Scale Up With Nick Bradley

Welcome to 2020, and to a brand new series of Scale Up Your Business! After receiving a multitude of feedback about what you’d like to hear, Nick has decided to present an entirely new series surrounding the actual process of scaling your business, presented in an innovative and practical way; by actually allowing you, the listener, to sit in on a series of live business mentoring sessions between Nick and his clients. 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 Women are often far too busy taking care of everyone else to take care of themselves properly. This can lead to guilt, which can be hard to overcome. Sherry’s program includes ways to escape this feeling, while boosting confidence and physical wellbeing. Sherry’s business model is based around pillars of health, and provides online coaching, exercise sessions, counselling and guidance to those with a membership. Her focus now is on finding leads; approximately eight new signups per day. The price point has been crucial to the success of both the business and the results attained by clients. The more that people invest, the more that they want to succeed. It’s about less is more. It's about focus. Sometimes it’s not that people are not doing the right things in their business, it’s that they’re trying to do too much. Start with a vision, then be clear on what you can achieve in the next twelve months. Break these goals down into achievable sections, each with ninety-day periods. Each section needs a strategy, but it’s important not to have too many strategies at once, or this can lead to overwhelm. By providing a clear pathway through your services for clients, you can utilise the fan base to generate more leads. It’s all about the sequencing of how you introduce clients; it’s about providing that clear pathway through, and establishing your personal brand. It’s very important that people get to know you as the face the business. It’s also important to do your research and to tailor your mission statement and personal brand to the things that people want to hear about and experience. Your personal brand should be centred around the things you stand for. This will then allow you have multiple businesses that fit under the values and beliefs that you stand for. Nick uses Richard Branson as an example.    BEST MOMENTS ‘Your health is non-negotiable’ ‘Your body is a machine that works for you. It’s been there every single day of your life’ ‘A healthy mind exists in a healthy body’ ‘Your mission behind this stuff is massive, huge, powerful’ ’Strategies are simply choices’ ‘What does Sherry Thacker stand for?'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Sherry Thacker - https://www.sherrythacker.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/

For this very special fiftieth edition of Scale Up Your Business, Nick has a treat for you. A very special guest, the founder of Reboot.io, bestselling author and coach, Jerry Colonna, whose approach to business, leadership and living in an impactful way, are lessons that we should all take to our hearts. 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 You need to slow down to speed up. Learn to give yourself some time to reflect. If you do that, you’ll get to where you want to be much faster in business and in life. Jerry’s work with other people really focusses on the intersection between who they are and what they do. By analysing their fears, Jerry is able to provoke meaningful conversation about their goals and aspirations. Human struggles are real and universal. Challenges are primal and affect people in all walks of life. Suffering is common, and we do not discuss them enough, which leads to isolation. For those facing indecision or socialised indifference, Jerry recommends reaching out to people, and nourishing ourselves spiritually upon the works of others. Books are a spiritual companion at these times. Be grateful, even for the difficulties you have. Don’t simply reflect and show gratitude for the positive times. Be grateful for it all. Every moment, good or bad, created the person that you became. When we begin 2020, it’s worth pausing to ask how we are doing. Planning for the future is essential, but remember what the preceding year has done, and what it has brought us. How did 2019 affect us? A leader is someone who holds power and agency over themselves and others, or both, and effectively manages the programming and subroutines that exist within them, to minimise the negative implications of what they have carried since childhood. Everyone can be a leader, regardless of position.   BEST MOMENTS  ’Slow down to speed up. Learn to stand still’ ‘What we really do is smuggle in consciousness’ ‘Heartbreak leads to resiliency, which leads to equanimity’  ‘Your story is my story’ ‘A good book is a spiritual companion’ ‘How do you want to spend your minutes?’ ‘Everyone can be a leader'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Reboot - www.reboot.io Reboot: Leadership And The Art Of Growing Up - Jerry Colonna - https://www.amazon.co.uk/Reboot-Leadership-Art-Growing-Up-ebook/dp/B0796SNDSK Jerry Colonna Twitter - https://twitter.com/@jerrycolonna 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/

Carlyle Jenkins began his career as a sports chiropractor working with Olympians and world champions and now helps business leaders on their journey to ultimate wellness. He combines cutting edge functional health science and ancestral principles to craft action plans that make a difference, taking the individual to ultimate wellness, helping leaders to do more and be more.  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 begin to work with someone our mantra is ‘test, don’t guess’ we like to know exactly what the threatening inputs are for that person  When we have completed testing we can say exactly what an individual should be putting into their bodies.  Alignment  Every 24 cycle we have a rhythm that our body is trying to adhere too.  When we are in our sympathetic cycle our bodies are putting out energy and when the sun goes down our parasympathetic system has more influence and our bodies should be trying to recharge through sleep.  Nutrition  Dr Valter Longo has completed research showing that at a cellular level that you can trigger 3 key healing aspects of life through nutrition.  Fat instead of sugar as fuel - He has specifically looked at calorie restriction to trigger the use of fat instead of sugar for fuel, this is known as being fat adapted.  If a body is fat adapted and the substrate for energy is fat cancer cells can’t grow, it is sugar that feeds cancer cells and helps them grow.  Autophagy - a process where the body cleans out damaged cells.  If you take away some of the body’s fuel it will look for stuff it can use and will begin by reclaiming damaged, broken and dangerous cells. It’s a really important part of healing chronic disease.  Stem cells upregulating  - nutrition can be a way of stimulating stem cells to upregulate.    Meditation  This is the one thing that influences peoples mental and physical health. It’s a way to feel the body and to get in touch with it, the more attuned you are to your body the easier it is to recognise what it needs.  Connecting with the physical world is vital and however you meditate, make sure you incorporate it into your routine.  Keys to success  Alignment  Align what your physical body needs to do so that your long-term vision can be realised.  You need to have a physical vision to match your business vision.  Eating  Stop eating food, how much can you not eat and still perform? Pick one day of the week to start then build upon it.  When you have reached 5 consecutive days of fasting for 16 hours across the day then your body will begin to access its supply of fat.  Sleep  In the 24 hour cycle  the body uses its energy then replenishes it through sleep. The quality of sleep is affected by both alcohol and screen time. If you don’t get the recharge over-night you are programmed to seek carbohydrates when you wake and a vicious circle of sugar and carbohydrate consumption is triggered.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘You can’t argue with 66,000 generations’  ‘Being fat adapted is winning on multiple levels’  ‘We have this consistent drip of high energy manufactured foods; The fasting is just getting back to what we are designed to do’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  Prohab Performance website  Dr Valter Longo website  Carlyle Jenkins website    Resilience Test: https://indicator.prohabperformance.com/  Code: SUYB20   Offer: Complimentary call with me once test completed to talk health and resilience strategy for 2020.     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/

When you start your business do not begin with the exit in mind, start and grow a great business first and when you make the decision to sell your business start early and become more prolific and be prepared, understanding you are not going to be able to do it alone you need to surround yourself with good people.  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  You have to be cautious and controlled when you are selling your business o you can navigate the timing so you can leverage the best opportunity for you.  You may have created something and it’s now time for someone take it to another place.  Where can you sell a business - look for business for sale websites, often a sale will come from someone you know, a competitor or a supplier looking to extend their value chain.  A broker has expertise in how you can position yourself and advertise your business  You must leverage social media – go out and tell the story of your business and state you are looking for investors then people will come and have a conversation.  Ensure you have NDA’s in place when you are communicating with potential buyers  Ask the right questions to make sure they are serious Why do they want your business what can they add?  It’s not about people showing you how much money they have up front.  If you have someone with the right strategic outlook there are ways of structuring a deal without money upfront.  Don’t close down any opportunities, the best deal could be the one structured in an unorthodox way rather than just a cash or money deal.  Create a detailed information memorandum – the quality of the IM created in a succinct way is one of the most important things to have in terms of selling your business.  It’s a mini strategy document and it can influence the psychology of the person looking to buy.  5 biggest mistakes when selling   Not planning ahead or waiting too long to sell  Not finding the right person to represent your business  Thinking you don’t have to promote or market yourself  Asking too much or too little for your business  Selling the business to the wrong person  When you start your business do not begin with the exit in mind, get focused, start and grow a great business first.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘I’m always looking for the 1+1 =3’  ‘Conversations can turn in ‘why don’t we buy your business’  ‘I’ve bought a few in my time and I’ve sold a few in my time’  ‘You are better off giving up a bit of margin to get the best price and get it done in the  most structured and most successful way’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business Podcast  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website     Are you looking for a community of like-minded people who will support your goals and level you up? M1 is a whole life leadership mastermind with proven results in increasing net worth and passive income, and improving relationships, health & lifestyle - so that you can live life on your terms. If you're a high-achieving individual, with big goals and no excuses, and you want a place to belong where you can go on epic adventures around the world, be surrounded by people who live life big, and you want the accountability to take massive action in your life, then check it out at the M1 Mastermind by visiting www.rockthomas.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 we’re going into purpose and mission, areas that are crucial to any business in going above and beyond the financial gain aspect.  Entrepreneurs tend to strike out on their own because they want choice, freedom and financial independence, but if you’re thinking bigger, then the success you find will be far greater. 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 four steps in being successful in business: Psychology Skill-set Strategy Systems After being financially decimated by the property crash, Gerald was forced to ask himself the important questions: what is it that he was called to do on this earth? What really lit him up? And how could he make money while living his purpose? The amount of money that you have, the relationships your experience, your physicality; all these things link back to your identity, or inner blueprint you have. You can’t outperform the mentality your brain is comfortable with. Gerald's work has been focussed on how to adjust this self-image, so that we can perform at a higher level. The transformational steps Gerald uses to enable a higher level of attainment: Awareness - Figure out what you’ve created and how. What are your limiting beliefs? Accountability - You cannot create change in your life if you experience life as a victim. Sovereignty - Taking ownership of your life. Action - taking control and aligning these factors to achieve a higher state of belief. Acceleration - Once you’re on the right path, accelerate your growth. A practice Gerald recommends is to find some space, take a moment and relax into the most powerless and weak version of yourself; depressed and overwhelmed. Remain in this state for a while.  Recognise that the way you feel physically at this moment is affecting your emotional state. Concentrate on how you are breathing. Examine your focus levels. What are the images and thoughts in your mind? What are the beliefs you currently have? These physiological traits are your personal recipe for depression and a lack of self-belief. By countering each of them, you can lift yourself from this state when you need to.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If you find purpose in what you’re doing, you tend to be more successful’ ‘I didn’t understand why I knew what to do, but I couldn’t get myself to do what I knew’ ’The thing I love most is the deep inner work of transformation’ ‘I’m always looking for more ways to upgrade my operating system’ ‘You can never outperform your self-image’ ‘You cannot be powerful if you believe at any level that are not responsible for your results’ ‘Our physiology leads our experience'   VALUABLE RESOURCES Gerald Rogers - https://geraldrogers.com mentoring@prosperitysummit.com legendaryseminar.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/

‘If you are the most important person in the room then you are in the wrong room’   In this episode, Nick delivers a masterclass on building a network sharing how he did it and what he’s learnt.  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  You’ve got to be able to get people around you in a true and authentic way a network makes a difference but you have to be strategic about it.  What is the purpose of your networking? - When you know this you can focus on networking and adding value.  Check your mindset and change your view  Instead of asking ‘what’s in it for me?’  Think ‘how can I help someone and what can I learn?’  A strong network can offer you support, challenge and  development  If you’ve helped someone they don’t mind helping you back.  You are building a trusted and trustworthy network, nothing else matters.    7 tips  Approach networking with a mindset of abundance – how can I help, what can I offer?  Be strategic in both the building and leveraging of your network – don’t ever make it transactional or manipulative.  When you are in a situation find a place of common interest, listen to people and be curious.  Ask for advice, people will want to share and you will get value.  Invest time in your network without expectation of immediate return.  My intent is that each person goes away with something that is useful to them  Make sure some of those in your network are outside of your organisation. You need to have people around you who are not like you.  Acknowledgement is important in growing your leadership impact. This is about you the leader, the more you are able to lead yourself the more wide-ranging and effective your network becomes.    BEST MOMENTS  ‘Take the time to be present at the event- you want to be the person who has less quantity and more quality interactions’  ‘At its core networking is simply a group of  people with interests in their own success and helping you achieve yours’  ‘Don’t be afraid to leverage your network, there isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t ask my network for help’    VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website     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/

‘If you are not deliberately building your connections nobody is going to know you’re out there or who you are’  Nick is joined by Anna Parker-Naples who is the host of the ‘Entrepreneurs Get Visible’ podcast and a multi-award-winning Hollywood voice actor.  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 can you deliberately connect with the right people to move to the next level?  The difference between a start-up and scale-up can often be the ability to work with people.  It’s about working with teams and external partners.  If you see someone for whom it is already a reality you can more easily see yourself there.  There is no risk in setting audacious goals so why not go out there and create something outstanding.  Even if you are creative you need to have an entrepreneurial head and I’m interested in helping people to get there.  My mission is about helping other people to become the best version of themselves and to do the same for myself.  When something presents to you and its already in your mind then you see the opportunities.  It’s about being very intentional about who you want to network with and be mentored by.  You must be open to meeting other people.  You have to be intentional about attending events where you can connect with the right people.  It’s about the human interactions that lead to relationships and to make them you have to be in the room.  You need to be getting out there, being an entrepreneur can be very lonely but to build your business you must get out there so people know about your business and what you are doing.  You have to get visible over time and people are going to remember you. Maybe you can be a connection for someone else.  If you are not deliberately building your connections nobody is going to know you’re out there or who you are.    BEST MOMENTS  ‘You have to first create the vision, for me, it’s the next 20 years’  ‘My epiphany was realising that I had lost my way for 20 years  following what I thought was  the right path being in corporate  but really I had been repressing who I was really was’  ‘You can’t be unauthentic my mindset is - I’m going to meet new people who may be able to help me and I may be able to help them’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  Entrepreneurs Get Visible 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/

Nick Bradley and Gavin Preston of the ‘The Business Mastermind’ podcast are spending time together discussing the next year and decade as we enter the last quarter of this year.  They explore multiple aspects of business planning, structure and customers and offer practical advice so you can create a plan for your business that will take you successfully into the next year.  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 Planning you need to reconnect with the vison what are you trying to achieve.  Once you know where you are going then the next question is how?  Instead of thinking incrementally you can look at where you want to be, then work backwards planning the steps you need to make to get to where you want to be  You can’t have a big enough vision – I have a twenty-year vision, which is huge but every year I look at it then chunk up  Goals – set goals for all areas of life including relationship, business and emotions.  The goals are formed from what you want to achieve in each area  If you are not getting the results you need to change something  Change the things that will get you the outcome  Look at the environment your customers are working in and find out if their pain points and wants have changed because you may not be meeting their needs  You may have a range of products and it may be due to agile innovation that those products are no longer relevant because the world is moving more quickly  Even if you’ve had the best year ever you must re-evaluate because it doesn’t mean the next year will be the same.  There are many lenses with which you can look at your business the most important thing is to match what the customer wants with what you can provide.  If you haven’t got a good insight into your business then you need to seek external support to ensure you have the information required to plan well for the coming year.  There are key questions to ask  - What am I not seeing at this point that may cause me problems further along the line.  If you are a business of a certain scale there are more businesses out there than ever before If you are planning to sell, for private equity to be interested there is a threshold. A planning strategy you can include is one of possible merging with another business of a similar size to make yourself attractive to private equity investment when you are seeking a successful exit.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘The power of visualisation is a key to moving forward’  ‘It’s the view you have of yourself that can be limiting – your limiting beliefs’  ‘What is it I need to change in my objectives to be able to reach my goal?’  You’ve got to have a bold goal with manageable chunks that you can then work towards      VALUABLE RESOURCES  The Business Mastermind Podcast  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website  ABOUT THE GUEST Gavin Preston  Gavin is an inspirational Speaker, Business Strategist, Business Growth Mentor, Trainer and    CONTACT METHOD  Gavin Preston Website Gavin Preston LinkedIn 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 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/

‘I like to create successful businesses and creating successful businesses doesn’t actually mean being all over the place. It’s about balance, those who are the most successful are those who have balance overall’ Nick explains the vital role slowing down to speed up has in ensuring there is a balance in 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 VUCA -  a way of thinking about the world Volatility - the rate of change Uncertainty being unclear about the present Complexity -  multiple key decision factors at any one time Ambiguity - lack of clarity about the meaning of an event The Newtonian world view – where business leaders strive for control and structure. Engagement in a quick discussion and moving in a controlled and quick way from A to B in a straight-line fits in the Newtonian world. The quantum world view expresses that everything is connected. It’s an acceptance that there are challenges, they are complex and recognises the need to pace the speed of work, sometimes slowing down for deeper dialogue to understand challenges, along with increased speed in other areas. If your business is feeling chaotic, you can take the quantum view accepting the challenges you have and that they will get more complex. By pacing your work and trusting that solutions are available you can be present with intention and focus. If you are doing to-do lists but it’s not moving the big priorities forward then the business is not going to get to where you want it to be By slowing down being more intentional, more focused you are going to do the things that will have an impact on your business much more quickly.   BEST MOMENTS ‘To lead teams and be really effective and inspiring you need to be able to be present, you need to be an effective leader of yourself before you can effectively lead others’ ‘I have a very clear vision about where I want to go,  a north star, that guides me then it’s all about goals and the steps to achieve those’ ‘If you are planning don’t have too many priorities, have 3 to5 priorities at any one time and get really focused so there is no possible way they are not going to  happen’   VALUABLE RESOURCES 90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website The Prosperous Coach book by Rich Litvin & Steve Chandler The Surrender Experiment book by Michael A Singer The Road Less Stupid book by Keith Cunningham   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/

What Does it Take to be a Great CEO? ‘As the CEO your time should be focused on making sure the machine runs smoothly and putting people in the right places’  Nick shares what it takes to be a great CEO and discusses whether you can learn how to do it in this absorbing episode.  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 a CEO is first and foremost about leadership how you lead others, how you influence and congruency in who you are.  Being a CEO is lonely - Whatever the size of the business it is lonely -  you are in a league of your own but you serve many masters  If you on a board you are part of a team and drive a piece of the strategy but as CEO that strategy good or bad you own and everyone in the team is looking for you to execute the strategy and own the outcome.  You have to be thick-skinned - You’ve got to be ready for judgements which are sometimes founded and sometimes unfounded. You are responsible for the people in the business and externally to customers and investors.  If you have fragility and you don’t like criticism or conflict then being a great CEO will be challenging because criticism and conflict are part of the role.  Surrounding yourself with other people who have skills, attributes and experiences that you don’t yet have is key.  Nothing is more important than putting the right people in the right place at the right time - Whatever the business model you’ve got to be able to relate and to lead and manage people. You need to be able to identify skills in others that will allow you to get to where you want to be faster.  There is a fine line between compassion and doing what’s right for the company  Being the roadshow - For many companies, the CEO is the face of the company, the roadshow. The CEO needs the ability to connect, to be authentic and real. Being the roadshow is about people buying into you.  Being the roadshow is about being able to share the strategy and story multiple times so that as you inspire and connect everyone inside the business is following suit.  Your values ultimately determine your value - The values and standards of the CEO set the culture of the business.  You must share what’s important to you, your values through the vision. You align the vision, values and standards to the results and outcomes you are trying to achieve.  Remember to have fun - Whether you are the CEO of a big company or a start-up, you’ve worked hard to be in the position and need to enjoy it.  You are creating something and opening the door to new opportunities and that’s massively exciting.  Set high expectations and be deliberate in your leadership. Being a CEO is all about the people you work with. They are the ones who are going to get you where you want to go     BEST MOMENTS  ‘I made sure I got good at the managing people side of things and  focused on developing my leadership’  ‘You don’t have to be the same as someone else but you have to bring these characteristics in to be a great CEO’  ‘You can learn to be a great CEO and if you learn to be a great leader of yourself you can learn to be a great leader of others.     VALUABLE RESOURCES  Scale Up Your Business Podcast  90 Day Business Growth Accelerator website     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/