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My guest, Elizabeth Hopkins, candidly shares her inspiring journey through the ups and downs of life as a founder entrepreneur who has experienced everything that life has to offer, including scaling a business to a multi-million-pound exit, but then having to deal with the worst kind of tragedy immediately after.

As Liz mentions, she’s recently become a client of our financial planning business, and in the time I’ve known her, I’ve been blown away by her positivity, resilience, and sense of fun.

She encapsulates what it takes to be an entrepreneur, and frankly, that's why I started this podcast—to enjoy inspiring conversations with business owners and then share them with the world!

• You’ll learn about the vital importance of focussing on a niche market, which you can dominate when others fight it out as generalists.
• Liz shares something really interesting that no one has ever talked about in the past—her decision to run a lifestyle business for many years and enjoy lots of time with her family as they were growing up and then very intentionally pivot to a growth business and target a multi-million-pound exit. She believed you could have the best of both worlds - and did!
• She then candidly explains the tragic circumstances when, a week after the business was sold, her husband and business partner had a brain tumour and died. Her story of survival and resilience is nothing short of remarkable and a true inspiration to all of us.

This is an incredible conversation and I hope it encourages you and inspires you.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Elizabeth Hopkins.

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethspencerphillips/

https://www.juliasamuel.co.uk/

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/grief-works-self-care-love/id1558867513

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Our guest, John Rood, hails from Chicago, USA. John and his wife built an education business which they later sold to a private equity firm for a life-changing sum of money.

And to some degree, that’s where his problems started...

‘Life after exit’ was far from plain sailing for John, despite the fact that he was now financially secure. He went through a number of changes and realised that he was not prepared for the life transition and new set of challenges he faced as a wealthy ex-business owner.

He recognised that there was no blueprint or How-To guide for business owners who sold up and needed to navigate the next chapters of their lives - and so he wrote one!

John’s book Beyond the Exit charts his own journey but also provides valuable insights from his conversations with over 70 other exited entrepreneurs who’ve been on similar journeys and which we discuss during the conversation.

We also discuss:

• The 3 Things You Must Do Before You Sell Your Business and how to prepare yourself for life after exit - and what he’d do differently if he were ever to sell a business again..
• The 5 most popular activities for entrepreneurs after they sell - and why you should avoid most of them!
• We explore the concept of how much money is enough, a truly fascinating subject that has more to do with psychology than maths.

And John shares a great story about how he lost out to Sam Altman, the founder of Open AI when he was planning to invest some of his new-found wealth in a tech startup!

So much wisdom shared - and so now, ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr John Rood.

Links:

Beyond the Exit

What Happens When You Get What You Want?: Success and the Challenge of Choice

Finish Big: How Great Entrepreneurs Exit Their Companies on Top: Amazon.co.uk

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My guest today, Marc Adams, is the author of a book by the same title and has spent nearly four decades deep in the trenches of business and entrepreneurship. His extensive experience, from a career in corporate life to setting up his own business, has given him a unique perspective on the ups and downs of life as an entrepreneur.

A cancer diagnosis in 2020, giving him six months to live, compelled him to write a book about everything he knows about business building, creating entrepreneurial value, and exiting in the most tax-effective way.

Happily, Marc overcame the diagnosis and is now in good health, providing advice and consultancy to founders keen to benefit from his knowledge and experience.

During our conversation, Marc unpacked some steps you can take to increase revenue, reduce costs, and multiply your company’s value.

• He explains how he helped a company reduce its costs by over £2 million and redeploy that capital to fuel future growth.
• He explains what so many businesses have got wrong about their website and digital presence and how they can improve it and drive sales.
• He also shares some smart ideas on getting financially organised ahead of a sale to minimise the tax burden on founders when they sell their company.
• And as someone who only a few years ago was staring death in the face after his terminal diagnosis, Marc's view of what true wealth means is well worth hearing.

He goes through so much more, and we could have gone on for another hour and still not covered everything!

Check out the show notes for links to some fabulous resources Marchas offered for free to listeners on this podcast, including a complementary diagnosis of your current business based on the advice in his book.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Mr Marc Adams.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/1marcadams/?originalSubdomain=uk

Secrets To 10Xing Your Business: And Cashing Out Tax-Free: Amazon.co.uk

The Secrets to 10xing your business and Cashing Out Tax-Free Scorecard?

Acquisitions4You

Russell Brunson Collection 2 Books Set (Expert Secrets, Dotcom Secrets): Amazon.co.uk

How To Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No (Acquisition.com $100M Series Book 1) eBook : Hormozi, Alex

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