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Small Business Elevation

Small Business Elevation has been created to help small business owners by offering you a route to success through the inspiring messages, guidance and knowledge from Entrepreneurs who have been through the tough times, the great times and know that the key to achieving your goals is not the end point – but the journey. Our Podcast will offer you insight into their world, detailing things that you can learn, take away and implement into your own business for your Success. Keep soaring to higher heights with us Rob & Leon.
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Now displaying: December, 2015
Dec 28, 2015

Show Notes

In today’s show Rob interviews Miss Ava Eva Brown who is an author consultant and coach. Ava shares her inspirational story of how she overcame her childhood adversities of being sexually molested by her father living in abstract poverty as one of nine children.

Through Ava’s remarkable story you will learn the importance of courage and persistence.

Ava Brown is the author of the book “Bamboo & Fern” her recently published biography. She received her 2nd MBA from The University of Wales and her 1st from Newport University California.

Ava was recently nominated for London Leadership Peace Award, been a Finalist for Fashion Fair Diva, an Author of Colour International Women’s Day 2015 as well as being featured In the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Voice Newspaper & the Jamaican Gleaner.

 

Also in the show

Here’s just a few things you learn;

  • What’s in a name: Learn Why & How Ava was inspired to change her name after attending a film shoot where she was playing a cameo role (hint: it’s the same reason many famous Hollywood stars have also done the exact same thing in the past).
  • They say tough times never last, but tough people do. Ava EXPLAINS how to overcome Nightmare situations from your past, like rejection, poverty and sexual abuse, which she endured throughout her teens.
  • DISCOVER Ava’s UNIQUE Sales and Marketing process she refined as a teenager Selling Mangos and how you can apply them in your career (what Ava expands on, is the most important Sales skill you need for lasting success).
  • Hear the solutions and the upsides to Ava biggest failures that all centre around relationships (Ava touches on something rarely talked about), the root cause of relationship breakups and what is needed for successful relationships.
  • Ava shares the one thing she did that got her out obscurity to prominence in her market place, which lead to column inches in the Financial Times, several magazines and TV appearances in 2015 and How you can replicate her success… for Business, for Personal Branding or Fund Raising.
  • What is the fast slow growth syndrome: (Definition) if you want to go fast, go alone if you want to go FAR collaborate with espresso style people…

Hit play now to get even more elevating knowledge to soar you to higher heights of productivity and profitability.

Success Quote

  • Impossible = IM possible

Recommend Resources

  • Start With Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone To Take Action by Simon Sinek
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
  • Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life by Spencer Johnson
  • The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne

Connect

For a free copy of her book email info@avabrown.org and mention this podcast episode “SB Elevation” in the subject  linehttp://avabrown.org/book/

Dec 21, 2015

Show Notes

In this week’s episode Rob and Leon interview “Grant Cardone”, who is a NY Times Best Selling author, recognised international sales training expert, and motivational speaker on finance, sales and business expansion.

Grant is founder and CEO of Four multimillion dollar businesses. Catch him on the Today Show, Fox and Friends, CNBC and Access Hollywood.

To sum up Grant, in one word “Passion”. Grant brings passion, success, no BS, hustle, team, family and even after all of that this guy is understanding of where people are in life as they work toward making success their duty.

He’s been broke, down and out, but he has learnt through his life how to deal with it and make success a mind-set and a daily choice!

 

Also in the show

Here’s just a few things you learn;

  • Get your pen and note pads out because here’s just a snippet of content rich knowledge Grant dispenses in this episode.
  • Discover the number 1 resource you need to achieve success and it has nothing to do with Money. Most people have this Natural resource in abundance but don’t realise its significance.
  • Revealed, the fastest way to self-mastery of any topic or skill, using a simple system of studying and learning, it’s what Grant calls going deep not wide (once you understand this you too can short cut the time it takes to reach your destination of success…)
  • Learn the 3 attributes that Grant believes is more important than having liquid capital to succeed in business today.
  • Grant shatters the myth about the necessity of a college education and why he believes a C grade student with street smarts can annihilate most Ivy League educated graduates.
  • Grant shares his show up formula that moves you faster to domination and ownership of a market. Put this formula into action AND your competition will be running for cover  (this is priceless wisdom).
  • Grant shares a coaching story of how to start a business without leaving your street, avenue or cul-de-sac and instantly pick up customers and cash. This start-up business is so simple teenage kids could get started right away.

Hit play now to get even more elevating knowledge to soar you to higher heights of productivity and profitability.

Success Quote

  • Stop being a little bitch and do something
  • Success is your duty

Quick Fire Facts

  • Grant Cardone net worth: $100 Million plus
  • Number 1 online streamed person on the Meerkat / Periscope Apps.
  • Small Business Resource: http://makemillionsinbusiness.com/
  • Cardone zone – Own TV show
  • Has his own 10x Jet Aeroplane
  • His clients include: T-Mobile, Motorola, AT&T, BMW, Ernst & Young, Ford, Chrysler, Google, Golds Gym, Lexus, Harley Davidson, Microsoft

Recommend Resources

  • Sell or Be Sold: How to Get Your Way in Business and in Life by Grant Cardone
  • The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure by Grant Cardone
  • If You’re Not First, You’re Last: Sales Strategies to Dominate Your Market and Beat Your Competition by Grant Cardone
  • The Closer’s Survival Guide by Grant Cardone
  • Sell To Survive by Grant Cardone

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Dec 14, 2015

Show Notes

In this week’s episode Rob and Leon interview Multi-millionaire Lyndon Wood about his entrepreneurial highs and lows, and how he became an insurance Tycoon in the Business-to-Business space.

This interview will inspire business owners to take the shackles and restrictions off of their mind-set and encourage you to think big.

Lyndon is the CREATOR and CEO of SUNZU. A social business network based in the UK and a global membership, with an emphasis on putting business first and making sure you get a return on time (ROT) not forgetting that people run businesses.

Lyndon’s passion is to use his knowledge base and contacts to assist other entrepreneurs to achieve their dreams.

 

Also in the show

When you press play here’s just a selection of you will discover and learn ;

  • How he could have been a billionaire instead of a millionaire if he had acted on his intuition with the idea for daily deals sites like Groupon and Living Social, if it want for sitting on his idea in an incubation lab 24 months prior to this business model hitting UK mainland.
  • Lyndon explains his methodology on How to respond to the common crisis of having your eggs in one basket, due to no fault of his own after the 9/11 twin towers terrorist attacks, he found his company on the brink of extinction (make notes of the steps he took to ensure not just survival but expansion).
  • How to expand your business revenues streams courtesy of HMRC at a step discount anywhere up to 75% and make insane amount s of profits in record time (This is a very shrewd and often overlooked way to grow business to dominate the competition).
  • Lyndon laments on why the legendary martial arts expert Bruce Lee’s philosophies helped him to be extremely successful in all areas of his life including financially, spiritually, and why you may want to follow suit.
  • Discover how the Welsh wizard’s obsession with Return on Time (ROT) has lead  him to create some fabulous resources for YOU to leverage your time and PROFITABLY more easily using his Sunzu platform which currently has 650,000 active members.

Success Quote

  • “Police your business by numbers…”

Recommend Resources

  • 10% Human: How Your Body’s Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by: Alanna Collen
  • Diary of a Fortune Hunter by Lyndon Wood

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Dec 7, 2015

Show Notes

In This week’s episode we hear the fascinating journey of Petra Foster who is a Personal Brand Wealth Strategist, for passionate entrepreneurs.

Petra helps you to create a brand that represents what you want to be known for and what you stand for, which has a direct impact on the success of your business.

Petra is described as no nonsense, quirky and fun. She is determined to help her clients create wealth by becoming a personal brand, turning your passion into profit.

 

Also in the show

When you press play here’s just a selection of you will discover and learn ;

  • How to stand out in a (vanilla) crowded business world by applying contrarian marketing Method AKA The art of not fitting in to make a lasting impression that positions you as the authority in your market.
  • The near death experience that snapped Petra out of her day job trance and ignited the entrepreneurial flame, which allowed her to take a leap of faith and quit her job.
  • Petra shares hear secret self-development training resource centre, which you can access for free on line to help spike sales immediately in your company.
  • Petra delivers a micro lecture on the best investment you can make in your business for supersonic growth, Ignore this advice at your peril (it could set you back years).

Success Quote

  • “Create products and services out of a place of pleasure”

Recommend Resources

  • 10X Rule by Grant Cardone

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