Welcome to Episode 266 of the Make it British Podcast!
In this episode I discuss how and why investing in your own personal development can dramatically transform your business. I share insights from my own personal development journey and provide valuable advice on how investing in yourself can make a massive difference to your business growth.
We’ll explore the risks of not investing in yourself, and the importance of matching your personal development with your business goals. Plus, I’ll share some practical tips on how to make time for self-investment, even if you are super-busy.
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You're listening to the Make It British podcast. I'm Kate Hills,
Speaker:and I'm on a one woman mission to save UK manufacturing.
Speaker:Tring. In 2008, I gave up my 20 year career as a fashion buyer
Speaker:because I was disillusioned with how much was being sourced overseas,
Speaker:And I set out to uncover some of the amazing businesses that
Speaker:are still making in the UK. Since founding Make It
Speaker:British, I've discovered That there is not only still tons of
Speaker:manufacturing taking place in Britain, but that it's a
Speaker:thriving industry. I invite you to join me each
Speaker:week when I'll be chatting to inspiring British made brands
Speaker:and UK manufacturers and offering advice to product
Speaker:based businesses that make in the UK. So with no further
Speaker:ado, let's get on with the show.
Speaker:Hello, and welcome to episode number 266 of
Speaker:the Make It British Podcast. So I've got something a little bit different
Speaker:for you today. I know many of you that listen to this
Speaker:show are small business owners, And you may be
Speaker:going through a bit of a hard time in your business right now.
Speaker:It's really not that easy for anyone at the moment.
Speaker:There is no doubt that energy price is still being
Speaker:higher and mortgage rates still being high, that a lot of
Speaker:people are feeling the pinch, that they are taking longer to
Speaker:make purchasing decisions than they were a couple of years ago when they
Speaker:had more disposable income. But that doesn't mean you should throw
Speaker:in the towel and give up altogether. The best
Speaker:businesses are those that have been through a hard time, Been through
Speaker:an economic downturn or a recession, and they've come out fighting
Speaker:and stronger than ever. But it does mean you need to be a
Speaker:little bit smarter about how you operate and how you do
Speaker:things. It certainly doesn't mean you should give up
Speaker:investing in yourself. In fact, if anything, now is the
Speaker:best time to invest in yourself and in your business.
Speaker:So what do I mean by investing in yourself? So as an
Speaker:example, over the years, I've invested a significant amount of
Speaker:money in personal development. I've invested in myself.
Speaker:I've invested in my business. In fact, I think it's one
Speaker:of the main reasons that Make It British is still in business
Speaker:today 12 years after I originally founded it.
Speaker:Now for those of you that don't already know, my original idea for
Speaker:Make It British was a marketplace Selling British made
Speaker:goods. I'd come from a buying background, bricks and mortar
Speaker:stores. I knew nothing about selling online, But I spotted that there
Speaker:was a potential gap in the market for a marketplace selling
Speaker:British made goods. Now at that point, I could have
Speaker:invested my life savings and set about setting up
Speaker:this marketplace, or instead, what I actually did
Speaker:was invested In training, I
Speaker:enrolled on a master's degree in
Speaker:Internet retailing part time. Most of it was distance
Speaker:learning Over 3 years, I learned everything I needed
Speaker:to know about selling online, digital marketing,
Speaker:and how I would go about setting up this online
Speaker:marketplace that I had an idea for. I learned so much on
Speaker:the course. It's given me skills that I learn and use
Speaker:to this very day. But the main thing I actually learned by
Speaker:doing this master's degree was that that If I was gonna set
Speaker:up an online marketplace, if I'd done it at that time in
Speaker:2011, I basically would have gone bankrupt very
Speaker:quickly. So what I learned by doing that course
Speaker:was how much money was needed to invest in digital
Speaker:marketing To get traffic to a marketplace because the
Speaker:margins are so low, you need to make an incredibly large amount of
Speaker:sales. Amazon is a great example of that. So
Speaker:to really make it work, I needed a lot of traffic. And the only way
Speaker:of getting a significant amount of traffic to your website is to pay for
Speaker:it, and I certainly didn't have the budget for that. But what I
Speaker:did learn from being on the course was other skills That
Speaker:enabled me to set up Make It Patricia's blog and organically
Speaker:get the traffic to that blog, and then work out later on
Speaker:how I was gonna monetize The Make It British platform. I
Speaker:don't regret for one moment the money that I invested in
Speaker:that course. In fact, It saved me a lot of money
Speaker:and a lot of heartache, and it saved me from making a lot of mistakes
Speaker:in the long run. And since then, I've gone on to invest
Speaker:year after year in all sorts of different courses,
Speaker:coaching programs, and mentoring to help me at
Speaker:various different stages of my business. If you're gonna move your business
Speaker:forward, you need to invest in some form of training.
Speaker:Otherwise, you grow stale, you run out of ideas, and you risk
Speaker:getting left behind. In the 12 years I've been running Make It British,
Speaker:There's probably only a couple of things that I regret when it comes to
Speaker:investing in personal development and coaching. One of those
Speaker:was investing in a coach who I didn't do enough research
Speaker:on before I signed up with him. He was a great salesperson,
Speaker:But he wasn't a great coach. I didn't do enough due
Speaker:diligence beforehand about this particular person before I
Speaker:signed up. Even then even then, I don't regret signing up
Speaker:with him. I made some great connections in the group because it was a group
Speaker:coaching program, And one of my best business buddies to
Speaker:this day was someone I met in that coaching group. And
Speaker:then the other thing I regret in terms of Investing in coaching and
Speaker:development is not investing in a mentor to help me with my
Speaker:trade show. Had I done that, Maybe to this day, I
Speaker:would still be running that show, but setting up a trade show, going
Speaker:into an industry I knew nothing about, events, was
Speaker:really hard, and I learned a lot of hard lessons because of all the
Speaker:mistakes I made along the way. And I probably wouldn't have made those mistakes
Speaker:If I'd had a mentor who knew all about the events industry,
Speaker:he could have helped me when I got to sticky stages in the business
Speaker:where I made these terrible mistakes. So in hindsight, I just wish I
Speaker:found someone to help me through running that trade show. I was foolish thinking I
Speaker:could do All on my own, knowing nothing about that industry. So that was a
Speaker:massive lesson learned and also a very expensive mistake I made because
Speaker:I lost a lot of money when I had to close my trade show. Anyway,
Speaker:moving on. Currently, at the moment, I have invested in training
Speaker:to help me gain a level 7 qualification in coaching.
Speaker:Once I've got the qualification, I will be able to register as an
Speaker:accredited coach mentor with the EMCC, which
Speaker:is the European Mentoring Coaching Council. And
Speaker:although I've been mentoring for a few years now, I wanted to
Speaker:help make myself a better coach. Meet other coaches as
Speaker:well so I could make connections there, and learn how to
Speaker:be the very best coach and mentor that I can be.
Speaker:So that I can mentor and coach small businesses that manufacture their
Speaker:products in the UK. So that's my experience of investing
Speaker:thing in myself, my business, and personal development. But what
Speaker:are the benefits to you if it's something that you'll think about doing?
Speaker:Why should you invest in personal development? How is it
Speaker:gonna help your business? Because as a small business, when you've got
Speaker:So many other outgoings and areas in which to spend your
Speaker:money, why would you invest in coaching or training?
Speaker:Firstly, the main thing is to learn new skills,
Speaker:to learn new skills from someone who's already been there and done
Speaker:it and can walk you through the steps of how to do it. It's
Speaker:far better to do that than struggling on your own and trying to
Speaker:teach yourself how to do something. So for instance, in a couple of
Speaker:weeks time, I'm going on a training day to learn how
Speaker:to make better Instagram reels. It's a one off training
Speaker:day. I can already make an Instagram reel. It's kinda so so. I
Speaker:wouldn't say my technical skills with it are very good. So it takes me
Speaker:ages to make each one. I'm hoping by going on this
Speaker:course, long term, I'll be able to churn out the reels
Speaker:much quicker. It will Save me time in the long run. I'm also hoping to
Speaker:be inspired by the other people that I meet on the course and get new
Speaker:ideas for Instagram reels that I can do. Also, being able
Speaker:to edit short video is handy not only for Instagram Reels,
Speaker:but across other platforms as well. So it's a win win as far as I'm
Speaker:concerned. I'm meeting people in person. I get to learn some
Speaker:new technical skills. And in the long long run, I'm hoping it's gonna
Speaker:save me A whole lot of time. And even if I do end up outsourcing
Speaker:someone else making short video content for me in the
Speaker:future, At least I know what I'm briefing them into
Speaker:because I've already learned how to do it myself, which makes it much easier
Speaker:to know if someone's pulling the wool over my eyes When they tell me how
Speaker:long it's gonna take them to create short videos for me. So one of the
Speaker:main reasons to invest in some form of personal development is to learn
Speaker:new skills. One of the other reasons is so that you're not
Speaker:stabbing around in the dark trying to work things out for yourself.
Speaker:Far better to go to someone who can show you how to do
Speaker:it, then try and work it out for yourself. We've all been there.
Speaker:We've all thought, oh, I'm not gonna read the instructions. I'm just gonna try and
Speaker:work it out. 3 hours later, you're resorting to the instructions
Speaker:anyway, and you could have saved yourself all the time by just looking at
Speaker:the instructions in the 1st place. It also means that you're able to
Speaker:make better informed decisions. One of the other
Speaker:reasons for particularly signing up with a
Speaker:mentor or a coach or a group group coaching program
Speaker:Is it forces you out of your comfort zone. So it's
Speaker:all too easy when you're running a business to get really comfortable
Speaker:with what you're doing And continue to do what you've
Speaker:always done because doing something new
Speaker:can sometimes be really scary. Stop it.
Speaker:Because doing something new can be really scary.
Speaker:But if someone's holding you accountable, whether As a mentor
Speaker:or someone else that's in a group that's doing the same thing as
Speaker:you, you're much more likely to end up actually doing
Speaker:it. Not only that, but it gives you the confidence,
Speaker:whereas you before making a decision about
Speaker:something new or which direction to take your business in can
Speaker:feel confusing, and you don't know which way to turn.
Speaker:If you've got someone helping you to make that decision so that you can make
Speaker:more informed decisions, It makes it so much easier.
Speaker:Like they say, doing something on your own can be really scary, but
Speaker:having someone else guiding you can really help and can make the
Speaker:whole process and the whole problem seem much easier. So
Speaker:another thing that's really helped me When I've invested in some form of
Speaker:personal development, particularly when I first signed up for
Speaker:my master's degree, and it was just after I'd had my 2nd
Speaker:baby, and I suppose I was lacking in confidence a bit because I was
Speaker:very confident when it came to My previous
Speaker:role as a buyer, I knew exactly what I was doing when it came to
Speaker:developing products and buying for bricks and mortar stores,
Speaker:I didn't know that much about Internet retailing, and I
Speaker:was willing to put my hand up and admit
Speaker:that I didn't really know where to start with that. And so I
Speaker:didn't have the confidence to do things like approach web
Speaker:developers and to approach the other people that
Speaker:I needed, the other stakeholders that I needed to start that
Speaker:project. And I wouldn't have started Make It British,
Speaker:which started originally as a blog, had I not invested
Speaker:in that master's degree when I did, because it gave me the
Speaker:confidence more than anything else. That's what it gave me, was the confidence
Speaker:to think, right. I can do this. I definitely can do it. I can
Speaker:go in a new direction, which can be hard if you've
Speaker:been working in the same business or doing the same thing
Speaker:in the same sort of role like I had for 20
Speaker:years. I'd had my own business early on when I first left
Speaker:college, but was a lot of years ago, and starting a new
Speaker:business in particular can be really scary. So it gave me the confidence
Speaker:to Pivot into something new and to think
Speaker:outside the box, and I wouldn't have done any of that if I'd been
Speaker:trying to do the research on my own, Sitting at home
Speaker:with a small baby, trying to research how I was gonna set up this
Speaker:business, I was just going out of my mind. So it was by far The
Speaker:one of the best things I ever did. The other great thing, if you sign
Speaker:up for something which is a group program or some sort of group
Speaker:course, It's the networking opportunities and the people that
Speaker:you meet along the way. When you're running a small business on your
Speaker:own, Particularly if you're you are on your own, you're not
Speaker:doing it with a business partner, it can feel really lonely.
Speaker:So Being in a group of other like minded business owners can really
Speaker:help because you're all in the same boat. You get to meet with other like
Speaker:minded people They are in the say at the same stage as you are. They've
Speaker:got the same concerns that you've got. They got the same fears that you've
Speaker:got. You can cheer each other along the way, And it means you can
Speaker:make some great contacts that probably wouldn't have happened if you'd been trying to
Speaker:struggle along on your own. So not Just group
Speaker:coaching programs, getting out to in person events,
Speaker:getting out to conferences where you learn, Going
Speaker:to networking events as well, that's all a form of personal
Speaker:development. Things that you're doing where you're working on your business
Speaker:and not in down in the weeds day to day on the stuff that you're
Speaker:doing, day to day in your business where you can't see the wood for the
Speaker:trees. So those are some of the benefits of why it is
Speaker:worth investing in some form of personal development. But are there what
Speaker:are the risks if you don't invest? Like I said
Speaker:before, one of my biggest regrets was not
Speaker:investing in a mentor that could help me with my trade show. My
Speaker:lack of knowledge about the events industry led to some really expensive
Speaker:mistakes. I've also seen clients who, prior to
Speaker:working with me, have made expensive mistakes by
Speaker:going to the wrong manufacturer, being told that it's
Speaker:cheaper to manufacture in China, only to discover after
Speaker:you've spent a hell of a lot of money on sampling that you could have
Speaker:found a local manufacturer in the UK Who would have worked
Speaker:out better and cheaper for you in the long run? Product
Speaker:development in particular can lead to some really expensive
Speaker:mistakes you don't have the skills. Sample development can be
Speaker:really expensive, and you can end up spending a lot of money on it if
Speaker:you don't know what you're doing, if you're not properly prepared
Speaker:because you don't know how to prepare. You don't know what the whole
Speaker:production process is. You learn on the way, but
Speaker:can be really expensive. Raw materials wasted,
Speaker:patterns made for, prototypes made, Quality
Speaker:control issues, all of those can be avoided
Speaker:if you learnt the process and you learnt those skills before
Speaker:you started. It can be a false economy not
Speaker:investing in learning those skills before
Speaker:you start, particularly when it comes to product development. The other risk
Speaker:associated with not investing in your own personal
Speaker:development is that you just end up stagnating. You end up staying
Speaker:the same, doing what you've always done. And one of my favorite phrases,
Speaker:which I'm always telling my clients, If you do what you've always done,
Speaker:you will get what you've always got. In other words, if you
Speaker:carry on as you've always been doing, Nothing's
Speaker:gonna change. And if anything, your business will get
Speaker:worse. Particularly at the moment, now is a time when you need
Speaker:to take risks. You need to try things and do new things.
Speaker:If something's not working, for instance, if a product is not selling,
Speaker:it's not gonna get any better, and sales are not Suddenly
Speaker:gonna happen out of thin air if you just carry on doing
Speaker:exactly the same, posting on Instagram, Hoping,
Speaker:fingers crossed, that someone at some point will come to your website and
Speaker:buy something. You need to think outside of the box, and
Speaker:chances are You need some sort of inspiration and kick up
Speaker:the arse to tell you to do that, someone that can look at your
Speaker:business in a new light and get you thinking about different things that
Speaker:you could try. Because if you don't try new things,
Speaker:nothing new is gonna happen. So maybe now is the time
Speaker:to learn. So it might sound really scary, particularly at the
Speaker:moment, if you're not doing as well as you were this time last
Speaker:year. Maybe you're too scared to try new things. Now is
Speaker:the best time to learn a new skill and to learn something
Speaker:new. Try out something new in your business. Get someone to
Speaker:look at it and give you some fresh ideas. It may be that you've been
Speaker:working with your head down. In fact, you could even have been bearing your head
Speaker:in the stand about things going wrong, and you've not been looking
Speaker:around, you've fallen behind on where the market is going, what your
Speaker:competitors are doing, they're getting ahead of you now Because they're trying
Speaker:new things, there's no point sticking your head in the sand about
Speaker:it. You've gotta try new things. You've also gotta keep up to date
Speaker:with what's happening. It may be that Instagram as a social
Speaker:media marketing platform used to be fantastic for you. But if
Speaker:your audience have now gone over to TikTok, Maybe now is
Speaker:the time to invest in a course to teach you how to use
Speaker:TikTok to try out that platform. There's no point
Speaker:hoping That if you carry on doing what you've always done,
Speaker:that somehow it will get better because it won't. So now
Speaker:is the time to start investing in yourself. So how can
Speaker:you do that? Where do you even start? There are so many
Speaker:trainings, online courses, Coaching programs,
Speaker:group coaching programs, 1 to 1 mentoring,
Speaker:conferences that you could be going to. You could spend a fortune.
Speaker:Where do you even start with choosing what it is that you should
Speaker:invest in first? Because you could spend a fortune. And, also,
Speaker:as entrepreneurs, it's really easy to get distracted by the
Speaker:next shiny thing. Something pops up when it sounds like it's a
Speaker:fantastic thing to do, and next thing you know, you've invested in
Speaker:5 different courses, and you've not got the time to do any of them. We've
Speaker:all done it. Really, you could say it's a form of procrastination
Speaker:as well. Because if you are constantly
Speaker:buying lots of courses to do, but not never finishing any of
Speaker:them, never any of them. There's it's just pointless.
Speaker:There's just no reason to have bought them in the 1st place if you're not
Speaker:gonna invest in these things and actually take action on them.
Speaker:So firstly, if you're trying to decide where you need
Speaker:to invest in your personal development, look at where your
Speaker:weaknesses are, And look at what stage you're at in your
Speaker:business and what you most need help with in order to move
Speaker:on to the next step. For instance, if you're setting up a clothing brand, but
Speaker:you know nothing about garment production, you wouldn't sign up to a sales
Speaker:course or someone to teach you Instagram Reels. What
Speaker:you need is someone to mentor you through the steps in order to get your
Speaker:1st garments made. So don't get swayed by
Speaker:Adverts for Pinterest courses that you've spotted when you haven't
Speaker:even got your 1st product to sell. So think about what
Speaker:stage are you at And where do you most need the help? And what
Speaker:are your goals? What are your long term goal? So if your focus
Speaker:in the coming year is to increase your sales, what Gaps
Speaker:in your knowledge do you need to fill in order to achieve the
Speaker:goal of increasing your sales? Maybe your sales
Speaker:strategy is that you plan to do more in person events. So who
Speaker:can mentor you through that process of doing those in person
Speaker:events? Maybe someone that has done a lot of in person
Speaker:events before, has trodden that path, someone that can
Speaker:teach you face to face selling skills, or someone that can help
Speaker:you build your confidence to be able to do those events. Maybe it's someone
Speaker:that financially can help you out with the logistics of
Speaker:how to ensure that those events that you're doing are profitable.
Speaker:Or maybe the goal is increase sales,
Speaker:but to hire a salesperson to do those events
Speaker:for you. In that case, maybe you need to learn
Speaker:about Hiring people and team development and building a
Speaker:team or maybe some training or advice that can help you
Speaker:To hire the best sales team that's out there,
Speaker:to think about what it is that you most want to achieve. Don't
Speaker:be distracted if you see a course and you think it looks great if
Speaker:it's not what you need right now. Park it. It
Speaker:will always come back round again, or something similar will be
Speaker:available. Make a note of it, but make sure what you do
Speaker:sign up for is something you really need and that you can truly
Speaker:commit to. So talking of committing, one of the biggest challenges that
Speaker:many people find When it comes to investing in their
Speaker:own personal development and for their business,
Speaker:is finding the time in order to commit
Speaker:to properly doing the thing that they've signed up for.
Speaker:It's all too easy to get Bogged down in the day to day
Speaker:running of your business and to think that you can't find
Speaker:the time for any form of personal development. Having been through
Speaker:this myself many times, I would say it's well
Speaker:worth making sure you do find that time, that you
Speaker:do carve out the time Specifically, to work
Speaker:on growing your business and to work on yourself and
Speaker:how you as the business leader are gonna grow the business. So my
Speaker:advice for this is it is always possible to
Speaker:find the time. I've done it in the past by getting up 2
Speaker:hours earlier and working on the courses or the
Speaker:programs that I'm in before I start work for the day.
Speaker:Or set aside a day a month specifically to work on
Speaker:training and self development. It's all too easy to say, oh, I haven't got
Speaker:time to do it today. So just block it out in your calendar and
Speaker:make sure you do find the time. Pretty much everyone that
Speaker:I'm mentoring at the moment has got a lot of other things going on.
Speaker:They're either working full time in their business. They might be a
Speaker:solopreneur. They haven't even got any team members to help them, Or
Speaker:they're already working on another business, and they're starting up something
Speaker:new, or they've got a full time or part time job, or they've
Speaker:got A busy family life or, sick
Speaker:parents that they need to look after, but they all make sure they find
Speaker:the time to learn new skills and to invest themselves.
Speaker:Because if you don't carve out the time to invest in yourself and your business,
Speaker:then you're pretty soon Gonna find yourself out of business.
Speaker:It's a false economy not to do it. Are there
Speaker:some other things that you do that Take up your time that you
Speaker:could forego for a bit, like watching the telly or scrolling on
Speaker:Instagram, that you could forego in order to find the
Speaker:time for some personal development. What I've done that I'd highly
Speaker:recommend is you do an audit of your time over a typical week
Speaker:to see exactly how you do spend your time. What you'll
Speaker:find is you'll be really surprised at how much time you're spending on
Speaker:some of those things that aren't really moving the needle in your business
Speaker:or aren't really helping you with your plans to launch a business.
Speaker:So now that you've found the time, the other barrier
Speaker:That gets in the way of entrepreneurs investing in themselves
Speaker:is money, cash flow. Maybe you
Speaker:shied away from investing in a course or a program or go into a
Speaker:training event because you were too scared to spend the money.
Speaker:So instead, you decided to wing it and learn something
Speaker:new For free. Now there's no doubt that with the
Speaker:Internet, YouTube, podcasts, you can learn a lot
Speaker:of stuff for free these days, But there's several drawbacks to
Speaker:that. Firstly, the sort of free training that you
Speaker:find online won't be tailored to your specific situation and
Speaker:problem. So you'll still need to figure a lot of it out, and,
Speaker:potentially, you're gonna make mistakes if you do that. And
Speaker:secondly, you're gonna be waiting through a whole load of info to
Speaker:actually get the results you need, which is fine if you've
Speaker:got tons of time on your But if you wanna achieve results
Speaker:quickly, you definitely get what you pay for if you sign up for
Speaker:someone to help you get there. So for instance, I've done 260
Speaker:odd episodes of this podcast. A 130 hours, I
Speaker:reckon that is, if you listen to all 260.
Speaker:You could probably learn most of what you needed to know to start or
Speaker:grow a British made brand if you listened to all 130
Speaker:hours' worth And you made copious notes. But you're not gonna get the
Speaker:same results or experience that you get if you buy one of my courses or
Speaker:sign up to my mentoring program just by listening to to
Speaker:all 260 episodes. Because when you pay for 1 of the
Speaker:courses offered to be in the program, the information is delivered in a
Speaker:specific order. And in the case of the mentoring program,
Speaker:it's highly targeted to your particular situation, your products that
Speaker:you're developing, and the goals that you've got for your business.
Speaker:Also, there's also definitely truth in the phrase, people
Speaker:that pay, pay attention. In other words, If you've
Speaker:spent money and you've invested in something, you're much more likely to
Speaker:take action. Hands up if, like me,
Speaker:you've signed up to a free course, Requested a free download
Speaker:or bookmarked a training video and then just left it to gather
Speaker:dust on the digital shelf. We've all done it. We've all
Speaker:downloaded something, think that sounds really useful because we didn't
Speaker:pay for it. We don't end up Actually, looking at the
Speaker:information and using it in our business. And that is one of the
Speaker:reasons why if you pay for something, you're much more
Speaker:likely to hold yourself accountable to get the return on
Speaker:that money that you've spent. Now if you think you're gonna find it hard To
Speaker:afford to invest in any form of personal development, put aside
Speaker:a small amount of money every month to save up for something in the
Speaker:future, Or ask if there's a way you could pay in installments
Speaker:rather than paying everything upfront. Think of investing in yourself
Speaker:as investing in your future and the long term future of your
Speaker:business. And remember, any new skills you learn, you're gonna have
Speaker:those for life, And you can continue to use them again and
Speaker:again. So the return on investment that you'll get
Speaker:if you Sign up for the right things or invest in the right form of
Speaker:personal development is gonna pay off dividends in the long
Speaker:run. So think of it in terms of the return on investment that you're gonna
Speaker:get in the long term, not just the short term. So if you've listened
Speaker:this far and you've decided now is the time to invest in yourself,
Speaker:Make sure that you do your research first so that you get the
Speaker:very best out of that investment in personal development.
Speaker:Find courses or coaching that's been recommended by someone you know
Speaker:or someone you admire. Look at reviews and testimonials so you can get
Speaker:some sort of idea of the results that have been achieved by others
Speaker:that have tread trod that path. Finding a mentor in particular can
Speaker:be a bit like finding a manufacturer. You need to find someone that
Speaker:you get on with, who's on the same wavelength as you and who
Speaker:gets you. And, also, make sure Any
Speaker:mentor or coach that you do sign up with has experience in
Speaker:the areas that you need help with most at this specific
Speaker:moment in time. So I hope you found this episode useful, a
Speaker:little bit different to the normal episodes, as I said. If you've
Speaker:got any experience of personal development, maybe you've taken a
Speaker:course. You've attended a training event. You've been in a
Speaker:mastermind. Something you found has really helped your business. I'd love to know
Speaker:what it is. If you're interested in finding out more about how we could work
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Speaker:the work with me link in the show notes of this podcast, and I will
Speaker:be in touch. So thanks once again for listening to this
Speaker:episode of the podcast, and I will be back again next
Speaker:week. Take care. Bye