The Disruptive Entrepreneur

Are you a content creator and wondering how you can elevate your content to make it great? Discover today Rob’s unique formula for creating really great content by following the 3 ‘E’s’. Learn how by offering educational, entertaining and emotional content you can create a loyal and engaged fan base.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  Really good content needs to include documentation, controversy and knowledge as well as knowing what your markets want, the pains and problems your niche has and the deep routed challenges your clients face. Whilst this creates good content, it does not necessarily create the great content that the three E’s can.   The first ‘E’ is ‘Education’. Any content that teaches shows or guides the audience in some way is educational. The content may offer the audience an epiphany which resonates with the audience. You can always fall back on teaching them something surprising and new that perhaps they hadn’t thought of before.    Secondly, your content must be ‘Entertaining.’ People love to be ente

The lockdown has caused many frustrating things to happen, and today Rob discusses one of the most infuriating things to happen in the business world since before lockdown. Many people have been criticising small businesses for promoting their services during the pandemic. Rob discusses why stopping the promotion of these businesses would have an even bigger detrimental impact on the economy and how you can help support other entrepreneurs.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  Something frustrating that has been happening online since the lockdown began, is people who use their platforms to slate millionaires, billionaires and entrepreneurs. Many people vented online that they believed that it was unacceptable for people to be selling during the lockdown as people were dying. This attitude is not how you get out of a recession, if the economy stops, then the world stops.    Without small businesses and entrepreneurs, there would be no economy. Virtually all of the public sector is funded by the private sector. As entrepreneu

In this special episode of The Disruptive Entrepreneur, Rob interview Philip Witcomb, ‘The Secret Son Of Pablo Escobar’. In this compelling and revealing interview, Rob and Philip discuss his extraordinary upbringing, the extreme circumstances Philip found himself in and the lessons he learnt along the way. In this enthralling interview, discover a unique story from the secret son of the world’s most famous and influential drug lord’s.   KEY TAKEAWAYS There were a set of circumstances happening in Colombia, whereby Pablo Escobar was getting himself into trouble (to put it mildly). At the same time in Madrid, Phillip’s adopted father was unwell. This culmination of circumstances led his adopted father to come clean and tell Phillip the truth about his real father. Initially, he told Phillip of his own life and then he began answering some of Phillips unanswered questions from his childhood. When it was revealed to him who his real father was, Phillip was unaware of who Pablo Escobar was, and his life in Colo

Understand what drives a world-renowned entrepreneur, author and mentor to succeed as Rob answers quick fire questions. Rob discusses his biggest successes, failures and ambitions for the future and dives into what he believes to be the meaning of life.   KEY TAKEAWAYS To be able to achieve success, you need to be able to face your demons, fears and rejection. When you solve a problem, your reward is a bigger one.   There are many great traits that make a successful entrepreneur. Three of these are someone who is able to readily adapt to change, their desire for growth and innovation as well as having a strong and meaningful connection with their customers and/or audience. Entrepreneurs also have their weaknesses, these can sometimes be identified as having a desire for so much variety that you change to much, having an inability to be bored as well as having a lack of desire for anything detailed or researched based.   In order to combat some difficult times, and possible disruption to your sleeping pa

Recently there has been an influx of business influencers encouraging people to take ‘No Days Off’. Today, Rob tells you why that is no good and is, in fact, counterproductive. Learn how to focus your time on your income generating tasks, why rest and recuperation will help you empty your mind and how this will help you think of your greatest ideas.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Do not get sucked into the ‘no days off’ mentality. Do you want to have no days off and have a successful company, but have no other things in your life? In the early days of setting up your company if you do not yet have money, reach or experience then your main resource is to outwork your competitors. However, you still need to take days off, even if just to empty your mind to allow new ideas to come in.   New ideas come when your mind is empty. Having people follow the ‘no days off’ mentality is filling up their mind with loads of ‘stuff’ and allowing them to think that that is how you create good ideas and solutions when it is the opposite.

Learn today some of the biggest business secrets from a successful entrepreneur, best-selling author and motivational speaker Jeff Hoffman. Tune in today and listen as Rob and Jeff discuss how businesses are overcoming challenges in the aftermath of the pandemic, how entrepreneurs should be constantly looking for new opportunities and why it is important to surround yourself with people who are smarter than you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Many businesses both large and small are facing huge challenges in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Larger businesses have begun to slim down their operations which should result in cost reductions for the company. The pandemic has offered a time of reinvention for many businesses, it is an opportunity to reinvent your business to take advantage of ‘the new normal’.   Disruption and chaos should be the alarm clock for an entrepreneur. When disruption and chaos happen, that alarm should have you just out of bed and look at the opportunities everywhere. Big companies that have

“Many people can be successful for a short time but not everybody can be successful for a lifetime” If you want to make your success last you your entire lifetime, then listen in to today’s podcast as Rob discusses the three traits you need to have in order to achieve this. Learn how discovering your purpose can set you on the right path as well as finding out the importance of clarity and courage.    KEY TAKEAWAYS  There is nothing more magnetic and attractive for you when it comes to achieving both your vision and mission than having a purpose. Other people in both your business life and private life are likely to be attracted to you and drawn to you if you have a clear purpose. Having a purpose is being undeniably on the right path to achieve your vision. It is clear to all those who encounter you that you are moving towards your purpose, with purpose and on purpose.    It is okay to not immediately know or recognise your own purpose. You will not wake up one morning with a sudden realisation or epiphan

How many hours a day do you actually spend doing deep-dive, productive work? Join Rob today as he details how many hours you actually need to work and how you can stop yourself getting distracted. Learn today how whilst you may think you are working for 8 hours a day, you are probably working far less than that, how entrepreneurs can productively work just 3-5 hours a day and how to stop yourself giving in to the urge of distraction.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Being a workaholic can be characterised as working for the sake of working or feeling like you have always got to and want to work. Workaholism can cause friendships, family connections and doing things that make you happy that aren’t reliant on external validation or progress to be sacrificed.   If you are usually at work for eight hours a day but are only doing deep-dive work for 20% of that time then this is called active procrastination. You are essentially convincing yourself that you are working when you’re not. This is as dangerous as passive procrastin

Discover what it means to be creative and innovative and how to discover your inner genius as Rob is joined by one of the UK’s most in-demand public speakers Ryan Pinnick. Together they discuss how we were all born to be innovative, how part of life is to discover our own individual gifts and talents and why there is no greater spiritual quality than dedicating your life to serving others.   KEY TAKEAWAYS We were born to innovate. If we look at the current state of the world today, it is clear that we need people to be innovative to come up with solutions for some serious problems. People underestimate their intuitive and imaginative ability to come up with solutions when they proactively want to or they have to. In the education system, we are told to follow a certain standard and to not make mistakes, innovation is about asking mistakes. It is no wonder most of the population are afraid of innovation.   Everybody has natural gifts and talents and part of our life is to discover what those are. Through t

Are you looking to expand your social media presence but wondering where to start? Join Rob in this new episode as he discusses how you can organically grow your social media platform. Learn the importance of ensuring you have profiles on each and every social media platform available, how to post consistent content as well as how to get the social media algorithms on your side.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Make sure you have active profiles on each of the available social media platforms. Whilst you may not spend a lot of your time on some of the channels so as to avoid spreading yourself too thin, you should have them all set up. The reason being is to appeal to a wide demographic of potential customers. Profiles on some platforms rank really well on Google, therefore the more social media accounts you set up, the higher you rank on Google.   Start posting consistent content on your favourite social media platform. You want to get steady and consistent on your main channels. Repurpose content across all your platfor

Have you lost your passion for business? Are you wondering how you can get your mojo in entrepreneurship back? Today Rob gives you his six top tips on how to get your mojo back and allow your business to keep thriving even during these difficult times. Rob discusses why having a clear vision can help you refocus, why it is important to remember why you started in the first place as well as the importance of surrounding yourself with empowering people. KEY TAKEAWAYS Have a clear vision, and then a mission to deliver that vision. When you are not really sure what it is you are doing and what your purpose as an entrepreneur is then you will become distracted, lost and left wondering why you are doing this. When you become lost, distracted or frustrated tune back into your vision and get back into that frequency which will help you get back on track.   Remember why you started your business in the first place. When you are doing your admin, managing everyone or things have been rocked during the lockdown, you

Are you struggling to keep up with the ever-evolving growth of social media and using it to market your business? Today Rob discusses how the use of social media has drastically changed the way we market our businesses. Learn how social media has allowed businesses to gain global reach, why it is important to create consistently high-quality content and how this can be repurposed for each of your channels. KEY TAKEAWAYS Advertising over the years has changed dramatically. Before the rise of social media, businesses were reliant on print, TV or radio media to help market their business. Companies would have to risk thousands of pounds in the hopes that somebody would call their number. Now you pay per click on platforms such as Google and Facebook. You are able to create your own daily budget depending on your marketing allocation.   The amount of reach a business can get has massively increased. In previous years the majority of business was local, whereas now all business has the ability to be global. So

Have you always thought that ‘confident ‘ people were just born that way? That it is something you either have or you don’t have? Rob tells you why confidence is not a thing and what it really is. Learn today how confidence is really just certainty in different areas of your life, how being uncertain in one area of your life should not transmit into another area, as well the importance of not allowing others to rock your confidence.   KEY TAKEAWAYS These identities that we place on ourselves are just our ways of making meaning of a very complicated world that is difficult to understand. In reality, you are not an introvert or an extrovert. You are either certain or uncertain. If you are certain about something then you will become it.   It is very important for you not to label what you think you are based on how you feel. Experiencing rejection or upset will rock your certainty, just because it rocks your certainty today doesn’t mean that that is now your reality. What happened to you today and how you f

Are you your own worst enemy? Do you constantly think of the worst-case scenario in every situation? Listen in today to understand why you need to stop this and why it is ruining your professional and personal life. Learn today how the doomsday mindset is something our mind automatically does to us, the importance of looking at the upside of your situation and why having the courage to be disliked can allow you to be free. KEY TAKEAWAYS One of the worst traits you can have as an entrepreneur, which will eventually end up ruining your business and possibly your life is ‘doomsday-ing’. This is the process whereby something happens to you and you immediately start thinking of the worst-case scenario. Many peoples’ brains go wild with fear and they begin ‘worst-case scenario-ing’ to the point where their thinking is extreme and unrealistic.   Nobody wants to have a doomsday mindset, it is something that our brain does to us. One way to stop your mind from going this is by busying yourself. Some people may ar

Discover today how to build your assets and business if you are starting from scratch. Listen in today as Rob discusses how creating a minimum viable product which is good and not perfect, can allow your business to evolve, how to utilise social media platforms as well as understanding why it is vital to create a personal brand.   KEY TAKEAWAYS When it comes to products and services where there are no strict health and safety regulations (unlike the aviation and medical industries) then you can create a product that is good enough. Creating a product or service that is good enough is better than having no product at all. Use the mantra ‘start now and get perfect later’.   Minimum viable products (MVP) can still be really good value, as long as you create the fair exchange price. Once you have created your product or service you then seek second, third and fourth-round feedback. Use this feedback to improve your product or service incrementally and then relaunch.   If you ensure that you are utilising so

Discover today what the one way to scale your business is. Listen today as Rob discusses how any business can use this technique to scale their business while maintaining a brilliant reputation in their market. Learn how to listen to your customers’ feedback, learning of your products' inadvertent problems and how solving these problems can allow you to scale your business to become the best in your market.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Your company needs to be able to listen to your clients’ complaints and therefore will need to learn how to solve these problems. Many companies do not necessarily mean to annoy you, they mean to serve you. However, there may still be inadvertent problems with the service. If you ignore these problems you are not serving your clients in the best way possible.   Figure out solutions to your customer’s problems and create a new version of your product or service which has overcome the inadvertent problem and then your customers will be grateful. Customers will be thankful and will continu

Have you always thought that to achieve freedom, you must get rid of all your responsibilities and accountability? Well, listen in to today's episode as Rob explains why responsibility actually equals freedom. Discover today how you can achieve freedom by learning to concentrate your thoughts and accept ridicule as well as focusing your mind on all the wonderful things you have in your life rather than focusing on the negatives.   KEY TAKEAWAYS When you are always looking for something, you are not free. Stop looking at the destination for freedom, stop looking at the people, lack of responsibility and lack of accountability. Your greatest sense of achievement usually happens as a result of doing something meaningful and challenging.   There are two things that freedom really is. Firstly it is the ability to concentrate your thoughts. Focus on the lessons, not the problems as well as focusing on what you are grateful for. This will create a shift in your awareness from scarcity to abundance. Secondly, fre

Have you ever reflected on your life journey and thought about the worst advice was that you have ever been given? Join Rob today as he looks back on some of the advice he has received on his business journey and how it turned out to be completely wrong. Find out today why it is sometimes important to give up on things that aren’t getting you anywhere in life, how good advice can actually become bad advice if given in the wrong context and why it is important to have multiple streams of income rather than focusing solely on one business model.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The advice “Never give up” is not always good advice. Sometimes in life, you have to give up things in order to move on. You need to give up things that aren’t working for you and the things you are holding onto as these are not necessarily things that are good for you. Never give up on your dreams and never give up on yourself but you should give up bad habits, triggers, bad investments and uncontrollable emotions.   Many people will say ‘ideas are

Discover today how identifying your uniqueness can set you apart in a saturated market. Join Rob today as he outlines how you can extract your own uniqueness by drawing on your own life experience, asking friends, family and previous clients why they think you’re unique and how you can use this to your advantage.   KEY TAKEAWAYS One reason why it is important to show your uniqueness is that it will differentiate you in a crowded market, and it will differentiate you from the rest. Secondly, being unique is great leverage and makes you memorable to your clients. The more memorable you are, the more reach you will gain for your business and thus your marketing costs will be lower. In order to extract your own uniqueness, you must first listen to what other people find different and unique about you. Use your social media resources to find out what people like about you and what they find unique about you. Use these answers to find out what people are consistently saying about your product or service that is u

Discover today how writing a book can be the best way to boost your credibility amongst your peers and customers. In today’s episode, Rob outlines how many entrepreneurs struggle to scale their business and create credibility within their niche market. Learn today how writing a book can change all that, why people will acknowledge your hard work with admiration and why a book can sell you better than you could ever sell yourself.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Many entrepreneurs struggle to scale their businesses as they are worried about their credibility and perhaps have inner conflict about how worthy they are in their niche in comparison to others. The best way to create credibility and show your consumers that you have knowledge within your niche is to write a book.   Writing a book is hard work. There is no shortcut to writing 150,000 words. There are many different genres of books you can write; it does not necessarily have to be specific to your business niche, it could perhaps be an autobiography or a fiction c