Featuring the coolest intro and outro music for a podcast that I’ve been on, I was invited onto the ‘Real Journeys of Success’ with Rob Elliott, all the way down in Sydney, Australia. Over 45 minutes we talked over a wide range of business topics, including;

• My early years and school and university days (00.40)
• My hated first job and the dreadful comparisons (2.55)
• The learnings of my first job (4.30)
• My very long and winding career path and the learnings from it (5.30)
• The job move that led to me finding my business idea (10.30)
• The catalyst to the launch the business (11.45)
• The Sliding Doors moment and ‘follow your gut’ (15.00)
• Funding the launch and riding the online bingo wave (16.00)
• ‘Stick or Twist’ points in business and taking on staff (18.00)
• The right time to sell a business (20.00)
• The big challenges to businesses post-Covid (23.00)
• Where to focus as a new business (28.30)
• The most common problems of Business Owners (31.00)
• How does a Sounding Board help and support a Business Owner (33.00)
• What would be a good business to get into post-Covid (34.50)

We also discussed ‘Back to the Future’, good failed jobs, Tetleys Bitter and asking girls to dance!!

You can also listen on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Google Podcasts or anywhere else that you get your podcasts.

You can find Rob at LinkedIn or on his website.

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