Scale Up With Nick Bradley

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/