Why You Shouldn't Take Life Too Seriously

In this episode of The Disruptive Entrepreneur, Rob tackles the debate surrounding freedom of speech, a topic he’s kept quiet about for over 15 years! Should we fight for our right to speak and say what we want regardless of the consequences? Or should we be held more accountable for defamation, bullying and criticism? Join the discussion as Rob weighs in on the effects of social media, how you can harm your business and your brand by sharing your opinion and the mindset you need to evolve in a world filled with critics, haters and trolls.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Freedom of speech is having the right and the freedom to express. The freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference and regardless of frontiers. We’re banning people on social media platforms just because we don’t agree with their opinions and their concepts. It’s every individual’s right to share their opinion in any way they wish but is it too easy for business owners to harm their brand, their business and their reputation by sharing their views on social media. If we limit freedom of speech are main rights are being taken away from us but at what point should there be accountability? Should we be allowed to bully, defame and troll others on social media without any consequences? The world would be a better place if we could disagree with people without judging them and have differing opinions without one being right and one being wrong. It’s important to surround yourself with people that challenge you and open your mind up to new ideas and new ways of thinking. This will help you to evolve.   BEST MOMENTS “Social media is for discussion and should not be used for bullying and trolling.” “Could you argue that social media cannot sensor your opinion and your posts? Is your freedom of speech being affected when people are banned from social media platforms” “Never wrestle with a pig in shit. You both get covered in shit but the pig likes it” “Should we really have freedom of speech? Is it our constitutional right? Or should we be held more accountable to the things we say?” [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

18 Marras 202024min

Are you struggling with the guilt of being a Mum whilst growing and scaling your business? Multi-award winning designer, investor, author and Mum, Kelly Hoppen CBE joins the show to share her experience on what it takes to be successful, the positive mindset entrepreneurs need to grasp opportunities and why being ‘conscious’ and having ‘gratitude’ go a long way in business. Listen in as Rob and Kelly discuss her journey from Designer to Dragon and the lessons she’s learnt throughout 40 years in business. KEY TAKEAWAYS As a Mum, you only feel guilty when deep down you haven’t given enough time to your kids. It’s important to divide up your time and always be conscious of the fact your growing and scaling a business but that you’re also a mum. You need to find a balance, be passionate about what you do and always ask for help. Women have been programmed to believe that men have it better but they don’t. It’s all about having a positive mindset and focusing on what you want to achieve rather than going into business with the mantra that men have it better. If the world economy is going slow down over the next few years entrepreneurs must view this as an opportunity and with social media anything is possible. Entrepreneurs need to have a positive mindset and use the bubble we’re in launch their keep going, keep testing and launch their business. When investing in a business or launching a new idea you need to know all of the information available, do your due diligence and market research and most importantly be passionate about what you’re doing so that you fully commit to the cause. Too often people are just on auto-pilot but In business, you must be conscious. Having a conscious mind is stopping for a minute to plan and organise your day. Your mental state is the most important part fo your body and the language that you speak will affect your interactions with others, being conscious is strategically knowing what you’re doing and why you’re doing it   BEST MOMENTS “Women have an ability to think about situations systematically rather than just shoot from the hip” “You define yourself by what you do each day.” “If you’re an entreprneur you’re born with a certain mindset to always ask how can something be improved, how can it be changed for the better.” “If you’re able to find your passion and you love what you do that is when you will be a success in business” “There’s been some huge successes and some huge failures on Dragons Den” “What you appreciate, appreciates” “The Government have to support self-employed people during the COVID-19 pandemic”   [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://kellyhoppeninteriors.com/ https://www.headtalks.com/ https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-kelly-hoppen-show/id1474139882 https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kelly-Hoppen-Design-Masterclass-Achieve/dp/1909342025 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 Having changed the face of the design industry with her East Meets West style, multi-award winning designer Kelly Hoppen CBE is one of the most sought-after designers of her generation. Passionate about making her design ethos accessible to the masses, Kelly has authored 9 books, partnered with brands and is often featured on numerous Television shows including ITV’s This Morning. As a successful businesswoman who often advises international clients on UK property investments, Kelly is a proud ambassador for the government GREAT campaign for which she was awarded a CBE in October 2020 for her work in helping to promote British creativity, business and commerce globally. disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

16 Marras 202053min

[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

14 Marras 202011min

Social media presents entrepreneurs, business owners and humanity with a great opportunity, but also a great threat. There are upsides and downsides to building your brand online and sharing your story and your journey on Social Media and in today’s episode, Rob explores the positives and the negatives, sharing his own experiences along the way. KEY TAKEAWAYS Social Media is a great platform for the upside of your business, it enables you to connect with your audience, your community and grow and scale your business but there are downsides too. Social media is an enabler of building your brand at a low cost and allows you to reach millions of people, build a community of customers, clients, follows and fans and solve peoples problems and all for free. Social media is worth all of the downsides because the downsides of social media will be there in business and in life regardless. There’s always an upside and a downside and all social media does is to exaggerate it. Social media is a mirror to humanity. If you use social media to help people, to build your brand and to get your message out to the masses you’re going to get more clients, find more funders, supporters and subscribers. With a vast brand, you will manifest new clients through social media.   BEST MOMENTS “If you put yourself out there on social media and share your brand and your business in an authentic way, people will hate exactly what’s great about you.” “There are inner critics and outer critics.” “Lots of people are barking on social media without doing enough research” “Too many people are using social media as a weapon” “There are upsides and downside to social media”   [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 Marras 202027min

It’s wrong to focus on success if you want to be successful. Today, Rob shares his definition of success, what it means to be successful and what you need to focus on and achieve to get there. Success is made up of many different parts and in this episode of the Disruptive Entrepreneur, Rob details exactly how to get there. KEY TAKEAWAYS You should not focus on being successful, you should focus on being valuable and useful because people don't care if you're successful, people don't care about your wins, people do care if you help them, they do care if you serve them, they do care if you're useful to them and they do care if you create value for them. Focusing on success attracts people who want to be successful but at no cost of work. Balance and repel the people who hustle and grind to be successful but don’t miss out on learning from them. If you make your definition of success, only the people who can relate specifically to that thing are going to relate and resonate with you. That’s why you should focus less on being successful but on progressing towards a worthy goal. Focus on profit, focus on sales, focus on marketing, focus on growth, focus on creating a great product and service that's useful to people and going out there and promoting it and selling it shamelessly consistently and you this is when you will be successful. Always market yourself. You should go out there and project and tell the world who you are and what you're offering or going to achieve. You should promise people to only give them the best of you and make it happen. Stop focusing on being successful and start focusing on achieving your goals. Set goals in your life and try to do everything in your capability to achieve them. Do not stop until you’ve achieved your goals and then go on to set bigger goals and overtime, people will start to notice your success. You have to work hard enough not to have to work hard because the problem with focusing on success is it’s selfish. The more value you add to others, the more value you will get in your own life, you will be wealthier, you will be more supported and people will want to help you. BEST MOMENTS “It is wrong to focus on being successful if you want to be successful.” “If you don't promote yourself, no one else is going to promote you.”  “Happiness is progress towards a worthy goal.” “You can't give from an empty cup.”  “Maximum growth is on the paradoxical border of equal and complementary opposites.” [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

11 Marras 202023min

How do you make admin and operational staff revenue-generating? This is a question that runs in many entrepreneur’s minds, and in today’s episode, Rob shares his advice, tips, tactics and strategies on how to monetise your business, get quality staff and services for free and how business owners and entrepreneurs can scale their business.KEY TAKEAWAYS Referrals are the best way to get staff for free because you don’t have to pay for the recruitment fee. Having friends and family members refer good people to work for you saves you a lot of money. You could offer your businesses services, whereby you'll do some of your services for someone in exchange for them doing some of their services for you before you hire your first full-time staff member. This is an equal exchange in value for you and for them. Get help from friends, family, apprentices and people who might come and do some work experience for you. This liberates you from admin, which is not an income-generating task and gives you time to work on your business and focus on income-generating tasks. You can leverage your income-generating staff such as salespeople to earn two to ten times their salary with incentives as with this you get a trackable capital return. It’s wise to incentivise your non-income generating staff such as your PA or admin staff rearing a commission on money saved. Having a job description in detail of what the job entails saves you a lot of time, effort and money. Not having one which is detailed costs you because you’ll have to incur the cost of training them. BEST MOMENTS “Entrepreneurs feel like they have to do everything themselves.”  “The more commission your staff earns, the more you earn.” “Hire revenue-generating staff from day one.” “Keep the fixed costs low and variable costs higher.” “It’s not about working harder, it's about working smarter.” [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

9 Marras 202043min

Rob shares with you life’s greatest teacher that’s hidden in plain sight and exists in everything that we do. Discover the persistent and perennial lesson of the law of duality in this insightful and thought-provoking episode of the Disruptive Entrepreneur. Learn that with all pain comes pleasure, that every upside has a downside and how you can balance your emotions to understand life’s lessons for maximum growth. KEY TAKEAWAYS When you perceive that you’re getting all challenge and pain, you’re actually getting an equal upside but when you’re in a depression, struggle and challenge it will feel that that’s all that there is.   Simultaneously you will experience both the upside and downside of any challenge and opportunity but you will not perceive both sides. Wisdom and self-mastery is when you’re up, being able to see the down and when you’re down, being able to see the up.   Nature will try and give you the opposing lesson in life. If you’re careless you will receive a lesson to be careful. The universe will pull you back into balance, as all emotions are feedback and a reaction to your environment.   When you’re too high or too low you’re furthest away from growth. Maximum growth is on the border of support and challenge. Too much support and you will become juvenile, too much challenge and you will be broken, growth is a balance of the upside and the downside. BEST MOMENTS “When you’re pedestalised someone will always put you down in the pit” “The greater the challenge the more elation you feel.” “Life is simultaneously and spontaneously giving you lessons of balance all of the time” “Being brought back into balance is vital for personal growth and development”   [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 Marras 202023min

Are you suffering from pandemic fear? In today’ episode, Rob shares his insights on the mindset of the entrepreneur during tough times and how you can re-focus, get clarity and scale your business with a new strategy. Tune in to discover how to manoeuvre, adapt and pivot your business to combat today’s economic challenges. KEY TAKEAWAYS Fear makes people make irrational, illogical and as a result, they make emotionally and volatile decisions. Reacting to fear in this way is bad for your long term strategy, results and progress. You shouldn’t be overly fearful, you should be balanced. If you can balance your fear and see the upside in the downside, then you have a great opportunity to leverage hidden opportunity. Do not get sucked into misinformation. Do not concern yourself with misinformation, debate, discussion and arguments concerning things such as COVID. Don’t change your strategy for the sake of COVID. When people have less money or they perceive that there is less money and less opportunity, there's lots of fear and people tend to make very emotional decisions. Look for the new opportunities, be it to serve your clients differently or come up with a new product, maybe you need to disrupt yourself, maybe now is the time for you to set up your second or third income stream, maybe now is the time for you to leverage online income other income streams. You've got to be quick in everything, quick to pivot, quick to react and quick to scale when challenging situations arise or your business will be dead and become extinct. The fast entrepreneur, that is very much engaged in customers, clients and community. This entrepreneur can test quickly, react to their audience and be agile and solution-focused. BEST MOMENTS “The fear pandemic is probably as real as the real pandemic.” “It's not the strongest that will survive; it’s those that are most adaptable to change.”  “You need to let go of what was and accept what is.” “People spend the most money when they're emotionally volatile.” “Focus on what you can control and let go of everything else that you can't control.” “Necessity is the mother of invention.” [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 Marras 202034min