Floris Koot is an event & game designer, educational innovator and facilitator, and on LinkedIn he currently calls himself a Change Wizard. He co-founded two alternative schools for creative business, where personal development is key to creating your own model of income. He’s also a play expert, who makes content experiential. In this matter he worked for over 20 years for many different clients across Europe. He trained creativity, authentic leadership and offered management games. The focus was always on bringing them the human element, a wider perspective, seeing more possibilities, all the while getting more true to yourself. Two quotes about Floris: “Keep playing, imagining, challenging Floris Koot, the world needs more of your wizardry. You are unique Floris and we love you. Keep playing, imagining, challenging. The world needs more of it." ~ Laurence Mc Cahill "Some people are hard to market. But the world cannot live without them. Floris Koot is one of those. He will mostly be marketing to the "Problem Unaware"... but any investment of time he makes in meeting people where they are will be worth it - for them…" ~ Frances Khalastchi Links for Floris: linkedin.com/in/floriskoot https://www.facebook.com/floris.koot/ https://www.flourishandfly.nl/ https://floriskoot.nl/en-gb https://medium.com/the-gentle-revolution Alexlouise's website: https://alexlouisethomas.com
Steve Evans, is a dairy farmer and owner of Spittal Cross Farm, Pembrokeshire in West Wales. Family business, 4th generation with the 5th following on behind him and they take great pride in what they do. Steve absolutely loves the countryside for work and pleasure, a fanatical fly fisherman and owner of a Stillwater trout fishery. Steve loves meeting people and hearing people’s life stories. He has suffered some health issues in his 45 years on this planet which he's happy to talk about. Steve's Socials: Instagram: @Steve.evans.dairyboy X: @Evsthetractor Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com
Charles believes in simplicity - his business is called The Clarity Practice. He’s devoted his career to developing a simple, powerful practice that helps us listen for and do what's needed. Built on Buddhist principles - but refined through 15 years of professional coaching - his clarity practice is easy to learn and widely relied on. Charles and Alexlouise went for brunch and he asked Alexlouise the most apparently simple questions and she found herself crying uncontrollably for three hours (interspersed with lots of laughing and cake) and then went home and changed two really big things about how she works. And she was able to do that because they got down to the very root of what was getting in the way of Alexlouise doing what she actually wanted to do. The Clarity Practice is not about coming up with clever and different questions for each person, each situation, but just asking exactly the same questions every single time. Whoever Charles is working with and whatever they’re stuck on. And that’s The Clarity Practice. Charles's website: https://theclaritypractice.com Alexlouise's website: https://alexlouisethomas.com
Laurence McCahill and Carlos Saba are the founders of The Happy Startup School, an alternative business school and thriving community of entrepreneurs and changemakers. They have been friends for 40 years, business partners for 20 and on a mission for the last 10. Since 2013 they have been pioneering a new model of entrepreneurship that puts happiness and purpose before profits. Through their flagship Vision 20/20 program, and their legendary off-grid gatherings like Summercamp and Alptitude, they provide inspiration, support and accountability for those that want to make money, do good and be happy. In this episode they’ll be sharing more of their journey as well exploring one of the key pillars of their unique approach – the concept of happy money. The founders they work with don’t start their businesses solely to make money, but to make an impact, and to do what makes them come alive. The Happy Startup School supports those who want to find the sweet spot where money, impact and happiness meet. It sounds so simple, right? Yet whilst money can be easy to measure, happiness is personal, and can’t be captured in a simple metric. It starts with what success looks like for us individually. They believe that when we are clear on what we want for our lives we can build our business around it. Most entrepreneurs do the opposite – they fall into the trap of fitting their happiness into the margins of life, which often get squeezed. The business becomes a priority over their well-being. Many just swap the rat race of the corporate world for the hustle of entrepreneurship. They get caught on another hamster wheel working all the hours and not seeing the rewards or putting everyone before yourself – whether that’s clients, employees or investors. Thankfully there is another way. One where the way you make money aligns with your vision, values and needs. Laurence & Carlos Links: Website: www.thehappystartupschool.com Instagram: www.instagram.com/happystartups LinkedIn (Carlos): www.linkedin.com/in/kungfucarlos/ LinkedIn (Laurence): www.linkedin.com/in/laurencemccahill/ Alexlouise's website: https://alexlouisethomas.com
Founders of Better, Bolder, Braver @betterbolderbraver Frances and Simon help the people helpers to change the way coaches think and feel about marketing from striving for conversions to starting meaningful conversations. They share their knowledge and ensure clients get the results they deserve, but more importantly a feeling of satisfaction, from their marketing. Frances has 20 years’ experience in Corporate, Third Sector, Startup and Government communications. She's created brand partnerships, launched products, designed websites and trained several lovely people along the way. Now, she helps coaches improve their relationship with marketing. Simon has run an online marketing agency for 20 years, and in that time he transformed the marketing of over 400 small businesses. He is the author of Reframing Marketing: A 3-step plan for effective and ethical marketing for solopreneurs, freelancers, coaches, consultants, mentors, and thought leaders. His vision is to change the way people think about and do marketing and inspire them to use ethical marketing to talk more confidently about their impact and the powerful work that they do. Frances and Simon's website: https://betterbolderbraver.com Alexlouise's website: https://alexlouisethomas.com #betterbolderbraver #francesfogalstorystratergist #Simonbatchelar
Steve has been a private investment portfolio manager for 50+ years, managing as many as 300 individual investment portfolios around the USA and some overseas. When he sold his business in 2023, he had more than 110 million under management for around 140 clients. Of the top-selling investment book authors on Amazon, only two were professional investors and NONE ever directly managed other people's money. In fact, there aren't a whole lot of private portfolio managers out there, and fewer that can claim they will treat you differently from what they are doing for everyone else in terms of content, trading, selection criteria, income production, etc. We are in a model portfolio management, one size fits all, low-income production environment. But you don't have to stay there. He wrote "Retirement Money Secrets" to show you how he routinely generated more potential spending money for his clients than they needed, year after year, for decades. He was able to reinvest nearly half of that income to constantly grow the next year's production. There are samples in the book, and links to people you can chat with about the process and its potential. You can achieve income independence while still owning all the all dividend stars and market heroes that you hear so much about. But you will be using packages of securities, stocks and bonds, that in 2023, were paying nearly 10% of in-your-pocket income. Steve can teach you the process and lead you step by step down a six principle road leading to financial independence. How does 9% tax free from your ROTH IRA sound to you? Steve's websites: https://theincomecoach.net and https://retirementmoneysecrets.com Alexlouise's website: https://alexlouisethomas.com
Lene packed her things after 6 months on her own in lockdown and moved countries to break out of habits that didn’t serve her, rediscover herself and find out what she wants from life. Now, 2.5 years later, she’s co-founder of Dawnstalkers, has her own business and facilitates Mindfulness Retreats and has found her tribe and purpose. Social media links: www.Facebook.com/getoutmindfulness www.instagram.com/getoutmindfulness www.instagram.com/lene_hops Lene’s Website: www.get-out.co.uk Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com
David Gould has been involved in one way or another in the property industry since he was 18, so 24 years now. The Landlords Letting Company is coming up to 20 years trading and they manage around 700 properties across South Wales. 3EA – Three Estate Agents was set up 4 years ago mainly due to the number of their landlords wishing to sell their properties. It is a hybrid estate agency that offers both online and a high street estate agency service, also specialising in investment property sales. David's Socials and websites: https://www.facebook.com/3EstateAgents https://www.facebook.com/LLCltd www.3EA.uk www.tllc.uk Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Stephanie Taylor is a property investor, Co-Founder of award-winning property management and development company, HMO Heaven, and Co-Founder of Rent 2 Rent Success which has inspired thousands of non-traditional investors to get started in property. Along with sister and business partner Nicky, they grew their property management business, secured contracts worth over £2m in under three years and bought their own multi-millon pound portfolio of multi-unit blocks, commercial property and HMOs. Stephanie and Nicky are setting up an accommodation and education trust to help people who struggle to find beautiful affordable homes like she did as a teenage single mum on benefits. Voted Inspirational Person of the Year 2021, Stephanie has been featured on the BBC, Entrepreneur, Business Insider and The Telegraph. She is author of the number 1 best-selling book Rent 2 Rent Success and Host of The top 1.5% Rent 2 Rent Success Podcast. After decades of thinking that business and wealth were not for her, she is now a passionate advocate that ethical property investment is open to everyone, starting at any age. Get your free Rent 2 Rent Success book https://rent2rentsuccess.com/alex OR Get your free Rent 2 Rent Success book https://rent2rentsuccess.com/alexlouise Podcast https://rent2rentsuccess.com/podcast Instagram https://www.instagram.com/stephanietproperty LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/missstephanietaylor Facebook https://www.facebook.com/rent2rentsuccess Website HMO Heaven https://hmoheaven.com Rent 2 Rent Success https://rent2rentsuccess.com Blow Up Your Life https://blowupyourlife.com Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Paul Fosh is a 55 year old business man with businesses based in Newport, South Wales. At the tender age off 55, Paul is comfortable with the fact that middle age is still a way off. Paul has run Paul Fosh Auctions for over 20 years, and more recently, Paul Fosh Lettings. As well as running these businesses, on 1st February 2010 (to be precise), Paul started running. After half and full marathons, Paul started running ultra-marathons, and in 2015 took on the extremely challenging 6633 Arctic Ultra, a 320 mile foot race that takes place within the Arctic Circle, finishing on the Arctic Ocean in Northern Canada. Paul has continued to do extreme cold weather racing, balancing the demands of running 2 (soon to be 3) businesses along with training and the needs of family life. Paul always says that he wants to keep working and running until the day he dies. Join Alexlouise and Paul for what will be a really exciting conversation. Paul's Website: https://www.paulfoshauctions.com Paul's Socials: https://www.facebook.com/pfoshauctions https://www.instagram.com/pfoshauctions/ https://twitter.com/PFoshAuctions Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Kevin Burch, Parenting Educator and Confidence Coach to children and parents for over 15 years teaches parents how to raise fulfilled kids who fire on all cylinders in life. Two weeks ago Kevin became a Dad again, 24 years after becoming a step-father and 19 years after his daughter was born. In this episode Alexlouise & Kevin do a review of the book The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell and John Gray. Why our boys are struggling and what we can do about it. Kevin's Website: https://www.skyhighconfidence.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinburch Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Steve Austins is a co-founder and creative director of audio production company, Bengo Media. A former head of BBC Radio Wales, Steve has spent nearly 30 years working in broadcasting, predominantly radio. Bengo Media makes documentaries and live radio shows for the BBC and produces podcasts for clients including the World Health Organization and Macmillan Cancer Support. Steve also trains and consults a wide range of businesses on how to get the most from their podcasting journey. Steve recommends these great podcasts: The Daily - The New York Times - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-daily/id1200361736 Diary of a CEO - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-diary-of-a-ceo-with-steven-bartlett/id1291423644 Doing it for the kids - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/doing-it-for-the-kids/id1455858946 Grief Kind - Sue Ryder - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/grief-kind/id1587879904 Steve's contact details: Website: bengomedia.com Socials: https://www.facebook.com/bengomedia https://www.instagram.com/bengomedia/ https://twitter.com/bengomedia Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
In episode 10, Alexlouise talks to Alan Wick a renowned business coach and management consultant who has specialised in supporting growth-minded entrepreneurs for 20 years. Prior to this, he spent 25 years founding, scaling and selling businesses nationally and internationally. This experience has been key to helping his clients take their businesses where they want them to go (one of the companies he led won two Queen’s Awards for Export and one Queen’s Award for Innovation). Alan guides small business owners by sharing his experiences and stories, helping them overcome their obstacles to reach their goals more quickly and with less stress, through a rigorous process underpinned with love. This leads to a future with increased profits and impact, without working longer hours. He is purpose-led, values influence over profit, and does business in a way that balances commerce and compassion, putting long-term sustainability ahead of short-term profit. Alan's contacts: Email: lovebusiness@alanwick.com Website: www.alanwick.com Socials: www.facebook.com/alanwicklovebusiness www.instagram.com/alancwick www.linkedin.com/in/alanwick https://twitter.com/alanwick Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Howard Bowes is a seasoned property investor and award-winning property finance broker. With a true passion for property investment, Howard enjoys every moment of being at the forefront of funding deals for his clients as well as seeking out new property investment opportunities for himself and his joint venture partners. Howard is a strong believer in personal development and created the South Wales Property Meet, a property networking event as a platform to create opportunities, develop key industry relationships and continue to build expert knowledge. http://harveybowes.com Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Kevin Burch, Parenting Educator and Confidence Coach to children and parents for over 15 years teaches parents how to raise fulfilled kids who fire on all cylinders in life. Two weeks ago Kevin became a Dad again, 24 years after becoming a step-father and 19 years after his daughter was born. In his episode we ask: are boys and girls different; should we raise them differently; and how do we help children - and adults - make sense of sex differences in a world where talking honestly about gender is becoming almost a taboo? Kevin's Website: https://www.skyhighconfidence.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinburch Alexlouise's Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Lucy Cohen, Co-founder of Mazuma loves small and micro businesses and strives to be ahead of the curve in an industry that has historically been resistant to change. Leading lead the company forward through innovation, marketing and business development. With over 15 years at Mazuma, and 19 years in total in the accountancy industry, Lucy is widely recognised as an industry expert and regularly called upon to contribute to trade publications and industry discussions. She is a regular columnist for Accounting Web, the leading online publication for accountants. Her debut book, The Millennial Renaissance was released in 2017 and met with acclaim. Her second book, Forget the First Million was released in January 2022. In a recent activism campaign, Lucy successfully petitioned for better pain relief to be offered for female medical procedures, appearing on BBC Breakfast with Naga Munchetty and being featured in Vogue, Glamour, and The Daily Mail. Lucy's Website: https://www.mazumamoney.co.uk Instagram and Twitter @lucymazuma Alexlouise Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Sabrina Moore is an Accountant, Elite Powerlifter and Personal Trainer with 10 years coaching experience. She is passionate about helping business owners get to grips with their finances, and helping women discover resilience and self-confidence through the power of strength training. Sabrina loves travelling the World to compete for Great Britain, and when she’s not in the gym she can usually be found playing board games with her husband and friends. Sabrina's Instagram: @innerstrengthuk Alexlouise Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Chris Gibbons, Founder & CEO of Inqbate; a Strategy Management Agency and Venture Studio that partners with SME entrepreneurs to grow businesses with 10x ambition. Through the flagship Strategy Foundations Programme clients create strategic roadmaps to 10X their current valuation over an intense 36 month business improvement project. Chris's Website: https://inqbate.business Alexlouise Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas
Piotr Skocczylas who prefers to be known as Peter co founded Stol coffee during Covid. He loves everything coffee, food and people related and is a pure joy to speak to. Passionate about behaviourism he is also a Dad, photographer and partner. Impossible is impossible only until it happens! To Support Piotr and Pay it Forward! https://www.patreon.com/stolcoffee Follow Piotr here for fun videos and to watch his journey. https://instagram.com/stol_coffee Join in on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/stolcoffee Website: www.stolcoffee.co.uk To listen to the audio of this podcast on various platforms: https://anchor.fm/alexlouisethomas
Kevin Burch, Parenting educator and Confidence Coach to children and parents for over 15 years talks about how to raise successful kids in all areas, especially money mindset. AND how this leads on to adults who are more likely to thrive in all areas of life including health and relationships! We also talk about him becoming a Dad again, 24 years after becoming a step-father and 19 years after his daughter was born. Kevin's Website: https://www.skyhighconfidence.com/Kev... Twitter: https://twitter.com/kevinburch Main book mentioned: The boy Crisis By Warren Farrell PhD & John Gray PhD Alexlouise Website: https://alexlouisethomas.com Join me on Telegram in my group: https://t.me/alexlouisethomas