Soul Trader | Putting the heart back into your business

We only start a become or own boss or start a business because of how it chimes with us as part of what we want to achieve or enjoy as part of our lives as a whole. But for some reason we often forget this in all the busy-ness. The post Your life, your business appeared first on Soul Trader | Putting the heart back into your business .

We hear a lot about going with the flow. This is very important indeed but how attuned are you to your own flow? It's in the alignment and merging of the two that real magic can happen in your life, business and career. The post Going with your flow appeared first on Soul Trader | Putting the heart back into your business .

Having doubts and fears are commonplace along the journey of being your own boss. Finding the courage to start out, leave an often comfortable job and to walk and grow the uncertain path of being in business can be daunting. The post Fear & courage in life & business appeared first on Soul Trader | Putting the heart back into your business .

In this, the fist Soul Trader podcast of 2016, leading life coach - motivational speaker - business coach, Rasheed Ogunlaru helps you to take a moment to be still, stock-take, gain space, strategise and look at some key simple steps to help you love forward throughout the year ahead. The post 2016: The year ahead… step by step appeared first on Soul Trader | Putting the heart back into your busine...

In this latest Soul Trader podcast leading life coach, speaker and business coach Rasheed Ogunlaru invites you to reflect, review and harness the learning from your last year to help you progress throughout the next. Whether it's been a tough and taxing year or a rich and rewarding one the value is in taking time to pause, explore what works and what needs work in order to not only help your...

Some say the most important question to ask in life is "Who am I?" and the "Why am I here?"  Certainly in business and on the journey of being your own boss being clear on why you're doing what you're doing is key. It is clarifies it energises. It helps you to mobile and get going and keep going and to really make a mark. In this empowering and insightful podcast and...

"Stop expecting life to bring you opportunities and when you start bringing opportunities to life" - Rasheed Ogunlaru In this inspiring Soul Trader  podcast, Rasheed Ogunlaru author of Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back into Your Business explores the importance of creating your own opportunities through building credibility, articulating and embodying authority and boosting your visib...

As the much-loved book Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back into Your Business celebrates it's third birthday, the book's author leading life coach, speaker and business/corporate coach Rasheed Ogunlaru discusses the essential importance of celebration and appreciation throughout your life, career and business This is insightful and energising podcast invites you to pause, take stock of...

In our latest podcast coach, speaker and Soul Trader author Rasheed Ogunlaru is joined by guest yoga-teacher-tuned-entrepreneur, Thierry Giunta,  inventor of BeamBlock Yoga. Thierry is a 2015 winner of BBC2's Dragon's Den show where he won investment from three of the shows renowned entrepreneur investors including Peter Jones. In this insightful and energising talk Rasheed and Thierry e...

As the seasons shift and the holidays ends it's back to school, back to work and back to business. Whether you're listening to this after a break, vacation, time out, illness this podcast with leading life coach, motivational speaker and business coach Rasheed Ogunlaru author of Soul Trader will help you strategise, get organised and capitalise on season you are at in life / business. Tu...

"Nature will tell you about your true nature" What season are you at personally, in life and in business? Which season(s) tends to to sit best with you? Which seasons are most productive, lucrative and align with your spirt? What season is your industry at. All of this will give you clues and will help guide you. In this insightful podcast, Rasheed Ogunlaru author of Soul Trader explores...

Ok Time Out! We hear it in sport don't we and maybe it's time for you to take a time out in your business. In what way do you need to take a time out? Is it about taking a holiday/vacation? Is it about taking more regular breaks in the day so you're more refreshed and productive? Is it about taking time out to look at what you really want to do or looking at things anew? Leading lif...

Where are you at right now in your personal and professional life? Are you feeling stuck? Do you feel that some areas need ramping things up? Or do you just feel you need to make a change or broaden your comfort zones. In this podcast leading life / business coach Rasheed Ogunlaru invites you to take stock or where you are and make a change and move on up in the area of your home or business life...

Every year I meet thousands of people through my coaching work, speaking, workshops, seminars, training sessions and talks.  Generally speaking for sole traders and small business owners the key is ensuring that your heart is in your business, all that do and that your spirits are high. Meanwhile in the cases of large organisations I find that many have lost heart, that they are not cared about an...

Rasheed Ogunlaru author of Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back into Your Business invites us to explore two dimensions of ourselves the artist and the entrepreneur. The artist who is the creative, inspiration, essence and life blood/balance aspect of what we do - and the entrepreneur who seeks to plan, package, promote, present and profit from what we do. This talk invites you to recognise and ho...

The recent general election results in the UK has changed the political landscape and will lead in turn to a changes in leadership of the several political parties. Whilst the new look political landscape unfolds leading life / business coach Rasheed Ogunlaru, author of Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back into Your Business invites you to think about your own leadership of yourself, your life and...

"Despite all our abilities, ingenuity, industry, creativity and technology we humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity." - Rasheed Ogunlaru, Life / Business Coach - Speaker - Author, Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back into Your Business.

Sometimes we are so focused on the outcome that we want to achieve that we forget the input that we need to energetically put in for it to really be magical. We forget the work, the effort, the heart and the energy needed to really create something remarkable.  Perhaps  - even beyond this - we get so caught up in 'what we want to get out it'  - in life and in business - that we forget th...

In today's fast-paced world where so many have busy lives, busy minds and all sorts of business ideas and pressures it's the ability to be still, centred, slow down and step back that may well (ironically) help you advance more effectively. Join leading life / business coach and motivational speaker, Rasheed Ogunlaru author of Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back into Your Business for t...

Almost every opportunity I've ever had in my career and business life has emerged from a conversation. Conversations can be powerful and transformational but all too often they do not take place at all  - or are not deep or authentic enough for the magic and possibilities to flow. "Conversations" is one of the most powerful chapters in Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back not Your B...

One of the things that makes business stand distinct from a typical career is that it is a real blend of differing skills and disciplines. There is the operational / management and admin side, there is the marketing / promotional and sales side - finance / cash-flow and money side. The fact is that we all have differing skills, styles, strengths and weaknesses. We also have preferences, likes, dou...

Leading life coach / speaker and business coach Rasheed Ogunlaru, author of Soul Trader explores the place and power of intelligence, instinct and intuition and invites us to move beyond merely relying on intellect alone in living our lives and running our business.

Move from complexity to simplicity. Recorded at the start of the Spring, in this podcast leading life / business coach, Rasheed Ogunlaru, author of Soul Trader invites you to spring clean your life, your mind and your business in order create space, simplicity and new possibilities. Watch out for the Rasheed's "Spring clean your life, your mind & your work"  live free webinar on...

How do you run you business day-by-day and week-by-week? How effective and productive do you feel you are? Do you feel bogged down be your routine or liberated by it? Is it time to tighten up your timetable or in fact to loosen things up a bit? One of the beautiful things about being a sole trader and small business owner is that you can decide and design your own routine, patterns, schedule and w...

There are so many songs about love, films about love - and there's even Valentine's Day - a whole day (and growing industry) dedicated to love. But how is it that you can make people fall in love with your business, product or service? Join leading life/ business coach, Rasheed Ogunlaru author of Soul Trader - Putting the Heart Back into Your Business for this heart-warming podcast. As w...