Have you ever questioned why it is some people seem to have everything they could wish for: health, wealth, love and happiness, but others never seem to lack all these things? Why is it a small minority manage to achieve greatness, but the vast majority fail to reach beyond mediocrity? What are this small minority doing differently to everyone else? It can’t just be down to circumstance, billionaires rise out of poverty. Those questions have been in my head my whole life and a couple of years ago I decided to stop wondering and start searching for the answers so that I could help more people achieve greatness in their own lives. Join me and follow along as I uncover the secrets of the minority that the majority aren’t taught so that you can apply them to your own life, to achieve your own greatness and live the life you want and deserve. My name is David Bell, and welcome to Pocket Mastermind
Episodes
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Thursday Aug 06, 2020
Do you ever feel like you’re not making progress financially? Do you find yourself wondering how the rich always seem to get richer, but you just can't seem to move forward? Do you believe you can never be wealthy? If you answered yes to one or more of those questions, listen up!
On this episode of the Pocket Mastermind Podcast, financial expert and host of the Conversation of Money Podcast, Peter Komolafe, shares the top tips and advice that the rich use to increase their wealth.
If you want to change your financial life and gain more freedom, this is the episode for you!
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
Thursday Jul 30, 2020
On this episode of the Pocket Mastermind Podcast I speak with world-renowned creativity expert and author of The Creator Mindset, Nir Bashan.
Nir shares why creativity is essential to our growth and the success of any business. Recent history is littered with examples of large companies that failed to embrace creativity beyond a certain point which resulted in their extinction; Kodak, Nokia and Blockbuster to name a few.
We're all born creative but in many cases it gets lost. It's time to rediscover our creativity.
Nir's new book, The Creator Mindset, is out on 4th August 2020. In the book Nir talks about HOW we can learn to be more creative. Many other books written on the topic of creativity cover the WHY, but many of us want practical guidance for HOW we can rediscover our creativity. If you're looking to take yourself or your business to the next level, this is the book for you!
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
After starting a family, Lianne partnered with her father to start tech company Element6 Applications to provide affordable app solutions for small businesses.
Listen to Lianne share her journey into the new world of entrepreneurship and app development. Lianne talks about the lessons they've learned along the way, the importance of networking and how important it is to give if you want to receive.
Element6 is focussed on developing affordable mobile applications that allow all types and sizes of businesses to compete on a level playing field with the major brands. Utilising progressive web-based app technology, Element6 are able to provide apps for small business who don't usually have the budgets required for traditional apps.
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
Thursday Jul 16, 2020
In this episode of the Pocket Mastermind Podcast I spoke with Mike Jones. Mike is a former British Army Soldier and founder of Leadership By Inspiration.
Mike has an incredible story which starts with him being told he was too fat to join the British Army. He didn't accept that and following a four-month diet and exercise routine he successfully enrolled and became part of the British invasion force that crossed the border on day one of the Iraq War in 2003. He then moved into a role working for the British Government that saw him on constant operational duty for a number of years. His passion for leadership developed and he subsequently held two training positions. The first was training new recruits at ATC Pirbright and the second was training new Officers at the world-famous Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
When the Sandhurst assignment came to an end, life became challenging for Mike. The army had changed and he wanted more. Mike had developed an interest for psychology and wanted to pursue it further. He'd been reading and teaching himself but he wanted to go and study at University. However, leaving school with few qualifications, and with army politics, that wasn't going to be easy. Throw PTSD into the mix and you get an incredible story of vulnerability and determination.
Eventually the symptoms of PTSD became too much and after a number of appeal for help, Mike was discharged from the Army on medical grounds. Everything he knew was gone. It was time to start again.
Mike's incredible character shone through again an in the past two years he has growth his business that he start with a few hundred pounds to working with national a multi-national organisations where he helps develop their leadership and culture.
Strap yourself in for this incredible story. Thank you to Mike for being so open.
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Matt Penny is a young entrepreneur and founder of Passionfruit Media digital marketing agency.
On this episode of The Pocket Mastermind Podcast I spoke to Matt about his early entrepreneurial experience of developing apps as a teenager that led him to make the decision not to go to university after leaving school in favour of pursuing a career. Early on in his career, Matt realised he wanted to pivot and develop skills in the marketing field and set out on a path of self education and development leveraging YouTube and online courses to gain the knowledge required before setting up his own digital marketing agency.
Matt has successfully grown his business over the past couple of years and has just recently launched a new online membership product called Super Growth Marketing aimed at small business owners, entrepreneurs, or sole-traders who have a great product or service and want to reach more people, generate more leads and drive more sales but that don't have the budget to pay an agency to help them.
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Thursday Jun 25, 2020
Imagine going from living a normal active life to losing the ability to walk in the space of a week. That's exactly what happened to Lee Chambers back in 2014. At the time he had an 18 month old son and his wife was pregnant with his daughter.
Listen to how Lee used a powerfully positive mindset to face this significant obstacle and many more in his life so you can take inspiration and apply it to the challenges you might be facing.
Lee Chambers is a Wellbeing Consultant, Workshop Facilitator and Sleep Specialist. Having spent the last 10 years focusing on wellbeing and performance in the local government, corporate organisations, and in elite sports, he has now brought his experience and qualifications with the aim to impact the wellbeing of thousands of individuals and businesses.
Lee has qualifications in Performance Nutrition, Strength and Conditioning Coaching, and Advanced Sleep Consultancy, and he delivers multi-discplinary workshops focused on improving performance and productivity through increasing employee wellbeing. This is an issue very close to his heart, as after losing the ability to walk in 2014 due to chronic illness, he has battled back to achieve a positive health outcome, and is now on the pathway to become medication free. He is currently studying an MSc in Environmental Psychology, with a focus on human interaction with workplaces and natural environments.
He also presents the Health and Wellbeing show on Ribble FM Radio, and speaks in Educational establishments about his varied career path, health challenges and having a resilient mindset.
Based in Preston in the North of the UK, Lee is currently working with business owners and employee teams to create culture change, wellbeing strategies and champions. He is a father of 2, coaches a disability football team, and enjoys eating good food with good friends. He is currently writing his first book, “How To Conquer Anything”, which will be released in 2020.
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Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thursday Jun 18, 2020
Thinking of starting a podcast?
We caught up with James Mulvany as part of his challenge to appear on 30 podcasts in 30 days. He shared some great advice for you about getting started and how to leverage content across multiple platforms.
James has been an entrepreneur since his school-days where he was a 'handyman for the internet'. After going to University to make his parent proud, James picked up his entrepreneurial journey with his first business selling streaming media services to radio stations. Fast forward to today and he is now running three businesses, with the latest addition being MatchMaker.fm which provides a platform for podcast shows to find guests and potential guests to find podcast shows. If you're looking to appear on a podcast or have a show and are looking for guests, head over to https://www.matchmaker.fm/
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Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Wednesday Jun 10, 2020
Adam Mendler is the Chief Executive Officer of The Veloz Group, where he co-founded and oversees ventures across a wide variety of industries: Beverly Hills Chairs, a leading office furniture e-tailer; Custom Tobacco, a one-of-a-kind cigar customization e-commerce platform; and Veloz Solutions, a technology consulting and software development practice. Adam remains active in each portfolio company, providing strategic guidance and support. Adam also provides business thought leadership as a speaker to businesses, universities and non-profit organizations; as the host of the leadership and personal / professional development podcast Thirty Minute Mentors; as an expert regularly cited in national media outlets; and as an advisor, consultant, coach and board member.
Adam utilizes his professional, entrepreneurial and managerial background developed through a unique set of experiences. Adam created both the Lessons in Leadership series in Thrive Global and the Thirty Minute Mentors podcast, where he regularly elicits insights from America's top leaders. Adam has conducted over 300 one on one interviews with leading CEOs, founders, athletes, celebrities, influencers and generals / admirals. Adam has also written extensively on leadership, management, entrepreneurship, marketing and sales, having authored over 70 articles published in major media outlets including Forbes, Inc. and The Huffington Post. Adam has worked for D.E. Shaw & Co., then the largest hedge fund in the world, and for Credit Suisse; for the strategic planning groups at William Morris Endeavor and Universal Pictures; at TWC Sports Management, a leading sports agency; and on a successful presidential primary campaign. Adam has served as the Executive Producer of Virtually Israel; as a Strategic Partner and Advisor to Here Media; and as a consultant to the LAUSD. Adam is an advisor to the accelerator Fusion LA and to several early-stage companies.
Adam graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California, earning a B.S. in Business Administration and a B.A. in Political Science, and earned an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, where he received the UCLA Anderson Fellowship Award. Adam serves as Chairman Emeritus of the USC Alumni Entrepreneurs Network; on boards for the USC Alumni Association and the UCLA Master of Applied Statistics program; and as a founding member of the UCLA Anderson CEO Forum. A Los Angeles native and lifelong Angels fan, Adam loves sports, classic movies and TV, politics, physical fitness and backgammon.
Friday Jun 05, 2020
Friday Jun 05, 2020
On this episode of the Pocket Mastermind Podcast we spoke to serial entrepreneur, e-commerce expert, TEDx speaker and 4x author about his experiences starting and running multiple businesses.
Karl started his entrepreneurial journey at the age of 16 when he started an IT consultancy company. He later moved into e-commerce when the inspiration hit him during an international move from London to Stockholm and from there he has gone on to give multple TEDx talks and write four books.
If you'd like to learn more about Karl head over to https://www.karllillrud.com/
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Wednesday May 27, 2020
Wednesday May 27, 2020
On this episode of the Pocket Mastermind Podcast I spoke with happiness expert, statistician, TED speaker and CEO of Friday Pulse, Nic Marks to learn about how happiness is measured and the impact COVID-19 has had on our wellbeing.
Nic shared is fascinating career journey which includes statistician working in a think tank advising both the Blair and Cameron governments as well as some time advising the Kingdom of Bhutan, a spell as a part time therapist inspired by his mother, a brief meeting with the Dalai Lama, a successful TED talk and now the founder and CEO of Friday Pulse where he and the team work with organisations to measure happiness and wellbeing in the work-place.
"Happiness is a serious business!"
You can find out more about Nic and Friday Pulse at https://www.fridaypulse.com
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