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Have you ever wanted to start something, but been put off by being told it’s ‘hard work’? Today, discover why consistency is much more essential to success than just hard work. Learn how to say goodbye to hard work and re-focus on being consistent, personal and business development and making yourself a success. Tune in to hear how you too can grow your business with leverage, incremental improvements and a steady and consistent plan. KEY TAKEAWAYS In your business, it is important to leverage, to work on your business, to think, plan, dream, talk, listen and meet important people however the most important thing you can do is be consistent.    Consistency is more important than hard work because the more consistently you do something the better at that thing you can become. Although you may start out as a movie, doing one thing consistently will turn you into a success. If you do improvements steadily and consistently, you are going to win in the end. Part of the reason people struggle to be consistent is that they are often told how much hard work it is going to be and therefore are put off by it. Turn hard into simple in your head, and then it will not overwhelm you as much. The harder we think something will be, the less likely we are to want to do it. Learn on the go, as you go not before you go. Start now and get perfect later. The more rejections you get the more success you get as long as you learn from each rejection. You could argue the longer something takes, the better it is in the end. Learn, test, review, tweak, repeat. You will get better the more you do, the more you test. You will learn on the go the more you go.   BEST MOMENTS “Slow and steady wins the race” “If it were easy, everyone would be successful in every venture that they chose” “You don’t have to be great you just have to be in the game” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Blocking the haters, trolls and critics is more than just a yes or no question. Today, Rob discusses how you can learn from the critics and the haters to help you grow, innovate, create and become more resilient in business and in life because, in reality, they’ll teach you more about your business than your fans and help you improve on your product or service, get a balanced view of the market and understand the actual value of what you’re offering. Tune in to understand how to overcome critics, trolls, haters and w**kers in today’s insightful episode of the Disruptive Entrepreneur.   KEY TAKEAWAYS A critic is someone who has constructive feedback that is sometimes wrapped up in a negative comment that as an entrepreneur and business owner you can learn from if you don’t react emotionally to it and actually listen to what is being said. A lot of people turn critics into haters by lashing out and getting aggressive in return, simply by misreading the critic’s initial comment. A hater is someone who hates the industry and hates what you represent this doesn’t mean they hate you as an individual, they could hate themselves or hate your product or service due to a bad experience. There are also hater that used to be critics but become haters because of how you dealt with them or how you reacted to them.   A troll is a fake profile that needs to be reported and can really affect you and others around you.   It’s up to you to decide if it’s worth listening to a critic or a hater, it’s up to you to figure out if there is value in what they’re saying and if you can improve your product, service, understand your industry better or learn from competitions. However, you must block them if they hurt you, trigger you or cause you to lose time out of your day or weekend. You can also get your VA or outsourcer to monitor the hater for constructive feedback.   As a business owner, you need to know what your fans, followers and customer are saying, but you also need to know what the critics and haters are so that you can get a balanced view of your company and see the opportunities to improve. If you have enough self-worth that you understand what a critic, hater or troll is and how to react to their comments then you do not need to block them out, you need to learn from them because there is wisdom in there.   Critics, haters and competitors force you to innovate and create a better product or service. As entrepreneurs, you have a cognitive bias and by embracing the critics and learning from the haters you will become more resilient in business and improve your product offering.   BEST MOMENTS“A lot of people get upset when they get criticised because they want to be judged in the way that they want”“You don’t get to decide how people will criticise you”“You should embrace critics, want to learn from them and realise that they’ll teach you more than your fans.”“Critics will help you improve on your product or service, help you get a balanced view of the market and understand the actual value of what you’re offering.”“There’s a blessing in every stressing” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Rob is joined by James Reed, Chairman of Reed, Britain’s biggest recruitment brand and worth over a billion pounds today. James describes how he started out in business, how Reed started and how it grew into the business and brand that it is today. If you’re looking to gain insights and advice from one of the most influential entrepreneurs and business owners, don’t miss out on this in-depth interview today. Tune in to discover how to start, grow and scale your business, how to strategically plan your business decisions, why mastering negotiation is essentials to success and why having the right mindset will help you succeed in business with the chairman of the world’s largest family-owned recruitment company, James Reed.   Key Takeaways. Take us through your journey? I suppose I am curious about learning and I am interested in entrepreneurship. My first job was in a cemetery to earn money before I went to college, it was hard work, it was in winter and I had to level graves. It was pretty educational because it made me realise I didn’t want to do hard physical work, all my life. I then started working for Anita Roddick, she is the founder of The Body Shop with her husband Gordon, and I was really impressed by her ethos and sense of purpose because it was all about fair trade and not testing on animals, she had a really strong message and brand and I wanted to learn from her. Do you think writing letters to people is more successful than email? Yes, I do, when you email someone you are piling up their inbox but when you write to somebody it is very rare and it stands out more. It is a good way of preempting a job application and that’s what I did with Anita Roddick, I saw that she was having some problems, I wrote to her directly and I became caudate of one rather than a candidate of 100. Any way we can differentiate ourselves, and come across as somebody with personality and character is much stronger. How old were you when you attended Harvard? I was 25, it was really tough. You started your study group at 7:20 in the morning and you worked really hard, and you learned a lot. I then came back and got a job at the BBC in production, I loved that I was a trainee producer for a little bit. You have both higher education and experience working in your family business, which one taught you the most? What is interesting is when I went to Harvard, my Dad actually applied and came over too. He did a course for entrepreneurs. I was the first member of our family to go to university, and even though my father left school at 16 with not any O levels, he was really big on education and he learned at night school to be an accountant. The difference is when you study at a university you consider a lot of ideas and see a lot of other people’s experiences, but you’re not actually doing it yourself. It is all very well having a theory but tries and it in practice, and I have learned that since. Try and take people with you, create a moon purpose, build energy around whatever you’re doing, that is really human and that is what I learned from my father. You have been very partly responsible for the growth of your family business, can you tell us how you grew Reed? I think it is always important to be growing, our strategy is very simple. It is to grow organically, we haven’t grown it by acquisition. There are only two ways you can grow organically, one is through exceptional service and the other is through innovation and new ideas. If you can deliver a good service to people that they appreciate, they will come back and they will also recommend you to other people, we take that very seriously. Innovation is also a big part of our DNA. We are always looking for new ideas and we are always skint people for their ideas. What justifies recruitment agency fees? You can negotiate your price, but I always say, if a recruitment agent is charging your company a very low fee, where are they going to send their best candidates? There is a huge behind the scenes cost of running a recruitment agency. We spend 20 million pounds on advertising, millions on IT, we have over 3500 staff. So there’s a lot of time and investment put into that. All the best and biggest recruiters in the UK use our website. If you’re paying a big fee you should expect a really good service and a really strong shortlist and ultimately a really good hire. If you have a good recruiter alongside you who know what you’re looking for, that’s a really important relationship. How do you probe to get the mindset of somebody and look beyond the CV? Characters are everything in the end. You have to embark on a conversation where you can find out as much as you can. The thing that people most care about is integrity, but if you ask a bunch of school kids “what are you looking for you when you go for a job interview?” They never come up with that. There’s a really mean question in my interview book which is “where does your boss think you are right now?” So unless you have taken the time off, if your boss thinks you are with a client or working from home, that’s an issue. What is the best advice you have ever received? Be nice to people and to try and have an idea every day. What is the worst advice you have ever received? To not do things that I have ignored and always turned out quite well. Or when people have told me “Be more careful” or “It won’t succeed” often they’re right but the comfort of a pessimist is being proven correct, but there is nothing better than proving them wrong. What does the word disruptive mean to you? I am not sure it is positive! It has become more ambivalent to me if disruption is good or bad? I think we have entrepreneurs have a duty to think about that, and maybe come up with some new ideas to address that. I love change, I love the challenge of improvement.   BEST MOMENTS: “Getting the right people into your organisation is game-changing” “Some ideas have succeeded, and some have failed, but the combination of the two has led us to where we are today” “The difference between hiring someone who is fantastic and hiring one who is a disaster can make or break a business”   ABOUT THE GUEST: James Reed is the Chairman of REED – Britain’s biggest and best-known recruitment brand and the largest family-owned recruitment company in the world. James first joined the company in 1992 after graduating from Harvard Business School. Since then REED has become a billion-pound business and reed.co.uk – the first of its kind, established in 1995 – is the UK’s number one recruitment site. James is a regular media commentator, with TV appearances including BBC News, Sky News, BBC Radio 2 and The Apprentice. He has contributed insight to a wide range of publications including the Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and the Sunday Times. James is also a best-selling author of three books. [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979  disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Not everyone has a successful podcast, not everyone has a successful business, not everyone simply succeeds. But what are the differences those that succeed and those that just don’t make the grade? Tune in to hear Rob reverse engineer the traits of the greats and quantify why some of us just don’t make it. Discover the common traits among successful students and what you can do to help you succeed in business and in life.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Common traits among successful students. A balance between persistence and patience. They do the work, they keep pushing their message but they face some rejection. But they’re aware that success can take time and sometimes longer than you plan. Success is balance. Continued education and personal development. Learning doesn’t stop at one course or one lesson it’s a continual process that is essential to success. Continued improvement. Making mistakes happen all of the time, the key is fixing the problem and learning from them. Always aim to take feedback, learn from it and never get complacent. Passion, energy, and enthusiasm. Don’t burn out in the beginning, keep a continual passion for what you’re doing and own it every day. Network. Your peer group will pull you up and give you tips, tricks, and advice on how to grow and scale. Mentors. People are either lifting you up or pulling you down. Aim to surround yourself with successful people, mentors and those that are where you want to be. Putting yourself out there. If you continually put yourself out there, meeting people and networking you will learn and grow incredibly fast. The best form of learning is osmosis so surround yourself with the people that have the experience that you want and the skills that you desire. Consistency. Just commit to doing it, be consistent and success will happen in the end. Commitment is a mindset that can take you a long way. Asking for help. Everyone has pride and everyone feels vulnerable but asking for help can be the biggest driver to success.   BEST MOMENTS“It’s easy to do it when your up and high but hard when you’re down and low”“You can’t fight life”“The test of you is when life isn’t going well”“There’s always 20-30% of people that have the right intentions and desire to succeed but life just gets in the way and the trick is finding out if what got in the way was an unlucky circumstance or an excuse?”“There’s a significant group of people that jump from one trend to another and suffer from ‘shiny penny syndrome’ and when it gets hard they look for an easier way out.” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

“Knowing when to speak up and knowing when to shut up is business and life mastery” There are too many people out there trying to get ahead and they’re talking too much and definitely not listening enough. Everything you need to find, love, grow and discover are out there on podcasts, Youtube videos, in masterminds, on courses, and with your mentors, if you stop talking, stop interrupting and start listening. Tune in today to discover why listening matters and how to gain more information, extract more education and get more inspiration with your host, Rob Moore.  KEY TAKEAWAYS When you’re talking you’re simply not listening. The information, education, and inspiration are being missed because you’re talking and not listening.   If you talk, not only are you not getting information, you’re also not extracting information out of people. But when you listen and occasionally ask good questions, people will ask you all sorts of stuff that you wouldn’t get otherwise and it can make a huge difference in your business and personal development.  A good example of this is viewing properties and just letting the vendor talk and share and vent and from this, you can understand their motivations and serve them better. If you want to make someone feel important just let them talk, from customers, clients, vendors, and prospects, just let them express themselves and let them talk.   To allow people to talk to you and give you information and this could be your customers, leads, prospects, and clients, they must be able to feel comfortable around you must ask good questions, listen and listen with interest using your eyes, ears, and bodies.   Billionaire Jim McColl has bought over 85 businesses in his industry and one of the main reasons he was able to do this was because he was simply non-threatening.   Sometimes ego takes over and you try to talk and try to overcome the nervous and restless energy by talking, but this can omitted a sense of desperation and it takes a lot of wisdom, self-awareness, and self-confidence to just sit, listen and take it all in. Occasionally people stop listening and start talking when they’re triggered. They say and rant stuff online, on social media and in emails and as a result, it’s out there for good. These people can damage reputations and relationships because they don’t know when to shut up and they let their ego get the better of them.   BEST MOMENTS“When people are waiting to talk, they’re not listening and they’re missing out on the details and important information that can be had from listening”“If you’re in therapy or need to have a rant and need to ‘let it out’ that’s okay, but do it privately and get permission to vent.”“You’re going to learn a lot more in a dialogue and not a monologue”“The best seat in the house at a mastermind is the person with the least money, the least experienced and the most to learn”“Wisdom is a balance of knowing when to talk and when to listen, when to express and when to act and ask questions”“Sometimes the ones that say nothing are the dark horses that listen, learn and take it all in”“Knowing when to speak up and knowing when to shut up is business and life mastery” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Having an engaged online community of loyal fans and followers can help your business succeed in a number of ways you didn’t even realise. Today, Rob shares his tips and tricks on how to build a loyal community of customers and clients using a variety of different social media platforms. Discover the secrets to consistent and continual content marketing, how to engage in two-way communication and connect with your community and why the 80/20 rule is your best friend. Tune in today and start growing your own community right away.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Make sure you’re on all social media platforms, focusing on a few platforms that you believe will give you the best leverage e.g Facebook groups. Consistent and continual content marketing. Don’t just post and run. That is not an engaged community that is a one-way community. Replying to people's content showing gratitude. Include people in your community by acknowledging them and allowing them to post. For your most active and engaged communities, give them exclusive content and bonuses that others don’t get. Have some personal elements to your social media engagement by replying to direct messages or doing one to one calls. Incentisize them to follow all your different platforms. Ask them to do things for you, this will help the audience become more connected to you. Do some associated face to face meetups as part of your online communities to help create a deeper connection and rapport. Have clear consistent guidelines and make sure you balance your promotion with their ability to promote and their ability to receive and give value. Using the 80/20 content rule. 80% of the content should be value and content based on what the community wants and need and 20% should be everything else such as personal posts. Learning to handle the critics and haters. Crowdsourcing. Ask your viewers for ideas on what content they would like to see. Consistency and persistence are key. You need to upload regular content if you want an engaging audience. Go and do public speaking.   BEST MOMENTS “Start now get perfect later” “Don't turn a critic into a hater” “Organic takes longer but you will get a deeper more loyal following”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Do you know what fear really is? Take a look at the evolution of fear and how in the modern world it manifests in our daily lives. Discover how to embrace and overcome fear and how to stop it from getting in the way of you achieving your goals. KEY TAKEAWAYS Some people say that fear is false evidence appearing real. Other people describe it as your imagination of how a future outcome will be. Many people also think fear is an emotional response to a scenario or situation. Many people forget that fear serves us as well as hinders us. All emotions are a reaction to our environment but the problem is, the environment isn't real it is our perception of the environment that is real for us. Therefore, fear is a reaction to a false perception, not an actual real one. People fear the feeling of fear, not that actual event itself. Fear is primitive, it is a programmed response that goes way back to our primitive era to help aid our survival and evolution. However, in modern-day we still feel really strong fear about daily things. Fear is a future, imagined reality felt through emotions usually overly exaggerated yet we still feel them so real in our body. Fear is a fear of the feeling in response to the environment of the things that haven't happened yet. The more fear you get yourself through and overcome gives you a thicker skin, more ability to deal with rejection and an ability to feel more fear. What you fear is not the event, it is your reaction to the event, feeling through it and embracing it in will take you to amazing levels of mastery that you have probably never experienced in your life before.   BEST MOMENTS “Fear serves us as well as hinders us” “Feel through it and breath in-out” “Feel the fear and do it anyway”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Do you often find yourself wanting to do things, but losing motivation? Thinking “it’s easier said than done”? Well, tune in today as Rob talks us through ways to combat this feeling and overcome your fears of failure to create nothing but success for yourselves! Don’t miss this inspirational episode. KEY TAKEAWAYS -When people say it is easier said than done not only are they stating the obvious, it also stops them from actually doing something. What they are really saying is that they don’t want to do it, or it is too difficult to do. - If there is something that you want to achieve and you have described it as being “easier said than done” then this has only one solution which is getting something done. - People generally tend to get band mental health when they have three or more major areas of their life that are going badly. - If you find yourself in a situation where you have three or more major things in your life that are going badly, which is contributing to poor mental health, one way to overcome this may be to focus on one area and try to improve. -You’ve got to not think about how easy or hard it is to do it and you have to chunk what it is you’re looking to do into manageable steps. - You cannot be successful without failing your way to success and doing something is better than doing nothing. - If you do nothing, it will go wrong. If you do something, it may go wrong but you can learn from your mistakes and get it right next time. -It then becomes easier done than said, if you chunk it down and just create an action plan of small steps to take.   BEST MOMENTS “To know and not to do is not to know” “Stop procrastinating and start testing” “Would you rather look stupid and be successful or look good and be skint?” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Rob is joined by British broadcast journalist, producer and entrepreneur Sharon Carpenter. Sharon answers questions on how she got to be where she is today and what she has planned for the future. Sharon shares exclusive stories from working as a broadcaster in America to how she manages to balance her personal and professional life. Tune in today for this captivating interview with industry legend, Sharon Carpenter. KEY TAKEAWAYS When people who do not know you, ask what you do for a living what do you tell them? The first thing I tell them is that I am a broadcast journalist, that is because that is where I started out in more of the news side of things and then I moved over to the entertainment side of things, still as a journalist. Now I do so many different things, I am a presenter, a quiz show host, a producer. Does that make you an entrepreneur of sorts? Yes, it does. I have my own business called Carpenter Media and most of the work I do through that, I also create and develop television shows through that brand as well. Do you find it hard to have a relationship as an entrepreneur? It is hard, and I have definitely been in that situation, I do get very caught up with work so sometimes I do forget about the person I am with. I remember I was working on a presentation for a TV show that we eventually ended up selling to MTV. We were working around the clock and sometimes my boyfriend would notice that I was active on social media but was not replying to his posts, he didn’t understand that for me, social media also work. When you’re in that environment you have to be laser-focused. Sometimes there is just so much going on, your mind is so full that you’re not even thinking about that. I will say that I am understanding because of that, and I think it takes a certain type of person to be with someone in that mindset, that is really driven and wants to be successful. You really have to think about what is important to you, I do know people that have been all work focused and then they get to a point when they are like ‘oh I wish I had a family’ and they didn’t make time for that. Do you feel like you were able to stay true to yourself working in the media? When I first got into the industry, I was first a producer but I had dreams of being on camera. I remember talking to this big-time executive and he said to me “Oh so you want to be on TV?” to which I replied “Yes, it is a dream I have” he then told me “Well your English accent is a distraction!” I was devastated, I had also got a new agent who told me that maybe I should lose the accent and learn to speak with an American accent. I had to think to myself, is that really being me? If I was to go onto a station and start speaking with an American accent, that's not really real. I was trying to figure out, I’m English am I ever going to make it? I then remember going to see Sting perform, he was performing “English man in New York” and there's a line in the song “be yourself no matter what they say” and that's when I decided I was going to be myself no matter what they said! How do you deal with putting yourself out there on social media, without worrying about getting hate? You sort of has to get to a place where you don’t care. You need to build up your confidence, and to build up your confidence it is all about being good at different things. It has always been important to me to excel at things and produce good quality work, no matter what it is. All of that builds confidence, and the more the hate received will just become water off a duck's back. If you read something, don’t take it too much to heart, read it in a constructive way and take it in the best possible way. After getting so many comments, it has definitely helped me get a tough skin, what does it really matter? Not everybody is going to like you. Q.What is the best advice you have ever received? The best advice I have ever received was actually something that I heard somebody say. It was Anderson Cooper who said this in an interview “work harder than the rest, outwork everybody. Yes, talent is a certain part of it but really it's the amount of work you put in”. Q.What is the worst advice you've ever received? Learn to speak with an American accent! Although it could've been good advice actually. There are a couple of times where it could have been good for me to be able to do that, there is a sitcom and they were casting for a journalist in a small-town America. They really liked me but they asked me to do an American accent and that would have been okay as that's acting. So I sent them a self-tape and it was so bad! However, that's one occasion where that could have been okay to do. Q.What advice would you give to your 50-year-old self? I think what I would say to my 50-year-old self is “it’s never too late.” I think that's the big piece of advice if there's something that you’ve always really wanted to do it doesn't matter what anybody else thinks. It doesn’t matter if people are out there saying ‘oh you’re too old for that’ no, go for it and make it happen! When you’re 50 your dreams are going to be different than what your dreams are now, keep on dreaming up until the end. What does the word disruptive mean to you? I think that I am a bit disruptive if I am honest. It is shaking things up, not playing by the rules, it is doing things your way and adding some spice, sass and some sauce. BEST MOMENTS “Yes you can polish up, yes you can work on being the best version of yourself, but it really is about being true to who you are” “Look back on your own work, and make sure that you’re happy with where you’re going” “Make the most out of life, no matter what age you are” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 ABOUT THE GUEST Sharon Carpenter is a British broadcast journalist, television host, and producer. Originally from Watford England, Sharon Carpenter moved to New York City to study at Pace University and graduated magna cum laude with a BBA degree in business management. She has worked as an on-air personality for a number of top American television networks including CBS, BET, Sean "Diddy" Combs' REVOLT TV, and VH1. Currently, she is the host of "The Royal Report" - a weekly entertainment news web-series, by People Magazine and People TV, that covers the royal family. In addition, Sharon is a red-carpet host for BBC America. She can also be seen as a regular contributor on The Wendy Williams Show.disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

Struggling to keep up with all the different types of social media? Are you wondering which one to use to promote your new business? In today’s podcast, Rob takes us through the social media that nobody is talking about in business...Whatsapp! Whilst many people use Whatsapp for communication in their day to day lives Rob gives us an exclusive look into how you can use Whatsapp to benefit your company, expand your business, increase sales and keep in touch with your customers and clients. KEY TAKEAWAYS People often talk about Facebook, Youtube, Instagram and LinkedIn as good social media sources to promote your business. However, many people overlook a common source of media that is widely used, which is Whatsapp. Adding Whatsapp into your social media marketing allows you to reach more people. The more sources of media you use, the more people you are able to reach. Having a community on Whatsapp usually means they are more engaged with you and follow you on every platform, offering them exclusive deals is well received and usually more successful than other platforms. Action plan for using Whatsapp. Setting up your own Whatsapp group. Generating a link that you can put online meaning others can click the link to join your group. Download ‘Whatsapp For Business’ meaning there is no restriction on how many members can be in the group. Create clear guidelines for members to follow so that users can enjoy the group for the intended purpose. Add value to the group, such as utilizing the voice note feature of the app, something that you are unable to do on other platforms. Use it to link people to important videos or product launches you have online that they may not have already seen. Use it to grow your other social media platforms. You can repurpose content used on your other social media platforms, as well as creating new content exclusive to the members in your WhatsApp group. As well as testing new content or ideas on your exclusive Whatsapp group members, if it is successful you can share that particular content on your other social media platforms. BEST MOMENTS “It has definitely generated hundreds of thousands of pounds” “They are the most engaged, the most dynamic and hopefully the best community members that you have” “When all is said and done, more is said than done” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com