Discover today the 8 ways that you can have a greater impact on the world. Today Rob discusses how to maximise your influence on the world and extend your message to the masses. Learn the importance of ensuring your visions are global, how to build a big platform and why you should always endeavour to always be kind to others. KEY TAKEAWAYS Have A Grand Vision: When you have personal goals, they can become self-centred. By turning your visions into local, national or even intercontinental vision...
Jan 22, 2021•14 min•Ep 612•Transcript available on Metacast WHAT IS CLUBHOUSE? FIND OUT HERE Have you heard of the new social media trend Clubhouse? Today Rob discusses the assumptions and opinions people have made about the new app and why you should be getting involved as soon as possible. Rob discusses why you should leverage Clubhouse now whilst there are no costs, how you can grow your reach organically and why it can be used to build your personal brand. KEY TAKEAWAYS 90% of the Clubhouse rooms are not about marketing or selling. Many people have a...
Jan 20, 2021•12 min•Ep 611•Transcript available on Metacast In today’s podcast Rob is joined by American businessman, electrical engineer and founder of Atari games Nolan Bushnell. Together they discuss how Nolan found success in video games, having Apple founder Steve Jobs as an employee and why ideas are rubbish until you work on them. KEY TAKEAWAYS Each time sales slow down on your product, bring out a new one. Slowly but surely you will become a real company receiving orders and gaining customers. As long as you can keep ahead of everybody creatively...
Jan 18, 2021•58 min•Ep 610•Transcript available on Metacast Don’t just set yourself 1,2,3 or 4 goals a year, set yourself 100-250! Join Rob and the Disruptive Entrepreneur Community as together they make 2021 the year that you achieve your goals in business and life. Start today and follow a brand new goals and accountability thread that’s set up specifically for entrepreneurs, just like you. KEY TAKEAWAYS Mark Victor Hansen is an American inspirational and motivational speaker, trainer and author. He is best known as the founder and co-creator of the Ch...
Jan 15, 2021•11 min•Ep 609•Transcript available on Metacast DESCRIPTION For many people, the year 2020 was a write-off. It is now time to leave last year behind, look forward and create an amazing 2021 for you and your business. Join Rob today as he details the ten things you can do that will help accelerate your 2021 success. Discover how to pivot and adapt your business, why moving online will increase your profit margin and how to take your business global. KEY TAKEAWAYS 2021 could paradoxically be the best business and entrepreneurial year of your li...
Jan 13, 2021•7 min•Ep 608•Transcript available on Metacast WHAT IS CLUBHOUSE? FIND OUT HERE In today’s episode, Rob is joined by entrepreneur, strategist and host of ‘The Pandemic Podcast’ Dan Gregory. Together they discuss the most recent government announcement ‘Lockdown 3.0’ and the way that Covid is changing the way business works. Join them today and learn how you can help your business survive by pivoting, not allowing fear to overcome you and identifying problems and looking for solutions. KEY TAKEAWAYS There is so much fear amongst people during...
Jan 11, 2021•57 min•Ep 607•Transcript available on Metacast The year 2020 was something no one could have ever predicted and now a ‘new normal’ has been created, Rob shares his predictions for how 2021 will go. Rob discusses how businesses that create a connection amongst their customers are likely to thrive this year, how there will be a resurgence of live events and why the best way to prosper in 2021 is to solve your customers’ new problems, fast. KEY TAKEAWAYS Creating something meaningful leads to hope, truth and connection. By creating a connection...
Jan 08, 2021•39 min•Ep 606•Transcript available on Metacast Learn today how you can leverage the opportunities that coincide with the governments most recent announcement of Lockdown 3.0. Join Rob as he describes ten ways in which you as an entrepreneur can make the most of lockdown, including inoculating yourself from mass fear to taking advantage of social medias newest platform Clubhouse discover how to make this lockdown count. KEY TAKEAWAYS Inoculate yourself from the mass fear that could turn into anger. You cannot turn anywhere without having a co...
Jan 07, 2021•12 min•Transcript available on Metacast 2020 was a brutal year but as business owners and as entrepreneurs there have been valuable lessons learned that you can take into 2021 to improve your business and scale your brand. Listen in and discover Rob’s 9 key takeaways from adapting your expectation vs reality, learning how to stay agile and scaleable and why it’s essential to always have a plan B. KEY TAKEAWAYS Expectation vs reality - Entrepreneurs could not have predicted the COVID-19 pandemic but as a result, many did not adjust the...
Jan 06, 2021•28 min•Ep 605•Transcript available on Metacast Do you have a new product or service that’s awaiting its launch? Join Rob and learn how you can create a wildly compelling offer which your customers can’t turn down. Discover the importance of creating a unique product, how your best salesman is your customers’ testimonials and how to create scarcity and urgency for your product. Rob also answers questions on how to successfully set goals, and how to handle criticism. KEY TAKEAWAYS If you get bored with your products and services, your market w...
Jan 04, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Ep 604•Transcript available on Metacast Whilst every person may have their own unique definition of personal success, it is always beneficial to discuss a universal qualifier of what success really is. Join Rob today as he discusses the definition of success. Discover how creating value in areas most important to you can be defined as successful, how transient measures of success can send you on a never-ending quest for success and why for something to be deemed as a success it must be both selfish and selfless. KEY TAKEAWAYS It is wi...
Jan 01, 2021•31 min•Ep 603•Transcript available on Metacast Fear and rejection are something we all have to face in life and sometimes it is not easy to accept. In today’s podcast, Rob details how to handle failure and rejection effectively. Discover why facing your fears can allow you to grow as an entrepreneur, the importance of having a balanced outlook on life and how to contextualize your emotions. KEY TAKEAWAYS You have to face rejection, embarrassment and shame. As an entrepreneur you have to face your demons regularly otherwise you are not pushin...
Dec 30, 2020•24 min•Ep 602•Transcript available on Metacast Discover today the 'common advice' that is (usually) bad. Join Rob as he goes through thirty of the most frequent pieces of advice that you should not take. Rob discusses why it is not possible to eliminate your fears, why you should always have a plan B and why ‘going with your gut’ can mislead you into filtering out important information. KEY TAKEAWAYS A common piece of bad advice is that you can ‘eliminate’ fear. It is not possible to have no fear, fear is a necessary emotion for survival and...
Dec 28, 2020•52 min•Ep 601•Transcript available on Metacast With the recent announcement of the UK’s third lockdown and tier system, it is understandable that many businesses will be worried about what their future holds. Join Rob today as he shares his ten lockdown survival strategies and discusses how you can survive and thrive throughout it. Discover the importance of having multiple income streams, how to create a modern business model with low overheads and why you should look at the new opportunities this lockdown could bring. Key Takeaways It is v...
Dec 23, 2020•39 min•Ep 600•Transcript available on Metacast Today Rob is joined by the inspiring motivational speaker, trainer and best-selling author Mark Victor Hansen. Famous for co-creating ‘Chicken Soup For The Soul’ which has over 250 titles and have sold more than 500 million copies worldwide, Mark explains why he believes reading is a fundamental freedom of all freedoms. Rob and Mark also discuss why to achieve your destiny you need to be able to ask, how there is greatness and super talent in everybody and what it means to be disruptive. KEY TAK...
Dec 21, 2020•54 min•Ep 599•Transcript available on Metacast Learn today how to get people to do what you want them to do. Join Rob today as he discusses the dos and don’ts of managing staff and working alongside people to achieve your end goal. He discusses the importance of keeping your cool, why you should only ever see people as your equal and why you are always a server, never a leader. KEY TAKEAWAYS The first step of getting people to do what you want them to do is to not get annoyed. Annoyance and frustration can often lead to anger. If the anger l...
Dec 18, 2020•39 min•Ep 598•Transcript available on Metacast Discover today how the world will always prove you right. In today’s episode, Rob discusses how the world is one big mirror and how you will get out of life exactly what you put into it. Learn how if you wait long enough, you will eventually see the returns on your actions and why filtering your life can change your outcome. KEY TAKEAWAYS The world and/or people will always give back to you, what you give to it/them. You could say that the world is a mirror and it reflects exactly what you show ...
Dec 16, 2020•17 min•Ep 597•Transcript available on Metacast One of the world's most influential and impactful motivational speakers, Peter Cohen, joins Rob today to discuss all things disruptive. Together they consider the importance of mentors, why many entrepreneurs are addicted to growth and how to seize new opportunities. KEY TAKEAWAYS Disruption is forcing the hand of change. If you don’t disrupt yourself, someone else will, whether that be an unexpected pandemic or reacting to political movements. Human beings are the only beings that have the abil...
Dec 14, 2020•38 min•Ep 596•Transcript available on Metacast Looking for ways to improve your and your team’s productivity? Discover the 14 ways to do so by listening in to today’s episode as Rob talks you through his techniques on maximising productivity levels from everyone. Learn how to identify your key result areas and why these are vital to the growth and delivery of your role, why giving projects to people rather than tasks can increase their productivity levels and why offering rewards to your team can help maximize their output. KEY TAKEAWAYS Kno...
Dec 11, 2020•30 min•Ep 595•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever been told that to be successful in business you must at first ‘get on the tools yourself?’ Today Rob discusses why this advice can be harmful to those entrepreneurs with a big vision. Learn today why leveraging and outsourcing tasks to others can help your business grown, how hiring a project manager to complete jobs you cannot allow you to focus on income-generating tasks and why ‘getting on the tools’ can only allow you to focus on one job at a time. KEY TAKEAWAYS Some people bel...
Dec 09, 2020•22 min•Ep 594•Transcript available on Metacast Listen in to the story you’ve never heard about the UK’s leading investment platform managing the savings and investments of over 1.3 million clients as Rob interviews billionaire founder, entrepreneur and investor of FTSE 100 company Hargreaves Lansdown, Steven Lansdown. Together they discuss what it takes to build a business, the secret to longevity and the mindset you need to be an entrepreneur. KEY TAKEAWAYS Hargreaves Lansdown is the UK's leading savings and investment platform. Founded in ...
Dec 07, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep 593•Transcript available on Metacast Have you ever made a mistake in business or in life and wondered how you will ever overcome it? Well, listen in to today's episode as Rob is joined by Gerald Ratner, former CEO of one of the most previously successful jewellery companies in the UK whose infamous speech ruined both his and his company's reputation. Together they discuss how to overcome mistakes, why facing your demons is sometimes easier than avoiding them and why you must learn that you cannot please everybody. New Book Launch -...
Dec 04, 2020•58 min•Ep 592•Transcript available on Metacast Most of the problems in today’s society come from the inability to agree to disagree. Why do we have to hate on those that we disagree with? Rob shares his first politically driven RANT on why we disagree online, in politics, within our business and how with a shift in mindset you can embrace those that you disagree with, improve your critical and rational thinking and why when you can master this you’ll find wisdom, growth, progress and success and you will be able to scale your enterprise and ...
Dec 02, 2020•15 min•Ep 591•Transcript available on Metacast What does it mean to be Disruptive? In today’s special episode, Rob brings together millionaires, billionaires and some of the world’s most disruptive and controversial people to share with you what disruptive means to them. Discover the true meaning of what it is to be disruptive, why you must force change in your marketplace, have confidence in your conviction and always, always think outside the box in this exciting episode of the Disruptive Entrepreneur. New Book Launch - 3rd December 2020 ‘...
Nov 30, 2020•31 min•Ep 590•Transcript available on Metacast Do you want to dramatically increase the productivity of your team, be it your staff, your outsourcers or even your admin staff? In this episode, Rob shares with you 14 tried and tested ways to increase productivity, improve morale, earn more money and how you can dramatically scale your business when you and your staff are productive. KEY TAKEAWAYS Have a clear job description. This should include the vision and values of the company at the top, the main outcome of their role to the top line, t...
Nov 27, 2020•29 min•Ep 589•Transcript available on Metacast Changes in the market around us can drastically and dramatically affect your business and if you are not prepared to embrace change first and fast then you are less likely to succeed. Listen in as Rob shares with you his brand new 6 phases of change model, how to find the hidden opportunities in times of change and challenge and why it’s essentials to have a testing mindset and always disrupt yourself first before being disrupted. New Book Launch - 3rd December 2020 ‘Reinvent Yourself’ With Gera...
Nov 25, 2020•25 min•Ep 588•Transcript available on Metacast Now more than ever is it essential to be able to reinvent yourself, to disrupt your market and to grasp opportunities. Listen in as Rob shares with you 11 proven ways to reinvent yourself, how to embrace change, see the upside and downside in challenges and opportunities and learn how to disrupt yourself before being disrupted. New Book Launch - 3rd December 2020 ‘Reinvent Yourself’ With Gerald Ratner KEY TAKEAWAYS View the upside in the downside. When you feel challenged and disrupted you’re no...
Nov 23, 2020•37 min•Ep 587•Transcript available on Metacast In times of change there is disruption, evolution and revolution but not all entrepreneurs are able to successfully adapt to change. In today’s episode Rob shares his focused and entrepreneurial 6 phases of change model to evolve and grow your business in times of disruption. Discover the cycle between order and chaos, learn how to disrupt rather than be disrupted and how to embrace change to evolve. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you understand the phases of change you become more adaptable and can evolve ...
Nov 20, 2020•20 min•Ep 586•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode of The Disruptive Entrepreneur, Rob tackles the debate surrounding freedom of speech, a topic he’s kept quiet about for over 15 years! Should we fight for our right to speak and say what we want regardless of the consequences? Or should we be held more accountable for defamation, bullying and criticism? Join the discussion as Rob weighs in on the effects of social media, how you can harm your business and your brand by sharing your opinion and the mindset you need to evolve in a ...
Nov 18, 2020•22 min•Ep 585•Transcript available on Metacast Are you struggling with the guilt of being a Mum whilst growing and scaling your business? Multi-award winning designer, investor, author and Mum, Kelly Hoppen CBE joins the show to share her experience on what it takes to be successful, the positive mindset entrepreneurs need to grasp opportunities and why being ‘conscious’ and having ‘gratitude’ go a long way in business. Listen in as Rob and Kelly discuss her journey from Designer to Dragon and the lessons she’s learnt throughout 40 years in ...
Nov 16, 2020•51 min•Ep 584•Transcript available on Metacast