Personal Development Interviews

Mark Asquith
Personal Development Interviews

Define, challenge and conquer the BIGGEST issues facing you as an early stage entrepreneur or founder. With powerful episodes from the world's finest business experts, each episode challenges one specific issue and provides detailed, actionable takeaways that you can implement immediately within your business. Volume #1 features actionable interviews with John Lee Dumas, Guy Kawasaki, Rand Fishkin, Jeff Sanders, Bob Burg and Dragons' Den's Doug Richard along with multiple thought leaders, global business people and numerous NY Times / Amazon best-selling authors, Excellence Expected exists to help you live the life you want by dominating the problems that face every entrepreneur on their journey. This isn't just another interview podcast, this is the straight-talking, accountable and actionable show that features one problem, one expert and multiple solutions every single episode. Don’t forget, the more you expect from yourself, the more you WILL excel!

  1. 03/11/2014

    The Perfect Work Life Balance, Here’s How!

    Katie Portman has an enviable position as a happy mother and a successful PR and journalistic professional who has successfully managed to strike the perfect balance between her working life and the life she wants to live. But, it seems it didn’t come easy and this episode focusses on Katie’s journey to that perfect balance and along the way she shares her top tips on how you can begin to balance your life better, starting today! During the episode, Katie shares her inspirational and actionable insights that will help you to: * Learn how to find family time whilst keeping your clients happy * Prepare for a life change and how to incorporate that into your business including: * Preparing clients * Managing their expectations * When to say "no" * How to ensure you can "come back" when the time is right for you * Create boundaries between the most important aspects of your life * Ensure that clients understand these boundaries and come to respect your resolve in sticking to them * Find your perfect work / life balance - remember this is unique to you, only you can create it and only you can change it today! Links mentioned in this episode: * "Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future" by Seth Godin * "Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Happier Life" by Adrianna Huffington * PoutingInHeels.com * @KateLPortman How do you balance your working life with your ‘real’ life? Let me know in the comments and let’s share how we can all improve! Don't forget: the more you expect from yourself, the more you will excel.

    1 hr
  2. 24/11/2014

    Pt. 1 – Become the Ultimate Business Person Through Systemisation

    Ben Beaumont is serious about success. Having set out only a few short years ago to transform the service expectations within the scaffold design industry, his business, 48.3 Scaffold Design has seen wild growth and admirable success. Ben's secret? He trusts his people and his systems. Ben began a journey to transform his business over the last 18 months through thorough and efficient systemisation that has allowed his business to thrive and maintain it's impeccable customer service ethos even through a period of rapid growth. In part one of this interview I interview Ben, an old friend, and he shares some vital insights into how he came to realise what systemisation actually means, how it can be applied to any business and how he began going through a process of change that ultimately resulted in wild success and personal pride. Throughout this episode you will be taken on a journey to discover: * How to increase the time you have available * How to increase profitability by * Doing things quicker and more efficiently * Maintaining quality through consistent process * Enabling the person with the lowest possible skillet to carry out the function (by using the system) * Person on lowest wage executing the task * More serious staff or skilled staff freed to concentrate on more complex or higher income generating tasks. * Most valuable if less dependency on you or one key team member * How to create a culture of embodiment of your ethos, mission & values in your team * How to introduce systems and processes to allow others to do carry out the tasks you shouldn't be doing * How to empower your team to do their job with right support * How to begin working "on" not "in" your business. This is an empowering episode full of ACTION, it will help you shape your business over the next few years and allow you to achieve what YOU want to achieve. Remember, the more you expect from yourself, the more you will excel.

    24 min
  3. 22/12/2014

    Against All Odds – Small Business Success After Rebuttal

    David Lewis set out with the goal of rebuilding a dwindling choir in his home country of Wales. What he actually achieved is a record breaking, over 6,000 member choir that tours the world; sells out the biggest venues across the globe and performs both with & for some of the most influential figures of our time. How? Self belief and an open heart. David created Young Voices, a youth choir that now performs across the world for some of the most influential people of our time. Throughout his journey, David admittedly made some mistakes; mistakes that he learned from and that allowed him to grow and flourish. By continuing to have an open heart and give everyone the time and respect that they deserve, David has crafted a path that has led him to working with Tom Jone, Shirley Bassey, Ben E. King and the amazing Maya Angelou. David is proof that no matter the scale of your goal, you can achieve it with some devout attention and a pragmatic approach to life; it’s a formula that we can all follow and a formula that echoes that of some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs. If David can achieve goals AND break records doing so, what’s stopping you seizing your own life right now? Nothing, nothing at all. “Resources & Reflections” – Even More Value, Even More Action From David Lewis's Episode… “Resources & Reflections” is my follow up episode to help you take action and EXCEL! Publishing after each topical, expert interview, I share my own actionable advice along with resources & recommendations to galvanise your thoughts into the will to take action. Listen to This Week’s “Resources & Reflections” Each episode of “Resources & Reflections” focusses solely on the topic in hand on the previous episode and is only available via your subscriptions feed – iTunes, Stitcher et al – or the player within each individual episode like this one: * My reflections * If someone tells you something is too big, or too hard, it’s usually because THEY’RE scared. Don’t let that stop you, make sure you’ve done your due diligence and you have taken David’s advice of filling out the idea, testing measuring and repeating and if everything lines up, DO IT - don’t seek permission, just do it and the people who doubted you, forget them. * First resource * The Business Idea Factory: A World-Class System for Creating Successful Business Ideas by Andrii Sedniev - Why? Because it’s based on a tried and tested system and systems WORK! * Second resource * Trello.com - Define, refine and develop your ideas with this superb online project software. * What’s YOUR action plan for this week? Don’t forget, the more you expect from yourself, the more you WILL excel.

    32 min

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Define, challenge and conquer the BIGGEST issues facing you as an early stage entrepreneur or founder. With powerful episodes from the world's finest business experts, each episode challenges one specific issue and provides detailed, actionable takeaways that you can implement immediately within your business. Volume #1 features actionable interviews with John Lee Dumas, Guy Kawasaki, Rand Fishkin, Jeff Sanders, Bob Burg and Dragons' Den's Doug Richard along with multiple thought leaders, global business people and numerous NY Times / Amazon best-selling authors, Excellence Expected exists to help you live the life you want by dominating the problems that face every entrepreneur on their journey. This isn't just another interview podcast, this is the straight-talking, accountable and actionable show that features one problem, one expert and multiple solutions every single episode. Don’t forget, the more you expect from yourself, the more you WILL excel!

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