The Start Up To Grown Up Podcast

Are you working long hours and feeling overwhelmed, but your business growth is stuck? Often the mindset, beliefs and behaviours that have got you here are now holding you back. But with your level of work you just don't have the headspace to challenge what is holding you and your business. Sound familiar? When I coach, typically service-based business owners, they normally come to me because they...

Know you need to delegate? But really struggle to? It's because your brain is keeping you safe. I know I should do it. I tell other people nearly daily to do it. Books have been written about it. So why is it SO hard to routinely and systematically delegate stuff to others? Particularly the stuff that matters? And yet, when it comes down to it, I and many others just don’t delegate. In fact, just...

Feeling stuck? You’re business not moving forward? You’re not alone I’ve been there myself. Too many times. I’ve created the spreadsheets and business plans that I believed would rapidly grow my business. And in the process allow me to drop down my working hours and enjoy financial freedom. Only to then find out that my business, at best, limps along. Even worse, I’m still working long hours. And...

How would you cope if you were being berated for 6 hours straight? And for those 6 hours you needed to just suck it up and take it without reacting. Even if you had opinions and lies being hurled at you? Then imagine that ordeal being livestreamed for anyone to watch. And many were watching. That’s the reality of budget-setting evening for the ruling but minority administration of Central Bedfords...

You are ill-informed, misleading people and dangerously misrepresenting the facts. This was the message that kept coming at me in the lead-up to a big vote in council.  It wasn’t just one councillor disagreeing with me. It was a consortium.  Worse was still to come. During the debate in the council chamber, I was repeatedly told that I had misunderstood and was wrong.  There were moments when I do...

Welcome to a free edition of Start Up To Grown Up: Your source for ideas, insights and tactics to take back control of your business and scale it sustainably and profitably by Heather Townsend, award-winning author of The Accountants’ Millionaires’ Club and Founder of The Accountants’ Growth Club You’ve poured your heart into your business. The last thing you want is for most of that business to w...

Welcome to a free edition of Start Up To Grown Up: Your source for ideas, insights and tactics to take back control of your business and scale it sustainably and profitably by Heather Townsend, award-winning author of The Accountants’ Millionaires’ Club and Founder of The Accountants’ Growth Club I saw the topic, and was bored. Not another *** session on goal setting. I must have lost count of how...

A recent local political spat erupted and went viral. This podcast breaks down how it went viral. It then goes on to help you understand the key lessons to establish a narrative and gain traction in the hearts and minds of your clients and employees. If you are trying to work out how to get your message to live rent free in your key stakeholders heads this is a must listen podcast. Get full access...