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Entrepreneurship

038: Where’s Peter Moriarty?

Over the years, the Entrepreneurs Rising podcast has been with business owners and people who aspire to be entrepreneurs on their transformational journey. And now, it’s time to embark on a new adventure.   

In this short episode, Carl Taylor keeps us in the loop about the upcoming changes to expect with the Entrepreneurs Rising podcast and the reasons behind them. 

Stay tuned as the podcast continues with new episodes and a new structure. You can look forward to more wisdom and insights that encourage wealth creation both inside the business and out. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • The big announcement for Entrepreneurs Rising (00:08)
  • The reason behind the upcoming changes (00:25)
  • What to expect on this podcast moving forward (01:45)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Entrepreneurship Investing Wealth

037: Investment & Wealth Building Strategy For Entrepreneurs

Investment & Wealth Building Strategy for Entrepreneurs

Building wealth is a journey and everyone’s journey is different. 

Ultimately, building wealth is about being able to break free of the “Rat Race” and build financial freedom to give you true freedom in life.  

This is the show where Carl and Pete share their insights and lessons learned to help ‘rise the tide to lift all boats’ so that other entrepreneurs can grow their own businesses. In this particular episode, Carl and Pete share their investment journeys as they built their wealth and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. 

Remember to go slow with this journey so that the assets that you’ve spent so long building can be put into good use.

NOTE: This is not financial advice but merely Carl and Pete’s insights and lessons from their own personal financial journeys. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Pros and cons of being an investor (4:52)
  • Building a wealth lake (8:05)
  • Managing money (9:55)
  • Never kill the golden goose (10:00)
  • Investing in index fund (13:40)
  • Different asset classes (14:25)
  • It’s important to know the numbers (14:00)
  • Multiple income streams (18:20)
  • Understanding income (22:10)
  • Putting your investment where your skills are (24:20)
  • Picking what your business is (25:27)
  • Where do you want to be active in business? (26:24)
  • What is the share market? (26:58)
  • Why do people keep reinvesting in their business? (27:29)
  • Don’t let all your money sit in one place (29:55)

RESOURCES

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Business Growth Entrepreneurship Personal Development

036: Ultra-High Performance for Entrepreneurs

Ultra-High Performance for Entrepreneurs

The most challenging thing for entrepreneurs to do is to focus. 

You’ve got endless innovative ideas, relentless motivation, and the drive to get things done. But this isn’t enough to meet your goals. What you need are the right tools in place to perform at your highest level. 

In this episode, Carl and Peter share their practical tips on how they reach their highest level of performance and how you can vibrate at your highest level for your business by doing high value activities. 

If you want to see the level they play at and how they structure their days for optimal performance, give this episode a listen. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • How we choose to fill our 8-hour days (6:20)
  • The idea of spaciousness (8:50)
  • How can we manage our time? (12:11)
  • Tips to working with a personal assistant (19:26)
  • Hiring someone to save you time (28:50)
  • Optimising income to optimising more time (29:50)
  • Being diligent on where you want to spend your time (31:21)
  • What are high-impact activities? (32:20)
  • Optimising time or focusing on income (33:13)
  • Wealth dynamics (34:08)
  • The most difficult thing for entrepreneurs is to focus on one thing (36:20)

RESOURCES

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Entrepreneurship

035: Can Entrepreneurs Ever Be Free? Archetypes And Polarity In Business

Archetypes_And_Polarity_In_Business

For a lot of people, one of the main motivators behind starting their own business is the freedom that comes with it. 

But can entrepreneurs truly have it all? Can you build an incredible business without the hustle and grind? Is an entrepreneur really free if they’re constantly building structures?

In this episode, we answer these questions and delve into the idea of entrepreneurial freedom- whether it exists or not. We also share our own experiences of how we optimize our days or weeks based on our entrepreneurial archetype. 
There is no cookie-cutter answer to these questions because each entrepreneur is different. The key is to get comfortable with the balance point that works for you personally.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Mindfulness and meditation (2:55)
  • The key of meditation (5:06)
  • Grinding and hustling as an entrepreneur (7:35)
  • Energy flows where the focus goes (10:24)
  • Primary and secondary focus in life (11:57)
  • Building structures to have freedom (13:00)
  • The definition of freedom (13:57)
  • Discipline equals freedom (15:01)
  • Routine equals freedom (16:20)
  • Archetypes (17:15)
  • What energy do you want to have each day? (22:47)

RESOURCES

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Business Growth Entrepreneurship

034: Roadmap To A $1bn Business

Roadmap_to_a_$1bn_Business

How do you build a billion dollar business? 

A question lots of entrepreneurs ask. 

When companies enter a new growth stage, they must essentially become a new organization. The things that made it successful at the beginning may not be the same things to successfully take the organisation to the next stage. 

In this episode, we delve into the different stages of building a billion dollar business. What to focus on at each level, and the challenges business owners face at each level.  

Building a billion dollar business is definitely hard work but it is possible. By breaking the journey into stages, the process becomes more comprehensible and attainable. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Stages you go through in building a $1B company (6:00)
  • It’s not a linear process (6:22)
  • Fear of progress (11:30)
  • Just building a business is exciting enough (13:00)
  • Switching your thought process to protectionism (16:50)
  • Where focus goes, energy flows (17:55)
  • ($0 to $1 million): Prove the Idea (21:33)
  • ($1million to $3million): Prove the product (22:33)
  • What is it that the clients really need? (24:00)
  • Narrowing down your product before scaling (24:48)
  • ($3 million to 10 million): Proving the market (25:09)
  • Six human needs (30:11)
  • How to grow and level up (33:00)
  • ($10 million to $30 million): Prove the business model (35:00)
  • ($30 million to $100 million): Prove the vision (38:38)
  • ($100 million to $300 million): Prove the industry (40:05)
  • ($300 million to 1 billion): Prove the company (41:15)

RESOURCES

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Business Growth Entrepreneurship

033: VR Events and Connecting While Remote

VR_Events_and_Connecting_While_Remote

If you’re in the events industry, connecting in today’s digital age has changed tremendously, from in-person events to the online event space. 

Digital connection has become the new norm. Tech and social media upgrades have opened the doors to new ways to connect. But is it the same experience for everyone? 

In this episode, we talk about our differences as well as our similarities in how we experience this digital connection. 

How have you found connecting in today’s advanced digital world? Let us know by sharing your thoughts in the comments.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Events and connecting pre-COVID (3:13) 
  • Virtual events and change of timezones (3:28)
  • The difference of timezone shift pre-COVID and during COVID (4:46)
  • The boom of VR technology (6:26)
  • The problem with VR (6:45)
  • The possibility of online meetings through VR (7:15)
  • The depth of conversation and connection online (8:30)
  • Connecting with friends and family online (8:45)
  • What is human connection and what is intimacy (9:35)
  • Generational influences (12:10)
  • Experiencing online events and online communication differently (13:08)
  • How to create the same in-person experience during the digital age (14:20)
  • Hunger for in-person events (15:30)

RESOURCES

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Business Growth Entrepreneurship

032: Culture Clash and Control of your Organisation

Culture_Clash_and_Control

Are you a content creator or a content consumer?

People are the key to your business’ success. This is why learning to communicate well as a leader is essential to strengthening your team and building your business. 

One of the challenging aspects to navigate as a leader is workplace culture. Culture clashes within the workplace comes from friction, from different ways of thinking, communication, and behaviour. Poor culture is usually rooted by lack of communication and understanding.

In this episode, we delve into the culture clash within an organization during structural changes and how leaders can handle this to create a sense of safety within the business. As leaders, it’s essential to approach this challenge with open communication and understanding your team.

Let’s dive in.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Integrating the business (3:03)
  • Fear of change (3:25)
  • Structural changes (4:18)
  • Conflict of team structures during the integration (5:30)
  • Building trust (6:13)
  • Creating a sense of safety (6:18)
  • Inherent idea of hierarchy with roles and titles (6:54)
  • Social hierarchy (7:54)
  • Transitioning roles and helping empower your team (8:50)
  • Change management framework (9:20)
  • Setting the right vision and the why (10:20)
  • Fear of the team during change management (11:17)
  • Finding the middle ground between rocking the boat and keeping the team happy (13:20)
  • People are the key to your business’ success (14:10)
  • Learning to communicate (15:32)
  • Building your brand (17:25)
  • Controlling only 80% of your business (20:00)
  • The culture of your business is valuable (23:35)
  • Reinforcing and adjusting the culture towards your vision (24:10)
  • Change is not simple and fast (25:12)
  • Dealing with culture clash within your company (27:45
  • Clashing of different cultures (36:02)
  • When the team starts being unharmonious (37:50)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Business Growth Entrepreneurship

031: Creating vs Consuming on Social Media and Clubhouse

Are you a content creator or a content consumer?

In this day and age, it’s a powerful position to be a creator on social media. You can reach and share your message with a larger audience. But there is also value in being a consumer, and finding the balance between the two is key. 

In this episode, Carl and Peter share their insights on the good, the bad, and the ugly of social media creation and consumption. How can you do both in a healthy way that also gets good business results? 

Let’s dive in.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Curate what you receive (3:00)
  • Difference between a creator or a consumer (3:52)
  • Positioning yourself as an influencer (5:48)
  • How is consuming impacting your life? (6:30)
  • Being intentional on social media (7:30)
  • Posting what you want (7:55)
  • Instagram vs Facebook (10:00)
  • Personal connection on Clubhouse (11:30)
  • Repurposing your content (12:25)
  • Efficiency and different types of engagement (13:00)
  • We only have so much bandwidth (15:30)
  • Social media being time consuming (17:00)
  • One of the best parts of Clubhouse is the engagement (17:30)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Business Growth Entrepreneurship

030: Increasing Customer Engagement in a Subscription Service Business

Customer-Engagement-in-a-Subscription-Service-Business

The law of nature is that value diminishes over time for most things. 

In a subscription service business, how can you make sure that your services are valuable enough to become an intrinsic part of your customer’s business? How do you ensure that you are valuable to your client over a longer period of time? 

If you have a subscription service-based business and are looking for ways for your customers to stay longer, this is a great episode for you. 

Let’s dive in.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Chasing clients for content as a subscription-based business (2:39)
  • Challenges of subscription-based businesses (5:30)
  • The balance of value-exchange (6:30)
  • How to increase customer engagement (7:11)
  • How to become an intrinsic part of your customer’s business (8:22)
  • Diminishing value over time (8:40)
  • The pain of disconnect (10:22)
  • The importance of the perception of clients (13:30)
  • Connecting with client’s perceptions (15:20)
  • It’s all about relationships and connections (16:53)
  • Developing the people in the business as humans (17:20)
  • Intimacy and vulnerability (18:10)
  • Building trust (19:00)
  • Creating a culture of vulnerability (21:10)
  • Building empathy (21:58)
  • Emotional awareness of self (21:25)
  • Finding the balance of reaching out to clients (24:45)
  • Processes and systems as your business grows (34:08)
  • Lead magnet ideas (41:00)

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Like this episode? Have topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below. 

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Business Growth Entrepreneurship

029: What’s Real For You In Feb 2021

In this episode of Entrepreneurs Rising, we are doing something a little bit different. 

We are sharing a new section we want to call “What’s Real for Your Right Now,” giving a snapshot of what we’re working on in our business, our views, frustrations, and what we’re excited about. 

What’s real for you in your business? What are you working on in your business or something you’re struggling with now? 

Share it in the comments, we’d love to hear from you and we may even choose you to feature in our upcoming episodes. 

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • Slow down in new client sign ups (1:35) 
  • Removing yourself in your business (2:30)
  • Deciding which fires to let burn and to put out (3:49)
  • Write down your action items (4:39)
  • Being ruthless with your time (7:30)
  • How do we bridge the gap between customers who stay and those who don’t (8:04)
  • Google workspace (8:50)
  • The most effective thing you can do as a business owner (9:11)
  • Automating of manual work (10:50)

WHERE YOU CAN FIND US

CARL TAYLOR
Automation Agency
CarlTaylor.com.au
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

PETER MORIARTY
iTGenius
LinkedIn
Facebook
Twitter

Like this episode? Have a topics that you would like us to discuss?  We’d love to hear your feedback and comments. Let us know by leaving a comment below.