Scale Up With Nick Bradley

Chat With Titans is a brand new series from Scale Up Your Business, in which Nick interviews some of the most amazing and successful people in the world right now, focussing on those who are effecting lasting, positive change in the world. In the first episode, Nick talks to Gary Henderson, a digital marketing specialist, and one of the true innovators on the world's most exciting social media platform, Clubhouse. Gary talks to Nick about the ways in which he has engaged with such a large audience so swiftly, and some of the philosophies he adheres to. 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 When we accept a position, either in a company, or for a client, we are accepting a role. In this way, we become a role-player, and it is our responsibility to perform in that role to the best of our ability. Growing large audiences on social media is a great thing, but there is far more value in a more focussed audience, even if it is smaller. Mastermind solutions and events are an incredible way of growing and developing, but with the world we live in, there needs to be a better way of supplying and attending them. If modern methods of communication, including social media, are embraced and used effectively, the results can be exceptional. BEST MOMENTS 'I'm a role-player, and I knew my role' 'I was here to work - I was here to build my personal brand' 'I want to be around some pretty epic people' 'It's been exceptional in terms of the ability to connect' 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        Gary Club - https://www.gary.club/ All The Way Up Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1495712728 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 Lance Graulich, the founder and CEO of ION Franchising, the industry-leading franchise consultancy and development group, about the ways in which you can turn your business into a franchise, and dynamically increase your reach and your wealth as a result, and how running a franchise may suit your business goals. 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 Franchises are an attractive opportunity for potential business owners, as many of the initial headaches have already been solved, such as branding and marketing. Franchising is the legal relationship that allows you to use a brand and name in order to generate wealth. In franchising, there has to be a reasonable level of control in how this relationship works. The ways in which we can add our own creativity is in the human side of the business - in improving service and how our staff show up. This can make all the difference, and is also what sets one franchise apart from another. A franchise owner is someone who wishes to own and operate a business, but who does not necessarily have the right skill-set or mind-set in order to found a business. In this way, anyone can operate a company. BEST MOMENTS 'The average person does not have a burning desire to create a business in particular' 'Where you can get creative is in the human resources side of things' 'Entrepreneurship is not just about start-up' 'Find the thing you love doing, and you'll never work a day in your life' 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        ION Franchising - https://ionfranchising.com Lance Graulich LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lance-g-68b304118/ Lance Graulich @ Inspired Insider - https://www.inspiredinsider.com/lance-graulich-interview/ 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 innovation, and how to engender a culture that can grow, develop and maintain innovation in your organisation. 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 believe the thing they create at the outset of their business journey will be there forever. But this is not the case. You must embrace the fact that dynamic thinking and ideas can come from anywhere in your organisation. Always be open to listening to others. Look for multiple ways to solve problems and create solutions. Never believe that there is only just one way. Think creatively and allow collaboration. Marketing is all about experimentation. It's not about following a single path. It's about testing and trialling until you get the result, and once you get there, you double down on the things that work. BEST MOMENTS 'Make sure your culture allows people to solve and offer ideas' 'Ideas can come from anywhere in your organisation' 'You have to think about reframing the problem' 'You either kill it, you move forward, or you tweak it to get it to something that can work for you' 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 meets DJ Irie, one of the most prolific DJs currently working in the world today, for a discussion centring around how to turn your passion into a business, and that business into an eventual empire. 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 A burning desire to follow your passions all the way to the end is never an easy one. It requires risk and sacrifice, but the rewards are that much higher. Many give up on their dreams through fear, or because they think the road is too difficult. The key to success is to build self-belief. We need to focus on what is important - the reason why we strive to turn our passions into our life's pursuit. Money is never enough of a reason. Happiness is a far more determining factor. Every day presents a new opportunity for success. We never know what is coming or who is in our audience, so make sure you show up as your best self. BEST MOMENTS 'The detail matters' 'I was just a crazy, energetic kid that loved some music!' 'One of the biggest things was that I didn't care about the money' 'I'm not going to let anyone define me or put me in a box, because I know I'm worth more than that' 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       DJ Irie - http://djirie.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/

In this week's '15 Minutes To Action' episode, Nick talks about the difficulties that some business owners face in terms of equalising the mind-set between employer and employee, and how you can best help your people to realise, and align with, your vision and goals. 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 Your people will, in general, view their role in your organisation as a job. This means they are less likely to want to take on risk, but it also means they fail to sometimes view the upside of what risk can produce. Many who join a small business are joining because they believe in the mission, and they want to be part of its success. Communicating your vision should also include an explanation of what that vision means for your team. Tell them what is in it for them. Honesty is key to gaining the trust required to invigorate your people. If things go well, tell people. If things aren't going well, have the courage to communicate that. BEST MOMENTS 'You've got to start putting things in place that will allow or foster that culture' 'You as a leader have to have a really strong vision' 'Be very open, honest, and vulnerable' 'You start to bring people in who understand that culture and awareness of what you're doing' 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       Tony Robbins Disc Assessment - https://www.tonyrobbins.com/disc/ 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 "The Millionaire's Coach", Sarah Fruehling, a specialist in working with the best out there on ways in which they can create meaning and purpose in their lives. Sarah joins Nick to discuss the importance of implementing these driving factors within everything we do, what it takes to become the success you dream of being, and the belief systems that can help you on the journey. 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 How you think how you behave and how you show up, are the factors that provide impact in lives. Encouraging this belief system is the foundation of successful coaching. The best are the ones who are always evolving, changing, growing, and searching for more ways to become better. Improvement begins with self-awareness. The second phase is to understand why we act the way we do. Supplementing this with coaching adds inspiration to go further. Deciding upon who you wish to be, and affirming the place in the world you wish to occupy, is the first step towards determining the ways in which we show up. BEST MOMENTS  'It's not enough to just have insight or accountability. Bringing both together is where the magic happens' 'Coaching today is very future, forward-focussed' 'That insight - those "a-ha" moments - are about understanding' 'You use different techniques to bridge the gap - to provide the pathway' 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       Sarah Fruehling LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/fruehlingcoaching/ Fruehling Coaching - https://fruehlingcoaching.com Fruehling Coaching Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/fruehlingcoaching/  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/

The way we begin our days can shape our daily outcomes. In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick talks you through the ways in which you can super-charge your power-hour routines, and set yourself on the road to daily success! 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 Making sure that we get our blood pumping as soon as possible can imbue us with a hit of energy that can take us through the most important part of the day. Take time each day show gratitude for the people in your life that make a positive experience for you. We can visualise this as a spiral. Take time to look back at the goals we have set, and how far along the road we are at that point. This realignment can help to prevent procrastination and serve to energise our resolve. Everything you need in order to succeed is within you right now. The faith, courage and commitment you require, are qualities you already possess BEST MOMENTS 'It gets my blood flowing - it makes me feel alive' 'Giving yourself the gift of gratitude in the morning is such a powerful thing' 'Fear is the thing that stops people from doing most of what they want to do in life' 'I had to find different strategies to create the platform for the life I wanted to build' 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 tackles the important topic of work/life balance, with special guest, Jeff Lopes. Jeff is a life coach and entrepreneur, who has helped countless clients to achieve the perfect balance between a successful business and a happy home life. In this insightful conversation, Jeff shares some of his greatest guidance on how you can achieve just the right equilibrium, and get the best out of both. 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 build their home schedule around their work life, but by reversing this, and planning business around family, we get the most from both worlds. By setting realistic goals and working hard to achieve them, we can inspire and motivate our children to instil that same work ethic in themselves as they grow and develop. Being a present parent is the most important role that we can fulfil in life. If we get the chance to take that role, then we must give our everything to make it a success. The time is limited. We have to break the fears our children have, and give them the will and courage to seize every opportunity. Lives are a series of lessons. First we learn, and then we teach. BEST MOMENTS  'I build my schedule around my children's schedule' 'I want them to understand that if they work their rear off, they're going to achieve those goals' 'I said you're not going to diagnose the future of my son. And that's where the journey started...' 'It's just about breaking that 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      Jeff Lopes Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jefflopes/ Jeff Knows Inc - https://www.jeffknowsinc.com Jeffrey Lopes - https://www.jeffreylopes.com/1-on-1-coaching 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 has always been about helping your business to find ways in which to scale effectively. but some of the methods may be more far-reaching than many realise. In this week's '15 Minutes To Action', Nick discusses the importance of keeping things running at their optimal performance, both personally and professionally, and how this can super-charge our scale-up 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 We can scale more quickly by ensuring that all the parts of the business, ourselves included, are running at their most efficient and nimble - at their optimal performance - and most importantly in unison. Success is not the endgame. It is the byproduct of aligning all intentions with absolute precision to achieve a number of actions. Focus on what you can affect. We must seek to reduce distractions and stop working on things we cannot truly control. You can achieve more by working on the things that matter. Routines allow us to perform tasks until they become second-nature. by doing this, we make the processes far more efficient. BEST MOMENTS 'You should always be looking to improve. You should always be looking to make incremental gains' 'There's a big difference between success and the achievement of success' 'You've got to have a rigorous intention around goal-setting' 'To create routines that drive optimal performance, you don't want anything clouding you' 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/

It's a meeting of masterminds today as The Business Mastermind Podcast's Gavin Preston meets the Scale Up Your Business Podcast's Nick Bradley, for a reflection upon the year that was 2020 in business, and the opportunities and trends that will make the biggest differences in 2021! 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  2020's effects, for many, showed how many people use different mind-sets in order to deal with change. This has led to a sense of exhaustion in some, but the results have been worthwhile. The upheaval of 2020 has also demonstrated the resilience that many have, but may not have been aware of. It has displayed the strength of will and purpose that many of us had not embraced until it was really required. There is a sense that the world has changed irrevocably forever in terms of business operation and remote working. But in the new world, although remote working will become far more common, there will never be a substitute for face-to-face dealings. It will have its place. Businesses that will leapfrog ahead in 2021 are those with increased adaptability. These are businesses with clarity of direction, flexibility of cost-base and capacity, and creating a pro-change culture. BEST MOMENTS 'We were just laughing about how wrong we were at the turn of 2019/2020!' 'I think we saw so many examples of how people deal with change' 'We can do more than we're capable of when we're focussed' 'What are the things that we can do to make sure that the people in your organisation run towards change and embrace it and accelerate it' 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 GUEST Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and high-performance Coach.  He works with Business Owners and Entrepreneurs and has a strong track record in creating creative strategies to accelerate the growth of their business. He has helped hundreds of SME business owners and leaders improve their performance and that of their business and a comparable number of executives and employees in blue-chip corporates over the last 20 years. Gavin’s energetic, insightful and yet down to earth and practical talks, workshops and coaching is in demand with high growth business between £250,000 and £30 million revenue and with multi-national organisations at all levels from Board to frontline Managers. He is an expert in Business Growth Strategies, Peak Performance Mindset, Persuasion & Engagement, Marketing, Productivity, Leadership Development, Team Development & Motivation, Leading Change, Stakeholder Management, Personal Effectiveness and Behavioural Change. CONTACT METHOD Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn Gavin Preston YouTube Gavin Preston Facebook Gavin Preston Twitter 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/