Escaping The Corporate World To Find Her Purpose - with Lisa O'Reilly

On a Mission Podcast

Ellie McKay

4.4 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Lisa O'Reilly has well and truly left the corporate world behind her 🔥

A former accountant, who defied conventional wisdom to leave the comfort and security of her well-paid job to turn her considerable skills towards the world of property investing instead. She’s not just growing an impressive portfolio of her own, but also helping others to gain financial freedom and a happier life as well and she is absolutely smashing it!

Lisa joins me to talk about the importance of wanting more when it comes to life, the places she finds motivation, the power of property investing and what it can allow you to achieve, and what led her to make the dramatic decision in life to leave the corporate arena behind in search of her own dreams of success.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

Society teaches us how to work, but it does not teach us how to excel in business. Those who want more and seek it out are known as entrepreneurs.
High-performance people always want to be the best version of themselves possible. This can appear as competitiveness, but it only the external display of the entrepreneurial spirit.
The corporate world is built around certain time of day being the most productive, but individuals don't always function at their best during these set hours. Entrepreneurs know when they are most productive, which pushes them towards seeking their own version of what a working day should look like.
The basic principles of property investing are known to most people, but we cannot hope to maximise our potential in the space until we equip ourselves with the education that allows us to utilise a greater number of strategies that aren't always common knowledge. Education is key when it comes to investing.

BEST MOMENTS

'I had an inbuilt motivation in me to be the best I could'

'I know now that I was a change agent'

'It's mad that we're still in that old fixed mindset of clock watching and hour watching'

'The property world is definitely not for the faint-hearted'

VALUABLE RESOURCES

On A Mission - https://omny.fm/shows/on-a-mission

Lisa O'Reilly LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-oreilly/

Lisa O'Reilly Instagram -https://instagram.com/lisa_oreilly_lor?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Lisa O'Reilly Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Lisaoreilly20

ABOUT THE HOST

The On A Mission Podcast brings you Ellie Mckay's no holds barred chats with some of the UK's top business leaders, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, top thought leaders, influencers and mindset experts.

On a Mission is for unconventional thinkers that want to challenge the status quo. For all those people on a mission to live their best lives and take control of their own destiny.

Ellie is a straight-talking, successful property entrepreneur who passionately believes that everyone has the power within themselves to transform their lives no matter what their situation.

As a mumpreneur with 3 young children and multiple businesses, Ellie likes to keep it real with her no-bs insights and share the things that have helped her achieve the level of success she has enjoyed to date.

CONTACT METHODS:

Website: http://www.elliemckay.com

Linkedin: Linkedin.com/in/ellie-mckay/

Facebook: Facebook.com/ellie.mckay.3150

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/onamissonpodcast/

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/EllieMckay

Clubhouse: @ellie83

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0:00.0	This week I am joined by the lovely Lisa O'Reilly. She's an absolute superstar. She's a mother
0:05.5	of two former chartered accountant who spent years in a very senior position working in finance
0:12.2	before she took to the entrepreneurial rollercoaster. She's a now a kick-ass property developer
0:19.2	and a trainer herself. I'll be lucky enough to meet Lisa in person. I was really impressed with
0:24.0	her own story and what she's achieved within a short amount of time. It's absolutely incredible
0:29.3	and it's a pleasure to have you with me today, Lisa. Thanks for having me. I'm delighted to be here.
0:34.4	Thank you for asking me. Oh, it's so exciting. So you're a reformed finance person.
0:41.8	Yeah, well for my sins. Yeah, no, I got into finance. I suppose me and my sister, there was only
0:48.4	kind of 30 months between us and she was a year ahead of me. So she decided to do a to do a
0:54.5	accountancy. So I had to do a accountancy then. So that's basically how I just fell into it.
0:59.4	You know, it was kind of like this competition all of our life and she did it. So I had to do it.
1:05.1	It's really funny because I in my previous life was a career advisor and I'm always fascinated
1:11.2	to hear the stories of how people got into their given profession. Like in my husband's case,
1:16.9	he went to see the school guidance counselor and the chat was literally, what does your dad do?
1:23.4	Oh, he's the electrician. Brilliant. What treat would you like to do?
1:27.4	I'll be in the electrician as well. Like there was no other options presented.
1:31.2	No, that was a big thing. I think in the past, wasn't it? You kind of just followed what,
1:34.8	you know, your parents would have done in the past. But I suppose I always like numbers.
1:40.1	I always like the whole kind of, you know, maths. I would love to do maths homework.
1:46.0	And yeah, when Gemma said she was doing it, I was like, that sounds like good for me. And then
1:52.2	she did like kind of, we did a degree or Gemma did a degree and she said, oh, I'm going to do
1:57.4	another year or to do the masters. And I said, well, if you're doing it, I'm doing it. So I did
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