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The Boostly Podcast

In the Mind of a Mentor: Conversations with Robin Waite the Fearless Business Coach

The Boostly Podcast

Mark Simpson

Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Business

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Boostly Podcast Episode 728. https://www.hostfully.com/boostly/ In this episode, we dive into the realms outside hospitality to bring insights from Robin Waite, a business coach, published author, and former agency owner. Waite shares his journey from systems analyst to successful entrepreneur and business coach, highlighting the key decisions that led him to sell his business and focus on coaching. He discusses the importance of overcoming fear and the impact of mindset on pricing and business growth, sharing insights from his book 'Take Your Shot' which details the transformation of a client's business through strategic advice. The episode also touches on productivity, emphasizing joy over discipline, and explores strategies for hospitality entrepreneurs to refresh or expand their business models in today's market. Insights from hosting platforms like Hostfully are shared to help listeners navigate challenges in the hospitality industry. The episode concludes with Waite's upcoming engagements and an encouragement for listeners to take bold steps in their business ventures. https://www.robinwaite.com/ https://Boostly.co.uk https://Boostly.co.uk/5steps https://instagram.com/boostlyuk https://Boostly.co.uk/podcast

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0:13.2

From time to time in the podcast we like to go out of the world of hospitality and drag an expert in to share their knowledge because it's always always good to dip out because when you dip out is when you learn some cool stuff and you can bring it back.

0:20.5

Today is no different. So I've known this chap for quite a while. We've been in Facebook groups together. He is a business coach. He is an ex website designer, had an agency, sold it, took a

0:26.6

chill out and now is coaching. But he's a published author. He did a video last year

0:32.3

with Ali Abdel, who was a fantastic

0:34.5

you chuber that went just bananas it had over 200,000 views and that's why

0:39.2

I rekindled and just sort of restarted chatting to him after that

0:42.0

so I said oh you're not Ali's challenge I love Ali yada yada yada yada and just

0:45.0

I was like, hey, you're an out, Alice Chalong, I love Ali, yada, yada, and then he told me about the book and the speaking events, and I was just like,

0:48.0

hey, do you want to come on the podcast?

0:50.0

Because this would be cool.

0:51.0

And I really focused on three important questions about hospitality, about

0:56.4

productivity and everything else in in between. He did also give me a link to a free

1:01.9

book but you have to watch the full duration of this

1:04.9

to find out the link for that free book.

1:07.7

So without further ado, can you please please please make sure that you drop in the comments

1:12.4

and say and show Robin some love

1:15.2

wherever you're tuning in from this Mr Robin way. Yeah so I've always had an interest in

1:18.9

business like right from the early years and I won't bore everybody by going

1:22.2

sort of way all the way back but the short version of it is

1:26.2

I was a systems analyst for several years at a company and learn everything about

1:31.5

that I liked about business but also learn everything about how not to run a business and did that stupid thing that you do as a sort of naive 21 year old thinking well I can do it better so set on my first business in 2004 which was doing

1:45.2

marketing primarily so we did web design and branding and we heavily productized those

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