Screw It Just DO It with Alex Chisnall

In this weeks episode, I welcome Lord Bilimoria, Cobra Beer Founder & Chairman, and CBI Vice President.  During this episode we chat about: How his business has been affected by Coronavirus. Two thirds of Cobra Beer sales were through restaurants and now that the whole sector is closed, sales are 100% down. Why we need to see an exit strategy. When does he think we'll be drinking Cobra again with a curry? People doing wonderful charitable work, including many restaurants who are preparing meals for free. Let's StartUp!

Welcome to Saturday's Solo Episode. In this week's episode, I talk about four positives that have come out of the Coronavirus crisis. The four R's: refocus, reconnect, remote and running. Refocusing on what is truly important to you both in your personal life and your business life. It is a good time to go over your roadmap, refocus, what's important to you both from a business perspective? What has been important during this time is reconnecting. I've loved having zooms with my friends. My team already worked remotely, so it's not completely alien to me. I have started a free Podpreneur Facebook group to help people who want to learn to podcast during this this lockdown and show people that you can do it literally for free with just the technology and free software that's on your phone and in your laptop. I am now addicted to running and it is great to see that other people have discovered running. Those are my four R's. Now is a great time to come on over to my Podpreneur group. Let me know your thoughts. What are you focusing on? Who you can reconnecting with? Are you all for remote working? Have you become a runner? Or is there another sport now that you are pushing yourself outside?

In this weeks episode, it's my great pleasure to welcome once again Antler's Magnus Grimeland. During this episode we chat about: Why he believes now is a great time to innovate His thoughts in general on survival for both startups and scale up businesses I think you're going to get a huge load of value from it. Let's StartUp!

Welcome to Saturday's Solo Episode. In this week's episode I talk about Fear of Selling. One of the common themes that are coming up regularly is that people are scared to sell. People genuinely are in fear of selling, of selling their products and services, selling themselves and it's been covered a number of webinars. I believe you owe it to yourself, your business, your family, the world economy to it to be selling. "If you are solving, providing a solution to somebody else's problem with your products and services, then you will look back on this time and regret not telling more people about your products and services."

In this weeks episode, I welcome Scott Maguire, CEO and founder of Cannaray, a British Medical Cannabis and CBD company. During this episode we chat about: * Plans to dominate the European industry * The global medical cannabis market which is set to grow to over 60 billion pounds by 2026 * Capitalising on the growing recognition of the therapeutic benefits of medical cannabis * Consumer awareness around CBD Let's StartUp!

Welcome to Saturday's Solo Episode. In this week's episode I address Fear - there is a lot of it around at the moment. Fear of catching the coronavirus. Fear of going out. Fear of doing anything. Now is not the time to roll over and die. Yes, things are tough for most people. And I'm not even talking about . If you're a business owner you're extremely lucky if you haven't been impacted by the financial implications of Covid-19. I know I have.  I've learnt some powerful lessons. And I'm using fear as a positive. As a motivator. To re-assess my podcast agency business. To re-assess my life. To re-envision it. To recalibrate. To re-set. And make sure that when things turn. And they undoubtably will. I'll be in position to go again.  Stronger than pre-coronavirus. I hope the world. And you. Are doing the same. On this week's episode I also talk about: Podpreneur - the new FREE Facebook Group for aspiring podcasters that I launched with 13 people last week and is already up to nearly 400! Come join us here. FREE business support for entrepreneurs and business owners - I'm hosting up to three live webinars every weekday.  Go to the Festival of Enterprise website to register Over the past week I've hosted the likes of Cobra Beer founder Lord Bilimoria, ex Dragons Den investor Piers Linney, 2019 BBC TV Apprentice winner Carina Lepore, 2018 Semi-Finalist Sabrina Stocker and Antler founder Magnus Grimeland. Rest assured I'll be releasing them on here over the coming weeks if you missed them. If you're a business owner or entrepreneur who has thought about, hosting a podcast for your own brand, then you'll want to join me this Tuesday, April 14th. I'll be hosting a live webinar on why now is the perfect time to launch a podcast. Reister here

In this weeks episode, I'm diving back to a chat with Chris Ducker from Youpreneur. In the last few episodes, I have brought you some really useful tools and inspiring stories from past episodes that I think are relevant in this time that I think can help you get through it. Chris Ducker's book "Rise of the Youpreneur" the definitive guide to becoming the go to leader in your industry, and building a future proof business is really relevant, especially the last part building a future proof business. How many people want to do that, in the current time? Everyone should have their hand up. Let's StartUp!

Welcome to episode 222, as in the last couple of episodes, I am giving you some useful tools, some inspirational stories from the past that you can utilise today. I know a lot of people listening to the show are business owners or entrepreneurs and I wanted to give you a useful exercise called "Your Big Idea". We'll work through what you're passionate about, and what skills you have acquired - and exactly where the two merge and result in your potential one big idea. We'll then list out the pro's and con's of each potential big idea to find out which one of these is going to be Your Big Idea, generate income for you and be the one that you F.O.C.U.S (Follow One Course Until Successful). Let's StartUp!

In this weeks episode, I wanted to find a really inspiring episode from the past that bore parallels to the present.  This episode "How to bounce back and reinvent yourself" with Damion Lupo says it all really and totally resonates with the current times we're living in. To try and give you some hope out there that somebody like Damion, as a result of the last financial crisis in 2008, found himself losing close to $20 million in just a few months. He managed to turn everything around, managed to reinvent himself and as he says, shown time and again, that the human spirit is only limited by the scale of one's imagination. Let's StartUp!

Welcome to episode 220, I thought I would find some things that are useful to you, some tools that you could use. The first solo episode I ever recorded was habits, rituals from all the lessons that I've learned from people that I've interviewed in the first year and a half of the show. I thought it would be helpful to share episode with you now because I think at the current time for me if you can start your day with a routine, finish your day with a routine, you've got two bookends that are two stable solid pillars in your life that you can rely on. If you don't have routines, then please have a listen and implement them. If you've already got routines see what you can take from this podcast.