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Business Mastermind Podcast

Gavin Prestonwww.gavinpreston.com
The Business Mastermind Podcast is for business owners and leaders in small to medium-sized businesses. If you are running a business with revenue between £100,000 and £20 million, and are looking for inspiration, insights, lessons learnt, resources and growth strategies from down to earth, relatable business people then this podcast is for you. It is a meeting of minds between everyday business people and specialists on their journey to master business growth. You will find these discussions both engaging and relatable, covering topics such as marketing, leadership, systems, strategy, scaling, culture, resiliency and mindset. Your host Gavin Preston, a student of what works, facilitates a flowing conversation that uncovers the gems of his guests' success strategies, insights and hacks. There is richness in the variety of the guest’s expertise, sector and their own story. These conversations are interspersed by episodes from Gavin as he shares the growth strategies and insights from working with clients across numerous sectors. Insight, strategy and action points that will help you Survive and Thrive in business and life as you scale your business and achieve a bigger impact for your customers, colleagues and communities.

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Episodes

Jason Richmond CEO and Founder of Ideal Outcomes And Author of Culture Spark On The Importance of Culture and Leadership with Remote Teams

This week, Gavin talks to Jason Richmond, the CEO and founder of Ideal Outcomes, about why culture is such a vital component of any business's success, and we can best inspire, motivate and collaborate with our teams remotely. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Creating dynamic cultures and great working environments should be the cornerstone of any company. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. It is an evolving process. No one could have been prepared for the impact of COVID,...

Mar 28, 202133 minEp. 214

Matthew Yahes - CEO and Founder of Extend Your Team On Hiring Exec-Level Team Members From The Phillipines

Gavin talks to Matthew Yahes, the founder of Extend Your Team, and a specialist in the eCommerce space, about the best ways in which you can grow your teams through hiring C-Suite level and executive level team members from around the world, and thereby strengthen and develop your own workforces. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We can spur further growth if we are concentrating on the right areas of our business, and by ensuring that our talents are best matched to the tasks a...

Mar 22, 202146 minEp. 212

Sandy Brown On Mediation - Skills And Tools To Help Reduce Or Remove Conflict

This week, Gavin is joined by Sandy Brown, a mediation trainer, solicitor and speaker, to discuss the ways we can improve our mediation skills, and how to turn what can be an awkward situation, rife with conflict, into a mutually beneficial and friction-free outcome. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Part of the problems we're seeing in the heightened sensitivity situations where mediation is required, is a lack of tolerance. Make sure you are listening effectively. Listening to...

Mar 15, 202149 minEp. 210

Derick Van Ness On Fundamental Wealth-Building Strategies

In this episode, Gavin talks to wealth strategist, Derick Van Ness, about the ways in which we can better insure our future resources by strategically basing our todays upon the outcomes of tomorrow. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Many business owners start with a passion that comes from the heart. But over time, this passion turns into something more transactional, which causes the passion to become a grind. Creating a financial structure around us and our wealth, helps to p...

Mar 08, 202134 minEp. 208

2021 Budget Special

It's a very special impromptu episode this time, in which Gavin and his special guests, Chris Haley and Mark Burch, discuss the 2021 budget announcement from Rishi Sunak, and what it could potentially mean for those in business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS There are 1.3 million people now about to be taken into being higher tax payers. This may not have seemed like a tax rise, but many more people will be paying more tax. The rumour was that capital gains tax rates were go...

Mar 05, 202134 minEp. 207

Uri Bram, CEO Of The Browser, On Managing Teams Of Remote Workers

With remote working fast becoming the norm in the new post-COVD world, Gavin talks to Uri Bram, founder of The Browser, about the ways in which he has successfully managed teams around the world, and how we can make the most of our people from afar. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Ensuring our teams know their separate areas of work, and structuring our workflows around this, is essential to provide a fluid stream of productivity. We need to account for the lack of nuance in c...

Mar 01, 202121 minEp. 205

Buy, Build and Sell - with Steven Kuhn - Business turnaround specialist, decorated combat veteran and investor

In this week's show, Gavin talks to Steven Kuhn, an experienced investor and turnaround specialist, about building businesses, selling them, and the best ways in which to buy and sell! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We cannot grow unless we are given the room to do so. Stepping into a larger pool allows us to grow and develop far more quickly. Sometimes we need to hit bottom in order to be given a new perspective, and give us the inspiration to grow and succeed. We must remov...

Feb 25, 202139 minEp. 204

James Sinclair, CEO Of Partyman Group, On Scaling Your Business In A Pandemic

The pandemic has thrown many challenges up in the world of business, but it has also provided opportunities, including chances to scale. In this week's show, Gavin talks to one of businesses true entrepreneurs, James Sinclair, the mastermind behind Partyman, about how he not just survived during lockdown, but has thrived! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS We can effectively shore up assets throughout the life of our business concerns, by making sure we invest in safe harbours, s...

Feb 22, 202150 minEp. 203

Using Inner Wealth Work To Unlock Your Potential - with Rose Radford

This week, Gavin talks to powerhouse business coach, strategist and speaker, Rose Radford, about developing the entrepreneurial potential in people by using "inner wealth work", focussing specifically upon female entrepreneurs and businesses. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Be less emotion-driven. Gather and look at data as though you are a CEO, even if you only have a six-figure business. Conversations about money should not be a taboo thing. If we brought this dialogue out i...

Feb 15, 202139 minEp. 201

#200 From Idea To Product, and Dragon's Den - with Solvej Biddle

It's the 200th episode of The Business Mastermind Podcast, and to celebrate this, Gavin has invited a very special guest, one of the true business masterminds, and star of BBC's Dragon's Den, Solvej Biddle! No one knows more about how to turn an idea into a product, having appeared as a contestant on the show, and successfully sold her Content And Calm travel idea in a fierce bidding war between two dragons. In this show, Solvej discusses the ways in which you can turn your own ideas into realit...

Feb 11, 20211 hr 8 minEp. 200

Finding The Passion To Change The World - with Reece Brown

This week's guest is independent wealth manager, Reece Brown, one of the most dynamic up-and-coming business minds in the country, about the importance of fuelling the fire beneath your passions, and how you can follow your dreams all the way to success. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Many in the entrepreneurial space have grown up in defiance of the pigeon-hole that society has put them in. It is the drive to break these boundaries that fuels their rise to success. Friends a...

Feb 08, 202130 minEp. 199

The 7 Cs Of Conscious Change - with Cheryl Peel

In this week's show, Gavin talks to Cheryl Peel, an accountability coach who has devoted much of her expertise to helping professionals and executives to realise their potential through enacting lasting, effective change. Cheryl discusses her ground-breaking system, The 7 Cs Of Conscious Change, which encompasses several different elements designed to provide lasting change, all of which can serve to energise and empower your teams. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Whilst traum...

Feb 01, 202148 minEp. 197

Justin Breen On The Right Networks Create The Right Opportunities

Few people are more talented at spotting patterns in business and behaviour than this week's guest, Justin Breen, the author of Epic Business and the founder of BrEpic Communications. Justine joins Gavin to discuss the importance of mind-set and how it can equate to a better network, and the value in creating an environment built upon vision, and how this can translate to abundance and investment. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS All entrepreneurs have generally, along their jo...

Jan 25, 202139 minEp. 195

Hey Presto! - Quarterly Strategic And Action Planning

Today Gavin talks about planning! It will have been something you have been surrounded by the past few weeks. But, if you haven't quite got started yet or want to revisit it and want a strategic, process-lead way to plan then listen in to todays episode of Hey Presto for some great tips and ideas from Gavin! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod VALUABLE RESOURCES The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - htt...

Jan 21, 202113 minEp. 194

Somayeh Aghnia On Tech-Enabled Business Strategy, Digital Transformation in SMEs, and Creating A Digital-First Culture

Somayeh Aghnia, the founder of Geeks Ltd, is a true powerhouse in the world of growing business through technology. In this week's show, Gavin talks to Somayeh about the ways in which we can create a digital-first culture in our organisations, as well as the practical ways in which she has enabled businesses to scale through tech-based strategies. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Digital solutions for any business depend on the client business characteristic, the kind of profil...

Jan 18, 202132 minEp. 193

Hey Presto! Re-Activitating Drive And Motivation, Keeping Employees Engaged

VALUABLE RESOURCES Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod The Business Mastermind Podcast Get your copy of Survive And Thrive NOW at https://www.surviveandthrive.cc Keep Your Boat Afloat - https://www.survivetothrive.biz/keep-afloat gavin@gavinpreston.com ABOUT THE HOST Gavin Preston Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach. He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative st...

Jan 14, 20218 minEp. 192

Business Planning For 2021 - A Collaborative Podcast with Nick Bradley

It's a meeting of masterminds today as The Business Mastermind Podcast's Gavin Preston meets the Scale Up Your Business Podcast's Nick Bradley, for a reflection upon the year that was 2020 in business, and the opportunities and trends that will make the biggest differences in 2021! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS 2020's effects, for many, showed how many people use different mind-sets in order to deal with change. This has led to a sense of exhaustion in some, but the results ...

Jan 11, 202147 minEp. 191

Hey Presto - Happy New Year - Refocus New Tiers and Fears into a New Gear for your business

With a new year come new challenges. In this week's Hey Presto, Gavin talks you through why now is the right time to focus on the positives, and switch up gears to face those challenges down, and get 2021 off to a flying start! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Beginning the new year in lockdown provides not just a business challenge, but a mental one, too. Finding the right mind-set is everything. Disconnecting and unplugging is a smart way to give ourselves that sense of refre...

Jan 07, 202117 minEp. 190

Perry Marshall On How To Detox, Declutter And Dominate Through Elimination

In this week's show, Gavin talks to the author of '80/20 Sales And Marketing', Perry Marshall, one of the most renowned business strategists on the planet, and endorsed in both Forbes and Inc Magazine. Perry joins Gavin to discuss his new work, 'Detox, Declutter, Dominate: How To Excel By Elimination', and also the 20-120 rule that could aid you in increasing productivity and time management. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS 20% of your business generates 120% of your profits. ...

Jan 04, 202154 minEp. 189

April Shprintz On Energising Your Mind-Set For The Challenges And Opportunities In 2021

As we look forward to the year ahead, and the possibilities and opportunities that come with it, Gavin opens 2021's account by talking to business accelerator, best-selling author and creator of The Generosity Culture, April Shprintz, about the simple steps you can take on a daily basis in order to refine and hone your mind-set and give you an energised advantage over the challenges ahead. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS The great success stories in business are all subscribed...

Dec 31, 202038 minEp. 188

Jason Treu On The Ultimate Role Of Leadership

There have been some prime examples of great leadership this year, but there have also been areas where leadership has been found wanting. In this week's show, Gavin talks to author and featured TedX speaker, Jason Treu, about leadership, the best ways in which we can show up, and the responsibilities and opportunities that all leaders have in this new world of business. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS At the outset of the pandemic, leaders went above and beyond in ensuring wo...

Dec 28, 202045 minEp. 187

Lisa Dickson On How To Apply Profit First In Your Business

This week, Gavin talks to "profit hacker" Lisa Dickson, about the practical ways in which we can hack profits and make sure they are prioritised as a business need for 2021, thereby allowing us the room for growth, and to deliver some much needed incentives to ourselves and our returning workforces. Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Clarity of numbers is everything in ensuring that profit hacking can be a success. This begins with mapping out, in its entirety, your financial blu...

Dec 24, 202037 minEp. 186

Matt Somers On Improving Your Skills As A Leader And Manager

Do you want to improve yourself as a leader and manager, and in turn get the best out of your team, growing and scaling along the way? If the answer is yes, then this week's episode is for you as Gavin talks to Matt Somers, an expert in coaching leaders with over 25 years' experience! Sign Up Here: https://bit.ly/biz-pod KEY TAKEAWAYS Every leader or manager of people is a coach whether they like it or not. It isn't a choice. They can do it well or badly, but that facet of the job is an expectat...

Dec 21, 202050 minEp. 185
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