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039: The 4 Stages Of The Entrepreneurial Journey

A successful entrepreneurial journey entails going through various levels and withstanding every challenge that comes with it.

Advancing from one level to the next requires entrepreneurs to master certain skills to achieve both business and financial success. In this particular episode, Carl shares the 4 stages of the entrepreneurial journey and what it takes to master each one.

With over 20 years of experience of being in business, Carl noticed that every time a business owner enters a new level, there is a need to use old skills and resources and develop new ones to effectively pass a specific stage. 

Keep in mind that most business owners get stuck or don’t progress to the next stage because they lack strategies to create true wealth. To reach success in business, you need to think about where you are right now in your entrepreneurial journey and evaluate how you can scale to the next level.

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • What it means to be in the pre-level of business (03:15)
  • The Self-employed level and how to master it (03:50)
  • How to effectively operate the business through the Manager Level (05:37)
  • The advantages of using strategies via the Leader Level (07:45)
  • The Investor Level and how to play the game of business and finance (08:53)

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

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

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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

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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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033: VR Events and Connecting While Remote

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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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017: How We Dealt With COVID

We made a conscious decision not to talk about COVID-19-related topics because we want our content to be valuable regardless of the times. However, we’ve realised that the after-effects of COVID-19 have had a massive impact on our work and lives. 

In this episode, we will not cover COVID-19 itself but how we, as leaders and entrepreneurs, dealt with the pandemic’s economic consequences. Our discussion will focus on the strategies and processes you can employ to overcome times of uncertainty or challenges that disrupt businesses. These strategies cover the operations of the businesses and the team members and clients that we work with.

We’d love to hear from you. What strategies did you employ as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic and what has been the result so far?

IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL FIND OUT…

  • COVID-19 and how leaders can respond to uncertainties (02:04)
  • The book behind the idea for the episode (03:40)
  • Business leaders not only survive but thrive during uncertain times (04:02)
  • “10x Leadership” (04:21)
  • Fanatic discipline (04:32)
  • Empirical creativity (04:48)
  • Productive paranoia (05:16)
  • Building a business that works without you (06:58)
  • Strategies to still add value to clients despite the fear of recession (07:47)
  • Support versus self-protection modes (12:41)
  • Making sure that your team is secure (14:22)
  • Having a “wartime CEO” team member (16:37)
  • Strategies to maximise your existing resource to help clients (18:49)
  • The value of being visible (21:29)
  • A true leader will step up during times of crises (23:19)
  • Strategies to lead a team, community, and customers who are fearful (25:34)
  • Not letting your own personal fear affect your personal life or business (29:26)
  • Strategies have to be sustainable so you and your team don’t burn out (32:22)
  • Biggest achievements and challenges (38:54)
  • Is it alright to share and celebrate your achievements if others are in trouble? (41:25)
  • Some final thoughts to share (44:51)

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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.