Show Notes
In this week’s show you will gain entrepreneurial insights from, Joel Blake an award-winning and passionate Entrepreneur, Business Speaker and CSR Consultant with over 15 years of experience in developing small business owners, and in advising companies on their Corporate Social Responsibility strategies.
Joel is the Founder of leading social impact consultancy www.cultiv8solutions.com and Co-Founder of Biz Britain Finance Ltd, who have helped to launch over 400 new businesses across the UK over the past two years and CEO of The Hot500, the Midlands leading peer mentoring group network for aspiring youth entrepreneurs.
Joel is also the Regional Ambassador for the national Start-Up Britain enterprise campaign and also has a passion for public speaking, with experience of motivating over 4000 people in an arena to delivering inspirational personal development sessions.
Also in the show
- Hear the lesson learned from Joel’s humble upbringing living in a deprived ward of Birmingham from a single parent background, which moulded his vision to bring about change in his community.
- Discover how Joel had an epiphany moment whilst working on minimum wage in soul destroying factory job and how he took action to make a difference in his personal career.
- Why it’s essential to build a business that is aligned to your propose so you don’t self designate Like an incendiary device, blow up your business and kill every meaningful relationship in your life unwittingly.
- Listen to Joel explain his biggest business FAILURE and how his 4 year son snapped him out of his “pity party zombie state”, which allowed him to bounce back bigger and stronger
- Joel explains why technology is pivotal for scaling your business and how it has helped one of his companies support over 400 companies UK wide without the need for office space.
- Find out how Joel got to rub shoulders with the likes of Billionaire Tom Hunter and spend an unforgettable evening in prestigious Mayfair hotel.
Success Quote
“Never forget where you come from because that makes you who you are but never forget where you going because that’s who you going to be…”
Recommend Books
- Slight edge by J Olsen
- Entrepreneur Revolution: How to Develop Your Entrepreneurial Mindset and Start a Business That Works by Daniel Priestley
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