Scale Up With Nick Bradley

Toughness and resilience are attributes we all need right now, but many believe that they can only be attained through long periods of failure or setbacks. Nick’s here this week to smash that thinking, with a special insight into how he prepares for the physical trials of marathon running, and how you can take the empowering lessons he’s learned, in order to build up your resilience reserves today! 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 want to grow, and to become the best version of yourself that you can be, you need to set tasks or challenges for yourself that feel impossible. By allowing ourselves to see our goals long term, and by developing the ability to look as far ahead as possible, we come to realise that any current challenges are merely moments, and will pass. The best way to overcome a fear is to face that fear. The best way to grow is push through a barrier, because if you do, your strength and resolve will expand exponentially. Meditation helps us to experience the moment. It is the practice of tapping into the layers of our brain, our psychology, and our emotions, and being able to call upon those things when it matters.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘Living life on your own terms is the key’ ‘In life, everything is about growth and contribution’ ‘If you want to build resistance, you first have to change the narrative’ ‘You’ve got to feel the fear and do it anyway’      VALUABLE RESOURCES Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nick’s special guest this week is JT McCormick, the CEO Of Scribe Media, ranked #1 in Top Company Culture In America by Entrepreneur Magazine! There’s no one in the world more qualified (officially) to tell you how, and why, you should be building a world-beating culture in your business today. 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  Challenges and barriers in early life were taken not as roadblocks, but as lessons that helped JT to grow stronger. Sometimes the things that beat us down make us more determined. JT has always led by three principles: People, processes, profits. Good people will swiftly enable the following two principles.  We need to be constantly questioning everything. Those who inquire, discover. There’s no such thing as a stupid question.  There’s no such thing as failure. You only fail when you stop trying. The goal is to learn, not-repeat, and grow from the mistakes.  Great companies are never built by one person. They are the cumulative product of the collaborative efforts of great people.   BEST MOMENTS ’That chaos has actually helped me in business’ ‘With great people we can build great processes and make great profits’ ‘I never want to be the smartest person in the room’ ‘You only fail if you stop trying’     VALUABLE RESOURCES JT McCormick LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtmccormick/ JT McCormick - https://jtmccormick.com Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s 15 Minutes To Action, Nick shares the seven things he’s currently implementing in his own businesses, in order to give himself, his employees, his customers and suppliers, the best opportunities for growth and scale once life begins to crank back into action in the coming weeks and months. 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 Stopping to think about every decision will give you a greater perspective on outcomes. We need to consider how different the world is going to be, and how each decision will play out in that world. Most people have now recognised the importance of having cash in the business. It has now become one of the most important and recognised factors in the failure of businesses. There are people out there who have gone through similar economic experiences before. Don’t be afraid to reach out and talk to those who know how to survive. It’s time to be brave. Test and trial the solutions, systems and processes that you’ve always wanted. You might find the next great growth accelerator. The more you can work on yourself right now, the more you’ll be enhancing what is sure to be a key part of how you lead, show up, and take action in the future.   BEST MOMENTS ’Things will slingshot back once people start to feel some confidence again’ ’Gratitude is the antidote to fear' ’The worst thing you can do is stay in your own head’ ’The quality of life is the quality of how you manage your decisions and emotions'     VALUABLE RESOURCES Save your spot on my FREE Business Growth Accelerator training hosted by Rock Thomas here:  https://buff.ly/2X9YEGr  Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

The fabulous ‘Entrepreneur In Focus’ series continues as I meet with Gaurav Sinha, author of ‘Compassion Inc - Unleashing The Power Of Empathy In Life And Business’. In this week’s show, Gaurav discusses his incredible journey, the importance of self-belief, and the philosophies that can help you achieve your scale-up goals ... in business and in life! 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 Always look for a great boss; never look for a great job. A true leader can help you to realise the shape of your journey at the outset. At the outset of any entrepreneurial journey, revenue is king. Hustle all you can to put food on the table and aim for the small wins that elevate you each time. You always need people in order to climb higher. The key to keeping those people is to create a culture of collaboration in a transactional world. Altruism in brands has become far too scarce. It’s not about profit, it’s about prosperity. It’s not about shareholder value, but working with holders of shared values. A great business requires three things: the idea, the operations, and the money. Simplicity is the key to long-term success and most importantly, happiness.   BEST MOMENTS ’The word “more” has been hijacked’ ’Stars don’t work for idiots. They work for other stars’ ‘Insatiable curiosity is part of my DNA’ ‘Momentum is more important than direction’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Scale Up Your Business - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/scale-up-your-business-podcast/id1453523566 Gaurav Sinha - http://gaurav-sinha.com Compassion Inc - Unleashing The Power Of Empathy In Life And Business Save your spot on my FREE Business Growth Accelerator training hosted by Rock Thomas here:  https://buff.ly/2X9YEGr  Join the free Scale Up Your Business community:  https://buff.ly/2JR1cTF  Generate 20 New Leads in 20 Days - download your free 5-step guide to put in place my top-performing customer creation strategies:  https://buff.ly/2ZiN26Y   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global       Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Nothing can hamper your ability to take action more than procrastination, the enemy of productivity In this week’s special episode, Nick talks you through the ways in which you can stop stalling and start stepping up! 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   Procrastination is the force by which we are attracted to instant gratification, instead of our long-term goals. Instant gratification is more alluring to our present selves, as we can see the benefit immediately. By moving the future rewards closer to our present, we can better focus on, and achieve them. The best way to beat the feeling of procrastination is by starting the work itself. Even incremental acts can begin momentum that will drive us forward. Temptation bundling, or the act of linking an activity that takes work with one that gives us pleasure, can increase productivity and prevent procrastination.   BEST MOMENTS   ‘Present self has the ability to take action, but future self has the ability to set goals’ ‘You make your future consequences become your present consequences’ ’The problem is not doing the work, but starting the work’ ’The key to procrastination is consistency'   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

It’s a return engagement for Kev Blackburn, the life success engineer who created a multi-million-pound arbitrage empire through Amazon! Kev is the perfect example of someone who took a dream and turned it into a reality, spurred on only by his willpower, and through setting effective 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 Striking out on your own is scary, but it’s also a gift. Being in control of your own destiny is invaluable. The first step in going it alone is to work out what your ideal life looks like. Only by doing so can we see the path that takes us there. Systems and processes are the building blocks of every successful enterprise. By installing effective systems, we level-up its ability to run more autonomously. The journey of building a business requires a huge amount of sacrifice, and will ultimately impact your personal life. The best way of ensuring the damage remains minimal is to involve our loved ones whenever possible. The greatest thing about technology is that we can now reach those who need our help and our stories in order to empower them to persevere with their own dreams.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If anything’s going to give you a reason to control your destiny, then this is it’ ‘Buying and selling is simple, but so exciting!’ ‘I don’t like guessing and I don’t like gambling. It’s all about limiting risk’ ’The desire, the motivation and the energy; the only way we attain them is by recognising what’s important to you’ ‘You are creating your own story. The time to act is now'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Life Success Engineer - https://www.lifesuccessengineer.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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

This week, Nick continues his ’15 Minutes To Action’ series with a look at the key principles behind a huge source of inspiration for his own thinking, ’The 12 Week Year’ by Brian P. Moran and Michael Lennington, a book that advocates the theory that the annual planning model, adopted by many entrepreneurs, may well be flawed. 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 Quite often we follow the paths laid out before us by others without deviating onto far more positive, constructive and personal paths to success. By using the annual planning theory to map out our goals, we run the risk of growing complacent. We are granted the right to procrastinate. We all take hits from time to time. Setbacks occur at every level of business. What marks us out is the ability to remain on course in the face of these issues. Focus upon the task that will most dynamically move the needle forward over the next 90 days. This should be the area of your main attention   BEST MOMENTS ‘If we did the things we are capable of doing then we would literally astound ourselves’ ‘If you’re working to a 12 Week Year, then every day matters’ ‘You can meditate in the corner all you like, but it’s not going to make your business grow’   VALUABLE RESOURCES The 12 Week Year - by Brian Moran and Michael Lennington   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.global  Support the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

In this week’s show, Nick talks to Henry Kaminski Jr, otherwise known as “The Brand Doctor”, a specialist in helping the best-of-the-best to be even better! Henry is here to tell you all about his remarkable ascent to the top; a tale of resilience, entrepreneurial genius, serendipity, and most importantly, identity. 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 Early success came for Henry because he focused on the needs and wants of his customer base. In this case, speed was the essential factor is building his brand. As we mature in business, we come to realise that the best strategy is to slow down in order to speed up. Focus becomes fixed upon quality. Scale-up doesn’t mean growing the actual business. It’s all about growing, developing and scaling yourself up so that you can energise your business. It’s about creating the best version of you. The best mentors are ones who are in the place we wish to be. When we reach a certain level, we must endeavour to find the people who can take us further. Too often we devalue ourselves or our products due to a lack of self-belief or confidence. Discover your value and don’t ever be afraid of declaring it.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Challenges are opportunities if you see them in the right light’ ‘Give yourself that time to think!’ ‘It’s about the person you need to become in order to create an amazing business’ ’I have a beautiful life. I have a beautiful business. I have all the time in the world to watch my son grow up'   VALUABLE RESOURCES The Brand Doctor Podcast - https://uniquedesignz.net/the-brand-doctor-podcast/ Henry Kaminski Jr LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-kaminski-jr/ Refuse To Give Up   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

No-one knows more about how to ignite the entrepreneurial journey than this week’s guest, podcast legend, John Lee Dumas, the man who’s interviewed over 2,000 entrepreneurial legends, including Tony Robbins, Seth Godin and Tim Ferriss! 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 Being an entrepreneur is a rollercoaster of emotions. The great ones recognise the low moments as lessons that drive you forward. The best way of keeping the fire alive beneath your enthusiasm is to make sure you’re doing what you love. Success is achieved by lasering in on the things we really want, and not some vague monetary figure that we suppose will make us happy. Consistency, commitment and dedication are the components that have made the most difference to John’s success.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘I won a car on The Price Is Right!’ ‘I’m livin’ la vida loca, and I wouldn’t have it any other way’ ‘It’s about metrics. It’s about measurement. It’s about intention around that stuff’ ‘You can go a millions miles per hour in the wrong direction'   VALUABLE RESOURCES www.eofire.com Entrepreneur On Fire Podcast - https://www.eofire.com/podcast/   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/

Despite the current situation, there’s never been a better time to think about investment. The world has to go back to normal sooner or later, so what will your business portfolio look like when it does? 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 Entrepreneurs and investors are such separate entities, but their power is increased exponentially when they unite in the same cause. Narrow-mindedness is a barrier to innovation. If we cannot achieve a certain goal through lack of technology or knowledge, then grow, develop or acquire someone in order to achieve it. There’s a real sense of collaboration between management and investors right now, who recognise that effective synergy brings rich rewards to all involved. Leaders emerge in times of trouble. Those with the natural instinct to thrive and survive are beacons to those in need of direction. The world is changed forever. It’s up to the thinkers and innovators to make sure that the world is changed for the better.   BEST MOMENTS ’The more connected that entrepreneurs and investors are, the greater success those two entities will have’ ‘Don’t be afraid to get in the water and swim!’ ‘In situations like this you’ve got to step up. You have to think differently’ ’There’s nothing like a common enemy to build camaraderie’ ’Something like this forces you to do the things you should’ve been doing anyway'   VALUABLE RESOURCES @erg163 Dr Eric George LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-george-md/ ERG Enterprises - https://www.ergenterprises.net   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 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, coaching/consulting: https://suyb.globalSupport the show: https://highvalueexit.com/