insights from his latest book, "Empire Builder: The Road to a Billion," where he discusses the challenges faced by entrepreneurs and offers strategies for success. Adam discusses the importance of understanding unit-level economics, focusing on needs-based businesses with recurring revenue streams, and diversifying assets through strategic partnerships and exits. Adam also delves into the mindset shift required to scale from a control-focused founder to a visionary leader.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Understanding unit-level economics is crucial for building a successful business. Entrepreneurs need to focus on profitability and ensure that their business model is sustainable. Recognise the need to let go of control and empower others as the business scales. Transition from being a micromanager to a conductor of the orchestra, managing processes instead of minutiae. Consider selling the business at a certain size to diversify assets and protect against risks. Selling to a private equity firm can provide financial security and accelerate wealth creation. Private equity is a growing investment class and will continue to play a significant role in the market. Entrepreneurs should understand the private equity landscape and leverage their capital and expertise. The ultimate goal is not necessarily to build a billion-dollar empire, but to achieve financial security and success at different milestones, such as reaching $30 million or $100 million in revenue. BEST MOMENTS "I want to change those odds. I want you to be one of the seven percent that get to a million, one of the four percent that get to 10 million, and then let's scale on up to 100 million."  "I think too often times entrepreneurs just don't know where they're going."  "I want you to get asset diversification to protect your family against an unknown risk."  "Real estate makes millionaires, business makes billionaires."  "The reason we're getting high prices is because that asset class exists."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Adam Coffey - https://adamecoffey.com/ Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick shares his insights and strategies for goal-setting and business planning, focusing on the importance of clarity, simplicity, and execution in achieving business success. Nick takes you through a step-by-step process, starting with creating a vivid vision for the business and setting goals aligned with that vision. He then breaks down the goals into operational drivers and strategic initiatives, and further refines them into projects and actionable tasks.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Setting clear goals and creating a strategic plan is crucial for business success. The one-page business plan framework consists of four quadrants: vision, goals, projects, and actions. The vision should articulate the desired future state of the business in clear detail. Goals should be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART). Projects and actions should be aligned with the goals and vision, and executed within a specific timeframe. BEST MOMENTS "I'm a big believer that complexity fails and simplicity scales."  "The best time to start exit planning is the day you start your business."  "If you're focusing too much on profit, then you get yourself into a situation where if you're not selling anything, you ain't got any profit anyway."  "Culture drives everything, but it's one of those things that you have to build over time."  "Sometimes there's a lack of alignment, so you can create this work independently, but your key people in your business aren't involved, so they feel like they're detached."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Rob Huxtable, a partner at executive search firm Falcon, to discuss what it takes to thrive as a C-suite leader in a private equity-backed company. Rob shares his expertise on the characteristics and skills necessary for success in this environment, delving into the importance of self-esteem, execution at velocity, hands-on involvement, effective communication, and influence without authority. They also explore the need for alignment with the specific governance model of a private equity firm. KEY TAKEAWAYS Self-esteem and vulnerability are crucial traits for success in a private equity-backed company. Executives need to believe in themselves, be open to recognising their gaps, and continuously strive for improvement. Execution at velocity is highly valued in the private equity world. Executives must be able to make decisions quickly, be data-driven, and have a sense of urgency to drive results. Hands-on involvement is essential in private equity-backed companies. Executives should be willing to roll up their sleeves, be involved in various aspects of the business, and have a deep understanding of the operations. Effective communication is key. Private equity firms value clear, succinct communication that includes the problem, solution, and action plan. Building trust and maintaining alignment with the board is crucial for success. The ideal skill set for executives in private equity-backed companies includes a strong foundation from a blue-chip company, experience in progressively smaller businesses, engineering scalable operations, and the ability to align with the investment thesis of the firm. Adaptability and the ability to influence without authority are also important skills to possess. BEST MOMENTS "If you don't prepare properly for what is the biggest financial event of your life, you are the prey."  "Private equity investors are some of the brightest and most ambitious and boldest business minds out there, but they're also risk averse, thoughtful."  "You better be reinventing yourself and improving on a constant basis."  "The minute you let that moat run dry, they have no choice but to infiltrate and start taking more control than you might like." "We want to make sure they are systematised and mechanised to scale, without excessive dependency on people and more dependency on process."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Rob Huxtable LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robhuxtable ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is in conversation with Joe Stolte, an entrepreneur with an impressive track record of successful exits, to discuss the power of AI in business and its rapid growth and impact across the world. Joe shares his experience in using AI to drive successful marketing campaigns, particularly through email newsletters. He emphasises the importance of understanding the customer and delivering valuable content that resonates with their needs and interests. Joe also introduces his company, daily.ai, which leverages AI to curate high-quality content from thought leaders and experts, providing businesses with valuable insights and resources. KEY TAKEAWAYS Email is a powerful marketing channel that offers more control and ownership compared to social media platforms. It allows businesses to directly reach their target audience and build relationships. Newsletters are an effective way to provide valuable content to customers and prospects. By curating content from thought leaders and addressing topics of interest to the audience, businesses can establish themselves as a trusted resource. AI can be used to generate content, but it should be treated as a tool rather than a replacement for human expertise. Human oversight and testing are necessary to ensure the quality and effectiveness of the content. Adaptive learning and iterative intelligence can enhance the performance of marketing campaigns. By analysing audience behaviour and feedback, businesses can continuously improve their content and better align it with customer preferences and needs. BEST MOMENTS "Email is an asset that you own. You don't own your LinkedIn followers. You don't own your Twitter followers. You're beholden to the algorithm and how that works."  "You've got to take your client, your prospect off the platform"  "What we do is we look at AI as a really, really, really good intern."  "Generative AI is input, process, output. What you get is what you get. And if you're not testing it, you're not bathing it in the reality of the marketplace of what your audience wants and watching actually how they perform, then you're never gonna know if it actually works."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Daily AI - https://dailyai.io/ Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick welcomes Chip Conley, a renowned speaker and author, about the concept of midlife wisdom and the transformative power of embracing new opportunities. Chip shares his personal journey of transitioning from a successful CEO to becoming a modern elder and mentor at Airbnb. He discusses the societal stigma around aging and how reframing our mindset can lead to a more fulfilling and purposeful life. Chip also highlights the importance of cultivating wisdom, navigating midlife transitions, and embodying a regenerative lifestyle. The episode offers valuable insights and practical advice for anyone seeking to find meaning and fulfilment in midlife and beyond. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We need to shift mindset on aging from negative to positive, emphasising the growth and opportunities that come with age. We must encourage individuals to adopt a growth mindset, where they focus on improving themselves rather than proving themselves, and view success as learning rather than winning. The Modern Elder Academy helps individuals navigate the transitions that often occur during midlife, providing support and guidance during this transformative period. Embrace a regenerative lifestyle and find purpose in giving back to the world, fostering a sense of connection and fulfilment. BEST MOMENTS "Wisdom is metabolised experience, so your life lessons digested, which leads to distilled compassion." "The person who, going into their 50s, is willing to become a beginner again, willing to actually try something out that they're not very good at, but to actually see if they can get into the flow of it."  "We see people who just say, you know what, I know what's next for me. And this group of people are going to hold me accountable and be my support." "I was damn good at getting press for myself and my business, but let's make sure that myself goes first. I was living a life that was very, very dedicated to caring what everybody thought about me."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Chip Conley - https://chipconley.com/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick welcomes Jeremy Snape, a former cricket player for England and now a sports psychologist and leadership consultant. They delve into the parallels between sports and business leadership, focusing on mindset and the importance of a winning mindset. Jeremy shares personal stories from his cricket career, including moments of despair and triumph, and discusses the power of staying present and in control of one's thinking. He also highlights the need for preparation, scenario planning, and the ability to block out pressure.  KEY TAKEAWAYS We need to focus on the present moment, control our thinking and breathing, and stay true to one's strengths. There is a need to manage pressure and negative self-talk - strategies such as breathing techniques, pre-shot routines, and positive self-talk help us to stay focused and perform at one's best. Leaders can learn from top performers in various fields, including sports, to gain insights and inspiration. By studying the habits and strategies of elite athletes, leaders can apply similar principles to their own performance and strive for continuous improvement. Sustained success comes from being purpose-driven and having a bigger why behind one's actions. This purpose can help leaders stay motivated and overcome challenges. BEST MOMENTS "I just thought, what have you done? You've ruined the game. You're never going to play for England again."  "The only thing that I can control is my thinking, my breathing, my balance in this moment."  "It's almost letting go of it in a way." "There's definitely some kind of ability to vision what they want in technicolor."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/  Jeremy Snape - https://www.sportingedge.com/team-jeremy-snape.html Listen to Jeremy’s podcast ‘Inside the Mind of Champions’ via Apple https://apple.co/3kLX2Nd or Spotify https://spoti.fi/302xfIU   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Purdeep Sangha, an expert in business growth, scaling, and leadership, with a specific focus on family businesses. Purdeep shares his personal journey, growing up in an immigrant family and working in the agricultural business. He discusses his transition from the corporate world to entrepreneurship, driven by a desire to align his values and make a bigger impact. The conversation delves into the importance of mindfulness and meditation in effective leadership, highlighting the benefits of emotional mastery and improved decision-making. Purdeep also offers practical advice for those looking to incorporate mindfulness practices into their daily lives.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Family businesses have the potential to scale and transition into successful enterprises if they are structured and operated as such. Mindfulness and meditation practices can have a significant impact on effective leadership, improving emotional mastery, decision-making capabilities, problem-solving skills, and creativity. Creating empty space and being in an alpha theta brainwave state can enhance creativity and problem-solving abilities. Mindfulness and meditation should be seen as a lifestyle rather than a short practice, and consistency is key to experiencing the benefits. Emotions play a crucial role in leadership, as they radiate energy and can be controlled more effectively than thoughts. Developing emotional mastery can positively impact leadership effectiveness and overall results. BEST MOMENTS "I was just kind of tired. I was at a point in my life where I needed to change. So I told my wife that I was going to quit."  "I was constantly about making change and having an impact. A lot of the other people were comfortable. They weren't really taking a look at future opportunities."  "Meditation and mindfulness is a lifestyle. It's not a practice that's there for five or 10 minutes. It's a way of being rather than just a specific five-minute exercise."  "When you reduce your stress, you improve your health. There's a direct correlation there." "You have more control over your emotions than you think, because a lot of it has to do with your physiology. You can use your body to actually influence your emotions." VALUABLE RESOURCES Purdeep Sangha - https://purdeepsangha.com/ Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined this time by Ryan Tansom and Walker Deibel, for a lively discussion about the complexities and misconceptions surrounding buying and selling businesses. They address the rise of misleading marketing tactics that promise easy success in the world of acquisitions, highlighting the importance of understanding the true value of a company and the practical steps needed to achieve a successful transaction. They also explore the different perspectives of acquisition entrepreneurs and independent sponsors, shedding light on the scaling gap that often exists after a deal is closed. With their combined expertise, this fireside chat between three experts provides invaluable insights into the intricacies of the M&A landscape and the importance of approaching it with knowledge and diligence. KEY TAKEAWAYS There is a prevalence of misleading marketing tactics in the M&A industry, where people are promised easy and risk-free ways to buy businesses. There is a need for buyers to have a realistic understanding of the value of a business and not overestimate its worth based on unrealistic expectations or anecdotes. It is important for buyers to have a solid understanding of financial statements, particularly the cash flow statement, to make informed decisions and ensure the financial viability of the business. Some buyers may successfully acquire a business but struggle with managing and growing it effectively, leading to potential losses or failure. BEST MOMENTS "You're helping the next generation of entrepreneurs buy companies the right way."  "I think an acquisition entrepreneur is potentially one of the only exits that'll actually work for someone." "I felt like I was as equipped as I could be going into it. All right. I ended up selling that company for seven figures about seven years later."  "You've got to get in the game. If you want to win."  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks to David Lesperance, a tax advisor and international tax expert, about the complex world of tax mitigation and strategic planning for entrepreneurs and business owners looking to optimise their wealth and minimise tax liabilities. David shares his extensive experience in helping clients navigate the intricacies of residency, citizenship, and domicile options in various jurisdictions, and emphasises the importance of understanding individual goals, family needs, and wildfire concerns to develop tailored strategies.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS It is important to consider individual and family needs when planning for tax mitigation and relocation. Factors such as education, lifestyle, and security should be taken into account. Diversification of assets and investments can help mitigate tax liabilities and provide more financial flexibility. This includes considering different jurisdictions and currencies for wealth management. Working with a fee-based advisor rather than a commission-based salesperson can ensure unbiased advice and a focus on the client's best interests. Reverse engineering can be a useful approach to tax planning. By starting with the desired outcome and working backwards, individuals can identify the most effective strategies for minimising tax obligations. BEST MOMENTS "The goal is to keep the dollars paid as low as possible. Zero times even ninety nine point nine percent rate is still zero dollars paid." "Most people tend to over-index and over-invest in their current location and their current currency." "The more direct way of saying it is protecting your ass and your assets." "It's understanding not all family members need to have the same solution." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Lesperance Associates - https://lesperanceassociates.com/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by guest Brooke Casanovas to discuss the significance and intention behind mastermind rooms. Brooke shares her journey of attending and hosting masterminds, starting from seeking knowledge and proving herself, to realising the importance of building a network and collaborating with like-minded individuals. They delve into the different tiers of masterminds and the transformative power of being in a room with high-frequency individuals who are aligned with their calling. They also explore the role of mindset and emotional intelligence in creating meaningful connections and experiences within mastermind environments Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Mastermind rooms are not just about gaining knowledge or making business connections. They are about creating a space for collaboration, transformation, and personal growth. The energy and frequency of the people in the room can greatly impact the synergy and outcomes of a mastermind. Masterminds can be categorized into different tiers based on the participants' objectives and experiences. The first tier focuses on gaining knowledge and proving oneself. The second tier involves networking and seeking referrals. The highest tier is about collaboration, creativity, and giving. Understanding which tier aligns with your objectives can help you choose the right mastermind. Being self-aware and in alignment with your values and purpose is essential for a meaningful mastermind experience. When participants are authentic, vulnerable, and focused on personal growth, the room becomes a space for deep connections, support, and transformation. BEST MOMENTS "For the past decade, I have been studying rooms and environments and the role that they play on synergies, relationships, frequencies, and collaborations." "There's never peace inside. We only find our 'artificial peace' on the outside, which never actually satisfies." "I found that the people that I was working with, these CEOs, their egos were really, really hard to actually manage and get through and actually create change." "There's not any inner peace because they're not listening to the internal voice. They're listening to every voice outside of them and every external stimuli." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick welcomes Joseph Durnford, an expert in M&A transactions with over 30 years of experience. They delve into the world of deal making, building value, and exiting companies. Joseph shares his insights and expertise, drawing from his extensive background in private equity and investment banking. They discuss the changing landscape of private equity over the years, the rise of distributed entrepreneurship, and the importance of understanding the emotional elements involved in selling a business.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The private equity industry has evolved over the years, shifting from an entrepreneurial and sales-oriented focus to a more financial-driven and risk-averse approach. Access to debt for private equity deals has become more challenging, with banks becoming more cautious and requiring higher equity contributions from buyers. Emotional preparation is crucial for entrepreneurs considering an exit from their business. The transition from being in control of their own company to working in someone else's organisation can be challenging and emotionally taxing. It is important for entrepreneurs to have a clear end game and realistic expectations when it comes to selling their business. Focusing on the financial goals and objectives can help navigate the emotional aspects of the transaction. Ego and unrealistic expectations can hinder successful exits. Entrepreneurs should be open to advice and guidance from experienced professionals who can provide a realistic assessment of the value and potential of their business. BEST MOMENTS "Warren Buffett's famous for saying you can't get wealthy paying a lot of taxes." "Money doesn't really want to work. Money wants other people to work." "You spend all this time creating a great business, a valuable business, defined by its financial performance, but also how you've built the whole machine." "What you're missing is you're not focusing on what your goal was. Your goal was two to three times revenue." "Sometimes entrepreneurs, they get focused on the wrong details." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Joe Durnford - https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephdurnford/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick delves into his past experience in private equity and shares the disciplines and mindset that can be applied to any business. He discusses the practicalities of private equity, including the analysis of markets and potential, the development of a focused strategy, the importance of talent and incentives, leveraging resources effectively, and creating processes for continuous performance improvement.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Private equity firms excel at analysis and market understanding, going deep into customer data, competition, and macro trends to create a business that dominates its market. Private equity firms focus on a few core initiatives that drive significant results, rather than spreading themselves too thin. They prioritize execution and value expansion, with a strong emphasis on rigor and discipline. Talent is crucial in private equity, with a focus on getting the right people in the right seats and providing incentives that align with performance. Building a strong board and fostering a results-oriented mindset throughout the organization are also key. Private equity firms are masters of leverage, managing capital aggressively and working the balance sheet to maximize efficiency. They look for incremental gains and optimize processes and systems to drive performance improvements. Understanding the emotional frame and managing emotions is important in dealing with private equity. Recognising that it is a game and maintaining a mindset that allows for detachment and strategic decision-making can help level the playing field and increase the chances of success. BEST MOMENTS "Focus is a superpower." "Are you going to be the prey or the prize?" "Private equity likes to simplify things." "Private equity operates well from scarce resources." "Private equity is about results orientation and creating processes that spur on performance improvements." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick interviews guest Nick Koumalatsos, a former military serviceman with a colourful life and a decorated career. The conversation delves into Koumalatsos' journey from a lucrative but stagnant lifestyle to his decision to join the military. Despite facing numerous obstacles and rejections, Koumalatsos persevered and eventually found himself excelling in the military, leveraging his knowledge of the system to his advantage. The episode explores the power of mindset, turning adversity into opportunity, and the importance of belief and support in achieving success. Koumalatsos shares his experiences of being in the military, including his time in special operations and combat, and ultimately reveals his decision to leave the military due to burnout and a desire for a different path. This episode offers valuable insights into transitions, personal growth, and the power of intentional choices. KEY TAKEAWAYS Embrace change and be comfortable with transitions: Nick Koumalatsos grew up constantly moving and changing schools, which made him adaptable and comfortable with change. This mindset served him well in his military career and in navigating major life transitions. Turn setbacks into opportunities: When faced with obstacles and rejections, Nick Koumalatsos didn't give up. He turned his excuses into reasons and found ways to overcome the challenges. He used his setbacks as motivation to work harder and achieve his goals. Leverage knowledge and information: Nick Koumalatsos understood the importance of understanding the system and leveraging that knowledge to his advantage. He learned everything he could about the military, the training process, and the people involved. This allowed him to excel and achieve success in his military career. Believe in yourself and surround yourself with supportive people: Despite his troubled past, Nick Koumalatsos had family members who believed in him and saw his potential. Their support and belief in him helped him to believe in himself and strive for more. Surrounding yourself with positive and supportive people can have a significant impact on your success. Own your situation and take intentional action: Instead of being a victim of his circumstances, Nick Koumalatsos chose to own his situation and take intentional action. He didn't let his past define him, but rather used it as fuel to drive him towards success. He made deliberate choices and worked hard to achieve his goals. BEST MOMENTS "I turned my excuses into reasons." "I just had an advantage and I was going to use it to my advantage." "I took selection at the time, which was the top of the Marine Corps." "I saw myself turning into, like, what you were talking about beforehand, like your old job." "I truly, I mean, evil people, and I say, and people have different subjects and they just don't, they don't understand the level of evilness that I'm talking about." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Nick Koumalatsos - http://www.nickkoumalatsos.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick delves into the darker side of private equity. While acknowledging the positive aspects of private equity, such as wealth creation and entrepreneurial freedom, Nick explores the psychological game of private equity M&A. He poses the question, "Are you the prize or the prey?" and explains how private equity views business owners as assets.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Private equity firms play a game of buying low to sell high, and it's important for business owners to understand this dynamic when selling their company. Being aware of the tactics and strategies used by private equity firms can help business owners negotiate better deals and avoid being taken advantage of. Business owners need to determine whether they are the prize or the prey in the eyes of potential buyers, particularly private equity firms. If a business has high cash flow, sustainable growth, a competitive advantage, and a strong culture, it is more likely to be seen as the prize. On the other hand, if a business has weak financials and lacks these key attributes, it may be seen as the prey and buyers may use the weaknesses to negotiate a lower price. Falling into the prey category can result in a significantly lower sale price and less advantageous terms for the business owner. Private equity firms may use various tactics, such as renegotiating the price during due diligence or structuring the deal with unfavorable terms, to reduce the value of the business and maximize their own returns. Business owners who position themselves as the prize and demonstrate their value and worthiness as a seller are more likely to negotiate better deals and secure higher sale prices. Confidence, preparation, and understanding the playbook of private equity firms can give business owners an advantage in the negotiation process. It is crucial for business owners to be aware of the potential risks and pitfalls of selling to private equity firms. These risks include the possibility of a retrade, where the buyer reduces the agreed-upon price after conducting due diligence, as well as the potential for reputational damage if a failed sale process becomes known in the market.  BEST MOMENTS "The difference between being the prize and the prey can be a life-changing sum of money." "You want to walk into any sales process as the prize." "If you're seen as a peer, the games that the private equity firms play won't work on you." "You may not be ready right now, but there will be a time in the future when you need to be the prize." "Don't let the process of selling your business become a car crash. Prepare and understand the playbook." VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Charles Byrd is one of the most connected people in the online space and knows how to help set up lucrative promotional deals that have his clients and students booking multi 7-figures in new business. Charles's work on relationships, joint ventures, and frictionless systems, has been featured in the likes of Forbes, ABC News, SiriusXM and the Science Of Success. Charles joins Nick to talk about one of the most important drives of growth in business - joint ventures and strategic partnerships. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If your primary lead source is a social media network that could be co-opted, hacked or even shut down, then you're building your success upon a house of cards. Partnerships are independent of each other and consist of "warm traffic", which can lead to much higher returns on connection. You have to know what a winning outcome looks like for you when it comes to partnerships. Think about what you hope to achieve, and celebrate the moment when you reach it. The Invisible Pitch demonstrates authority, momentum, and guides towards the outcome that you are seeking. BEST MOMENTS 'This is one of the most important things to add to your repertoire if you want to build a high value company' 'With joint ventures, you're only paying commissions based on actual sales made, meaning that you are paying commission with money you wouldn't have had otherwise' 'Look for winning outcomes' 'It's a way to be useful without getting wrapped around the spokes' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Charles Byrd - https://www.charlesbyrd.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

You don't always have to say yes to everything in order to get ahead in the world. Sometimes, this "entrepreneurial curse" can lead to great things, but as Nick explains in this episode, there's also a great power to be found in saying no from time to time. KEY TAKEAWAYS As entrepreneurs, we often feel as though if we say no to something, that we will somehow be missing out. This fear of missing out can often land us with headaches we can do without. Write down 25 goals on a piece of paper (business-related), then circle the top five. Look at what is remaining and decide for yourself whether these secondary goals are worth pursuing. The real threats to our time management are not the distractions we think are taking our attention. The real threats are the hidden activities, that make us think we're working hard, but which do not ultimately move the needle. BEST MOMENTS 'There is power in saying no in your business' 'If you can get disciplined and focussed on your top 20% of priorities, then they will typically account for 80% of your business' 'You have to eliminate those distractions' 'it's easy to say yes, it's hard to say no' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ To become a part of the first Scale-To-Sale Mastermind visit highvalueexit.com and register now ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Meet Cameron Herold, the visionary who, at the age of 42, engineered 1-800-GOT-JUNK?'s spectcular growth from a $2 Million company to a jaw-dropping $106 Million in revenue in just six years. Not only that, his companies scored over 5,200 media placements, including Oprah!Not simply a theory guy, Cameron teaches what he knows from experience and is passionate about sharing his expertise with today’s most dynamic business leaders. Cameron joins Nick this week to discuss his most recent book, 'Second In Command', and what the most important role in any business is when you're trying to scale a company. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Managers and leaders are very different people. Managers tend to fix problems by hiring more people, whereas leaders empower the already existing teams. When looking for your ideal COO, you have to understand yourself as a CEO first. Look at your strengths and weaknesses as well as the core areas of the business that feed your energy. You have to define the roles you give to people and what they're there to do. You can't empower people and then revoke at will. Never be afraid to turn people down. True leaders have to say no more than they say yes. We are there to grow and empower others, but we shouldn't ever have to give it all away. BEST MOMENTS 'You have to understand yourself as a CEO first' 'I try to find the parts of the company that drain me of energy, and then I find someone who's really good at those things' 'It's an art or skill that executives need to hone - to say no to people' 'The great senior people are never out looking for a job' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Cameron Herold - www.cameronherold.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

What makes your company unique and remarkable when you're pitching? Which lessons could you take from the world-renowned business model pioneered by Apple? Nick answers these questions and explains all in this episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS When it comes to pitching, many business owners struggle to crystallise everything they've created into a core concept and saleable snapshot. A win-theme are the five bullet points that, when explained to anyone, describe why your company is valuable and crucial to other people. If you hope to bake the best cake in the world, there will always be ingredients that every other cake has to have, but the unique ingredients are what makes you stand out. It is the same in business. Branding and its quality are significant factors that drive value. When you can ensure that individuals perceive you as a premium experience, they will consistently strive to be a part of that level of quality. BEST MOMENTS 'People love the entire Apple experience' 'If you can't name the five things that make your business remarkable, then that's your homework this week' 'Trust me that this will be very important to your entrepreneurial journey' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ To become a part of the first Scale-To-Sale Mastermind visit highvalueexit.com and register now ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Justin Cooke is the founder of Empire Flippers, a company that he has taken from zero revenue, to selling over $450 million worth of businesses in just ten years. Justin joins Nick to discuss his incredible talent for acquisitions, as well as his new business, Webstreet, which aims to invest in online businesses as an asset class. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Online businesses are being aggregated together in order to provide a more saleable concern, and so that private equity can be attracted. Many entrepreneurs don't even realise that their businesses are in a sellable state. Justin and Empire Flippers are helping business owners to hugely profitable exits. Often businesses are bought as platforms, where a company is purchased as a starting point, and several adjacent businesses are acquired and added to it. There needs to be a certain basic skill set for those who buy an online business, which limits the audience when it comes to potential buyers. BEST MOMENTS 'You need to think about having breadth and depth across your portfolio' 'We call it exits for the rest of us' 'The education's out there. You can partner with people' 'This is a high class problem to solve' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Justin Cooke at Empire Flippers - https://empireflippers.com/about-us/justin-cooke/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In the fourth part of his series on Breaking Through Business Growth, Nick discusses the platforming stage of scaling up, and how it ties into value expansion and strategic thinking. KEY TAKEAWAYS You can only scale up through people, processes and systems. As a leader, your identity has to shift in order for you to be successful. When a business becomes a platform, it's an acquisition that acts as a starting point for other acquisitions in that sector. A platformed business creates value by facilitating exchanges between consumers and producers of goods and services. For this to happen there has to be a large network of users and resources. The fundamental requirement if you want to take your company from a business to a platform, is having a strong management team in place. BEST MOMENTS 'It's not an easy road' 'Showing that you can do these things before your life changing exit is a positive thing' 'We're talking about taking what you have created and being able to transition that to another buyer' 'When you break through this final stage, you are becoming the platform' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ To become a part of the first Scale-To-Sale Mastermind visit highvalueexit.com and register now ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Brandon Steiner is a globally-renowned sports marketer, who published his first book, The Business Playbook: Leadership Lessons from the World of Sports in 2003. Brandon joins Nick this week to talk about his humble beginnings and how he learned the art of entrepreneurship through some very unique methods, the values he obtained from his family, and the most invaluable lessons he's learned from the world of sport. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The secret to being a great marketer is to not just like people, but understand them - relate to them, lead with empathy and compassion and stand in someone else's shoes. If the route to a solution isn't clear then hustle. Look for another way around the challenge. There's always a way to defy the odds and win. As a leader you have to have a vision, and the ability to take that vision and find a way to sell it. It's about finding paths to success, as though leading your tribe to safety and sustenance. Don't ever confuse managing with leading. Sometimes blending them can work, but in the long term it generally doesn't BEST MOMENTS 'Get out of your freakin' head' 'Once you understand where people are coming from, you can see the white space' 'It's not who you know or what you know, but what you know about who' 'Leadership is very, very complicated' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Brandon Steiner - https://brandonsteiner.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Ruari Fairbairns, the founder and CEO of One Year No Beer, to talk about alcohol - the impact it can have if you're a regular drinker, and what effects this can have on you as an entrepreneur. Nick and Ruari also talk about the journey that led to such a groundbreaking, innovative concept as One Year No Beer, and what we can change if alcohol is showing up in our lives in ways that fail to serve us. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When you're a serious entrepreneur, you need to show up as your best self every single time - not just in business, but everywhere. The ones who do this, are the ones who last the longest. As business owners, the idea that alcohol is something we need to be participating in, in order to relax and unwind, really needs to change. The evidence against it is overwhelming. We must find other ways to "take the edge off" when it comes to relaxation. We need to subsidise and fund research into more healthy forms of "relaxation" with the help of the alcohol industry itself. The first step towards building a better relationship with alcohol is to remove the belief that you are an "all or nothing" person, and change that belief to one of feeling fully in control. BEST MOMENTS 'I guarantee this will be one of the best things you can do for yourself' 'Entrepreneurship is a game of sustainability and attrition' 'I am entirely in control. I am entirely in control' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ One Year No Beer - https://www.oneyearnobeer.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In the third part of his mini-series on breaking through business growth, Nick focuses upon expanding value, and why it might be the most crucial part of your business exit strategy. KEY TAKEAWAYS Most people think that they start a business and then exit a business, without really ever considering the crucial "expansion" phase that can dynamically increase the exit numbers beyond their initial expectations. Value expansion is sometimes referred to as the buy-and-build approach, because it encompasses the ways in which you bring companies together to create a group. Scaling is the art of making sure you are no longer the thing holding up your business's growth. It's the act of stepping out and putting into place processes that make your business thrive and breathe without you. When you bring in strategic partners, it's all about making sure that you've created a platform that can scale more assertively through strategic levers. BEST MOMENTS 'This is kind of the centre point' 'The centre of value expansion is strategic growth' 'You have to ensure that you're not the bottleneck any more' 'You have to have the plan' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ To become a part of the first Scale-To-Sale Mastermind visit highvalueexit.com and register now ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Adam Coffey is the founding partner of CEO Advisory Guru, LLC. Best-selling author of The Private Equity Playbook and The Exit-Strategy Playbook. In this episode, Adam joins Nick to talk about how the world of private equity works, and how you can position your business to have a successful exit. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many business owners use a magic hockey stick approach to valuation, indicating that upon their exit, the company will somehow produce record-beating results never seen before. The best way to demonstrate any success is to actually test the water. With 80% of all deals going to private equity, it's more important than ever that we understand how that universe works, in order to maximise our own potential. Business owners focus their entire energies on building their company. That same level of dedication is needed when it comes time to exit. Private equity firms rely on investment bankers to sell their companies, managing competitive tension and the entire process. These bankers possess exclusive insights unknown to the general public. BEST MOMENTS 'I buy them, I put them together and I build empires' 'Most private equity firms do a really bad job of laying out what the future will look like' 'Think of all the effort that goes into building your business. You need to put some effort into selling your business as well' 'Let me show you what I've built' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ ABOUT THE GUESTCEO, board member, best-selling author, Forbes Business Council member, and an acclaimed international speaker, Adam Coffey, is an inspiring and authentic leader who creates high-performance cultures and drives transformative growth.Over the past 21 years, he has had the honor of serving as President and CEO of three national private equity-backed service companies, each in different industries. Two of the three companies he built achieved enterprise values of $1B. Over 58 acquisitions completed. Throughout his career, Coffey has a proven track record of achieving notable outcomes for stakeholders. His career average at exit is 5x MOIC (Multiple of Invested Capital).www.AdamECoffey.comhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_E._Coffeyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adamecoffey/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick presents the second part of a continuing mini series in which he breaks down one of the most crucial concepts you have to understand when building a successful business - breaking through business growth. In this second edition, Nick talks about the scale up phase following a business's creation, where you should aim when it comes to goal setting, and the difference between scaling and growing. KEY TAKEAWAYS Because of the rapidly changing pace of the world around us, we need to be more agile when it comes to finding ways to scale. Technological advances such as AI are disruptive tools that can aid us. Once you hit eight figures and have a reasonable level of profitability, you become very attractive to private equity firms. The key differentiator between growing and scaling - is the growth predictable, is it repeatable, and is it potentially sustainable? To qualify as a scale-up, you must conform to the following criteria: annual growth, turnover generating between £1m and £3m, and must have raised a million in capital to scale. BEST MOMENTS 'If you want to build something valuable, don't stick around too long' 'There are things that change, evolve, as the world evolves' 'My advice to you is to have a target of an eight figure threshold to punch through' 'If you have something that can repeat again and again, that's where you drive the highest levels of value' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ To become a part of the first Scale-To-Sale Mastermind visit highvalueexit.com and register now ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Randy Garn is a New York Times bestselling author, passionate entrepreneur and business builder. He works closely with and advises some of the world's most recognised CEOs, companies, thought leaders, and experts As one of the most brilliant business minds out there, Randy sits down with Nick to talk about the value of service, and how by understanding its impact, he has successfully taught the wisest business forces in the world to become true leaders. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The leadership team that we put in place has to have room to grow, must have integrity, and the resources available to recruit the right people. The people at the top of your company need to know everything about what your company's message is and how it's disseminating it. If your CEO is unaware, then no one will know. You have to be at the centre of the pottery wheel of your business. Get rid of anything that's causing you to fall off balance and topple. When you are centred and clear on what's important, you shine differently and attract more opportunities for yourself and your business. BEST MOMENTS 'Necessity is bigger than goal setting' 'If you as the leader don't know where the ship is going, you'd better take some time to nail down your strategy' 'It's important to ask: does the leadership team have what it takes to grow?' 'What are those immovable things that you must do?' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Randy Garn - https://www.randygarn.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick presents the very first part of an all-new mini series in which he breaks down one of the most crucial concepts you have to understand when building a successful business - breaking through business growth. In this first edition, Nick talks about that all-important start up step, including the things you need to put in place at the very beginning. KEY TAKEAWAYS Even if you have not yet started your business growth journey, it's important to recognise the important steps along the way so that you can reverse engineer the outcomes in advance. In order to be successful when you start a company, you need product market fit - something that solves an identifiable, meaningful problem for the market you wish to serve. Before you get into lead generation, you have to have the offer correctly in place. You shouldn't move on to anything else in startup until this is done. You must be able to build some kind of repeatable, predictable sales model. Devise the formula that works independently of your input and your growth will begin exponentially. BEST MOMENTS 'I built my reputation on scaling up' 'Once you master start up you then move into scale up' 'You get to a point where you grow quickly because you have your offer dialled in' 'It's usually the founder who has to sell that vision and go out there and get those first few sales' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ To become a part of the first Scale-To-Sale Mastermind visit highvalueexit.com and register now ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dr. John Demartini, known as the "Godfather Of Personal Development", is a world-renowned human behaviour expert, with a four-decade body of work and studies into the human condition. He is also the author of several books designed to accelerate our thought potential, including his world-renowned system known as "The DeMartini Method", which the world's great thinkers have adopted in order to "create new perspectives and paradigms in thinking and feeling". Dr DeMartini joins Nick for a very special episode in which he shares the powerful story of how he became who he is today, the mission he's constantly on to empower people with knowledge and wisdom, and some practical tips that you can start using immediately in order to gain mastery over your own destiny. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Affirmations have the power to change us forever if we dedicate ourselves properly. In Dr Demartini's case, he was able to instil the idea that he could be a teacher and mentor, despite having no formal training, by repeating to himself that he was a genius, and that he could apply his wisdom. We live moment by moment, according to our set of inner values and priorities. When we align with the highest in this priority list, the action becomes almost automatic. It is in this area where we are the most effective and efficient. When we challenge ourselves we find out what we're truly capable of. Stepping outside of our comfort zone is where the best life lessons are learned. Many believe that fear is something to be shunned, but it's a tool that we can use to guide us to better outcomes. It's there to let us know when the objectives we're chasing are hollow ones. BEST MOMENTS 'The perception of loss of that which you seek, or the perception of gain of that which you try to avoid, generates voids that drive value' 'I am a genius and I apply my wisdom' 'I became wealthy because I delegated!' 'Fear is a feedback mechanism to let you know that you're pursuing something that's not objective, not congruent, and a bit of a fantasy' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Dr John Demartini - https://drdemartini.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Why is it that some businesses that are otherwise seen as valuable still aren't attracting sale bids from private equity? In this episode, Nick breaks down fifteen reasons why you might be being overlooked, and what you can do to turn your company into something far more attractive in order to make that life-changing exit. KEY TAKEAWAYS You need to have not just a high cash flow and profitable business, but also a sustainable growth story that you can tell to the world. If your business is one that attracts customers who visit but only buy once, then it becomes an inefficient business model. The desired situation would be to sell multiple times to the same customer. When you have a product that's unique, people will seek you out in order to gain your solution. By this token, you are immediately standing both for something and against something, which is attractive. Numbers aren't everything - culture matters more than you know. A company with massive cultural issues will be an instant turnoff for anyone looking to invest, as it means a wholesale restructuring and re-education initiative is required. BEST MOMENTS 'You don't make serious money when you run a business, but you do when you sell it' 'Growing is obvious. No one is going to buy a business that isn't growing' 'You need to start measuring the lifetime value of that client' 'You've got to have values' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ To become a part of the first Scale-To-Sale Mastermind visit highvalueexit.com and register now ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

A mountain climber, adventurer and entrepreneur at heart, Brad Weimert developed his entrepreneurial and marketing spirit from rich life experiences. At the age of 20, Brad began breaking national sales records as the #1 sales representative in a company of more than 30,000 and continued to do so year after year. Brad joins Nick to talk about the ways in which we can channel the disciplines from all areas of life into success as an entrepreneur, and how, through discipline, anyone can make the transition to the life you've always wanted. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Never rest up when you hit your objective. Look for the next point you want to hit and plan accordingly. if you stand still, you stagnate. We should always assess what the absolute best and worst case scenarios will be when it comes to planning and goal setting, but we must be aware that neither of those will be very likely to happen. There's a general belief that entrepreneurs need to be good at everything, but that's not true. Focus on what you are good at, and let others bolster you in other areas. You have to decide for yourself what success looks like and feels like in order to hit the marks. If success means money then you can measure that on a chart. If success means getting things done, then you can measure that by the impact you make. BEST MOMENTS 'What you need to plan for is not the absolute worst, but the likely worst' 'Slow down, but don't stop' 'You have to spend the time thinking about how you're going to handle both success and failure in the future' 'I'm very good at falling on my face a lot of times before I learn the lesson' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Brad Weimert - http://bradweimert.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Tracy Litt is a world-renowned spiritual advisor and mindset coach to visionary women leaders and entrepreneurs; a highly sought-after keynote speaker, TEDx speaker, and international best-selling author of 'Worthy Human'. In a conversation that centres not only on business but life itself, Nick and Tracy discuss the ways in which we c an reframe challenge in order to increase the learnings and move more swiftly towards our goals, and also the very physiological impacts of fear itself upon us. KEY TAKEAWAYS If you let fear paralyse you or force you into looking backwards, it can slow you down and stall any plans you have to reach your full potential. No matter what's happened to you in life, you can always reframe, reverse, turn things around, and even accelerate you towards the place you want to be. You have a higher self that only holds you in your full potential, only sees you in your wholeness, is complete love, full trust, and is the embodiment of the energy from which we all derived. Safe equals same to your internal wiring, which is why the unknown feels so scary until you understand it differently. BEST MOMENTS 'Imagine if you look at everything in life not as an obstacle, but something that serves you' 'When you understand your purpose and your passion, it's not work' 'We are going to change for generations to come' 'Your journey of ascension into becoming that higher self, will always happen. The only question is will it be through catalyst or through choice?' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ The Litt Factor - https://thelittfactor.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

After several high-profile business exits in the world of business, Nick examines the question of whether or not every business can be built to sell, and more importantly, should it be a part of the business's DNA from the very beginning? KEY TAKEAWAYS There is always a point in your business's life, when your strategy should be fundamentally about the exit. There is also a point in time when you should focus purely on building a great business above all else. At the start up phase, make sure you have a great understanding of the market - who your ideal customer is, and providing unique, remarkable solutions to their problems. Once the mindset shift has been made towards sale, the decisions you make will be dramatically more effective when it comes to value expansion. Companies may acquire others simply because they do not wish to compete against them in an emerging market. Sometimes they are merely hoping to acquire the talent, or gain geographic expansion. BEST MOMENTS 'You'd be surprised how many exits are reverse engineered with a clear buyer in the frame, months or even years out' 'In private equity we reverse engineer the outcome' 'There are lots of different ways that we can shape the story and the narrative' 'Every business can certainly be built to sell' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com  Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fb Nick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/li Nick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Lee Benson has more than 25 years of experience as a CEO. He owned and led Able Aerospace, then sold it for 9-figures to Textron Aviation. He also founded Execute to Win (ETW) to help senior leadership teams experience similar results by working better together at improving their organisation’s Most Important Number. But what is this, and how can it benefit you? In this episode, Nick meets Lee to discuss the nature of the Most Important Number, and how he empowers teams and leaders using his Mind Methodology, in order for them to be able to achieve and identify the work that drives that number. KEY TAKEAWAYS People create all of the value in your business, so they must be always held up as the most important component in your business's success. Companies always start with a few core people, but as we scale, we should always look for those who will provide us with the best chance for maximal growth. Whether shareholder value or net profit, it is always the job of the CEO to continually increase the value of any organisation. The perspective is what really matters when it comes to visualising the future and deciding strategy. The great leaders are able to see the future from the top to the bottom. BEST MOMENTS  'People are the most important part of the equation' 'The number drives the majority of the right behaviours' 'There really is one number that is that measure of value, and all other stuff feeds into it' 'We talk about the most important number, then we talk about drivers' VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ The Mind Methodology - https://themindmethodology.com/speaking/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally.Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.com Nick’s Facebook: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Does having a board of advisors actually increase the value of your business? In this episode, Nick talks about whether or not having those added perspectives and a collective knowledge base actually can improve your business’ worth in the long term. KEY TAKEAWAYS At the start-up phase of business, it's often just you and the people you network with. Things begin to seriously change when coaches or mentors are brought in to help. As the business grows, it's valuable to have advanced help and guidance in order to help you shape your outcomes. This is the formation of a board. Boards provide a wide perspective during the strategic growth phase, allowing for a wealth of experience when you need it most. When you are in the journey from 7 to 8 figures, you need to build the board. When you break into 8 figures, you need a full board. BEST MOMENTS “As businesses evolve, you need more advanced help.” “You're actually starting to build a board the moment that mentors become involved.” “The boards are generally very effective, well engaged and well organised.” “There's a clear delineation between strategies created at the board.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes.https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Amy Porterfield is a master of online business acumen and why working for yourself can give you the financial, time, and location freedom to change how you experience your one shot at life. Amy joins Nick to talk about why life is too short to stay in a job you can't stand and how you can break free from the constraints of employment and break free into something far more rewarding and fulfilling. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  If you don't take action, you'll never be able to figure out what the next steps are. Be brave, step forward, and take it one decision at a time. Never be afraid to admit that you want something better for yourself. The first step to freedom is telling yourself it's okay to dream bigger. The most valuable factor to alter when you strike out on your own is your mindset. You have to begin with the belief that you can make this happen if you want to. Before you teach anything, you need to have some kind of proven track record in that area. But this doesn't mean that you need to have spent more time in that area than people you wish to serve - you just need the results. BEST MOMENTS 'Even if it's a good job on paper, it's okay to want something more' 'I felt really passionate about it - it was like, game on!' 'We have to start believing that you're capable of making this happen' 'You need a 10% edge' VALUABLE RESOURCES Are you ready to create your high-value exit? Take our Exit Ready Assessment: https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com Amy Porterfield - https://www.amyporterfield.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick presents an episode that looks at whether it is possible to flip businesses in the same way you would real estate. A topic that is especially interesting now. By 2030, most of the baby boomers will have reached retirement age, which could mean that a lot more businesses than normal will be up for sale, over the next few years. He compares the two investment models by explaining the pros, cons, and risks of flipping businesses and real estate. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Business flipping usually involves buying a company for a low price, enhancing it to quickly make it more valuable, then, selling it for a large profit. This is a model that is used for private equity investment. There is more risk with business flipping than there is with real estate. It is quite hard to sell a company. Only about 20% of businesses doing under 10 million in revenue will sell. But when you do succeed you can triple your return or more. As well as turnover, the people that run it, the processes, the structures, the quality of the customer base, the brand, and the culture, have an extremely high impact on the value of a business. If the founder leaving means key staff members or customers will leave too, the value of the business would fall. BEST MOMENTS  'You are trying to buy a business for the lowest possible price' 'In real estate, even the lower value properties sell' 'Due diligence does not have to be this huge, elongated process' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Brad Hart, the founder of Make More Marbles and a man with over twenty years' experience as one of the world's top entrepreneurs, and sixteen years in wealth management. Nick and Brad discuss the practical ways in which you can manage wealth with a focus on more progressive wealth strategies such as crypto, and the value of impact - not just how to make money, but also allowing investors reach their full potential in order to meet the grand challenges of our time. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS There is no end to the money available in the world today. get in the right rooms, get resourceful, and take your share of what's out there. The basics we need to get to people are food, utilities, shelter and education we can actually change the world and impact it for the better. Money is a part of any deal, but the more you generate, the more we see that it's not just about accumulation It's about impacting the world in a positive way - we are changing lives. Whenever there is a revolution in money that increases trust and decreases friction, then we create a better financial system. BEST MOMENTS 'Get in the right rooms. Period. Full stop' 'Success is a science. Achievement is an art' 'It's giving people to option not to struggle, and to thrive' 'It's less about the money and more about the impact' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Brad Hart - https://linktr.ee/bradhart ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Rebecca Zung is one of the Top 1% of attorneys in America, having been recognised by U.S. News & World Report as a “Best Lawyer in America”, as “Legal Elite” by Trend Magazine, and recognised by her peers and the judiciary as AV(c), preeminent rated in family law, the highest possible rating for an attorney by Martindale Hubbell. This week, Rebecca talks to Nick about her new book 'Slay The Bully: How To Negotiate With A Narcissist and Win!', how to spot a narcissist, and more importantly how to win out against them in a negotiation situation. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Narcissists will always exist, because the traits are eternal. You can't stamp them out, but can learn how to defeat them and their toxicity. It's okay to enrage a narcissist if you have to. Don't ever fear the fury, because it manifests itself in childish ways - exhibitionist ways. Narcissists are adept at finding a way to push through their plans through a third party, thereby excusing themselves from blame and recourse. Narcissists have no empathy for other people, and cannot be cured or healed of this condition. They thrive on narcissist supply - adulation, prestige and possessions. BEST MOMENTS 'If you can learn to stand in your power then nobody can touch you' 'You're dealing with a two year old having a tantrum' 'Narcissists are always at their worst right before they're ready to give up' 'It is a disorder. It cannot be fixed. It cannot be healed' VALUABLE RESOURCES Join Leading Business Owners Scaling Their Companies to Create Generational Wealth, Freedom, and Impact. Are you ready to create your high-value exit? Take our Exit Ready Assessment: https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com Rebecca Zung – https://www.rebeccazung.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick and Mark present another edition of Scale Back designed this month to help you fix your money mindset. In this edition, Mark and Nick talk all things marketing, from the way in which it has influenced many entrepreneurial minds to the value to be found in refining instead of re-designing. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We're sometimes so busy disrupting and innovating, when we should be focussing upon the issues at hand and finding the definitive answer. Many entrepreneurs seems to have come into their own when working in the marketing sector. It seems to invigorate the mind. if you're building an agency, you need to found yourself and make mistakes as fast as possible, because doing it on your client's time will cost you dearly. BEST MOMENTS 'You can do this, you just have to find the right people' 'Let's do simple really well because we can always do complicated later' 'Find someone who know what they're doing, or you're going to waste a lot of time and money' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Mark Drager - https://www.markdrager.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, a podcast host, book author, keynote speaker, startup advisor, and a "nonstop optimism machine". In this week's dynamic episode, Jason talks to Nick about entrepreneurship, and specifically the empowering things you can do to make sure you're ready to meet the challenges of the future, from a man with one of the most all-encompassing knowledge bases in the world when it comes to business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We should never take for granted that the world will beat a path to our door. Remove self-indulgence and really focus upon whether or not we're solving someone's problem with our product or service. If you spend your time on one thing that people want, love and will remember, then they will most certainly remember you! The greatest communicators and product builders and marketers are those who start with who they want to reach, and then focus on how to build a "bridge of familiarity" to them. Everybody hires people and then asks them to do the thing they they know how to do. We should encourage people to push themselves into areas they don't know as well. This grants all new perspective states. BEST MOMENTS 'We need to make sure we're not focussed on self-indulgence' 'You don't always know if you're at the end of something' 'Start where people are' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Jason Feifer - https://www.jasonfeifer.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is in tactical mode this week as he delivers a masterclass upon the processes you should be focussing on in order to optimise your sales, maximise revenue, while still retaining the highest quality customer experience possible. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  If a brand is a promise of consistency, and you are failing to be consistent, then there's going to be a point when that person you want to work with feels that something is wrong. If you're not creating systems that build awareness of what you and your business does, then the subsequent steps will not be effective. Building awareness of you, what you offer, and what your unique offering is, is crucial. You can do this by raising awareness at all time. Always be growing! Leads come from marketing or something you've put into the world. If they say yes to this action, then we must remember to nurture their experience from the beginning BEST MOMENTS 'Someone may not know who you are and what you do. You have to have things happening that make them aware' 'Prospecting is like going out and spearfishing' 'You're paying for that lead once it's converted!' 'It's about getting leads, but importantly it's about nurturing leads'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Walker Deibel is a serial acquisition entrepreneur, WSJ & USA Today bestselling author, an Emmy-nominated film producer, and an award-winning M&A advisor. He is the creator of Acquisition Lab, the premier business buying accelerator for entrepreneurs. Walker joins Nick to talk about the concept of acquisition entrepreneurship, and how you can effectively buy businesses in 2023! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Sellers holding out for moonshot valuations are inevitably in for a disappointment if they hold out too long, The cost of capital is rising, recessions are coming and the trends are down. Your business is the single most valuable asset you own, even if it's not doing that well. It has the potential to be turned around and energised. People won't just give them away. Messaging that's invaluable to business owners needs to kept front and centre and away from sensationalist agendas. Following the building and incubation phase of a business comes the harvest. You typically find businesses far sale when they're in this phase or later. BEST MOMENTS 'Everyone's been pounding the table about recession' 'What is the average valuation is going to be less and less meaningful' 'It was beyond the plating phase. it needed incubation' 'Running on autopilot is not real'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Walker Deibel LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/walkerdeibel ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick and Mark present another edition of Scale Back designed this month to help you fix your money mindset - including the differences between different cultural ways of being paid and paying out, scarcity and abundance, what's been happening in the world of finance, and your burning questions answered! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The FTX saga has shown that regulation and governance are there to protect investors. The system is now holding it up as a perfect example of why regulations matter. There is a genuine phenomenon these days, where real money is traded for unreal money so as to allow people to purchase goods that do not exist. Common sense is required. Entrepreneurial spirit is founded upon risk and innovation, but it must also be tempered by structure that allows regulation through which people may find security. People with high net worth incomes tend to lack the emotional attachment to money that many other do not. BEST MOMENTS  'The secret is to own your own business, sell it, and then never worry about money again' 'I came from an environment of scarcity' 'That's not something I would put my cash into' 'There has to be the least amount of structure possible to allow innovation and risk taking' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Mark Drager - https://www.markdrager.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Channing Hamlet is the Managing Director and founder of Objective, Investment Banking & Valuation. He serves as an execution leader for the firm’s M&A and Valuation Practice and leads the firm’s Business Services Practice. He brings more than 25 years experiences with investment banking and business valuation to our clients. Channing joins Nick this week to discuss what you need to do in terms of driving value and saleability into your company so as to best ensure the most rewarding outcome when it comes to selling. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  There's only so much an advisor can do when it comes to shaping your sale. You as the business owner must be the one to implement and action these plans so as to ensure the best outcome There is a real upswing in the amount of acquisitions taking place, mainly due to retirement of business owners, but also due to the shift in the business landscape brought on by the advent of the pandemic. Business has changed. Having a well thought-out financial plan that includes a clear identification of what your fiscal goals are, makes the whole process a lot easier when it comes to selling, and ensures that everyone receives the sums they require in order to move on to the next phase of life. Ascertaining market value and previous transactions of similar stature coupled with an external perspective, are the best ways to get a sense of the value of intangibles and branding. LINK to "How To Not Leave Money On The Table When Selling A Business": https://objectivecp.com/how-to-not-leave-money-on-the-table-when-selling-a-business/ **Registered Representative of and Securities Products offered through BA Securities, LLC Member FINRA (www.finra.org) SIPC (www.sipc.org). Objective Capital Partners, LLC and BA Securities, LLC are separate and independent entities. Any testimonial or endorsement may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is no guarantee of future performance or success. BEST MOMENTS 'The test is easy if you do your homework' 'It's often hard to figure out how to do those things, and if it were easy then our clients would have already done it' 'There are a number of valuation processes that can determines a business's value' 'Doing the formal homework on valuation is super helpful' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Channing Hamlet - https://objectivecp.com/our-team/ LINK to "How To Not Leave Money On The Table When Selling A Business": https://objectivecp.com/how-to-not-leave-money-on-the-table-when-selling-a-business/ **Registered Representative of and Securities Products offered through BA Securities, LLC Member FINRA (www.finra.org) SIPC (www.sipc.org). Objective Capital Partners, LLC and BA Securities, LLC are separate and independent entities. Any testimonial or endorsement may not be representative of the experience of other customers and is no guarantee of future performance or success. ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

As we move into the new year, Nick turns his focus towards what might be the most crucial role of 2023 - the one that will drastically transform your business in the new and exciting landscape of 2023. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Look at the things you achieved in 2022, and work out how much progress you've made towards the goals you've set for yourself. It's not up to you to do everything in your business. Scaling can never happen unless you start assembling the team who can perform the jobs for you and allow the business to grow. Think about which role, and which person (including their characteristics) would be the one defining person who can make the greatest positive impact to your business in the year ahead. BEST MOMENTS ‘Give yourself a number based on your performance' 'Everything is about measurement' 'The truth will set you free' 'Think about who, not how'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Jenn Lim is a global workplace expert, bestselling author, speaker, executive coach, and the CEO and Cofounder of Delivering Happiness. In this episode, Jenn joins Nick to talk about the value of instilling a culture of happiness, and why we need to focus upon not just the best for our clients and people, but also ourselves. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The best leaders are those who remain curious enough to feel comfortable with exploring a new set of decisions. That is when the greatest growth occurs. These days we have to be far more mindful of the state of the world than ever before. External factors are affecting people far more then they did pre-pandemic. We need to raise our awareness levels. Always celebrate the wins when they happen, but don't take your eyes off what you can fix in the long term to make life easier. If we truly want to see things in a more progressive way, then we need to be able to have conversations about mental health and wellbeing. BEST MOMENTS  'Listen very attentively to what is going on' 'The difference between a great and good leader is their level of curiosity' 'People are tired of hearing the same old spiel. They want real talk' 'People are actually investments' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Jenn Lim - https://www.deliveringhappiness.com/jenn-lim ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick and Mark Drager reunite for a new edition of Scale Back, in which they take a reflective look back at the year gone by, and choose their favourite experiences, discussing the wisdom gained from the pivotal moments of 2022. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Rest and respite are often frowned upon in some cultures around the world. But these periods of reinvigoration and reflection are essential. The difference between people who are building personal brands via bootstrapping, and those doing it off the back of a partnership or network, is that money seems to favour an already established name. If you have a platform at all, use it build things and start things moving in the world. If you do that then the momentum will eventually build, and people will come to you. A culture in a business is built slowly and evolves over time. It grows around the people who work within it and becomes a representation of who they are and what they wish to be. BEST MOMENTS 'It comes back to what you build' 'He's surrounded by people whose job it is, is to manipulate him into thinking he makes good decisions' 'We can't argue that he isn't a visionary' 'What we're witnessing is a clash of cultures' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Mark Drager - https://www.markdrager.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dr. Steven Gundry has worked in medicine for over 40 years and is best known for his work as a cardiothoracic surgeon and heart surgeon, but who focusses heavily upon teaching people how to avoid surgery by using his unique vision of human nutrition. His mission in life is to improve health, happiness, and longevity by making simple changes to diet. Dr Gundry joins Nick to discuss the ways in which tweaks and techniques, when applied correctly to our lives, can help us to maximise our potential and accelerate our productivity. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Living healthier lives and being more aware, will feed into our everyday levels of productivity. if we require less in order to operate then we can achieve more. All disease begins in the gut, and should always be the core area of focus when we begin our journey of health. Human beings have evolved over the generations, but we have also devolved in many ways. This is largely due to dietary input. Bad food choices have actually caused us to shrink. If we return to diets that would have reflected those consumed by early versions of man, then we instantly gain health benefits, including the eradication of many diseases. BEST MOMENTS 'Scaling up your career and business, is also about scaling up your awareness' 'The road to health is paved with good intestines' 'Everything that's going to happen to you, good or bad, is because of what happens in your gut' 'New food in the last five hundred years is like speed dating' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Dr Stephen Gundry - https://drgundry.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick provides an all-encompassing, definitive guide to strategic planning, inspired by the Empire Elite mastermind group - the complete methodology that'll allow you to turn around a flagging business, scale to an exit in a short amount of time, and build value for shareholders and wealth for ourselves. Check out this episode's bonus slides: https://youtu.be/gOmOaEWecHg Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Having too much structure when you're in true startup mode, can be detrimental and hold you back. You need the freedom to be able to experiment with agility and pace. Structure is vital when you go from startup to scale-up. You need processes and systems that drive growth in order to achieve predictability. You must have a clear vision about the goals you are trying to reach in order to plan around that and create strategies in order to achieve it. A strong, strategic framework adds value to any investor or potential buyers as it mitigates risk, and shows the proof behind what you have done so far. It demonstrates that growth and value can extend into the future. BEST MOMENTS 'You can use this frame work to plan your business, plan your goals and outcomes, and ultimate exit' 'The whole nature of startup is about trying things out - testing and iterating' 'The whole definition of scaling is being able to grow through people and process' 'You can't hope your way to an outcome' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Find out now by taking our brand new assessment tool: https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

John Caudwell is a billionaire businessman, most famous for founding phone retailer Phones 4u, as well as investing in fashion and real estate. John is also one of the world's most renowned philanthropists, and according to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2022, is worth £1.58 billion. John joins Nick to talk about his fascinating journey, recently documented in his new book 'Love, Pain and Money', as well as the principles he's acquired throughout his journey that have enabled him to achieve an unprecedented level of success. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Bullies will always find a reason to make life rough for some people, whether it's their race, creed or background. What they don't realise is that this abuse only helps us to form an armour that lasts a lifetime. You earn respect by demonstrating to the world that you're fearless, and that you're willing to put yourself out there in order to grow. Scale is most effective when led by a true leader - someone who motivates and drives others to do better and reach higher. That target in life should always be happiness. It's up to you to decide what that comprises. if it's wealth, then work hard. If it's time, then make that happen for yourself. BEST MOMENTS  'I had to fight for survival' 'You've got be immensely confident in your ability to perform' 'I was lucky that I had the strength to fight against it all' 'All I want for them is to be happy, and to leave the world a better place than when they found it'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  John Caudwell - https://johncaudwell.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this very special 300th episode of Scale Up With Nick Bradley, Nick is joined by Mark Drager for an all new type of show - Scale Back - in which he and Mark will take a monthly look at the business world and use their unique and broad perspectives to not only reflect on what's hot in business, but also to answer any burning questions you may have. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Sometimes all it takes is a kind, thoughtful word from someone you admire, to reinforce the path you've chosen for yourself. It takes courage to put yourself out there, in business and life. Not only do you grow, but you gradually separate yourself from the people around you. A personal brand does not suit everyone. It all depends on what your aims are, what the business is that you're trying to grow, and whether a personal brand suits you. Keeping your promises is essential in building trust, but also essential in providing self-accountability. If people can rely on you, then you add points to your credibility. BEST MOMENTS 'Every time you take a bolder step forward, you're choosing to separate yourself from the pack' 'Some things connect with me because it's a message I need to hear at that time' 'Do what you say you're going to do, when you're going to do it, without exception' 'The lowest level of valuation is implementation' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Mark Drager - https://www.markdrager.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

There are many guides out there that'll point you towards the things you should definitely include in your investor pitch, but how about the things you need to avoid? In this episode, Nick details ten aspects you must avoid if you want your investor pitch to land effectively! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Prospecting and talking to potential investors without building rapport beforehand, is a sure-fire way to reduce your chances of the pitch succeeding. Preparation is everything. You need to know your pitch inside and out. Pitching is about telling a story, and every story needs its dramatic moments, so work them out beforehand Remember that the pitch is about the investor, not a chance to talk about yourself at length. Think about your audience and research them in advance. You can't always count on the time you'll be given, so make different size versions of your pitch. prepare a short version, a long version and a medium version, so that you can maximise the impact you have with the time you're given. BEST MOMENTS 'Sometimes you've got to influence in order to sell something' 'You've got to pitch in life to get what you want' 'Build a relationship first, before you ask for anything' 'You've got to put in the work' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Jeff Lerner is a business owner, content creator, author, public speaker, master at internet marketing, father, husband, and fitness enthusiast. He runs multiple, profitable, online businesses and has over a decade of experience as a successful entrepreneur. Jeff joins Nick this week to talk about the. ways you can unlock your true potential by sharing the story of his own journey - from broke jazz musician to global CEO and business founder - and how by ignoring the collective and following the entrepreneurial spirit we can create life changing results. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS There are always moments in life where your journey is sent off into a wild direction and everything changes. If you follow these opportunities then they can often lead into something that unlocks your true potential. As entrepreneurs, we follow a different path to the "collective" - we strike out on our own and make a better future for ourselves. This is how legacy begins. If we surround ourselves with aspirational people, then it drives us to do better - to reach higher. The earlier we get this inspiration, the higher we can climb. Never be afraid to break a promise if the circumstances change. Promises we make to others in our less experienced years can often leave us broken in the present. It's okay to change the game if it'll make life better for us. BEST MOMENTS 'There are inflection moments when your life changes' 'Civilisation is the process of setting man free from men' 'I'm this broke piano player kid, going into $50 million mansions, while millionaires and billionaires are being served dinner' 'It's the defining choice of my life'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Jeff Lerner - https://jefflernerofficial.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

How can you speed up the implementation of ideas in your business so as to increase performance? In this episode, Nick offers you a practical guide to getting those systems, methodologies and ideas into practice, so as to best accelerate growth and fulfil your business's true potential. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS With the uncertainty of the world right now, there are even more opportunities to make impact as an entrepreneur. We can much better create freedom and wealth for ourselves. Speed of implementation is the time span for coming up with an initiative, to the time it takes to be baked into your business. The faster you implement, the more successful you will be. Vision, goals, priorities - they come from focus. The more focussed you are on what you're trying to create, and how to get there, the quicker you'll make it happen. Precision is the quickest and most efficient way from A to B. Don't be swayed by side roads. Keep your eyes on the goal and move forward. BEST MOMENTS  'Now is the best time to be an entrepreneur' 'Perfect doesn't exist' 'The business owners who have unwavering focus are the ones who implement the quickest' 'Once we make a decision we take action on it' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Taxes aren't the most enjoyable thing on any business owner's mind, but with a little reframing, they can be! This week, Nick is joined by Tom Wheelwright, the best-selling author of 'Tax-Free Wealth', who discusses the ways in which we can make sure that we have more money in our pockets, including money mindset and tax efficiency in order to build wealth. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  An effective expert should never spend time telling you about himself. He should always be asking you the questions so as to better guide you towards a solution. Governments use the tax laws to manipulate the economy. Providing tax reliefs is a way of incentivising private investors to reinforce infrastructure. The wealthiest people in the world are the ones who focus on what they're good at, and what they are attracted to. You always must take your business to the places int he world where you get the best tax breaks. The great successes don't get there without that kind of tax relief. BEST MOMENTS 'If you're creating your wealth directly, you'll make a much higher return' 'The number one job of an advisor is to ask questions' 'Wealth is created in the mind, not by your hands' 'It's okay to be rich. It's okay to build wealth' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Tom Wheelwright - https://tomwheelwright.com/resources/tax-free-wealth/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick delivers an impactful message this week, guiding you through the three crucial roles that every business needs in order to scale effectively and achieve robust success. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  You might have the best people in the world, but if they are not working to an optimal cadence, and within the right culture, then you'll never get the best out of them. A human resources leader is essential. Even if you're the CEO, you can't be responsible for building out an amazing team. You can set the tone and offer guidelines, but your HR leader on the ground will be the one who gets it done. Having a CFO who can make sense of your numbers and lay out that financial roadmap, will make your business not just robust, but far more sellable when the time comes. BEST MOMENTS 'You can't scale a business unless you can effectively build a team' 'Dominate markets in strategic ways, not just tactical ways' 'You should be defining the culture in terms of values and behaviours' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Vishen Lakhiani is an entrepreneur, author, and activist on a mission to raise human consciousness. He founded Mindvalley in 2003 with the goal of bringing together the world’s top educators under one platform, to usher in a new era for humanity that is more empowered, connected, and collaborative than the status quo. Vishen joins Nick today to talk about his incredible goal of aiming to reach a billion people worldwide, so as to further the collective consciousness of the human species, as well as a surprising revelation about his opinions on meditation, and how it can be better used to change people's lives. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When we set ourselves goals, we need to make sure that the methods we use to reach them are appropriate. Often, we use meditation in the wrong way. We use it to solve the wrong kinds of problems, meaning that it is inefficient. Meditation comes in many forms, but the one most widely adopted by the west is the form by where we clear our minds and spend long periods of time in silence. However, there are better, more efficient forms out there. Compassion may be seen as a "fluffy" in the world of business. But it's only seen that way by entrepreneurs with outdated models of business. Financial success can be attained through being driven. But there is a lack of sustainability in this pursuit. Being too driven can lead to burnout, or even a reversal of one's fortunes. BEST MOMENTS 'What we've built as a platform is essential to entrepreneurs' 'The best forms of meditation are active meditation approaches' 'We use a specific compassion protocol that in two minutes, activates compassion as a muscle within you' 'You have to find a balance between output and rejuvenation' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Vishen Lakhiani - https://www.vishen.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Just because we gain more experience over time in business, doesn't necessarily mean that we stop making mistakes. In this candid episode, Nick opens up about the errors he's made, the lessons he's learned from each one, and the ways in which you can avoid the same setbacks. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The more polarising you are, the better. If you're existing solely in the "grey area" then you're not standing out to anyone. When you set goals that are harder to achieve than you believe - a moonshot - then even if you only get 70% of the way there, you'll still have achieved excellence. If you're not scaling or growing quickly right now, you may need to ask yourself if you have strong enough partnerships in place to allow you to achieve your goals. Cash reserves are wise to have, but you also need to make sure you're investing in growth. If you don't, then you risk breaking the growth cycle. BEST MOMENTS 'It doesn't matter what stage of business you're at, you can still repeat patterns' 'What would happen if you elevated your thinking?' 'You cannot build something substantial alone' 'Cash flows to people who value it most, from people who value it least' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/ig 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this very special episode, Nick presents directly from Funnel Hacking Live 2022 with associate Rob Williams, to discuss the most impactful lessons they have accumulated from this incredible event. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Marketing and advertising used to have to rely on precise targeting at the correct time. Direct response marketing required an action to be taken, and many think this art has gone away - but it hasn't. Marketing is initially about gaining views, then engaging and eliciting an emotional response in order to gain action, and then on to conversion. Effective branding leads to the initiation of a tribe - a community - who become believers in your message. Establishing this is the key to longevity and passive marketing on your part. There are two types of individuals - the drifters and the driven. When you are faced with issues, the drifters will give in, but the driven will see it through to the end. BEST MOMENTS  'There are more messages hitting us than ever before' 'Direct response is all about speed' 'Data plays such a valuable part' 'Anything is possible by following a well-defined set of principles' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Every business owner and entrepreneur wants to make more money for their business, but sometimes lose track of the simplest ways of doing so. In this episode, Nick shares some fundamental strategies that'll greatly increase your money-making potential in no time. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The three pillars of revenue are: get more customers, do repeat business with those customers, and sell higher ticket prices. Many think that spending money on advertising will guarantee customers. You can also get more customers through networking and referral. Price has value above and beyond the transaction. You can use price as a strategic drive in itself. If you're too cheap then you risk repelling your ideal client. BEST MOMENTS 'You've got to master the fundamentals if you want to scale your business' 'Cash is king in business' 'Sometimes the only way to reach a premium client is through established networks' 'The perception of price is important' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dr. Patty Ann Tublin is the CEO and Founder of Relationship Toolbox LLC, a training and development consulting firm specialising in the development of emotional intelligence and other “soft” skills that promote optimal individual and group performance that impacts the bottom line. As a relationship, Communication and Emotional Intelligence expert, Dr. Patty Ann understands that a company’s people are its most important asset. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Performance issues affect us all, but in general these are caused by personal issues that hold people back. It is the job of a high performance coach to help others to surmount these issues. Patterns of behaviour can impact our performance at work, and also impacts how people do or do not want to relate to us. Negative feedback allows you to grow, so always ask for it wherever possible. Never be afraid to confront the difficult things, because that's where the greatest learnings are found. The most successful people always aim to see the good in people first. Failures, to them, create energy and not defeat. BEST MOMENTS  'Emotional intelligence is the thing that helps us to understand the impact we have on others' 'Negative feedback allows you to grow' 'If you stop learning then you start dying' 'Dreams are the royal road to the unconscious' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit?  Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Dr Patty Ann Tublin - https://drpattyann.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick shares the three productivity hacks he always uses without question, in order to 10x productivity, and which you can use to become the best version of yourself. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Sleep is an essential tool in making sure you're ready to hit the day hard. Without proper rest, you can't hope to do your best work. Try to schedule meetings after midday. This gives you time to acclimatise to the day and get things done before other people need your time. Aim to hit five key deliverables in a day. Think about this in terms of results or outcomes. Hitting your aims provides consistency. BEST MOMENTS 'The best morning routine starts the evening before' 'You can do stuff that's really important for you' 'The secret to success is to write down what you need to accomplish and actually do it'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit? Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Rob Dube is the CEO of The 10 Disciplines For Managing And Maximising Your Energy - a video based journey that teaches people ten powerful and customisable disciplines to manage and maximise energy so that you can optimise your life. Rob joins Nick to talk about personal development, mental wellbeing and the impact it can have on your career, and how you too can optimise your energy and your life. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  We should never seek to eliminate our egos, as they can show up for us in powerful ways, too. We just need to be more aware of when they show up at the wrong time. Meditation has become ubiquitously known as something "everyone should do", but it might not necessarily be right for you. You have to find out what the right things are for yourself. Once we begin to work on our inner selves, that's when the breakthroughs happen. Our creativity begins to ignite and accelerate. People are addicted to work and don't realise it. This means they're on the verge of burning out, and vacationing can't solve that. It takes an overhaul of lifestyle in order to repair BEST MOMENTS 'Our egos can protect us in good ways, too' 'Just allow things to be, and try to bring yourself back to the present moment. Remember how precious that present moment is' 'That's when our creativity begins sparking' 'Let it go. Find new things. Be curious about what it's like to be bored' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Are you ready to create your high-value exit? Apply to work with us today at https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment  Rob Dube - https://www.forbes.com/sites/robdube/?sh=4a078c85505d ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

What does it take to create a billion dollar exit? Strategy and timing are essential. But having worked through these scenarios, Nick is here this week to share 10 vital lessons from the billion dollar exits he's personally worked on. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Achieving a ten-figure exit is a truly special event, but there's a huge difference between a billion-dollar valuation and a billion-dollar exit. Other than ego or status, you don't need to get near the billion dollar figure in order to truly change your life. A billion dollar exit revolves around solving billion dollar problems. These are the huge issues that prove truly life-changing. When someone buys a business for a great amount, they're not buying the value today, but what it'll be worth in the future. BEST MOMENTS 'Don't think that you have to create one of these things in order to have a great life' 'What is that life-changing number?' 'Big multiples happen when you can draw a straight line between performance today and performance in the future' 'An exit is a transfer of value' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Formerly the CEO of a small oil company, Brad Blazar is a highly sought after speaker on the subject of raising capital. Having raised in excess of $2 Billion dollars, today he mentors others around the world as part of a global coaching business on how to raise funds from high net worth investors to build, buy, and scale a business - or fund a special project like real estate. Brad joins Nick this week for masterclass in the art of raising capital, how to use it effectively, how to get clever with other people's money, as well as Brad's own journey of discovery. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Helping others to learn how to raise money helps them to change their lives for the better. Philanthropy isn't just about quick wins - it's about passing on positivity to effect change. There isn't a right or wrong way to get in front of the right investors. Networking meetings are effective, and by definition, everyone attending is always looking to either invest or help investments be made. Never be too eager to pitch your idea too early. Use the power of patience. If you follow the process and tease out the conversation, then money will be the result. As you go through the process, remember that there are different forms of capital that people can bring to table - from financial to intellectual. BEST MOMENTS 'If I can be the catalyst in helping others to raise money, then I can change lives' 'Nobody's going to invest in you until they trust you' 'You can't pitch an idea on the first or second call' 'Someone in the world is waking up with the resources that you need' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Brad Blazar - https://www.bradblazar.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks about the value of finding the perfect balance between what work and life look like, and the true meaning of what it is to be prosperous. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Life should be designed in a way that allows us to live on our own terms. Life and work should be indistinguishable. Find your polaris point or north star. It is the thing that sits ahead of you that you are constantly striving to reach. You have to have an endgame, even if you never reach it. You have to clear on your values - the things that help you to make decisions. BEST MOMENTS 'The master in the art of living, makes little distinction between work and play' 'It's the thing that we are working towards, driving us forward' 'I've got purpose, a mission, a north star' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Ken Eslick has led and trained hundreds of sales executives, sales leaders, and operational leaders from all over the country, learning from the best in the process. He is a lifetime honoree in "Who’s Who in Business” and has won multiple Outstanding Achievement and Presidents Club awards, as well as acting as one of a small group of trainers worldwide with the Anthony Robbins companies, traveling the globe and helping people maximize their potential both personally and professionally. Ken joins Nick to discuss personal leadership and mindset required, and what it really takes to be a successful, impactful leader. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Effective scale can only be enacted to the level of your identity. This requires a full understanding of yourself and what lights you up. The search for self-fulfilment isn't always a clear one. Sometimes we are guided by the fact that answers are out there somewhere. Consistency is very powerful. We have to take a look at our own identity, however we define ourselves. You need to look at the life you're leading and decide for yourself if you're happy or not. If there's something dragging you down, it might be time to re-evaluate some areas. BEST MOMENTS 'You can only scale a business to the level of your identity' 'I didn't have all the answers. But what I did know was that there were answers' 'The strongest force is to be consistent with our own identity' 'You've got to grind towards it and when you get there you grind again' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Ken Eslick LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/keneslick/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Having just returned from an incredible learning event, Nick is here to share some of the most fascinating and empowering teachings, so as to help you move ever closer towards true freedom. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The most efficient way of moving forward and growing as a person, is to surround yourself by people who've walked the path before you, and invest in yourself continuously. A master mind isn't just about one person on a stage preaching to the room. It's about the shared community of skill sets, and encouraging each other to grow. Strategising is only part of the cycle. You need to implement the learnings and make "the rubber hit the road" in order to grow. BEST MOMENTS 'The reason that we are entrepreneurs is that we want freedom' 'The quickest way to get from A to B is to get out of your comfort zone' 'Perhaps it's about taking more considered action' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

As the CEO of Reputation Rhino, Dave Fulk is a master at helping Business owners turn ideas into action by overcoming challenges and removing obstacles preventing growth. His "superpower" is asking the right questions while being a solution oriented outside-of-the-box thinker and finding revenue opportunities that most people miss. Dave joins Nick today to deliver an astounding masterclass on establishing operational precision - the setting up of systems and processes that allow your business to grow organically, and scale to hitherto undreamed of size. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS No matter what your circumstances, there is always someone worse off than you. Each day you're alive is a chance to show gratitude for the blessings in your life. Sometimes, we spend so long looking for the scale opportunities internally, spending time and resources on it, but fail to recognise that external acquisitions can provide almost instant scale opportunities. Many start to scale but then give up, because they cannot seem to find the right deals to provide growth, or believe that they must use their own money to close the deals. Using other people's money, or creative strategies to acquire, are always on the table. There are many jobs and industries that are completely recession-proof. People will always require certain services, and these are the acquisitions that provide bulletproof investment opportunities. BEST MOMENTS 'Gratitude transformed my life. Today is the best day of my life' 'You have to focus on what you do have' 'Look to see what's out there!' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Dave Fulk LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/davefulk/ ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks you through the ten most important things to consider, when trying to decide if you are truly ready to transition and exit from your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Transitioning from the world of business is not an instant thing. it takes a long time, and is a slow and gradual process. The minimum amount of time spent on exit planning should be at least three to five years. Always discuss transitions from business with the people who matter the most to you. Your plans should always be shared with those closest to you. An advisory team should at least include an attorney, wealth and financial advisor, business consultant, your spouse or partner, an accountant, and anyone else who truly matters to you. You can increase the value of a business, to drive up the intangible value of the assets. You can demonstrate this value every 90 days. BEST MOMENTS 'You want to leave a legacy. You want your business to be in a great position' 'Your goals must be defined, co-dependent on one another, and also linked' 'You need to make sure you have that team around you!' 'Make improvements in the business and drive growth' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Lewis Raymond Taylor spearheads a multiple 7-figure coach training academy spanning 47 different countries across the world. Taylor helps thousands create a positive impact in the world through online life coaching. But Lewis' story hasn't been an easy one. In fact, the first chapter of his journey was filled with some of the most insurmountable adversity imaginable. In this episode, Lewis talks to Nick about how resilience can turn even the most hopeless of challenges into something positive. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS In our formative years, we assume identities based upon the attitudes and respect we are shown by others. This can have far reach effects upon the way we live and develop. Emotional intelligence is not officially taught, and yet it is one of the most important and formative traits in life. Men, especially, are simply ushered towards a stereotypical, societal shape of what life should look like. When they do not conform, the results can be devastating. Finding your moral compass is about battling internally with yourself, studying the results of these battles, and fighting harder and more fiercely the next time. Empowering yourself is about honing the art of giving power to those empowering thoughts. Eventually, they will win out against the more destructive tendencies. BEST MOMENTS  'When you get labelled that isn't good. People hear your label and that's all they hear' 'We don't get taught to nurture our emotions' 'I wanted more from my life, but I kept falling back into the same difficult situations' 'I started getting good at having that battle with myself' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Lewis Raymond Taylor - https://lewisraymondtaylor.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

For those of you who have hit the 7 figure growth target, Nick is here this week to share the five things you need to know in order to reach that elusive 8 figures in growth. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Hitting 8 figures in revenue opens up a whole new world of opportunities. It makes businesses easier to sell, and attracts a certain level of interest. Only 20% of businesses doing under 10 million in revenue actually sell when the time comes. This means 8 out of 10 do not sell. Predictability of revenue is vital. You need a machine driving leads and conversion. Something that offers value to your client or customer in terms of a conversation. BEST MOMENTS  'Mass transferability of value tends to happen when you reach plus-8 figures' '70% of your net worth is locked in your business' 'You can turn the dial up or down accordingly' 'The key to predictability is advertising' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

A.J. Jacobs is an American journalist, author, and lecturer best known for writing about his lifestyle experiments. He is an editor at large for Esquire and has worked for the Antioch Daily Ledger and Entertainment Weekly. AJ joins Nick to talk about the way we should be looking at life's puzzles, and how by viewing our daily challenges as not pain points, but instead as growth opportunities, we can scale our lives to the next level. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Life becomes far more liberating when we reframe each moment in life as a challenge from which we can draw learnings. Development comes faster if we refuse to adhere to one type of problem solving, and instead adapt ourselves to suit the problem. When you are presented with a problem, instead of diving straight in, always take time to reflect upon the best way of tackling it. When you are in a flow state, it provides a sense of euphoria and presence. It allows us to become far more connected to ourself. BEST MOMENTS 'Seeing the world as a puzzle has improved my life' 'The key to life is being much more flexible in your thinking' 'Ask yourself - is there a better way to do this?' 'You are seeking the experience of flow and being in the moment' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      AJ Jacobs - https://ajjacobs.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Many see the exit from their businesses as the chance to achieve freedom, but as Nick explains in this week's edition of wisdom, there may be another way to get there without selling your business... Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Kiyosaki's Quadrant Of Freedom involves: E - Employee, S - Self-Employed, B - Business Owner, I - Investor. If you are working in a business, the first thing you can do change your trajectory is to become a manager. This gives you a slightly increased freedom. The next rung to climb is to an executive position. The number one reason for a business failing to sell, is that the seller gets cold feet right at the very end. If you have planned in advance, and have had the exit in mind the whole time, then it removes the emotional connection at this crucial time. BEST MOMENTS 'Freedom can be achieved in different ways' 'You can start to see where that first tranche of freedom can become available to you' 'When you become a business owner, you become the owner of a system' 'The way to become a great CEO is to make sure you're not doing any of the work' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dr Alok Trivedi, aka Dr Rewire, is the founder of on of 2021 Inc. 5000's fastest-growing companies, Aligned Performance Institute, and the author of Amazon Prime best-seliing book,, "Chasing Success: Lessons In Aligned Performance". Dr Trivedi joins Nick this week, to discuss 92 actionable, scientifically-proven, and most importantly practical ways in which you can rewire your brain into working more efficiently, improving the quality of your life, your business and your relationships. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Personal issues, despite our best efforts, can negatively impact our business performance. Not just do they encroach on our decision-making abilities when we need them, they also affect our literal physicality. Life is a mirror when it comes to emotional response. In business, when it comes to teams, they will feel a mirror of the way that you feel, and vice versa. Often, those in positions of success and power are under far more pressure than those whose businesses may be failing. It is success that grows pressure and chaos in life. The great ones are those who recognise this and handle it. If you do not find the root cause of trauma and deal with it there, then you are doomed to repeat the fallout again and again in life. BEST MOMENTS 'The physicality comes through from the emotional experience' 'I knew that the mind-body connection was real' 'I'm not into conflict resolution, I'm into conflict evolution' 'It's the success that breeds the chaos, not the failure'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Dr Alok Trivedi - https://drrewire.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick is in reflective mode, as he talks extensively about the way he works, who specifically he aims to help through his work, and the ways in which this is achieved. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Working on business owner should never be just about the skill set. It should also provide clarity about their belief system and mindset. You can always evolve, grow and diversify your investment portfolio, but it's far better to focus on your own lane - your own area of expertise. When it comes to coaching, it's not so much about providing answers that didn't exist before. It's about encouraging the answers to come from within, where they have always been. Exits are not centred around time, but centred around the result. Brokers and banks are only there for the actual exit. They want the deal done, more than they want the best deal for you. BEST MOMENTS 'It's important when I work with someone to be able to work on them, to change and improve and challenge their belief systems' 'I'm an investor in small business acquisitions' 'You need someone else who can help you get to the answer' 'This is not time based. This is outcome based' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dan Millman is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan’s teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior’s Way. His work continues to evolve over time to meet the needs of a changing world. Dan’s eighteen books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, have inspired and informed millions of readers in 29 languages worldwide. The feature film “Peaceful Warrior” was adapted from Dan’s first book, based upon incidents from his life. Dan joins Nick to talk about what sparked his incredible journey, mentorship and how he chose the mentors in his own life, what spirituality actually is, and details about his latest incredible book. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When we find a state of flow, overcoming challenge becomes more relaxed, although it still requires effort on our part. We accept obstacles as more simplified Breakthroughs come in the tailwind of challenge. The greatest lessons learned are the ones that come following a period of struggle and reflection. People love travelling because it forces them to see the world in an all-new way - the same way that a child sees their environment. we need to embrace the beauty in everything. We never outgrow our teachers, we simply recognise when our paths diverge from those we have followed. BEST MOMENTS 'The arena of what I call The Peaceful Warrior way is everyday life for all of us' 'Trying implies tension, which makes everything harder' 'You don't really fail at anything unless you give up on it' 'Spirituality gets tricky after a while. We can bring spirit to our everyday life' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Dan Millman - https://www.peacefulwarrior.com/about-dan-millman-and-his-work/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

We can definitely become tired from having to make too many decisions. In fact, the more choices we have to make can negatively affect our energy reserves. In this episode, Nick talks you through the concept itself, and offers actionable ways in which you can prevent it from impacting you. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Decision fatigue is compounded by the fact that we often have too many things going on. If we have too much choice, it can leave us paralysed and then impact our ability to make decisions. Our brains only have a limited store of energy. When we make decisions, this energy depletes, thereby negatively impacting our ability to effectively operate. Plan daily decisions the night before. This means that when you wake up refresh in the morning, half of your brain's work is done ahead of time. Stop making decisions, and think in terms of commitments. Rather than hoping you'll make the right choice each day, simply commit to the larger aims. BEST MOMENTS 'It can impact our ability to make high quality decisions' 'Your willpower is like a muscle' 'There are more and more things thrown at us all the time. We have to shut them out in order to make space to make decisions' 'I want you to simplify all the things you're look at so that you can make higher quality decisions' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dean Graziosi is a multiple New York Times best-selling author, entrepreneur, and investor. He has started or played a major role in over 14 successful companies that have changed lives all around the world – including the new Mastermind.com platform. His mission for over 20 years has been to deliver self-education to those seeking transformation, fulfillment, and success outside the traditional education path Dean joins Nick to talk about why we should always seize the moment in life, the power of experience and the value of it to others, to deliver a masterclass in mindset, belief, and how to become the best version of yourself possible. They also share some information about an upcoming event - and free access to this 5-day live training with Tony Robbins, Dean Graziosi, Matthew McConaughey, and a cast of experts that will give you the exact blueprint you need to thrive in today’s world: https://scaleupyourbusiness.clickfunnels.com/time-to-thrive-2022 Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The knowledge you accumulate is invaluable to the people following in your footsteps. Nothing is more precious than knowledge. It's far better to arrive at the end of your life with no regrets, having achieved everything you wanted to, than to spend time worrying about what others might think of us. When you find the purpose that lights you up more than ay other, it spurs you on, pushes you higher, accelerates your desire to reach that goal. Whatever you go through, whatever you experience, whatever obstacles you face in life, they all provide learnings and gifts. Sometimes the value doesn't present itself until much later, but time will allow you to recognise eventually. BEST MOMENTS  'There's nothing more powerful than the right message delivered at the right moment to the right person' 'What's worse, a friend thinking you're crazy or the end of your life seeing a video of the person you could have been?' 'Somebody else is starting off where you used to be' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Dean Graziosi - https://www.deangraziosi.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Recession is on every business owner's mind right now, and fortifying yourself against the expected downturn in the economies is a wise step. With this in mind, Nic takes this opportunity to talk about the types of businesses that thrive during these periods, and the elements you can adapt to your own business in order to make sure that your organisation thrives also. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We must always use a positive outlook for our business, as this encourages growth. But we must also focus upon contingencies. We need to fortify. The best practice is always to ensure that we have at least six months' worth of operating costs in reserve for our business. We cannot affect the larger economic picture, which is largely influenced by the media and the public's reaction to circumstances. All we can control is our own business response. Industries that did well in the Great Recession of 2008 include discount retailers, healthcare, food and restaurants, freight and logistics, and the do-it-yourself markets. BEST MOMENTS  'You should expect the best. You should have positive intent. But you have to plan for contingencies' 'We need a profit-first mentality' 'Things that are accessible but which give pleasure or mute pain tend to do quite well' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Alan Stein, Jr. is an experienced keynote speaker and author. At his core, he’s a performance coach with a passion for helping others change behaviours. He spent 15+ years working with the highest performing basketball players on the planet (including NBA superstars Kevin Durant, Steph Curry, and Kobe Bryant). Through his customised programs, he transfers his unique expertise to maximise both individual and organisational performance. Alan joins Nick on this episode, to discuss the very definition of success and how to work towards it, the importance of fundamentals, consistency and sustainability, and the daily practices that can push you higher and ever closer to your definition of success. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Losing the will to push ourselves harder is natural. The best way to overcome this is by not punishing ourselves and keeping our eyes on the prize. Everyone's route to success is different. Some have a rigid path planned, while others take a "loose guard rails" approach. You need to find what works for you. Accountability is a great inspirer and motivator. If we have to explain our lack of movement to others, it creates disappointment. Avoiding this by fulfilling our goals is key. The way to not just raise your game, but sustain your position at the top, is to consistently blend and marry humility with confidence, and focus on the fundamentals. BEST MOMENTS 'You need to recruit an inner circle of people who are going to hold you accountable foe the things you said you were going to do' 'We don't like to disappoint people who mean something to us' 'The key to not only performance and success, but happiness and fulfilment, is to do more of what works - do less of what doesn't' 'There is tremendous overlap between raising your game and sustaining your game' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Alan Stein Jr - https://alansteinjr.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

There is a marked difference between growth and scale, and yet why do so many confuse the two? In this episode, Nick talks about each, and explains why a more scientific approach to scale may be beneficial in the art of entrepreneurship. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many in the growth phase become too comfortable, but it's a rollercoaster ride. Some days are successful, but it has no stabilisation. At the end of the growth phase, you near predictability. Predictability comes through scale, which is the nest phase in a company's life. When you enter the scale up phase, it's about creating cashflow so as to fuel more growth. it also creates transferrable value. The businesses that scale quickly are the ones that operate as a higher cadence than the rest. They go one step further than others are willing to go. BEST MOMENTS 'They are certainly part of the same journey, but they are definitely different things' 'There is an art that comes in the world of entrepreneurship' 'You've got to see a problem, think about a solution, and take action' 'Scale up is the extension of growth' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Roy Cowley is a visionary leader, and is well-known and respected figure in the industry as a pioneer in non-surgical technology, and has been named by Professional Beauty as one of the UK's 'Top 50 Industry Influencers' for his contribution to the Beauty & Aesthetics Industries.  With much doubt about the economy and the business landscape, many business owners are naturally looking for a way to fortify their organisations against financial challenges, and Roy discusses the practical, actionable ways in which you can make sure that your business can withstand a recession, and how through channelling resilience, you can ensure that your mindset is bulletproof. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When you lose everything, the risks become that much smaller. We have less to lose. The stakes change significantly, but the wins can put us right back on top. People vastly prefer solutions that move them towards their goal instantly. Incremental change reduces momentum. People are willing to pay to get to their goals much faster. Failure is inevitable, but it is the way we deal with it and move on that creates greatness. Remember that starting from scratch is okay, because now you are starting from a place of experience. In order to fight back against the effects of a negative market, we must foster the FAF method - Fear, Acceptance and Fight! BEST MOMENTS  'When you've lost everything, it becomes a great time to take a risk' 'When the going gets tough, the tough gets going. You only fail when you quit' 'People don't buy incremental improvement. They buy an opportunity' 'I don't dwell on failure'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Roy @ 3D Aesthetics - https://www.3d-aesthetics.co.uk/meet-the-team/ ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

What's more important for your business to be focussing on - generating more income, or increasing value? As Nick explains in today's show, income and value are NOT the same thing, why both matter so much, and how both can drive growth in differing ways... Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many think of value as the profitability of the business. The reality is that value isn't as simple as that. Some values are generated by formulas, and others are in the eye of the beholder. Businesses can make money, but not be as valuable as we believe. This can be caused through too much reliance on the owner's presence, too much reliance on a handful of customers, no IP protection and other factors. Focus on building a high value business. If you do this, you'll generate income for today as well as build a business that is exitable and attractive in the future. Once you've assessed value, make sure you protect it by ensuring the best foundations are in place. This allows you to build. BEST MOMENTS 'Income in its own right is not a driver of value' 'Value, or a high value business, absolutely drives lots of income' 'No understanding of tangible assets meant that tangible assets were precarious' 'By focussing on value you get income' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Todd Herman has been entrenched in the world of elite performers working with the highest achievers in sports & business for over two decades. In this episode, Todd talks to Nick about the value of attaining a flow state and what it can help us to achieve, the importance of identity, and how by gaining mastery over it, we can accelerate growth, 10x our self-development, and achieve stunning performance in every area of life and business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Sports participants and athletes understand the value of flow, and how by tapping into an almost subconscious level of engagement, we can achieve incredible results. Nature is the ultimate meta-frame on judging whether something is true or not. The world around us abides by a set of chaotic natural laws that keep us all thriving. Flow creates growth, and drives momentum. This leads to enjoyment, which should be one of the most important metrics we use to determine success in business. Identity should be used as a device and mechanism to help us see and explore what else we are made of and what we can achieve. BEST MOMENTS 'When you're playing in a flow state - in that zone - all of your capabilities get to come out of you' 'One of the pitfalls of ambitious, top-achieving people is the expectation of some sort of outcome' 'Flow can be applied to a human. It can be applied to a team. It can be aligned to a business' 'If you don't have an attitude of playfulness, that means you're taking yourself way too seriously' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Todd Herman - https://toddherman.me ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode, I have two big announcements to share.As you know, I always talk about: Scaling up. Scaling your business in order to live life on your terms. Knowing your identity. You can only scale a business to the level of your identity. Continuing your education. Keep learning. Pushing yourself to grow. Even when it's uncomfortable. I am a man of action and continue to follow these examples, too. So, I'm excited to announce:I went back to school! I'm proud to announce that I am officially a "Certified Exit Planning Advisor."My second announcement. Well, that has much more to do with YOU! I want to offer something special just for you.As you know, it's my mission to help business owners create high-value businesses. This episode offers an extension of my mission— a way for me to give back to you.You won't want to miss this announcement.Are you ready? Download and listen to the full episode! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  If you can create a business that can be run without you, it makes it far more viable to sell. This gives you the option to hold onto it without the operational side, but also gives you a valuable asset. Owner readiness is the preparedness of a business owner to be able to exit their business, either now or at some point in the future. 66% of the American business market is owned by baby boomers. There is a huge wealth transfer imminent. Statistics also say that only around 25% of businesses actually sell BEST MOMENTS 'The hallmark of a valuable company is one that can be run without you' 'That gives you the ultimate leverage' 'An owner who is ready with an attractive business greatly increases the odds that the business will survive a transition'  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Oliver Burkeman is the author of The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can't Stand Positive Thinking (2012), Help! How to Become Slightly Happier and Get a Bit More Done (2011), and a new book, Four Thousand Weeks, about making the most of our radically finite lives in a world of impossible demands, relentless distraction and political insanity. Oliver joins Nick this week to talk about why time management is the key to unlocking our true potential and productivity, and why mastering it will provide the key to success and scale in whatever we do. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  The world is filled with infinite possibilities, and yet we as creatures are finite. The only way to make the best of our time is to come to the realisation that we are going to miss out on much the world has to offer. Many think that pushing for more gets you further, and that can be meaningful, so long as we temper our ambitions to realise that not every opportunity can be taken. You should make decisions as part of a practice, and see it as something you should get better at. If you're stuck, then look for some decision to make that makes the process irreversible, and make it! Habits we implement for our own self care must be conceptualised as such. If we become too focussed on the practice itself, instead of what we are trying to achieve with it, then we become far too future-focussed, which is detrimental. BEST MOMENTS  'We swim in infinity pools of possibilities' 'That's a recipe for being more busy, more stressed and less focussed' 'You can build this muscle' 'I 'm more interested in the achievement of the habit, than what the habit is trying to provide' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Oliver Burkeman - https://www.oliverburkeman.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks about one of the most important core principles in private equity, one that helps to create high-value businesses - multiple arbitrage. As Nick explains, if you can fully understand the principle, it can lead to a life-changing exit, and will endow you with the experience and knowledge to hold effective conversations with potential business purchasers. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Multiple arbitrage is the increasing of value of a company between buying and selling, absent of any operational improvements. Bolting on businesses to a smaller concern can help to grow size. As it increases in size and value, you create a multiple arbitrage strategy. If a bigger company has a higher value, and you are bringing a smaller value company in, the value of the bigger company instantly increases. BEST MOMENTS 'The value of a business is very much in the eye of the beholder' 'You're better off trying to become a part of a bigger entity' 'Create value via the multiplier effect' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Paul Avins is an award winning business coach, speaker and mastermind mentor who is highly sought after in the UK by entrepreneurs and business owners to help them breakthrough the Scale Up Ceiling to create real Shareholder Value. With an impressive 17 year track record of helping business owners generate hundreds of millions of pounds in additional sales, profits and shareholder value, Paul is the catalyst business owners seek out when then feel frustrated, overwhelmed or want to accelerate their growth for a potential exit. Paul joins Nick to discuss the importance of branding, consistency, building your dream team and structuring your exit successfully, so as to provide you with the freedom to live the life of your dreams. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Networking is vital in terms of having people to share your wins with, and to help you find support when challenges arise. One of the biggest myths about entrepreneurship is that people are self-made. No one gets there alone. It requires the support and skills of an amazing team. Teams work best when they learn to constantly rely on and trust each other. It's not enough to simply inject enthusiasm infrequently. Rewards should always be based on the values of the person being rewarded. If you don't get this right, it can demotivate rather than motivate. BEST MOMENTS 'One of the biggest misconceptions about entrepreneurship is that you're self-made' 'There's a reason why entrepreneurs feel isolated at times' 'We talk about building teams through team dynamics' 'There's no one-size-fits all solution' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Paul Avins - https://www.paulavins.com/businessgrowthcoach ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Marketing remains at the heart of almost all strategic scale-up plans, but many don't consider the emotional states involved during campaigns. In this episode, Nick talks about the value of recognising the high and low emotional states that connect people in a greater way to your marketing goals. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If you have a business already and are looking to scale via acquisitions, you must have the foundations in place, and you must make sure they are strong. Many see marketing as a simple message that will stop people in their tracks. The unfortunate truth is that this doesn't work. People have different emotional states depending on where they are in their journey. The people you most want to appeal to will be in a high or low emotional state, and the message you put out will dictate how effective it is. BEST MOMENTS 'Great marketing isn't about putting something new in front of someone. It's about channelling the desire or fear they currently have' 'Your job is not to go out there and interrupt people. It's to channel the thought or feeling toward a solution' 'This has the potential to change the way you think about marketing your business' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

An intensely curious entrepreneur and philanthropist, Naveen Jain focuses on ideas that push humanity forward. Driven to solve the world’s biggest problems and propelled by his imagination, Naveen pushes big dreams into action, spurring massive cultural and technological change. With an audacious vision, he knows no limits. His moonshot vision breaks through barriers; his magnetic personality inspires the impossible. Naveen joins Nick to talk about the power of not just setting hard-to-reach goals, but goals that some would consider unattainable, how applying 10x to your thinking can supply you with incredible results, and the true measure of success. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When it comes to the goals we set, always aim higher than you need to. By aiming even higher, we achieve even more. The results will astound you. The true measure of success is not how much money we make, or the figures we accrue. It is in the shape of the world after we have left our legacy. Success comes from changing lives for the better. We all have within us a core belief that we are willing to go that extra distance for. Purpose comes from identifying that belief and working hard to make it happen. The secret to building a multi-billion dollar company is in finding a solution that positively impacts the lives of people around the world. If people want your solution then they will come to you. BEST MOMENTS 'Education has the power to change the world' 'Dream so big that people think you're crazy' 'Find yourself something that you are willing to die for and then live for it' 'The day you become humble, is the day you become successful' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Naveen Jain - https://naveenjain.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Brendan McGurgan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices now in 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth. He currently acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of the CDE Group), a company he co-promoted in 2006. In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors UK Young Director of the Year and Overall Director of the Year. An avid sportsman and advocate of self-leadership through good well-being practices, Brendan is also a Wim Hof Method instructor. Brendan joins Nick to talk about the importance of purpose when it comes to scale, and the incredible lessons you can learn from his new book 'Simple Scaling' Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  In the UK alone there are 5.7m SMEs, and they contribute £2 trillion pounds to the UK economy. They impact every part of our lives, from community to economy. The impact that companies can have upon teams, organisations, society, economies and communities is significant. Encouraging them to scale makes us all stronger. Limited markets are inbuilt to desire scale. Companies scaling and starting in places such as Ireland automatically consider export as that is where success ultimately resides. Purpose and vision are critically important for true scale. If you don't know where you're going, then how can anyone be attracted to your future? BEST MOMENTS 'That question gave me the clarity I needed' 'Sales is vanity, profit is sanity and cash is reality' 'Our vision is to inspire, enable and connect millions of ambitious leaders' 'Scale is in our DNA'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Simple Scaling - https://simplescaling.com/meet-the-team ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

From multi-billion dollar start-up to collapse and coming back to launch, invest in or grow over 50 companies, Keynote Speaker, Sterling Hawkins has taken that experience to create 5 practices that enables audiences to unlock their inherent potential. The hundreds of thousands that have joined Sterling find that all the unpredictability in the world is no match for their creativity, determination and inspiration to achieve even the most audacious goals #NoMatterWhat is standing in their way. Sterling joins Nick to talk about the ways in which you can push past the limiting beliefs that hold you back, and move towards a version of success that you never imagined possible. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The practices we adopt and shape in order to find success, can't perpetuate our climb forever. We need to be looking for the next way to raise ourselves up or we will plateau. The way out of your current circumstance, or to get to the next level, is always through whatever you're facing. Even though people might be at the top of their game, it doesn't always mean that they are happy with the challenges and obstacles they face each day. Mediocrity is the enemy of growth. Never accept "fine" as a way of life. Look for ways to grow and ways to develop. If we aren't growing, then we are limiting our potential. BEST MOMENTS  'If you're hanging on to what got you to where you are, that's not going to take you to the next level' 'The way out is through' 'There was a first time you felt the way you do. Those feeling started at a certain point' 'When you get to the root of it, you can start to break free from it' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Sterling Hawkins - https://www.sterlinghawkins.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Becoming stuck in one place can be a disheartening experience, especially when it comes to our business journey. Nick talks you through several ways in which you can achieve the mindset required in order to get the gears moving once more, allowing you to push past a feeling of stasis. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When we are stuck at any point, the reality is that there are always possible ways to get things moving again. Solutions to problems are always out there to be found. These come in the form of knowledge, motivation, and even people who can ignite movement once more. When we live in the no-mans-land of mediocrity, we gradually lose the impetus to drive real change. We become used to the comfort of normality. BEST MOMENTS  'I hate the concept of being stuck. It feels disempowering' 'In business there is always a solution out there' 'You could call this the zone of mediocrity' 'In that point of pain I started this podcast. That changed everything'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Saul Blinkoff began his career as an animator for the Walt Disney Studios working on the hit films Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Mulan, & Tarzan. Saul now speaks around the world sharing practical tools for success, meaning and fulfilment in all aspects of life and hosts the inspirational podcast; Life of AWESOME! Saul joins Nick to talk about his incredible career story, and how he learned to push past rejection and setbacks in pursuit of his dreams. It's a powerful tale that will inspire you to always hold fast to the visions of life we desire. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  In life, we allow other people to change the trajectories of what out goals are, when in reality, we should always be at the helm of the decisions that steer our life path. When we don't do things well, it creates anxiety around these tasks because it reminds us of our weaknesses. Sometimes the difference between a dream slipping through our fingers, and coming true, can be infinitesimal. Your dreams are closer than you think, you just need to push a little bit more. Exceeding and subverting the expectations of others can lead to life-changing results. Always go further than you have to. BEST MOMENTS  'It's uncomfortable for us to do things we don't do well' 'We have to make it real. If you feel it, they'll feel it' 'I vowed to never give up again' 'Live a life of sincerity' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Saul Blinkoff - http://www.saulblinkoff.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks about that most crucial element of business ownership - the exit - and most notably how to ensure that you can maximise this vital wealth event, and achieve an exit that provides freedom and security. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Life-changing exits are not necessarily about just money. They are about the freedom it endows you with, and what it allows you to afterwards. Business owners generally have 75-80 percent of their net worth tied up in their business. This means that their business exit is the single biggest transaction or wealth event of their lives. Leveraging yourself out of the business is crucial. The business must be able to run separately from you. This is vital for scale. You must start with your endgame in mind, using an endgame assessment. Gain a valuation of the business as it stands presently, then work out how much you want to sell for in the future. BEST MOMENTS  'For me, that's the pinnacle of what we do' 'If I can provide life-changing exits for them, then they can make life-changing impact on others' 'Only twenty percent of all businesses in the world will actually sell' 'A lot of businesses don't realise that scale matters' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Simon Duffy is the founder of hyper-popular men's grooming product powerhouse, Bulldog Skincare, one of the most recognisable brands around the world, having expanded into 31 countries. Simon joins Nick for this high-impact episode, in which he takes you on a direct journey from start-up to scale-up to exit strategy - a masterclass on the business journey itself, and how you can create and grow a business, as well as achieve the exit of your dreams. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We can always disrupt a market, because the incumbents in any space generally tend to be rooted in the past. There are always opportunities for innovation. The entrepreneurial spirit must always be heeded as it tries to steer us through business. Follow your instincts, or you may reach the end of your career with regrets. True innovation comes from proving that an idea germinated at a table surrounded by thinkers can precipitate change in an industry. Partnering with those who wish to take the brand to the next level can often provide hitherto unexplored levels of innovation and growth. Always look for the positives in what others can bring. BEST MOMENTS 'The opportunities that interest me the most are the ones that involve disrupting a big market with a more sustainable version of the future' 'We have to build something that can take on these juggernauts' 'There is a healthy tension between strategy and execution' 'A lot of brand screw it up, and we thought "We don't want to make that mistake"' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Simon Duffy LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-duffy-mbe-753306a/?originalSubdomain=uk ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Many assume that in order to acquire profitable concerns, that a strategy known as "No Money Down" can be used. But as Nick explains in this episode, there's a difference between "No Money Down" and "Other People's Money" Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS No-Money-Down is a term that originated mainly in the property space, denoting a scenario in which investors were able to begin their journey without the need for money of their own. Other People's Money is different from No-Money Down, as it explicitly means that other people's investment capital is being leveraged. When people invest their lives into a business, then they have done so with the intention of gaining some kind of reward in the long run. If you are fixating on a No Money Down deal, then you must be prepared for potential letdowns. Remember that it's better to spend a little and get something that works, than take s chance on something that might be fundamentally broken. BEST MOMENTS 'It's dangerous to buy into the marketing without doing your due diligence' 'I prefer to use the term "Other People's Money"' 'Leverage is such an important term' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Clint Emerson is a retired Navy SEAL, survival skills expert, and the New York Times bestselling author of 'The Rugged Life - The Modern Guide To Self-Reliance'. Clint joins Nick to talk about why relying on ourselves is one of the most important traits we should foster in life, the ways in which we can build confidence and coping mechanisms, and how being prepared may hold the key to our existence in the world of today. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Current world events have gone to prove that we can never take life for granted. Events can take a drastic turn in the space of a day, so it pays us to be prepared. The key to making sure we aren't taken out by unforeseen circumstances is in ensuring that our key enablers are kept safe and guarded. Complacency has become far too commonplace, and this is largely due to the rise in use of technology, that makes life comfortable, but also dulls our senses. We may feel that time and money spent on being prepared is wasted, but the costs of repair far outweigh the small investments made in preparedness. BEST MOMENTS 'Preparedness is the primary focus of everything I do' 'You don't know what tomorrow will bring' 'Imagine if the sky filled up with red parachutes? What would YOU do?' 'Complacency kills' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Clint Emerson - https://clintemerson.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this highly insightful episode, Nick talks about identity, and why it is such a crucial concept to understand completely when trying to grow and scale a business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Mindset, and how you think about things, how you identify with yourself, how you show up - all of it is business itself. You can't grow and scale a business if there are chinks in the veneer - gaps in who we are, who we think we are, and who we are becoming. If our businesses are not moving in the direction we want, then the first step is to acknowledge that problem. We must evaluate our current identity, and then identify the identity we wish to embody. It's a case of looking at where you are and where you wish to be. BEST MOMENTS 'What I'm talking about today is who you are becoming as the business leader, the driver of what you are ultimately trying to create' 'You have to first work on yourself and define who you are becoming' 'You create the image of who you are based on your values' 'This is not about trying to pretend you're something that you're not' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Seth Godin is a former dot com business executive and the author of twenty best-selling books that have been translated into over 40 languages around the world, and which have helped to empower others to become the best version of themselves. His blog was named by Time among its 25 best blogs of 2009. Seth joins Nick today to talk about the answers to some very crucial questions - namely how we can increase our impact in the world by doing the things we're truly passionate about, and how to turn that passion into a scalable enterprise of which we can be proud. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  A true teacher is someone who can recognise the light in others, and who do all they can to make it burn brighter, without regard for their own personal glorification. Marketing and advertising used to be the same thing, leading to a misunderstanding that still exists to this day. An advertising campaign is not the same as a marketing campaign. The core principle of marketing used to be to make average stuff for average people at scale. What has shifted is that scale is no longer a plus but a minus. The finest way of reaching your customers is to create something sp special that they will run to tell others. This is a dramatic shift in the way we reach people. BEST MOMENTS  'I'm trying to turn on lights for people' 'It is cheaper and more effective to make something for someone than it is to make something for everyone' 'I would rather applaud people who are doing extraordinary things, than win any given competition' 'Spend money to make a product or service that people want to talk about'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global "Scale To Sale" Workshop ... join my FREE training on how to scale your business to a life-changing exit - register here:https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/live-workshop Seth Godin - https://seths.blog ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Ben Newman is a highly regarded Performance Coach, International Speaker and Best-Selling Author, whose clients include Fortune 500 companies around the world, business executives, sales organisations and professional athletes in the NFL, PGA, NBA, MLB, UFC and NCAA. He is also the author of the #1 Wall Street Journal and USA Today Best-Seller, UNCOMMON Leadership. Ben joins Nick to talk about his incredible book, as well as how you can apply the principles of UNCOMMON Leadership to your life, your career and your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Success comes from first finding out about ourselves, and discovering the strengths that reside within us through challenging adversity. Adversity and challenge lights a fire beneath us that allow us to identify the "why" and the purpose that drives us onwards. Those who successfully lead are the ones who show up no matter what. If our purpose is strong enough, nothing can hold us back. Never accept the accepted wisdom from the world at large. Far too many preach that adversity and challenge are there to stop us in our tracks, instead of providing valuable lessons in what we are capable of surmounting. BEST MOMENTS 'You have the strength in you, to battle through adversity' 'They talk about why and purpose, but they forget to talk about the burn' 'Every time he wins he gets hungrier' 'The world tells us to think smaller, to not take massive action' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Ben Newman - https://bennewman.net/about/ ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Building a business to scale in order to provide a healthy exit usually means aiming for an 8-figure concern. But in order to get there, you have to have a clear plan for how to first get to the 7 figure mark. This is a period that can prove somewhat tricky... In this episode, Nick talks you through the ways in which you can ensure that your business reaches that 7 figure milestone, in order to ensure that life-changing exit. KEY TAKEAWAYS Six figures of revenue does not necessarily equal six figures of profit. You still have to sensible in terms of what you want the business to be so that you ultimately end up with what you want. Momentum is important and drives the speed of your operations. But without scale, you are merely moving faster without moving forward. Cash flow is vital. This relies on predictability of leads, predictability of sales, and from these two factors you get the predictability of cashflow. Structure matters more than you might think. You should always build your company's structure around the strategy that you want to pursue. BEST MOMENTS  'Building a 6 figure business is still awesome' 'We become entrepreneurs because we don't just want to hustle' 'You want to be in the situation where you have a business that allows you to have an amazing life' 'You've got to have the right pond with the right fish and the right bait' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses, across the UK, the US, and further afield. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His “Scale Up Your Business” podcast, which ranked #1 on iTunes’ business charts, has more than 350k downloads in over 130 countries. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist.Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

As business owners, effective communication is paramount in ensuring that our messages are received, translated and implemented. But many find their grand ideas stymied by an inability to better communicate them, leading to frustration and unnecessary challenge. Joining Nick this week is John Bates, founder of Executive Speaking Success, and a man who has helped countless leaders and executives to dynamically improve their business results through his unique communication education and training, based in the fundamental evolutionary biology and neurophysiology of human communication, connection and interaction. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When we are given opportunities to speak, we should prepare rigorously. We may not always be aware of what can lead from engagements. Treat every opportunity as special. Leadership is a function of great communication, and great leadership is a function of great communication. The reason why formats such as TED work so well is because they understand this, and give their people the chance to reach others through tried and tested means. Structure can have an enormous impact on the way we reach others. The "in media res" technique plants us squarely in the action, and provides a hook that draws people into the rest of the message. There are certain markers that we can provide, which allow another person to realise that a story is being told to them. This affects them on a chemical level and makes them more receptive. BEST MOMENTS 'I call it the "Valley Of Awkwardness"' 'If I started at the beginning, it would have been a very different experience for people' 'That moment deserves preparation and practice' 'Our brains release the same chemical we release when we expect to get a reward' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Executive Speaking Success - https://executivespeakingsuccess.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Even the most successful business concerns hit bumps in the road, and generally tend to find that larger problems await us further down the road. Some succeed, but some fail, but why? In this episode, Nick talks you through the five main reasons why successful businesses can fail, and how you can avoid the same fate. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS As entrepreneurs and investors, the reward gained from solving a challenge is usually finding that a bigger challenge or problem awaits us on the other side. Sometimes, as we become successful, we stop thinking about the gains we make in terms of relativity. This means we feel as though we are growing significantly slower, even though the gains are still big. When it comes to strategy, we can become far too obsessed with taking action in and of itself, the implementation, that we forget about the strategy. We must never forget to help others in attaining their desired place in their own journey. If someone is not the right fit in your business, it could actually be the best thing for their growth if they break away. BEST MOMENTS 'As you start to build something bigger, the problems and challenges become bigger' 'Remember, that is what you are signing up for' 'The faster we grow, the more difficult it can become to top our previous successes' 'You've got to have strong systems and processes' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Mollie West Duffy is an organisational designer at IDEO New York and she teaches an undergraduate Design Thinking class at Stanford's New York City Design School. She has helped companies and startups such as Casper develop good workplace culture, and has authored the best-selling book, 'No Hard Feelings'. Mollie joins Nick today to discuss her new book 'Big Feelings: How To Feel Okay When Things Are Not Okay', as well as how to deal with uncertainty, despair, anger, envy, and the other topics that might be holding us back when it comes to achieving more. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We cannot hope to surmount the problems that hold us back from greatness unless we first admit they exist, and then allow others to support our overcoming them. In the wake of the pandemic, the need for a more open discussion upon the ills of emotional imbalance, especially in the workplace, are far more relevant. Success is often due to our energy, talent and commitment to a task, rather than some desire to be the best, or to provide perfection. Fear can be easier to deal with because its roots usually lie in something specific. However, anxiety is non-specific and therefore can be tricky to be deal with. Therefore, by channelling our broader anxieties into something more specific can be helpful in our learning to deal with them. BEST MOMENTS 'When we keep everything bottled up, we suffer in silence' 'We want our leaders to be emotional, but not too emotional' 'The reason we allow ourselves to think this way is that we believe that it serves us' 'Fear is when we believe that something specific will happen' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Mollie West Duffy - https://molliewestduffy.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks all things business buying and acquisitions in 2022 - a state of the industry update - so as to help refine the information out there, and debunk some of the rhetoric available, ensuring that you have the most up to date and accurate data to hand in order to realise your buying and acquisitions aims for the year ahead. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Main street are businesses beneath the realm of £2m in revenue. The lower middle market range from the £2m mark all the way up to £50m. The state of the world and its many economies, as well as upheavals and political events, all have a marked effect on business buying. Going through the traditional routes of buying through brokers and agents means that a lot of people will be doing the same thing leading to high levels of competition. This means your ability to negotiate will be hampered. 54% of transactions are closing successfully. This is an extraordinarily high rate of acquisition success, meaning there is economic confidence around scale. BEST MOMENTS  'Markets change all the time' 'I still think it is a buyer's market, but it's a buyer's market if you are prepared to look off-market' 'Over the next decade you are going to get the baby boomers coming through' 'Go out there and do partnerships, joint ventures and acquisitions' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

How important is branding to you? How much in the way of time and resources are you spending on making sure that your brand represents you and your company accurately, and in a powerful way? In this episode, Nick is joined by Jason Harris, the co-founder & CEO of award-winning creative advertising agency Mekanism, co-founder of the Creative Alliance and author of national bestseller, The Soulful Art of Persuasion, to talk about the empowering ways in which you can harness the powers of science and soul in order to accelerate your marketing ambitions. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Brands allow us to be a part of a hero's journey. When we see and respect sports personalities, associating ourselves with their brands allows us to feel like we are part of their story. As business owners we must sometimes come to terms with the fact that the ideas we have aren't always plausible. This can require input from an outside perspective. Companies aren't what you buy, and they're not about what they sell. Companies today are more about the idea that the consumer buys into. Around 82% of consumers don't care if a brand disappears, as they can easily find others that fill their need. Around 53% of consumers will buy products from a brand that does something positive. BEST MOMENTS 'I wouldn't just watch the ad and have it wash over me. I'd really dissect it' 'When you're not thinking about jobs, futures or careers, then what are those instant passion points you have?' 'By standing for something you're going to build long term love, equity and relevance' 'Soul has never been more important' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Jason Harris - https://www.thesoulfulart.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

As an expert at scaling-up in both private and corporate business situations, Nick is here this week with a definitely business-centred episode, sharing with you the twenty most powerful ways that you can achieve accelerated scale in your own business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Once you've made a decision, own the decision. Be brave enough to take a risk, but also be brave enough to be accountable for it. Examine you customer base and ascertain whereabouts within that base your most value is being generated in terms of revenue and profit. Always follow up on your leads. Far too many people spend huge amounts on marketing, but only look at the top level results they gain. Look for ways in which you can bundle more value and add to your existing product or service. By making small, incremental value-adds, you increase the value of your whole offering. BEST MOMENTS 'You need to be thinking organically' 'You have to have a process for follow up!' 'You've got to look at this through the lens of the value you provide' 'The key thing here is to add small level of incremental value' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Scott Danner is the CEO of Freedom Street Partners, a practice that supports financial advisors in their next career step and helps them explore all available paths to secure a fulfilling future. Scott joins Nick to discuss the true meaning of what wealth really is from a perspective of rich relationships, including how you can define your own personal definition of wealth, of impact, and of legacy, how discipline creates the freedom to pursue success, and how to build a rich life that achieves true balance. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Discipline creates systems that allow for order. We cannot hope to achieve success if we live alongside chaos. Discipline guides you to your best life. If we confront the truth at our core - the essence - then what truly matters in life are the relationships we build and foster. Ego is often driven by scarcity. We are led to believe that only so many people can win in life. When we shift our abundance mindset, this perspective changes. Many of us judge success by the result of an action. In reality, we should consider the input that got us there. Look at all contributing factors, for that is where the true value lies. BEST MOMENTS 'Discipline guides you to your best life' 'Being able to do what you want when you want is the recipe against success' 'It's developing the conversations - having a lot more of them, and helping to learn and grow along the way' 'I'm much more of a leader that focusses on principles, values and actions' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Scott Danner - https://scottdanner.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks about the ways in which we can understand our client's needs, and better serve them, by recognising the three levels of value, and deploying them in the right order. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Decisions are sometimes made by the unconscious, but in order to process them fully, we must allow them to break through the conscious mind, which always seeks to protect and shield us. The first level of value is to help your customer to fully understand their challenge. Many feel the challenges they face, but fail to effectively identify its implications. Once the problem is understood, we must supply the quickest path or method towards eradicating that issue. The last level of value is demonstrating how your unique offering actually removes or eradicates the problem being faced. BEST MOMENTS 'It's about how you can start to influence someone by understanding their highest need from their biggest challenge' 'The subconscious mind is where a lot of our decisions are made' 'A lot of people know they have a challenge, but don't know what it is' 'If you can show that you understand their problem better than they understand their problem, then the next level of value becomes super easy' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Over the past 10 years, Azhelle Wade has worked for companies like Toys R Us, Party City, and Madame Alexander, climbing up and across the ladder in the toy world. After building and mentoring a diverse and talented team toward success, she had the vision to do the same with newcomers to the toy industry. Today Azhelle is known industry-wide as The Toy Coach. Azhelle is proof that there is always a career path to be had that is aligned with your true passions in life, and in this episode, she talks to Nick about why these aims aren't overrated, how to turn your ideas into multi-million dollar brands, and how to keep fun at the centre of what you do. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  We often assume that success comes from iterating on the triumphs of others. But often, we can achieve staggering success through looking for the new ways to break ground. One of the more interesting effects of the pandemic has been the sudden uptick in playtime. With less travel happening, people are focussing on how to enrich their lives in playful ways closer to home. We often have our dreams derailed by those who cannot see the potential in them. Building a business based on what you love allows you to assert positivity into not just your ambitions, but the lives of others. The truth of the matter is that success doesn't become easier the more you have. The higher you reach, the more difficult the issues that you face. This is why being passionate about your idea or central conceit can push you to overcome even the toughest challenges. BEST MOMENTS 'That helped me to get in touch with my own creativity and get in touch with the purpose behind toy creation' 'Don't try to mean a lot to everyone. Try to mean a lot to someone' 'I want to build a business where I feel good about it, and I feel like I'm uplifting myself' 'You have to stay true to who you are, and if you have faith in that decision, then ultimately you will be successful' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Azhelle Wade - https://www.azhellewade.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks about why scale matters now more than ever - in terms of business and life - and how in order to shield ourselves from the external factors, and achieve accelerated change, we need to ensure that we embrace a growth mindset. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When it comes to life, there are things we can control, and things we can't. The key is not to spend too much time focussing on the things we can't control. The pace of accelerated change is putting more emphasis on scale itself. This is clearly evident through the proliferation of partnerships and collaboration. Be more strategic, think bigger and don't be distracted by all that is going on. Embrace digital, apply across your business, and subsequently embrace the world as your marketplace. Niche down on who you are endeavouring to appeal to. Look at the target groups that mean the most to what you do. Consider not just those people but their customers. BEST MOMENTS 'There are certain things that you can affect and there are certain things that you can't' 'If you're neutral or grey then you don't mean a lot to anybody' 'Scale is a strategy that mitigates risk as much as it brings the benefits of more resources' 'Niche down on who you really serve. The people you want to wrap your arms around' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Justin Schenck is the host of the top rated podcast the Growth Now Movement and founder of Growth Now, LLC which is a full service podcast production and coaching company. He has been named a Top 8 Podcaster to follow by INC Magazine and chosen as an ‘Icon of Influence’ in the new media space. He now helps individuals unlock their passions and live life fully. Justin joins Nick this week to talk about the ways in which you can take control of your own destiny and create your own happiness in business and life, the importance of constant growth, and how by serving others we raise the quality of life for other people and ourselves. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Forgiveness is a quality we must instil within ourselves. It's okay to slip up sometimes, so long as we practice self care in the aftermath. We are in a constant state of growth, development and flux. If we accept this and allow ourselves to grow at all times, then enlightenment follows, both spiritually and emotionally. We are all infinite beings. Many believe that when we pass on we leave the world, but the footprint and legacy we leave behind allows us to live on. When we live to serve others, it creates an intense sense of fulfilment, and can serve to show us that life is enhanced endlessly by raising others up. BEST MOMENTS 'My goal within spirituality is to make sure the energy around me is flowing with me instead of against me' 'I can literally manifest any life that I want' 'Instead of being a cynical human being, I'm very much more positive with a positive outlook on life' 'You have to do this from a place of wanting to give and not wanting anything in return' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Growth Now - https://growthnowmovement.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick discusses advisory boards, and the governance you may need in order to scale your business. Many see the growth of a business as a gradual shift in your identity, and in this episode, Nick explains why the identity of the business itself must also grow, including at the highest level. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Businesses that have some level of advisory governance, tend to work out to be more valuable in the long run. Having an external perspective can also help with execution and strategy. An advisory board is a group of subject matter experts who provide the company leadership team with a new perspective upon factors such as innovation, risk management, growth, profitability and other areas. When you bring in someone to sit on a board, you must always compensate. This can take the form of perks such as travel or accommodation and dining, but can also stretch to equity shares. Advisory boards are there to not just offer guidance on the areas you do know about, but to offer support and mentorship in the areas in which you are unfamiliar. BEST MOMENTS 'You can only scale a business to the level of your identity' 'If you're going to pay for expertise and expect a result, it is an investment' 'You need people who've been there and done it. Who've got the t-shirt' 'It's about understanding the value of having that support network around you' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Amberly Lago is a leading expert in the field of resilience, transformation, and health and wellness. She is the best-selling author of “True Grit and Grace” and empowers people around the world by sharing the story of how she turned a tragedy into triumph. She is a former professional dancer and athlete bringing a new perspective on what it takes to persevere. Amberly joins Nick to discuss her incredible story, and talks candidly about the ways in which you can enrich your life and accelerate your growth through sheer force of will. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Pain is life's biggest teacher. We learn more about ourselves when we are knocked down than we do from riding high on success. We all have the ability to grow, heal and come back stronger. What holds us back is our ability and willingness to tap into it. We can find great sources of healing by not just committing our thoughts to words, but by then taking those words and sharing them with others. By empowering the voices of others, we change the world in powerful ways. We must seek to give volume to those with life-changing stories. BEST MOMENTS 'I want to live a life of joy, set an example of resilience, and keep moving forward' 'Gratitude really, truly saved me' 'It's important to share from a scar and not an open wound' 'Through this journey pain has been my biggest teacher'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Amberly Lago - https://amberlylago.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick discusses a crucial part of scaling up - the art of creating solid scaleable foundations through people acquisition, implementing processes, and achieving a state of autonomy. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS People, processes and automation are often referred to as "The Golden Triangle". They are the fundamental underpinnings that are considered to be essential to all businesses. Start with the end in mind and be clear about what you're building towards. What is your freedom number or "get rich once" number? Next we have to formulate a plan to work towards it. We must optimise foundations. This is where people, processes and automation sit. It's also where structuring capital and investment directions sit. Scale fast and build value. This is the phase by where organic growth takes places, but we supplement by adding external factors such as partnerships, joint ventures - the things that build value quickly. BEST MOMENTS 'You need to start with vision, mission and what the endgame is' 'It's owning the process. It's building the team' 'It's about getting in front of the process and leading it, proactively' 'Businesses that exit for the highest value are the ones where they have great people' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Named by TIME magazine as one of the “100 Most Influential People in the World,” Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits. Among his many accomplishments, he has run 50 marathons, in all 50 US states, in 50 consecutive days. He’s run across Death Valley in the middle of summer, and he’s run a marathon to the South Pole. Dean joins Nick to talk about his incredible running career, the ways in which he has conditioned his mind and body to adapt to the toughest challenges, and how by dedicating yourself to a pursuit completely, you too can achieve the impossible. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS As we grow older, we start to develop different rhythms when it comes to energy levels. This can largely be due to our intake, and require constant adjustment. These days, many treat running as some kind of objective-based activity in which a certain metric has to be attained. But running, or any physical activity, should also be fun. Remember to use activity as an enjoyable form of play. Our bodies are machines. If we view ourselves as limitless in potential, and work to achieve greatness, then the way we feed ourselves and treat ourselves, as animals, can shape the potential we achieve. When you have harmonious inner personal relationships with those around us, your performance is better. Everything is better. If you have discord, it disrupts your performance. BEST MOMENTS 'People quantify every run. For me, the only purpose for a lot of my runs is just to run' 'I view myself through the lens of trying to be the best animal that I can be' 'I like to say that if I can't pick it from a tree, dig it from the earth, or catch it with my hands, then I don't eat it' 'Look to optimise your relationships. Discord can affect your performance' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Dean Karnazes - https://ultramarathonman.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

One of the most common questions business owners wish to know is exactly how much their business is worth. In this week's episode, Nick talks about the ways in which you can determine your own magic number. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Sometimes it takes an outside perspective in order to ascertain your business valuation, as we can be so wrapped up in our offering, that our own vision is skewed. You as the seller, may have an expectation when it comes to a sale. If you've created something that's difficult to replicate, and it appeals directly to your potential buyer, they're likely to see a lot more value in it. You can base your valuation on revenue - how much the business generates through sales. Calculate this and look at how much a typical business in your industry may be worth based on a certain level of annual sales. Never base your business's valuation simply on number crunching or formulas. Consider the value of your business based on factors such as geographical location, its potential strategic value, quality of customer base, and alignment of systems and processes. BEST MOMENTS 'People have such a broad perspective about what they're creating' 'Valuation is cryptic and ambiguous' 'The business is probably worth more than its net assets' 'You need to go beyond all of these financial formulas' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Robin Sharma is a Canadian writer, best known for his The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari book series. Sharma worked as a litigation lawyer until age 25, when he self-published MegaLiving, a book on stress management and spirituality. Robin joins Nick to talk about the philosophy surrounding what we think we can then materialise, his mentor work which has helped some of the world's most powerful thinkers, and all about his incredible new book, 'The Everyday Hero Manifesto'. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Our daily behaviours reflect our deepest beliefs, and we all have a psychological story. It is this story that determines the things we do each day. Heroes come in all shapes and sizes, and are often not lionised as much as those who shape the world. If we install the right philosophies and seek to improve the world in small ways, then we can count ourselves as heroes. We often mistake wealth for having large reserves of money in the bank. What the past years have taught us is that wealth comes in many forms, including connections, savouring life and self-respect. Fear creates cortisol, which contracts our perceptions. In the world of today, many live their lives in fear. This means we can miss opportunities through the reduction of our perceptiveness. BEST MOMENTS 'Things are created first in the mind, and then are created in reality' 'Society seduces us with wealth is having a lot of money in the bank' 'Synchronicity is destiny's way of remaining anonymous' 'The paradox is that we do less to achieve more'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Robin Sharma - https://www.robinsharma.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick reflects upon the business wisdom of Jack Welch, the author of 'Jack: Straight From The Gut', and 'Winning', with a particular focus on leadership, and why we must make the tough decisions in order to ensure that our businesses can grow, and that we remain on a winning path. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When we transition to our scale-up phase, it is the movement between being able to work independently versus the ability to build a team and lead effectively. As leaders, we must be able to coach people so that they can advance. Everyone at your organisation is not necessarily thinking about business goals from the viewpoint of a founder. Honesty and transparency in communication is vital. There's no point in sugar-coating a message when it requires clarity of communication. Our jobs as leaders are to define thew ways in which we intend to win. Our values and behaviours demonstrate how we will get there. BEST MOMENTS 'I was a real geek for business' 'You have to make the tough decisions in order for the business to grow' 'You have to have core principles that will allow you to be successful' 'You need to say things in a way that cuts through the crap'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Tony Whatley is an entrepreneur, business mentor, best-selling author, podcast host, and speaker. He is best known as Co-Founder of LS1Tech, an online automotive community which grew into the largest of its kind. This website grew to over 300,000 registered members, and was later sold for millions, in only 5 years. Amazingly… it was just his part-time business! In this incredible show, Tony talks to Nick about the ways in which he achieved the feat of becoming a millionaire through his side hustle, how a near-death experience caused him to re-evaluate his life completely, and how you can build a a side business that creates financial freedom. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When we travel through the business journey on the rails of the corporate model, we often aim for promotion or salary increases, not realising until we achieve them that these things rarely bring fulfilment. When we recognise our talents, and learn to assess them using our own autonomy instead of waiting for others to validate us, we create the kind of energy we need to start reaching higher and moving faster. Determining to become a success is about asking ourselves the question - am I where I want to be? And if the answer is no, then it's about finding the discipline to do more. Consider the legacy that we would leave behind if we were to depart immediately. Is the story that others would tell about you, the one you would write? If the answer is no, then it's time to start rewriting that story in your own words. BEST MOMENTS 'I'm a teacher. I love to learn, but I love to teach' 'I can visualise things, I can create the action plan, and go and execute that to get results!' 'I was really honest with myself. I asked "Am I where I want to be?"' 'There was a blinding spotlight that this was not enough' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Tony Whatley LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/tonywhatley/ ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Perhaps more than any other skill you can have in business, writing copy that sells your product or service is one of the most essential. In this episode, Nick explains why it matters so much, and how effective copy can accelerate your business growth. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Conversion copy is all about the way you articulate your message, the emotional and psychological journey you take your prospect on, and how it can make a true difference. Having an amazing product or service isn't everything when you come to the market. It matters, but what also drives growth and take-up, is the message. Messaging should aim to satisfy a key outcome for your client base, but should also communicate that the only way this outcome is possible is through your offering. One of the most important questions that should be answered by your messaging is why should action be taken now? We must communicate that if action isn't taken, then the world will change quickly BEST MOMENTS  'I like to get into the detail' 'If you can't communicate your message in an impactful way, then it won't matter how good that product or service is' 'Write the cover line and then find the story' 'A very simple phrase, articulated brilliantly, has the power to change everything' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Tony Horton is the wildly popular creator of the best-selling fitness series: P90X®, P90X2®, P90X3®, and Ten Minute Trainer®. He is also a world-class motivational speaker and the author of top-selling books “Bring It”, Crush It!” and his latest motivational book, “The Big Picture” 11 Laws that will change your life. Tony joins Nick to talk about why health should always be at the forefront of life, and how it can impact, negatively or positively, the plans we have for the future. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We can gain an instant boost int he lifestyle we lead if we stop focussing on outcomes and look to improve our consistency, accountability and surround ourselves with the right tribe. Self development must evolve over time, because we grow and age over time. Never assume that what worked for us in our youth will work for us now. Most people are in "survival mode" and they seem to be okay with it, but if we are diligent enough, and are tested frequently, we can mitigate and sometimes head off health problems before they have to become manageable. Mindfulness and mental health is equally as important as physical health. We must take time to recharge and reset. There's nothing wrong with hitting pause on our activities and taking some time to heal our minds. BEST MOMENTS 'Consistency is the name of the game for me. Accountability is the name of the game for me' 'I'm always paying close attention to whether something's working' 'You want to be as versed in as many things as possible so you can avoid the boredom, the injuries and the plateaus' 'Mindfulness allows your body and mind to settle, to heal, to relax' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      Tony Horton - https://www.tonyhortonlife.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick is in training mode, and here to talk about exiting and exit strategies, with a particular focus upon the mechanics behind the process, how to navigate your own path to freedom, and why every business should be built to sell. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS During the start-up and scale-up process, many business owners discover that the freedom they were hoping for in running their own business, is scarce. The true freedom comes from the exit. There are two types of exit. You can exit but choose not to be involved in the day-to-day running of the operations themselves. The second exit is the "life changing exit", and involves selling completely. Never assume that the world will look the same in the future as it does right now. Circumstances can change in a moment, so instead of looking to the very long term, try to shorten your plans. Plan your exit from the beginning. It doesn't have to be your sole focus, but it helps to have a North Star that you can always be working towards. BEST MOMENTS 'The freedom really comes from the exit' 'These are all external things that you need to evaluate' 'The pace of change right now is so full on' 'You need or require a change in your thinking - your mind-set' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

John Assaraf is the founder and CEO of NeuroGym. He is also a philanthropist and brain researcher who is best recognised for his podcasts, lectures, and his New York Times best-selling book 'Innercise: The New Science to Unlock Your Brain's Hidden Power'. John joins Nick this week to deliver an empowering masterclass on how you can unlock the power of your mind, and use the results to accelerate growth and realise your potential. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Our goals in life are always a matter of answering a single questions - whether we are simply interested in achieving them, or committed to achieving them. When we are truly committed to achieving greatness, then we will upgrade our identity, our knowledge, our behaviour, in order to align with that destiny, and therefore achieve it. Choice means not just showing up, but also saying yes to the opportunities that present themselves. Serendipity and happenstance only account for a small part of the journey to success. We are not born with fears, associations or memories. Therefore, limiting beliefs are little more than reinforced neural patterns that went from conscious to sub-conscious. BEST MOMENTS 'If you take care of cause, then effect takes care of itself' 'Our brain is actually a prediction machine that also deletes and distorts anything that doesn't match with the current map of our reality' 'If you are committed, then you will upgrade your identity to match this destiny' 'I believe in the power of choice' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      John Assaraf - https://johnassaraf.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

With the beginning of the year, we generally tend to make promises to ourselves. But as time passes on, sometimes we lose our grip on these assurances, and veer towards giving up. In this episode, Nick talks about the different strategies he has used in his own journey, that have helped him to break the cycle of giving up. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We set out to achieve things, and if we go through life making promises but failing to execute them, it can have a huge impact on who we are. Science states that failure doesn't come from making the wrong choice in your goals. It comes from failure in the path of executing those goals. Mindset, and mental toughness, are what separate the great entrepreneurs of the world from the average ones. They are the ones who embrace resilience and grit. Limiting your priorities is essential. Between 3 to 5 is a good number. Then make sure you execute those priorities first before you do anything else. BEST MOMENTS 'It's a really important cycle to break' 'What happens if this is the year that you absolutely stick to everything you said you'd do?' 'It's not about changing your goals. It's about changing the way you go after them' 'I'm very focussed on the things that are going to move business forward and my life forward' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Howard Behar's career in business spans over 50 years, all in consumer oriented businesses, and most recently as a speaker, advisor, mentor, and bestselling author. He is also the former president of Starbucks - one of the world's largest and most popular brands. Howard joins Nick to discuss the leadership lessons he learned while acting as the overseer to such an empire, including why culture matters so much, and why people should be kept at the heart of things. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  The most successful business enterprises are the ones who remember that while products are essential, the people who come for them, and the problems that it solves for them, should always be at the heart of matters. Every organisation has its own culture. They usually arise naturally. The question we must ask is if the natural culture there is the one we strive for. If it isn't, then we must change it from the top down. The great leaders are the ones who like to challenged, and want to be held accountable. If our people are doing either, then we as leaders are doing the right thing. Nothing in life happens without persistence. In the rivers of life there are rocks, and we strike them below the water line, but the most important thing is that we traverse them and keep moving on. BEST MOMENTS 'It wasn't meant to be a brand. It was meant to be human in nature' 'I got right away that it wasn't about the coffee. It was about the people' 'We wanted to be able to walk down the hallway, look everyone in the face, and say "We're in it together"' 'The question to ask yourself is "Is this the culture I want?"' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community To download a free gift from Nick - The 5 Reasons Why Your Business Will Never Get To 8-Figures ... How To Fix It Fast! - https://www.scaleupmastermind.com/free-guide1 Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment     Howard Behar - http://howardbehar.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick shares a very special training session containing details of some of the deals he has personally completed, as well as the ways and means through which he accomplished them. It's a chance to get a real insight into the mind of a true deal maker, and a masterclass in how to structure acquisitions correctly. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Buying a business is very much like buying a house. When we purchase a house we get a mortgage - therefore using other people's money. Buying a business can be structured in the same way. When valuing a business, take into account any debts that it may owe, the cost of which must be removed from the buying price. Any remaining capital to be paid as part of the purchase can be taken from the profits from the business itself. Wealth is created by selling businesses. It isn't created by running businesses. More billionaires have been created by private equity than from any other industry. There are over 1600 businesses closing in America every single day because there is no succession plan. Owners who retire have no plan for post-retirement, and so many businesses close when the time comes, even though they are profitable. BEST MOMENTS 'You are going to build significant wealth from business acquisitions' 'None of this is your own cash, whatsoever' 'The huge payday is when you sell the business in the future' 'So much better to buy a good profitable business than to try and start one up yourself' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

James Altucher is an American hedge-fund manager, author, podcaster and entrepreneur who has founded or cofounded over 20 companies. He has published 20 books and is a contributor to publications including The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, and The Huffington Post. James joins Nick to talk about the definition of entrepreneurship itself, how technology is impacting the way we think and learn, how mind-set and risk management can help us to make better decisions, and why failure should always be seen as the first step towards achieving success. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Entrepreneurship is often defined as a great idea taken to market through careful investing and promotion, but there are many facets to entrepreneurship. Even revamping existing concerns can be defined as such. We only have so much time on this earth, and so it is always best to apply our finite resource of time to pursuits that matter to us, personally, and which bring us the greatest rewards. Investing is a path to wealth, but we have to temper our ambitions with a good deal of risk management. We can't win big without speculation, but always do your best to make the bets as safe as possible. When we fail, we learn. Lessons stick with us if they are gained through failure. Sometimes, the power of these lessons is far greater than if they had come through a win. BEST MOMENTS 'I learned so much more from YouTube videos than I ever did from my teachers in school' 'You have to try a lot of things to know what you love doing' 'You only live once' 'Failure is the pathway to success? Failure sucks!'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    James Altucher - https://jamesaltucher.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by serial entrepreneur, international speaker and best selling author, Adam Strong, to talk about how you can change up your game for 2022 by looking at the insights provided by 2021, and to discuss the incredible Game Changers Summit taking place in January. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Effective collaboration can only truly occur when the values of all parties involved are in complete alignment. Sales and negotiation are the beating heart of all business. If we develop these skills at the outset, then we set ourselves up for lasting growth. Preparation is the ultimate key to making sure your time is spent wisely, and that business transactions always end with a win-win. Many are entering the world of entrepreneurship after the upheavals caused by COVID. But those who do must remember to adjust their mind-set, their skill-set, and to surround themselves with the right people. BEST MOMENTS 'I'm a believer in that if something is working then rinse and repeat' 'Always know when to walk away' 'Ask more questions - intelligent questions' 'We want to get you on the right rails so that you can create exponential growth in 2022' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Adam Strong LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamistrong/?originalSubdomain=uk The Game Changer Summit - https://www.thegamechangerssummit.com/gcs2022-registration-page49997234 ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

With the onset of the new year, everyone is pouring fuel into their business intentions for 2022, especially when it comes to marketing. In this episode, Nick talks to Phillip Stutts, the best-selling author of 'The Undefeated Marketing System', and a man who has used his considerable talents and skills in marketing to aid in over 1400 election victories and 3 presidential victories. Phillip joins Nick to talk about the art of marketing, and how you can truly influence minds and decisions in order to not just reach your target audience, but to convince them of your message. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  We excel when we aim high. There is no sense in playing it safe in order to score mediocrity. If we push ourselves then we try harder, fly higher, and achieve more. Many people who do extraordinary things are fundamentally flawed in other areas. Nothing pushes us harder to succeed than feeling as though we might fail entirely. Relying on one single channel when it comes to sales and marketing is never wise, especially if we do not own the data or the system. Competitors can always use processes to keep us down or affect sales. Look for ways of centralising your output and owning the data. We lack empathy in our society. People across the world seem currently obsessed with telling their own stories. Empathetic marketing begins with looking at data and coming to understand what matters to the world around us instead of ourselves BEST MOMENTS 'What I loved about it is the game - the marketing game behind how politicians get elected' 'A lot of people who do extraordinary things are flawed characters' 'The marketing world is rigged for almost every single business out there' 'My mission in life is to wake up business owners' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Phillip Stutts - https://www.winbigmedia.com/phillip-stutts ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

One of the main roadblocks we can face when trying to achieve more, is the failure or inability to say no, which can lead to overwhelm and a lack of momentum. In this week's show, Nick tells you why the key to productivity might be to say no more often... Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many do much work on building the plan, the process and the strategy. But we must recognise that the real key to success is in the outcome. When we become overwhelmed, it makes identifying the next logical step forward that much more difficult. We have to focus on the tasks that move us forward and say no to the ones that stop our momentum. The difference between successful people and VERY successful people is that very successful people say no to almost everything. There is always one task you can do first, which will allow the others in your life to be successfully completed more effectively BEST MOMENTS 'Develop an amazing ability to say no' 'If we don't focus, we get ourselves into a position of overwhelm' 'That creates a cycle which allows you to iterate, improve and go on'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

As an endurance athlete with a zest for adventure, Sonja Wieck explores the bigger questions in life and while pushing the boundaries of what is possible. Sonja joins Nick for a very special episode, in which she talks about her perspective when it comes to achievement, why struggling against adversity is a gift in itself, and why focus and persistence are the key to success. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Running towards acceptance and love from those we value most, can provide an extra level of dedication that allows us to reach higher than we may suppose Whatever goals you have set for 2022, we only fail if we stop trying. Dig in, get focussed, and be clear about your why. Visualisation can make the difference between breaking through the finish line and becoming an also-ran. Be clear about what you want, and try to visualise the challenges you may face along the way in order to help you prepare beforehand. Often we do not recognise that the fruits of the race come from not winning or even competing, but from the efforts we put it before. The journey is where the value lies. BEST MOMENTS 'What I know now is that I really only take action if something lights me up inside' 'The struggle is the gift' 'I can be pretty stubborn when it comes to my own internal light' 'When you win and when you lose, you have to come to terms with who you are as a person' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Go Sonja - https://gosonja.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It's a new year, and with the fresh start that it brings come new opportunities. In this short, sharp kickstart to 2022, Nick talks about how focus can help to accelerate the plans you have for the year ahead. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The more laser focussed you are on what you are trying to achieve, the more transformational the results are. Consistent action creates consistent results. You need to make sure you build systems to allow this to happen. Sometimes you win, and other times you learn. If things don't go your way, then allow the experience to aid in your optimisation. BEST MOMENTS 'Focus is a super power' 'Be consistent in whatever you do' 'You don't lose - you learn' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Chris Duffin is the founder of Kabuki Strength, and an inventor dubbed "The Mad Scientist Of Health". He's also a thought leader and entrepreneur in the health and fitness space. Chris joins Nick for the final show of 2021, to talk about how you can face life's challenges using strength, both physical and mental, and prepare yourself for the new year ahead. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We are built to adapt to our environments. If we place ourselves among challenging circumstances, then we can either overcome and thrive, or be defeated. When we focus on our value system and concentrate on just the things that are most important to us, then it forces us to drop extraneous distractions and get rid of the baggage that holds us back. If we put ourselves out into the world, and keep our honesty about who we are, then we are far more likely to attract the things that we're truly in search of. Far too many people accept mediocrity and remain in their comfort zone. But life is not about relaxing and accepting that. It's about listening to the voice of our hearts and following the direction in which it takes us. BEST MOMENTS 'You can be a stronger and better version of yourself' 'You need to truly refine your value system and what's important to you in your life' 'Life is about working out how to pare things down' 'I ask people if they want to be part of changing the world' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Chris Duffin - https://christopherduffin.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

With the end of the year in sight, it's a period where many will reflect upon the achievements and milestones reached across the past 365 days. But as Nick explains in this week's show, it's also a time to look at the year ahead. It's a time to think about the ways in which you can achieve exponential growth and have the best possible 2022 for your business and life. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Those who achieve the most in life and business are those who set goals. These become habits, which influence behaviour and provide a structure that allows them to grow effortlessly. All people can have vision, but unless they execute a plan to move towards it, and take action in order to reach that vision, it will never be a reality. Use SMART goals in order to maximise impact - Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, Time-bound After setting goals, we need to prioritise them in terms of what we want our year to look like. Do the thing that is the most challenging first. BEST MOMENTS 'The people who achieve what they want to achieve in life - they set goals' 'The vision is what you want to create' 'If you start commit to habits, then those habits will quickly turn into behaviours' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Anthony Trucks is a former NFL Athlete, American Ninja Warrior on NBC, international speaker, host of the Aww Shift podcast, and the founder of Identity Shift coaching. Anthony joins Nick to discuss his mission in life - to help others to understand their past and present so as to shift their identity and elevate their life and business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Your failure or your success is determined by your identity, and you are only one shift away from creating your ultimate life. Success is about matching our identity to the dreams we have and the goals we pursue. If we can change our identity to match our vision, then success can be realised. When we suffer from setbacks or shame, we tend to want to seclude ourselves further - to silo away from the world. If we don't like ourselves, then seclusion only makes this state worse. If we can find a way to love the small things in life, and positively anticipate their effects upon others, then no job is a task. BEST MOMENTS 'I like to make sure that everyone else has fun with me - that's the goal' 'If you don't have an identity that matches the dream, then the dream doesn't get realised' 'Sometimes you might like where you're headed, but you don't like the speed' 'The destination is the journey' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Anthony Trucks - https://anthonytrucks.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is joined by Steve Sims, known as the “real life Wizard Of Oz”, and a man renowned for turning the impossible into the possible. Steve talks about the art of problem solving, with a specific focus upon how to attract not just the clients we need in order to keep our businesses thriving and growing, but the ones we want most to work with. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The art of entrepreneurship is to identify a problem that is being underserved and create a solution that works not just for us, but for the world at large. Far too many businesses overcomplicate their offerings and thereby reduce their own appeal. This is usually down to fear and lack of confidence. In order to best appeal to the customers we want, we ned to put ourselves firmly in their shoes and solve the problem with empathy and consideration. BEST MOMENTS 'We find other people who have got that problem and then sell them the solution!' 'When COVID happened you had the opportunity to say "was this done to me, or was this done for me?"' 'Selling a million dollar house takes the same amount of effort as selling a ten million dollar house' VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Steve Sims - https://www.stevedsims.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Mel Abraham is dedicated to a new way of thinking and a new way of life, of helping others to pave the road to financial independence and affluence through entrepreneurship, and by doing so, helping to leave legacies that live longer than we ever could. In this episode, Mel talks to Nick about his empowering story of resilience, the ways in which you can create true affluence and wealth, as well as his incredible book 'The Entrepreneur's Solution: The Modern Millionaire's Path To More Profit, Fans and Freedom' Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS People choose a path that often brings disillusion and a lack of fulfilment, but then choose to stay on that path, believing that the choice is a one time offer. It's never too late to change for the better. We make the greatest difference by using our legacies and positivity to connect at a meaningful level, and using our business, services and ideals to impact lives. Financial success is not necessarily about the acquisition of more. By constantly chasing the next dollar we can lose our connection to what makes us truly satisfied. Creating plans is not about making one rigid structure. It is about creating several different approaches so that we mentally store alternative routes in the mind. BEST MOMENTS 'When they tell me I can't do something I say "Let me show you"' 'We are all placed here to create a legacy' 'We lose our connection to contentment. We lose our connection to what's important' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Mel Abraham - https://melabraham.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Life has changed drastically for many in the wake of the tumultuous world events since 2020, but we must remember that while we cannot control much of what has taken place, we can control the way we feel about things. In this episode, Nick talks about the power of words themselves, and how by gaining mastery over the words we use, especially internally, we can positively impact our environment and the life we live. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We need to speak to ourselves in empowering ways, even in moments that may seem trivial at first. Positive reinforcement from within helps us to take more positive action. We often filter our speech so as not to come across in certain ways to certain people, and yet we do not seem to naturally grant ourselves this privilege. If you have big goals and big ambitions, then this can present a string of challenges. Therefore, we should endeavour not to bring extraneous external challenge to ourselves. Examine the habits and routines that drive your behaviours. An effective practice is to keep a journal and be as honest as possible, taking out your inner thoughts and externalising them. BEST MOMENTS  'Words have more power than maybe you appreciate' 'The things that you say and what you think, becomes real' 'You've got to take control of the words and communication in your head' 'Fear is something that is created'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Zach Bitter is an American ultramarathon runner who holds world records for the 100-mile run and the 12-hour run. As one of the planet's greatest athletes, there are few who know better how to achieve excellence through hard work, discipline and determination. In this episode Zach talks about his incredible athletic career, his subsequent coaching activities and the ways in which he is helping new generations of runners to go from beginner to advanced, regardless of experience or their starting point and lifestyle. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS There are huge parallels between what can be achieved in business and what we achieve in other areas of life. Countless lessons can be carried over from the world of self-development, and into the world of entrepreneurship. Developing consistency and performing at a high volume is the key to building our resilience, allowing us to move gradually towards bigger and bigger targets and goals. Optimisation is about being persistently diligent and performing constant analysis upon ourselves. By doing so we can incrementally tweak and adjust until we find our optimal setting. It's far better to focus on delivering quality when you put your message out into the world. By trying to be everywhere your message can sometimes become diluted, and you can misplace the reason why you began in the first place. BEST MOMENTS 'One conversation, heard at the right time, can change everything' 'That consistency, and doing it at a high volume, is conducive to really developing that lower-end intensities' 'You make slight tweaks and you make them individual to you, and that's when you find your sweet spot' 'I remember looking at my splits and thinking okay, if I maintain this pace then I'll break the American record by six or seven minutes...' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment    Zach Bitter - https://zachbitter.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick talks about a strategy known as "The Digital Marketing Trifecta", made up of three elements - earned, owned and paid - and how it can provide you with not just the tools for growth, but also with the most comprehensive marketing strategy out there. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Earned is the stage whereby you are putting content out into the world, and building your brand. You are driving people towards you and your business through the content that you are creating. Owned represents your "list" - the literal names of those who have connected with your content and have given over their details to you in exchange for a deeper level of connection. Paid is the act of receiving payment for your work. This can come from display advertising, re-targeting, paying influencers, paid content promotion, and also from affiliates. BEST MOMENTS 'If you're going to grow and scale a business strategically, you can't do it on poor foundations' 'You've never had a better time in history to be able to go out there and share your message' 'It's about having a strategy around each of them, if you're going to leverage the most comprehensive digital marketing strategy possible' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick is joined by tech entrepreneur, New York Times bestselling author, and keynote speaker, Josh Linkner, a man on a mission to drive creativity, innovation, and reinvention. Josh discusses his belief that all human beings have incredible creative capacity, and talks about the ways in which you can unlock your own latent innovation genius in order to grow and scale your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS A creative troublemaker is someone who is unwilling to accept the status quo in the world - someone who is always looking to break free of the norms and see what is possible beyond them. Leadership used to be viewed as the conductor in an orchestra leading his musicians in the pursuit of perfection. But the world has changed. It's a world where the chaotic can be embraced. Creativity comes not just in traditional means, but in all aspects of business, from the way we hire, to the way we structure financially, from the way we approach deals to the culture we establish. The inherent flaw in brainstorming is that our inhibitions sometimes shut us down. To fix this we need to practice "role storming", the art of brainstorming in character - pretending to be someone else while coming up with ideas. BEST MOMENTS 'The confidence comes from knowing you're going to screw things up multiple times, but you figure out how to course correct' 'The fastest breakthroughs always happen when you're working in a group of top performers' 'We need to think of ourselves as jazz musicians where you're trading the baton of leadership' 'The company that projects as innovative gets all the things that in turn create real value' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   Josh Linkner Twitter - https://twitter.com/joshlinkner Josh Linkner - https://joshlinkner.com ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Many advise that increasing prices can lead to healthier profits, but as Nick discusses in this week's show, the real key to successful growth may lie in the value you provide, rather than the price on your ticket. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many in the start-up phase carry fear along with the excitement, and as a result may set prices lower in order to ensure interest from their client base. Outside perspectives are sometimes invaluable in seeing the gap between your pricing and the value you may be offering. Value based pricing is where you consider the value of what your services will give to your client. Your pricing should be based upon that. If your price is significantly lower than the value being offered, your customer will be less emotionally invested. The less you pay, the less it means to you. BEST MOMENTS 'It's a simple thing to advise, but always an easy thing to execute' 'If you are offering a higher level of value vs what you are charging, then it's easy for someone to say yes' 'If I gave you £10m and you gave me $500,000, would that be an interesting exchange for you?' 'If someone gives me something for free then I don't value it in the same way' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Greg McKeown is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author of 'Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less', and an expert on why some people in teams succeed when others don't. Greg joins Nick in this episode to talk about his incredible book on essentialism and his new book, 'Effortless', why success must never come at the cost of our happiness and energy, and how best to achieve more by not burning out along the way. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Essentialism is the art of eliminating the non-essential elements of our lives, and then creating systems in order to do what matters most. It is about exploring, eliminating and executing that vision. As high achievers, we have been conditioned to think that the pathway to success is paved with relentless work, and that if we wish to achieve anything, we have to overwork. But this is not the case. In order to make higher and higher contributions, and to remain at the pinnacle of success, the key is to identify the ways in which our efforts reap the most rewards in a sustainable way. To do lists are all well and good, but making lists can be far more productive and satisfying if we change the game. We should endeavour to create lists of tasks that, if we complete them, will guarantee satisfaction by day's end. BEST MOMENTS 'Explore, eliminate, execute!' 'A part of what success is, is to be able to continue to make a higher contribution over a very long period of time' 'We shouldn't say that success is completing our to-do lists. That's a really impossible game' 'Your ability as a leader to be able to listen through those layers and get to the core is an essential leadership attribute'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment   Greg McKeown - https://gregmckeown.com/books/essentialism/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick discusses the crucial difference between generalist and specialist businesses - those who cater to a broad range of customers through a broad range of skills and offerings, and those who use a more crafted approach to appeal to more niche client base - and which might be worth your focus. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  As businesses grow and teams and revenue grow, complexity is bound to follow. But the businesses that scale successfully and quickly are those that remove this complexity. Smaller generalist concerns will have far more trouble in competing with larger generalists, who have built a more streamlined approach to their offerings, and who can offer it for less. Specialists, who work on a far more niche product, are not always forced to seek customers out. They are usually the ones being sought for their specialist skills. BEST MOMENTS 'It is the simplicity that matters' 'A specialist is someone who is really good at one thing or a small set of things. They are masters of their craft' 'There is not time-for-money equation happening here' 'The riches are in the niches' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dave Hollis is a New York Time best-selling author, the host of the Rise Together Podcast, a keynote speaker, as well as a life and business coach, plus the CEO of the Hollis Company. Dave joins Nick to talk about his new book 'Built Through Courage: Face Your Fears To Live The Life That You Were Meant For', as well as how to make failure work for you, how to discover your core values, how to stop chasing someone else's dream, and how to develop next-level resilience. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The journey of life is one that forces us to recognise when we must make the hard choices between the comfortable places that keep us from achieving, and the higher levels that make us stronger. For many, events in our early life have led to an inner programming that determines our outlook on how life should be. Those definitions are never necessarily connected to our personal values. Milestones without inner fulfilment are not worth as much as the achievements that light our inner fire. When we identify our purpose and align each goal with that purpose, then we attain inner fulfilment. In order to determine what "next" looks like, it can be powerful to travel back to the you that you inhabited before you became the person you are today. Reconnecting with an earlier version of yourself can provide insight into where the next step lies. BEST MOMENTS 'If you don't have fulfilment on the inside, if you're not clear on your purpose, the other achievements that you create don't really matter' 'In my journey of becoming, I have recognised that there were inflection points where courage was necessary' 'Courage often ends up being the ingredient that's necessary to challenge the programming we're raised with' 'For me there was a wholesale reset on what "next" looked like' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Dave Hollis LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dave-hollis-b5a48671/ The Hollis Company - https://thehollisco.com ABOUT THE HOST   Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Often the simplest things in business are the things that we neglect. This week, Nick takes you back to basics, to talk about an element of business that can make all the difference to success - whether at the outset of your journey or near the exit - your offer: how to create the perfect offer and how to fix an offering that may have run aground. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The simpler you can make something, the better. Often, we overcomplicate things in order to feel that we are somehow enriching it, when in reality simplicity always wins. The offer includes the terms of the agreement. It must include the method of transacting with the person who goes along with you on your journey. When you create an offer, consider that the value you are putting forward must exceed the price. If people are turning you down, then there must be an issue with the value exchange. Around the core offer, think about supplementing with offers of bonuses or guarantees - the extra material that adds value, along with the certainty that what's being bought has less risk. BEST MOMENTS 'Sometimes we like to add complexity to things because it makes us feel better' 'Make people an offer so good that they would feel stupid to say no' 'Never underestimate what it takes to pry some cash from someone's hands' 'You've got to be very clear that you're offering something unique' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

To kick off this powerful new season of the show, Nick talks to Evan Carmichael, a speaker, author, self-professed introvert, and fierce proponent of the principle that we can all be who we want to be if we put our minds to it. Evan has been described by Gary Vaynerchuk as the "DJ Of Inspiration", while Ed Millett has called him "The Modern Day Napoleon Hill", and Forbes have named him as one of the word's Top 40 Social Marketing Talents. In this extraordinary conversation Nick digs deep into Evan's mission - to solve what he describes as the world's biggest problem: that people do not believe in themselves enough. It's an inspiring discussion centring on focus, discipline, and most importantly, belief. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Finding your purpose in life comes from the pain points that you'd like to solve in your own life. There are people out there suffering from the problems you can solve, and they need your guidance.  When we meet challenge and find ourselves defeated, then we have to find another way around in order to defeat it. It's far better to think differently and find another solution, rather than live with the regret of having never conquered. Consistency is the key to growth, but many fall victim to overwhelm and burnout. The key is to find a topic that lights your fire, one that appeals directly to your passion. And always try to connect directly to the audience you have instead of the one you don't have yet. If all you do is chase an opportunity that you don't love, you'll end up losing in the end because eventually you'll find yourself up against people who do love it. You find your next truly successful venture in the intersection between what you love and where opportunity lies. BEST MOMENTS 'Your purpose comes from your pain' 'There are millions of people who are currently who you used to be, and they need your help' 'I want to serve, so even though I'm introverted and shy, I still have a message' 'The most successful entrepreneurs are the ones who love the process of what they're doing' 'I focus on who I have instead of who I don't' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Evan Carmichael - https://believe.evancarmichael.com/homepage Evan Carmichael Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/evancarmichael/?hl=en Evan Carmichael Twitter - https://twitter.com/EvanCarmichael Evan Carmichael YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKmkpoEqg1sOMGEiIysP8Tw ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this very special milestone show, Nick returns with an all-new show – Scale Up With Nick Bradley – designed to inspire and motivate you towards achieving your scale-up ambitions in not just business, but life. Nick explains the shift in emphasis that the new show’s direction will be exploring, as well as the incredible journey that’s led to this remarkable milestone. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Scale Up Your Business has become Scale Up With Nick Bradley, and yet the beating heart of the show remains the same – to empower business owners and entrepreneurs to scale their business so that they can create a valuable legacy. Scaling up is not just about business. It’s about people coming to a decision – a choice to change. Scaling up can take place in multiple areas of life. We can all learn and be inspired from people themselves, as well as the mechanics of how they have achieved success in business. BEST MOMENTS ‘I want to share the journey I’ve been on for the past few months’ ‘I think you learn more from the conversations that feel more real’ ‘First and foremost this is a business podcast to help you scale and grow your business, but it’s also about scaling yourself to be the best version of yourself you can be’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

After 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits during his experience in the private equity industry, there are few better placed to advise on how to achieve more when it comes to your scale-up ambitions. Scale Up With Nick Bradley is a series of inspiring conversations with people doing extraordinary things in business and life, with a focus on the tips and strategies that you can apply in your world, as well as the mind-set you need in order to make your dreams happen. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up with Nick Bradley: scaleup.vip/podcast Scale Up Your Business, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the SUYB Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode Nick is presenting live in the US and asks his audience to think about the three questions that really matter when you are in business. What is your life changing number? Why does that number matter? And is what you are doing now in your business going to get you to your life changing number? Nick has built, scaled, and sold multiple  businesses and explains the strategies that can be adopted to drive growth exponentially for your business Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS What is your life changing number? The number that creates freedom for you A key driver for many is achieving freedom-being able to do what you want, when you want without any restrictions Is what you are doing now in your business going to get you to your life changing number? If you don’t make serious money when you are in your business, you can make serious money when you sell it There are strategies you can adopt in your business to drive a different type of growth You can grow a business through organic growth one customer at a time, its intentional but slow and a rite of passage Overlay strategic growth, which is faster, more focused and creates more growth to create exponential  growth Structuring capital is about strategically placing capital to drive a higher value With a leveraged buy-out you take the asset value of the business and negotiate with the seller paying for the asset over a prolonged period from the profit of the business you are buying You need to consolidate and build the story of the business before the exit In order to make life changing money you must work towards life changing impact You can only really scale to the level of your identity BEST MOMENTS ‘How you have built your business to date is only half the story’ ‘You need to start with the end in and optimise the foundations of the business’ ‘My driver is ‘team Bradley’ many of the decisions I’ve made in the last few years have been about them – creating a life for them and being the best role model VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Scale Up Your Business Global ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Awfa Mustafa, Founder and CEO of Najahi Events, who bring the world’s best motivational speakers to the UAE shares  the incredible story of her escape from Iraq and how her experiences have shaped the person she is today, dedicated to the provision of accessible education across the world This is a truly inspirational episode as Awfa shares with Nick why you have to be grateful every day, be brave in your decisions and have faith and show up every time you are needed because ultimately it’s about fixing things Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS I spend money on experiences whether its learning experiences or travel experiences with my family I believe the memories you make and what you learn from travel and exposure to educators is worthwhile Every day was a scary day because you didn’t know what was going to happen When it’s human to human regardless of your background or your job you will help someone in need In 2004 Dubai were offering visas and I was finally able to move my Mum and Dad to safety Every person in Bagdad of my generation has a story We grew up in a world where politics played a big role in our lives – you could live today and die tomorrow It was hard to be positive for a very long time, living the fear every day I used to mentor myself – saying nothing could last forever and that I could do this I believe in a greater good and purpose and that sometimes things happen for a reason You move to being in a reactive mode, just wanting to fix things Have a plan and if something goes wrong fix it. A decision is better than no decision You have to be brave; no one is going to make the decisions for you and the hardest decisions are those that define your destiny You have to have faith and show up every time you are needed Don’t judge or blame just show up and fix it BEST MOMENTS ‘We reached a point where if you went out you said goodbye to everyone because you didn’t know if you’d be coming back’ ‘The hardest decisions are those that make you who you are’ ‘If people can binge-watch they can binge learn’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Scale Up Your Business Global awfa@najahi.com   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Mark Drager once built a highly successful seven figure business but it became a trap he created for himself.Now a hugely successful brand strategist, fellow podcast host and founder of his own growth agency his ethos has transformed to promote and build others to their ultimate potential. In this episode he shares his fascinating journey.  He has chosen to do the ultimate hard thing and has gone all in doing what he loves and is good at whilst believing that everything else will work itself out in the end Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS It was a grind that became hell I began to feel like I was someone who talked a lot but didn’t do anything Having the impetus to start something and not even finish it is enough Your ability to focus on the thing you want to create and your ability to manage your emotional state through the journey is key Everyone is on a path and paths may cross for an amount of time but it’s not forever You can be whatever you want to be but there are things that will be comfortable and some that will not Do not do the things you have to do so you can one day do the things you want to do The ultimate hard thing going all in with what you love, it requires you to put yourself first, it requires that you are clear about what you want People aren’t brave enough to try what may not work out but could lead to something exceptional All your previous experiences lead you to the place you need to be Going from whatever makes you money to what you love and want to do is the real transition If you feel like you need to have an answer before you make a move understand that sometimes you need to move to find the answer BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s taking a leap of faith when you don’t know what the outcome will be’ ‘We worry that we are wasting time if we are doing something that is not connected to an outcome’ ‘The Pandemic and everything shutting down was the first time I felt really free VALUABLE RESOURCES Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be Scale Up Your Business Global Mark Drager ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

How do you go back from failure and build a life of purpose and significance? Nick is in conversation with a man who has done just that, Warwick Fairfax Founder of Crucible Leadership grew up as the heir to a multi-generational media group but following his takeover, the company failed and as Warwick explains it was a crucible moment in his life because ultimately things don’t happen to you, they happen for you In this compelling listen, he candidly discusses the lessons he learnt and  how he found his purpose along with success and significance because crucible moments in life are tough but they don’t have to be the end of your story Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS I didn’t grow up wondering what I was going to do in life it was always set for me With hindsight as soon as I launched the takeover, it was doomed to fail I didn’t listen to the good advice, people said it was a bad idea but because I didn’t want to hear it I didn’t listen and went to the people who told me what I wanted to hear I felt as I was in a gilded cage and when it ended it was very painful. Things don’t happen to you, they happen for you Wealth doesn’t make you happy, there is no number that will make you happy but if you use money to help others it changes everything We are only fulfilled when we serve a bigger purpose, a higher cause or serve others Significance can be defined as  a life of purpose dedicated to serving others, this is about a higher purpose Most businesses that have long term success have an aspect of altruism If you want to be successful long term you need to tie your vision to doing something that will make an impact in the world and links to your values  and beliefs I’m a great believer that a life of significance will not only make you feel more fulfilled it will in the long term it will make you more successful The crucible moment for me was losing a 150-year-old two-billion-dollar business and the process of coming back was drop of grace by drop of grace, brick by brick Understand your  values and beliefs and find a calling that fits with that In the business world, people don’t like talking about failure but its real and people connect with it The smart entrepreneurs are the ones who learn from their mistakes and want to do it better next time BEST MOMENTS ‘I went there and did exactly what you shouldn’t be doing’ ‘Success and significance are not at odds with each other they can be in harmony’ ‘Your life is not defined by your worst day or mistake’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Scale Up Your Business Global Crucible Leadership https://www.linkedin.com/in/warwick-fairfax-8902081 ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Joint venture world expert Sohail Khan talks with Nick about how joint venture and strategic partnerships can bring individuals together to create collaborations that can scale in a phenomenally short amount of time. This is an amazing opportunity to hear about  joint ventures and how you can compound and get incremental growth in less than twelve months with Sohail sharing some great examples from his own journey along with tips and invaluable advice about what makes  joint ventures and strategic partnerships successful Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Joint venture is a phenomenal concept where you don’t pay any money upfront, you only part with money when there are results Joint ventures and strategic alignment partnerships bring collaboration and the opportunity to leverage other people’s audiences and communities It’s the ability to make partnerships and strategic alliances and piggyback right into the flow of money Wherever someone is making money there is the ability to make money if you are in the middle of the equation Go into any equation asking how you can help that person first Making connections and building trust in your relationships is what makes the difference You need to build rapport with others It’s all about innovation and leveraging the assets a company already has. It’s the impact you leave on the world that is really important Open your understanding to see the opportunities If you don’t take action you will never get a response Most people start with a product but the money is in the distribution I’ve always been a connector of people and we have built an amazing community Projects that give back, are impacted related and philanthropic can really make the difference BEST MOMENTS ‘Money flows and you have to create a conduit between A and B and then put yourself in the middle so the money goes through you’ ‘Get everything you can out of everything you’ve got’ ‘Scaling up your life and your business go hand in hand’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Free Joint Venture Book ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

John Warrillow founder of The Value Builder System and best-selling author talks to Nick about what it takes to build a value business for exit He discusses the nuances that really make the difference to acquirers and why top-line revenue is important but only one of the metrics that make the difference when selling a business This is a masterclass in understanding more about the elements that are valued by acquirers and how to effectively position your business when selling it Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We’ve moved away from the transaction model to the reoccurring business model and this is reflected in the valuations of companies Low debt and low-interest rates currently mean there will continue to be pressure upwards The Value Builder System is driven by eight unique metrics which are proven to be important to acquirers Top line revenue growth is important but there are other metrics that make a difference Most SME’s sell lots of things to a small number of people, the valuable SME’s sell a few things to lots of people Growth potential is important because it’s about what the company can become in the future The Switzerland structure is about the company not being dependant on a particular supplier or customer The point to sell a company is when you reach the freedom point. The desire for personal freedom and independence is a common underlying thread The reasons owners regret making a sale are focused around push factors such as illness, you need to offset your push factors with pull factors Pull factors are the things you want to do when you have exited the business When you have lots of pull factors valuation is not the dominant factor When an acquirer purchases a business they write two cheques, one to you and one to fund the working capital of the business Having a positive cash flow cycle is an important part of the picture when selling a business BEST MOMENTS ‘We are part of the subscription economy now’ ‘If you sell a few things to lots of people you can build a valuable company’ ‘The acquirer is toeing the start line of their journey when you are looking to exit they are looking to grow’ ‘Savvy sellers are thinking about the narrative of their company’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment BUILT TO SELL RESOURCES Built to Sell Scale Up Your Business Resources ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is in conversation with Scott Jeffery Miller, leadership maestro, multi bestselling author, podcast host, leadership coach and global keynote speaker. In the world today every business is both a people company and a technology company so getting the leadership and the culture right has never been more important and now as the world moves forward again everyone is reassessing what’s important to them with people wanting meaningful work in a winning team within a culture of trust Nick and Scott discuss how in any business you need to begin with the right leaders, those who understand that their job is to achieve results within and through other people, if you want to create a culture of trust that people want to work in. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS People don’t quit their jobs they quit bad bosses and corrupt cultures Culture is the way the vast majority of people behave most of the time. Culture is how we get stuff done and is everything People are not the most important asset in a company it’s the relationships between those people that form the culture. It’s always about the relationships To build culture you need to get very clear on the behaviours you want to see  exhibited and the decisions how people treat each other Leaders are the lynchpin of every culture so you need to start with the behaviour and mindset of your leaders To be an effective leader you need to understand that it’s your job to achieve results within, through other people, you have to build capability in others There is a difference between efficient and effective. You cannot be efficient with people, you can only be effective Most of us spend our lives fulfilling the identities others put on us, your job is to go out and create your own identity Vulnerability is being confident enough to talk about what you do and don’t know so that   others are encouraged to do this as well Humble leaders are more concerned with what is right rather than being right There is a new type of leadership that is about being relatable and having the vulnerability to be confident enough to share what they know and what they don’t know Great leaders love their people enough to have a high courage conversation, with some diplomacy, to save people from themselves BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s a group of unimpeachably trustworthy  people who are passionate about changing the world’ ‘When you have the right people with the right mindset in leadership it’s much easier to get fifteen hundred others to follow’ ‘What cannot be replicated is culture, people come to companies and stay with companies because of the culture’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Scott Jeffrey Miller ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

How do you design your day to integrate work and life in a way that works for your wellbeing and health? Jen Fisher, Deloitte’s chief well-being officer in the US empowers people to prioritise themselves so that they can optimise their performance and in this episode, she talks about how to manage your life and work in a way that works for you and why in reality  balance is about the rhythms over time She also talks with Nick about the pros and cons of technology and what the future may look like if we effectively use technology to enhance and augment our human relationships Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS There is no need for life and work to be balanced it’s about integration and managing your life and work in a way that works for you, it’s about rhythms over time In some ways technology has had a positive impact meaning we can connect from wherever we are in the world As humans, we haven’t adapted to the technology and taken control of it Technology will never be able to do some of the things humans do that make them uniquely human We need to make a shift about what we reward in the culture of the workplace We need to look at the right way to effectively use technology The first step in changing organisational culture is to take a step back and identify what is holding back wellbeing The people who you work with and come into contact with every day are those who have the biggest impact on your wellbeing Leaders and managers can create the right environment but ultimately everyone has personal accountability for their own well-being and health It’s important to always engage your workforce and asking them will create its own uplift because people feel heard Empower your teams to ask the right questions and discuss what they need Going to the office should be about collaboration with others There is always going to be a need for face to face meetings because humans are social creatures and need the connection. We need to use technology to enhance, sustain and augment those relationships BEST MOMENTS ‘Burnout shouldn’t be the price we pay for success’ ‘We want to understand how people are feeling and how supported they feel’ ‘The future will be hybrid and it’s about how we come together in the moments’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Work Better Together - Jen Fisher & Anh Phillips Work Well Podcast Series ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

David B Horne, founder of the Add then Multiply consultancy who work with business founders who want to grow fast and author of the award-winning book by the same name talks with Nick about how small business can think like big businesses They discuss some of the many ways deals can be structured and what David looks for in the businesses he works with, creating impact beyond growth and the creation of wealth David also discusses the mission of Funding Focus who work to level the playing field for female and under-represented entrepreneurs when raising capital. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The share for share structure means an exchange of shares with potentially a small capital payment Agglomeration is creating an entity to be floated on the stock exchange. You are putting your business into the group for the expected payday When it’s a private company you can control who you offer your shares to, when it’s a listed vehicle anyone can become a shareholder When a company is listed on a public exchange there is never any dispute over the value of the company When a company is well managed and growing you have virtually limitless pools of capital you can access I like to go deep inside the business and deep inside the head of the business owner to understand their motivation, what they want to do and why I want to understand what people are going to do with the money I like to work with people who have an idea about what they want to do when they have grown and made their money I like to see people who are aligned with the UN global goals and know that if I’m helping people to earn tons of money they will do something useful with it I prefer to work growing businesses rather than restructuring. It’s about the steps along the road, understanding the flow and integration steps to grow Its big company thinking for smaller companies who may  think it’s not accessible to them or realistic  and is an underleveraged opportunity The level at which you can scale a business is about the mindset and understanding of the founder BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s fascinating the number of ways you can structure deals’ ‘There aren’t enough smaller businesses thinking about this’ ‘It’s about impact as well as wealth creation’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment dbh@addthenmultiply.com Add then Multiply by David B Horne Focus Funding  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Stephen Scoggins is a multimillionaire serial entrepreneur with six businesses who went from homelessness and a chaotic past to a nine-figure business leader He discusses how there are moments in life that you think are going to cause you pain but they are actually there to shape you and why when in the moment things can seem insurmountable they can be overcome if you understand how to move from being stuck to unstoppable. Stephen also explains how if you are building any business you need to also be building yourself and be intentionally curious every day if you want to achieve impact and legacy Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Going from stuck to unstoppable is about resilience People get used to living their life and forget that they can create a new one So much more is possible but you have to learn to look at things differently You have to be willing to do today what others wont to have tomorrow what others don’t You need to be intentional and always make others feel seen, heard, valued, and appreciated Principles govern promises and when you understand this you can have an impact Ask yourself – what’s right?, what’s confusing?, what’s missing and what’s wrong? In all areas of your life What’s right - you amplify, the things that are missing you discover, find, and explore. The things that are confusing you clarify through outside advice and mentorship The things that are wrong are very rarely wrong, they are more likely to be misdiagnosed and from there you can shape the principles that move you from being stuck When you are the real you, you expel from around you the people who are holding you back and attract those people who can help you move forward You need to treat everyone around you as a customer and be intentional about finding out what they want and how you can help them You need to be intentionally curious in your life and you only find purpose if you are working on it every day and being intentional When you are building businesses you need to build yourself as well BEST MOMENTS ‘It takes curiosity to create something’ ‘My number one principle now  is impact over income’ ‘My superpower is I can see potential in people that they can’t see in themselves VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment https://stephenscoggins.com/transformulive/ Stephen Scoggins Instagram  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nir Eyal has spoken on some of the world’s biggest stages and his expertise focuses on the intersection of psychology, technology, and business. He is a behavioural designer who works with companies to build the kind of products that build good habits in people’s lives. He discusses how distraction and traction can be applied to anything in life and how anyone can learn the habits and tactics that mean they can be "indistractable". What do you think is distracting you? Nir shares great content about why it might not be what you thought, and how to build habits and tactics that focus on traction, in a fascinating episode that every entrepreneur should listen to. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Focus is one of the things people struggle with the most but we can all build good habits. You can’t buy customer retention and engagement it has to be designed into the product. You need to understand the fundamentals of how to bring people back and the psychology of habits. The opposite of distraction is traction. Traction is an action that pulls you towards what you said you were going to do, things you do with intent, things in line with your values that help you become the person you want to become. Distraction is any action that pulls you further away from what you planned to do, further from your intentions and values, and the person you want to become. Distraction and traction can be applied to anything in your life. We allow ourselves to be distracted by prioritising the urgent and easy over the important and hard work because we rationalise it all needs to be completed anyway. Anything that is not what you planned to do with your time in advance is a distraction. Traction is what you have planned to do. 10% of distraction comes through external triggers, 90% are internal triggers - an uncomfortable internal feeling that we want to escape such as boredom, loneliness, stress, anxiety, and fatigue. If you don’t learn how to control your emotions so they are serving you not controlling you, you will always be distracted. Learn to master your internal triggers, make time for traction, hack back your external triggers, and prevent distraction with pacts - making a pre-commitment to not be distracted. The human species is not designed to be happy all the time.  We are designed evolutionarily to be perpetually perturbed.  The solution is to move towards traction and away from distraction. The way we talk to ourselves is absolutely critical. Visualise and affirm not the outcome but what you will do when you are potentially distracted from doing the thing that will get you the outcome. BEST MOMENTS ‘We have a whole generation of entrepreneurs, who have all the intellect, the insight, and know exactly what they need to do; who are running real fast in the wrong direction, spending all their time with busyness not business.’ ‘Everything is a distraction unless it’s something you have planned.’ ‘It completely changed my life. Now I have personal integrity and I’m indistractable.' ‘Time management is pain management.' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment RESOURCES FOR THIS EPISODE Link to the book "Indistractable": http://geni.us/Indistractable "Indistractable" summary article: https://www.nirandfar.com/skill-of-the-future/ Distraction guide: https://www.nirandfar.com/distractions/ Habits vs Routines article here: https://www.nirandfar.com/habits/ Why schedules are better than to-do lists: https://www.nirandfar.com/todo-vs-schedule-builder/ Timeboxing article: https://www.nirandfar.com/timeboxing Values article: https://www.nirandfar.com/common-values/ The schedule maker tool mentioned in the interview: https://nirandfar.com/schedule-maker/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Andrew Sillitoe, business psychologist, performance coach, public speaker and author talks to Nick about his 4-Keys method and learning how to sustain performance for maximum success With a background as a professional athlete, Andrew brings the winning psychology and mindset of athletes to the business arena with his 4-Keys method and explains how having a vision, game plan and legacy in key areas of your life can bring  the sustained balance you need to succeed Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS I discovered my mission when I talked about my own story and people leaned into it The thing that made the biggest difference was changing my diet it brought more clarity and more energy Everyone could benefit from an elimination diet When you scale a business, you need to also be able to scale the leadership You need to have not only a vision but also a purpose You need to have intent about what you want to achieve Having the passion, the heart and the drive are really powerful in getting where you want to be Business, body, relationships and mindset form the basis of the 4-Keys method You need a form a vision, game plan and legacy for each area of the 4-Keys There is an element of transformation and becoming the best version of yourself can change your life It’s about taking action and forming new habits Mindset is about understanding what you want to change and moving to a point where you take action and move forward You need to do three things really well - be goal orientated, manage your emotions under pressure and develop self-awareness In business having clarity in your vision, processes and who you are serving is key Business is not a linear pathway; the trajectory can be straight but the journey can be messy When you start expressing your genes in a way that is more in line with our ancestor’s change can come quickly BEST MOMENTS ‘We have a mantra that is ‘slow down to speed up’ ‘The 4-Keys method sent me in a different direction but I realised it was my true passion’ ‘It’s about being proactive and present in your relationships’  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Andrew Sillitoe The 4-Keys Quiz ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks with Kevin Urrutia, successful entrepreneur, author and expert in growing and scaling online businesses. They discuss why the combination of marketing combined with technology and data is hugely effective in growing and scaling a business and how artificial technology and automation can help to achieve the best results. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Resilience is an important element for any entrepreneur Marketing combined with software to generate leads is incredibly effective Your data is there and a huge amount of data out there is being used, the question is who owns the data? There is a difference between organic and paid marketing Paid marketing is becoming much more sophisticated with geo-targeting Founder focus always needs to shift from organic to paid  marketing because that’s the only way to grow With paid marketing, you can target the people you can serve and not waste money on those who aren’t potential customers for you The tools on social media platforms can really help you to have the data you need Automation and artificial intelligence  can help but it needs to be in combination with a human To begin automating in a business look at the core tasks you and your staff do every day and then break it down and use Zapier, which is a recipe book for the automation of tasks It’s about taking the core tasks and looking for an automated process that can fulfil these tasks Every business needs a CRM so that you can track your customers and how they come to you There is now a creative focus on marketing and you need to build the creative process from  inside your business to support your brand BEST MOMENTS ‘There are a lot of people out there following concept marketing and personal branding but the real differentiator going forward is paid as it becomes more sophisticated’ ‘Having data means you have an insight into your business’ ‘Automation should be there to help you with the user experience’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Digital Marketing Made Easy - Kevin Urrutia & Wilson Lin Voy Media ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Matt Andrews is an investor, philanthropist and entrepreneur who is talking to Nick about collaboration and its importance. He has taken the concept of collaboration and scaled it exponentially and talks in-depth with Nick about his journey and why he is energised by collaborating with other people and championing them to do their best in something they truly believe in. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Putting yourself out there opens you to both the good and the bad but if you are leading and living by your principles they shouldn’t change When I collaborate with people and hear about their ideas, I get energy from them and am excited about it I’m at my best when I’m helping and championing others to do their best in something they truly believe in The ability to pull people in from my business world and connect them with our charity work really solidifies our relationships in a way business never could The money and the business come when you put the right collaborators together Collaboration can bring another level that you can’t put a price on and can’t put a value on the difference it makes in your life Connect, nurture and empower is a framework for building intentional relationships You need to be purposeful about who you want to move to the nurturing phase. Creating communities can speed up the nurture process Real empowerment is when you have such a candid relationship that you can have the difficult conversations With every opportunity, you should first look at whether it’s in alignment with your values and get you closer to your goals Always ask yourself - do I value the person and being with them? Does it help people and drive revenue? Is it fun? Understanding who you are means that you are able to value and appreciate your relationships more You have to be intentional with your days, do stuff you love and hang out with people who empower you and you respect and those you can help BEST MOMENTS ‘Collaboration has brought everything good into my life’ ‘I’m instantly energised by people who are doing great things’ ‘Pulling from my business communities I’ve built an amazing group of friends who have a heart for sharing’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Matt Andrews Instagram ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Sam Harris host of ‘The Growth Mindset’ podcast and the founder of the podcast platform Reason FM (previously Syncify), talks with Nick about all things mindset and how a growth mindset can change everything Having the belief that you can change things and overcome the challenges along with curiosity and being open to the possibilities are what make the difference and in this episode, Nick and Sam share great content about the role growth mindset plays in achieving the outcomes you want. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS         Acquisition entrepreneurship  is about buying a business that has good foundations then optimising and improving If the outcome you are looking for is financial freedom, wealth and the ability to do what you want when you want you can achieve this much more quickly and precisely through acquisitions It’s about a compelling opportunity versus starting something that hasn’t got a proven market or proven customers The psychology for people retiring is that they don’t want the business anymore so you can get these businesses for very little money With a leverage buy out you can leverage the assets in the business to pay for the business I normally have 20-30 deals in process at any one time and expect to close 1-2 of those deals Reason FM is a podcast community platform that enables you to engage with the podcasts you enjoy and discuss the content of podcasts If you can help people to connect it’s a much more interesting media The strategic side of growth is partnerships and acquisitions There are many different ways of thinking about things  and listening to others can help you to see the possibilities Most of what we achieve or don’t achieve is connected to our view of ourselves and our identity A growth mindset is a much more empowering way to live You need to step out from your own self-limiting beliefs BEST MOMENTS ‘It's about active engagement around social media and discussions around the content’ ‘Acquisition entrepreneurship it looks hard but it’s actually simple and works well with the right mindset’ ‘Responsibility for your success is only on you’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Reason.fm Growth Mindset Podcast ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick is in conversation with Brian Covey, Wealth Advisor and host of the highly successful ‘The Brian Covey Show’ podcast discussing the ways to grow and scale businesses and achieve your goals. Brian shares great content about why empowering others and collaboration is the ultimate key to achieving sustainable and successful growth that has value and culture at its heart. The more you connect with people the more you grow and it’s vital to remember you are always potentially only one conversation or connection away from changing your life. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Start with the end in mind and understand what you want the business to be and look like in 5-10 years Identify other leaders on your team because at some point during scaling you will need to empower others Get clear on what you want to build and understand in detail what you are both good and not so good at You can have wonderful collaborations with people who are not in your office Attractive leadership is about letting people know how you are working and if you don’t go out across social media and ask  proactively it’s not going to happen In the early stages, it’s about creativity and everyone having a voice that’s heard that fuels growth Leaders empower others and recognise that helping others to think critically is about supporting them to get out of their comfort zone and creating a collaborative environment Being intentional about your growth is everything Values and culture underpin everything and there are values that should be discussed early on and shared clearly, honestly and often When you are intentional about growth you seek new learning every day If you are a high achiever you are going to do the things that others aren’t prepared to do The more you connect with people the more you grow BEST MOMENTS ‘Without trust, integrity and character at some point, things will crash and burn’ ‘You are always one conversation, one connection away from changing your life’ ‘The more people have their voice heard and input felt the more ownership they feel’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Brian Covey ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick’s  guests, Chris Lawson and Samuel Monnie are the co-hosts of the podcast ‘Across the Pond, Marketing Transformed’ and in this, in-depth discussion they talk about the importance of narrative, optimising your marketing strategy, inspiring success and the importance of a growth mindset in business This is a fascinating opportunity to understand how at the heart of good marketing there needs to be a  great storyteller creating a narrative and telling a story with empathy that connects with others. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Storytelling is about painting a picture that is very human With storytelling, emotion is felt and transferred Storytelling is natural to humans and the struggles are very vivid The people that you ultimately connect within business are those who are great storytellers At the heart of good marketing is good storytelling and applies whether its analytical performance-based  marketing or developing a proposition Can you tell the brand story from the perspective of the customer where they are the hero? It was a transformational shift in marketing when the customer started to have a voice Peer to peer groups are about humans connecting on a social and emotional level Listening  as well as telling and talking is a powerful construct Peer to peer learning, sharing and collaboration is a huge opportunity   There are now  multiple ways for content creators to be rewarded and compensated You have to understand your marketing strategies and the audience you want to connect with You need to understand, reflect and listen with empathy and it is this that gives you the right to inspire and paint a picture of the future Be a curious detective, listen carefully and go with where they want to go BEST MOMENTS ‘Whether you are a rising star, experienced professional or entrepreneur we wanted to tell a story around marketing because it isn’t rocket science’ ‘There is a lot of noise out there so you have to stand out’ ‘It’s about connecting in an authentic way with communities on their terms’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this very special episode, Nick is in conversation with Gino Wickman author of the book ‘Traction’ and founder of the entrepreneurial operating system (EOS) a practical method for helping people achieve scale-up in their businesses. As a successful scale-up entrepreneur Gino shares hugely valuable content on the traits of true entrepreneurs and why you need a clear vision and to stay focused on your values if you want to create and scale a successful business. This is a great chance to hear from someone who has impacted on thousands of entrepreneurs in the making across the globe and whose goal is to reach another million in the next ten years Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The entrepreneur in the making assessment identifies whether you have the traits of an entrepreneur You shouldn’t be talking about starting a business until you have first confirmed if you are an entrepreneur All entrepreneurs share six essential traits – visionary, passionate, problem solver, driven, risk taker and responsible These traits can’t be taught they are innate within an individual I believe 4% of the population have these traits and I’m on a journey to help those who are entrepreneurs The entrepreneurial range goes from those who are true entrepreneurs through to those who are self-employed The goal is to impact on a million entrepreneurs in the making over the next ten years When you start your business you have to have a crystal clear vision. The vision will change and it’s different for each entrepreneur The first plan is never the final plan, there is  always change and the six essential character traits mean a true entrepreneur can make the changes Before you hire anyone you need to make sure they fit with your core values The ideal person is someone who has the same core values as you and has the skill set required for the role. As you become a successful entrepreneur a range of opportunities will show up and it can be easy to be distracted. If you want to build something great you have to stay focused BEST MOMENTS ‘I like to create and build stuff and when EOS got to a stage where it was growing up and I was looking at big company issues I sold’ ‘You have to stay true to your goals and focused on your values’ ‘Anyone who has built a business will have had to change their vision’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Entrepreneurial Leap ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Sean Swarner is an inspirational public speaker, adventurer and  2x cancer survivor who has completed the explorers’ grand slam and is the first cancer survivor to stand on the top of the world. He talks with Nick about his journey and why it’s all about making the most of the present and striving to give something back and offer hope to others. This is a truly inspirational listen about grit, resilience, mindset, values and why having a purpose is the key to being present in the world and overcoming the challenges Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The past has gone and there is nothing I can do about it, tomorrow may never come so no matter what happens today is the best day ever In that moment I knew I had two choices either fight for my life or just give up and die I didn’t want to focus on not dying I wanted to focus on living I wanted to focus on what I did want not avoidance of what I didn’t want It was a combination of everything at the same time – modern medicine, prayer, not giving up, a sense of humour, visualisation and family all contributed It’s not just the visualisation it’s tapping into the emotions ‘how do you feel?’ I wanted to give something back and offer hope to other cancer sufferers and kept searching for higher and higher platforms until it became climbing Everest I’m more afraid of not living than dying Many people play it safe but crossing the line of fear is where life begins I’m afraid of not doing enough, that I won’t ever accomplish enough so when I do something I have to then move on and do something else From the instant, you are born your brain takes in everything around it If you are not careful what you consume can program your brain instead of you programming it for yourself If you understand what your key values are you able to focus on how you spend your time effectively Being in the world without a sense of purpose is pointless There are no guarantees today and the now are all you actually have BEST MOMENTS ‘I want to make the best out of the 24 hours ahead of me each day’ ‘I visualised being inside my body and destroying the cancer cells’  ‘When I got to the summit I unfurled that flag and wrapped it around the top of the world’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment Sean Swarner website     ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Ashley Shipman has become known as the ‘King of Clubhouse’ creating a significant brand in a few months through the platform. In this conversation with Nick he talks about the fundamental approaches and values that he brings to any situation and why preparation, hard work and consistency are the keys to success. Often referred to as a ‘Man of the People’ Ashley explains why you can only go so far on your own and how collaboration and building the right network is what will get you to the place you want to be. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS You need to prove that you are open to learning, understand when you get something wrong and know when to ask for help. When you want to succeed as much as you want to breathe then you will succeed You have to be there consistently if you want to see the opportunities In life, momentum is one of the hardest things to achieve and one of the easiest things to lose. Clubhouse has given me the opportunity to have 400 to 500 accountability partners If something is coming up you need to face it and put in the preparation Those who are successful are those who are consistent and put in the work If your life isn’t where you want to be you need to make the changes to get to where you want to be. Make sure you capitalise on any area in your life that you spend time on. There is immense power in collaboration because you can only go so far on your own. Look forward and have people around you who are better than you Try and seek the right advice from people who have been there and have the expertise and experience A client journey is one of the most important things in any business and you need to get the foundations, marketing and conversion right You need to make sure you are using the right platform for marketing, the one where your potential clients are hanging out BEST MOMENTS ‘Invest in yourself  and understand how you can learn’ ‘People call me lucky but it’s hard work, consistency and preparation that creates luck’ ‘The power is in your network and you are the people you hang around with’ ‘Everything comes to you in life if you are ready for it’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Predictable Growth Assessment™, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus next to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/PredictableGrowthAssessment     Ashley Shipman Instagram  ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Tom Eisenmann is a professor at Harvard Business School teaching entrepreneurship and is the author of ‘The Fail-Safe Startup’ He discusses his book and the stages a business goes through in its creation along with the potential challenges across the start-up period. Bringing together the value proposition, the go-to-market plan, the technology and operations along with a cash flow formula are all elements that need to work together dynamically and Tom and Nick discuss all things startup and share great examples in this informative episode that is a must-listen for any entrepreneur. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Finding ideas and validating the concept is the first stage for any business followed by bringing together all the resources required An entrepreneur is someone who pursues an idea without all the resources initially Resource mobilisation and exploring the opportunity go side by side When you have a product-market then you can start to scale Big company people in start-ups can interrupt the rhythm Entrepreneurs can be so focused on getting ahead they skip the up-front market research. Customer discovery before you engineer the product is a better approach Your success with early adopters of your product may not be replicated with mainstream customers Every entrepreneur needs early adopters but mainstream customers will require marketing spend. If you are in an industry that requires expertise you need to make sure you or someone in your team has the expertise necessary. Make sure you do the upfront research and be aware that the success with early adopters may not be indicative of a mainstream customer. One of the hardest decisions as an entrepreneur is knowing when to shut down If the odds of turning it around are increasingly small and you aren’t enjoying it then it’s time to shut down gracefully. Having failed you can learn from the experience and move forward. BEST MOMENTS ‘For some people, an idea will just pop into their minds for those there is a search’ ‘In a start-up, you have to make things happen’ ‘Entrepreneurs are often like Peter Pan and don’t want to grow up’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          The Fail-Safe Startup - Tom Eisenmann ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dave Seymour is one of the United States top investors in commercial multi-family transactions and in this episode talks with Nick about his journey and what motivates him and brings him joy Having been involved in millions and millions of dollars of real estate scaleup to exit deals he is truly an expert in his space and discusses how he got started and why understanding yourself and the power of foundational concepts is key in bringing what you want into your life. Making a conscious decision to do something different and leaning into it making the best of what you have with positivity can bring rewards and this is a great insight into how if you have faith and put in the work you can create the wealth you want Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If an opportunity shows up you have to take action Whenever there is chaos in the market there are good opportunities Follow those who are doing what you want to do at a higher level, don’t ask stupid questions and implement. I have invested in personal development and learnt about the processes and systems for real estate You need to replace fear with faith if you want to level up your business and it’s all about those who work with you and are around you. The two most powerful words are ‘I am’ because this will be followed by the words that set your intention and your future. It was more than I expected because I didn’t have any expectation Massive passion combined with massive action brings massive results It’s so easy to blame others for what’s going on in your life Having unconditional love, support and accountability are what make the difference I just kept going and grinding it out because I knew the future was positive Personal development and wealth creation takes time it doesn’t happen overnight BEST MOMENTS ‘I’m not religious but I am a man of faith and believe those who seek shall find’ ‘I doubled down and kept going’ ‘On my own, I’m weak with others I’m strong’  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks with Lee Houghton, change and transformation coach and host of the ‘Business Problems Solved’ podcast. They discuss their journeys and following a pivotal event in Lee’s life the three key life lessons that he applies in all areas of life on both a macro and a micro-level. People are key to everything and as we all move towards a different landscape for working leading change and transformation in a way that enables people to be themselves and communicate freely in a positive environment is a model for change that encompasses Lee’s key life lessons. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Sometimes things happen in life that you don’t want, you can’t change what happens but you can change your response I’ve had the most random journey to get to where I am, but every experience has been a learning opportunity. Always be yourself whatever happens – your values are the foundation of who you are. Make good friends because you never know when you might need them  - it’s vital to make connections in every area of your life. Times limited, act now – if you really want to do something you’ll start straight away I learnt that when I’m at my darkest I begin to write and am most creative. I’m frustrated that I had to lose Chris to understand these three vital lessons. Any event can be deemed neutral it’s the response that is either positive or negative I have a burning desire to share Chris’s three lessons with as many people as I can. It’s about enabling everyone to be themselves, to be able to speak freely in a positive environment and get where they want to go. There is a lot of assessment required in business as people will not go back to work in the same way. The idea that people can be effective working from home is forcing a systemic change. As a leader, you should have the emotional intelligence to understand everyone is different and will experience change in different ways and times. The most important characteristics for any leader are confidence and empathy. BEST MOMENTS ‘The podcast has been a way for me to share my learning’ ‘Everyone has to go through an individual journey, I went on a journey of discovery’ ‘The pandemic has forced a lot of improvement on business’ VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Spencer Lodge, founder of the Blue Sky Thinking Group and host of ‘The Spencer Lodge’ podcast is known as one of the world’s most dynamic trainers and in this episode, he shares great content about the importance of getting a ‘no’ and the value of transparency and honesty in sales. He reflects on his own journey and the events that have defined the direction he has taken and explains why ultimately it’s all about being brave, having belief in yourself and understanding that you need to be able to build rapport and find and solve other people’s problems if you want them to say yes to you. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS You are never going to get a ‘yes’ until you understand the importance of getting the ‘no’ People can become so affected and intimidated by rejection; it can paralyse them because they fear what the outcome may be. There are three ways to get prospects – cold call, network and referrals When you are in the mode of taking on new clients and doing more business with existing clients your income can multiply very quickly If people can give you one referral then they can give you three or four referrals if you bring value. Everyone can give referrals because everyone is connected. People need to tell you the problem and then you need to find the right solution If you offer honesty and transparency  people are  kind if you give them the chance to be Some people have an issue with the ask and this comes back to the fear of rejection The rule of 21 - always have 21 prospects because 7 will say ‘yes, 7 will say ‘no’ and 7 will say ‘maybe’ The problem most companies have is that they believe their salespeople need to be better but 99% of the time it’s the owner and the management that are the issue. In any business, the top 20% are hugely motivated and just need love and recognition The bottom 20% are in the wrong job and should be got rid of and the middle 60% could be good if they are trained as a group and allowed to be successful Every company needs a process and a system that everyone can learn People are people but the way people consume information and create trust with someone else has changed. There are now opportunities to create familiarity and trust with those people you may not have reached previously. BEST MOMENTS ‘When you are in the mode of taking on new clients and doing more business with existing clients your income can multiply very quickly’ ‘In sales, you just have to be brave enough to believe in what you are doing’ ‘There are gazillions of people who have a problem you can solve and you need to make it your mission to find them’ VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          The Spencer Lodge Podcast ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

JT Foxx, Number 1 Business and Wealth Coach, talks to Nick about why persistence, a work ethic and the right attitude are key if you want to grow your wealth and shares some great content on his business experiences and how they have shaped him in this fascinating insight. He also explains why now is the time to be prepared and how the speed of implementation will be what determines your success in today’s global economy but only if you can also say you are the most persistent person you know. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If you have the persistence,  the work ethic, the attitude and want to make it happen you can. There is a difference between acquiring a distressed company for a big discount with a lot of problems and buying a company for what it’s worth and adding value It should always be more money for less work Understanding and being informed about trends is important to help know what you should  get involved in Anything that is getting rich quick doesn’t work it’s about playing the long game When you get to eight figures you either triple down and go all-in with your empire and get to a billion or you hedge and diversify and get to nine figures Consumer behaviour has changed to grow strategically you need to work out what the end goal is and work back from there. You have to be good at testing and be prepared to adapt. People look at marketing in terms of how much it has cost not how much it can make them You need to understand advertising online and operating virtually It’s about the speed of implementation - from the moment of the idea through to the moment you implement this is what will determine how successful you are BEST MOMENTS ‘I made my first million at 24 years and my second at 25 and a lot of zeros in my thirties’ ‘I wouldn’t do anything differently if I was a billionaire’ ‘What goes up must come down’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick reflects upon the lockdown period, how it has affected the business landscape - what we can learn from the last 12-18 months, and what we can take forward as business owners and entrepreneurs. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The world has gone through unprecedented change, and we must appreciate what it will mean. The system has been altered forever. Being agile really matters. One of the main takeaways from lockdown has been that those who respond and adapt quickly have survived and thrived. We have proved that we can work effectively and efficiently without being in a static place of work, and without having to meet people face to face. People have always seen home as a refuge - an escape from work. With the rise of remote working, this has been re-evaluated. We need to make sure we strike a balance in this new world. BEST MOMENTS 'There is a certain degree of certainty and confidence coming back' 'To reinvent is now a critical component of any business' 'We're seeing entrepreneurs looking at these business trends and coming up with some brilliant business ideas' 'It's going to be interesting to see how people adjust to those different dimensions' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick talks to B. Jeffrey Madoff, founder of Madoff Productions, who collaborate with ad agencies, public relations firms and directly with clients to produce commercials, branded content and live streaming events, who's here to discuss the ways in which you can turn your ideas into your living, and how he achieved that very thing! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Success is a matter of perspective. Only through experience do we come to realise what really matters, and how we should really define success. Successful people often carry a great deal of humility and credit luck as having facilitated their journey. But hard work is the foundation of every great success. Pioneers recognise the element of every business that's lacking, and take action. Even elements such as the customer experience, if developed and improved, can create a sea change. Those in the creative arts are never taken seriously, in that they are always asked what their back-up plan will be. This is unique to the creative sector. BEST MOMENTS 'The biggest value is placed on relationships, and the value and longevity of those relationships' 'The biggest difference between ignorance and stupidity is that ignorance you can learn and stupidity is forever' 'I saw all the different ways in which I could collaborate with people' 'What separated them from others was that there was something different about the way they did things' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Madoff Productions - https://madoffproductions.com/madoff-productions-jeff-madoff-b-jeffrey-madoff/ B. Jeffrey Madoff LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/b-jeffrey-madoff-5baa8074/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It's '15 Minutes To Action' time, and this week, Nick talks about the importance of perspective when it comes to your marketing strategy, and how to activate the marketing mechanism that will serve your customers in the ideal way. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When planning our marketing tactics and strategies, you need to take a wide view of the business itself - to gain a far broader perspective about who you are and where you are. The whole reason that your business exists - its purpose for being - is that you're solving a problem for someone. You are taking someone from their current state to their desired state. The marketing mechanism is the vehicle by which you take your customer or client from their current state, to the state in which they desire to be. The "unspoken mechanism" is when there is nothing unique about your product or service, but no one is talking about it. BEST MOMENTS 'You've got to be able to see the landscape so that you can make better decisions' 'Your solution between those two dimensions is what's going to make the difference between you being successful or not' 'The marketing mechanism is what creates the differentiation for your business' 'What is your special sauce?' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week sees a new edition of 'Chat With Titans', where Nick talks to Frank McKinney, a real estate artist, seven-time international best-selling author, philanthro-capitalist, actor, speaker, and a man who describes himself as a "modern-day renaissance man". Frank joins Nick to discuss his formula for success, his incredible humanitarian projects around the world, and how he became one of the world's most successful real-estate investors. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The route to wealth and financial freedom, is more often than not built upon real estate and property investment. It's always worth educating yourself as best you can in this area, so as to maximise your strategical toolbox. Sometimes the best way to build your reputation is to sacrifice the bottom line so as to show the world that you care about quality. When we build a successful personal brand, people become far more invested in the story as it plays out, and will actively seek out the next chapters. Success begins with mind-set. We can't hope to achieve financial freedom if we doubt ourselves. Get the mind right and the money follows. BEST MOMENTS 'I sacrificed bottom line for reputation' 'Get the mind right and the money will follow' 'It has to be about success in the business of life' 'It's about more than scaling up your business. It's about scaling up your life' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Frank McKinney - https://www.frank-mckinney.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick talks you through one of the most crucial, but misunderstood parts of the sales process – closing – and the four techniques that'll help you to make sure you’re closing more effectively. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If you spend time at the front end of your business – the marketing, trust and branding end – and you do that at scale, you’ll never have any trouble hitting the numbers. Sales is the lifeblood of business, but you must look at the entire experience from end-to-end. By studying the needs of the customer, we can present the idealised solution to their needs. A useful technique is to focus not upon the sale itself, but the benefits of what comes after the sale by supplying options centred around the post-sale process. BEST MOMENTS ‘There isn’t a day that goes by where I’m not pitching something or selling something’ ‘You’re getting people to know, like and trust your business, brand and service’ ‘They do their homework, which unlocks the ability to present great solutions’ ‘You’re getting their brain to think logically about what the next step is going to be’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick talks to Raul Hernandez Ochoa, the author of ‘Productive Profits, about the ways in which we can “productize” our services, the smarter ways to consider automation, and how best to implement systems and processes in order to scale more effectively.. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Coming up with ideas is important at the start. It is equally important to build in systems as soon as possible. We need to ask, once habits have been established, what are the operating KPIs that matter to your business in order to move forward. A habit it something you do yourself, something done by your team, or something a machine does. We need to be continually evolving by looking at the way we lead, empower, enable and motivate teams to work autonomously. BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s looking at the creative pieces and the analytical pieces’ ‘Is there a signature way of doing this?’ ‘These are the little tiny things that add the magic’ ‘It’s the connection back to the connection that was made’  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Raul Hernandez Ochoa LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/dogoodwork ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks about acquisition entrepreneurship - what it means, how it works, and why this might be a strategy you need to consider on your scale-up journey. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS To make real money in business, you don't do it by running a business. You make it by selling a business. This is a capital event. Many thing that the entrepreneur journey runs from start-up to exit. But this is certainly the long way round. Start-up is not always necessary, and there is far less risk involved when you acquire and sell a business that already works. One in ten new businesses actually succeed. Only 1% of start-ups ever make it through to gaining the funding they require. Building a scaling a business that has a customer base and a product that sells, is far easier than beginning at year dot. Acquiring removes uncertainty. BEST MOMENTS 'I used to think back then that business growth was about marketing and sales' 'Building freedom, wealth and impact through business acquisition is a much more powerful and lucrative approach' 'It's a life-changing moment for any business owner' 'The path is littered with the wreckage of failed start-ups' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick's 'Entrepreneur In Focus' is Sergio Tigera, the host of the incredible podcast, Gamechangers LIVE - and an executive coach and leadership development consultant, who joins Nick to discuss the importance of a good work/life balance, how to break through limiting beliefs, and how to look at results in a far more practical way. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The corporate life is certainly an attractive one and offers many benefits. This can be why so many get caught up in it, and find it difficult to strike out on their own. There comes a point in many careers, where the job can be done almost blindfolded. When we reach this point, we need to decide if our time can be used in more precious ways. We create true, positive, impactful change, by creating opportunities and change for others. The act of serving others is where true fulfilment lies. Playing in your comfort zone is comfortable. Stepping outside is like putting tension on a rubber band. You can feel pressure. But you'll never conquer your fear if you allow yourself to be subservient to it. BEST MOMENTS 'For 14 years I had the golden handcuffs on' 'I knew that I wasn't fulfilling my purpose' 'Impacting people's lives - that's where the passion is' 'We can't keep ourselves trapped by fear' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Sergio Tigera LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sergiotigera Gamechangers LIVE - https://www.gamechangerslive.co ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes TO Action', Nick discusses a popular topic among the Scale Up Your Business community - should we be seeking external investment in order to scale, or should we use bootstrapping to get there? Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Fundraising is the art of going out into the world of investors and raising capital in order to fund the scale-up ambitions you have. Bootstrapping is where you invest your own capital, or use funds from your founding team, or the profits from the business itself, in order to drive growth ambitions. Businesses have different cycles of growth, and so the need vary from time to time. It's not just the domain of start-up. We must ask ourselves if external investment is actually What will these funds actually do for your business? Can you survive and thrive without them? BEST MOMENTS 'Some businesses need a lot of capital to get off the ground' 'You're effectively giving up equity...' 'Do you really need to go after external investment?' 'You need to be clear right from the outset about what your exit strategy is' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick talks to Kara Goldin, the founder and CEO of Hint Water, one of the most popular soft drink manufacturers in the world. Kara joins Nick to discuss her business career, and also the central theme of her book, 'Undaunted: Overcoming Doubts and Doubters'. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Never underestimate the power of a brand. All it takes is for you to be associated with a name that's recognisable, and your status is instantly invigorated by that. The best results are the ones you gain from steeping outside of your comfort zone. Embarking into the unknown magnifies and multiplies your potential returns. Entrepreneurs are not enchanted creatures. They are simply the result of a series of circumstances that have emboldened them, or spurred them on to want to do better. The world is never changed by people who doubt. The world is altered for the better by people who dare to believe that the impossible can be overcome. BEST MOMENT 'Brands matter!' 'You have to be okay with going into the unknown' 'There's so many things in here that are going to let people know that it's okay - particularly for entrepreneurs' 'If you believe that the dots connect, then this is all part of the learning' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Kara Goldin LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/karagoldin/ Undaunted by Kara Goldin (Amazon) The Kara Goldin Show - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-kara-goldin-show/id1327208777 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

To kick this week off, Nick is here with '15 Minutes To Action', in which he talks about why "Growth Precision" might be the concept you've been searching for when it comes to your own growth/scale plans. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Business growth is the outcome that everyone wants for their business. Growth is the lifeblood of business. Anyone can find a strategy that drives growth for a certain period of time, but it suddenly arrest and plateau, and we don't always know why. Growth precision is about having something absolutely predictable. You know what the actions are that drives growth, and can repeat them for similar outcomes. If you have growth that's erratic, you don't have growth precision. Consider your unique and remarkable value proposition. BEST MOMENTS  'If you're not growing, you're dying' 'What you really want is sustainable growth. Predictable growth' 'Businesses on the scale-up journey are demonstrating the more precise, predictable growth method' 'What you are driving is that level of predictability'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this edition of 'Chat With Titans', Nick talks to David Meltzer, the Co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and former CEO of the renowned Leigh Steinberg Sports & Entertainment agency, which was the inspiration for the movie Jerry Maguire. David joins the show to talk about his mission in life - to empower over a billion people to be happy - and the incredible journey of his life so far. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS People use money to buy their way into happiness, sometimes by purchasing things they don't even need. Ironically, they soon discover that all the money in the world can't get you there. The mindset that takes up upwards is the one that sees pain as an opportunity for growth and learning. A true friend is one that tells us "no". We need to be challenged by those who care about us. Without this, we cannot hope to be the best version of ourselves. The world is not filled with people out to stop you from achieving your goals. We need to see others as fellow travellers on life's road, and not as enemies to be defeated. BEST MOMENTS 'My journey is from a world of not enough' 'Everything happens for a reason' 'Pain is an indicator of a lesson to learn' 'You can lie to me, but don't lie to yourself' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          David Meltzer - https://dmeltzer.com David Meltzer Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/davidmeltzer/?hl=en ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick talks you through the differences between a fixed and a growth mindset, and how they can play the largest role in the shape of your destiny. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS With the end of the lockdown in sight, people are beginning to feel more optimistic about the future, and the role they will play in it. The mindset in society is shifting towards the positive. We bring to life the things we imagine, whether that's success or position or achievement. We fix our conscious goals towards a point and whether we know it or not, we work towards them. Mindset, fixed or growth, are focussed around beliefs, effort, challenges, mistakes and feedback. Those with a growth mindset believe that failures are lessons, not the ends of something. No-one is always in a growth or fixed mindset phase. The mindset you need at any one time depends upon the things taking place in your life at the time. BEST MOMENTS 'People are starting think differently' 'Most of the things in your life today started off as a thought' 'You sow the seed in your mind and you do the work' 'Failure is actually a valuable lesson - it's not the end of something' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to Lauren Tickner, a Forbes Top 10 Entrepreneur who has helped coaches, mentors, consultants and course creators to make a global impact by scaling online. Lauren joins Nick to talk about the ways in which you can make a bigger impact with your own plans - how to take your experience and scale it online. KEY TAKEAWAYS Many think that to be an entrepreneur, you need to be the one who has the ideas or the invention that kick of a business concern. In actual fact, to be an entrepreneur is to think differently, to have the mind-set to see bigger. Mentors and coaches are an incredibly empowering force for development, but we must be aware of an information paralysis. Sometimes we need to stop taking in information, reflect on what we have, and take action. By giving in to our weaknesses, we allow chinks in the armour to form. This can affect the way we deal with all aspects of life. Far better to actively consider each situation and keep up the resilience. If our "why" is powerful enough, it can spur us on to do things we did not believe possible. Our "why" becomes the driving force behind making a meaningful difference BEST MOMENTS 'I never saw myself as an entrepreneur' 'Mentors are something I've always seen as so important' 'It's dangerous to live in this state of feeling like I always have more to give' 'There's a big driving force behind making a meaningful difference' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Lauren Tickner LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/laurentickner?originalSubdomain=uk Lauren Tickner Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/laurentickner/?hl=en Lauren Tickner - https://www.laurentickner.com ABOUT THE HOST 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.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's dynamic '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick reflects upon a piece of advice he received from Jay Abraham regarding three fundamental ways in which you can grow your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The three ways to grow: Increase the number of customers Increase the transaction size Increasing the purchase frequency Far too many businesses focus on one of the three ways in order to grow. By focussing on more than one we exponentially increase our growth potential. There's a mathematical equation running behind all three ways. When combined they multiply upon themselves, maximising your growth. The simple answer is the best one. The solution staring you directly in the face is the one that will solve the most problems. BEST MOMENTS 'It's not so much about understanding what the three things are, but implementing them' 'Of course there are different ways of activating the three things' 'If you optimise all three together it reduces the risk of something not working, and can produce exponentially greater results' 'Sometimes we look to solve problems in a complex way' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

To kick off the week, it's '15 Minutes To Action' time, and Nick is here to talk you through a practical formula for feedback drawn from Nick's very own story. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many assume feedback to be a simple process of offering positive or negative response to an action or situation, but there is a formula and an artform to it. To drive performance, lead teams, inspire, coach encourage or engage, you need to be good at feedback. The feedback formula is E-Squared-C-Squared: Evidence Effect Continue or Change Commitment Present the evidence of what has happened, and the resulting effect. Demonstrate if you want the behaviour shown to continue or change, and gain a commitment to endorse this. BEST MOMENTS 'Influence is really powerful if you know what you're trying to achieve' 'If you can't give feedback, you can't hope to help someone grow' 'Scale up is the ability to lead people with authenticity, congruity, and based upon what you want to achieve' 'Be candid - radical candour' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick talks to Hernan Sias, creator of the Business Bros podcast, about the ways in which businesses can build your personal brand and prospect using the power of podcasting, or the media channel of your choice. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Podcasting should be viewed as time spent prospecting. In business we are happy to spend time on growth. The same ethic should be embraced in podcasting. When you're building a business, customer acquisition is a skill you have to master. This comes in three forms: Driving inbound prospects Traditional outbound - normally an interruption technique Partnerships When we gain a customer's trust, we gain permission to tap into their data. Once we can do this, conversations become so much more personal and resonant. If we provide service and value to others, we gain trust and recognition for our own brand. Work to establish the value you can give. BEST MOMENTS 'The whole point of it is that we want to have fun with whatever we're doing' 'This is my prospecting time slot! This is what I do to grow my business!' 'Limits are endless' 'People are beginning to see and recognise our logo through our service to other people'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Hernan Sias LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/businessbrospod Business Bros Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/business-bros/id1414753679 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It's '15 Minutes To Action' time again, and in this edition, Nick talks about the true meaning behind M & A - the general term used to describe consolidation of companies or assets through various types of financial transactions, and why this might be the right path for your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Mergers and acquisitions hold different meanings. They are often used interchangeably but they are not the same. Essentially when a company takes over another and establishes itself as the new owner, this is an acquisition. Mergers occur when two companies of approximately the same size join forces to move forward as a new, single entity. Consolidation occurs when one entity is formed by combining core businesses and abandoning the old corporate structures that can exist from the previous entities. Tender offers is when one company offers to purchase the outstanding stock of a firm at a specific price, rather than at market price. BEST MOMENTS  'I think it's good to get into that detail so that you can see how it works' 'They agree that bringing the businesses together is going to be a better thing all round' 'Ultimately speaking, I am taking ownership - I am taking control' 'It's the whole idea of the one-plus-one-equals-three' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick talks to entrepreneur and four-time best-selling author, Paul O'Mahony, who specialises in digital marketing mindset and wealth management, about how businesses can best leverage social media in order to achieve scale. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  If you can't manage your emotions, then the stock market is not an ideal place to play. With an online business, the only risk you take is giving over your time. The biggest risk that anyone takes in today's society, is not having a plan outside of the usual career path. Far too many settle into a routine and stay there. Get clear on your goals quickly. Decide where you want to be and start forming a plan that'll get you there. Every day you wait is a day you're losing out. Ascertain whether or not there's a real demand for your business. Do people want what you are offering? Always be sure that what you want to sell is something that will land, and not just an experiment. BEST MOMENTS 'With an online business, the only risk you're putting in is time' 'I had this incredible confidence, which you can only put down to massive levels of naivety' 'If you keep doing what you're doing, then you're one flu away from financial ruin' 'As soon as you get clear on your goals, you'll quickly realise that where you're going financially is not going to get you there' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Paul O'Mahony - https://www.paulomahony.com/start.php Funancial Freedom - www.funancialfreedom.com Paul O'Mahony LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulomahony1/?originalSubdomain=ie ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's edition of '15 Minutes To Action', Nick talks about why it's important to recognise not just your entrepreneurship, but which type of entrepreneur you are. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS There are essentially six different categories of entrepreneurship: The hustler The innovator The machine The prodigy The strategist The visionary No one is necessarily one type only. There may be a blend of two or more types of entrepreneur in you. Sometimes we can find that we have elements of all six. Visionaries tend to be elevated in terms of extroversion, and are regarded as those who inspire the masses and cause those close to them to see the dream behind the idea. Entrepreneurship or the ability to be entrepreneurial is an ability we all have to have at some level, no matter which type we turn out to be. BEST MOMENTS 'Perhaps you are an entrepreneur, but you haven't quite realised you are' 'If you help enough people get what they want in life, you will have everything you want and need' 'These are all entrepreneurs - they just have different characteristics' 'Just to be successful, you have to have some entrepreneurial traits' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this edition of 'Chat With Titans', Nick talks to serial entrepreneur and empire builder, Mario Nawfal, who in 2020 began to document his incredible rise to success. Mario chats with Nick about his amazing ascent in business, and why impatience is a good trait to have in business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Those who rise to success in business leverage their personality traits and use them as strengths. In Mario's case, impatience has led him to more rapidly find his way to success. We arrive at crossroads in life. We can either relax back and let life wash over us, or leverage the gifts we have and do something about the direction in which life is heading. Momentum is a crucial tool in driving us onwards. Building it by smashing through goals helps to make the path to success a more automatic one. When deciding upon the group we wish to surround ourselves with, imagine the people you could do without - the ones who maybe hold us back - and then imagine replacing them with people who drive you forward. BEST MOMENTS 'When you understand a weakness or a strength, play around with it and use it to your advantage' 'You can learn a lot from people's stories' 'Use the obstacle to your advantage' 'Momentum drives me' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Mario Nawfal - https://marionawfal.com Mario Nawfal LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mario-nawfal/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to Nate Bailey, a leadership expert and coach, about the mindset you need to nurture and develop if you want to be the most effective leader you can be. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Those in search of a leadership mindset are people looking for ways in which to maximise their abilities - to make the most effective use of each and every day. If the right balance is struck, then the results increase exponentially. By focussing on physical and mental wellbeing, we become more present in our work, and in our personal lives. How we present ourselves in any given situation, should reflect how we enter any situation. How we show up when it matters, is a true picture of how we show up in anything. "Extreme" for someone is always different for others. If we push harder and reach further, we excel in all areas, but do not compare your goals to other people's. BEST MOMENTS 'It forced me to be committed. It forced me to be intentional' 'I want to help them live to their fullest' 'You have to prepare to not quit - to continue to persevere' 'How you show up in anything dictates what you do with everything' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks          Nate Bailey - https://natebailey.org Nate Bailey Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/coachnatebailey/ Nate Bailey LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachnatebailey/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick talks about the importance of delegation, and why effective use of this tool will enable you to save time and focus upon the tasks to which you are better suited. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  As you scale your business, it becomes critical that we say no to opportunities from time to time. As we grow, more people want a piece of you. Therefore, delegation becomes crucial. If you want to break through the ceiling towards where you want to go, you need to learn to delegate, and in turn, elevate yourself. Define the absolute maximum number of hours you wish to put into the business each week, and still remain balanced. We must seek to be better at the things we're strong in, and not spend time trying to get better at the things in which we're weak. Double down on your strengths, and delegate your weaknesses. BEST MOMENTS 'You have to understand the things that you do, and the things you're going to get others to do' 'Smart people say yes a lot. But really smart people say no' 'There are times when we reach elements of balance. But there are times when you have to go all in' 'Make sure you are 100% intentional with how you're spending your time' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks         ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to business accelerator, best-selling author and creator of 'The Generosity Culture', April Shprintz, about why the culture of generosity is so important to organisations, and how best to implement it within your workforce. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The generosity culture is centred around giving someone your time, your experience, your focus. It must be given without expectation. Some people have a natural desire to create an impact due to their innate desire to create positive change and impact. Many organisations have cultures driven by the sales team. Therefore, this is the best place to start when trying to implement a new thesis. A toxic or negative environment can sometimes be the result of a single person whose discontent spreads slowly and surely. Leaders must be aware of these counterintuitive forces which work against a positive culture. BEST MOMENTS 'How fast can we help people scale, by using those principles?' 'I want you to give something so much more valuable - your time' 'It's almost like farming, where you plant seeds without knowing what will pop up' 'Who you fire tends to matter more than who you hire'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks         April Shprintz LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilshprintz/ April Shprintz Twitter - https://twitter.com/AprilShprintz Driven outcomes – www.drivenoutcomes.com Standing O! Salute (Amazon) ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

To mark the incredible milestone of 150 episodes of Scale up Your Business, Nick has decided to present a specially-curated selection of some of the show's big-hitters - a retrospective featuring ten amazing moments from the episodes that Nick considers to be his personal favourites. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When we put everything we can into a task will exponentially increase the proceeds of that task. Remember that how we do anything is how you do everything. In times like these, when every moment is a challenge, the way in which we show up is more critical than ever. The lost art of sales is in talking to a buyer, and persuading them to want what you have without seeing the sales process happening. Scaling is all about data and mathematics. In every business, the leader and founder chooses the most important data point upon which to focus. We then produce the formula that gives the best result for that data point. BEST MOMENTS 'Marketing today is about getting your brand out there in as many channels as possible' 'If you want to become an entrepreneur, it is the best time in history to do that' 'Showing someone that you're an expert provides certainty' 'For me scaling is all math' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to author, growth specialist, and architect of The Revenue Growth Company, who have helped thousands of CEOs and business owners around the world to double and triple their sales and profits using existing resources. Kent discusses the importance of structure when it comes to building and designing a highly-profitable company, and the four phases that every business needs to go through when it comes to growth. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS People often want to become rich, but the concept itself has been hijacked. People now feel a sense of guilt for wanting to be wealthy, when this should not be the case. Generating wealth is the art of making money without spending money. It's about putting the tools and resources you have at hand to better use. Think about what you are doing for your people, and how you are making the world better. This is truly the legacy that will last, even when we're no longer around. Once we have a product, the temptation is to jump straight into sales and marketing. This turns the fledgling product into a spend, and not an investment. BEST MOMENTS 'There is no greater profit-shredder in a company than sales and marketing' 'In Texas we call them the "Thousand Dollar Millionaire"' 'Systems combined with the right people and the right seats is the stuff that's going to get you to where you want to be' 'You have to learn how to create wealth in your business. You have to learn how to make money without spending money' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        The Revenue Growth Company - https://revenuegrowthcompany.com/author/kent-billingsley/ Kent Billingsley Twitter - https://twitter.com/KentBillingsley Ken Billingsley LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kent-billingsley-6b02a7/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks you through Clubhouse, the social media sensation currently taking over the world, and how you can use it to positively impact your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The organic growth in Clubhouse right now is huge. It doesn't matter which area you're interested in, there are incredible opportunities to be had. In business the fundamentals you need to master are skill-set, the right mind-set, the ability to connect, and timing. Technology can never replace the face-to-face interaction of business, but it certainly isn't worse. In this world right now, the ability to connect and collaborate remotely is a gift. There are all kinds of niches and topics available for you to focus upon in Clubhouse, and communities are springing up constantly, featuring detailed, insightful conversations built around them all, and including some world-class experts. BEST MOMENTS 'Clubhouse is dominating things at the moment' 'Who you meet and collaborate with has a huge impact on what you create' 'These people may have been out of your reach. Now they're just a click away' 'Give value first, and ask for something later' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Chat With Titans is a brand new series from Scale Up Your Business, in which Nick interviews some of the most amazing and successful people in the world right now, focussing on those who are effecting lasting, positive change in the world. In the first episode, Nick talks to Gary Henderson, a digital marketing specialist, and one of the true innovators on the world's most exciting social media platform, Clubhouse. Gary talks to Nick about the ways in which he has engaged with such a large audience so swiftly, and some of the philosophies he adheres to. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When we accept a position, either in a company, or for a client, we are accepting a role. In this way, we become a role-player, and it is our responsibility to perform in that role to the best of our ability. Growing large audiences on social media is a great thing, but there is far more value in a more focussed audience, even if it is smaller. Mastermind solutions and events are an incredible way of growing and developing, but with the world we live in, there needs to be a better way of supplying and attending them. If modern methods of communication, including social media, are embraced and used effectively, the results can be exceptional. BEST MOMENTS 'I'm a role-player, and I knew my role' 'I was here to work - I was here to build my personal brand' 'I want to be around some pretty epic people' 'It's been exceptional in terms of the ability to connect' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        Gary Club - https://www.gary.club/ All The Way Up Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1495712728 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to Lance Graulich, the founder and CEO of ION Franchising, the industry-leading franchise consultancy and development group, about the ways in which you can turn your business into a franchise, and dynamically increase your reach and your wealth as a result, and how running a franchise may suit your business goals. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Franchises are an attractive opportunity for potential business owners, as many of the initial headaches have already been solved, such as branding and marketing. Franchising is the legal relationship that allows you to use a brand and name in order to generate wealth. In franchising, there has to be a reasonable level of control in how this relationship works. The ways in which we can add our own creativity is in the human side of the business - in improving service and how our staff show up. This can make all the difference, and is also what sets one franchise apart from another. A franchise owner is someone who wishes to own and operate a business, but who does not necessarily have the right skill-set or mind-set in order to found a business. In this way, anyone can operate a company. BEST MOMENTS 'The average person does not have a burning desire to create a business in particular' 'Where you can get creative is in the human resources side of things' 'Entrepreneurship is not just about start-up' 'Find the thing you love doing, and you'll never work a day in your life' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks        ION Franchising - https://ionfranchising.com Lance Graulich LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-g-68b304118/ Lance Graulich @ Inspired Insider - https://www.inspiredinsider.com/lance-graulich-interview/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick discusses innovation, and how to engender a culture that can grow, develop and maintain innovation in your organisation. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Many believe the thing they create at the outset of their business journey will be there forever. But this is not the case. You must embrace the fact that dynamic thinking and ideas can come from anywhere in your organisation. Always be open to listening to others. Look for multiple ways to solve problems and create solutions. Never believe that there is only just one way. Think creatively and allow collaboration. Marketing is all about experimentation. It's not about following a single path. It's about testing and trialling until you get the result, and once you get there, you double down on the things that work. BEST MOMENTS 'Make sure your culture allows people to solve and offer ideas' 'Ideas can come from anywhere in your organisation' 'You have to think about reframing the problem' 'You either kill it, you move forward, or you tweak it to get it to something that can work for you' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick meets DJ Irie, one of the most prolific DJs currently working in the world today, for a discussion centring around how to turn your passion into a business, and that business into an eventual empire. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS A burning desire to follow your passions all the way to the end is never an easy one. It requires risk and sacrifice, but the rewards are that much higher. Many give up on their dreams through fear, or because they think the road is too difficult. The key to success is to build self-belief. We need to focus on what is important - the reason why we strive to turn our passions into our life's pursuit. Money is never enough of a reason. Happiness is a far more determining factor. Every day presents a new opportunity for success. We never know what is coming or who is in our audience, so make sure you show up as your best self. BEST MOMENTS 'The detail matters' 'I was just a crazy, energetic kid that loved some music!' 'One of the biggest things was that I didn't care about the money' 'I'm not going to let anyone define me or put me in a box, because I know I'm worth more than that' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       DJ Irie - http://djirie.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks about the difficulties that some business owners face in terms of equalising the mind-set between employer and employee, and how you can best help your people to realise, and align with, your vision and goals. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Your people will, in general, view their role in your organisation as a job. This means they are less likely to want to take on risk, but it also means they fail to sometimes view the upside of what risk can produce. Many who join a small business are joining because they believe in the mission, and they want to be part of its success. Communicating your vision should also include an explanation of what that vision means for your team. Tell them what is in it for them. Honesty is key to gaining the trust required to invigorate your people. If things go well, tell people. If things aren't going well, have the courage to communicate that. BEST MOMENTS 'You've got to start putting things in place that will allow or foster that culture' 'You as a leader have to have a really strong vision' 'Be very open, honest, and vulnerable' 'You start to bring people in who understand that culture and awareness of what you're doing' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       Tony Robbins Disc Assessment - https://www.tonyrobbins.com/disc/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick talks to "The Millionaire's Coach", Sarah Fruehling, a specialist in working with the best out there on ways in which they can create meaning and purpose in their lives. Sarah joins Nick to discuss the importance of implementing these driving factors within everything we do, what it takes to become the success you dream of being, and the belief systems that can help you on the journey. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS How you think how you behave and how you show up, are the factors that provide impact in lives. Encouraging this belief system is the foundation of successful coaching. The best are the ones who are always evolving, changing, growing, and searching for more ways to become better. Improvement begins with self-awareness. The second phase is to understand why we act the way we do. Supplementing this with coaching adds inspiration to go further. Deciding upon who you wish to be, and affirming the place in the world you wish to occupy, is the first step towards determining the ways in which we show up. BEST MOMENTS  'It's not enough to just have insight or accountability. Bringing both together is where the magic happens' 'Coaching today is very future, forward-focussed' 'That insight - those "a-ha" moments - are about understanding' 'You use different techniques to bridge the gap - to provide the pathway' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       Sarah Fruehling LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fruehlingcoaching/ Fruehling Coaching - https://fruehlingcoaching.com Fruehling Coaching Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fruehlingcoaching/  ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

The way we begin our days can shape our daily outcomes. In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick talks you through the ways in which you can super-charge your power-hour routines, and set yourself on the road to daily success! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Making sure that we get our blood pumping as soon as possible can imbue us with a hit of energy that can take us through the most important part of the day. Take time each day show gratitude for the people in your life that make a positive experience for you. We can visualise this as a spiral. Take time to look back at the goals we have set, and how far along the road we are at that point. This realignment can help to prevent procrastination and serve to energise our resolve. Everything you need in order to succeed is within you right now. The faith, courage and commitment you require, are qualities you already possess BEST MOMENTS 'It gets my blood flowing - it makes me feel alive' 'Giving yourself the gift of gratitude in the morning is such a powerful thing' 'Fear is the thing that stops people from doing most of what they want to do in life' 'I had to find different strategies to create the platform for the life I wanted to build' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks       ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's show, Nick tackles the important topic of work/life balance, with special guest, Jeff Lopes. Jeff is a life coach and entrepreneur, who has helped countless clients to achieve the perfect balance between a successful business and a happy home life. In this insightful conversation, Jeff shares some of his greatest guidance on how you can achieve just the right equilibrium, and get the best out of both. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Many build their home schedule around their work life, but by reversing this, and planning business around family, we get the most from both worlds. By setting realistic goals and working hard to achieve them, we can inspire and motivate our children to instil that same work ethic in themselves as they grow and develop. Being a present parent is the most important role that we can fulfil in life. If we get the chance to take that role, then we must give our everything to make it a success. The time is limited. We have to break the fears our children have, and give them the will and courage to seize every opportunity. Lives are a series of lessons. First we learn, and then we teach. BEST MOMENTS  'I build my schedule around my children's schedule' 'I want them to understand that if they work their rear off, they're going to achieve those goals' 'I said you're not going to diagnose the future of my son. And that's where the journey started...' 'It's just about breaking that fear' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks      Jeff Lopes Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jefflopes/ Jeff Knows Inc - https://www.jeffknowsinc.com Jeffrey Lopes - https://www.jeffreylopes.com/1-on-1-coaching ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick has always been about helping your business to find ways in which to scale effectively. but some of the methods may be more far-reaching than many realise. In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick discusses the importance of keeping things running at their optimal performance, both personally and professionally, and how this can super-charge our scale-up plans. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS We can scale more quickly by ensuring that all the parts of the business, ourselves included, are running at their most efficient and nimble - at their optimal performance - and most importantly in unison. Success is not the endgame. It is the byproduct of aligning all intentions with absolute precision to achieve a number of actions. Focus on what you can affect. We must seek to reduce distractions and stop working on things we cannot truly control. You can achieve more by working on the things that matter. Routines allow us to perform tasks until they become second-nature. by doing this, we make the processes far more efficient. BEST MOMENTS 'You should always be looking to improve. You should always be looking to make incremental gains' 'There's a big difference between success and the achievement of success' 'You've got to have a rigorous intention around goal-setting' 'To create routines that drive optimal performance, you don't want anything clouding you' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks      ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

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! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ 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 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 we can do to make sure that the people in your organisation run towards change and embrace it and accelerate it' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks      ABOUT THE GUEST 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 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick tells you all about the productivity apps that supercharge his working day and allow him to get even more done. By assembling your rack of tech tools, you can achieve far more in the year ahead! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Taking too much time over choosing apps to dynamically improve your output, could well be a sign that you're simply procrastinating too much. Calendly is a marvellous way of organising your time, plus it integrates well with other apps, allowing you to create automatic workflows for scheduling and payments. Zoom has proved a miracle through the lockdown, allowing everyone to stay in touch, and also allowing businesses to operate with sometimes improved efficiency. Todoist is known as a digital action list. It allows tasks, actions and goals to be organised in terms of importance, plus integrates with calendars. BEST MOMENTS 'It doesn't matter when you start, so long as you get focussed' 'As a tool it's been incredible' 'It's a nice way to close the day, being grateful for everything that I have' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks      Calendly - https://calendly.com Zoom - https://zoom.us Todoist - https://todoist.com Calm - www.calm.com The Five Minute Journal - https://www.intelligentchange.com/products/the-five-minute-journal Blinkist - www.blinkist.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It's the first big interview of 2021, and what better way to kick things off for the year than by talking about energising your marketing to grow your reach! Nick talks to Rohan Sheth, the co-founder of GrowRev, and a man who's handled over $100 million in ad-spend for thousands of companies, resulting in over $600 Million in returns! There's no one better to tell you all you need to know about the power of advertising, and how to use it to ignite your commercial performance! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Ad-spend became a boom town of interest when the pandemic hit as marketers figured out the most effective ways to reach people who were far more connected online than usual. The effects of this connection are still being felt. Opportunities to market more effectively are out there, and more importantly, the techniques that have been created and refined through the pandemic have allowed for a far more successful and targeted reach. Many think that paid ads don't work. They do work. You just need to make sure they're finding the right consumer. You need to talk to the space between their ears instead of what you think they want. When you offer something of great value up front, people feel far more inclined to lean into the relationship and give something back to you. BEST MOMENTS  'It's the stuff that causes you pain that drives you to make the decisions' 'As soon as people got used to being at home, the spends went berserk...' 'The big thing is what do you have and what do you want to promote?' 'If you're not understanding the concept we're talking about tonight, then you need to listen!' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks      Rohan Sheth LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/therohansheth/?originalSubdomain=ca GrowRev - https://growrev.com/about-us/ rohan@growrev.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It's a new year with new possibilities ahead! Welcome along to Scale Up Your Business for the year ahead, and with a fresh start in mind, it's time for you to think about boosting those results and taking advantage of the opportunities ahead. In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick gives you some practical guidance that'll energise your spirit and supercharge your plans for 2021. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Goal-setting should not be restricted to the tail ends of any given year. Make it an ongoing practice that evolves as we evolve ourselves. We're all affected by the outcomes we've previously received. Results are feedback so keep an eye on what they are telling you and adjust accordingly. If you have strong goals, and you have the why behind the goals, you can get through anything if you take the action, driving you to accomplish. The only way we can decide where we need to be in the future, is to reflect upon where we are today. Take time out to consider and reflect. BEST MOMENTS 'What you know now and what you need to know absolutely affects your life and your goals' 'Seeking out knowledge, working with people who've been there and done that is going to be the catalyst to get me to where I want to be' 'Make sure the biggest pull on your life is not the past. It's the pull towards the future' 'Once you've set the goal, go out there and do something small that sets that pathway to you achieving it' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks     ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It's the end of one of the most tumultuous years in history, and a time to reflect on how life has changed for everyone during 2020. In this week's special edition of Scale Up Your Business, Nick takes the hot seat once more to offer his own thoughts on what this year has meant as well as the story of his own journey through time to the heights of success he enjoys today, interviewed by business accelerator, best-selling author and creator of The Generosity Culture, April Shprintz. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The greatest achievements have always come from the results of the guidance of others. It is important that those who enjoy success, take time out to help others to find their own success. This is the true role of the mentor. When we achieve success, we should take time out to recognise our achievement. If it comes quickly, it can encourage a sense of impostor syndrome. Others might declare this success undeserved, but this says more about them than it does about us. You never fundamentally change who you are when you're on your journey of life. You improve and become the best version of you that you can be. It takes work. How we create impact, and how we absorb impact, is all about mind-set. We bring positive and negative approaches and emotions to every situation. By embracing the positives we embrace opportunity. BEST MOMENTS  'There's a lot of things you can learn from other people's journeys' 'I started to question myself even though I'd put the work in' 'The hard part was making the decision and then building the foundations to allow me to do it' 'The moment someone leans into that - that's when I see lives change in humungous ways'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks     April Shprintz LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/aprilshprintz/ April Shprintz Twitter - https://twitter.com/AprilShprintz ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's festive edition of '15 Minutes To Action', Nick switches things up by focussing more on the family side of life, and discussing a book that's had a particularly positive effect upon his own home life in 2020, and which contains an insightful arrays of lessons that we can all take to heart. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Way Of The Warrior kid is a novel designed to teach young readers to be the best version of themselves that they can be, from an early age. You can do anything in life if you do the work. We often label ourselves as failures, when all we really need to do is apply ourselves and gain confidence in our abilities. Controlling your fears is an incredible skill to develop. We can never truly master our fears and shouldn't as they keep us hungry, but controlling them is essential for meaningful growth. Instilling standards in ourselves is the way to imprint levels of growth each day until it becomes second nature. Anything on top of this in terms of development is a bonus. BEST MOMENTS  'To be disciplined, to work hard, to face fears, to be strong and smart and healthy' 'Raising kids is more challenging than growing and scaling a business' 'The warrior kid wakes up early in the morning. The warrior kid studies to gain knowledge' 'When he stands up to bullies...'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks     ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Triple the insights this week, as Nick is joined by not one, but two guests, Roy Whitten and Scott Roy, co-founders of the Whitten & Roy Partnership, a sales consulting firm dedicated to transforming sales, management and leadership by prompting shifts in mindset, ability, and the power to change one’s own behaviour. Scott And Roy join the show their new book, 'Decision Intelligence Selling', and its underlying formula of Results = Attitude + Competence + Execution. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The general consensus seems to be that selling involves the dark art of simply talking someone else into buying something. This tends to be because most people spend their lives in a fear state, and see anyone intrusive as a threat in some way. Sales people seem to stop listening after they hear the first need of the client. It is imperative that we listen on to understand the subtext beneath, and to identify the real need. The definition of influence is not you trying to convince someone that they should do something. It's about convincing someone about what you believe in, and taking them along for the ride The art of selling has nothing to do with spreadsheets. True selling is a conversation. It's the process by which we create a narrative that people want to be a part of. Our task as a sales manager is not to create the right selling environment for our sales people. It's about turning those people into sellers who can travers any environment. BEST MOMENTS 'That's a hundred million dollar idea if you can execute it' 'The one question that fish never ask each other is "Where is the water?"' 'The key thing in transformative learning is that the good stuff is always simple' 'Attitude actually has dimension. You can see it and you know what to do with it' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks     Whitten & Roy Partnership - https://www.wrpartnership.com Scott Roy LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottaroy/ Roy Whitten LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/roywhitten/ Decision Intelligence Selling by Roy Whitten and Scott Roy (Amazon) ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Putting your time to its best use is all about leverage, and there's no better way of doing it than to employ the use of Virtual Assistants (VAs) in order to make the most of your life and your income. In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' show, Nick tells you all about how to make the best use of this incredible resource. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Leveraging the skills of other people gives you a super-power of sorts, and the costs aren't as prohibitive as you think. Remember that you are investing in making your output as streamlined and efficient as possible. Be really clear on why you need to hire a virtual assistant. Ascertain if this really will save you time and money. Think about the impact this will have on your business. Over the course of a week, take notes on the tasks you're doing, and how long they're taking you to complete. You may be surprised at how much of your time is taken up by tasks that can be easily handed off. There are parts of the world in which the costs of living are significantly lower than in the Western world. This means that you can find VAs at a much more affordable rate. BEST MOMENTS 'I adore systems and processes and the ability to be able to leverage certain tasks' 'Seeing the opportunities is massive. That's what you need to scale' 'Time is more valuable than money!' 'If you don't think you can afford a VA, then you're not thinking with enough resourcefulness' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks     Resource Worldwide - https://resourceworldwide.co.uk ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's very special show, Nick talks to the legendary Jay Abraham, the American business executive, conference speaker, and author. Jay is best known for his work in developing strategies for direct response marketing in the 1970s. In 2000, Forbes listed him as one of the top five executive coaches in the US. He is the founder and CEO of the Abraham Group, and widely considered to be one of the greatest marketing minds in history. As well as his incredible story and insights, Jay discusses the details of his latest innovation, Exponential Growth, a programme designed to compound different things together in order to create certainty around the result you hope to obtain. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Universal principles are just that. If they're truly universal then they only require modification in small ways, and infrequently. Tying our understanding to these core principles gives us strength. It is entirely possible to be "successfully stuck" by accepting a growth rate or profit level that may seem suitable for your industry, when in fact your efforts should produce a lot more when compared to the business world as a whole. Leadership is not singular. Everyone in the business is a leader or a follower in a very dynamic way. We are students or teachers all at once, even those in a higher place in the hierarchy. Business, scale and growth are a matter of geometry, but the great minds are the ones who realise that there is geometry on top of geometry. There are always levels that can be explored and exploited beneath the surface. BEST MOMENTS  'I became the one-eyed man in the land of the blind' 'You have the ability as an entrepreneur to work on the geometry of your business' 'You're constantly growing not just yourself but all your people' 'It gives you a better context of understanding the psyche and the workings of your target audience's mind' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks     Jay Abraham - https://www.abraham.com Jay Abraham Twitter - https://twitter.com/RealJayAbraham Jay Abraham LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayabrahamofficial/ Getting Everything You Can Out Of What You've Got by Jay Abraham (Amazon) ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks about the ways in which you can use referrals in a strategic way, in order to drive your business, grow your customer and client base, and build revenue. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Asking for referrals can seem awkward, and even needy, but you need to alter your mindset on this. If you're providing quality, then asking for referrals shouldn't seem like a reach. Be clear with your clients up front about the fact that you gain new business through referrals, and ask them to spread the word if the service you provide is making them happy. Deliver on your promises. You can't expect referrals if you don't do great work. Amaze and delight your customers by going beyond. Look for ways to rewards your customers for sending referrals to you. This can be as simple as taking time out to thank someone, or it might involve some form of share deal. BEST MOMENTS 'If you don't do this, then you're missing an opportunity' 'You're giving them the permission to share that with others' 'Think of it as an affirmation. You now need to do something amazing!' 'Don't be scared of this stuff'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks to Craig Lemasters, CEO of GXG, a management consultancy dedicated to solving traditional consulting’s execution problem by curating intentional, focused conversations with expert operators who share the advantage of their knowledge and experience. Craig's message is simple - to help senior leaders get unstuck on tough challenges. It's a problem affecting many businesses on the way to scale-up, and in this week's show, Craig gives you some practical advice on how to get unstuck! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Being "stuck" is the feeling of being overwhelmed and stressed, usually as a result of your businesses decline in growth. This leads to a lack of ideas and inspiration, which in turn leads to a plateau effect. Profitable growth has a remarkably healing effect upon any area of business that is in decline. Even conversation that tend toward the negative can be assuaged by the empowerment that comes through profitability. Those who begin businesses are usually reluctant to bring new people aboard for fear of diluting their original vision. But this is a sure-fire way to hit that plateau. We must surround ourselves with new people, new insights and new perspectives. We must have the humility to recognise that there are people out there who know more than we do. It is our responsibility as leaders to harness their knowledge and guidance, and learn. BEST MOMENTS 'Profitable growth tended to heal all the other things we argued about in companies' 'Scale up is the ability to spot talent and capability and build teams, and it's the ability to work with structure and process' 'Confidence is one of the missing words in the leadership formula' 'If you go back to the history of education, it's always been a wise person teaching a less wise person' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks   Craig Lemasters - https://craiglemasters.com Craig Lemasters LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/craig-lemasters-72507321/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' show, Nick talks you through the ways in which you can energise your speaking, and give a TedX-calibre presentation when you need to! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Facing your fears down is the first step in improving in areas that might seem terrifying. Speaking is an art, and it requires a leap of faith, followed by practice. Narratives engage us on a primal level. Since the beginning of time, man has communicated ideas through storytelling. It's a case of developing your own style and finding the story at the core of your message. You have a limited time to get any message across. Use that time wisely, concisely, and utilise emotional connection when you can. Make sure you're passionate about what you're talking about. If you find it valuable, then other people will pick up on that. BEST MOMENTS 'I was once terrible at speaking!' 'Because I faced my fear in that way, I ended up getting significantly better' 'You have to have an ability to tell a story' 'It's not really about being perfect. The best people who present are the ones who show the most passion'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Joining Nick on the show today is legendary entrepreneur, Martin Babinec, the man responsible for TriNet, about the concept of communities among businesses, and why and how sectors seem to come together in certain places in the world. Martin also discusses the importance of the role and responsibility that comes with doing well in business, and why it's crucial for those who lead to give back to the communities we create. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS An idea is never quite enough. We need to find the customer to whom that idea fits best. It's far better to appeal to a smaller base for whom your idea fits well, than to dilute that idea in the hopes of reaching more people. People assume that communities such as Silicon Valley are the best place to begin a start-up because of the money available there. In actual fact, start-ups do well there because of the culture. Leaders plant their flag in the sand, sometimes in unknown or untapped places. People follow these ideas and leaders, and the more that follow, the larger these communities become. This phenomenon is known as a "magnet city" All relationships, personal or business, begin with shared creative collision or referral by trusted source. When seeking to build a community, we must tap into these primal requirements. BEST MOMENTS  'I started to learn how to get relationships built that would lead me to those customers' 'Entrepreneurs who are successful give back to that next generation' 'They sit on the sidelines because they don't know how to help. They don't know how to plug in' 'Get the right people into the room' 'Culture is easier to influence in a smaller environment' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks   Martin Babinec - https://babinec.com Martin Babinec LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinbabinec/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week's edition of '15 Minutes To Action', Nick talks about the true meaning of private equity, and how it can help you recognise exactly what it is, and why it's important to understand it when it comes to your scale-up plans. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Private equity is a concept that sits within the financial landscape, known primarily as the private markets. It tends to be more complex than common banking. It is a form of financing where money is invested into a company in exchange for an ownership stake. Depending on where in the landscape your business operates, will depend on the private equity investment companies available to you. Each handles a specific sector. Instead of simply building a company and selling it, part of the strategy should be to make yourself known to reputable private equity firms. They key element in all areas of PE, is to ensure that there is growth potential. Whatever happens, the business must be undervalued in terms of what can happen when strategic growth and investment is applied. BEST MOMENTS 'Private equity in that whole world has been changing considerably with the onset of digital' 'The more you build your brand in that investment space, the more powerful it is when that time comes' 'Private equity is a key part of the end stage of scale-up' 'Have the intent to sell your business to private equity at some point' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

We often hear about the power of our network and the value it can bring, but how true really is this? It doesn't matter which stage of your business journey you're at right now, your network can help you, whether you're in start-up phase, scale-up, or exit mode. In this week's show, Nick talks to networking guru, and founder of Switch Events, Sid Vaidya, who explains the best ways to kick-start your business relationships, the importance of follow-up, why networking is a two-way street, and why your network really is your net worth in every stage of your business life. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Building the right types of connections is fundamental to the type of person you wish to become. With this in mind, the power of networking has never been more important. Your network shapes and defines your outcome. Networking is a skill-set that you must develop. A network is a conversation that provides value for each participant. It's not just about what you can get out of someone. Fine tune your introduction and how you present yourself to someone. Tailor your opening elevator pitch to the event or meeting that you're attending. Make yourself as relevant as possible in the least amount of time. Following up is a bespoke process. The most important thing is to secure the meeting. From then, we can ensure we're using a more preferred method of communication, but get that meeting set in stone and take it from there. BEST MOMENTS 'I know how to build good communities and good connections. At the end of the day, that's what networking is' 'Show me your friends and I'll show you your future' 'Take it to the next level. Talk to them about what their story is. Understand what their passions are' 'Following up is your way to making sure that person remembers you' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks Switch Events Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/switchevents1/ Network With Sid - https://www.networkwithsid.com Sid Vaidya LInkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sidvee/ C3 Chat Show Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c3-chat-show/id1476899388 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s edition of ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick talks through the sometimes mystifying subject of how to best buy and sell a business. it’s a question he’s asked often, and so in this show, Nick shares with you the six insights that have taken him to the top of his game over the past fifteen years. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS In the world of business acquisition there are currently two dynamics:  Business owners who have been successful over the past decades, but who are reluctant to commit to another period of having to provide strength and growth. Businesses who are looking at acquisition in a much more focussed and strategic way, and who see the value in quickly scaling through acquiring a client base. If you’re selling a business, you need to make sure your areas of due diligence are working well, and if you’re buying you need to make sure there are no skeletons in the closet that will decrease potential value. Make sure you use your data in a very powerful way. Consider systems and metrics early, as you’ll be surprised later on, by how difficult it is to work without it when you need it. Keep records, implement systems and keep on top of it. You must manage the way in which you influence and negotiate all the way through a sales process. It’s case of framing. Remember that a deal isn’t done until the agreements have been finalised. The really hard work comes in the validation process. BEST MOMENTS ’The world we know is not going to back to the way it was’ ‘Pace and scale are important’ ‘Have the discipline and the metrics lined up!’ ‘You’ve got to be strong. You’ve got to be able to stay true to what you’ve created'  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick revisits his Alma Mater, INSEAD, the world-renowned business school, in the company Dr Sameer Hasija, Professor of Technology and Operations Management at INSEAD, who joins the podcast to discuss his latest research, based upon the question of what happens to business models in the wake of new technologies, as well as the way in which the world itself is changing. At the heart of this discussion is an astounding new book, co-authored by Dr Hasija, entitled ‘The Phoenix Encounter Method’, a work dedicated to exploring the methods of leadership now required in the wake of global disruption. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  The phoenix principle is based upon the realisation that disruption happens, and we must seek to reinvent and resurrect when this occurs. Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain and robotics, are often used by firms in search of reinvention, giving them the edge of companies whose legacies are relatively siloed, or built upon processes that are not capable of leveraging these technologies. COVID threw up many sudden challenges, most notably in supply-and-demand. The ones who were able to conquer and thrive were the ones who had a nimble technology stack that allowed them to instantly partner with suppliers and logistics specialists. The core foundation of any scale-up ambitions are built upon effective processes. Robust structure is an essential component. But it is also crucial to recognise that once scale-up has been achieved, these frameworks can serve to stifle further growth. BEST MOMENTS  ’You have to imagine burning your business to the ground - throwing yourself into a firestorm of change’ ’Operations and technology are the core, the centre of execution’ ’COVID led to a huge shock in demand-and-supply’ ’Once you’ve scaled up, structure is going to be like shackles on you’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks   Dr Sameer Hasija Twitter - www.twitter.com/sameerhasija LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sameer-hasija-47936b5/ The Phoenix Encounter Method - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Phoenix-Encounter-Method-Lead-Business/dp/1264257635 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this high-energy episode, Nick talks about the massive amount of overwhelm he’s seeing out there. We all experience that feeling of losing control, of impending failure, which generally drives us to work harder and worry more. But as Nick explains, by using a simple technique, you can easily take back the control and dominate rather than suffocate. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Overwhelm is often created from fear. We feel we have too many things to do, each of them important, and that if we miss any kind of goal, we will have failed. This isn’t true. Take a step back and focus on three things. The brain has an uncanny ability to focus upon three things well. Step beyond three and we begin to lose clarity. For every ninety-day cadence, focus on the three results that matter most - the three results you’ll work on to attain. You must focus on the results and outcomes, not just tasks BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s not about doing more, it’s about doing less’ ’The base of success is this focus on three’ ‘It’s about what you say no to that’ll get you the best results’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In a new mini-series of more intimate discussions, Nick settles in for a “fireside chat” with Carey Ransom, the founder of OC4 Venture Studio, dedicated to investing in, and helping to develop, high-growth software companies. Nick and Carey discuss the importance of collaboration and involvement, how including everyone can supercharge your scale-up plans, how to start and build high-growth companies, and why venture capital is becoming more popular as an investment model. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Growth levers have traditionally been financial. However, as the landscape changes, the levers are turning more towards system improvements, or process-based. Investors are far more drawn to people than they are products. If we can offer better people as part of the vision, then it has the potential to create far greater early outcomes. Just because you have the ignition to launch a company or idea, doesn’t necessarily mean you’re the best person to take it forward. The great entrepreneurs are the ones who recognise the value in allowing a team to take an idea to the next level. Larger groups that sit upon vast resources and capital will have the wealth, but this monolithic bearing stifles innovation. Smaller groups retain more autonomy and can be much more agile. BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s about finding that need, that problem that a significant number of people have’ ‘Building great companies is a team sport’ ‘A person who is brilliant at starting a business is not necessarily the person who can take it to the next level’ ‘You can’t just sit in the middle any more. You’ve got to make a choice’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks Carey Ransom LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/careyransom/ Carey Ransom Twitter - https://twitter.com/ransomthoughts?lang=en Operate Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/operate-podcast/id1478775780 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It’s 15 Minutes To Action time again, and this time the focus is on markets. Many businesses stall in terms of growth and scale because they haven’t been specific enough about the market they choose to play in. With this thought in mind, Nick asks the question, where do you play? Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If your message is failing to land, if your story is not getting out there, then the strategy that will help you get there is “niching” - getting super-specific about the market you want to play in. You have to understand how promiscuous the market is. How close knit are the potential buyers in your chosen market? Will partnerships and referrals spur on your growth? If so, then the path to success is clear. Identify the problem you’re trying to solve and take a broader look at the market in which it exists. If your idea only has a limited lifespan, then consider if you’ll be able to make it worthwhile in the time you have. People don’t make big decisions when they’re not in any pain. If something can be put off, then people generally will. Ask yourself if what you’re selling is crucial to your customer in solving their problem and if it will save them that pain. BEST MOMENTS ‘You need to understand the dynamics of the market that you want to serve’ ’The more promiscuous the market is, the more it feels like a tribe, then the more success you’re going to have’ ‘You’ve got to look more broadly. I call it the 50,000ft view’ ‘If you’re not getting growth or traction, it’s more likely because you haven’t been intentional enough with your decision making' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks David Jenyns - https://www.davidjenyns.com Systemology - https://www.systemology.com/about/ David Jenyns LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jenyns/?originalSubdomain=au ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

 In this week’s show, Nick talks to fellow Aussie, and author of ’Systemology’, David Jenyns, about the importance of processes and systems in order to achieve scale and success. Through his incredible insights and experience, David has developed a system that helps you create time, reduce errors, and scale your profits with proven business systems, and he’s here this week to share the systems and processes with you. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Systems and processes are the key to freedom for anyone. By embracing the concept fully, we install the processes that allow us to express creativity and embrace the freedom to pursue other opportunities. Many talk about fear-related reason for not doing something or elevating in some way, but by simply committing, we force ourselves to achieve. We often find ourselves hitting roadblocks and wondering how to go around it in order to progress. We must instead learn to surmount it, conquer it, thereby increasing our resilience for further challenges. A system gives you a way to deliver something to a consistent standard and do so in the quickest and most efficient format. But we should always make allowances for the people we hire, who, ideally, will always be looking for ways to improve the systems. BEST MOMENTS  ‘If you want to create freedom, then it’s systems and process that are going to enable that’ ‘I fell in love with the result of what systems can give’ ’I just want to give the podcast episodes to someone and for them to turn it into something magical’ ‘I like to think of systems more as a guide, or a set of rules, or a structure' ‘Now is the best time in history to implement changes and systems’  VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks David Jenyns - https://www.davidjenyns.com Systemology - https://www.systemology.com/about/ David Jenyns LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-jenyns/?originalSubdomain=au ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Scaling and growing in business is not just about the practical things we do to develop our business. It’s also about the ways in which we develop ourselves. With this in mind, Nick offers a different episode today, a personal edition, and one that centres around loss, and the positives that we can take from the darker moments of life. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Loss is painful, but it also crystallises our focus. It amplifies the need for course correction and allows us the strength of will to follow that course. You can’t stop an event. It is what it is. But you can decide the way in which you react to these events. The quality of our lives are dictated by the quality of these decisions. People obsessed with their businesses often do not achieve the correct balance between that and their personal lives. There are times when this is permissible, but they must always be short periods. Look again at the values that started us. If you’ve been at the bottom, and you’ve hauled yourself out of it, then you know deep inside that already have the tools to do it again. BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s about who you are and who you become through that journey’ ‘I had to live a life much more aligned with my intentions, my values and my standards’ ’Are you settling for something mediocre? And if so, why are you doing that?’ ‘If you’re grateful for what you have then it’s the most amazing power you can have' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this very special show, Nick talks all things money with guest, Catherine Morgan, the host of the In Her Financial Shoes podcast, and multi-award winning financial coach and trainer. Nick and Catherine discuss the best ways in which we can juggle the delicate balance of money in our lives, where our relationships with money begin and how they are shape our financial aspirations, and how developing a healthy emotional relationship with money can in turn lead to more positive outcomes in not just business but life itself. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The focus in the financial services industry needs to recognise that it is about people, not products. We must empower people to recognise their worth, and to not be afraid to value themselves correctly. Entrepreneurs who begin businesses must take into account, from the beginning, the prospect of one day exiting through sale, or the prospect of how scale can be achieved. Exit strategies need to be inbuilt from the start. We form our relationships with money in childhood. It generally relates to some pivotal situation in which money has played a crucial role. The effects of this relationship last through life.  Our relationship with money uses our emotional side, rather than our logical side. Some see it as a form of comfort when life hits the rocks. Others find themselves influenced by the ways in which money was presented during youth. Many entrepreneurs are driven by a dearth of money in their youth. This has been the driving factor in much of their success, as they battle to build the wealth they never knew. BEST MOMENTS  ’The limit of where you can go is kind of untapped' ‘Often when we start businesses, we don’t think about selling it’ ’I was actually self-sabotaging my own financial success’ ’What impact did that have, and therefore what meaning did you attach to money?' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks The Money Panel - www.themoneypanel.co.uk In Her Financial Shoes - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/in-her-financial-shoes-podcast/id1449065629 Catherine Morgan LinkedIn - https://uk.linkedin.com/in/catherine-morgan?trk=people-guest_people_search-card ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

The key to building and scaling successfully is to structure your business around systems, processes and predictability, and one of the most valuable ones you can build is sales. How can you make sure you’re converting strangers to clients every time? In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick talks you through the importance of having a sales process, and how you can build one from scratch. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS A sales process are the steps you need in your business whereby you take a stranger and turn them into a customer. The more that you can iterate and improve it, the more revenue you’ll make. It has to be customer-centric. This isn’t about you. It’s about your target audience. What are their needs, and how best can you solve them? Being likeable and competent, and displaying your capacity for empathy, are the cornerstones of building trust and faith between you and your client.  Elegant closing is an art form. If you’ve done the work, put in the time, and built the rapport, as well as demonstrated how you can solve your customer’s problem, then closing becomes merely an invitation instead of a hard sell. BEST MOMENTS ‘One of the definitions of scale-up is how you build teams and bring processes into your business’ ‘It’s not about the people you have - it’s about the process’ ‘Lots of business gets done between people who like each other - it’s as simple as that’ ‘Closing is really about asking for the yes' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Take the Six Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard, to measure your current business performance and show you where to focus to get to where you want to be: https://scaleup.vip/sixpeaks ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode, Nick talks to Ryan Tansom, the president of Arkona, who help business owners and entrepreneurs increase the value of their business with the end in mind.  Ryan’s is a story of value creation, having turned around his family business, resulting in a sale that netted an eight-figure sum. Since then, Ryan has taken the lessons learned, and has helped other entrepreneurs to focus on long term value creation. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When it comes to sale, many businesses are hampered by not knowing how to articulate their requirements from the sale itself.  90%+ of entrepreneurs are solving for annual income. Truly understanding the value of a business allows you to shift your mind-set and see the potential value. The number one problem in the merger and acquisition marketplace, is financial education. Those who have grown a company have no idea how to best maximise when it comes to sale, or even of the metrics required. The five intentional growth principles are: Your drivers - What is important to you? Your financial targets - Annual income, outside net-worth, and net value of your company. Your exit options - Internal transfers, search funds, ESOPs, private equity, and strategic buyers. Grow value by creating a sustainable, predictable cash-flow machine. Hire the right team of advisers. BEST MOMENTS ‘You’re playing around with scarcity and certainty' ‘Corporate Finance isn’t even a word that most entrepreneurs know’ ‘It was like a lot of people building a puzzle, with all the pieces upside down’ ‘It’s not us teaching owners what to do - it’s teaching them how the game works' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  scaleup.vip/20leads   Ryan Tansom Twitter  Arkona - https://arkona.io/ryan-tansom Ryan Tansom LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryan-tansom-4a440710/ Intentional Growth Podcast - https://arkona.io/podcasts ABOUT THE HOSTNick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick talks you through five proven ways in which you can add value by growing your revenue and accelerating your profits by focusing on pricing and leveraging. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Growing your business and scaling it successfully is just as much about your mind-set as it is about your skill-set. It is about who you become as a leader. We often find ourselves suffering from impostor syndrome when it comes to clients, but a great way to grow is to play on a bigger pitch. Don’t be afraid to increase your price. If you’re pitching and getting a yes too quickly, then it’s likely that you’re far too cheap. Never undervalue yourself. It’s far easier to retain a client that’s happy, than it is find a new client. Look at the ways in which you can increase your client’s happiness, and make yourself invaluable. BEST MOMENTS ‘A lot of business growth is about who you become as the leader’ ’Sometimes we play too small’ ‘It’s the identity of who we are and how we show up that can really define how successful we are’ ‘You’ve got to get yourself into those rooms is you want to evolve and become the best that you can be' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  scaleup.vip/20leads   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this very special episode, Nick is joined by Matt Clark, founder of The Virtual Edge, and the architect of the ground-breaking “Rainmaker” system, for a masterclass discussion on generating leads using the power of LinkedIn, and the strategies you need to consider in order to scale your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Context and positioning are key. The mistake that people make is that they lack focus. By accurately targeting your ideal customer, your hit rate will increase. Connection messages should always lay out your intentions clearly. Tell new connections the reason for your interest, and be honest about what you can offer. We should always value our time above all things. Never undersell yourself, and remember that your time is worth something.  Conversion is driven mainly by the product-fit itself and the process involved. Leads are easy to obtain, but connections and conversions are entirely different. It is here where the value is found. BEST MOMENTS ‘LinkedIn is a platform that you must master’ ‘I got on there and I realised that I could virtually knock doors’ ‘We have a super-secret formula. It’s called “Ask them what they want and then give it to them”' ‘I’m a major believer in “process”' ‘Connections are not leads' VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  scaleup.vip/20leads   Matt Clark LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattclarksa/?originalSubdomain=za The Virtual Edge - https://thevirtualedge.com/about-us/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact. CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

 In this week’s 15 Minutes To Action, Nick covers the three things you need in order to achieve success in business, or indeed life, when it comes to any goal, and the practical ways in which you can implement them immediately!  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS You need to have a clear goal. The more unclear and ambiguous your goal is, the less likely you are to achieve it. A specific plan is crucial in order to achieve your goal. Be as precise as possible. The more detail you have, the easier it will be to stick to. Discipline will allow you to invest time the time, energy and effort into making your journey towards success possible. Success is never really about our education levels, or the experience we have. It is always about how we think about ourselves.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Clarity is a super power!’ ‘You need the discipline required to make that goal happen’ ‘Repetition leads to mastery’ ’Anyone who thinks that the adventure is something they’ve done themselves - they’re very misguided'   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.   CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Growing your social media reach is one of the most powerful ways to reach your audience, and increase sales! In this episode, Nick talks to Travis Huff, the founder of Real-Time Outsource, about the best way to get results through social media growth, how to wield this phenomenal tool to transform your own empire, and why storytelling should be at the core of your strategy. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Social algorithms reward consistency, variety of content, content that forces users to remain on the platform, and ultimately content that encourages engagement and motivation. Businesses today must not focus purely on one outreach program. They must embrace all disciplines, such as social channels and email, establishing reputation, and making sure they add value from the outset. Storytelling is incredibly powerful, and will help to draw in your audience. People love humour, and they love the sense of connection formed when you express your personality. New platforms have a greater potential in terms of turning your content into viral hits. This is because engagement relies on users, and not on advertising. When monetisation begins, engagement usually withers.   BEST MOMENTS  ’Take the phone out - start telling the story - beyond that, start being funny!' ‘People are holding on to their money right now - banks aren’t making money on late fees’ ’The more value you add, and the bigger the vision, then there is that return that comes from that’ ’Never give up folks! This is the time to step up'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Real-Time Outsource - https://www.realtimeoutsource.com/ourstoryTravis Huff LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/travishuff/Travis’s 30-Day Brand Tracking Offer can be found at www.realtimeoutsource.com/bereal The 6 Peaks Assessment ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.   CONTACT METHOD Work with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

There are two types of pain in life - the pain of discipline and pain of regret. In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, discipline is the focus, with Nick explaining why although we may find it hard to talk ourselves into better habits now, the rewards down the line will be far greater if we do. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Discipline is a short-term pain. Overcoming something difficult now is something we have to talk ourselves into. But it is far better to battle that reluctance now. You may not see the results of your business efforts right now, but it is the discipline that will keep you on that pathway. We should base our disciplines around clarity, goal-setting, managing your time effectively, courage and energy. Disciplining practices into our daily routines force those practices to become habits. Once they become habits, the need for discipline dissipates.   BEST MOMENTS   ‘Having mentors in life is absolutely one of the secrets of success’ ‘Discipline weighs ounces, while regret weighs tons’ ‘How you do anything in life is how you do everything in life’ ‘How disciplined you are makes the difference between someone who has high amounts of success versus people who don’t'   VALUABLE RESOURCES   Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  scaleup.vip/20leads     ABOUT THE HOSTNick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert.His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars.His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.CONTACT METHODWork with Nick: https://highvalueexit.comNick’s Facebook page: https://highvalueexit.com/fbNick’s LinkedIn: https://highvalueexit.com/liNick’s Instagram: https://highvalueexit.com/igSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick talks to Chris Gronkowski, a former professional athlete who’s made a huge impact in the world of business with the revolutionary Ice Shaker. As seen on ABC's Shark Tank, Ice Shaker has exploded in popularity. From a 1-bottle company to over 80 different SKU's, Ice Shaker has grown from $80,000 in sales before Shark Tank, to over $3,000,000 in less than a year after airing. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS  A work ethic is a vital component in teaching discipline, value and responsibility. By instilling this as early as possible, we maximise out potential for each day. Identifying a need is crucial in developing an idea to take to market. Focus on the needs around you and identify the gap in the market that isn’t serving those needs. Marketing is an art. Having a large audience isn’t a guarantee of business success. Reaching your customers is a process of research and applying data creatively to your marketing plans. Being a professional athlete requires determination and grit, achieved through a focussed mind-set. Business is the same. We must train ourselves in determination, building a determined mind-set that allows us to overcome the challenges ahead.   BEST MOMENTS ’Treat your coaches with respect. You never know when they will help you down the line’ ‘We were able to source a lot of the products that we already had, and the journey began...’ ‘At this point I knew I’d got ‘em!’ ’There’s a theme here about showing up when you need to show up'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Ice Shaker - https://www.iceshaker.com/pages/about-chris-and-the-gronkowski-brothersChris Gronkowski LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-gronkowski-053374124The 6 Peaks Assessment   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’ episode, Nick talks you through the process of getting your business ready for sale, and how to achieve “exit readiness”. It’s all about preparation, and in this show, Nick talks you through the best ways of maximising your company’s value along the way. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  If you want to achieve something amazing, then it’s always preceded by a period of preparation that can sometimes seem unexciting. But it’s absolutely necessary. Always keep your focus on maximising your business’s value. If the long term aim is to sell and exit, then write that into your DNA from the beginning. In the run up to selling your business, allow yourself a period of triage, during which you can optimise it for sale. Generally this period should last between six and eighteen months. Optimisation for sale should always leave a little breathing room for new investors to take it forward. There should always be some potential for development, that new hands can exploit.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Being focused and disciplined can sometimes be where the challenge is’ ‘Great businesses are focused on making sure each area is optimised’ ‘It’s crucial that you go through your business, looking at it through these lenses’ ‘Make your business remarkable, Make it stunning. Make it predictable. Make it look like it’s a well-run machine'   VALUABLE RESOURCES 6 Peaks of Value Creation Scorecard - https://scaleupyourbusiness.scoreapp.com/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick is joined by Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg, the co-authors of ‘Game Changer: How To Be 10x In The Talent Economy’, a work designed to help you "identify, attract, vet, employ, manage, and retain—or become—the game-changing talent that will make a difference in the work world of tomorrow”. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If you are determined enough to succeed and play the long game in any kind of business, then eventually things will lean into your favour, and allow you to be a force for good in your sector. It is not enough for a person to simply add value in terms of revenue. To truly integrate, they must also seek to align with a company’s values. 10x’ers always work best when they are not treated as a simple cog in the machinery. Leaders must strive to treat their organisations as human beings in order to generate the best from each person. There will always be a need for bureaucracy, but it must never impede progress or competitive advantage for an organisation. If this occurs, then the organisation runs in a detrimental way. We must streamline bureaucracy in order to put forth the right message and gain agility. BEST MOMENTS ’The art is in the execution' ‘When you want something done, you go to the busiest person in the room’ ‘Luck is the cross-section of opportunity and preparedness’ ’It’s really about a people-centric management policy as opposed to a “cover your ass” management policy' ‘Rent fast – hire slow!’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Michael Solomon - https://www.10xmanagement.com/michael-solomon/Rishon Blumberg - https://www.10xmanagement.com/aboutus/rishon-blumberg/Game Changer by Michael Solomon and Rishon Blumberg (Amazon) ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

 One of the most important factors in your success will be the voices that guide you through your journey. No matter what stage you’re at in business, you can always benefit from the wisdom of those who’ve trod the path before you. In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick pays tribute to the incredible people who have helped him to ascend to the top in business, and how they helped him get there. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When embarking upon our journey, we must crystallise our goals. Decide on the things we hope to achieve, and visualise the place we want to be. Physical health leads to mental wellbeing. If we improve our physical energy, then we can achieve more. Personal branding, social media and marketing are essential tools in building our business and our unique stamp on the world. Asking yourself the tough, probing questions can unlock new worlds of creativity. It unlocks the issues that hold us back and presents new solutions.   BEST MOMENTS ‘One of the biggest changes in my life was realising that I needed to surround myself with people who could help me get to where I wanted to get to’ ‘I’m not a self-made man. I got a lot of help’ ‘If you have more energy you can do more. You can be more’ ‘It’s the people you meet in these environments that can change everything'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Dent Global - https://www.dent.global/Daniel Priestley LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley/?originalSubdomain=ukCarl Allen LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamcarlallen/Rob Moore LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979/?originalSubdomain=ukRock Thomas LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/rockthomas/Rich Litvin - https://richlitvin.com/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week sees Nick in conversation with the incredible Steve Sims, a man who’s worked with the likes of Elon Musk, Andrea Bocelli and Elton John in turning dreams into a reality. Known as the “real life Wizard Of Oz”, Steve is a man who can turn the impossible into the possible. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Nothing is ever impossible. The greatest challenges come through being told that an aim is unachievable. The more extreme the task, the greater the sense of fulfilment.  Our ability to convince someone else to do something amazing is increased exponentially if we convince them that we believe in it. When we want something, we often ask for it using questions that can easily be shut down. Ask investigative, open questions that can influence the answer, and you’ll see far greater success. Before focusing time and resources on technological solutions, identify the solution itself, and then present yourself as the solution to the clients who need it. This is the path to a scalable model. Asking “why” can unlock a whole new pathway towards opportunities. Often the answer can throw up a different way of thinking, and whole new set of motivations and insights.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘My superpower is ignorance. I’ve never understood that anything isn’t possible’ ’People know when I walk into the room what I’m after!’ ’They always laugh at you before they applaud’ ‘I want people to have a great “I can” than an “IQ"'   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Bluefish - https://www.thebluefish.comSteve Sims - https://www.stevedsims.comBluefishing: The Art Of Making Things Happen – Steve Sims (Amazon)   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick talks to Chester Elton, author, speaker, founder of The Culture Works, and leading global expert on leadership, culture, and engaging your people. Chester joins Scale Up With Nick Bradley to talk about his book, ‘Leading With Gratitude’, and why gratitude in business is so important in effective leadership. If you’re struggling to build great teams and instil your culture, then this week’s show is a must-listen! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Travel, spending time in different cultures, and getting out of your comfort zone, grants you a series of life lessons and teaching that you simply can’t get from academia. When taking on a new responsibility or pursuit, the more you do it the better you get. You can’t expect to walk into a new skill. It’ll be hard at first, but stick with it. We are never too advanced in our field to stop receiving guidance from coaches or mentors. Even the top athletes in the world still retain the services of coaches in order to keep growing. You can’t be fearful and grateful at the same time. Focussing on the positives in our life not only eliminates fear but promotes a positive state and mindset, and encourages productivity. 99% of the world turning up in the hopes that they’ll do a good job, but mistakes will inevitably happen, and that’s okay.    BEST MOMENTS ‘You treat everybody well. You be good to everybody. Everybody’s having a tough day’ ‘Who are you grateful for that’s not at the table. Who are you grateful for who’s at the table, who hasn’t been thanked yet?’ ‘Your job is to wake up every day and make someone’s day a little better’ ‘Anything that you start, that you’ve never done, is difficult’ ‘We call it “little wins along the way"'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Chester Elton - https://www.chesterelton.com/welcomeChester Elton LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chesterelton/Leading With Gratitude (Amazon)www.leadingwithgratitudebook.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick is taking a deep dive into the world of venture capital with special guest, Brad Feld, one of the most prolific investors in the world, having marked himself out as an early stage investor since 1987 in such diverse businesses as Fitbit and Guitar Hero! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Brad’s investment strategy has always focused around two things: the people and the product. The product must be innovative and provide an affinity for investors, and the people behind it have to be put on this planet to work on this product. Creating an entrepreneurial company is about creating a constant series of experiments, many of which fail. When they fail you learn from them. When they succeed, you experiment further. Investors don’t need to strike the jackpot with their entire investment fund. Sometimes all it takes is a few companies that return meaningful economic returns, in order for the investment fund to be covered. The parts are not the important thing in any start-up community. The interaction between the parts are the crucial element. The dynamics between the parts cause new things to happen.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘I learned the difference between zero times your money and a hundred times your money’ ‘If you don’t care about the product, as an investor you can’t stay in there and do the work’ ’The way you learn how to fly is to throw yourself at the ground and miss’ ‘What happens at every step along the way feeds into what happens next'   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Foundry Group - https://foundrygroup.com/team/brad-feld/Brad Feld LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/bfeld/Feld Thoughts - https://feld.comBrad Feld Twitter - https://twitter.com/bfeldbrad@feld.comBooks by Brad Feld - https://feld.com/books-on-startups-entrepreneurship-and-venture-capital   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Beginning an entrepreneurial journey requires passion, hard work, and time, but too much can lead to rapid burnout. In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick shares some tips that’ll keep that crash at bay. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  It’s far better to concentrate on five, deep hours of flow, on the key areas that you wish to build on, than it is to spend an entire day on minor tasks. Focus on your “eulogy virtues”, Do you wish to be remembered as a workaholic, or do you want to be the person that made a difference. How will people think of you in the future, based on the you that you are now? Creating structure in your day is essential to beat overwhelm and overwork. Set time for work, and time for family and leisure in order to create balance. Don’t fall in love with every idea you have. Remember that depending on what your goal is, one idea or insight can change everything. Focus on the best ideas and execute with precision.   BEST MOMENTS ‘When you are scaling your business it’s about longevity’ ‘Five good deep hours of intense flow is the maximum you need to do in a day’ ‘Getting stuff out of your head first thing in the morning starts to give you clarity and focus’ ‘It’s better to go one mile deep and an inch wide'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business – scaleup.vip/podcast Join the free Scale Up Your Business community: scaleup.vip/community Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  scaleup.vip/20leads     ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Rob Moore, known to the world as The Disruptive Entrepreneur, could be said to have planted the seed that would one day become Scale Up Your Business. As well as being one of Nick’s mentors, he is known throughout the business world as one of the most successful disruptors out there, holding three world records for speaking, authoring several best-sellers, founding the UK’s largest property education business, and still finding time to own and manage over 750 properties with his business partner. It’s a mindset masterclass this week, for this very special 100th episode! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Life and business are a series of opportunities and decisions that can take our journey towards infinite possibilities. The ability to see the possibilities of each decision come from developing a growth mentality. Far too often we get hung up on investing in material possessions that do nothing to advance us. Investment in one’s self is the best investment we can make. When we begin, our desire for security and assets is understandable, and should be encouraged. But as we progress, we should always seek to lean towards growth and altruism. If we design our scaling ambitions to be much larger than we need, we are able to easily surpass the smaller checkpoints along the way. Disruption is a positive thing. Progress has always been made by the outside thinkers. Societies change and new orders have arisen repeatedly. It is the disruptive thinkers who lead the charge.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘If I don’t see the reason in something that’s happening, I’m not getting the lesson' ‘What you feed your mind - your thoughts become’ ’The investment in yourself is the best investment you can make’ ‘My vision and my mission needed to be much bigger than myself’ ‘When people listen to you, they should also honour your uniqueness'   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Rob Moore Foundation - https://robmoore.com/robmoorefoundation/Rob Moore LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979/?originalSubdomain=ukRob Moore - https://robmoore.com‘Money' and 'The Disruptive Entrepreneur' - https://robmoore.com/podcast/    ABOUT THE GUEST 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 Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

High performance sales coach, Mike Szczesniak, joins Nick this week to talk you through the ways in which you can dynamically energise your performance and productivity in order to scale your results faster! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS It’s the result that matters. Getting to that result in as swift and as painless a way as possible, and avoiding overwhelm along the way, should be the goal for everyone. It’s not about the amount of time we spend on a task. It’s about the task itself. We should spend our time on the tasks that matter, and stop worrying about the time we’re taking. 90% of results come from around 30% of the things we do. By identifying the key areas, we can trim down the list of tasks and greatly increase productivity. In business and in life, sometimes all we need is a brief shift in order to gain a whole new perspective. We can open this new view up by asking questions that challenge us. Clarity is the key to hitting your peak in productivity and performance. Clarity rids us of overwhelm and crystallises our goals.   BEST MOMENTS ’Doing things doesn’t matter if the things we’re doing don’t matter' ’The biggest lie everyone says is “I don’t have time”' ‘People try to get all the bells and whistles going when they don’t even have the chain on their bicycle’ ‘What am I not seeing?' VALUABLE RESOURCES Mike Szczesniak LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeszczesniak/Mike Szczesniak - https://www.mikeszczesniak.comMike Szczesniak - https://www.instagram.com/mikeszczesniak/?hl=enThe Results Engine - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-results-engine-podcast/id1490500905   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global Scale Up Your Business website: https://scaleup.vip/suybSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

You’ve built the business and you’ve got the leads. But how can you make sure that you’re nailing your sales conversions at a much higher rate? In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick talks you through eight actionable methods that will send your sales conversion rate skyward! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Make sure your team is made up people who are passionate as you are. You need people who know how to “show up”. Calibrate your offer. Test price. Test your offers. Test your terms. Iteration is key. Striking gold immediately is tough, and if you do, you can always make your offering better. Scarcity creates demand. Creating scarcity instantly gives your product an extra level of desirability. Don’t ever lie, but clearly stating that there is a cap to everything can create a psychological need for speed. Get better through sales training for your team, even if that means that you’re the only one being trained. Invest in making you and your team better through practice!   BEST MOMENTS ‘You drive for show and you putt for dough’ ‘Influence isn’t trying to get someone else to believe. It’s about convincing people that you believe’ ‘It’s not really failure, it’s simply learning’ ‘You get paid in public for the hours you put in, in practice'   VALUABLE RESOURCESPractice Room Online - https://practiceroomonline.com   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Philip Thomas is one of only a handful of people to have truly made a lasting impact upon the business journey of Nick himself, and in this very special episode, you’ll find out exactly why. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS There is no more powerful marketing tool than focusing in upon your ideal customer, and making them seem as attractive as possible to all other customers. This was the belief behind FHM, which marketed to 25 year-old men, and made all other men desirous of their status. Attraction comes through focus. By pinpointing your specific archetype, you increase not only awareness, but interest. So much of business is about relationships. If you have time to spend on any pursuit, it should always be in building the bridges and foundations that can take you higher. Zeroing in on our core values is crucial, as are the behaviours we adopt. But when we define our business strategy, we should not ignore it. It should be the lens through which we see each decision.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘If you’re in a market that’s floating up, it’s always a good place to be’ ’25 looks like a hell of a lot of fun!’ ’The more focused you are, the more you please everyone’ ‘We need to encapsulate in a sentence, our purpose. What is it that we as a company do?'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Philip Thomas LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/philip-thomas-127a541/?originalSubdomain=ukPhilip Thomas Twitter - https://twitter.com/philthomas?lang=enCannes Lion - https://www.canneslions.com/about/news/the-campaign-for-creativity   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

After start-up and then scale-up, what comes next? The level above these places is an empire; a concern that thrives and grows naturally, and which allows us to make a more meaningful impact on the world. In this week’s show, Nick talks you through the six peaks of value creation, one of the best ways of reaching this destination in your business life. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS An empire allows us to make a more significant and quantifiable impact upon the world. It usually stokes feelings of negativity, but this is misplaced. Vision and initial strategy are the fundamental elements of beginning an empire. Every great empire understands this implicitly. A crucial component in every empire is the consistent flow of recurring customers providing revenue. Empires are not built upon constant states of “market-to-sell” It’s vital to have a business that is metric-driven and insight-driven all the way through. This allows us to look for constant, achievable improvement and efficiency.   BEST MOMENTS ’The reason people scale their business is that they want to create freedom’ ‘You’ve got to have a clear vision of where you want to get to’ ’The eco-system is what can drive recurring revenue’ ‘If you break it down into small parts, you can actually see the cogs in the machine'   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Sebastian Bates, the founder of The Warrior Academy among others, talks to Nick about the ways in which you can face down the challenges being presented to us these days, and pivot rapidly towards a more online business model.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Sports and martial arts force us to focus our thinking and live in the moment. They allow us to channel our thoughts into a more macro approach and experience time and events more differently. The key to attracting an audience is not to apply guesswork, but to pinpoint the exact thing that people want, and then advertise that message clearly and effectively. The recent events in the world have shown all of us that multiple streams of income are essential in order to avoid pressure, and that cash really is king. Look closely at the problem you are trying to solve. Why are you doing what you’re doing? If we step back and take an outside perspective, it allows us to see where that solution fits in the world. Vital tasks are the ones that only the key person of influence in each business can perform. Functional tasks are the opposite; tasks that can be outsourced, and which keep the wheels turning.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You’ve got to really have a very strong, confident outlook with no hesitation, and make decisions very quickly’ ‘Ultimately, I committed to taking the business global’ ‘A goal is not something you work towards. It’s something you come from’ ‘We’ve got to help them think long term. They have to think “visionary”' ‘It’s fundamental that you find a way to push your personal brand'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Sebastian Bates LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-seb-bates-4b70412b?originalSubdomain=aePersonal website:http://www.sebastianbates.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Most of us never get to do the things we truly want to do in life because fear holds us back. This is especially damaging in business, where the results of this fear can be seen in many ways. But how can we turn powerful fear into power itself? Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Fear is our brain’s way of trying to keep us safe. It’s a perfectly natural physiological response, and in many ways can be helpful in terms of survival. But we must always recognise the places in which we must seek mastery of it. We can only ever influence the present and the future. Do not be influenced by events of the past, and concentrate on the things we can control. Seek to surround yourself with positive influence. Fear and negativity are everywhere in our society, and by osmosis, our association with it can grow our fears. We can use meta-conditioning to help us through hesitation. Count backwards from 5, and then just do whatever it is that has caused you to hesitate.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Repetition is the route to mastery’ ‘Gratitude is the antidote to fear’ ’The moment that you feel you are hesitating, it’s because fear has popped its head up’ ‘Fear does actually serve you, It’s when it becomes overwhelming that it doesn’t'   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It’s a duo of growth experts this week, as Nick talks to entrepreneur, speaker and business growth expert, Jay Allen, in a show dedicated to growing and scaling your business successfully! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS   All businesses can be categorised in five ways: The 1% - Those who disrupt and cause others to ride on their coattails The 4% - Those who are doing very well, but who haven’t quite systemised their way to the 1% The 15% - Those on a more standard, incremental growth trajectory The 60% - Those who plateau, stall and struggle The 20% - Those who fail, go bust and expire If you do not have the systems and processes first, as the foundations on which your business is built, then we are building on “wet sand”. We must have robust support beneath our feet from the outset. Too many businesses employ a “survive to fight” mindset, instead of a “fight to survive”. We must give full consideration to the impact on the bigger battle ahead, and focus on thriving, not just surviving. Focusing on our “why” is crucial, as our businesses should be seen as a resource. We must constantly reflect upon the effectiveness of what we do in business, compared to what we want from A good business plan is one that can be picked up by anyone, inside or outside of the business, and when read, cause that person to understand it and be inspired by it.   BEST MOMENTS   ‘Eighty percent of business owners clearly get it all wrong’ ‘It’s so much more important to step out of the business and reflect on “Am I still on course?”' ‘Fight to survive is “what do I need to do right here in order to guarantee my survival?”' ’Simplicity has to be the key to any good business plan’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Jay Allen - https://jayallen.uk Jay Allen LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayallen-mytruenorth/?originalSubdomain=uk Jay's AddAZero Audit- https://www.mytruenorth.biz/addazero_audit/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick looks at Verne Harnish’s book, ’Mastering The Rockefeller Habits’, a guide to increasing the value of your business by following steps that have proved successful for some of the world’s largest companies over the past hundred years. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Goals are essential, but without action they are insubstantial. A clear vision and the discipline to put routines into action, are the pathways to success. We need to have alignment at the highest levels in our business. Frequent meetings, active participation and constructive debate are the keystones to aligned management. Accountability is crucial. A Function Accountability Chart can help you to assign tasks, and to ensure that the right people are taking care of them at the right time.  Treat your reporting of customer data as importantly as you do your financial data. Frequent accurate analysis will give you greater insight into your direction.   BEST MOMENTS ’The core principles of success don’t really change’ ‘Goals without routines are wishes, and routines without goals are aimless’ ‘You can never communicate enough!’ ‘Core values need to become behaviours'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Mastering The Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Lisa Cumes is a freelance copywriter and StoryBrand Certified Guide, dedicated to helping business owners develop their own unique brand story, one of the most powerful tools in developing a narrative around the work you do. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS One of the smartest things we can do as business owners right now is to invest in marketing and product development. Those who have done so, have seen remarkable gains, even through the COVID lockdown. A growth mindset allows us to see the opportunities that may be in front of us at all times. A closed mindset is almost like turning our back on them. People often don’t follow the financial aspirations behind something. They follow the narrative. They follow the heart and soul of a project. They want to be part of the story. StoryBrand removes the noise, the confusion, and the overwhelm of copywriting, in terms of presenting a business to a customer. It is about concentrating the point and assuring your customer that you can solve their problem. The best idea isn’t always the clearest choice. The idea that can communicate itself in the simplest, most resonant way, will often be the winner. BEST MOMENTS ‘He got out of his head. He invested. And he’s got the result!’ ‘If one person voices it, then others are out there who need it!’ ‘Any component of success, going forward, requires a team’ ‘People need to be sold on the fact that you understand the problem that they are facing' VALUABLE RESOURCES Lisa Cumes LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacumes/ Simple Story Solutions - https://simplestorysolutions.com Lisa Cumes Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/lisacumes/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Paul Akers is an expert in the concept of Kaizen - the art of continuous improvement - and has since authored several works on the benefits of Lean Living, building a multi-million dollar business along the way. Paul joins Nick today to talk about how continuous improvement can strengthen and improve your life and business, how to nurture and develop culture, productivity, efficiency and much more! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Paul describes himself as a carpenter, as the concept of taking something raw and unrecognisable, and then transforming it into to something useful and beautiful, is one that can be applied to any pursuit; personal or business. Success isn’t always about money or growth. Sometimes it’s about achieving the thing you set out to do in the first place, and then honing that success into a purer form of quality. The formula for increasing efficiency is to recognise the many ways in which we can reduce waste and making incremental changes, using the teams at hand, so as to tighten and make lean, our systems and processes. Life as we live it each day, is really just a series of processes. All that Lean seeks to do is, is to look at any given process and refining away the waste. Consistent refining leads to a Lean life.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I’m just a curious carpenter - how do I fix this and how do I make it better?’ ‘I want a quality life. I want a quality company. And I want quality people’ ‘I figured out the formula, and then I started experiencing the benefit' ‘Lean believes that the greatest asset is people'   VALUABLE RESOURCES To learn about Paul’s incredible ‘2 Second Lean Play’ app go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxB-oAsNpFI&feature=youtu.be2 Second Lean Play iOS - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/2-second-lean-play/id15036949932 Second Lean Play Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leanplayPaul Akers LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulakers/Paul Akers - https://paulakers.netPaul Akers YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA694NgEo6Oh09gnNrZ02eg   ABOUT THE GUEST  Paul Akers is the founder and president of FastCap, a product development company specializing in woodworking tools and hardware for the professional builder. Paul’s intense curiosity on how things could be improved paved the way for him to become a prolific innovator and today he holds many US and International patents. FastCap launches approximately 20-30 innovative products per year and has won business of the year in 1999 and 2010. ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In order to make sure your marketing strategies are effective, you need to focus on who your ideal customer is.  Many entrepreneurs form their businesses around a product or idea, and then try to find the customer to fit. But as Nick explains in this week’s '15 Minutes To Action', it might be time to flip that thinking...   Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS A business founded upon a product-centric approach instantly fails to take into account the most important stakeholder: the customer. What are their needs?  If a brand an understand the archetypes of its ideal customer, and can align with their values, it can engender a sense of trust, whether consciously or unconsciously. Aim for an 80/20 split when it comes to marketing. 80% of your revenue should be coming from your core audience or archetype. The other 20% should come from another. We should appeal to our customer’s sense of risk, and attempt to solve problems that are high-stake. Identify the need that’s keeping your customer up at night.   BEST MOMENTS ‘We tend to align with things that align with us’ ‘Archetypes are the heartbeat of a brand’ ‘You need to understand that person or persona intimately, so that you understand their problems’ ’The more generalist you are, the more you don’t stand out'      VALUABLE RESOURCES Brand Archetypes at Medium - https://medium.com/ebaqdesign/brand-archetypes-the-ultimate-guide-with-48-examples-44b39eb41c8f   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Mike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco’s mission is to find out what you’re made of. It’s a mission he’s working towards each day by using the art of "people building", and by establishing himself as one of the great business leaders out there.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS The challenges we face in our formative years can give us the armour we need to battle through adversity in business, and in life. All obstacles are lessons. Conceptualise challenge as rocket fuel, a driving burst of energy to drive you upwards and forwards, instead of a detrimental occurrence. Change your perception and you change for the better. Sales are a form of leadership. We are using methodologies of leadership in order to “lead” our customers towards decisions.  Be as consistent as you can be. Even if you feel as though something isn’t working immediately, trust the process and see it through. It requires discipline and belief. Build your team out with people who you can help and develop, so that they can become the best version of themselves. Sometimes enthusiasm and willingness are far more important than experience.   BEST MOMENTS  ’People need to be built' ‘When you start being aware of that concept, it changes everything!’ ‘It’s your duty to be successful. Not just to pay your bills, but to help other people’ ‘I will help you grow - you just have to be willing’ ‘You’ve got to get out of obscurity'     VALUABLE RESOURCESMike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco YouTubeMike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco InstagramMike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco LinkedInMike “C-Roc” Ciorrocco ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s ‘15 Minutes To Action’ episode, Nick talks you through the best ways to find that initial burst of funding for your business that can set you off on the road to success.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Remember not to be afraid to use your own cash at the beginning instead of investor capital. By spending your own cash, the fate of your business remains in your own hands. If your idea is high-risk, and you’ve chosen to seek investment from friends or family, you need to consider how the fallout will look in the event that they lose their money. Taking on debt is not a bad thing, so long as you view it in the right way. Banks and traditional lenders should always be considered, as costs may be lower, and the guarantees may be greater. Grants are an invaluable way of boosting your cash reserves, so long as you are solving the problem that the grant has been designed for. Essentially, they provide free money that doesn’t need repaying.   BEST MOMENTS ‘One of the scarcest resources you’ve got is time’ ‘You get what you pitch for, and you’re always pitching’ ‘Entrepreneurship is not for the faint-hearted. It’s a roller-coaster journey’ ‘Money alone can’t always get a business running. Sometimes you need help’ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

David Cote is the business mastermind who took industrial giant Honeywell from a valuation of $20 billion to $120 billion during his tenure as CEO! David joins Nick today for a very special discussion about his incredible new book, the power of mind-set, how to maximise short term performance while still planning for the long term, and the challenges of managing complexity and stress. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS To advance in any business you need two things: performance and visibility. You have to do a great job, and you need to make sure it’s being recognised. Many believe that short-term or long-term are mutually exclusive. This thinking is fundamentally flawed, and can be subverted if we realign our perspective. The most important part of taking control of long-term and short-term goals simultaneously, is to capture the correct mind-set. Planning and promises are all part of strategy, but we should never promise something we can’t deliver. We inspire and motivate by showing up and keeping our word. We need to nurture a culture in our organisation that will encourage people to execute strategic decisions, but this begins with recognising the behaviours we wish to engender.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You have no idea how much good you did yourself by how you handled this thing’ ’Sometimes you have to take a risk in business and life’ ’Success is about accomplishing two seemingly conflicting things at the same time’ ’No matter what it is you’re trying to get done, mind-set is the fundamental thing that has to change’ ‘Value is one thing. Behaviour is how you do it'   VALUABLE RESOURCES WINNING NOW, WINNING LATER: How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing in the Long Term (Amazon): https://amzn.to/3fGqTEm   ABOUT THE GUESTDavid Cote is Executive Chairman of Vertiv Holdings Co, a global data center products and services provider. Previously, as CEO of the industrial giant Honeywell, he grew the company's market capitalization from around $20 billion to nearly $120 billion, delivering returns of 800 percent and beating the S&P by nearly two and a half times. He is the author of, WINNING NOW, WINNING LATER: How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing in the Long Term (HarperCollins Leadership, June 2020). https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmcote/ ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Many start-ups are keen to begin scaling up, but what’s the best way to make sure you business is ready to do so? In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’ episode, Nick talks you through the areas you need to look at in order to make sure your business is fit and ready for growth. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The fundamental elements to making sure your start-up is in a good position to scale, are systems and processes that can grow with you. Ensure you have as much automation in place as possible. These areas can include marketing, training, performance metrics, payroll and invoicing. Marketing cannot be overstated. No one can invest in your brand if they’re not aware of it. Outsource if needs be, but make sure you’re marketing effectively and perpetually. Bring in the right people and only the right people. Take the time to put the interests of the business first, and put aside personal feelings. Hire the people that you know will make your business better.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You can’t spend enough time making sure that you have the automation things in play’ ‘Word-of-mouth is not a scaleable solution’ ‘You want to be able to use this as a tool to sell your story’ ‘A business is only scaleable when it has the right people on board' ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

The number one question that Nick finds himself asked each day, is “How can I raise money?”, and “How can I increase the value of my business through investment?”.  Today’s guest is Tim Koller, a partner at McKinsey & Company and an expert on value creation and corporate strategy, who’s joined the show to discuss the all-important topic of valuation, and how you can put investment finance to the very best use, in order to see your business’s value soar.   Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Scale-up is certainly about leveraging finance and investment in order to be able to address more needs, to grow and to develop. But it’s also prudent to use your money wisely, and to make sure it’s being utilised effectively. What ultimately drives the cash-flow of a company is the combination of how fast it can grow its revenues, and what kind of return-on-capital it earns. The market is generally very smart about distinguishing companies based upon their performance. Those with faster growth prospects and higher returns on capital, will typically end up with higher multiples. In the current climate, businesses should be focussing upon ensuring that customers and suppliers are being well taken care of.  A good investor will always bet on the business, and not you as an individual. Selling yourself is useless if you don’t have the correct economics behind your idea.   BEST MOMENTS ‘What ultimately matters is how big it can get and how profitable it can be’ ’Do you bet on the jockey, or do you bet on the horse?’ ‘It’s the strength of the brand that drives the cashflow’ ‘An economy like this accelerates the decline of weaker businesses'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Tim Koller at McKinsey - https://www.mckinsey.com/our-people/tim-koller# Tim Koller LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/timkoller/ Valuation - by Tim Koller (Amazon) tim_koller@mckinsey.com   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

There are few scarier words in business than “plateau” which is generally associated with a lack of momentum and slow stagnation of progress. In this week’s 15 Minutes To Action, Nick provides a short, sharp shock of advice that can make sure that line keeps moving upwards!   Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Stagnation and plateauing are not signals that your business is in trouble. They’re completely normal. They generally mean that you need to reinvigorate, which is always a good idea. Take another look at the people you’re bringing in to your business. Make sure your hires are technically and emotionally Focus on what your strengths have been, and how they’ve gotten you to where you are now. Look at what gave you your ignition in the first place, and see if that proposition needs tuning. Look for adjacent markets. Your plateau may have been caused by the fact that you’ve solved your customers’ needs so well, that the problem no longer exists in that specific market. Begin to investigate other markets that may have issues you can address.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘I like things to be working like clockwork - like a precision instrument’ ‘Pit-stopping allows race cars to recalibrate' ’To get to where you’ve got to, your company has strength’ ’This is the best way to start pushing boundaries and getting things working'   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Sean Callaghy is an entrepreneur, a world-renowned speaker, philanthropist, one of America’s top trial attorneys, and the creator of various peak performance technologies. Remarkably, Sean has achieved all these things while being legally blind. Sean has joined Nick to talk about his incredible life, his endless resilience and strength of will, and his empowering life’s work; a system that Sean refers to as integrity-based human influence. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Control is about taking ownership of fear. But further than that, it is the way in which we dance with, and leverage that fear. We can empower ourselves greatly by distilling efficiency, and focusing upon the optimal use of one’s time in order to maximise impact. Humility has its place, but it’s also vital that we ensure people know who we are and what we’re about. If people aren’t aware of what you’re about, then how can they possibly become part of your story? Integrity-based human influence is based upon a four-step formula: The opening of listening and the creation of emotional rapport Connecting people to their pain and discovering their strategy for solving their relevant pain Qualifying a mission through relatable experience Agreement formation or closing   BEST MOMENTS ‘Personal development is just an extension of everything we do from the moment we’re born’ ‘I knew what it was like to impact lives by watching the coaches who impacted my life’ ‘It’s not just a label; it’s something I believe in very, very much’ ‘Influence has become about the unveiling of truth'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Sean Callaghy Website: http://unblindedmastery.com/Sean Callaghy Facebook: [Sean] https://www.facebook.com/seanrcallagySean Callaghy Facebook: [UNBLINDED] https://www.facebook.com/unblindedmastery/Sean Callaghy Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unblindedmastery/Sean Callaghy YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/SeanCallagyLawSean Callaghy LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unblinded/Sean Callaghy Blog: https://unblindedmastery.com/blog/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

During these times of unease and unrest, it’s vital that we display healthy leadership. In response to a question from the community this week, Nick discusses his approach to diversity in the workplace, and the importance of empathising with, and amplifying, the voices of those who must be heard at this crucial time in world history. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Those who wish to build empires, must embrace the fact that we can’t do it alone. It is incumbent upon us to make those people feel motivated and encouraged, no matter what their background. The world has changed forever. People have chosen this moment to draw a line in the sand. They are far more aware. The rest button has been pushed on society, and we need it to affect society in other positive ways. Though our standards and beliefs may be different, we must always allow ourselves to empathise and appreciate difference. We must not ignore what is happening. Now is the time to show up and demonstrate strength of will, by backing the causes we know to be right.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘I do have a voice, which means I need to have opinions on things when they hit’ ‘Growth comes from working together’ ’This is an opportunity as a leader, to step up and make change’ ‘Ask yourself the question - are you showing up as the leader you want to be?'     ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s Entrepreneur In Focus, Nick talks to Patrick Bet-David, the creator of Valuetainment, the world’s #1 YouTube channel for entrepreneurs! Patrick’s entrepreneurial journey is an incredible story, which began at the age of ten years old when he arrived in America, and has seen him overcome challenges and barriers ever since. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS The best of the best are those who do not disregard criticism, but store it, and then go out of their way to prove that person wrong. People have the right ideas in mind; it’s their sequencing that needs work. The best route is to always take care of yourself and your family first, and chase your dreams hard afterwards. People who clearly define their standards, beliefs and values, are the people who tend to achieve more, and who end up helping others more. There are businesses who will not survive the coronavirus economic catastrophe because of bad planning, or because they failed to pivot. There are also those who will not survive, because their business models are not valuable enough to attract the slim investment opportunities out there. Leaders, more than ever, need to have competency and empathy more than any other skills. We need to be able to inspire and understand.   BEST MOMENTS   ‘Competition can be scary, especially when you lose’ ‘I’m not stopping until I’ve made millions and no-one can tell me what to do’ ’Should I do what I love? Or should I do what makes me money?’ ‘Every business moving forward has to make sure they are pandemic-proof'    VALUABLE RESOURCES Patrick Bet-David Instagram: @patrickbetdavidPatrick Bet-David Twitter: @patrickbetdavidPatrick Bet-David Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PatrickBetDavid.Valuetainment/Patrick Bet-David YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/valuetainmentTo get your free chapter of Patrick’s new book go to yournextfivemoves.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

There’s no such thing as a one-size-fits-all formula for scale-up, but there are a series of systems and guidelines that can apply to any business in search of growth, that can act as a framework to accelerate your development planning. In this week’s ’15 Minutes To Action’, Nick talks you through his 3P3C framework for scaling any business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  You’ve got to be decisive, focussed, disciplined, consistent, and you have to be productive. Repetition is the key to mastery. Purpose is essential in giving you the goals and milestones that allow you to see the blueprint of your future success. Proposition is the “elevator pitch”; the sum of all your ideas that allow you to give your customer the ideal experience. Your product should allow your ideal customer to easily say yes. It is the means by where a potential client can “kick the tyres” and see if you are someone they really want to have a relationship with.   BEST MOMENTS ’Scale up requires you to work in a different way’ ‘If you’re going to kill the monster, kill it when it’s small, not big!’ ‘Culture eats strategy for breakfast’ ‘If you get these things right it makes everything so much easier, longer term’   VALUABLE RESOURCES To book your place on the special 3P3C Framework webinar on the 11th June 2020 at 20:00 BST go to www.suybacademy.com/how-to-grow-and-scale-your-business Scale Up Your Business - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scale-up-your-business-podcast/id1453523566 Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Dr. Bill Dorfman’s passion for dentistry has grown into one of the most prestigious cosmetic dental practices in the world. Known to millions as “The Michael Jordan” Of Cosmetic Dentistry, Dr. Dorfman has become a New York Times best-selling author and one of the only LA based Fellows in the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry. In this episode, Dr Dorfman joins Nick to discuss the value of having a good team when it comes to scale-up, why everyone should be inspired to copy genius, and why we should always give back when we can. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS As an entrepreneur, you feel as though you need to be the core of everything that happens. Your main job is to see to it that you have the best team possible, so that you don't have to be the core. It is not just acceptable to take the best ideas from those you wish to emulate. It’s necessary. The best of us will always copy genius. The best way to influence people is to create the direction of that education, so that it flows from their peers. Peer-driven instruction has proven to be far more effective. The most successful of us are those who understand the guiding principle of sharing wealth, knowledge and experience once we have achieved it.   BEST MOMENTS ‘When you get an opportunity, don’t just take it. Master it’ ‘Why reinvent mediocrity when you can copy genius?’ ‘Most dentists don’t know how to run a business!’ ‘I don’t create products. I create category-killers’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Dr Bill Dorfman - https://www.billdorfmandds.com Meet The Mentor Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/meet-the-mentor-with-dr-bill-dorfman/id1472953696 Dr Bill Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DrBillDorfman Dr Bill Twitter - https://twitter.com/DrBillDorfman Dr Bill Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/drbilldorfman/ The Leap Foundation - https://www.leapfoundation.com   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Toughness and resilience are attributes we all need right now, but many believe that they can only be attained through long periods of failure or setbacks. Nick’s here this week to smash that thinking, with a special insight into how he prepares for the physical trials of marathon running, and how you can take the empowering lessons he’s learned, in order to build up your resilience reserves today! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If you want to grow, and to become the best version of yourself that you can be, you need to set tasks or challenges for yourself that feel impossible. By allowing ourselves to see our goals long term, and by developing the ability to look as far ahead as possible, we come to realise that any current challenges are merely moments, and will pass. The best way to overcome a fear is to face that fear. The best way to grow is push through a barrier, because if you do, your strength and resolve will expand exponentially. Meditation helps us to experience the moment. It is the practice of tapping into the layers of our brain, our psychology, and our emotions, and being able to call upon those things when it matters.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘Living life on your own terms is the key’ ‘In life, everything is about growth and contribution’ ‘If you want to build resistance, you first have to change the narrative’ ‘You’ve got to feel the fear and do it anyway’      VALUABLE RESOURCES Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick’s special guest this week is JT McCormick, the CEO Of Scribe Media, ranked #1 in Top Company Culture In America by Entrepreneur Magazine! There’s no one in the world more qualified (officially) to tell you how, and why, you should be building a world-beating culture in your business today. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Challenges and barriers in early life were taken not as roadblocks, but as lessons that helped JT to grow stronger. Sometimes the things that beat us down make us more determined. JT has always led by three principles: People, processes, profits. Good people will swiftly enable the following two principles.  We need to be constantly questioning everything. Those who inquire, discover. There’s no such thing as a stupid question.  There’s no such thing as failure. You only fail when you stop trying. The goal is to learn, not-repeat, and grow from the mistakes.  Great companies are never built by one person. They are the cumulative product of the collaborative efforts of great people.   BEST MOMENTS ’That chaos has actually helped me in business’ ‘With great people we can build great processes and make great profits’ ‘I never want to be the smartest person in the room’ ‘You only fail if you stop trying’     VALUABLE RESOURCES JT McCormick LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtmccormick/ JT McCormick - https://jtmccormick.com Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s 15 Minutes To Action, Nick shares the seven things he’s currently implementing in his own businesses, in order to give himself, his employees, his customers and suppliers, the best opportunities for growth and scale once life begins to crank back into action in the coming weeks and months. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Stopping to think about every decision will give you a greater perspective on outcomes. We need to consider how different the world is going to be, and how each decision will play out in that world. Most people have now recognised the importance of having cash in the business. It has now become one of the most important and recognised factors in the failure of businesses. There are people out there who have gone through similar economic experiences before. Don’t be afraid to reach out and talk to those who know how to survive. It’s time to be brave. Test and trial the solutions, systems and processes that you’ve always wanted. You might find the next great growth accelerator. The more you can work on yourself right now, the more you’ll be enhancing what is sure to be a key part of how you lead, show up, and take action in the future.   BEST MOMENTS ’Things will slingshot back once people start to feel some confidence again’ ’Gratitude is the antidote to fear' ’The worst thing you can do is stay in your own head’ ’The quality of life is the quality of how you manage your decisions and emotions'     VALUABLE RESOURCES Save your spot on my FREE Business Growth Accelerator training hosted by Rock Thomas here:  https://buff.ly/2X9YEGr  Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

The fabulous ‘Entrepreneur In Focus’ series continues as I meet with Gaurav Sinha, author of ‘Compassion Inc - Unleashing The Power Of Empathy In Life And Business’. In this week’s show, Gaurav discusses his incredible journey, the importance of self-belief, and the philosophies that can help you achieve your scale-up goals ... in business and in life! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Always look for a great boss; never look for a great job. A true leader can help you to realise the shape of your journey at the outset. At the outset of any entrepreneurial journey, revenue is king. Hustle all you can to put food on the table and aim for the small wins that elevate you each time. You always need people in order to climb higher. The key to keeping those people is to create a culture of collaboration in a transactional world. Altruism in brands has become far too scarce. It’s not about profit, it’s about prosperity. It’s not about shareholder value, but working with holders of shared values. A great business requires three things: the idea, the operations, and the money. Simplicity is the key to long-term success and most importantly, happiness.   BEST MOMENTS ’The word “more” has been hijacked’ ’Stars don’t work for idiots. They work for other stars’ ‘Insatiable curiosity is part of my DNA’ ‘Momentum is more important than direction’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scale-up-your-business-podcast/id1453523566 Gaurav Sinha - http://gaurav-sinha.com Compassion Inc - Unleashing The Power Of Empathy In Life And Business Save your spot on my FREE Business Growth Accelerator training hosted by Rock Thomas here:  https://buff.ly/2X9YEGr  Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global       Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nothing can hamper your ability to take action more than procrastination, the enemy of productivity In this week’s special episode, Nick talks you through the ways in which you can stop stalling and start stepping up! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS   Procrastination is the force by which we are attracted to instant gratification, instead of our long-term goals. Instant gratification is more alluring to our present selves, as we can see the benefit immediately. By moving the future rewards closer to our present, we can better focus on, and achieve them. The best way to beat the feeling of procrastination is by starting the work itself. Even incremental acts can begin momentum that will drive us forward. Temptation bundling, or the act of linking an activity that takes work with one that gives us pleasure, can increase productivity and prevent procrastination.   BEST MOMENTS   ‘Present self has the ability to take action, but future self has the ability to set goals’ ‘You make your future consequences become your present consequences’ ’The problem is not doing the work, but starting the work’ ’The key to procrastination is consistency'   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It’s a return engagement for Kev Blackburn, the life success engineer who created a multi-million-pound arbitrage empire through Amazon! Kev is the perfect example of someone who took a dream and turned it into a reality, spurred on only by his willpower, and through setting effective goals. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Striking out on your own is scary, but it’s also a gift. Being in control of your own destiny is invaluable. The first step in going it alone is to work out what your ideal life looks like. Only by doing so can we see the path that takes us there. Systems and processes are the building blocks of every successful enterprise. By installing effective systems, we level-up its ability to run more autonomously. The journey of building a business requires a huge amount of sacrifice, and will ultimately impact your personal life. The best way of ensuring the damage remains minimal is to involve our loved ones whenever possible. The greatest thing about technology is that we can now reach those who need our help and our stories in order to empower them to persevere with their own dreams.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If anything’s going to give you a reason to control your destiny, then this is it’ ‘Buying and selling is simple, but so exciting!’ ‘I don’t like guessing and I don’t like gambling. It’s all about limiting risk’ ’The desire, the motivation and the energy; the only way we attain them is by recognising what’s important to you’ ‘You are creating your own story. The time to act is now'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Life Success Engineer - https://www.lifesuccessengineer.com   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick continues his ’15 Minutes To Action’ series with a look at the key principles behind a huge source of inspiration for his own thinking, ’The 12 Week Year’ by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, a book that advocates the theory that the annual planning model, adopted by many entrepreneurs, may well be flawed. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Quite often we follow the paths laid out before us by others without deviating onto far more positive, constructive and personal paths to success. By using the annual planning theory to map out our goals, we run the risk of growing complacent. We are granted the right to procrastinate. We all take hits from time to time. Setbacks occur at every level of business. What marks us out is the ability to remain on course in the face of these issues. Focus upon the task that will most dynamically move the needle forward over the next 90 days. This should be the area of your main attention   BEST MOMENTS ‘If we did the things we are capable of doing then we would literally astound ourselves’ ‘If you’re working to a 12 Week Year, then every day matters’ ‘You can meditate in the corner all you like, but it’s not going to make your business grow’   VALUABLE RESOURCES The 12 Week Year - by Brian Moran and Michael Lennington   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s show, Nick talks to Henry Kaminski Jr, otherwise known as “The Brand Doctor”, a specialist in helping the best-of-the-best to be even better! Henry is here to tell you all about his remarkable ascent to the top; a tale of resilience, entrepreneurial genius, serendipity, and most importantly, identity. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Early success came for Henry because he focused on the needs and wants of his customer base. In this case, speed was the essential factor is building his brand. As we mature in business, we come to realise that the best strategy is to slow down in order to speed up. Focus becomes fixed upon quality. Scale-up doesn’t mean growing the actual business. It’s all about growing, developing and scaling yourself up so that you can energise your business. It’s about creating the best version of you. The best mentors are ones who are in the place we wish to be. When we reach a certain level, we must endeavour to find the people who can take us further. Too often we devalue ourselves or our products due to a lack of self-belief or confidence. Discover your value and don’t ever be afraid of declaring it.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Challenges are opportunities if you see them in the right light’ ‘Give yourself that time to think!’ ‘It’s about the person you need to become in order to create an amazing business’ ’I have a beautiful life. I have a beautiful business. I have all the time in the world to watch my son grow up'   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Brand Doctor Podcast - https://uniquedesignz.net/the-brand-doctor-podcast/ Henry Kaminski Jr LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-kaminski-jr/ Refuse To Give Up   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

No-one knows more about how to ignite the entrepreneurial journey than this week’s guest, podcast legend, John Lee Dumas, the man who’s interviewed over 2,000 entrepreneurial legends, including Tony Robbins, Seth Godin and Tim Ferriss! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Being an entrepreneur is a rollercoaster of emotions. The great ones recognise the low moments as lessons that drive you forward. The best way of keeping the fire alive beneath your enthusiasm is to make sure you’re doing what you love. Success is achieved by lasering in on the things we really want, and not some vague monetary figure that we suppose will make us happy. Consistency, commitment and dedication are the components that have made the most difference to John’s success.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘I won a car on The Price Is Right!’ ‘I’m livin’ la vida loca, and I wouldn’t have it any other way’ ‘It’s about metrics. It’s about measurement. It’s about intention around that stuff’ ‘You can go a millions miles per hour in the wrong direction'   VALUABLE RESOURCES www.eofire.com Entrepreneur On Fire Podcast - https://www.eofire.com/podcast/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Despite the current situation, there’s never been a better time to think about investment. The world has to go back to normal sooner or later, so what will your business portfolio look like when it does? Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Entrepreneurs and investors are such separate entities, but their power is increased exponentially when they unite in the same cause. Narrow-mindedness is a barrier to innovation. If we cannot achieve a certain goal through lack of technology or knowledge, then grow, develop or acquire someone in order to achieve it. There’s a real sense of collaboration between management and investors right now, who recognise that effective synergy brings rich rewards to all involved. Leaders emerge in times of trouble. Those with the natural instinct to thrive and survive are beacons to those in need of direction. The world is changed forever. It’s up to the thinkers and innovators to make sure that the world is changed for the better.   BEST MOMENTS ’The more connected that entrepreneurs and investors are, the greater success those two entities will have’ ‘Don’t be afraid to get in the water and swim!’ ‘In situations like this you’ve got to step up. You have to think differently’ ’There’s nothing like a common enemy to build camaraderie’ ’Something like this forces you to do the things you should’ve been doing anyway'   VALUABLE RESOURCES @erg163 Dr Eric George LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-george-md/ ERG Enterprises - https://www.ergenterprises.net   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

There’s certainly an art to dealmaking. Some seem to have a natural instinct and gift for knowing how to turn a handshake into a fortune. That’s certainly the case for Nick’s special guest this week, Carl Allen, an investor and entrepreneur who’s made over 330 acquisitions in his career, worth a staggering $48 billion! Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Many businesses who want to sell aren’t necessarily doing it for financial reasons. Sometimes the preservation of legacies is of far more importance that figures in a bank account. The key to finding a worthy acquisition is to find a “distressed seller of a good business”, not the other way around, and then giving that seller a dignified exit. “Deal Heat” can occur when you have a single deal cooking at any one time. The more time you focus upon it, the more you want it to succeed, removing objective thinking. The best way to combat Deal Heat is to always make sure you have multiple deals operating. You can double your business revenue in a single day through careful acquisition. Merging a customer database to your own can expand your potential exponentially and instantly. Do your research into potential sellers before you start talking deals. A simple browse through social networks can give you an invaluable pathway into their trust and friendship, which makes negotiations a whole lot easier.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I needed something to feed my soul and to feed my brain’ ‘In a billion-dollar deal, it’s 90% financial engineering and 10% psychology. In a small deal, it’s the other way around’ ‘Always be a seller’ ‘You can double your business in a day, and 5X your worth just through one deal’ ‘If you want to buy a business, now is the best time!’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Carl Allen’s bonus - http://trainwithcarl.com/scaleup Carl Allen LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamcarlallen/ Special programme offer for SUYB listeners -  http://450spr3.com/click.track?CID=431654&AFID=462829 Dealmaker Wealth Society website - https://dealmakerwealthsociety.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global www.fielding.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In today's episode, Nick talks to a fellow podcaster and scale-up specialist, Gavin Preston (The Business Mastermind Podcast)! Yes, Gavin has been on SUYB before and both Gavin and Nick want to revist their previous discussion in light of the dramatic global changes since that episode dropped earlier this year. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Now is most certainly a time to be consuming positivity in any form. The news can be informative, but it is also sensationalised, and tends to adhere to an agenda. Instead of focusing on the end point to this, we should be marking our progress incrementally. Measure your journey through this in moments, days, weeks, and not as entire experience. The main risk to your business is not taking care of yourself, and running yourself into the ground. Taking care of ourselves will allow us the energy and clarity to add value at the right time. All bailouts and aid must be repaid eventually, so it is prudent to remain active, and to do our part to bolster business in this time. Be proactive, not complacent. The businesses coping best right now are the ones focussing upon their employees, upping their games in terms of customer service, and looking for the opportunities instead of dwelling on the negatives. BEST MOMENTS ’Slow down to speed up’ ‘Mindset is about giving yourself the presence, the clarity and the focus to know what to do, and then take action!’ ’This is now is about family, contribution and community’ ‘Our actions as employers, suppliers and leaders during this time will define us, and will be remembered’ ‘It doesn’t matter what your business model is, there’s another way of doing it'   VALUABLE RESOURCES 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 To contact Gavin about how he can help you and your business, email gavin@gavinpreston.com   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global ABOUT THE GUESTGavin Preston Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years.   CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston FacebookSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

When your future suddenly becomes uncertain, and the business plans you had for the year are suddenly thrown into disarray, then you’re faced with a choice. You can either hibernate and wait for the troubles to blow by, or you can look for the many opportunities out there. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS If we are feeling the need to take loans in order to see our businesses through, then we need to ensure we’re taking them for the right reasons. Are there underlying issues that will cause more cash-drain later? The businesses that are going to sail through this hardship will be the ones who innovate, pivot and most importantly, collaborate. Many businesses thrive on intentions, and plead honourable promises of philanthropy. But without solid foundations, structures, and the footing upon which to see these promises through, they eventually collapse and fail. Once you pinpoint the areas to work on in your business, Objective, Measurement, Evaluation and Nurture (OMEN) will be the pathway to helping you achieve it. Profit is more important than ever right now. Without profit, we do not have time to address immediate challenges.  People need leadership more than ever. Your team needs a light to show the way, but so to do your clients. Communicate more frequently, and keep it concise.    BEST MOMENTS ’The arrogance was building, along with the ignorance’ ’There ain’t no such thing as free money!’ ’Sales are the oxygen for business’ ‘We need to get in order to give’ ‘Entrepreneurship is a force for good' VALUABLE RESOURCES https://mikemichalowicz.com/ Fix This Next by Mike Michalowicz - https://mikemichalowicz.com/fix-this-next-book/ Mike Michalowicz - https://mikemichalowicz.com The Entrepreneurship Elevated Podcast - https://mikemichalowicz.com/podcast/ Mike Michalowicz Twitter - https://twitter.com/MikeMichalowicz Mike Michalowicz Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/MikeMichalowiczFanPage/ Mike Michalowicz Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/mikemichalowicz/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Jeff Fenster defines what it means to be a serial entrepreneur. Over the course of his entrepreneurial journey, he’s created and energised multiple business ventures in numerous diverse fields, from payroll to hospitality, and has achieved staggering success by sticking to his two core principles: to make friends and have fun. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Jeff began in law school, and aspired to be a sports agent, but the birth of his daughter, and the sudden realisation of the importance of family, caused him to pivot and re-evaluate his position. Jeff’s two principles are making friends and having fun. These are mantras he’s stuck to since the beginning of his journey, and they’ve allowed him to achieve a high level of client retention, and a wealth of quality referrals. Experience is the most overrated prerequisite to starting a company. An interesting statistic is that nine out of ten restaurants fail. Jeff chose to use this as proof that experience in an industry can still result in failure 90% of the time. The approach is simple: Jeff is highly skilled at business, and enters industries using his ‘making friends and having fun’ principles in order to surround himself with experts who want to get behind the vision. It’s a disruptive method, but has resulted in remarkable success. If you love what you do, and you’re passionate about it, then you’ll always find success eventually. Your passion will keep you coming back, and those who work hard will always get there. Whatever scale or stage that you’re at, it’s vital to recognise the position you need to take in the business. The person who starts a business isn’t necessarily the person who should scale it. Vertical integration is a concept that Jeff has embraced in all of his ventures. It is the method of adding value in order to make his client base happier, and hopefully induce them to invest more. The definition of scale-up is to build teams and build culture. The first step is to lose the ego. If you’re the best at something, then make sure you’re doing it. But have the grace to admit when someone can do the job better than you. Sometimes all we need is someone to vent our issues to. By the simple act of verbalising them, we can often see the solutions before us.  Mentors aren’t just useful on an advisory basis. They can often provide pathways and solutions through their own networks that are unavailable to us. Personal branding is key to letting your customers know the “why” over the “what”. If you’re the face of your venture, and if your values and core principles are visible, then people will find it easier to identify those values with your product.   BEST MOMENTS ‘My wife will call me a degenerate entrepreneur’ ‘I focused too much on my mission and not enough on my technology’ ‘Me not having experience is a benefit here’ ‘If I go in, I’m all in’ ‘I never want to take my eyes off the prize’ ‘I want to be the dumbest guy in the room’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Jeff Fenster LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jfenster/ Everbowl - http://www.everbowl.com Jeff Fenster Instagram - www.instagram.com/fensterjeff connect@jefffenster.com   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

With world events taking a sudden and drastic turn towards the uncertain, many business owners are justifiably anxious about their future. Despite the darkness of the moment, there are always opportunities to be had. It’s all about changing your mind-set, reflecting on the decisions we’ve made in the past, and powering through towards solutions that are definitely out there to be had. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When the world is turned upside down, and we find ourselves in difficulties, it might be because we haven’t anticipated the worst. If nothing else positive comes out of this, then it might make us understand that effective contingency planning should be an essential part of any business. Everyone will get through this. This is the most important thing to remember. This will pass. You will recover and the world will return to normal. If anything, we’ll be a little wiser. Cash is king- This is a time for reviewing budgets and adjusting cashflow. Make easy cuts everywhere, and focus on achieving clarity around your budgets. Reset your goals- Re-examine your goals and plans for the year ahead. Things like travel will be near to impossible, but instead of letting those plans linger and create a cloud of negativity, best to nip them in the bud now. It’s okay to pivot! It’s also okay to realise that the reality going forward might be different. Double down on yourroutine - Diet, exercise, reading, absorbing information and culture, meditation and even getting out there for a walk can help you to keep your day in shape, as well as your mental and physical wellbeing. Fill your calendar- Use your time creatively and productively. Take a step back from social media and the news, as it can turn any positives into negatives, and the world needs positives right now. Put some tasks and goals onto that calendar and get excited about achieving them! Practice gratitude- Focus on the good things you have: health, family and relationships. If you’re looking back at what you had, you can’t be present for the opportunities of today. What are the positives in this?- There’s always something positive about any situation. Perhaps it’s more time with your kids? Perhaps it’s giving you the opportunity to work on something you’ve been wanting to devote yourself to for year, but have never had the time? It’s okay to feel uncertain- Believe it or not, the power to remain in a state of uncertainty is a tool that allows the bravest of us to win. Be a leader- This is a time for leadership, whether it’s at work or in your home. People need strength, and someone to aspire to.  See things for how they really are- The future is bright. You need to plan for that. This is a blip. People will travel again, and go to events again. Perhaps this is the time you should be looking at business models that could supplement the world as it is now? Provide more value- Your clients need to see how valuable you can be. Look for the ways in which you can help, and which can add value to the people in your life.   BEST MOMENTS ’There are opportunities even when things are really, really challenging’ ‘I always say live to 50% of your means’ ‘What I am focussed on is helping people’ ’Expect the best but plan for the worst’ ‘Double down on the things that are going to give you value’ ‘Gratitude is the antidote to fear’   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Five-Minute Journal App - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/five-minute-journal/id1062945251 (iOS) - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.intelligentchange.fiveminutejournal&hl=en_GB (Android)   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

One of the main areas in Nick’s ‘Customer creation Playbook’ is the importance of leveraging social media, and how it can not only help you to develop your brand and message, but get it out there through the main social channels. It’s free marketing after all. But how can you make social media work to its full potential? Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS A brand is a promise of consistency. When planning your social media strategy, the most important thing is to be consistent and prolific. Companies used to spend a fortune on reaching their audiences. Now they can spend a fraction of the amount, and reach their ideal demographics with just a few clicks. The three main objections that Get Savvy come up against when it comes to businesses and social media strategies are: They don’t know what to do They don’t have the time to invest in finding out how to do it People are scared of it - Being judged or getting it wrong Flip yourperception- People wrongly imagine that everything, to the smallest degree, needs to be shared on social media. But it’s all about refining that output. Hone your message and build your content around that. A well-crafted headline is imperative, especially on channels such as LinkedIn. Make sure that people can tell what you do and who you are at a simple glance. Pick one platform and create your content around it, then you can re-purpose your content for other platforms. Make sure you have brand consistency, and that your content can be easily recognised across platforms. You don’t always need to be the expert. Make sure you’re contributing to a conversation, and people will notice you, and follow you. This is the Halo Effect. Routines and habits are very important for your consistency. If you tie your social media activity to a daily activity, it’ll embed the routine into your day. Warm up the algorithm - Remember that the platform wants you to be constantly interacting. You’ll be rewarded for a higher level of engagement. Post a few comments and likes, then post your own content. The platform will reward you for having been a regular user. Like your own posts - People hardly ever notice who is specifically liking posts, and bumping up your numbers at the outset will help to warm up the algorithm. Find the bravery to make your posts personal- Facebook Lives, voice recordings, and even selfies can add a new element of engagement to your content. People engage more with real people, so try to place yourself in the content when you can. Scars not scabs -It’s fine to share an experience in the hopes of helping someone who may be going through the same thing. Social media should never be used for pity, or validation after a bad experience. A huge mistake is to try and sell something through pity. BEST MOMENTS ‘You’ve got to create your message, and then get it out there’ ‘A brand is a promise of consistency’ ‘You’ll never see a McDonald’s advert that lists every ingredient on their menu’ ‘Don’t wait to be the expert at something - just contribute’ ‘Who doesn’t eat biscuits?’ ’The Holy Grail of marketing is a testimonial’ ‘Get yourself out there and get out of your own head' VALUABLE RESOURCES Get Savvy LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/get-savvy-club/ Anita Baldwin LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/anita-baldwin/?originalSubdomain=uk Anna Geary LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/getsavvyclub/?originalSubdomain=uk Get Savvy Facebook Group - https://www.facebook.com/getsavvyclub/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

A short episode but a powerful one focused on the 4 questions that can change your life. I learned these points from Jim Rohn who has been a huge inspiration to me from the start of my career. If you’re struggling in your business right now, I challenge you to spend some time seriously reflecting on these 4 questions… Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS   Scaling up your business is also about scaling up your life. You need to improve your life in order to improve your business, it’s as much about mind-set as it business. WHY? – Everyone’s why will be different. This is one of the most powerful questions you can ask someone because it gives them a purpose as to why they’re doing something. WHY NOT? – Ask yourself this too as it will tell you what’s holding you back, what problems you’re facing and how you can overcome them. WHY NOT YOU? – If you think about anyone successful why couldn’t that be you? The only thing stopping you is your thought process. Surround yourself by people who are going to be positive and help you, not people who make excuses as to why that couldn’t be them. WHY NOT NOW? – If there’s something that’s important to you then why not do it now? Focus on a small amount of things at once because he or she who chases 2 rabbit’s catches none. Most people don’t do stuff because they focus on too many things at once, the ‘busy bee’s’. We’ve all got the same amount of time as each-other to get things done so ask yourself whether the thing you’re wanting to do is important enough.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘You need a purpose for doing something’ ‘Every person who’s achieved something great has asked themselves “why not me?”’. ‘Focus is a superpower’   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km2nv9Rg3_U Jim Rohn's website link: https://www.jimrohn.com/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In today’s episode, Nick talks to Murf Murphy, the author of ’The Aloha Money Machine’, and a scale-up expert who’s been so successful, that he’s now achieved financial freedom. The Aloha Money Machine is a hugely empowering study in how to create a business that can be sold even if you have no intention of selling it when you’re starting out; a nine-step formula for creating a business money-making machine. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Business is the equaliser. It doesn’t matter how much money you have, or where you come from Business evens the playing field for everyone. The two things that kill a business are not having a solution to a real problem, and poor management of cash, and not having a good cash mentality. During his entrepreneurial journey, Murf learned three invaluable lessons: You need systems and processes in your business Time must be used in the best way possible Stabilising your income is imperative People don’t tend to see building a business as building an asset. They see it as a replacement job that will provide an income, and which will see them in an elevated position.  If you want to survive in business, you have to fight and keep fighting. Your business is your legacy, and your family’s legacy. You must fight for that legacy. In the start-up phase, your sole intention should be to make money. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t have an exit in sight. One day you will be exiting the business, but how? You need to know your exit from the start. Murf’s Nine Step formula for creating a business money-making machine is: Make money - focus on making your money make money Find your customers Craft your story Build the system Hire right - Fill your team with the right people Network Manage the system Highest and best use of time Financial freedom   BEST MOMENTS ‘If you’re the biggest person in the room, then you’re in the wrong room’ ‘You can learn a lot from failures’ ‘If he could do it with the same blood, then I could do it’ ’The customers are the people who write the cheques’ ‘If you want to survive, then you have to fight that shark’ ‘Money gives you choices’ ‘Gold can be found in your database’   VALUABLE RESOURCES/ Aloha Money Machine - https://www.alohamoneymachine.com The Aloha Money Machine on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/Aloha-Money-Machine-Creating-Money-Making/dp/194748088X   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode, Nick interviews a true superstar in the world of marketing. Neil Patel has been called a “genius” and the “mad scientist of marketing”. He’s a New York Times best-selling author, and one of the Wall Street Journal’s “top influencers on the web”, and one of of Forbes’ “Top Ten Marketeers Of Our Time”. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS When you’re starting out, you don’t always have the budgets to place paid ads, or even to attend conferences that you’re assured will help you along. But you can assert your brand for free. You can work to build your presence at every opportunity. As long as your purpose is true, and that your end goal is something you can work towards without expectation, then your brand will grow in the tailwind. Channels these days are crowded, and they know their worth. It costs money to build your brand through conventional channels. But the upside is that we have so many to choose from, and so many different ways in which to build. The brand is your biggest advantage. People will always follow the brands they know and trust. Therefore when you build your brand, it should be with the longterm in mind. It also needs to be the visible one that springs to mind when people think of your sector. Brand building begins and grows with: Creating content constantly - utilise video on platforms such as Facebook and Instagram. Repurpose when you can Go live, once a week, on all channels Create at least three blog posts per week that are educational Include data, stats, and cite your sources. Not only does this make you look like an expert, it begins new connections Push notifications - Use services like Subscribers.com to leverage push notifications in a professional way Collect emails - when people come to you, they can subscribe to every thing you do The rule of seven is where a customer sees or engages with you seven times or more. This interaction leaves a lasting impact on their relationship with you. More people are set to spend more money on branding than they ever have before. Some may have written off ads in the past, but Neil predicts that their reach, and subsequent revenues will only grow.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Marketing is one of the most crucial things to get right in your scale-up journey’ ‘You’ve never ever had so much access and so many ways of getting your message out there’ ‘Be patient - you always want to scale faster than you ever will’ ‘Marketing has turned into an omni-directional approach’ ‘People still buy Nike shoes because they’re Nike’ ‘Branding is what sets you apart’ ’The friction has been removed'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Neil Patel Digital - https://npdigital.com Neil Patel Twitter - https://twitter.com/neilpatel Subscribers.com    ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It’s a year since Scale Up Your Business began (can you believe it?), and to celebrate this very special anniversary, the microphone is being handed to a special host, Rob Williams, one of Nick’s closest colleagues, who will be interviewing Nick for a change. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Nick’s main reason for starting the Scale Up Your Business podcast was to give something back to the world, to help people. After 12 months, the feedback only gets more inspiring. LinkedIn and Facebook are the main channels that people use to get in touch with Nick. If you’re adding value to people then they will seek you out. When it comes to the “secret sauce” of podcasting, Nick gives three reasons for his success: The name of the podcast is incredibly important. Make it punchy. Call it what it is. Nick talks about mind-set, intention, and being clear about what you want to achieve. He then tells you how. Be authentic, but don’t be vulnerable. Achieving your vision can be helped along by finding the people you wish emulate, and associating with those people. As soon as Nick became curious, the answers began to present themselves. Call it serendipity or coincidence, but the laws of attraction do work. It’s as if your vibe becomes magnetic to the force you’re hoping to attract. Achieving and maintaining energy levels is about focussing on your “why”. Having a strong enough mission behind your actions is purpose enough to push yourself to do anything. Physiologically, Nick recommends intermittent fasting, regular exercise, healthy amounts of sleep and ensuring that the things you put into your body are balanced.   BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s really about trying to build a community’ ’The tables have been turned on you, bro’ ‘If you help enough people to get what they want in life, then you’ll get the things you need’ ’Scale Up is about perseverance and endurance’ ’The only thing they’re really stuck in is their head’ ’The purpose behind what I’m doing is greater than how I feel’ ‘Being grateful for what you have is the antidote to fear'   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

By setting her goals in stone, and by being consistent in her decision-making, Amira Alvarez turned tripled the income for her business, ’The Unstoppable Woman’, and by doing so created a high six-figure annual income for herself.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Amira’s initial goal was simply to make money doing something she loved. But as her journey progressed, her purpose took on extra focus, and became clearer and clearer. Amira's purpose is not set in stone. It is an ever-evolving element of her future. It is an iterative thing, and requires constant re-evaluation. Fear defines so many of society’s outcomes and expectations. We constantly look for the worst case scenario in any decision and use that to steer us towards a positive outcome.  What do you want? Where are you going? How do you get there? Which obstacle must you overcome along the way? We can’t achieve success in an instant, but we can often make the journey there a little speedier. You mustn’t let yourself off the hook. Hold yourself to the highest standards, and look for ways to climb. That’s how you get to the next level. "Magical thinking" doesn’t work. You can use your thought to visualise the thing you want, but you’ll never obtain it unless you do the work. After coming to the realisation that she was working too hard and not seeing the returns she wanted, Amira decided to try a different strategy. She obtained significant help, invested in mentorship, and turned her journey completely around. A stretch goal is a crazy goal that should be impossible. But by reaching for it, and by throwing everything she had at it, Amira aimed for a million-dollar turnover and achieved 700k.   BEST MOMENTS ’The way that you do one thing is the way you do everything’ ‘It can be an extraordinarily, delightful, amazing life’ ‘I wanted it all. I wanted to do what I wanted and make a living at it’ ‘Our directive in life is to grow’ ‘A goal is not something you strive towards, but something you come from’ ‘It always starts with opinion you have of yourself'  ‘Take your ego out of it. Getting help is so extraordinary’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Amira Alvarez - https://amiraalvarez.com Amira Alvarez LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/amiraalvarez/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

If you are in a business trying to grow and scale, some of the key principles in turnaround are applicable to you! When a business is in turnaround everyone is galvanised and focused and that same principle is a superpower for a business, in scale-up. The 2 critical components of a turnaround are cash and time management, listen in to hear how to get them into your business and the vital importance of being present and focused. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Business development Key customers – visit all your customers and reinforce your relationships. Bundle up sales to make them attractive and sell more. Lapsed (past) customers - Most small businesses are only serving around 10-20% of the customers they have acquired over the years they have been in business Going back to past customers and re-engaging can be a good way to quickly get business because there is already a relationship in place JV and affiliate partners -  You have value in your customer base and if you can partner with someone who has a product your customers will choose then you can quickly get money coming in. Promotion - You should use free or low-cost media vehicles to promote you, your personal brand and your business. social media is a quick way of getting your message out there. The more leads you have, the more conversations you can have that may lead to a sale. Costs The opportunities to outsource are huge and there are many ways to use the expertise and experience of freelancers with specialist skills to work towards the result you want. Delete all the costs that are not critical to the business and re-negotiate all contracts. Rent is a big cost in any context – Asking for a ‘rent holiday’ could save your business. Review your credit terms – the length of time you take to pay your suppliers, 30 days should be a minimum – it’s about time and cash. Cash strategies You may have excess inventory that could be sold or you can liquidate some debtors through offering a discount for paying in a very short time frame – it’s not about losing money it’s about getting cash into the business. grant funding – potentially free money because you fit the criteria of what a government wants to support,  but it takes some time to apply and secure this type of funding. Cash can be sourced from angel investors, family, friends and crowdfunding. Often HMRC will agree to deferment – because ultimately they want their money but you must agree on an repayment schedule. The cashflow forecast You need to be looking at this at least weekly. You have to understand exactly where your cash is going on a finite and intricate level and you need to know in advance if you have to take massive action to get yourself above the red line.   BEST MOMENTS ‘They are key customers because you have been able to solve a problem for them’ ‘Every business I go into I build some sort of referral program’ ‘The reason I feel confident and congruent in scaling up any business is because I’ve been through the pain of turnaround’   VALUABLE RESOURCES 90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website Nick Bradley LinkedIn   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode, Nick reprises his Entrepreneur In Focus series to talk to Jonathan Rivera, the man who has turned podcasting into an art-form by encouraging those with a message to hone their brand and get their message out there using his business, The Podcast Factory. Sharing stories using the mew technologies available helps us not just to grow own brands, but to help others, and to develop our businesses. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS It took Jonathan a long time to find his vocation. After trying several different careers, and several different ways of living, he finally conquered his failures, defied the advice he was receiving, and found his place in the world. The only true failure is if you don’t learn from it. Lessons come in all shapes and sizes. Look for the way to grow from any opportunity. In Jonathan’s opinion, the 99% of the least wealthy in the world are slowly conditioned to believe that they should not try to succeed as they will fail. Even in an educational environment, we are told to act in a certain way and develop in a certain way. The disruptors are the ones who break the programming and succeed despite the advice. Vigilance is the only way to guard against bad advice. Study the referrals and listen to what they say and look for congruency. Have they achieved success? Are they qualified to coach or mentor anyone? Everyone with a message needs a Personal Media Platform (PMP) so that they can “PMP” their message. There are many available including podcasting, video, writing. Find your way to magnify your message and plant your flag. Decide what scaling means for you. Does it mean growing the business? Does it mean increasing your revenue? Does it mean being able to lessen your personal workload? Doing your best is not enough. You need to show people that you do the best work. You need to market yourself, You owe it to yourself to get that message out there.  In order to grow, you need to shake things up once in a while. You need structure, routine and consistency, but make sure you temper all that with experimentation and step out of your comfort zone. That’s how you grow   BEST MOMENTS ’I think that it’s because of all my failures that I am here’ ’None of the programming worked’ ‘You only fail if you stop’ ‘A failure is feedback’ ‘People really need to PMP their message’ ‘I’m mounting a campaign and I need you on board!’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Jonathan Rivera LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/producerjonathan/ The Podcast Factory - https://thepodcastfactory.com Daddy’s Working Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/daddys-working-podcast/id1445708191   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Daniel Priestley is an expert on scale-up, start-up, and creating value on your entrepreneurial journey. The author of four books, including the incredible ‘Key Person Of Influence’, Daniel has joined Nick this week to talk about how to re-energise your scale-up plans when they stray into the “wilderness”. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS It used to be that larger companies were the best to work for in terms of culture and job satisfaction. But due to technological changes, people began to leave the corporate world and strike out on their own, as they could suddenly earn more money and have more fun as their own boss. The other large change in business is that larger companies have begun to get “entrepreneurial”. Through the use of data and technology, companies are able to pivot and adopt more of a bespoke, fluid approach to their culture. Technology has made it easier to disseminate the message of any business. By honing their craft, business owners are able to reach millions of people with a simple YouTube video or podcast episode. Mind-set in business is hugely important, but also hugely misunderstood. Purposeful moments in life, to be visionary, to feel uninhibited by challenges, and to see the bigger picture; all these things are pre-installed in the human brain, and we have all experienced the sensations involved. The act of harnessing them and learning how to “stay there" is the key to success. Start-Up is very much about creating a proof-of-concept in response to a need from the market. Scale-Up is recognising that your success needs to reach more people, and the subsequent process of making that happen. Having a small, highly-profitable per-person business is something to be enjoyed and savoured for a time. This period of success and innovation should never be discounted.  Everyone has a moment in their business life when they imagine that their endgame is to sell up and live an easier life. But equally, moments will follow in which the value and appeal of their business will be recognised, and the value becomes truly apparent. The goal should never be “bigger is better”. Sometimes the “elegant design” is the most important thing. Sometimes we fit into a certain size and shouldn’t try to get bigger. There is always a maximum.   BEST MOMENTS ’Smart, intelligent, dynamic people were getting more value in an entrepreneurial company then in a larger company’ ‘It’s like it’s never been harder and it’s never been easier’ ’They’re not worried about functionality. They’re worried about outcomes’ ‘Everything is pre-installed’ ‘If I’m only accountable to myself then I’m not really accountable to anyone’ ‘If you’re the most interesting person in the room, then you’re in the wrong room’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Dent Global - https://www.dent.global/ Daniel Priestley LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielpriestley/ Key person Of Influence by Daniel Priestley - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Key-Person-Influence-Revised-Five-Step/dp/178133109X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=LX8DTPJO1O1G&keywords=daniel+priestley&qid=1579095713&sprefix=daniel+prie%2Caps%2C147&sr=8-1   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

How does your business rank on the performance scorecard? In this special episode of The Scale Up Your Business Podcast, your host Nick Bradley shares with you the circle of seven business components circle of to help you start-up, scale-up and grow in 2020. If you’re looking to achieve success in 2020, this episode is for you. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS What is the difference between start-up and scale-up? It’s the ability to lead, lead yourself, lead other people, it's the ability to build a team. It's easy starting a business in a garage with you (and maybe another business partner) but when you start to get success and you start to get customers coming in; you're starting to get some validation of what your product and your business is about. Then it's about working with people scale that. The seven components circle of business or the circle of scale-up. Knowing where you are in your business, having that effective business map and when the world is changing so rapidly, you've got to have a vision. Have the vision, know where you're going and then when you work back from the vision; You're going to have the gap. If you haven't got a plan, you can't navigate any of the challenges that are coming ahead. You've got to have a map that you can adapt to a changing landscape. The next one is marketing. Are you constantly serving and adding value to your customers in a way that psychology is that it's without any expectations? This is because you want to sell your product and service; you want to provide a solution. The more that you show up and you serve, the more you help, the more that you build your brand around that, the more you're never going to have to worry about spending a heap of time and money on marketing because it'll all compound back. Bottom line, sales mastery through systems. Are you experiencing significant growth in your bottom line through the use of systems? If marketing is about making people want to do business with you, you get paid for sales. So you've got to create multiple channels to capture, convert and close sales. If your activity levels are strong, in other words, you're engaging, you're having conversations, you're managing people through a clear pipeline, the sales are going to fall through. You should have metrics around leads, appointments, proposals, and sales. Are you constantly and strategically innovating in the key areas of your business, so it's time to move now into a sort of proposition and product? So this is not necessarily just about technology, but it can be, it can be about your offers, it can be about your operations, it can be about the strategy. You could be throwing money out the window if you're not innovating and improving all the areas and the components of your business. Do you have raving fan customers and culture around this? It doesn't matter again, how big you are. It's an ideology, it's a philosophy, but the biggest mistake that companies make is that they fall in love with their business and all their products, and not with their clients or their customers. You need to know more about your ideal customer than anybody else, what they desire, fear, hope, aspire to be. The number one reason that start-ups fail is due to a lack of a need for their product or their service in the marketplace and the failure to meet the needs of potential clients. Are you tapping into the power of growth through optimization and maximization? Sometimes the biggest growth opportunities don't come from new initiatives, but rather from taking the existing core business that you have, the processes and executing them much more effectively than you are now. The way to think about this is a small incremental improvement made in just a few key areas of your business that can result in literally geometric growth to the business as a whole. One of the easiest ways to get leverage in this area is through technology, through automation, as much as it is also outsourcing the things that you don't critically need in the business. You’re looking at, how can I do this better? How can I do this easier? How can I do this more effectively? How can I do this more efficiently? Financial and legal analysis. As an entrepreneur, it's the thing that people get wrong the most. It all stems here particularly on the governance layer of your business. Do you know where your company is spending its money? It's easy to lose sight of the key measurements that can predict progress or demise. Being able to measure where your business is, where it's going, being able to see the blind spots that could get you into heaps of trouble are the factors that are paramount for any business. It's about understanding how the business is designed to generate cash for you to invest, ultimately, for you to be able to create value at some point, depending on what you want to do with your business. That's either going to line your pockets, it's going to take you closer to freedom, to wealth, living life on your terms, or it's going to allow you to exit the business and get investors or sell the business to investors. BEST MOMENTS ‘Do not build a five-year plan because the world's changing so much, when you're getting into planning, you can go up to three years because it kind of gives you something to work with' ‘It’s all about what your customers would say about you to other people’ ‘If you've got a great reputation, then you're going to have many, many more inbound inquiries’ ‘If you want a business that's scaling and one that's going to be sustainable in the future, you've got to improve its marketing strategies’ ‘Sales are the systems that are put in place that allow you to allow the conversion to happen, it's an expected outcome’ 'Strategy is the greatest determining factor in the success of any sort of Innovation Initiative' ‘Problems come first solutions come second’ ‘The second highest cause of business failure is due to cash flow’ ‘If you start to have some basic frameworks and basic foundations in place, then you're going to be able to be significantly more successful in what you're trying to achieve’ `It's always good just to have a few frameworks, something to be able to at least, measure where you are today so you know where you want to go’ ‘Be grateful, be brave, have faith and show up’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Nick’s Twitter Scale Up Your Business Podcast ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Welcome to 2020, and to a brand new series of Scale Up Your Business! After receiving a multitude of feedback about what you’d like to hear, Nick has decided to present an entirely new series surrounding the actual process of scaling your business, presented in an innovative and practical way; by actually allowing you, the listener, to sit in on a series of live business mentoring sessions between Nick and his clients. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Women are often far too busy taking care of everyone else to take care of themselves properly. This can lead to guilt, which can be hard to overcome. Sherry’s program includes ways to escape this feeling, while boosting confidence and physical wellbeing. Sherry’s business model is based around pillars of health, and provides online coaching, exercise sessions, counselling and guidance to those with a membership. Her focus now is on finding leads; approximately eight new signups per day. The price point has been crucial to the success of both the business and the results attained by clients. The more that people invest, the more that they want to succeed. It’s about less is more. It's about focus. Sometimes it’s not that people are not doing the right things in their business, it’s that they’re trying to do too much. Start with a vision, then be clear on what you can achieve in the next twelve months. Break these goals down into achievable sections, each with ninety-day periods. Each section needs a strategy, but it’s important not to have too many strategies at once, or this can lead to overwhelm. By providing a clear pathway through your services for clients, you can utilise the fan base to generate more leads. It’s all about the sequencing of how you introduce clients; it’s about providing that clear pathway through, and establishing your personal brand. It’s very important that people get to know you as the face the business. It’s also important to do your research and to tailor your mission statement and personal brand to the things that people want to hear about and experience. Your personal brand should be centred around the things you stand for. This will then allow you have multiple businesses that fit under the values and beliefs that you stand for. Nick uses Richard Branson as an example.    BEST MOMENTS ‘Your health is non-negotiable’ ‘Your body is a machine that works for you. It’s been there every single day of your life’ ‘A healthy mind exists in a healthy body’ ‘Your mission behind this stuff is massive, huge, powerful’ ’Strategies are simply choices’ ‘What does Sherry Thacker stand for?'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Sherry Thacker - https://www.sherrythacker.com   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

For this very special fiftieth edition of Scale Up Your Business, Nick has a treat for you. A very special guest, the founder of Reboot.io, bestselling author and coach, Jerry Colonna, whose approach to business, leadership and living in an impactful way, are lessons that we should all take to our hearts. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS You need to slow down to speed up. Learn to give yourself some time to reflect. If you do that, you’ll get to where you want to be much faster in business and in life. Jerry’s work with other people really focusses on the intersection between who they are and what they do. By analysing their fears, Jerry is able to provoke meaningful conversation about their goals and aspirations. Human struggles are real and universal. Challenges are primal and affect people in all walks of life. Suffering is common, and we do not discuss them enough, which leads to isolation. For those facing indecision or socialised indifference, Jerry recommends reaching out to people, and nourishing ourselves spiritually upon the works of others. Books are a spiritual companion at these times. Be grateful, even for the difficulties you have. Don’t simply reflect and show gratitude for the positive times. Be grateful for it all. Every moment, good or bad, created the person that you became. When we begin 2020, it’s worth pausing to ask how we are doing. Planning for the future is essential, but remember what the preceding year has done, and what it has brought us. How did 2019 affect us? A leader is someone who holds power and agency over themselves and others, or both, and effectively manages the programming and subroutines that exist within them, to minimise the negative implications of what they have carried since childhood. Everyone can be a leader, regardless of position.   BEST MOMENTS  ’Slow down to speed up. Learn to stand still’ ‘What we really do is smuggle in consciousness’ ‘Heartbreak leads to resiliency, which leads to equanimity’  ‘Your story is my story’ ‘A good book is a spiritual companion’ ‘How do you want to spend your minutes?’ ‘Everyone can be a leader'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Reboot - www.reboot.io Reboot: Leadership And The Art Of Growing Up - Jerry Colonna - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reboot-Leadership-Art-Growing-Up-ebook/dp/B0796SNDSK Jerry Colonna Twitter - https://twitter.com/@jerrycolonna ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Carlyle Jenkins began his career as a sports chiropractor working with Olympians and world champions and now helps business leaders on their journey to ultimate wellness. He combines cutting edge functional health science and ancestral principles to craft action plans that make a difference, taking the individual to ultimate wellness, helping leaders to do more and be more.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  When we begin to work with someone our mantra is ‘test, don’t guess’ we like to know exactly what the threatening inputs are for that person  When we have completed testing we can say exactly what an individual should be putting into their bodies.  Alignment  Every 24 cycle we have a rhythm that our body is trying to adhere too.  When we are in our sympathetic cycle our bodies are putting out energy and when the sun goes down our parasympathetic system has more influence and our bodies should be trying to recharge through sleep.  Nutrition  Dr Valter Longo has completed research showing that at a cellular level that you can trigger 3 key healing aspects of life through nutrition.  Fat instead of sugar as fuel - He has specifically looked at calorie restriction to trigger the use of fat instead of sugar for fuel, this is known as being fat adapted.  If a body is fat adapted and the substrate for energy is fat cancer cells can’t grow, it is sugar that feeds cancer cells and helps them grow.  Autophagy - a process where the body cleans out damaged cells.  If you take away some of the body’s fuel it will look for stuff it can use and will begin by reclaiming damaged, broken and dangerous cells. It’s a really important part of healing chronic disease.  Stem cells upregulating  - nutrition can be a way of stimulating stem cells to upregulate.    Meditation  This is the one thing that influences peoples mental and physical health. It’s a way to feel the body and to get in touch with it, the more attuned you are to your body the easier it is to recognise what it needs.  Connecting with the physical world is vital and however you meditate, make sure you incorporate it into your routine.  Keys to success  Alignment  Align what your physical body needs to do so that your long-term vision can be realised.  You need to have a physical vision to match your business vision.  Eating  Stop eating food, how much can you not eat and still perform? Pick one day of the week to start then build upon it.  When you have reached 5 consecutive days of fasting for 16 hours across the day then your body will begin to access its supply of fat.  Sleep  In the 24 hour cycle  the body uses its energy then replenishes it through sleep. The quality of sleep is affected by both alcohol and screen time. If you don’t get the recharge over-night you are programmed to seek carbohydrates when you wake and a vicious circle of sugar and carbohydrate consumption is triggered.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘You can’t argue with 66,000 generations’  ‘Being fat adapted is winning on multiple levels’  ‘We have this consistent drip of high energy manufactured foods; The fasting is just getting back to what we are designed to do’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  Prohab Performance website  Dr Valter Longo website  Carlyle Jenkins website    Resilience Test: https://indicator.prohabperformance.com/  Code: SUYB20   Offer: Complimentary call with me once test completed to talk health and resilience strategy for 2020.     ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

When you start your business do not begin with the exit in mind, start and grow a great business first and when you make the decision to sell your business start early and become more prolific and be prepared, understanding you are not going to be able to do it alone you need to surround yourself with good people.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  You have to be cautious and controlled when you are selling your business o you can navigate the timing so you can leverage the best opportunity for you.  You may have created something and it’s now time for someone take it to another place.  Where can you sell a business - look for business for sale websites, often a sale will come from someone you know, a competitor or a supplier looking to extend their value chain.  A broker has expertise in how you can position yourself and advertise your business  You must leverage social media – go out and tell the story of your business and state you are looking for investors then people will come and have a conversation.  Ensure you have NDA’s in place when you are communicating with potential buyers  Ask the right questions to make sure they are serious Why do they want your business what can they add?  It’s not about people showing you how much money they have up front.  If you have someone with the right strategic outlook there are ways of structuring a deal without money upfront.  Don’t close down any opportunities, the best deal could be the one structured in an unorthodox way rather than just a cash or money deal.  Create a detailed information memorandum – the quality of the IM created in a succinct way is one of the most important things to have in terms of selling your business.  It’s a mini strategy document and it can influence the psychology of the person looking to buy.  5 biggest mistakes when selling   Not planning ahead or waiting too long to sell  Not finding the right person to represent your business  Thinking you don’t have to promote or market yourself  Asking too much or too little for your business  Selling the business to the wrong person  When you start your business do not begin with the exit in mind, get focused, start and grow a great business first.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘I’m always looking for the 1+1 =3’  ‘Conversations can turn in ‘why don’t we buy your business’  ‘I’ve bought a few in my time and I’ve sold a few in my time’  ‘You are better off giving up a bit of margin to get the best price and get it done in the  most structured and most successful way’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business Podcast  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website     Are you looking for a community of like-minded people who will support your goals and level you up? M1 is a whole life leadership mastermind with proven results in increasing net worth and passive income, and improving relationships, health & lifestyle - so that you can live life on your terms. If you're a high-achieving individual, with big goals and no excuses, and you want a place to belong where you can go on epic adventures around the world, be surrounded by people who live life big, and you want the accountability to take massive action in your life, then check it out at the M1 Mastermind by visiting www.rockthomas.com.      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week we’re going into purpose and mission, areas that are crucial to any business in going above and beyond the financial gain aspect.  Entrepreneurs tend to strike out on their own because they want choice, freedom and financial independence, but if you’re thinking bigger, then the success you find will be far greater. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  There are four steps in being successful in business: Psychology Skill-set Strategy Systems After being financially decimated by the property crash, Gerald was forced to ask himself the important questions: what is it that he was called to do on this earth? What really lit him up? And how could he make money while living his purpose? The amount of money that you have, the relationships your experience, your physicality; all these things link back to your identity, or inner blueprint you have. You can’t outperform the mentality your brain is comfortable with. Gerald's work has been focussed on how to adjust this self-image, so that we can perform at a higher level. The transformational steps Gerald uses to enable a higher level of attainment: Awareness - Figure out what you’ve created and how. What are your limiting beliefs? Accountability - You cannot create change in your life if you experience life as a victim. Sovereignty - Taking ownership of your life. Action - taking control and aligning these factors to achieve a higher state of belief. Acceleration - Once you’re on the right path, accelerate your growth. A practice Gerald recommends is to find some space, take a moment and relax into the most powerless and weak version of yourself; depressed and overwhelmed. Remain in this state for a while.  Recognise that the way you feel physically at this moment is affecting your emotional state. Concentrate on how you are breathing. Examine your focus levels. What are the images and thoughts in your mind? What are the beliefs you currently have? These physiological traits are your personal recipe for depression and a lack of self-belief. By countering each of them, you can lift yourself from this state when you need to.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If you find purpose in what you’re doing, you tend to be more successful’ ‘I didn’t understand why I knew what to do, but I couldn’t get myself to do what I knew’ ’The thing I love most is the deep inner work of transformation’ ‘I’m always looking for more ways to upgrade my operating system’ ‘You can never outperform your self-image’ ‘You cannot be powerful if you believe at any level that are not responsible for your results’ ‘Our physiology leads our experience'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Gerald Rogers - https://geraldrogers.com mentoring@prosperitysummit.com legendaryseminar.com   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘If you are the most important person in the room then you are in the wrong room’   In this episode, Nick delivers a masterclass on building a network sharing how he did it and what he’s learnt.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  You’ve got to be able to get people around you in a true and authentic way a network makes a difference but you have to be strategic about it.  What is the purpose of your networking? - When you know this you can focus on networking and adding value.  Check your mindset and change your view  Instead of asking ‘what’s in it for me?’  Think ‘how can I help someone and what can I learn?’  A strong network can offer you support, challenge and  development  If you’ve helped someone they don’t mind helping you back.  You are building a trusted and trustworthy network, nothing else matters.    7 tips  Approach networking with a mindset of abundance – how can I help, what can I offer?  Be strategic in both the building and leveraging of your network – don’t ever make it transactional or manipulative.  When you are in a situation find a place of common interest, listen to people and be curious.  Ask for advice, people will want to share and you will get value.  Invest time in your network without expectation of immediate return.  My intent is that each person goes away with something that is useful to them  Make sure some of those in your network are outside of your organisation. You need to have people around you who are not like you.  Acknowledgement is important in growing your leadership impact. This is about you the leader, the more you are able to lead yourself the more wide-ranging and effective your network becomes.    BEST MOMENTS  ‘Take the time to be present at the event- you want to be the person who has less quantity and more quality interactions’  ‘At its core networking is simply a group of  people with interests in their own success and helping you achieve yours’  ‘Don’t be afraid to leverage your network, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t ask my network for help’    VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website     ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘If you are not deliberately building your connections nobody is going to know you’re out there or who you are’  Nick is joined by Anna Parker-Naples who is the host of the ‘Entrepreneurs Get Visible’ podcast and a multi-award-winning Hollywood voice actor.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/     KEY TAKEAWAYS  How can you deliberately connect with the right people to move to the next level?  The difference between a start-up and scale-up can often be the ability to work with people.  It’s about working with teams and external partners.  If you see someone for whom it is already a reality you can more easily see yourself there.  There is no risk in setting audacious goals so why not go out there and create something outstanding.  Even if you are creative you need to have an entrepreneurial head and I’m interested in helping people to get there.  My mission is about helping other people to become the best version of themselves and to do the same for myself.  When something presents to you and its already in your mind then you see the opportunities.  It’s about being very intentional about who you want to network with and be mentored by.  You must be open to meeting other people.  You have to be intentional about attending events where you can connect with the right people.  It’s about the human interactions that lead to relationships and to make them you have to be in the room.  You need to be getting out there, being an entrepreneur can be very lonely but to build your business you must get out there so people know about your business and what you are doing.  You have to get visible over time and people are going to remember you. Maybe you can be a connection for someone else.  If you are not deliberately building your connections nobody is going to know you’re out there or who you are.    BEST MOMENTS  ‘You have to first create the vision, for me, it’s the next 20 years’  ‘My epiphany was realising that I had lost my way for 20 years  following what I thought was  the right path being in corporate  but really I had been repressing who I was really was’  ‘You can’t be unauthentic my mindset is - I’m going to meet new people who may be able to help me and I may be able to help them’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  Entrepreneurs Get Visible podcast     ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick Bradley and Gavin Preston of the ‘The Business Mastermind’ 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.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ 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  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  ABOUT THE GUEST Gavin Preston  Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and    CONTACT METHOD  Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘I like to create successful businesses and creating successful businesses doesn’t actually mean being all over the place. It’s about balance, those who are the most successful are those who have balance overall’ Nick explains the vital role slowing down to speed up has in ensuring there is a balance in your business. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS VUCA -  a way of thinking about the world Volatility - the rate of change Uncertainty being unclear about the present Complexity -  multiple key decision factors at any one time Ambiguity - lack of clarity about the meaning of an event The Newtonian world view – where business leaders strive for control and structure. Engagement in a quick discussion and moving in a controlled and quick way from A to B in a straight-line fits in the Newtonian world. The quantum world view expresses that everything is connected. It’s an acceptance that there are challenges, they are complex and recognises the need to pace the speed of work, sometimes slowing down for deeper dialogue to understand challenges, along with increased speed in other areas. If your business is feeling chaotic, you can take the quantum view accepting the challenges you have and that they will get more complex. By pacing your work and trusting that solutions are available you can be present with intention and focus. If you are doing to-do lists but it’s not moving the big priorities forward then the business is not going to get to where you want it to be By slowing down being more intentional, more focused you are going to do the things that will have an impact on your business much more quickly.   BEST MOMENTS ‘To lead teams and be really effective and inspiring you need to be able to be present, you need to be an effective leader of yourself before you can effectively lead others’ ‘I have a very clear vision about where I want to go,  a north star, that guides me then it’s all about goals and the steps to achieve those’ ‘If you are planning don’t have too many priorities, have 3 to5 priorities at any one time and get really focused so there is no possible way they are not going to  happen’   VALUABLE RESOURCES 90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website The Prosperous Coach book by Rich Litvin & Steve Chandler The Surrender Experiment book by Michael A Singer The Road Less Stupid book by Keith Cunningham   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

What Does it Take to be a Great CEO? ‘As the CEO your time should be focused on making sure the machine runs smoothly and putting people in the right places’  Nick shares what it takes to be a great CEO and discusses whether you can learn how to do it in this absorbing episode.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Being a CEO is first and foremost about leadership how you lead others, how you influence and congruency in who you are.  Being a CEO is lonely - Whatever the size of the business it is lonely -  you are in a league of your own but you serve many masters  If you on a board you are part of a team and drive a piece of the strategy but as CEO that strategy good or bad you own and everyone in the team is looking for you to execute the strategy and own the outcome.  You have to be thick-skinned - You’ve got to be ready for judgements which are sometimes founded and sometimes unfounded. You are responsible for the people in the business and externally to customers and investors.  If you have fragility and you don’t like criticism or conflict then being a great CEO will be challenging because criticism and conflict are part of the role.  Surrounding yourself with other people who have skills, attributes and experiences that you don’t yet have is key.  Nothing is more important than putting the right people in the right place at the right time - Whatever the business model you’ve got to be able to relate and to lead and manage people. You need to be able to identify skills in others that will allow you to get to where you want to be faster.  There is a fine line between compassion and doing what’s right for the company  Being the roadshow - For many companies, the CEO is the face of the company, the roadshow. The CEO needs the ability to connect, to be authentic and real. Being the roadshow is about people buying into you.  Being the roadshow is about being able to share the strategy and story multiple times so that as you inspire and connect everyone inside the business is following suit.  Your values ultimately determine your value - The values and standards of the CEO set the culture of the business.  You must share what’s important to you, your values through the vision. You align the vision, values and standards to the results and outcomes you are trying to achieve.  Remember to have fun - Whether you are the CEO of a big company or a start-up, you’ve worked hard to be in the position and need to enjoy it.  You are creating something and opening the door to new opportunities and that’s massively exciting.  Set high expectations and be deliberate in your leadership. Being a CEO is all about the people you work with. They are the ones who are going to get you where you want to go     BEST MOMENTS  ‘I made sure I got good at the managing people side of things and  focused on developing my leadership’  ‘You don’t have to be the same as someone else but you have to bring these characteristics in to be a great CEO’  ‘You can learn to be a great CEO and if you learn to be a great leader of yourself you can learn to be a great leader of others.     VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business Podcast  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website     ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘You have to have goals and a mission and then you have to get intentional’  Nick is speaking with Nathan Pearce, a fellow Australian who he has known for over twenty years. Following a successful career in a corporate environment with a multinational organisation, Nathan is currently Head of Customer Engagement at Balanced Blends a company bringing a different approach and on a mission to serve its customers.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/    KEY TAKEAWAYS  I didn’t know what I needed or how to do it but knew I had to change to get kickstarted.  The bad habits were about what I prioritised, the ways and things I measured success against.  It came down to buying a plane ticket,  I changed my identity by changing my environment,  I burnt my boats and made a commitment to change.  You’ve got to do what most people don’t do to get to where you want to be.  I wanted to be around people with experience and I found that in the network I built.  I went from mentor to mentor during the period I worked for a multinational organisation learning all the skills required for a business.  People who are entrepreneurial should never avoid large enterprises.  Starting a business isn’t for everybody, you can be a successful intrapreneur applying your skillset within the certainty of a corporate world.  The most important thing is that you are congruent with your values and what you want to do.  At Balanced Blends, we have had a successful kick-starter campaign with really useful feedback. It’s been a learning curve not only around the product but also addressing fulfilment so that we can scale when we want to.  Reliable partners - if you work with someone who is distracted by a bigger customer it could be problematical and it’s vital to always be able to provide for the needs of the customer.  Find a partner who you can build a relationship with someone who understands you and what you are trying to do, who believes you are going to grow and that you’ve chosen them because they can deliver as you scale up.  Choosing the right metrics - I’m always asking myself are these the right metrics to be measuring ourselves against?  KPIs can cause undesirable behaviours; There is a danger to measuring metrics, you can get overwhelmed where you don’t focus on the 3 to 5 that matter and measure the wrong things  We don’t bring every metric to every meeting otherwise we’d get stuck in analysis paralysis.  Working out which KPIs are the ones to investigate is key but it is fluid with the focus moving according to need.  Creating the right habits - when you are on the business journey you have to be intentional and create the right habits. You have to make it a ritual to get up, grow good habits and be intentional.  Think and grow rich; The world ‘think’ is the most important not the word ‘rich’, as soon as you manifest something in your mind you start to move towards it and doors open in your life.  The difference between a ‘to-do list’ and a result is the ‘why’ or ‘purpose’     BEST MOMENTS  ‘There is a pattern to success and it is both achievement and fulfilment’  ‘For me finding great mentors was much better than coming out of education with crippling debt and a degree’  ‘It’s time to get out of our own way this can be challenging for entrepreneurs but it’s important to know when to do this so you don’t become a block on the business’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  Think & Grow Rich book by Napoleon Hill   https://www.linkedin.com/in/pearcenathan/     ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘If you want to build more impact do it through your influence and personal brand associated with your business’  In this episode packed with content, Nick explores the vital importance of building and marketing your personal brand to increase your influence and impact.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Understand what your topic is  If you have a business your topic may not necessarily be the business you are in, it may be the market or the context you are involved with. Your topic may link back to your business but your personal brand will provide a bigger platform to talk about your chosen topic.   What is your customer’s problem?  You don’t want to be a problem marketer  You want to do what most people don’t do  You have to both identify the problem and describe the ambitions your customer is seeking.  Who you are and what are the messages you value?  Who do you need to be an example for? why do you have any credibility?  You must build rapport and authenticity with your customer and the more they understand about you the more they will identify and connect with you.  Create a solution, build a business  Make sure that your business or businesses are associated back to your personal brand.  Some people struggle with the concept of selling but selling is a service, it’s about giving people the opportunity to participate in whatever your business is because you can genuinely help them.  Leverage social media  You’ve got to leverage social media. It is the one thing out there that for whatever amount of time you have is hugely accessible to everybody.  It gives you a vehicle and platform to do marketing essentially for free.  What message do you want to get out there?   Evergreen campaigns  Evergreen campaigns mean you have automation across all the things you are doing so that marketing isn’t reliant on a team of people or heavy investment it’s something that is happening all the time.  The content has to be fresh and when this is working you can automate.   It’s getting out there and telling the story with the impact that will give pace, scale and growth.    BEST MOMENTS  ‘Passion about the solution needs to turn into the commercial reality that you need to be able to sell as a service to your ideal customer’  ‘If you have a business and you are not posting at least daily, then you are missing an opportunity to grow and scale your business’  ‘You can use the content in different ways to engage who you want to engage and ultimately provide a service and solution that will solve someone’s problems and ambitions’    VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  High Performance Habits book by Brendan Burchard      ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick is bringing you an interview with two guests, Amy Rowlinson and Dan Hulbert, the founders of The Property Vault Group, who use their vast array of knowledge to help property professionals find opportunities to network, educate and collaborate. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Dan began life as a builder, and Amy spent thirteen years as a residential landlord, making her ideal in terms of experience when it comes to identifying investment properties. The importance of networking cannot be overstated. Being in contact with people on a similar journey will allow you to connect with types you may not otherwise have met, and from whom you can draw immense value. Set your goals effectively, but always keep in mind that the end is never the end. It’s far more important to enjoy the journey, and the different person you will become along the way. The Property Vault's Practical Property System: The Purpose The People How To Spot Potential How to Prepare Procedure Maximise Your Profits In partnerships, it’s often the entrepreneur who’s more creative that has trouble leveraging, as it can be more difficult to hand off tasks on the creative side. Financial freedom is best typified by the statement that 100% or more of your outgoings are paid for by income that you do not have to go and do anything on a daily basis in order to earn. This is known as a horizontal income stream. To create financial freedom, you must first perform as assessment of where you are. Work out your net income. 50% of your net income should be used for necessities (mortgage, bills etc). Split your remaining income in 10% chunks between five “accounts”: Yourself Contingency Contributions Play Education and personal development The biggest issue with any type of scale is the nuances caused by people coming together. All partnerships face the risk of these nuances not working.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Having different perspectives is a big bonus’ ‘You can’t see the picture if you’re still in the frame’ ‘It’s not just about the end, it’s also about the journey’ ‘It’s not about the goal. It’s about who you need to become’ ‘It feels good when you give’ ‘Knowledge makes you clever, but if you apply it, you are wise’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  The Property Vault - https://www.thepropertyvaultuk.comThe Property Vault Podcast - https://www.thepropertyvaultuk.com/podcastTraction by Gino Wickman - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/1936661837/Profit First by Mike Michalowicz - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Profit-First-Transform-Cash-Eating-Money-Making/dp/073521414X/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

One of the questions Nick receives most often is “How to do you plan your week?”. As a person who gets a lot done, how does Nick keep everything in order, prioritise the tasks ahead, and see to it that each week is as productive as the last? Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Nick uses a journal so that he can release all his thoughts into a tangible form. Once they’re out, you can begin to arrange and prioritise them. Evernote is a very useful note-taking app that extends across many platforms and syncs perfectly. Set time aside before Monday, so that you can shape your week. Not only should you plan the tasks you have coming up, but also the people you’d like to spend time with. Family? Friends? Mentors? Whoever it is, make sure you plan time for each of them in your week ahead. Personal development time should be planned in advance. This may be physical exercise, or mental stimulation, but setting aside time for development is essential. By combining two forms (audiobooks while exercising) you can get even more done. Scheduling - Some people use a calendar for this, which is fine. Nick uses Google Calendar, which is very helpful when it comes to reminders. Schedule your high priority items first.  Leave space in your calendar for surprises. Life is full of them, and believe it or not, you have to plan for the unplanned things, too! Resourcing - There’s no sense in scheduling things for yourself and then turning up unprepared. If you have something big coming up, set time aside for preparation. Look at yourself a week in advance and “reverse engineer” your week ahead, by visualising how you want it to go. Try to see how it feels having achieved your goals before you achieve them. Celebrate what you’ve achieved. You need to tick the box, yes, but make sure you reflect on the things you’ve done well. Reward yourself!   BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s about starting with the result, and then thinking about the “why”' ‘If you’re not taking control of your agenda, it gives other people permission to do it for you’ ’Structure equals freedom’ ‘What is it that I want to experience this week?’ ‘If a jar represents your time, then you need the big rocks in there first' ‘Work on the one thing you can improve first, which is you'   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global www.fielding.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

The entrepreneurial journey is challenging. Some could reach the top with less to no hassle; some had it quite rough. But no matter where you are right now in your journey, it’s best to know what to do and what not to do. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Mistake #1: There’s an absolute obsession with the product. Entrepreneurs are ultimate masterminds. They have the unparalleled capability to turn nothing into something grand. But, sometimes, since they care too much about their projects, they tend to forget that there are external factors that matter more if you want to scale up your business. Mistake #2: There’s the artificial need for speed. Patience is needed when you’re growing your business. No business empire was built in a day, anyways. Don’t rush things and just appreciate the efforts and small wins you’re achieving. Your pace depends on your talent and your goals. Mistake #3: There’s a lack of technical skills. Leverage talents if you need to. Though you’re very competent in your area, it’s best to find someone who can help you in the smaller tasks or someone who complements your strengths. Mistake #4: There’s irrational exuberance. Or, as Nick calls it, ‘optimism in steroids.’ Entrepreneurs don’t listen to people and ignore the risks. Sometimes, they act arrogant. It’s best to surround yourself objectivity and rationality. Mistake #5: They do not see a second idea. Having the greatest money-making idea is a very good start for entrepreneurs. But, sometimes, they aren’t equipped with the skill to execute them and refuse to seek help from people about it. It wouldn’t hurt to tweak things a bit and pivot a little from your original idea. Mistake #6: They run out of cash. Cash should be the first thing you’ll look into. You must think through how you can have consistently increasing cash flow as the business grows. Nick suggests niche-ing. BEST MOMENTS “The faster you go, the greater the impact if things go wrong.” “Work out what you’re great at, then leverage the rest.” “If you got a great idea, don’t be fixated on one pathway to execute it.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Profit First by Mike Michalowicz - https://profitfirstbook.com ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This episode marks the return of the “Entrepreneur In Focus” series with an exclusive interview between Nick and Tom Mercer, the founder of Moma Foods, a brand currently making waves internationally, and which began by selling their products from a converted filing cabinet, to hungry London commuters at train stations. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Creating Moma Foods was the result of Tom identifying a gap in his own life; healthy breakfast on the go for people who have little time in the mornings. The first years of the business were spent with Tom working in every aspect of the business, including rising early and preparing the food, then taking it to the streets and selling it.  Optimism and belief, coupled with youth, determination and energy, is what Tom credits with keeping him going in the early days. It seems as though these qualities are vital to many entrepreneurs when starting out. You need objectivity and realism when setting up a business. You need to be able to identify things that aren’t working, or pivot when things need to change. Knowing when to pivot comes from a blend of natural insight and constant evaluation from metrics that each business should have built in from the start. Passion is vital, and is hugely attractive when pitching. In terms of sales, Tom enjoys this side of the business because he’s passionate about the product, but equally he is keen to constantly innovate and disrupt. The operations are the backbone of any business. Making sure you have effective processes in place are essential. Passion and innovation and creation are the kickstarters, but remember to implement processes as you go. Physical health is becoming increasingly important to Tom. Suffering from MS, he now finds it important to take better care of his health, which allows him to work harder and keep him going. Getting the right team around you is so important to effective scale-up. Without the right team it’s impossible to grow. Find the right people and free yourself up to do other things BEST MOMENTS ‘It doesn’t really matter what happens to you in life. It’s what you do around it’ ‘You only fail if you give up’ ‘It’s important to look after yourself, so I try to eat healthily, exercise regularly and sleep more’ ‘I’m a glass half full person, so I never thought we’d fail’ ‘You have to change’ ‘Having a decent breakfast in the mornings can really impact your day' VALUABLE RESOURCES Nick’s Twitter Moma Foods ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global    Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘Conversion is now about certainty, values and leverage’ Oren Klaff is considered royalty when it comes to pitching, persuading, influencing and deal-making and in this episode the award-winning author of ‘Pitch Anything’ which has sales of over 1 million talks with Nick about his winning systems and processes. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS Pitch Anything   ‘Pitch Anything’ changed the way people thought about the sales process. Sales pitches in the last twenty years have been about overcoming objections with discounting used as the tool to persuade. Companies use technology to generate thousands of leads but any technology we use is not able to convert. We have lost the art of human interaction; talking to a buyer and having them want what you have without them seeing the sales process. Flip the script ‘Flip the Script’ is about having the buyer enjoy the interaction and come to the decision they want to work with the seller who is a high-status individual in the industry. People buy from you when they understand your value and your value relative to the other options out there. They trust you and they have certainty. The sale is about elevating your status and the client understanding you are an expert in their area. Showing someone, you are an expert creates certainty and shared values provides leverage. Conversion is now about certainty, values and leverage. If you have leverage buyers will have to make a decision. Establishing values early on in an interaction creates leverage Inception – it becomes the other person’s idea Today a salesperson must create transparency, enabling the discovery process where the client comes to the idea – you are an expert and they know how and why they should buy from you. Inception in many ways is about converting the client from undertaking due diligence to confirmatory diligence. Modern inception is about you wanting to work with the client and the client wanting to work with you. Do we like working together? Do we work together well? Can we produce something of value to others? BEST MOMENTS ‘When you speak with the right tone and  level of seriousness everyone will stop and listen to you thinking; this is fucking awesome, finally, I’m in the hands of a professional, someone who knows what they are talking about’ ‘People who are wishy-washy and non-committal are not for me’ ‘You can be super aggressive on your values because it gives you leverage’ ‘Most people assume that talking is free’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Flip the Script book by Oren Klaff Pitch Anything book by Oren Klaff Oren Klaff one to one contest instagram.com/orenklafffacebook.com/pitchanythinglinkedin.com/in/orenklaff ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

If you’re thinking of finally accomplishing that start-up idea of yours or buying a business or selling a business, then this episode surely got you covered. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Entrepreneurs who begun from start-ups have the edge. They got more experience and have gained more knowledge. Being a big-time entrepreneur doesn’t just happen in a snap, after reading all the business books. Apply it and re-learn it. When people want to learn, they go to the internet. Though it offers enough information, make sure your sources aren’t biased. What you might read might be heavily influenced a by a certain individual’s or business’ objective, which is to sell. What is the perfect deal? It’s ‘not exposing your capital and not borrowing from banks’. It’s the deal that suits you and what you can get done. The best dealmakers are always overwhelmed with deals. You don’t want ‘deal heat’, the urge to close a deal and move on the next one, to happen you. You don’t want to look desperate. 3 reasons why a part can’t sell: Too risky Scale paradox – ‘you have to get big to get big’ Investing in small businesses is illiquid BEST MOMENTS “Start-up is the rite to passage. You have to do a start-up to fully empathise with the entrepreneurial experience.” “People who start businesses are not necessarily the best at scaling them.” “Everything’s hard until you figure it out the first time.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Harbour Club - https://www.harbourclubevents.com/ Jeremy Harbour Official Website – jeremyharbour.com Go Do! - https://www.amazon.com/Go-Do-People-Always-Business/dp/1536636789 ABOUT THE GUEST Jeremy Harbour Jeremy is a global leader in the field of small business Mergers & Acquisitions. Based out of Singapore, he owns investments in 12 countries, has bought and sold over 100 companies, and advised on more than 200 acquisitions. http://linkedin.com/in/jeremyharbourwww.unity-group.comwww.jeremyharbour.comhttp://www.harbourclubevents.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘Do the right thing, say what needs to be said, step up and genuinely show that you care’  In this episode, Nick explains in-depth the 4 things you must own and cannot delegate in your business.  As the CEO and leader, it's vital that you are clear about your role and these 4 performance drivers are not only vital to your business, they are aspects of your culture.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/    KEY TAKEAWAYS  There are 4 drivers of performance that will be important to your business throughout its journey from start-up to scale up.  These are 4 things that cannot be delegated in your business. As a leader, CEO or founder you must be responsible.  Strategy and obstacle  Your strategy is the decisions you make about how you are going to get to where you want to be, the choices you make.  The obstacle is the thing that’s going to get in the way, as a CEO and founder you have to be very clear about what the obstacle is  Prioritisation  When you are working in 90-day blocks you can work with more intention and focus.  You are building the machine that will overcome the obstacle, its allocating resources to overcome the obstacle to get you to where you want to be.  It doesn’t mean all structure with no innovation or creativity, In scale up it’s how you prioritise the allocation of resources.  The ‘who’  If you are trying to overcome an obstacle and get to somewhere, you are looking for the attributes and skills to achieve tasks and deliver outcomes that can be measured against business growth.  If you want to get to where you want to be quickly then you need ‘A’ players on your team,  An ‘A’ player has a focus on delivering outcomes.  Culture  In the beginning, it’s about energy, setting a leadership position and the vision  It’s about candour and being clear about what you say to people.  Process, infrastructure and measurement are all created within the context of people and culture.  A positive culture cannot exist where there is a;  Absence of trust  Fear of conflict  Lack of commitment  Avoidance of accountability  Inner tension to results  You’ve got to act with authenticity and your own level of integrity.  Do the right thing, say what needs to be said, step up and genuinely show that you care.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘Opportunity without structure is chaos and in many cases the price for entrepreneurial success is structure’  ‘If they are 100% focused on all areas of their life then they are going to be good in key roles because they will bring their attitude into the business’  ‘I will never hire a brilliant technical person if their attitude doesn’t fit with the company culture’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  Rich Dad Poor Dad book by Robert Kiyosaki  The Road Less Stupid book by Keith J Cunningham     ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week’s show comes all the way from the Spanish island of Tenerife, which is perfect really, as Nick is here to talk about creating your perfect work/life balance, or should that be life/work balance? Particularly as the world becomes more digital, and people are able to work remotely, how has the balance between our work and our life changed? It’s fine to chase wealth and professional success, but at what cost? Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/   KEY TAKEAWAYS  A great way to get back to your optimum energy levels is by detoxing and clearing out your body’s system. Cutting down things like caffeine, and increasing the clean foods we eat and drink are a great place to start. Don't forget what’s most important to you. Whether that’s health or family or friends, choose what your main priority in life is. What comes before everything else. How productive you are is a choice. Manage your time! You have enough time. You have to get your focus right. If you’re becoming overwhelmed then learn to leverage. Every single week, give yourself two or three hours to strategise, reflect and plan. Don’t use family time for this. Treat it is a work pursuit so use work time. Work on how you can motivate yourself. Plan your whole year in advance - Everything from family holidays to big events such as school holidays, start dates etc. Make sure you mark special days well in advance. It’s important to be as present as possible for memorable family milestones. Crucial business engagements, too, need to be planned ahead so as to give you family and work balance. Look after your body and your mind. Pressure and challenges are fine, and can serve you well. But make sure you’re doing the things that drive your performance. Eat nourishing food. Drink water. Sleep. Exercise. Meditate. All these things will make you feel better mentally and physically. Make your work your passion. If it’s at all possible, then do everything you can to make the thing you love, the thing that makes you prosper. It’s not possible for everyone, but if you see your chance then take it!   BEST MOMENTS  ‘You are the most important asset in this’ ‘Proximity is power’ ‘People put their business first. Their family and the health suffers’ ‘Focus is a superpower in business’ ’Take control of your diary’ ‘It starts with you. Leadership starts with you'   ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode, Nick once again returns to the ‘Entrepreneur In Focus’, this time talking to Andy Alsop, the President and CEO of US-based tech-company The Receptionist. Since taking the helm at The Receptionist, Andy has grown their reach considerably. In 2015 the company’s software was being used at around 150 locations. These days, the software is being used in over 3,000 locations globally. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  An important factor in Andy’s decision to purchase a company instead of founding one was that for some time previously, he had not been seeing the success he had hoped to see. The Receptionist was based in Colorado, an area that Andy was interested in targeting, and through networking, found himself face to face with the company’s founder. The Receptionist had an installed customer base, albeit small, including market research and initial sales. Andy’s main issue with startups has always been the first giant step from “dead start” to “something”. This issue had been solved by the company already. In the US today there are approximately 10,000 people retiring each day. A lot of those people own businesses, and are wishing to divest themselves. There areonly three ways to do this: sell to a person, sell to a private equity firm, or sell to another company. These opportunities can be attractive, because the hard part (founding and marketing) is already done. It can be beneficial to immerse yourself in the genesis of your new acquisition, learning the ropes from the inside out, working on marketing and design yourself. This can be a far more effective use of investment capital than hiring early on. The risks of making a bad hire can be costly, especially at the nascent stages. One of the most effective methodologies that Andy discovered was Traction by Gino Wickman, upon which he and The Receptionist team built their company strategy, mindset and values. Employee concerns are always acted upon either as an individual concern, a departmental concern, or a company-wide concern. By dealing with the concern swiftly and through the proper channels, the company runs more efficiently and happily. Focus and structure are essential for any business. Especially when it comes to planning the future trajectory or goals of your business, of paramount importance is the need for structure and planning, but also adherence to those goals. Many entrepreneurs who begin at the startup phase become very enamoured with the creative process, and then when growth begins, and people are required, and culture and values become important, that’s when certain types of entrepreneurs struggle. BEST MOMENTS ‘I wish I’d had a podcast like this to listen to over the past 22 years’ ’The hardest part of any startup is taking it from a dead start to “something”' ’Now’s a great time to create that one-plus-one-equals-three’ ’That one misfire can taint the whole thing’ ‘We know where we want to go. We know our goalposts. How do we align our company to get there?’ ‘It’s that efficiency of how to communicate that is so critical in a company’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Andy Alsop on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyalsop/The Receptionist - https://thereceptionist.comTraction by Gino Wickman - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Traction-Get-Grip-Your-Business/dp/1936661837/ref=asc_df_1936661837/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310623486223&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8563956478218085729&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006817&hvtargid=pla-404289645110&psc=1&th=1&psc=1   ABOUT THE HOST  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/nickcbradleynick@fielding.globalwww.fielding.global    Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Sometimes, your business’s growth can stall because your standards and values may have become less clear. It’s worth taking the time to reflect upon the way we live each day, to ensure that we are meeting our own standards of quality. It’s only from meeting, and sometimes exceeding these standards, that we can make true change. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Standards are the key to changing anything. As Tony Robbins says: “Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is raise your standards” To have an outstanding quality of life, you must take risks, and much of this comes from the standards you set for yourself. Self-esteem comes from raising your personal standards in everything from the way you treat others to the way you dress. One of the first areas in which you should set standards for yourself should be your health. Mindset is incredibly important, but always remember that you need energy and vitality in order to deliver. Managing your emotions is another area of your personal life that will translate to your business life. Business is not just about the wins, but the roller coaster of ups and downs that challenges create. We need to be mentally prepared for everything. What are your standards regarding relationships? How do you get on with people? Are you striking the balance between home life and business life effectively? Remember not to let your personal relationships suffer. Are you using your time effectively? Productivity is the result of effective planning and holding yourself accountable for delivering on your promises and potential. You’re not going to become financially free unless you learn how to manage your money well. Discipline yourself to save money, and spend it wisely. Envision your goal from the future perspective of your desired reality. Nick practices “priming”, reflecting upon the past, present and subsequently three future goals. Envisioning yourself as the type of person who can achieve those things will give you insight on the actions needed to get there. Find inspiring mentors who are a few steps ahead of where you are. Look for those who are living the highest standards in a specific area you aspire to.  Learn from your mistakes. Remember to take risks. Don’t compare yourself too closely to others. Feel your way through the journey and remember that there’s no such thing as failure, only feedback.  Ask yourself: are you doing what it takes? Are you living with intention? Are you living with balance?    BEST MOMENTS  ‘Mindset isn’t just part of the game. It is the game’ ‘Don’t worry twice!’ ‘Everything that you do or say provides others with insight into the personal standards you keep’ ’Some people are very good at offence, but not at defence’ ‘If your identity is not taking you to where you want to be in life, that’s when you need to set a new standard’ ‘When I look for a mentor for myself, I’m not looking for an easy ride'   ABOUT THE HOSTNick Bradley  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Storytelling is not just a key literary aspect. Storytelling is a strategy that can also propel your business growth.  In this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick discusses the importance of storytelling in business. He also shares three models so you can easily implement inside your business, during your talks, meeting with your investors, and many more.   Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Why storytelling? To communicate an idea or a statement to someone effectively, the receiver must be interested enough to be receptive about it. Storytelling improves how you’ll communicate. It helps you deliver your message in a compelling and engaging way.  Everyone learns differently. In fact, there are different learning styles, namely: visual, auditory, verbal, kinaesthetic, and auditory-digital.  When you’re about to hold a meeting, a talk, or a lecture, get a sense of how people inside the room engage so you can adjust how you’ll share your message.  5-Step Sequential Model – What, Why, How, What if, and When?  What – the overview of your business.  Why – a well-thought part of the story; can be based on the current demand, personal mission, advocacy, etc.  How – how is it going to benefit your investors, your clients, and your customers?  What if – what will be the consequences if the plan didn’t push through?  When – NOW. Convince the investors to do it now.  Charisma, Conviction, and Connection.  Tell your story in a charismatic way so it becomes more engaging.  Have conviction. People believe what you say when they see that you believe in what you’re saying.  Connect with the audience verbal and non-verbally.  The Then, Now, How Model.  Tell true stories that the audience can relate to and learn from. Share how you could improve your conditions from the past. This will definitely inspire them and invite them to be on your side.  BEST MOMENTS  “The context of how you deliver is important.”  “The invisible, or what you think is invisible, is actually just as important as the visible.”  “Selling is still the lifeblood of business, as much as marketing is.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business Podcast: Presenting, Persuading And Winning Deals | Apple | Spotify | Stitcher  Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr Robert Cialdini  Zig Ziglar Books  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

“A Product Ecosystem aligns with value proposition and is crucial for a business to be able to scale up.” In this episode of Scale Up Your Business Nick covers what an ecosystem is and the importance of the product eco system, also known as a product staircase. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS ‘Product’ aligns with another episode that I’ve previously published on value proposition and it’s an absolutely crucial thing. If you haven’t got a clear problem to be solved for your niche/audience to focus on; you could do all of the marketing and selling in the world but you wont sell anything. A product ecosystem is the ability to create a number of pathways for your audience to engage then eventually buy from you. An ecosystem is thinking about the entry points or lifetime value that you want to take your ideal prospect through. If your product is of high value it can have a longer sale cycle. So the way to try and get your valuable products to sell is to have ladders within your staircases where the customer can engage. Think about what you can give away for free. This is often information like podcasts. Is there something that you can sell that has an accessible monetary value but at the same time is not that much that it’s too much of a thought for someone to says yes. This can sometimes be consultancy. Then think about customer lifetime value. What happens after you sell your product? A lot of business grow by selling services. Put yourself in the minds of your customer and audience and think about the end to end journey. Product creation formula keeping the staircase in mind: Your products need to all work together. Decide on the best format that aligns with what your business is. Choose a compelling name. Don’t go out there with anything boring. Think about the benefit of your product. Price it along the staircase. The first should be free. The second needs to be accessible. Then you need to sell your core product. Focus on the benefits of what you’re selling them not the features. Keep asking ‘why’ until you get the answer. Sometimes it’s worth having a guarantee. This doesn’t work for everything but can be affective with certain products. It gives a level of certainty. Think about packaging a few of your components together. If you discount it then try get a longer term deal. Use genuine and believable scarcity. This could be time or the number of products you have. Try use social proof and testimonials alongside the scarcity. BEST MOMENTS ‘Having a well thought out ecosystem is going to help you regardless of where you are with your business.’ ‘Sometimes product ecosystems can be called product staircases or ladders.’ ‘A product staircase is one of the best ways I know to bring a customer along with you to the point that they want to buy.’ ‘If you can spend 8 hours with someone then they’re going to start forming a relationship with you.’ ‘Try to win the hearts and minds of your prospects.’ ‘Don’t go out there thinking your going to only be selling one thing.’ ‘Add value, add value, add value without expectation and you’ll get where you want to be in life.’ ‘Clear benefits aligned with your proposition will create a position in your market that will make your prospect more likely to buy from you’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business Podcast: Rock Thomas: Interview With The World’s #1 Whole-Life-Success Expert | Apple | Stitcher | Omny Google Analytics Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

“This is probably the most practical episode of Scale Up Your Business Podcast done to date.” Nick highlights the important of tracking metrics inside the business to maximise results and performance. If you’re not doing it, then how sure are you you’re achieving whatever your goals are in your business?  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Tracking your metrics lets you see the improvements and results in your business. Ensuring that your cash flow is healthy Maintaining a top-level performance Achieving overall business goals Boosting productivity and efficiency Bringing out issues, challenges, and concerns early on Implement your own scorecard. It’s different for every business depending on your goals and how you achieve them. Your scorecard should not just show how you are performing as of now, but also how you have performed in the past and where you’re heading in the future. Use web analytics services. When looking at Google Analytics (or any platform of your chosen tool), Nick tracks a certain data point, which is of no correlation to the success of the business, for a number of months. Here are some tips to help you create your own: Be very clear in your vision. Identify at most 15 but not less than 5 categories that you’re going to measure. Using key questions based on what’s important to you will make this easy. Include metrics that are related to your core processes (e.g. HR, operation, marketing, etc.) Assign each goal to each team member. It’s a weekly process. Bring out the scorecard every week to review it. Most likely, after 4-6 months, you’ll have a scorecard that you can use in the long-term. BEST MOMENTS “If you can really make a few pointers from today – the different things, the different approaches I’m going to provide you – you can really start making a huge difference.” “What gets measured gets done.” “Understand the metrics – all the indicators. Not just because it will get you where you need to, but it will keep your alive.” “Your business is your business; your scorecard will be unique.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business Podcast: Rock Thomas: Interview With The World’s #1 Whole-Life-Success Expert | Apple | Stitcher | Omny Google Analytics Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business by Gino Wickman ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

“If only I had done it, I wouldn’t be here right now.” Life is just an absolute waste if you live it with regrets, doubts, and fears. So, as early as now, do what you can to have a happy future. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS 21-year-old Nick didn’t see the real value of money. All he did was to spend it on possessions instead of saving up and investing in things that could bring him abundance – he was just getting by. Nick discovered the true passion for health and fitness, so he started a personal training business, his first business. He learned the importance of focus and discipline. He also read self-help and inspirational books. While helping his clients improve their physical health, he was also learning from them through their personal stories. This also gave him clarity on his life purpose. He believes that he can help more, so he moved to a new place and started a new career. If he can help more people achieve personal development, advance in their career ladder and scale up their business, then sacrificing comfort and security can be worth it. 7 Pieces of Advice for Younger Nick: Trust that life is always giving you feedback that serves you. Take absolute control and accountability for your education. Find mentors early. Save and invest. Give back and contribute value to others without expectation. When opportunities present themselves, show up. Believe in yourself. BEST MOMENTS “Interestingly, when I got the most fulfilment back, then was helping people be physically healthy through personal training. There were side conversations I had with clients about life. That was an interesting part of my growth.” “Be grateful, be brave, have faith, and show up.” “I know that I wouldn’t be who I am if I have gone through the challenges and put myself out there.” “Never stop reading and filling your mind with stuff that will help you achieve your goals, and more importantly, enjoy your journey on the way.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business Podcast: Rock Thomas – Interview with the World’s #1 Whole-Life-Success Expert | Apple | Omny | Stitcher Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘You have to have this guy on your show he’s a badass’  In this very special 25th episode Nick is in conversation with Rock Thomas, successful entrepreneur, self-made millionaire, influencer and public speaker for personal development and growth who now dedicates his time, passion, focus and energy to helping others achieve success and fulfilment.  He has a huge social media following and in this in-depth interview discusses systems, the mindset and the models he has developed that have brought him success and fulfilment across multiple streams of income. Listen in to this exciting episode and find out how being  ‘a badass’ is about understanding, learning and teaching others.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  What is your mission and what do you do?  I learn to be able to teach and then I try and teach the things that are valuable in today’s world when it comes to getting results.  I’m a passionately curious person with a good work ethic if you combine those two things where ever you put your energy and intention you are going to get results.  When you go the extra mile, you get extra attention and better opportunities  It’s about bringing your best self to the challenge you are facing and the one after that.  How do you scale up?  Using the Me, We, They system  Me - first you become great  We – bring someone alongside you who watches your expertise and then develops through your feedback as they work  They - when they have reached the standard required you move away.  Most people know what to do but they don’t do what they know.  The people who are hugely successful have a rage for mastery and an absolute inferno inside about wanting to get better and hating to lose.  We want to be in the arena with a worthy opponent, but we need the tools to be able to battle it.  How important is having a clear identity in achieving business success?  How do you find one when you don’t know what yours is?  ‘3 Ms Model’ involving finding a Mentor Model until you achieve Mastery.  It's not completing the ultimate race, it’s who you have to become to compete in the race.  Life brings all sorts of challenges and obstacles it's all about how you respond.  How you describe and define yourself determines how you respond when faced with any situation. You dictate your role by how you approach a task  You need to change your perspective and complete the analysis and effective preparation before a task to ensure you can respond positively.  How important is your mindset in business?  You have to work your mindset consistently; rituals and routines can keep you in a better place more often and help you get back to a better place more quickly when you face challenges.  Your mindset dictates how you do the next thing and it comes down to practise.  If you are not where you want to be, where would you start?  The 8 areas of your life are all interconnected and the place to begin is to be passionately curious about everything.  Audit your days – what worked, what didn’t work, how can I do it better, what did I learn, what did I love, how did I contribute?  Work on your health, energy and resilience continually.  Work 4% outside your comfort zone on a regular basis, you’ll learn from it and be willing to do it.  What can you do If you feel you are stuck?  Find the one thing that lights you up, and do it 5-10% of the week.  Start it, master it, delegate it, move on to something else.  I’m a starter, some are maintainers, and some are finishers, As a visionary, I can see it, but I don’t want to be in it, it's vital to know who you are.  Start saying ‘yes’ to the small things and you will find it easier to ask for other things  Nothing has meaning but the meaning you give it and when you become a meaning master you change your life.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘It’s about being resourceful; you have the ability to do it so do it more often’  ‘I’ve created a strategy for myself that allows me to fill in my biggest fear – ‘that I’m not enough’  ‘Until you become conscious of the people ecosystem that exists around you, it is not possible to change your environment’  ‘The inner narrative never stops so you may as well be intentional’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  The Power of Your Identity book by Rock Thomas Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds book by David Goggins    ABOUT THE GUEST  "M1 is a 52-week whole life leadership development community with proven results in your net worth, passive income, health, relationships, and lifestyle. We teach the lessons from street smart whole-life millionaires and ingrain these lessons into your day to day life. We succeed where personal development seminars and masterminds lose steam. Instead of a motivational shot in the arm, this creates a permanent shift in the way you think, feel, and take action".  Invitation only, apply at www.gom1.com  CONTACT METHOD  Rock Thomas website: https://rockthomas.com/     ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

For businesses who want to expand, the biggest problem is how to maintain and boost your lead generation. What worked for you now might not work for you in the future. It’s a good step to always improve and try new strategies.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS “A lead is a person who has indicated some level of interest in what your company’s product or propositional service is.” Marketing requires experimentation. To know if your products and services will get the attention and the interest of people; you must try various strategies. Attract, Convert, Close, & Delight. Marketing Qualified Lead (MQL) – someone who has already shown interest by giving you some contact details through signing up for your newsletters, downloading your resources, or going to your events. Sales-qualified lead (SQL) – a prospective customer; you’ve had a dialogue with them and understood what they need and what you could provide for them. How to generate leads? Social media. For personal branding, it’s easier to build more authenticity, trust, and connection with strangers online if you post regular content. Also, look into Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) to increase website traffic and into repurposing your content. Set up lead magnets on your websites through downloadable contents. Your website needs to explain what you can offer your customers and how it can benefit them. It’s not going to be all about you.  Email marketing. In order for this to work, your messages that you send out shouldn’t be generic. Every message should be tailored to every person’s needs. It’s better if the landing pages have eye-catching and captivating visuals. It’s what makes your visitors stay a bit longer to absorb what’s on your site. 10X-ing your sales team. Expand your reach. Make sure that what your team is selling is something that they want to sell as well. BEST MOMENTS “Marketing is more important than sales these days in many businesses.” “Your website is not about you, it’s about them.” “When I go out there and contact people, I’m genuinely looking for people I can help, not just build up my list.” “Don’t make someone work to find out what you do.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business Podcast: Why You Must Have A Personal Brand | Apple | Omny | Stitcher ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It’s a blessing and a curse at the same time to have many opportunities in front of you. When you’re coming from a place of the uncertainty of how to choose the ultimate one, then this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast might help you Neil shares the structured step-by-step process on how to handle overwhelm and stay focused. Clearing your mind and staying focused on your outcome and your WHY can help you decide more effectively.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Overwhelm can mean ‘drowning beneath a huge massive something’. It happens when you have too many options presented to you. This could be a positive or negative thing depending on your capabilities and resources. Before you decide on what to do next, focus on your Key Result Areas (KRA) and key income-generating areas which will act as your basis. Nick learned the practice of being present by meditation. This maintains a healthy psychological and emotional state. Being present can help you be calm, be focused, and be ready for the tasks that you need to do regularly. How to Stay Focused (Step-by-step): Get everything listed down on paper—not on your laptop, tablet, or phone, on paper! You need to be clear on your outcomes. What are you trying to achieve? Why do you want it? Neil suggests you start with the results, then the way towards them would be easy to build. Write out all the options. Know the consequences. There will be upsides and downsides for each option—write them down. What is the outcome if I take this option? How important from 0 to 10 are each upside and the downside to meeting my outcome? What is the probability that each upside and downside can occur? What are the emotional benefits of the outcome? Damage mitigation. Of the remaining options, look at how you can eliminate or lessen the downsides. BEST MOMENTS “As much it is about the journey, the destination seems really compelling, and you want to do everything to run towards that.” “Focus and flow, when you’ve got them, you can just achieve so much.” “Reasons come first; answers come second.” “When you’re prepared, you eliminate fear in a much more powerful way.” ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Wendy Shand, founder and CEO of Tots To Travel joins Nick to talk about her journey in business, how she successfully identified her target market, and how she grew an idea into an eight-figure company that caters to families wishing to explore the world.  No two journeys in business are the same. Wendy’s began at a young age, when her parents would often travel without her due to insufficient amenities for children on international business trips. When Wendy’s family began to grow, she began to realise that a huge market was being ignored.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Tots To Travel is a specialist holiday resort company for families with young children, which was born out of Wendy’s own experiences of how to holiday with her own young children. The entire experience of trying to vacation with infants can be extremely difficult and overwhelming. This is a market that was being ignored almost entirely when Wendy began thirteen years ago. It isn’t just comfort that’s an issue with young families. Safety also is a huge concern for parents and families. Mindset and focus at the beginning was extremely important. Wendy’s home life was transient due to her husband’s career. By understanding their different personality profiles, she was able to table the subject of their family’s future in a meaningful way. Wendy’s personality is that of a visionary, while her husband is an integrator. By teaming these attributes together, they were able to envision Wendy’s aims for Tots To Travel and turn it into a reality. When it comes to her workforce, Wendy believes passionately in placing the right people in the right roles. By identifying her staff’s personal gifts and strengths, she can assign them correctly to key positions, and in turn ensure that they come to work happy and leave each day feeling fulfilled.  One of the key moments in Wendy’s journey was when she and her husband decided to play a high-risk move and go all in on Tots To Travel. Wendy’s husband quit his important career and they focussed entirely on building and growing Tots To Travel. As Wendy puts it, you make your best decisions when you’re hungry and when the wolf is at the door. By going all in, they had no choice but to succeed. Tots To Travel saw a huge surge of growth when they refined their offerings to include resort villas providing a more thorough service, meaning that families could enjoy a more luxury holiday experience. This led to a large period of scaling up to meet the new demand. Tots To Travel is challenged by disintermediation, the process by where consumers may discover their product using Wendy’s company, but who will then go and shop for it elsewhere so as to save money. This can essentially mean that Tots To Travel acts as a shop window at times, and is one of the more complex problems faced by Wendy; how to attract a consumer, and ensure that they complete their experience with her. Wendy’s answer to this problem was to establish a product that could not be found anywhere else. Wendy approached investors and scaled Tots To Travel up even further. By purchasing a resort’s inventory for a set period of time, Wendy was not only able to offer a product that could not be found elsewhere, but she was also able to ingeniously tailor the holiday experience precisely to her market. Across the life of her business so far, the main challenge in scaling up was a lack of inventory when it came to destinations. By evolving the business from a simple directory of holiday lets for families, into an exclusive collection of destination resorts that cannot be found anywhere else, Tots To Travel has genuinely evolved and met the demands of its own growth. Building a successful business and scaling it effectively has been a lesson in experimentation, and developing a niche market that is exclusively yours.  During the beginning of the business, Wendy didn’t realise the importance of establishing the culture of the company she wished to create. Over the next years, they focussed on stripping out practices that weren’t aligned with the values she wished to establish, and began again.  Self-development is crucial in creating the right mindset. Wendy and her family focus on physical as well as mental stimulation and treat themselves as prime athletes. This is of paramount importance in Wendy’s mind. By telling herself that she is valuable, and reinforcing this with tangible benefits, this sense of importance and value is translated into her business life. BEST MOMENTS I don’t see boundaries between countries. I see opportunities” “People go to Cornwall for eight or nine years on the trot, because they’re scared of travelling further” “Creators work intuitively. I was feeling my way along the journey” “I fundamentally believe that if people spend more time in flow, that is where their brilliance is” “To take the island, you’ve got to burn the boat” “It’s been a big lesson in experimentation” “I profoundly believe that what we are doing at Tots is purposeful” “I am at my best when I am being creative” VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business Podcast Tots To Travel John Demartini ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

You may think that your business is at far too early a stage to begin scaling meaningfully. Perhaps you don’t believe that you have the funding to attempt significant growth?  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Often acquisitions can lead to savings and synergy between the original company and the newly acquired one. Departments can find themselves merged, and customer bases can be shared. This is part of the main reason for acquisitions in the first place, not so much to acquire a second business but to allow synergy between two companies. With many from the Baby Boomer generation about to retire, opportunities are abundant for those looking to acquire businesses, as many of these companies do not have succession plans. If you’re talented at 'turnaround', then you can make way more profit from acquiring a company and reinvigorating it than beginning from scratch. Just because a business owner has lost interest, or the company is running low on momentum, doesn’t mean that it’s a bad business. It just requires a new psychology and toolkit. Distressed businesses can still prove valuable, even though the acquisition of them costs next to nothing. By simply acquiring a company similar to your own, you instantly acquire and access a second customer base. Asset finance and deferred payments to the seller can allow you the opportunity to buy a business without putting up any of your own money. BEST MOMENTS ‘When we talk about growth and scale from acquisitions, it literally is a game changer’  ‘I’m more of a turnaround-and-scale-up guy than I am a start-up guy’  ‘You can buy a business for no money and they can strategically scale you up very quickly’  ‘That sounds like alchemy, and do you know what? It is!’  ‘That’s what I call creating a capital event’   VALUABLE RESOURCES   The Harbour ClubBusiness Buying Accelerator ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

At the age of 23, Arron Shepherd moved to Dubai and became Global Director of Business Development at the First Group, increasing their revenues from £25m to £350m in just three years.   In this very special episode, Nick talks in depth to Arron about his journey, his core beliefs, leadership, how to build a successful team, and his vision for the future.    Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Arron set up his first business at the age of 18, and since then has had the invaluable advice of his father, also an entrepreneur, who acts as Arron’s business mentor. By asking questions at key points in his own journey, and from seeing the benefits of risk-taking, Arron has developed and inherited a suit of business armour.  Business is all about people and learning how to motivate them correctly. As Arron points out, if you only motivate your team in an average way, you’ll only have an average business. If you want an exceptional business, you need normal people to be exceptional.  Arron credits his own self-awareness as his biggest strength. By identifying the qualities that his excels at, he can then leverage the parts of business that he is not so strong with.  Leadership is all about trust. Arron’s default belief is that his team will succeed if they are given opportunities to do so. So often, Arron sees people not being given opportunities because of fear of what might happen, which he believes is fundamentally wrong.  Lack of self-belief is an area of business that often holds people back. Those who do not believe they are up to a task often only give part of their best, so that if they fail, they can blame it on the fact that they did work to their full potential.  Arron proved himself at an early age by striking at an opportunity to develop a building project in Kenya on behalf of his company in Dubai. This experience, while not ultimately successful, marked Arron out as someone who was willing to put himself forward, and who had the passion and drive to succeed.  Connecting with people in a positive way is vital for business. There’s no excuse not to be friendly and offer people a pleasant experience when dealing with you. You can be professional, efficient and accomplished at what you do, but you can also be nice while doing it.  The difference between a leader and a boss is the acceptance of responsibility, and the ability to accept blame when you need to. Leading through fear won’t inspire your team to work to their best.  Arron believes that peopling his business with those blessed with common sense, speed of thought and creativity is far more valuable to him and to his company, than someone who is book smart, or who has a longer period of experience.  Brands that have entrepreneurs at the top, or businesses that are run by someone who owns it, operate very differently. There is far more at stake for a business owner in that case. You are far more receptive to change, to spotting new opportunities for success, if your livelihood is at stake.  Too often, people seem to plan a business based on what it might become, instead of what will work in the present. In Arron’s opinion, a great business is one that is self-sustaining, that creates value, and that creates jobs and opportunities. But it needs to work straight away, whether you’re small or big.  Most importantly, you must be sure that your business, whatever it might be, is something you really want to do. If you don’t want it more than anything, then it’s not worth it.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If someone came and spent three days in this office with us, they’d learn more than they would at three years of a business degree in management’  ‘Motivating normal people to do exceptional things is the biggest thing that entrepreneur has to do’  ‘My success has always come from finding other people that fill the gaps around me’  ‘The biggest lesson I’ve ever learned in my life is that no one really knows what they’re doing’  ‘I’m an admirer of real people creating value out of nothing’  ‘We’re looking for the smartest people we can find’  ‘We judge on three things: Can you do the job? Will you do the job? Are you a team player?’  ‘Our belief is that the world has changed far faster than the world realises’  ‘I lose my house, they lose their job’  ‘Having people to share the good and the bad with is so important’  ‘I think people over-index on the value of being your own boss’ VALUABLE RESOURCES  Nick’s TwitterScale Up Your Business Podcasthttps://goatagency.com/event-speakers/Arron Shepherd – LinkedInhttps://goatagency.com/about-us/   ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global      Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

A value proposition is what will ground you in your business. Acing it at the beginning of your journey can massively influence how successful your outcome will be. So, in this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Neil guides you on how to make a value proposition for your business. According to Neil, the key questions you should ask yourself is “What is the main problem I need to solve?” and “How can I be better than everyone else?” You should also have clarity on what you’re about to do so it can adequately reach the target audience. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Motivation = perceived benefits of what you offer – perceived costs “54% of companies that do nothing to optimise their value propositions have significantly lower conversion rates in sales than the ones that do.” Understand the market. Know who are your customers and who are your competitors. Speak to your customers and find out what they need. Elements of a value proposition: A headline The list of benefits Visual element What makes a good value proposition? It has to be clear and concise. It shows the end benefits for the customers. It should explain why and how you’re offering is better. It needs to be read and understood in under five seconds. Top tactics of developing your value proposition for the organisation: Clearly explain your products and services. Clearly explain why your customer should choose you among the competitors. Develop a value proposition for special products/services. Target specific value propositions for specific buyer personas. Do extensive research about your competition. Test the value proposition in various media channels. BEST MOMENTS “Value proposition isn’t just a product or service you agree to deliver to the customer; it’s the ingredient of your business that solves the problem.” “It [visual content] ends up being the foundation of your marketing plan.” “You need to be confident and assured why you’re better than everyone else.” “Marketing is experimentation.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Getty Images Slack Soundcloud ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Learn how to start your online business at your home without costing you any money today in this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast. Today, Nick chats with Kev Blackburn about his entrepreneurial journey. He was able to escape the rat race and started creating ways to attain financial freedom. Kev shares the tools he used in starting his online business, Amazon FBA & online arbitrage. Identifying what sells and what doesn’t sell became easier because of these. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Transitioning from a full-time electrical engineer to a full-time entrepreneur was not a difficult decision for Kevin. He didn’t feel like spending the rest of his life in the rat race, so he took a chance and started experimenting in online marketplaces. When he discovered Amazon FBA, scaling up his business became very smooth. It was a massive help in managing his operations, from picking to shipping to providing customer service. He also took advantage of online arbitrage, a concept of buying an item at a lower price and then selling at a higher price in another marketplace. Steps to consider if you want to start creating a business on online marketplaces like Amazon: Create an Amazon Seller Central account and do some studying on why are you going to purchase. Understand how it works. Analyse the products before you are buying them and strategically design how you will sell them. Ace the sale. Make sure that the price you’re selling the item will match the Amazon Buy Box. Create operations procedures for you and your team. Kevin has been enjoying the freedom he’s having ever since he started his online business. Because of his reliable team, he can spend quality time with his wife and kids without having any worries on how his business is going. He also wants other people to experience the life he’s living, so he started mentoring teaching other people about his expertise in online arbitrage. BEST MOMENTS “I was all in. I knew that I had to keep developing myself and surrounding myself with people.” “That’s the process of learning. As you go along, and as you start this journey, you study, start taking action of what you’re learning, and you get some feedback.” “I never had the intention of quitting a job for another job, that’s why I hired assistants.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Date With Destiny – Tony Robbins Amazon FBA 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America’s Foremost Business Philosopher by Jim Rohn ABOUT THE GUEST Kevin Blackburn is an online entrepreneur, automation specialist, success coach, philanthropist, and founder of Life Success Engineer. Through Life Success Engineer, he shares his journey and helps other people achieve their goals. Life Success Engineer ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

The art of managing money starts with you! To unlock it for your business, you better master beforehand how to handle your personal finances and your own budget. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Cash flow in business is the most important thing. If you can’t properly pay all the people that help you grow your business, then it may not be a viable business. Manage your emotions effectively. Yes, your finances, your budget, and money, in general, are rational objects, but they’re underpinned by emotions. Nick himself had problems managing his finances. Instead of saving up or investing his money, he’d prefer to use it for buying more material possessions and pay for his hobbies. Three things that his coach told him about Money: Money flows from people who value it least, to people who value it the most. If you’re not a millionaire by the time you’re 40, then you simply haven’t put enough focus to this area of your life and therefore, need to change your focus. Wealth is a spiritual concept measured by the number of zeros in your bank account. Three Important Strategies: Give a percentage of your money every year or every month to those who need it. Develop psychology around money that attracts wealth and abundance to you. Create a clear plan around debt reduction, if you have it, and asset location. BEST MOMENTS “Your ability to manage money and cash flow in business are critical.” “Everyone should have financial mastery is one of their goals.” “What I was really doing was I was masking certain perceived deficiencies in other areas of my life by the short-term hits of satisfaction.” “If you add enough value to people in life without expectation, you’ll have everything you want in life.” “Like anything, where you focus on is where your energy flows.” VALUABLE RESOURCES The Richest Man in Babylon by George S. Clason Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki Money: Know More, Make More, Give More by Rob Moore Money: Master the Game by Tony Robbins The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing. A Book of Practical Counsel by Benjamin Graham ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Keeping It Real With Khadija! As part of the entrepreneurial series, Nick is in conversation with  Khadija Kalifa  entrepreneur and former contestant on ‘The Apprentice’  They discuss the journey Khadija has been on, what it is really like to be an entrepreneur and finding what you love then making it your vision.   Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  My cleaning business was circumstantial, a necessity due to factors in my life at the time.  From an early age, I knew that if I wanted something I had to work hard for it.  I have a belief system, a mindset that drives me to be successful. It is important to me and I see it as my responsibility to make sure everybody in my family is looked after.  Some people like to have a life of certainty, everything is more or less what you expect it to be until it’s not. Those are the people who try to keep it as level as possible but that’s not realistic.  As an entrepreneur, there are always ups and downs but you have to take control of your future.  We all have the same needs but require the balance between those needs to be different according to our individual characters.  The psychology is important, you need to understand who you are and who you need around you to move your business forward successfully.  You cannot do it on your own you need others around you to take on the other necessary roles within the business.  Since being on ‘The Apprentice I have utilised opportunities for public speaking, networking and podcasts.  It was like a business boot camp. I came out having learnt a huge amount about business and gained confidence in my own abilities.  If I can help others learn from my mistakes then I am able to offer them something positive.  People need to decide on a set of standards. When you start with that you can then retrofit those standards back to your business. If you don’t do that you won’t have the vision in place to move forward.  Your mission to build an empire requires you to have a vision where others are working within it.  If you are doing what you love, doing it becomes your passion.  The empire then becomes part of the clarity, not the destination.  Most people want to help people in the way that they can help.  If you find what you are really special at then everything changes and there is no work anymore.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘I’ve always been a hustler’  ‘You’ve got to have a balance’  ‘If someone’s being stupid, I tell them they are being stupid’  ‘The entrepreneurial journey is within everyone but it’s a trigger that is switched in some of us’    ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this episode, Nick talks you through several practical techniques that will allow you to invest more time in yourself and explains why self-improvement and investment, is by far the best investment you can make.  By adding to our intelligence, value and skill-set, we can positively impact others and our own world.    Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS By investing heavily in ourselves, whether intellectually, or in terms of skills or value, then you can easily add more value back to other people. You are your greatest asset, and any value you add to that will only impact others positively. Investing in yourself is different from the pathway of formal education. As Nick points out, his schooling began as a child, but his education began in his thirties. It is only when we begin to apply the lessons learned through life experience, that we can start to utilise our entire value.   Formal education can be useful in teaching us discipline, focus, a regimented work ethic, and the ability to learn how to study, but the practical experience comes later once our personalities become defined, and when we begin to focus upon the life we want and the goals we are setting for ourselves.  Personal development is about the skills, the beliefs and mindset that you need. Professional development is the acquisition of broader attributes and skills. Personal is based around your attitude and outlook. Professional is based around the specific skill set that will allow you to master your chosen vocation. Both are equally important. You have to take action wherever possible., Theorising and studying about self-improvement are all very well, but progression can never be made until we take that first step In practical terms. Entrepreneurs are not just born - they construct themselves through defining their life’s purpose. Everyone has the capability to be the best version of themselves possible - to seek success and make the most of it. It just takes belief and the will to act. Invest in more time - by creating more time and leveraging it properly, the more time you can devote to the things that are going to drive you towards your passions and your goals. By defining the dimensions in our lives that we wish to spend more time in, we can better utilise and create the time available. Leverage and outsource all of your low-value tasks - Household tasks, administrative tasks and other low-value duties can consume a large amount of our personal development time. By employing others to help, we can focus on the things that are truly important. Invest in your health - Looking better is wonderful, but by improving our health we also improve our energy levels. Sleeping, also, is a crucial part of maintaining our optimum energy levels. Plan your day carefully.  Invest in your mindset - Understanding how our psychology works is hugely important in terms of how we begin to improve our attitude and self-belief. Seminars, coaches, audiobooks and podcasts are an invaluable source of mindset improvement. Investing in knowledge and skills - If mindset is what makes you take action, then knowledge and skills are the things that will create more certainty around what you are trying to achieve. Seek out experts who are a few steps ahead of where you want to be. Invest in your network - Look at who you’re spending your time with, particularly in the world of business. Surround yourself with people who are a few steps ahead, and learn and grow in their company. Always celebrate your successes - Focussing purely on achievement can sometimes leave us blind to the actual progress we are making. Pause once in a while to reflect upon your growth.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘Investing in yourself is not a “should do”, it’s a “must do”’  ‘Find a way to add more value than anyone else does, and you’ll never have to worry about anything’  ‘Every day, work harder on yourself than anything else’  ‘Depending on where you want to go, your education and what you want to invest in, may not be what the establishment does’  ‘You gotta take action!’  ‘I’ve always wanted to be the best version of myself I can be’ ‘You are the sum average of the five people you spend the most time with. So choose these people well!’ ‘It can sometimes be possible to improve ourselves by two avenues at once - listening to an audiobook while exercising stimulates our body and mind simultaneously’ ‘Excuses are created in the mind and do not exist’ ‘Where are you now, where do you want to be, and what is the gap?’ ‘Your network is your net worth’ ‘Everyone needs me time, just make sure it’s not an excuse for procrastination’ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘People buy from people, people trust people and the best way to get your message out is through personal brand’ The number one most important thing you can do to create trust, resonance and scale no matter what stage of business you are in is to have a strong personal brand. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Personal branding is the one thing anyone can do and the resources are everywhere. What is a personal brand? Ultimately a brand is a way of standing out that means the audience you are seeking to connect with understands completely where you are coming from. It is how the value proposition aligns with the person you are trying to help. What is the problem that needs to be solved and why is my business  best placed to help solve the problem for a specific niche. It is key to get these things in congruency by being really clear on the problem and the niche. The brand element is about how you communicate and put it together. A personal brand has to be the best version that you want people to understand and connect with It's your values and standards, it’s what you stand for and stand against. It's about you sharing what you are with the intent to add value because your message and vision need to be expressed and communicated to the people you are trying to help. How do you create a personal brand? It needs to be a balance between who you are now, who you want to be and what your niche wants of you. The first question to ask is who am I? and what do I care about? You’ve got to understand who you are before you can communicate it to others. The key is to be authentic throughout everything. What’s unique about you? What do you stand for and against? Creating your brand story from all the elements is a succinct way of telling what you are about. Within a personal brand, you’ve got to think about the way you are going to connect and get your message out there. Effective use of social media platforms and the opportunities available to you is vital. Focus on platforms that resonant with your audience niche. If you want to step up, stand out and grow your business you have to come to that business from a place of trust, credibility and genuine sense of wanting to add value. The best way for this to happen is by people getting to know you. BEST MOMENTS ‘You got to do it from the right frame of reference for it to work’ ‘A connection about why the problem and the solution come together’ ‘People love to buy but they don’t love to be sold to’ ‘You’re connecting on a personal level, ‘p’ to ‘p’ – person to person’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business Podcast Life Leverage by Rob Moore Crushing It! by Gary Vaynerchuk ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In today’s episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick lets you in the 5 biggest mistakes he had made in business, so you don’t have to make them! Make sure you’re all ears because even the littlest mistake will create a delay or even a diversion from your business plans. Nick discusses the importance of influence, empathy, and belief systems among others especially if you’re just climbing yourself up yet.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Not appreciating the power and the importance of influence. Nick admits that he was not great at it at first. But he listened to every feedback, thought about reasons behind it, and changed how he acts around people. Operating like a gold-driven machine – basically leading teams – versus using the magical tools of engagement and empathy. You have your goal to stand out, be high-performing, and be wealthy. We’re not going to change that. What you have to put in mind is the importance of empathy. Empathy is needed when you’re on your way up to build your network and when you’re trying to build an empire with a team. You can’t ever fake it. Allowing self-limiting beliefs to affect my confidence and conviction. Stop pushing yourself into a belief system you’re not comfortable with. Acting confident and high up at first might hurt you and your career if you’re not able to put up with what you’re capable of. Underestimating the power of marketing. It’s your voice that gives you the brand and the personality. Utilise social media – create compelling content, build a following, and increase your sales. Hiring people based on aptitude versus attitude//Failing to fire people quickly enough If you have someone on your side who’s willing to learn, take in feedback, and perform better, despite the lack of aptitude, don’t lose him. They’re going to serve you better. And, when a person’s not a right fit, make the decision to cut them off. BEST MOMENTS “If you can influence, you can sell. If you can influence, you can engage your team. If you can influence, you can pitch to invest.” “The one thing I can say about empathy is you can’t fake it.” “Don’t go out there and turn it into a sales methodology. There’s nothing worse than reading a post on LinkedIn and hits you up with a terrible close at the end of it.” “If you should, you must.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business Podcast: Presenting, Persuading, and Winning Deals | Apple | Omny Influence: Science and Practice by Robert Cialdini Crushing It! How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence – And How You Can Too by Gary Vaynerchuk ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

When you’re starting a business, you have to build a great team early on. Most, if not all, successful empire businesses, have the best group of people rallying behind their backs. Nick unleashes the leader in you so you can start building great teams, free yourself up from day-to-day operations, and finally grow your business. As much as possible, you want a company that runs like a machine that’s efficient and meticulous with your procedures and systems.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS “If you don’t find money while you sleep, you work until you die.” – Warren Buffett “An extraordinary quality of life is living life in your terms.” – Victor Hugo To build a great business, you need other people (e.g. mentor, employees, support group, etc.) Some tasks can be leveraged to other people so you’ll have more time for the more important stuff. Why do you need to build a great team? You can’t scale business by yourself. There are 3 types of business, namely: A lifestyle business (10-15 employees) where you’re usually the manager A performance business (15-20 employees) needs an established structure to manage the team An empire (>20) where you’re the leader, not just the manager Decide on what type of business are you going to build, then think carefully if you either want to be an owner-investor or an owner-operator. Have an amazing personal assistant (PA) who could efficiently do the administrative tasks. Hire someone good in marketing. Most CEOs and founders are in charge of the ‘front-facing’ (i.e. sales), so it’s better to have someone do the other tasks. How you lead and manage as you scale? Be objective and decisive in designing the structure of your team. A manager oversees the business projects and operations while a leader sets the tone, creates the mission, brings the people with aligned values inside the business. You have to have the right people in the team that believe in your mission. The most common mistake that leaders make is that they put the right person in the wrong place. And, also, we don’t take the tough decisions to lay off an employee even though we know that the relationship isn’t going to help forward your business. Make yourself redundant from your business, not from your job. Nick advises you to work in the business, rather than work on the business. Always ask yourself if what you do is in line with your goal. Three different roles: Artist (creative) – Someone who crafts solutions Chaotic entrepreneur – Someone who’s all about the visions Manager/Leader – Someone who runs the day-to-day operations Create your culture early – a culture that’s nurturing and not reliant on the leader’s presence. How to create values: Align the business’ visions with customer’s wants, demands, and needs Create systems and processes, including setting the parameters of the roles Performance Management Have clear metrics of their performance that you review weekly and daily. Measure the impact of your business. How do you get the most out of the people? Develop them, improve their skills, and create incentives. BEST MOMENTS “Everyone is a leader in different ways, and you have to have leadership in yourself, in teams, and other people.” “Having control of your time is the ultimate freedom.” “Get someone who can get you more time. More time is the most crucial thing you need at the beginning when you’re starting to build a great team and a great business.” “Think about yourself first as a leader of yourself before you think of yourself as a leader of the people.” “Don’t ever get tempted to choose the superstar that has a poor attitude.” “Your words become your actions, become your attitude, and become the heart and soul of the business.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Institute of Leadership and Management ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘Everyone has a story no one has had a perfect life it’s how you react to what has happened to  you that makes the biggest difference’ Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS The most critical thing in business is having the right psychology and mindset along with business concepts such as systems, process and sales. Having all the tools in the toolkit will lead you to success and the life you want to have and where you want to be with your career. Fear – false evidence appearing real, fear is something from your psychology. The fear emotion helps us to gauge and react to possible danger, but the same emotion drives people to not take chances in business or take more control in their lives. It is critical to realise everything is in your mind and what you are feeling is a self-limiting belief. It’s what you do to manage this emotion and ultimately this is a decision requiring implementation of processes and tools to change things. Achievement and fulfilment are based on focusing on growth and contribution. How can you learn more? do more? be more? Contributing more will create a greater sense of purpose. Gratitude in its simplest form is the way you begin to overcome fear and self-limiting beliefs. Fear and gratitude can’t exist in the same frame of reference in your mind. Fear focuses on all the things that could go wrong whereas gratitude focuses on all the things that have gone right, it is the opposite paradigm to fear. Fear places us in a place of insecurity and uncertainty and we become stressed wondering about not if but when something will go wrong When you shift towards gratitude-based thinking it places you in a stable position of thankfulness where you are able to recognise the positives in your life. Having a positive view about how you view life opens your mind to other positive things. Fear is inevitable it is simply part of the process of going through life, building a business and taking risks. Better to take a risk and fail than not take a risk at all. You never ultimately fail if you do something, learn from it, adapt and go again.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Nothing fails if you are ultimately open to change’ ‘Everything in life is ultimately there to serve you both the good and the bad’ ‘Even though I look significantly different the programming from my early childhood stayed with me’ ‘Even years later I was still living in the shadow of this little fat kid who had little self-worth’ ‘It was a coping mechanism because of a fear in my past’ ‘Ripping out the weeds of self-doubt and limiting self-belief that had been in my psychology for so long and replacing them with positive beliefs’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Man's Search for Meaning book by Viktor E Frankl ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Pitching is an essential skill you should have not just in your business, but also in your life. Today on the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick highlights the key lessons about pitching he learned from two of his favourite books: Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff & Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr Robert Cialdini. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS When you fully understand what you want with your business, it’s easier to pitch. You just need to harness that high energy and let your passion come across. 6 Laws of Human Behaviour: Reciprocity – once you have given value to someone, there’s a feeling that they need to return a favour. Scarcity – If you know that there only a limited number of supplies of a thing you want, you’re going to want it more. Authority – People will follow the lead of knowledgeable experts. Consistency – People like leaders who are consistent with what they have said or done. Liking – People say yes to the people that they like. Consensus – When people are uncertain with their decisions, they follow what other people do. STRONG framework that Oren Klaff uses: Set the Frame. Tell your story. Storytelling is the best way to make your audience interested and engaged. Reveal the intrigue. Alongside the storytelling, create something that will make them go back for more of what you’re offering. Offer the nail. Nail the hook point. Get the deal. 6 Pitching Flaws: Don’t talk too much and certainly don’t waffle and go off on tangents. Don’t be too vague and fuzzy. Be specific. Never stay needy. Go slow. Don’t make your pitches similar to other pitches. Prepare for your audience. BEST MOMENTS “People think of pitching as often you’re trying to get someone to buy from you. Pitching is much more than that. It’s how you present who you are, what you do, what you believe in, or what your greater mission is.” “It’s much easier for someone to buy into you if you create something on the side which brings the attention back.” “Rapport-building – in the context of everything – is a powerful thing.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Pitch Anything: An Innovative Method for Presenting, Persuading, and Winning the Deal by Oren Klaff Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Dr Robert Cialdini ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

There are two different approaches when you want to reach out to your customers: branding and direct response marketing. Now, when we do our marketing for our business, should we apply one approach only or both? Don’t get confused with marketing. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Marketing helps your business to have a predictable income and predictable level of performance. Before there was any technology, the only way to reach your target audience was to focus on advertising. 2 Categories of Marketing: Brand – building credibility and trust Direct Response – conversion Businesses tend to choose the shortcut to close deals and drive sales using the direct response approach. This is not always correct. A brand is also about the story, the vision of why you created the business in the first place. Use it to build a relationship with your prospective customer. If they see your brand and decided to choose you, it only means that they resonate with you. It’s vital that you research and know everything about your market – who they are, what social media they use more often, what are their desires, etc. Nick calls it creating a target persona. You have to be yourself in marketing your business. Some might not like you. But, rest assured that the people who like you are people who are going to stay longer to support you since they understand you. Direct response is how you put something in front of your target persona which drives for a call to action. It’s the processes and actions you do for your brand. Examples: PPC campaigns, funnels, lifetime client value, engagement, etc. Utilise CRMs and as possible, be visible on all social media. Social media are free vehicles to get to your target persona. Get your branding right. Be smart with your direct response. You’ll get the best output possible when you understand how these two go together. BEST MOMENTS “If you are great at marketing – which means you like it, you understand it, and you realise the value of it in your business – then you’re gonna have a successful business.” “You need to build a relationship by your brand with your ideal target customer.” “If you are in a scaleup, you’re really selling stuff to a market.” “What is a brand? It’s a process of consistency.” “If you get the brand right, you’re very clear, and you’re authentic to yourself as part of that – particularly in a small business – that’s how you can really start to take on anyone who’s got a bigger or first-move advantage in your market.” VALUABLE RESOURCES HubSpot Innocent smoothies Gary Vaynerchuk ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Is it time to burn the boat? In this fascinating episode, Nick looks at the different strategies and approaches you can use to get started on your entrepreneurial journey. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS What does burning the boat mean? A well-known fable has a saying ‘if you are going to take the island you need to burn the boat’ It’s a paradigm around how committed you are to the decisions you take. This works really well for some people because you are leveraging yourself so much that you have to make it work. When you become an entrepreneur, you have to take the decision to go all in at some point It’s something every entrepreneur must face, the reason most don’t do it early on is fear. Start-up mode You are at the start of your entrepreneurial journey but have other responsibilities such as a family to support. In this situation, you have 3 options; Do nothing and put the idea on hold until it is the perfect time Go for it, quit your day job and burn the boat   Build your business as a side hustle whilst still potentially having a day job Hold off from your dream until the perfect time There is no such thing as the perfect time. Don t ever give up on your dream as there is nothing worse than a life of fear and regret, culminating in a feeling that time is running out. Burn your boat Quitting your main source of income in pursuit of your dream can be a romantic ideal, in reality, it is not always the best option. Entrepreneurial success is underpinned by focus and meaning and if there are too many challenges  you will not be in the right head space to make your business a success This is not true for everyone, some people work best under pressure and seeing a dwindling bank account is the right motivator for them to make it work Being strategic and planning out the best time to burn the boat ensures it is on your terms. It is about giving yourself the best opportunity for success. There are many examples of people burning the boat and even through perceived failures getting there and realising their dream in the end Begin your business as a side hustle Depending on what your idea is you can begin your business as a side hustle until you are more certain about your position. You can get investment and funding whilst still being employed You are building around the edges, creating the opportunity to be able to go for it when the time is right for you. It takes focus and discipline, but it is possible to build a business of your own whilst being employed. When do you know it’s time to ‘burn the boat?’ There are 5 questions you should ask yourself, if the answers provide you with clarity and certainty then it’s the right time. If I burn the boat now what’s my economic runway? How much capital do I have access to?, how much cash do I have in the bank?, do I have any third-party funding that means I can concentrate on building the business without compromising my other priorities. Do I have any life distractions that are about to hit either now or in the near future? A life distraction is something such as marriage or children need to be built into the plan. Do I have a strong business plan? Do you have a clear business proposition?  Are you clear about the problem your business is going to solve? You need to have a pathway to how you are going to generate income, how you are going to get your product out there? You have a key plan that increases your chances of success. How will I respond to challenges and what’s my attitude to failure? Ultimately there is no failure only learning. You have seen what has happened and taken action and you get results. It is an opportunity to adapt and change. If you remain persistent you will get there in the end. Am I absolutely clear about my vision and my why? This is the driving force, having that belief aligned with the other questions is what brings you to the best position to act. BEST MOMENTS ‘It’s essentially about cutting ties’ ‘Where this is a smart approach and when it is not’ ‘Making sure there are leverage and certainty’ ‘90% of people who have the vision to do something entrepreneurial are waiting for the perfect time’ ‘Never build a business that is competing with your current employer. This is a moral issue, to be successful you need live to your own values and standards’ ‘One of the first goals should be for your side hustle to equal your current monthly income. When you reach this point ‘burning the boat’ becomes a much easier proposition and less stressful’ ‘You have to think about it in the context of what you are doing’ ‘If you really want to do something you have to plan it out and take action, then it becomes a reality’ ‘You spend time putting some substance around the idea before you burn the boat’ VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.amazon.co.uk/Think-Grow-Rich-Napoleon-Hill-ebook/dp/B07NLBLFFK/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1552469227&sr=8-1&keywords=think+and+grow+rich https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/scale-up-your-business-podcast/id1453523566?mt=2 ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

‘A simple investment to get to somewhere quite extraordinary’ In this episode, Nick looks in detail at how to raise funding to scale up your business. He examines the various types of funding available exploring the opportunities and risks for your business at differing times in its development and growth. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS Funding is important, you need it to fuel your growth, but you also need to make sure you have the fundamentals of your business in place so that growth is successful. Personal investment If you have the money then investing it in yourself is the least stressful way to raise finance for your business. You can also use the retained earnings from your business to fuel the growth of the business. You will have to achieve a balance, such as not paying yourself so much, or leveraging so much. You are taking a shorter amount of pain for something that is more compelling for you financially in the longer term. Friends and family Often if you are at an early stage with a fantastic idea that you think will get wider investment from a community, later on, then you can look for an investment that will be developing proof of concept. This is a way of driving entrepreneurship and innovation through the system. You are going to people you know for investment in your business idea and often that is at an earlier stage in your business. Angels This is usually a high net individual or consortium. These are people who have been successful in their careers and business and want to put their money directly into ideas. You may not know the angel, but you are pitching for them to invest directly in your business. Angels are looking for quite large returns from investing in clever ideas and it can become a tax efficient way for them to drive investment. Across Angels and Venture Capital you are often giving up a percentage of the business to secure the investment you require. Venture Capital You must be well aware of what you are going into as you are getting a significant injection of capital so you can realise your idea. Venture Capital investors are looking for fast growth and quick returns and this can be stressful but if you are prepared and need that amount of investment then they are a good option to consider. Business Accelerators These can sometimes be government or state-funded when a nation is trying to drive growth in a particular area. They are often suited to early stages and can be part of a suite of support offered to businesses who are just starting up. Crowd Funding This works well if you have a strong brand or something unique, interesting and topical in the niche you are trying to serve because that is where you will get productive groundswell. Government Grants These are a great option as you often don’t have to pay them back however they can be subject to matched funding by you and the application process can be very involved. Debt Most small businesses will use loans as a way of scaling their business. If borrowing is low you can leverage debt to grow your business effectively. How you put yourself in the best possible place to secure investment The person The most important thing is the person their clarity, conviction and vision when speaking with potential investors. The pitch The pitch is about what you are why are there and how you are going to create value. Often it’s the pitch that enables you to inspire them so that they can buy into your energy. The business plan This is where you will talk about the current state to the desired state for your business. You need to demonstrate a good understanding of the market, of where you are now and where you want to be and explain how compelling the numbers are. Raising funding for your business is important depending on where you are but it's important to recognise it’s not a panacea or something that you have to achieve it in a dramatic way.   BEST MOMENTS ‘A simple investment to get to somewhere quite extraordinary’ ‘They were buying into me, the rest of it was important but it was me as a person’ ‘Sometimes a portfolio of investment into your business is the best option’ ‘It’s how you are realising a capital event and creating your own wealth’ ‘Drive growth and aspirations for you and your business’ ‘Don’t do anything that is going to get you in an onerous position, get the amount of money you need in the right structure to fuel growth’ ‘If you are trying to grow your business it’s not a lack of resources it’s a lack of resourcefulness that can hold you back’ ‘In many cases, you would be paying that sort of money in tax anyway’ ‘That’s where you show you have the winning team’ ‘It takes the person on the other side of the table to another place’ ABOUT THE HOST Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

If you think you’re ready to step it up to the next level, then it’s time to learn how to play the game right!  In this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick introduces you to the 5 key components you have to put into your mind when you’re planning your commercial strategy.  Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  5 Critical Things you have to think about when you’re planning your commercial strategy:   Vision and Values. A scale-up always requires a different mindset. Your vision and values might have been different when you started your business. That time, what was important to you seems to work out, but as the time and the market changes, you have to adjust.  Why you started the business? Where do you want to take your business?  Brand and Proposition. A brand is everything that your business wants to achieve. It’s also about what you think of performance management. While, proposition, on the other hand, is about clarity and that you’re providing solutions to your customers’ problems.  Pitch – It’s important to let your customer know that you’re the one person who can solve his problem. No one else.  Moderation. How are you going to help your customers? How will you make them believe that you are the right person that could really give value to them?  Sales Engagement. It’s having effective systems and processes that can start predictability around your revenue model. This also makes sure that there is an exchange of value between you and your customers.  Metrics and Performance Indicators. Always aim for continuous improvement. Measurement should not just be done in the end… it should start and be done at the very beginning.  BEST MOMENTS  “If you’re in a business that is not growing because effectively, you’re not selling enough… and if you’re not selling enough, you’re probably not marketing your business the way it should be, then you have a heap of problems.”  “Problems change. The market moves quickly these days. Sometimes, you have to look at it differently.”  “Predictability of your sales and predictability of your revenues really start to manage your business effectively.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM)  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Before we go learning all about the technical stuff of creating and scaling up a business, let’s establish first in yourself the most important thing you MUST have – the right positive mindset.  We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Today on the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick emphasizes the importance of mindset and belief systems at the core of a successful business. It’s easy to learn about sales, marketing, operations and systems inside the business, but you have to have a firm foundation so you’d continue upscaling your business and not back out whatever the challenge will come your way. According to Nick, it also helps if we focus on our growth and be beneficial to others also.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  70% of running a business success depends on your mindset, 10% is your strategy, and 20% is execution.  Start believing you can do it. People don’t wanna start their own business because they’re afraid they don’t have the capability and they’re afraid it will have a bad outcome. Remember that every successful entrepreneur had their doubts and fears before everything else. They were prepared to take risks.  Where you focus, it’s where your energy goes. Start eyeing on what you want to achieve. Put all your effort to finish the tasks that come with your goals.  6 Human Needs:   Certainty: commitment to relationships, against changes  Uncertainty: variety, spontaneity  Significance: perceived by others  Connection/love: need to be loved  Growth: as an individual, your business or your career  Contribution: giving back  Having a growth and contribution mindset can only not have a great impact on your business and your customers, but also it brings good benefits to you as an individual.  5 Things You Need So You Continue Your Momentum.  A good morning routine.  Your vision and your WHY.  Commitment.  Immediate massive action.  Measurement   BEST MOMENTS  “The same thing can happen to one person that can happen to another person… but it’s how you associate meaning to that situation… that ultimately ends up the outcome.”  “There are systems out there who you can model. There are people out there who are in a similar journey. No need to reinvent the wheel. Workout how the people got to where you wanna get to and learn what they’ve done.”  “Whatever happens at the other end is actually not gonna be worse than you not trying at all.”  “Start to measure what’s actually working and assess what isn’t working and take new action.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins  The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life Before 8AM by Hal Elrod  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Welcome to the podcast!  From start-up to scale-up!  Not every start-up idea can make it big and sustainable enough to be a scale-up. So, in this very first episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick Bradley, your host, aims to let you in on how can he help you on your entrepreneurship journey. From creating lifestyle businesses to performance businesses to your empire, Nick has it all set for you so you could begin growing your own.   Learn about his own journey on how he became one of the known international businessmen right now. For aspiring business leaders and for those who are already looking at expanding their business, this podcast will guide you along the way. Nick discusses today what should you be expecting in the next episodes. And before the discussion ends, discover why it’s important that you have your own mission statement not just for your business, but in general for your life.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Nick Bradley is an entrepreneur, an author, a public speaker, and an investor. His entrepreneurship journey started very early, at the age of 18. Then, he decided to move to the corporate world where he got most of his knowledge of the business.  Nick has sold a number of companies. He’s been helping entrepreneurs get to where they want to be. He’s passionate about personal and professional development.  Nick aims to build a community through Scale Your Business Podcast who can share their knowledge and collaborate with each other.  The podcast will focus on building and developing the missions and visions of businesses. It will also focus on mindset, values, and standards. Nick also wants to bring people in to share their own journey so that you could learn and get new ideas for your business.  How you can make money by creating a business?  Generating revenue and profit.  Merging with other businesses.  Selling your business someday.  Nick believes that if you learn how to balance everything in your business and everything else outside of it, then everything will go in sync. You’re growing not just your business, but you’re also growing as an individual.  Mission statements help with everything that revolves around your business. Nick sees it as more broadly than business. Nick’s mission is to help others to follow their hearts, reach their dreams, show up, and realize their true potential.  BEST MOMENTS  “One of the core reasons I believe, and why I wanted to do the podcast, is scaling your business to exit or creating a capital event and all those things from your business is a very different mindset and capability from starting a business.”  “People who are good at startup are not necessarily good at scale-up.”  “You are the creative visionary entrepreneur. You can outsource some of the things and you can get the benefit of it without having to be tied to something that doesn’t engage you.”  “Have I lived to what my purpose is daily in the interactions I’m having with my clients, my partners, my investors.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Is doing New Year’s Resolution or yearly goal-setting an overrated thing to do?  Welcome to the Scale Up With Nick Bradley! Learn today from your host Nick how to set goals, no matter what your timeline is. For Nick, he likes setting his goals yearly. But, the first thing he does is he finds a quiet place for himself for at least an hour and reflect on his life. He made reflecting and assessing very easy with the use of 5 categories. After this, it’s important to go back and establish your WHY so you know why you strive hard to achieve your goals. There are many great tips on how to set your goals effectively so start tuning in.  This episode is part of a two-part special so watch out for the next one if you want to know more about goal-setting!  We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ KEY TAKEAWAYS  Nick sets his goals at every end of the year. Allow some time for yourself. Try to look back at every significant thing that happened to him for the entire year. Then, brainstorm on what you want to happen to you in the next period of your life.   Things can fall on any of Nick’s categories. Spend at least 5 minutes what’s happening in your life with respect to each category.  Things & Stuff  Experiences  Economic (Finances)  Career & Business  Contribution  Ask yourself: What goals can I accomplish in a year? What will take longer than 3 years? Why do you have to achieve your goals in the next 12 months?  It’s important to write down all your answers. The WHY is the most important. It’s easier to set and achieve your goals when you understand your WHY.  You can share your list to other people who could help you achieve it with you or help you be accountable with your goals.  Once you’ve seen your list of goals, think about what kind of person can do everything and achieve your goals. Nick suggests you also take note of your personal and professional developments. This could include your mindset, your belief systems, your focus, etc.  BEST MOMENTS  “Financial freedom is actually aligned to time freedom.”  “What are you gonna give back? Where are you gonna spend your time doing which is not just about your own personal goals or business goals”  “If you don’t have strong enough WHY you’re just not gonna get out of bed and do stuff.”  “It’s great to have these things written down. It’s great to understand what you want to achieve. But it’s what you do every single day to make progress against these goals.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Creating a start-up is just the beginning. The next steps in the journey are what all entrepreneurs should ready for, especially if you hit the No Man’s Land, where there will be struggles and challenges for your company. It’s up to you now how you could continue the momentum and survive every little thing of it.  In this episode of the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick lays out great strategies on how you can defeat and learn from the challenges of start-ups to be a scale-up. Discover also how you can turn yourself into an owner-investor instead of an owner-operator of your company. Pure optimism, confidence and motivation can go a long way but there’s a lot yet to learn on how to turn your start-up into a ‘proper’ business where you could actually benefit big time.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Nick started his business when he was 18 while he was still living in Australia. He hasn’t got much money on his name and was finishing a degree at that time. So, he started working part-time in a gym where he met a guy who’d inspired him to start his own personal training studio. Nick was honest to admit that when he started it, he didn’t know anything about running a business.  When you start a business, you’re full of confidence and optimism, but when challenges come in, make sure you and your vision don’t get swayed by them.   The Scale-up Dimension. When you start seeing results and create momentum, that’s when you start thinking of building your ‘proper’ business. A proper business generates profit, lets you live the lifestyle you want, and leverages some of its operations.  There are two types of entrepreneurs: one is very good at start-ups and the other one is good at scale-ups.  BEST MOMENTS  “People who start businesses and have all the passion and the energy that comes from that are not always the best people to scale them up.”  “When someone has a problem that needs to be solved, they’re passionate about that problem and they have the absolute conviction to believe that they can add value and do something which can make a difference around that.”  “If you are very clear in your vision on why you started your business, your values, and all those sorts of things, you can actually navigate that area [No Man’s Land] quite well.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It’s the second part of our special about How To Set Goals!  Today on the Scale Up Your Business Podcast, Nick continues to discuss goal-setting and how to achieve your goals. If you miss out on the first part, then make sure to listen to our interesting discussion.  We help business founders scale their business to a life-changing exit within 36 months. Please feel free to get in touch if we can assist. Find out now if you’re building a high-value, exitable business (even if you have no immediate plans to sell it). You’ll get an instant PDF report with powerful insights specifically tailored to your business in just 4 minutes. https://highvalueexit.scoreapp.com/ Learn today how to commit to your daily, weekly or even long-term actions. If you dread looking at very long to-do lists and end up not even finishing anything on it, then it’s time to learn the RPM Method, which stands for Results, Purpose, and Massive Action. Nick also suggests you schedule all your tasks so you know what to look forward to today and in the future. Note also that when you’re setting these goals, it’s important that you maintain a well-balanced life.  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Have disciplines, habits, and routines that could turn into daily actions.  RPM = Result, Purpose, and Massive Action. It banishes the need for to-do lists.   Result. The result has to be measurable and time-bound.  Purpose. If you don’t have decent enough ‘why’, it becomes difficult to be motivated.  Massive Action. The things you need to do.  He writes every task, event, appointment, etc. he has to attend to on his planner. Then, when it’s done, he marks it.  Nick also breaks the areas of improvements of his life into categories: family, personal activities, work, investments, advisory, free time.  Balance all the areas of your life. If you focus on one thing (i.e. business), you’ll eventually spiral down. The growth you’re aiming for is not quite holistic and does not benefit you in the long run.  BEST MOMENTS  “The WHY could be all sorts of things. It’s leading you to long-term vision.”  “Every single day… taking that small action is gonna get you a step up towards that goal.”   “If I get quite intentional with those RPM blocks every 3 months, I can set the results… I can set specific things around those categories and it starts to move me towards various things in my life that makes it balanced.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES  Tony Robbins’ Rapid Planning Method (RPM)  Start With WHY by Simon Sinek  ABOUT THE HOST  Nick Bradley is a renowned entrepreneur, investor, speaker, and business growth expert. His background is growing and scaling Venture Capital and Private Equity backed businesses globally. Over the last decade, he has completed 117 acquisitions and 25 business exits with a combined valuation of over $5bn dollars. His mission is to help business founders build valuable businesses and create life-changing exits so they can realise freedom, wealth, and impact.  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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/