Aston Merrygold: Rob Interviews with Global Pop Star from JLS [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]
Disruptors17 Jun 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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Reggie Yates: Interview with Film Maker, Radio 1 DJ, TV Presenter, Writer & Director [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Reggie Yates: Interview with Film Maker, Radio 1 DJ, TV Presenter, Writer & Director [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Welcome to another episode of the Disruptors Podcast. In today's episode, Rob interviews actor, presenter, radio DJ, writer, director, producer, and all-around general creator, Reggie Yates. Reggie is also known for the Extreme Russia, UK and South Africa television series. Reggie opens up about his career moves and choices and how he has kept reinventing himself. hear, why he left radio one and why describes himself as a complicit contributor. Learn how was he has been able to successfully jump from one career to another, without fear and with confidence in today’s episode of the Disruptive Entrepreneur. KEY TAKEAWAYS•If you work hard, you'd get results. Period. Regardless of whether it's fitness, whether it's your eating, your diet or doing what you do, learning how to work... • That's a gift to not compare yourself to anybody else and understand that you have unique talents and purpose, and you're meant to be who you are.•“I'm different, but I'm okay.” So, using people to make you want to be a better version of you.•It's about having the self-awareness to know what you're good at and what you're not good at. And double in talent the things that you're good at. And investing so much time and energy into that. Know that it's pointless to try and be someone else.•Everyone is projecting who they perceive you to be or what they want you to do unto you. That's a natural human trait.•To be defined by what you do is unfortunately what happens now. The minute people decide that you're one thing, they want you to stay there cause they've got you figured you out.•You are not defined by anything you do or anything anyone says or any mistakes you make.•God's time is the best. When the stars align, you can feel it. And when it all feels natural. When it feels it as if it was meant to happen at that time, it's undeniable, and that's where things are beginning to go.•If you don't understand the power of hard work and luck, then you are completely ignoring one of the two because you can't have success without both.•You have to really invest in your craft. You have to become obsessed by it. And die by it. But then at the same time, if you're working as hard as you should be on the thing that you really believe and in the thing you really invested in, eventually, there will be an opening and you will be prepared for it.•If you are now self-aware, you are asking for trouble. Because you need to know yourself well enough to know what you're good at and what you're not good at. And when you're coming across in a way that maybe is putting you in the wrong direction or pushing you away from where you want to get to or pissing people off or if you're annoying people or if you're spamming people. You need to be aware enough of those things. Otherwise, you are just asking for trouble.•Know what you're good at. Be very sure about what you're not good at. And listen. I think if you are not willing to listen and if you don't have people around you that are honest and transparent, you're going to be in trouble.•If you can't control your own emotions, how are you going to direct your own staffs' emotions. How are you able to going to be able to look after your customers if you can't control yours?•Empathize with someone else and put yourself in their shoes. That's the beginning of starting to see yourself through someone else's eyes. And that's the really important thing is being able to step outside and say, hang on, how did what I just did make everyone feel? How did what I just say affect the room negative or positively?•Being so empathetic and finding that level of connection, they give so much and that's a really delicate thing to have in your hands and it's something that you have to respect.•The only two transcendent emotions that rise above all are gratitude and love.•If you give out gratitude to people, it doesn't ruin your life or derail you from your mission. It also changes the people around you.•You know when you've done something that you're going to be proud of and only you know that.•Once you've got someone relax, everything comes out. And they don’t even realize it. •Ownership is everything. Owning the narrative as well as the IP is important and just as important.•What people want is honest, open, unedited, untwisted, and un-manipulated content, and I think they want easier, quicker access to the content provided.•Personal brand is just as important as the thing that you are selling. And the way that people are building businesses and very successful ones are coming from the strength of the person who is the face of the said business as opposed to how good looking they are which is in a way the right thing. It's a good thing.•Best advice. Every time you come into this room, we're going to talk stuff that relates to 3 subjects: Who you're with, where you live and what you do. Almost everything that you think about will come back to one of those three things and if you get two out of three right, you will be bouncing. If you get three out of three right, you'll be flying.•Worst advice: Don't do that thing because you are not good enough.•When someone comes to you with a weird energy or with a negative sort of outlook, a lot of the time, it is not about you. And having the empathy to understand that and respect someone in their tough times, that something that we're missing.•Being disruptive means that having the bravery to change things on your own terms.•If you are willing to do something that speaks to your authenticity and if you are willing to be transparent in who you are, then you have an opportunity to do something that's never been done before. Doing something that's never been done is the most beautiful thing in the world. And trying to replicate someone else is a recipe for failure.BEST MOMENTS“I have always been very aware where it's all headed but I've never quite known how I was going to get there. So, I've always at the back of my mind at least…”“That's kind of happen with entertainment, you're hosting The Voice one day and then a month later, you're in Kenya, making a documentary and the feeling that you have from the two are so polar opposite. You start to make a decision about where you want to spend your time and where you want to give your energy and I made that decision quite a few years ago now.”“Now, what happens, we love you. No matter what happens, you can always come home. If you lose everything…  I was never raised in that environment with that amount of investment put into my self-confidence and self-worth. I had to learn that over time. So, for the longest of time, I would be concerned about what the next thing would be. And there would be moments where I would have sort of pangs of fear, if it's going to work out or not. Deep down I always knew that I would be okay.”“Because I know that this isn't a bluff. Because nothing I've achieved has come easy. I've always known that anything that can be regarded as an achievement, I've worked my ass off for. And I am not scared of the work.”“If I didn't tell myself that I'm going to do this thing, do it even when it's difficult, I would not be where I am now.”“My individuality is my super power, and that was something that was given to me as a kid.”“I think it's the biggest waste of energy to try and control the way that other people think. You can never change someone else's mind until they decide to change it themselves, right? For me, I just am. I know what I want. And that might change tomorrow, and that's okay. But at no point am doing or being for anybody else. The people that I love and I care about, I live to help and support and be there for them but I will never be the way that they want me to be regardless of how important they are to me.”“I need to be constantly creatively shocked. Like I need to feel uncomfortable to find the inspiration to push myself and learn more. For me, if I am not learning anymore or if I am not inspired, there's no point in being there. I am not doing anyone a favor by just coasting. And at no point have I ever coasted so I've walked away from things not knowing what's coming next. And been okay.”“I genuinely feel that the only way to really exist in this world is walk on love. I feel that the energy that you carry and the energy that you bring to any situation determines the way in which that situation will go.”“The beautiful thing about ending on a question is the people watching can then have a conversation. And they then have all these different pieces off the conversation to draw from to inform their opinion. And that way, you're getting a conversation about an issue in a really beautiful authentic and rounded way as opposed to me saying this is how I feel about this and I am going to present to you 50 different people that think the same thing as me. I'm going to convince you of my opinion by the end of this hour. That is the way that a lot of journalist work. That is not how I work.”“I just really love to be able to share my experiences both in terms of success and failure. And have them understand that I'm not telling them to do what I did, I am telling them to learn from what I've done and choose to use it in the right way.”“I don't think we have enough empathy. I don't think we are willing to make time for other people's stuff. We all have stuff and everybody is carrying around stuff.”ABOUT THE GUESTReggie Yates is a British actor, television presenter and radio DJ. Reggie Yates career has seen him move from fronting children’s programming, to national radio to becoming an RTS award-winning documentary maker. In the last 5 years, Reggie has become synonymous with critically acclaimed documentaries and he has been awarded Best Presenter for his work in the Extreme Series. [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 Nov 20181h 43min

Caffeine Cast: 6 Ways to Motivate Yourself Fast [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Caffeine Cast: 6 Ways to Motivate Yourself Fast [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

In today’s episode, Rob shares with you the six ways to motivate yourself that work fast AND last. Often people are trying to motivate themselves for something that opposes their mindset and values. It's a lot of wasted energy. Inspiration and motivation are two very different forces. If you're not inspired by the tasks that you're doing you won't fulfil them to their full potential. The best business model or income stream is the one that you're passionate about. The one that inspires you. Always check that the things that you're doing inspire you, motivate you and ultimately match your values. KEY TAKEAWAYS Step 1: Check if you are inspired to do this task you set out to do. - Inspiration should be high on your personal values and any tasks you attempt to do you should be inspired to complete. Step 2: Find something meaningful, deep and challenging and get it done early. - As soon as you wake up, ensure you get that task done and done early. This will build momentum and help you achieve the results you want. Step 3: If you're struggling for motivation, imagine how you feel once you get it done. - Focus on the feeling of overcoming your challenge and achieving what you set out to achieve. Step 4: Get mentors, coaches and people that have been there before you. - Get advice and accountability from them so they can motivate you too. Step 5: Do something before you do the thing that fired you up. - If you have something challenging or difficult to do make sure you prepare and get yourself fired up before doing it. Do whatever it is that makes you feel inspired, alive and energized. Step 6: Link what you want the most with the thing you need to get done. - It makes it much easier to achieve what you want to achieve when you link it to what you want. This can be materialistic, spiritual or anything that drives you towards achieving your goals. BEST MOMENTS "About a third of the coaching calls I do people just need a bit of motivation." “The easiest person in your life to lie to is yourself. You need to get out of your own way.” “Motivation is a tug of war between two equal forces” [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

2 Nov 201814min

Culture & a Great Working Environment (Live Course Recording) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Culture & a Great Working Environment (Live Course Recording) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Welcome to another episode of the Disruptors Podcast. In today's episode, Rob talks about culture in the work environment. How do you create an environment in your workplace so that your staff will work better? Ask yourself, what do you stand for? what do you stand against? These questions can greatly help in creating an office environment your staff want to work in. How you manage and deal with culture is still very important. It’s the feel and the environment which the people work in, it’s the energy around the place. It’s your uniqueness and the values that are transmuted into a working environment. KEY TAKEAWAYS The environment in which you work is important. You're either driving it or creating it. Values of your organization. Vision. It's your values. Culture values, for them, expanded on their individual values. And they became progressive, innovative and personal for the company. Your culture is your identity expressed through your organization. What makes you unique? For example a lasagna, it is one recipe, same ingredients but when everyone cooks it, it will taste different. Everyone will bring his or her own unique take and flavour in it. Same with business, what do you do better than other people? Brainstorming Exercise: What is unique about you? What are you good at? What do people say about you consistently? How do you like to do things differently? What do you know that others don't? What feedback do you get consistently? What you stand for and what you stand against and who you are and who you are not, so create your culture and stand by it. 3 things that are more important than money: Progression, Recognition and Autonomy. Recognition. No matter how many times you tell someone they're amazing. You still probably didn't do it enough. No matter how much love you spray out in your office, no matter how much good energy you put out into your culture and environment, there will always be someone that's not happy. All you can do is what you can do. Purveyor of good energy. Put this energy into your staff and your staff will put this energy into the customers. Criticism/Critics. That's a necessary function of evolution. Valuable feedback from critics. Listening to critics where they've got valuable feedback, it improves your offering. Persistence and progress always create resistance. So, you should be who you are and do what you think is the right thing to do. The more controversial or polarizing or like if you're extremely left, you will really wind up people who are really right. Only take an extreme stance when you extremely believe in it. The marketing, the sales, the speaking, the shouting, the ranting, the controversy, or whatever. It is all learned. BEST MOMENTS "If you have a decision to make and you have to make it, look at those values. And if the decision that you make aligns with those values." "Try and create this environment both in the stuff that you put out there and the way that you are, this represents your culture." "The more you grow, the more haters you have to take on, and they don't go away. I used to think the better I got, the less people would be critical of me. In reality, I learned the opposite. The better I got, more people would be critical of me." “In general business, I do this. I stand for this. I fight this corner. This is who I am. And fine, you can say what you want. But, you are not gonna change the mission that I drive.” “If you want to teach people, train people, lead people, and get them to buy your stuff, you have to put a flag in the ground, and say, this works. Do it like this, it works.” [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

29 Okt 201845min

Caffeine Cast: The Impending Looming Recession, THIS is What You Can Actually do About it [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Caffeine Cast: The Impending Looming Recession, THIS is What You Can Actually do About it [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

In today’s Caffeine Cast, Rob discusses the impending looming recession and what you can actually do about it. Learn how to take the strategic view of planning for the worst, but always do your best. The recession could be here next year, or it could be here in five years. The reality is none knows so be careful about what you read in the media and what you deem to be true. Remember if a recession comes there is always an upside. Asset prices will come down, yields will go up and there will be plenty of growth in certain markets. There’s an equally balanced upside opportunity. You just need to find it in the recession. KEY TAKEAWAYS Monitor prices and track forecasts. Compare and contrast this to prices and peaks before the last drop or recession. Plan a contingency for reducing your business costs. Are you able to quickly reduce your fixed costs and lower your variable costs? Remember to reduce marketing spend as a last resort. Get factual information and don't listen to fact news or uneducated predictions Don't sit on your hands and do nothing. De-risk your business and ensure you have more than one income stream. If you can ride out any drop in prices you're probably not going to be affected by the recession. If you're forced to sell during a recession and as a result, lose half your capital value then that will harm your worth. Care more about the income stream of your property rather than the value. If you're not forced to sell it you don't need to worry about the immediate value BEST MOMENTS “There's a lot of talk about the looming recession but when all is said and done, more is said than done” “Ignore anyone who is claiming to accurately predict the recession because what caused the recession last time is probably not what will cause it this time” “Never count on one income stream and de-risk your cashflow” “If we knew what caused it we could predict it and plan for it, so that we can negate it.” [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

25 Okt 201810min

Barry Hearn: Interview With The Infamous Sporting Events Promoter & Founder of Matchroom Sport [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Barry Hearn: Interview With The Infamous Sporting Events Promoter & Founder of Matchroom Sport [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Welcome to another episode of the Disruptors Podcast. In today’s episode, Rob interviews Barry Hearn, the Infamous Sporting Events Promoter & Founder of Matchroom Sport. Barry specialises in logistics and monetisation and has been hugely successful. He says that his success is composed of big breaks and luck. Rob and Barry discuss the details of Barry’s success in life and business. They talk about how he made it from rags to riches. What is Barry’s secret to confidence? What happened and why he was able to succeed in life and became a multi-millionaire. They discuss all these details and a lot more insider secrets to Barry’s great life. KEY TAKEAWAYS         Your 100%. Place in mind that you will eventually get there.  You have to put yourself out there 100% in the expense of everybody else, wives, families, children, and friends. If you really want to succeed, you have to be relentless. In an aeroplane, what is the first instruction? Put on yourself first because you are absolutely no use to anybody if you are incapacitated. So, you put on yourself before you do your wives and children, and business, when you're growing a business, exactly the same. Look after yourself first.  Then your family then your community.         Everybody in this world is different. And it follows therefore that everybody is better in everybody else at something. The sad part of that is they very rarely find out what that is.         The secret of luck. When you have your luck is making the most of it. So, we all get a break. Some people don't recognize when that break is. Some people don't see the opportunity, that's just inefficiency. But when you do, that would be a lot, then you really got to go for it and that's the maximization of the luck. And that’s' what really what Barry is good at.         Good reputation. You establish a good reputation. You operate with integrity. Sounds old-fashioned. You give people value for money, and you put a smile on people's faces. It is so much common sense. If everyone gets value for money, TV companies get ratings. If the sponsor gets exposure. If the puns got a great night out, is that not what we're trying to do anyway? So, just be better at it and do a better job. Work to make it work.         Stress. It is obviously an individual thing. Certain people react different ways. And no one can say they haven't had stress at some time because whether its family. People die and terrible things happen to you. But all you've got to do is remember that while you're here, everything is fine.         Sports. Sport is about occasions. Sports unite the whole country. It is the only time that it unites the whole country or the world. It transgresses any boundary. It creates memories and moments.         Social Media Marketing defines boundaries nowadays. Targeted market is a value to sponsors.         The most important thing about youngsters playing any sports is that they're happy and they enjoy it.         The ability to tell the truth. As he got older, he only ever tells the truth. And it's refreshing that he doesn’t really care how he tells it to or whom he tells it to.         Advice. Make sure you're busy. Make sure you're enjoying yourself. Make sure you're smiling. Make sure, hopefully, you're contributing. And last but mainly, be selfish. Be very selfish. Just make sure when you finish, you've given it a hundred percent. Win, Lose or Draw. BEST MOMENTS “Some people would criticize me for being only an accountant. And I think, they are missing the point that that is how you run a business.” "I started off with Steve first 5 years. I think I taught him everything I could teach. And for the last 35 years, he's taught me more." “The sad thing is a lot of people look in the mirror and ask themselves a question, why didn't it happen to me? Without understanding the reason why it didn't. And why it didn't is because you aren't focused enough or you didn't make enough sacrifices. People talk about sacrifices without really understanding what it is.” “I have always been a dreamer and I have always been a predictor. Sometimes, I even get it right but, I mean my history was either a series of God-given big breaks or being just lucky.” “My mom locked me in a room. And it was Monday to Friday and Sunday. But I could go out Saturday. So from 18 to 21, I didn't go out. But I learned every single line of every single book. So, there's no way I way, I was ever going to fail.” “If you want something bad enough, you do it.” “You make it work. You work to make it work... It is not perfect, but we can get better. And we won't stop trying to get better, and eventually, we look at ourselves and say we did a good job.” “All I want is for people to say, ‘When’s the next one?" “Don't waste a minute of your day... I don't waste a minute. And I enjoy every minute and if there's something I don't enjoy, I stop it straight away.” “If I work hard enough, I can average over a hundred. If I average over a hundred, I can make a living. If you are not good, six months later you say, it’s not working out. Fair enough. You start seeing light at the end of the tunnel. And you just pray it’s not a train coming towards you.” "The opportunity is there within the structure of most sports to progress if you have an ability. Unfortunately, in sports, it's a series of snakes and ladders. Early doors, there's an awful lot of ladders. Later on, you come across more and more snakes. And if you can negotiate, you're way past the snakes and just got the ladders, you will be a star my son, and if you don't, you will be normal." “It all comes down to character.” “Sometimes, it is good to know that we’re only human.” “Business is exactly the same as sport. It is just another game. Don't get carried away with it. And you want to win. And the winning is what gets you up in the morning and drives you on.” “Telling the truth is important. The most important person to tell the truth to is yourself.” ABOUT GUEST Barry Maurice William Hearn is an English sporting events promoter. He is also the founder and chairman of the promotions company, the Matchroom Sport. Hearn is involved in many sports, including pool, tenpin bowling, golf, table tennis, and fishing. He is currently the chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation. He was also until July 2010 the chairman of the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA). Then, until July 2014, he was the chairman of Leyton Orient F.C. During his teenage years, he ran some businesses from washing cars to picking fruit and vegetables. He was involved in snooker since 1974. He made plenty of money. He got a bit bored and went into boxing, and he went into other sports. He is married to Susan and has 2 children, Katie and Eddie. He almost went bankrupt around the early 1990s. He suffered a heart attack in 2002, and then he returned to become a multi-millionaire. CONTACT METHOD Website: http://www.matchroomsport.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BarryHearn?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor [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

21 Okt 20181h 13min

Caffeine Cast: What my Wife Taught me That I Should Have Used a Long Time Ago [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Caffeine Cast: What my Wife Taught me That I Should Have Used a Long Time Ago [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

In today’s episode, Rob shares with you an important lesson about overwhelm and how to deal with the people around you. When you've got a million things in your brain it's hard to connect with people and it’s hard to listen. But you need to see the value is listening to others and understand how to show a genuine interest and as a result, you will be successful, you will get more done and you will create leverage. KEY TAKEAWAYS Remember the people who are trying to communicate with you don't know what's going on in your head. We all get overwhelmed but we all need to get things done. There's a certain level in your business, in managing money and relationships and people that just means you can't get everything done. Be present at that moment don't be present in the past. Don't think about the past and the guilt and the shame and the baggage. Don't focus on the future and what's stressing you out, focus on the now. No matter how busy, uninterested or overwhelmed you are, you must get on with the people around you. If you care about people you can empty your brain, stay in the moment and you will be successful. Over the last two to three months Rob has become overwhelmed and this can affect a lot of areas of your life. If you're really busy you may feel like you're doing a lot of things but maybe not any of them well. But rest assured after clarity comes chaos and after chaos comes clarity, it's a cycle. BEST MOMENTS “The closer a deadline comes the more overwhelm and pressure you to feel” “When you're overwhelmed you block out the world and push people back, it creates carnage around you” “Show that you're interested, let them talk and listen” “See the lessons you can learn in listening to others” “Show a genuine interest and allow people to help you” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Leverage-Outsource-Everything-Lifestyle-ebook/dp/B01CD2ANC2 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 Okt 201817min

Robs Rant: Do You REALLY Have The One Things it Takes? (Explicit) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Robs Rant: Do You REALLY Have The One Things it Takes? (Explicit) [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

Welcome to another episode of the Disruptors Podcast. In today’s episode, Rob discusses if you have that one thing it takes for someone to be successful. In today’s society, everything is instant, automatic and fast. It greatly affects how people and entrepreneurs alike do things, solve things, resolve things and fix things. Discover why people sometimes sabotage themselves when attempting to do everything fast. They wish for fast results, and if they don’t get it? They Give up. Tune in today to hear why you are so close to success but don’t even realise it. KEY TAKEAWAYS Be clear on what you want. If you are not clear on what you want, your strategy, your vision, then you will be allured by everything that’s shiny and you will be very impatient and not get the thing that you want. The more clear you are on what you want, the more you attract what you want into your life. The more you’re patient moving towards it, you don’t get distracted by everything else that comes in, so that is really important. You have to be realistic with how long it takes. We should be somewhere between realistic and optimistic. Don’t be pessimistic because you can’t go anywhere. Do not be overly optimistic because you might not live up to the expectation and fail. Persist and break through resistance but don’t push so hard that you push the world away and you frustrate yourself or you beat yourself down and beat yourself up. BEST MOMENTS “Too persistent like push push push push… without sometimes waiting and letting things come to you, that can actually push your results away. So you’re sabotage your own success.” “It takes 10 years to be an overnight success.” [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

16 Okt 201811min

10 (Weird) Signs You're an Entrepreneur [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

10 (Weird) Signs You're an Entrepreneur [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

“You ARE an entrepreneur. Don’t let other people tell you otherwise.” In this episode of The Disruptors Podcast, Rob Moore shares the 10 signs that make you an entrepreneur. You may not be aware that you have these characteristics, weird or not, which you can harness then to be the best you can be. Rob has seen them on himself and shares his experiences to get the most out of its upsides. Discover why, when feeling overwhelmed, you must push yourself otherwise as you will never grow as an entrepreneur. Rob also advises that you take the opportunity and the risk to succeed, not beat yourself up, push through your comfort zone, and embrace sales & marketing. KEY TAKEAWAYS You’re always overwhelmed. Most successful entrepreneurs are pushing beyond their limits and getting out of their comfort zones. The tasks and activities they do are brimming over of what they’ve set to achieve. You see opportunity in everything and you can’t help it. The upside and downside are everything you see is money-making. Explore outside your industry and learn what could be a successful business venture. You feel alone sometimes. People around might seem a bit off that you don’t go for the normal 9-5 job. They’ve got opinions on how you do things. And, that’s alright. You just have to remember to reach out to your team, your mentors, and your colleagues. You sometimes think it’s a thankless task to be an entrepreneur. There are times that we think that we’ve done a lot for other people and we don’t get the credit we deserve. Learn to tell yourself every day that you have and can give the most value. Be grateful for what you do and what impact you’ve given to others. You beat yourself up. Sometimes, you compare yourself to others and nothing you do seems to be enough. You’re unique and you’re enough. Take joy in small successes. Learn to leverage your fears and doubts to step up. You feel you’re destined for greatness. Rob: “I can’t tell you specifically in words or vision what it is I feel like that is special or unique or great about me but I have a feeling inside that I’m destined for more than what I’m doing. I’m supposed to be bigger, contribute more, and grow more than I am.” You know you need to and you want to serve others equally, as well as meeting your self-interest. You can indulge yourself with what you want for yourself – the education, the material needs, etc. – but you have to do something valuable for the society. Help and try to give back. You embrace sales and marketing. Rob: “Nothing moves until you sell something.” You hate being told what to do. If you’re like Rob who sees himself as a contrarian, he advises that you have to relearn to give instructions and maintain a good relationship with your team. You embrace risk. Get yourself out of your comfort zone to get more opportunities. Don’t be afraid to explore, fail and go beyond what you could do. BEST MOMENTS “If you’re not taking more than you can handle, you’re not growing.” “A lot of people think that what they’re going through, they’re going through alone. But what you’re going through as an entrepreneur, every entrepreneur is going through. It’s completely normal.” “Every time you beat yourself down, have the courtesy to lift yourself up too.” “The ideal balance of self-worth and net worth is that border between selflessness and selfishness.” [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 Okt 201824min

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