Scale Up With Nick Bradley

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/