Aston Merrygold: Rob Interviews with Global Pop Star from JLS [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]
Disruptors17 Kesä 2018

Aston Merrygold: Rob Interviews with Global Pop Star from JLS [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Interview with Aston Merrygold, former member of JLS, one of the biggest ever boy bands with 10,000,000 records sold. Aston’s since been a judge on a dance talent show and appeared on Strictly Come Dancing. He’s appeared in adverts for Coca-Cola, Samsung and Tesco. Rob’s met with Aston at his dance studio in Vauxhall to discuss success, wealth, leveraging social media, reinventing your career and dealing with the business side of celebrity. KEY TAKEAWAYS You’re now pursuing a career as a solo artist, that must be different to working with your bandmates. I bet there’s upsides and downsides, do you want to talk about that Aston? Yeah, I guess the only real difference is the social. you'd be in a room with your friends, business partners, having a heated business discussion, everyone's got their own ideas and nothing ever arrives to arguments or blows, but from an outside perspective it can be quite awkward. It looks like we're going at each other, but that's just the passion. Now on my own, it's my way or the highway. I prefer it that way, 100%! I'm so thankful to the rest of the guys and my team, but now being on my own I can finally be myself and express myself fully, not contribute 25% to a four-piece. How do you want to be known and remembered, Aston? Well, I want to be remembered as one of the greats, and I think if you don't want that, then you're in the wrong industry. If I could have an eighth, a third or a slice of something someone like Michael Jackson had or Justin Timberlake, more recently. If I could get a slice of their success, I'd be more than happy! Music or dance specifically, or the fusion of both, Aston? Do you know what? I think it's just entertainment. People ask me what I do for a living, and I tell them entertainment. It's everything, music, from a writing perspective, from a performance perspective, dance-wise, acting, everything. I love everything to do with this industry. Working with business partners, sometimes that passion can overflow, sometimes you can fall out, how did you and your band learn to deal with and overcome that? To be honest, I don't know why, we just did! There was no learning process. As individuals we just wanted to fight the good fight. We would put it to each other like, "If we do this we could be here, if we do that we could be there..." It was all about where we needed to be. What was best for us as a collective. I was the youngest of the four so I tended not to take things as seriously, when it came to the business aspect I was more than happy to give my opinion and not back down, but ultimately I thought that was why we outsourced, hiring business managers, administrators and consultants, to make those decisions on our behalf. How much of it was agents and labels telling you what to do and how much of it was you saying, "Wait a minute, we want to do this." Well, I'd say about 50\50. We were trusted with our opinions which was great. There were times when we trusted the label, sometimes great, sometimes not so great. Just the way of the industry. Sometimes our hits which we didn't think would succeed were massive and other times the releases we thought would be huge just didn't hit the mark. Luck of the draw, half the time. We would have to trust our lives to these people and we had a great run, I think I can speak on behalf of myself and the boys when I say it was the best thing we'd ever done. So, from your position, why do you guys feel like you moved on? I think it was the perfect turn, I'm still in JLS, I'm always going to be in JLS, but we were young when we entered the industry, then we got our break. We're all now in our mid 20's, we've already had a fantastic career, we have time to pursue other dreams! Five albums take a lot of time, there's been a lot of tours and it was the thought of signing the deal for another five albums and being contracted all over again. Now we're all starting families, it seemed to us that we were at the top of our game, didn't want to overstay our welcome and then if we're welcome back then we're welcome back! We're more than happy with where JLS left.Was it scary, leaving the industry to try other things? Hell yeah! It was so scary, because I'd been cocooned. For the last 7/8 years I'd lived by the diary, having cars pick me up at certain times to take me to meetings and events at certain times. From life being handled by every aspect to getting the reigns back to my own life was definitely scary, but I was free. I got to start again with all the knowledge and wisdom of the industry which I didn't have before, it was a rush! You seem totally laid back about transitioning career and going from being massive to starting from scratch, Aston. What would you say to people who aren't as laid back as you and they're scared? Well, you can look at fear one or two ways; it can over could you and make you introverted, or you can take it upon yourself and admit it's scary. There's a difference jumping out of a plane with a parachute and without one. Regardless of whether you have one or not, it's scary. Jumping without one, it'll only ever end one way, with one you still have a safety net which may not work but at least you confront it and take it head on. Nowadays on Social Media you can be absolutely killed. One wrong remark or faux-pas and that could be your career done within a matter of hours, regardless of what's happened. It's as cut-throat as that. Once you realise and know that, life won't be so stressful! You might as well just be like, "Alright, well I'll try again." Is that faith? Is that belief in yourself? Is that confidence? Is that accepting of your industry and career and how it can be or is it all of those, Aston? It's all of them, it has to be. Sometimes I can see the bad sides of all those things within the industry and think you can be too confident. You might as well be naked on stage and say, "There you go, judge away." Has the industry changed you? Yeah, definitely. I used to go out with my mates from uni, early twenties, same as everyone else. The only difference was that I was I had money so we could really enjoy ourselves and the media perceived me to be showing off. What else would you be doing on a weekend with your friends from uni at that age, going out every night obviously! Do I have work tomorrow? Yeah of course, but I'm fine! So you've talked about these glass ceilings to smash through, what's your glass ceiling and how're you going to smash through it? The next glass ceiling is just getting music out there. Letting people know that I'm a solo artist now. Not many people know it. Music's based mainly online now, it's ever-changing and you can so quickly and easily get lost. It's me having the courage to step back and take a harder look at it and evaluating how I want to approach it. At first I was like, "Yeah I want to chuck anything out and do whatever." Whereas now I'm like, "Now I have to chuck it out in the right way." Do you think some of the purists struggle with how fast music and content are changing? Yes! I had a meeting the other day with a great friend of mine who works for a label and he got pissed off with me for talking on my phone. He said, "Stop talking, I've heard your stuff, let people hear it and decide!" Get your content out there. Whether 10 people here it or 10,000,000 people hear it, you'll effect change. People think they should wait for the perfect time but there is not perfect time. It's ever-changing, so fast paced! People are now starting to put their own truth out to the world. Podcasts, YouTube, Social Media, etc. People want honesty, but you're damned if you do and damned if you don't if when for example your niche is writing sad songs and you decide to write a happy one, some of your followers may disapprove but at least you're being authentic. Too often we aim to please everybody and don't want to be judged too harshly. A lot of people are really intrigued about the business side of your career, did you show an interest in that or did you just want to go and do entertainment? At first, I was definitely happy-go-lucky, thinking business was cool but then I'd get invited to an accounting meeting and I'd think, "Perfect..." Then the taxes came and I wanted to know who was taking my money! As it went on I wondered why hadn't they taught me about this at school? All these avenues and options, I don't know why it took me to reach a certain age for it to click. In the early stages money was coming in thick and fast, unreal! First I was partying, then I wanted to buy a house, then the business aspect start to get more real. Then I started to analyse why the volume of gigs in the first part of the year was more than the third part of the year, etc. I started to realise there was a business cycle behind it all. A preparation period, a release period, etc. A template every artist follows. People are launching from yesterday. "I'm gonna be in the studio tomorrow, everyone out there, check out this song that I posted last night." The rule book's been thrown out the window! Slade wrote a Christmas number one 40 years ago and they're still milking £500,000 per year from it! Cristiano Ronaldo gets €300,000 per tweet if he does a brand endorsement. There's some downsides to Social Media but if you want to set up a business or be an artist or creative, surely it's gotta be the best time in history?! You get a small tripod for £5, set your camera up, start singing or dancing or whatever and start selling products! Have you embraced all the Social Media, are you quite active? Instagram and visual things I love, things like Twitter, not so much. For me, Twitter's maybe 90% negative and 10% positive. You get a lot of opinions when people post music but aren't ready to perform in front of large crowds of people. You want to be true to your art and your work and you could spend 30 years crafting your work, never be perfect, get still always be judged by purist critics. Social Media today, you can dictate the terms. If you like the comments, get involved. If you hate it, turn it off, if you're an introvert you can do a podcast because nobody can see your face! There's ways around it now, there's lanes, avenues, ways people can really express themselves. Building multiple streams of income and making hay while the sun shines. I've seen a lot a lot of people who've become very successful and then relaxed. You never know when there could be another recession. In your world Aston, you can be the best and then you can be gone. Do you think about building income streams, having multiple business interest endorsements? What are your thoughts on streams of income and making hay while the sun shines? I'm 110% up for building these streams of income. As an artist I choose when I get paid. If I don't want to get paid, I don't go out and work. It doesn't work for me. You're never too successful! There's always bills to pay and people to provide for. We're sitting in one of my avenues now. There's always a bigger picture. I'd like ten of these, dotted around the country, dotted around the world. You've got a business partner in this venture. How important is having that business partner, what benefit have you got? It's nice to always have the other perspective, coming from a band it's nice to bounce ideas. At the same time, when I'm touring, I need someone to hold down the fort. If something comes up within the business which I can't handle straight away, he can handle that. It's nice having a business partner that's totally on your wavelength. Gold dust! People say you shouldn't go into business with friends. I say life's too short to go into business with people purely for commercial benefit and not enjoy your time together, especially if you succeed. Surely, you'd want to succeed with your friends and people you care about?! If they're true friends, you'll never run into any worries. They'll all eventually show their true colours. The best advice you've ever received, if you can remember it? From Seal, actually. One of the greats. He told me, "Enjoy it." Regardless of whether you're performing in front of 50 people at a local concert or 50,000 in an arena, enjoy it. We're all rushing everything we ever do, so slow down, soak it up. Worst advice? Honestly, I've never had bad advice. If I've ever had advice which didn't go according to plan, I'd learn from it, which would be invaluable anyway. Going against my gut always bites me. A myth about the industry or a celebrity or someone in the media which most people don't know about? When you get £1,000,000 you don't actually get £1,000,000! Why didn't they teach you in school that if you're an employee, when you get paid, you lose 40% to tax?! Management, agents, staff, whomever it may be, they all get a slice too. So once all of the overheads are cleared you're left with around £200,000/£300,000... Don't ever believe the newspapers! If I did six or seven of those gigs, then I'd be looking at earning that kind of money. Anything you strongly believe in the world that you'd like to change and put your stamp on? The Social Media is such a curse and such a blessing at the same time. People use it for so much good but at the same time you have to filter through so much rubbish and negativity to find any scrap of it. I'd like to put more filters and choice for people. The theme that's emerged in this interview is that there's two sides to this reality. Social media is a bit negative, but we can put our products and content out to the world in five minutes. Celebrity's all good or celebrity's all bad... There's a choice. You can always choose how you look at things and approach them. What does the word disruptive mean to you? Now? A four-and-a-half-month old baby screaming at 2am! Personally, for me being disruptive is probably more of a good thing. Music is always disrupting the airways and people's vision and hears. Music that disrupts popular, conventional music creates its own undefined genre. I enjoy proving that there aren't any rules! BEST MOMENTS The best thing about building a dance studio underneath a railway bridge is that there’s no sound restrictions, so if clients want to have their music playing at top volume, they can. It's good that clients hear music going on when they arrive, if it was silent then it'd feel like something was wrong. The smell adds to it too! I never felt the need to push buttons. If someone was feeling a bit tender over a business decision or something similar, I'd tend to back off and give them some time and space. There's no ceiling. Every ceiling you see is made of glass and if you don't smash through it then you're going to get stuck. I'm going to invest in myself instead of waiting for years for the knock on the door from the big label. Everybody's putting their stuff out through their own means. That one bad review out of the 1,000 decent ones really doesn't matter! Don't fixate on it. If I sit out home all day, doing nothing, it's not long before the phone stops ringing. I have to go out, make myself known, do shows, take appointments, etc. because if I don't do it now then my family will be in trouble. Focus yourself on what you've got, not what you've not got. I realised Social Media was a daily thing. Instagram, Twitter, people wanted to see all of you, not just the music. Sometimes I would grow my hair for campaigns, sometimes you'd see a yearly cycle within a day! As you said, happiness is a choice. Now it feels like, well that's just common sense, why would I not want to be happy? It's quite alluring and tempting, the gossip, the bad news, it's an attractive thing for some people. When my little boy came along, I thought he needs everything I didn't have when I was growing up, regardless of whether I can buy it right now or not. [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

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My 12 Biggest Trends of 2020 (for Entrepreneurs) (& 3 for 2030) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

My 12 Biggest Trends of 2020 (for Entrepreneurs) (& 3 for 2030) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

For all of the entrepreneurs out there wishing for 2020 to be their BIGGEST year yet, this episode is for you. Discover Rob’s 12 big trends of 2020 and beyond. Get ahead of the competition, learn the insider knowledge most entrepreneurs won’t ever know and unlock the keys to growing your business in 2020. KEY TAKEAWAYS These are the 12 biggest trends for 2020 for entrepreneurs. Data portability. New social media platforms and online platforms allow you to own your data and put your data from platform to platform, this could be something that could be huge because, at the moment, your exchange for getting free content and usability on social media platform is, of course, being fed ads, but you're giving your data which they analyze, some of them have shared and leaked. So data portability and platforms and social media offering new services where you still own and retain your follower and data could be huge. Climate, planetary and humanitarian business. The world's greatest problems of climate, Planetary and humanitarian are also the entrepreneur’s greatest opportunities. So if you can change the world, save the planet, make a difference ethically in a humanitarian way and create a business opportunity around it, you could go huge and there are real business opportunities around that. The movement for premium content. Essentially, you’re getting paid for better quality content. Early or new or different or unique or better or for a closed community or inclusive, these are all premium based content models introduced in social media platforms. Connection and people's continued need for connection despite AR and robotics. Despite all these predictions, machine learning, AR, Internet of things, voice command, online, robotics, there's also an anti-movement, whereby people crave more than anything human connection. There's also going to be an increase in the need for human connection because humans are still humans. The positive economy. In the last few years when you predicted the property market or the economy has been a bit of a bearish view, but because Brexit is hopefully finally over and because we've got someone who will go in and make decisions, we're going to have some good positivity, finally, we can do business. Finally, we can start trading abroad and we can figure out how we are going to be having trade relations with Europe now that we're coming out and it's going to happen hopefully more quickly. The movement of currency and things like crypto and mobile payment evolution. AR, machine learning, internet of things and cryptocurrency will start to become huge, it's probably going to happen a little bit slower, but it often does. It often takes longer even though it's happening already. Be among the first people who know about this and you will be successful. The continued cutting out the middleman. If you can go straight to the consumer and cut out the middleman and therefore give pass the savings on to the consumer, you're going to grow, you're going to make more profit, and they're going to get a better service. Business over the years has had a lot of middlemen and a lot of people taking a slice. And so if you think about it, selling your property online and cutting out the estate agent, that's been a big thing. Cutting wealth managers out and managing your wealth and getting a better education, that's been a big thing also. Profit overgrowth and ethics over a scale. If you think in a more profit overgrowth, and ethics and sustainability and human over scale, in the 80s and 90s, it always used to be about the corporation. We're in almost like the age and the rise of the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurs can be more agile, they can react quicker to the customers' needs, and ethics are really important in business now. And it's not that you should need it for a selling point, but how you look after your customers, how you look after their data, how you look after your employees is what is going to be your selling point. Stories to lead the news feed. Stories are more personal. It's another way for Facebook and Instagram and other platforms to evolve the look and feel of their platform to keep you engaged. Ultimately another way to start running ads, start posting on your stories more, start figuring out stories more, it will benefit you. The evolution of voice. Voice recognition. There's Siri, there's Alexa, there's Google and more and more people are using voice. And I think there are two things one is the voice technology is going to be better and become more ubiquitous. You're going to walk into your house and you can say, turn the TV on, turn the lights on. As a business owner, you want to make sure that you're searchable on voice; you're going to want your own voice identity, your voice brand. The gig economy and the continued short term nature of contracts and employee happiness. More short term contract, more remote working, more transient labour force, that's going to continue, at the same time, though, a culture and a team and is also going to become important, employee happiness and engagement and culture is the knock-on the importance of the gig economy. If people are working more remotely, if they are working more short term contracts, if there's more flexibility, if they want time and location freedom, and that is a movement, great, and that's going to become, I think, more prevalent. If you want to grow a team and retain staff, you've got to now look after them and their happiness and their culture and creating a workplace that they want to be in and their benefits and what you do for them The rise of the social media consultant, the videographer, the digital agency etcetera. The social media consultant, the digital agency, the videographer, the editor, these people are now really highly sought after. They're the new trades are the social media consultant, the YouTube marketer, the digital agency, the videographer, the editor, the audio editor, the podcaster, because this is the new media and these are the new currency, these are the new jobs that are being created. This could be big for you. This could be who you could be employing or this could be your new business opportunity for 2020. BEST MOMENTS “Online and face to face connection, they dovetail and they work hand in hand, they're symbiotic.” “Reflexivity, it's not the actuality and reality, what's happening is how we feel about what's happening which creates the market.” “The lower the friction of payment and the higher the speed of transaction that you can have online, the more the providers and the gateways are going to earn, the easier and quicker it is for you to do business.” “The easier you make it for your customers to pay you, the more you make and the quicker you'll make it.” “People are more impatient, they expect things quicker, they don't want to queue, they don't want to wait on line and they don't want the page to load.” “You can’t have the upside without the downside.” “When change happens, many people lose out but the winners win big.” “It's survival of the fittest.” “It's not those who are the strongest, but those most adaptable to change.” “Space travel, space exploration and intergalactic land grab are going to be something that will be real in the next decade.” “The rise of the virtual influencer in the next decade.” “By the end of the decade, there’s going to be the nano medic or the self-medication.” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything.” [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

13 Tammi 202039min

Rob In Therapy: My Deepest Content in 15 Years [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Rob In Therapy: My Deepest Content in 15 Years [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

“You don’t need to be broken to have therapy” Therapy comes in many shapes and sizes and it’s not just an answer for ‘the broken’ Therapy is essential for personal development, learning, coaching, gaining perspective and most importantly understanding who you are. Therapy is not something to be feared, seeing a therapist is not something that should be judged, it’s a path to a better and more positive mindset. Tune in to discover Rob’s reason for therapy and how it has helped him grow in business and in life.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  Personal development. Understanding who you are and how you work and how your mindset work and managing your emotions is not just vital, but almost the key determinant of success. Having mentors, doing courses, having a coach, having a therapist are some of the best ways you could ever develop yourself.  It’s the mindset and the emotional stuff that most people struggle with. When you’re struggling with yourself, you will struggle with everything that comes your way and success will not be your thing. This way, you need a therapist who will listen to your struggle and help you confront all your struggles, therefore, you will be able to face the challenges that the world gives you and come out a winner and thus you will be successful.  Most people perceived that there has to be something wrong with us, there has to be something broken to need a therapist. You may be too successful, but with success comes great responsibilities, challenges and sometimes you may feel lonely because you know you can't go to the next person beside you because you also know very well that they are also facing their challenges and this may break you inside and cause your downfall, instead of all this, you can pay someone who is paid to listen to people, and that is the therapist. Do not fear that people will judge you that you are messed up or have a problem since you know yourself, don't let people's limitations limit you.  The best thing about having a therapist is they don't know you, and because they need to know you from your childhood when you're building up the relationship and trying to let the therapist know you better, you might discover that it's not your current state which is the problem, your childhood was the problem and letting that thing out helps you to move forward with your life and not get stuck at one particular point. So you find yourself having those deep conversations that you couldn't have with people who know you, and this way, the therapist is now able to help you.  When you imagine people saying things about you even when they're not, 99% of the things that you worry about don't come true, but you worry about them anyway. When you do those personal development kinds of stuff like therapy, you learn that you're not the problem and you start to like that about yourself and learn to love that about yourself.  Understanding your earliest memories, and getting to know that younger you and having some sympathy and some love and some affection and admiration for that younger you, that is a great gift you can give yourself because let's be honest, when you two and five and six and things happen to you that make you feel pain, alone, rejected, you wouldn't have sympathy for you, you wouldn't be like bully yourself or beat yourself up or be hard on that version of you, you would care about that person, love that person, you would probably respect how that person dealt with that situation. If you can do that to yourself, take yourself out of yourself, look at yourself when you're young and the pain that you felt and the mistakes that you made and you just really appreciate and admire how that person dealt with that and what they did, that's going to benefit you in your adult life.   Who are you? Who is the child in you? What were the voids that you had? What were the pains that you felt from a very early age, I think it's a good thing for you to go there.  You may find some trauma, you may feel alone or wounded when you go through that, but if you can also see the gifts in who it made you and who it's making you become and if you can find a way to leverage that and turn that pain into gain for yourself and others, that is an amazing gift that you can give to yourself.   The most important thing to learn about business and life and becoming successful is managing your emotions, mastering your emotions, if you can shut up when everyone else is shouting, if you can speak up when no one else does, have the bravery and the courage to do that, if you can listen when others fail to do that if you can put yourself out there and take the arrows if you can be grateful for criticism if you could take the rejection and still be persistent. If you can say stay consistent when it gets hard, that is life mastery, that is business mastery right there.  BEST MOMENTS  “The skillset without the mindset will leave you upset.”  “In the last two months of therapy, I've learned more about myself than I had in the last 14 or 15 years.”  “It’s okay to ask for help.”  “You can never get deep enough when you talk to people, even if they're really good listeners because they tend to take the conversation down where they need to go.”  “Your voice becomes your values.”  “Your strengths are linked to your weaknesses; your pain is linked to your gift.”  “You don't just need therapy if you think you're broken, do it if you think you're struggling or if you think you're alone.”  “Love that child in you, be sympathetic for that child and forgive that child in you, forgive the people you perceived hurt that child in you, be grateful you've not had as big trauma as many other people.”  “You should realize that when people judge us, that's where they're at. “  “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything.”  “I don't think you need to be broken to have therapy.”  “Speed is good.”  [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

10 Tammi 202054min

10 Hard Lessons I Learned Last Year (My Biggest Year) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

10 Hard Lessons I Learned Last Year (My Biggest Year) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

2020 is going to be BIG. But how can we fully start-up, scale-up and challenge ourselves in the New Year if we haven’t learned from the previous year? In today’s episode, Rob shares with you 10 of the biggest, hardest and most challenging lessons learned in 2019 and how it has helped him and his businesses prepare for the year ahead. Discover top lessons, trends, and insights from the Disruptive Entrepreneur himself. If you’re looking to grow your business this year, listen to this episode first.   KEY TAKEAWAYS  10 Big, Unusual, Surprising, Challenging & Hard Lessons Learned in 2019 to Prepare us to go Big in 2020.  Be careful what you wish for. You should wish for big things to happen in your life, but you should also note that as you do that, do not stay idle, have a strategic plan of how you are going to achieve those big things that you are wishing for. When planning your goals or when planning your year or whatever you want to achieve, you should also plan the challenges you are going to have. So it's like goal setting and fear setting. Goal setting is setting the goals, the fear setting is what will the challenges be? What difficulties might there be? What do we need to plan and prepare for in advance? What could blindside us?  With your biggest highs, comes your biggest challenges. With your biggest highs, not only can but comes your biggest challenges, your biggest lows, so you need to be ready for what you can't be ready for. Prepare and plan for the unexpected. Be ready for what you can't be ready for and be prepared for what blindside you. You never know what that is, but at least be ready for it, whatever it will be.  Stay patient. They say it takes 10 years to be an overnight success. I'm not sure if it takes that long anymore, but you certainly have to be patient. Do not be distracted by people who are achieving big things, you will also be one of them in a very short time.  You can also always outsource and leverage more. What happens is when you get to a certain level of outsourcing and leveraging certain levels of admin, then all you do is take on more, and then you have a high level of responsibility and then you get busy and overwhelmed again, but then you can take on the next level of outsourcing like a marketing manager or someone in sales and then an operations manager and then an MD, and then a CEO, and you become chairman and there's always another level of leverage and outsourcing. So what you find is you outsource stuff, you liberate your time and you think I'm done, but then you either get bored and you distracted and you need more because you need that important feeding, or you want to grow.   Every entrepreneur struggles with letting go. It doesn’t matter what level you're at, hiring staff, scaling, getting management in, selling your business, getting help on your brand, developing property projects, media and TV and PR, every entrepreneur even billionaires, they have challenges letting go.  You have to ask for help. So many people are struggling alone. They don't have mentors, coaches, they've not done a therapist, they don't talk to people, they're not in the right peer group, it's your responsibility, you can't sit there alone wishing for people to come and save you and support you, you've got to go and find those circles, you've got to get to the networking events, you've got to get in the right property Facebook groups, you've got to take me up on the one to one calls when I do them, you've got to come to the progressive events, you've got to get in the right network and the right circles, have the millionaires locally and take them out for lunch and dinner  People. Probably the greatest gift of life is the people that you meet, the experiences you have with people. Our victories are much better when we get to share them and your challenges are much better when you get to have help and share those with other people too. You learn a lot from them, you get inspired by them, you get energy from them. And also, it's really important to hang around with people in your peer group, to hang around with people above you, mentors, successful people, and more experienced in the niche you want to be successful in, but also hang around with people who are less experienced than you that you can help.  Realism, the upsides and downsides. Set big but realistic goals that you can be able to achieve. When you set unrealistic goals, you’ll be smacked on the face when life gives you some cold hard realities and difficulties and challenges.  What you think you know about people. Stop judging people, stop assuming what you think they think, and start listening and asking. You don't know people until you ask. You do not know what they mean until you ask.   Lessons from my therapy. You don't get therapy because you are messed up, some needs need to be met, you need to talk deep enough because some of these things are not addressed by the coach or mentor you have. Get a therapist and do not fear that people will judge you. This helps a lot. You will learn way more about yourself doing therapy than you will in many other areas.  BEST MOMENTS  “When planning your goals or when planning your year or whatever you want to achieve, you should also plan the challenges you are going to have.”  “You can't wish for one without the other.”  “Be specific enough with what you wish for and what you plan for.”  “Things break when you go big, staff leave, systems break, merchant providers break.”  “The bigger you go, the bigger the challenges go.”  “It’s really important to be inspired by those who are ahead of you but don't feel like you're not worthy. Be motivated by competition, but don't get distracted by them. Be clear on your vision, your mission, your values, your goals, your journey, your direction, where you're going and stay patient.”  “If you don't ask for help, you don't get it.”  “Don’t buy into these limitations that other people impose upon you, if it's humanly possible, you can do it and break those limitations.”  “The better you know yourself, the better you're equipped with the pursuit that you're on with not worrying about what people will judge you on or criticize you for.”  “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything.”  [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 YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLtKal0qTf3klDUr7JS_L9Q  disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

8 Tammi 202041min

Even Deeper Results of Therapy (How to be Happy & Successful Despite Being Screwed Up) - (Mini Series Part 3) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Even Deeper Results of Therapy (How to be Happy & Successful Despite Being Screwed Up) - (Mini Series Part 3) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Success is not achieved easily, you have to sweat for it and therapy is the key to achieving it. Therapy is personal development, the control of your emotions, the increase in your self-worth and the driver behind success. Tune in to this honest episode of the Disruptive Entrepreneur and discover Rob’s reasons for therapy, how you can overcome your fear, defeat what’s holding you back and use this advice to make 2020 your year. KEY TAKEAWAYS Success is not achieved easily, one has to sweat for it, and for you to achieve it, you need to do a couple of things and one of them is personal development. One of the most beneficial personal development things that you can do is having therapy. Having a therapist does not necessarily mean that you are broken, you can do therapy when you are feeling lonely or when you feel that there are some things that you need to tell someone who will listen to you, someone who will not judge you but someone who will help you face your problems. Do not listen to people who judge you when they hear that you are having therapy. When you listen to those kinds of people, weakness strikes because you will start judging yourself and this restricts you from thinking straight thus you will only be hearing success from others because you will never be successful. A therapist is someone who you pay to listen to you and you need this type of person because you need to have those deep conversations and you can’t have these types of conversations with people close to you, work colleagues or friends because they will always cut you in the middle of that conversation when they feel they need to add something they relate with. You first need to know yourself before you can be successful because you need to face your fears, maybe they are fears from your childhood and unless you talk them out to someone who will listen to you and guide you on how to face them, you will always be stuck and this will not help you in achieving success. The work you do on yourself and your personal development, your mindset, your emotional management, and control, how you feel about yourself and your self worth, that is all vital to your success. That is the reason you need a therapist. Believe in having mentors and masterminds and getting coaches and having a therapist, getting help from those that have been there and done it is the only best thing you can do to achieve success. Few people say you don't need mentors, you don't need to get help. You got to figure it out yourself. How do you figure out the baggage you had as a child, things that maybe you lacked, whether it's love from our mother or father, or some kind of abuse or loneliness or extreme challenge or significant emotional event? That creates these voids and these pains in us. That's hard to figure out yourself. You need a therapist to listen to you and guide you on how to face those fears and after this, success will come your way. BEST MOMENTS “People perceive that you have to be broken to have a therapist.” “99% of the things you worry about never actually happen.” “The skillset without the mindset will leave you upset.” “Believe in getting help from those that have been there and done it.” “Always say to yourself that this is me, this is who I am and it's okay.” “Without each other, we couldn't survive as a race.” “Your voids create your values, the pains and the gaps and holes in your soul drive what you want and what you shoot for and what you find most important in your life.” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything.” [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

6 Tammi 202039min

BONUS: How to Bag a GREAT Mentor (& Avoid a Bad One) (Mini Series Part 3) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

BONUS: How to Bag a GREAT Mentor (& Avoid a Bad One) (Mini Series Part 3) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

The easiest person to lie to is yourself.  In this episode, we learn more about why and how to bag a truly great mentor. Mentors are crucial to growing, scaling not just you're business but you as an entrepreneur, you can't succeed on your own. Rob reveals where & how to find mentors. Free advice is worth every penny, you get what you pay, the same regards mentors.    [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

5 Tammi 202024min

BONUS: How to Get HARDCORE Accountability to Have Your Biggest Year Ever (Mini Series Part 2) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

BONUS: How to Get HARDCORE Accountability to Have Your Biggest Year Ever (Mini Series Part 2) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Welcome back to The Disruptive Entrepreneur Podcast’s four-part special on mentoring, masterminds, and accountability! In this episode, we learn more about HARDCORE accountability. Let’s admit… it’s really difficult to stick to every schedule and task, especially when no one’s watching. It’s easy to let yourself off the hook. According to Rob, there are many ways on how you can turn things around easily and build the habit of being accountable. Sometimes, it’s just a change of mindset, a change of perspective. Let someone help you—get a mentor, join a Mastermind. KEY TAKEAWAYS Take yourself out of the equation. Let someone help you be on track with your plans. When it’s you keeping score of what you’re doing, it’s easy to be self-forgiving. It’s difficult to see what needs to be improved or changed. Having pain also helps. Some people get motivated by remembering their past mishaps. They learned and don’t want to make the same mistakes. Failures humble you, or so they say. Tricking and gaming yourself. Always challenge yourself to do something you’re not comfortable with so you always improve and grow. Don’t let yourself get stuck wherever you are. Keep moving. You’re responsible for your own results. Your mentor guided you, yes. But you also have to applaud yourself for continuously pushing and staying focused in reaching your goals.   Rob just launched a fitness Mastermind and so far 80 people are most likely to push through. Last year, he helped people lose weight and they altogether lost almost 10 kilos. Aside from this he also hosts other four masterminds. BEST MOMENTS “Don’t wait for the event; MAKE the event.” “If you take full responsibility for everything in your life every time, everyone will be rich, everyone will be happy.” “A want and a need are completely different.” “You have to own your results.” “You need to have a ‘today’ mentality.” [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

4 Tammi 202026min

BONUS: Mentors, Masterminds & The Easiest Person to Lie To (Mini Series Part 1) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

BONUS: Mentors, Masterminds & The Easiest Person to Lie To (Mini Series Part 1) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Make 2020 your biggest year ever. You can have your goals list ticked, get your sought-after wealth, have the biggest learning curve, and more if you improve or do things differently. In this episode of The Disruptive Entrepreneur Podcast, which is also part of 4-part special, Rob talks about the 6 rules you need to note when looking for mentors or masterminds to join into. No one can do things alone. Accept the fact that you need something/someone to improve and grow more. So quit wasting your time and energy and gain a new perspective today on how you can move smarter with others’ help. Aside from this, he also emphasises the importance of accountability when you’re in your pursuit for success and happiness so tune in. KEY TAKEAWAYS Someone’s failing can be your success. Learning from your own mistakes is one of the worst advice according to Rob. Instead, learn from someone else—someone who has experienced it, made mistakes and got back up from them effortlessly. One of the hardest things to do when you’re on your way to getting your well-deserved success is ensuring that you’re always accountable. It’s best we find a person who’ll help us be accountable, whether it be a mentor, masterminds, or colleagues. Just make sure he/she understands your vision and your own process, so there is an effortless communication. Rob was too egoistic at first to ask for help from anyone. He wanted to do it on his own, learn everything on his own. But that proved to be not working. He then finally let go and went searching people who can help him. Remember, no one is a self-made man. You’ve been consuming resources (made by someone), asking people for support ever since. It makes a difference to be grateful and recognise the help you’ve been given. 6 Rules for Getting Mentors and Getting into Masterminds Have they done what you want to achieve? Are they considerably further ahead of me? Have they got proven experience and results for other people? Are they accessible? Will they be honest? What’s the price? Mentoring is a one-to-one approach while Masterminds follows a one-to-many approach. BEST MOMENTS “If you want something done properly, go to someone who’s learned it already and learn from them.” “Everyone gets results when there’s hardcore accountability.” “The easiest person to lie to is yourself.” “NO one is a self-made.” “Invest in yourself wisely.” [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

3 Tammi 202035min

RANT! Why ‘Burnout’ is Not What You Think...  [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

RANT! Why ‘Burnout’ is Not What You Think... [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

If you’re fatigued, tired and moving in the wrong direction you’re probably working really hard on something you don’t like, working in an industry that’s dying or for a boss that you don’t like and as a result, you’re going to get burned out! Tune in to today’s episode to discover how to defeat burn out, what it really is and how you can avoid it by simply doing what you love. Rob shares his thoughts on how to overcome the challenges of burn out and how you can overcome then by keeping on mission and striving towards your vision.  KEY TAKEAWAYS People get ‘burn-out’ wrong, they perceive it wrong and don’t necessarily know if they are in-fact burnt-out. Often people think you get burnt out by simply working hard, but this isn’t right. Some of the most inspirational people work hard every day and they don’t get burnt out. A lot of people don’t actually work as hard as they think. If you look at your day there’s probably a lot of time where you’re not working because you’re not organised or have a proper routine in place. As an entrepreneur, you need to know when to have a break and focus on working on your business and not in your business. Learn how to leverage, outsource and how to ask for help. However, there’s also the time when you do need to work hard and hustle. It’s a balance. Burn out is as much in your mind and how you perceive it as it is in a physical element. It’s a state of mind more than it is a state of the body. Burn out is working hard and long on something that you hate. Something you’re not passionate or enthusiastic about or something that someone else is making you do. The secret to burn out is simply doing more of what you love. Ensure your passion, profession, vocation and vacation are on mission. Everything you need to do needs to be on mission for your vision because even when things aren’t going your way and everything is against you, you’ll keep on moving forward because you’re moving in the right direction, towards something that you love. To avoid burning out you can leverage the tasks that you do not like, you can outsource the tasks that frustrate you and you can free up your time to do the things that you love and overcome the issues in your business. You can work 10 times harder on the things that you love to do.   BEST MOMENTS “Do you think that Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk don’t work hard? Of course, they do, but they don’t burn out because they love what they do.“ “Some of the biggest challenges in my business are solved because I know what I’m bigger than the problem and I’m on the right path” “You can work 10 times harder on the things that you love to do”   [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

1 Tammi 202013min

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