Scale Up With Nick Bradley

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/