Today we have the pleasure of talking with Lauren Tickner, the CEO of impact school and Forbes 30 under 30!
Lauren kicks off with an insight into how her 7 figure business came to be. From deferring entry to university, Lauren decided to work at an asset management firm where she had the realisation that by staying in a role like this she might ultimately end up feeling unfilled and unsatisfied. Combined with the difficulties her brother faces in his daily life, Lauren realised her ability to create freedom for herself whilst impacting the lives of others, she felt almost a moral obligation to live her life to the fullest and achieve the freedom she desired. 
Around this time she was hugely obsessed with the world of fitness and always dreamt of creating a physical product somewhere in the fitness niche, but having tried several attempts at this, it didn't quite go to plan. Lauren was massively intrigued by the growing number of people she saw online, providing fitness coaching for others and being able to travel the world. Lauren decided against the advice of her colleagues to start making content that helped others and get herself out there!
After being dropped from sponsorship by one of the industry's leading fitness companies, Lauren was still able to travel and live the life she wanted, which gained the interest of her friends who were in a similar position. By sharing what she was doing with her friends and word of mouth marketing - led to the creation of what is now Impact School.
Following this story, we talk about the importance of mindset and taking care of yourself, physically. Whether you aspire to run a lifestyle business or leave a legacy and create something huge, fundamentally it comes down to the mindset you have, that dictates the decisions you make. As well as this is the importance of personal development, being able to grow as a person to become the individual that delivers on the goals and vision you set for yourself. Taking time to focus on yourself every day and doing the things that will move your business forward the most, is really important.
By overcoming some of the challenges faced, Lauren shares how this has ultimately made her a stronger person and completely transformed how she handles certain situations and having an outlook such as 'how can this make me stronger?
Lastly, we discuss how anyone can start to hit their goals and achieve their dreams:
Get real with yourself and don't put off making a start, don't wait for things to be perfect, get yourself out there and listen to the feedback from your customers to improve. But make a start.
Focus on who are you serving, exactly, and constantly focus on your business development based on the needs of your clients.
This was a really inspirational and motivating podcast! A big thank you to Lauren for sharing her story and the lessons learnt along her journey.
You can check out Lauren's free course at: https://www.impactschoolmba.com/optin-424046561599145628038
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Callum Jenkins
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Our podcast guest is Leon McQuade - Technology Evangelist | Co-Founder, Think Cloud | Trustee Andy's Man Club | The Pig Wrestling Podcast
What we discuss
Leon shares insights into his career and how it was an appointment with the Doctor that made him appreciate that he needed to gain leadership skills.
We talk about:
How his children helped him to make up his mind to make a big decision about his work.
How he has to work at not making everything perfect, better to get it out there.
Why being authentic as a leader and asking for help is essential.
How being so focused on the goals might not always the best way forward.
Leon's commitment to helping others through Andy's Man Club.
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We'd love to hear your feedback on our podcast, such as how to improve it, so feel free to get in touch with us
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
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Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.  
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Our podcast guest today is - Matt Giggs | Property Industry Leader | Agency Mentor | Entrepreneur.
What we discuss - How Matt went from lacking direction in his life when he faced challenging times, losing his brother and being rejected at football, to growing a number of profitable and successful businesses. 
We talk about:
Is working from home at the peak of its trend?
What is emotional intelligence?
Know your direction as this enables you to have the right team onboard
How the right role model makes a significant difference to your progress as a leader
Learning every day is essential
Connect with the podcast hosts
We'd love to hear your feedback on our podcast, feel free to get in touch with us.
Callum Jenkins
Rebecca Jenkins
 
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The podcast is sponsored by RJEN, helping companies to unlock the growth potential in their business at pace and with tangible results.
To find out more contact us at email@rjen.co.uk
 
 
 

Today we talk with Leanne Bonner-Cooke, the founder of e-bate LTD, which provides Rebate Management Solutions. 
Leanne shares her story of leaving her corporate consultancy role to start her first business and what she learnt from this experience. We talk about having the right vision, strategy and values in place in your business so that you can use this as a target and evaluate progress against it in order to keep driving forwards and push through tough times to achieve the vision. In addition to knowing your vision, it's the ability and importance of communicating this to everyone in your team.
We go beyond talking about vision and discuss how to evaluate if this is the right vision, based on where your business is vs the competition - is the strategy correct? And appreciating that whilst we are a team everyone is also on their own journey. It's about getting buy-in from the team and breaking down the overall vision into objectives for each team and how that translates into specific KPIs for each team member. 
Leanne also shares her views on the importance of looking outside of the business, both for new team members, to recruit individuals who share the same values and attitude you hold as a business but also for support, mentorship and networking, to help you grow as an individual.
 
Leanne shares a very personal story of how she was diagnosed with cancer, yet still had funding to complete, a team to support and a business to run and the resulting worries that arose from this.  A really helpful piece of advice was shared, that will help others in challenging situations.
To wrap things up, Leane shares her key pieces of advice for aspirational leaders and business owners: 
- remember to focus on the health of the business and your vision - it's your responsibility,
- try not to instruct others, but inspire them,
- the importance of adapting and continuous professional learning.
A big thank you Leanne, for sharing your learnings throughout your journey of setting up and running multiple businesses, in addition to the major personal challenges you've overcome. All of which  showed insights into your resilience and leadership.
 
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Our review of our recent episode with Mark.
 
Original podcast description:
 
This is a really insightful discussion into the concept, values and intricacies of leadership, well worth listening if you are a senior member of staff or an aspiring entrepreneur, with Mark Terrell, Founder of the Reluctant Leader Academy.
 
We kick things off discussing what leadership meant to Mark and this was all around setting a vision, communicating this vision to your team and being consistent with everyone. As a leader its important to be clear on these things; what are we doing? why are we trying t change the way the is done? how are we doing it? And then in combination with a clear vision its about supporting your team to achieve goals relating to this but also finding the balance between challenging them too.
 
We discussed supporting your team and Mark shared a very effective way of doing this is can be recognising people doing things right, having an honest conversation and simply feeding back to them on a job well done, either verbally or with a note.
 
Lastly we go on to discuss the change from a push style of leadership to a pull, early in a business leaders need to get people going on their tasks, push them in the direction that they the business is trying to go in and making sure everyone has clarity, then it's about transitioning to a pull-style, where the team take on more responsibility, you're investing in their personal development, the team are growing by being outside of their comfort zone, and in effect, you are aiming to make yourself redundant. You change from the biggest cog in the machine to become the oil.
 
We wrap up with the importance of being explicit, having solid self-awareness as a leader and helping your team to grow by placing trust and confidence in them.
 
A fantastic podcast on leadership, thank you to Mark for taking the time, enjoy everyone.
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This is an extremely insightful discussion into the concept, values and intricacies of leadership. Well worth listening if you lead a team as a business owner, entrepreneur or manager. Our guest is Mark Terrell, Founder of the Reluctant Leader Academy.
 
We kick things off discussing what leadership means to Mark and this is around setting a vision, communicating this vision to your team and being consistent with everyone. As a leader its important to be clear on these things; what are we doing, how are we doing it and why it's important?  Then in combination with a clear vision, it's about supporting your team to achieve goals relating to this but also finding the balance between challenging them too.
We discussed supporting teams and helping them to know when they are making a difference and contributing to the outcomes and goals of the business. Mark shared a very effective way of doing this by recognising people doing things right, having an honest conversation and simply feeding back to them on a job well done, either verbally or with a note.
Lastly, we go on to discuss the change from a push style of leadership to a pull. In the early stages in a business, leaders need to get teams progressing on their tasks, pushing them in the direction that the business is trying to go in and making sure everyone has clarity.  Then it's about transitioning to a pull style, where the team take on more responsibility, you're investing in their skills development, the team are growing by being outside of their comfort zone, and in effect you are aiming to make yourself redundant. You change from the biggest cog in the machine to become the oil.
 
We wrap up with the importance of being explicit, having solid self-awareness as a leader and helping your team to grow by placing trust and confidence in them.
 
An essential insight into leadership, thank you to Mark for taking the time, enjoy everyone.
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The podcast is brought to you by Rebecca and Callum Jenkins and sponsored by RJEN - helping companies to achieve high-performance growth.

Our review of the episode with Tony.
 
Original podcast description:
 
Welcome to another episode & today we are joined with Tony Barritt, MD of Investor in Customers.
 
To kick things off Tony shares his analogy that management is about 'getting things done' and leadership is more to do with 'making things happen', with favourable qualities a leader should exhibit is about being fair, the ability to make tough decisions & have a balanced judgment.
 
Tony shares his past experience about being the captain of his cricket team in his post-university days where it was important to find the balance between fun & winning - a helpful concept when working with teams in the workplace no doubt. We discuss the importance of being able to 'step up to the plate' and breaking large problems down and think strategically about how to solve these issues, not being too proud to ask for help, and thinking about who is needed. 
 
To wrap things Tony shares his thoughts and the importance of relating business decisions back to the customer - with Jeff Bezos' Empty Chair Experiment - if a customer was sat in the boardroom, would they be happy and benefit from these decisions?
 
An insightful take on leadership from Tony whose business, at heart, is about helping their customers.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.  
Click here to book your session.
 
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.
 
 
 

Welcome to another episode, today we are joined with Tony Barritt, MD of Investor in Customers.
 
To kick things off Tony shares his analogy that management is about 'getting things done' and leadership is more to do with 'making things happen', with favourable qualities a leader should exhibit fairness and have the ability to make tough decisions with balanced judgment.
 
Tony shares his past experience about being the captain of his cricket team in his post-university days where it was important to find the balance between fun & winning - a helpful concept when working with teams in the workplace no doubt. We discuss the importance of being able to 'step up to the plate' and breaking down large problems and thinking strategically about how to solve these issues, not being too proud to ask for help.
To wrap things up, Tony shares his thoughts and the importance of relating business decisions back to the customer - with Jeff Bezos' Empty Chair Experiment - if a customer was sat in the boardroom, would they be happy and benefit from these decisions?
An insightful take on leadership from Tony whose business, at heart, is about helping customers deliver a remarkable customer experience.
Do you want to take your leadership and business to the next stage of success?
If your goal is to grow your business and you're feeling stuck or you'd like to become a more impactful leader, book a complimentary consulting session with business growth specialist Rebecca Jenkins to gain a fresh perspective and clear guidance to reach your goals.
RJEN.online
Rebecca has over 25 years of business growth experience, growing a previous business to over £55 million in sales. Rebecca now helps many other businesses to successfully scale.  
Click here to book your session.
 
Thank you for listening and if you enjoyed it please leave a review and subscribe for more leadership insights or email us at email@RJEN.co.uk with any questions.