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yes people it's Ted Lawler and welcome back to another episode of the If Only They Knew podcast today we're joined by0:06
our DTR founder of augmentin media who talks about the latest market and Trends and how to track your business's results0:13
so if you want to learn how to boost your business to the next level then this is the podcast for you0:20
they knew0:25
mahapatra and business and Andrews right now from Glasgow originally and what0:31
I've been up to the last uh last year as myself and my co-founder have been0:36
building augmented media which is an influencer marketing agency that is0:41
exclusively working with brands in the health and wellness space who were you0:46
before this like were you one of those people that were was born an entrepreneur as some people say or did0:53
you fall into this industry who who who were you before you started this business yes I mean I've been sitting at1:00
class myself as one of those early entrepreneurs the airless memory I've got of that actually it's quite funny I was1:07
in Tesco one time and then in the reduced style they had like literally 200 boxes I've just was very much1:14
chocolates that were down for like a pound 50 to like eight Pence nine Pence so I remember convincing my mom to grab1:20
everything on that aisle and then the next month I was like literally just adopted our salesman I went around every1:26
door I could find just saying it's for a school project um you know with different flavors this kind of stuff just selling it1:31
door-to-door so that's the airless recollection I've got I must have been about 12 13 maybe wow okay yes I'm most1:39
entrepreneurs do sort of start that route isn't it like what what what do you think it was that made you even1:45
think that because I know that even though I sort of count myself as an entrepreneur like I know at that age I1:51
wasn't really in that mindset like if I would have saw reduced chocolate I probably would have just nicked it anyway I wouldn't have been thinking1:58
about um selling it on so what'd you think gave you that little that little switch inside of you from an early age I was2:05
always quite I wouldn't say motivated but I was quite fascinated by money like everything would just kind of based2:11
around that so I just kind of saw as a chance if I can buy this like 10 pence and then like go around selling it at2:17
even 40. I can make myself a you know I tell you to be some and I'm not thinking you know profit and the bank Investments2:23
I'm thinking a bit of money combine your bike maybe get some sweet Sun have a tea take away this kind of stuff but I think2:29
it's just interesting that from an early age you know I saw chocolate and I'm thinking right how can I how can I profit off this do you think that is2:36
like I know you thought of you you mentioned it there like do you think some people2:41
are just whether they think they're born an entrepreneur or not do you think some people are born with that I guess it's a2:48
gift isn't it that that little thing like that like you said you you don't really know why you thought of it you2:54
just thought of it do you think you have to be born with that little spark inside you or how how do you think that that3:00
comes about I mean so Dee I've never really thought of myself as having any of those gifts that people are just born3:07
with but there are definitely some traits that make you know good entrepreneurs and to be honest I think3:14
that anyone that works hard at it can develop those traits for example a big3:19
thing and the industry obviously is just being really patient for results nothing's gonna happen overnight you3:25
know all of these businesses that people look at and think wow they've grown so fast it's actually been a long kind of3:31
work in the progress and this is where most business Founders they tail off they don't see immediate results and3:37
they think either one is not working I'm just gonna stop or they think two I'm gonna just switch to some of those3:43
completely and they just lose traction and start again and talking of of that traction what was it how did you go from3:51
the kid that saw the opportunity to sell sweets then that massive gap between then and then now what you do like how3:57
how what happened there what was the what was the things that sort of got you on on your journey yeah so it was a very4:04
kind of odd turn of events but it all started I was 15 and one of my passions4:10
was cricket so I've been playing for a few years and then I had to call up I was 15 years old to be part of the4:17
Scotland under 15 Squad so I was playing there and I thought you know what I'm4:23
actually loving this is something that I want to take further I want to do this for a living and at that stage you're4:28
thinking for me to kind of live up the gears progress the big thing to focus on is Fitness Nutrition recovery just4:35
improving yourself in every aspect so I made a really conscious effort to focus on that4:42
um I remember you know Friday night be in the gym whatever eating healthy and it did work you know we saw great4:47
results uh played under 15 under 17 and then after that I got quite a bad injury4:54
never quite made it back but the habits that I formed you know lasted with me until now and it was from that that I5:01
thought I want to give something back to this health and wellness space and throughout all this uh my well the5:07
person that's now my co-founder sambov we had met in the under 15 squads developed a really great friendship over5:13
these shared interests and we thought yeah so we wanted something that is directly in this space working with all5:20
these people and trying the impact that the space had on us it'd be great if we could help other people5:25
experience the same impact and this was the time I think it was late 2021 it was5:31
this time that the Creator economy was starting to pop off it was when kind of uh Jake Paul and both Logan Paul story5:38
and KSI their performance Prime and we saw just how powerful it was when these people that had a social media audience5:45
that influence on social media they were launching brands in completely different spaces but because of this you know5:51
passionate audience that built up they were able to just take that brand from A to Z really really quickly and we5:57
thought you know there's a gap in this market there's no kind of there's no influence in marketing agency that's6:04
working exclusively with health and wellness Brands and this is actually quite a big problem because as a brand6:10
you don't want to just work with any old agency you want to work with someone that understands your mission you know6:16
understand your ethos they get why you're doing what you're doing and they also share your passion for essentially6:22
making the world a healthier place So after talking to kind of lots of brands in the space we noticed that6:28
there's no other agency doing this and we just saw it as being a perfect Market fit with our passion and experience in6:35
the space so you said there you had a you had a passion for the the health before any of this right you had the6:41
passion for the the science and the reasons why and and the nutrition behind everything is that right yeah so6:48
essentially between the years of me being 15 and I guess 17 18 I turned into6:53
a bit of a geek for all this in terms of like the whole Fitness aspects uh you know exercises in the gym7:00
um because I was obviously doing Cricket so functional movements how you can get faster stronger fitter things off the7:07
pitch for example you know what I should be eating to become one of those top performing athletes and then the mindset7:13
aspects of it whether it's meditation whether it's mindfulness goal setting I7:19
just kind of became really really committed to improving in all these spaces and then when the tracker thing7:25
didn't work out I thought I really have enjoyed all these side benefits so how can I take this passion7:31
online and actually make it a business and make a living off of it if it's not playing Cricket yeah how important do7:38
you think it is for people to tap into that passion because I see a lot of people that let's face it they don't7:43
they don't like their their day jobs and and I guess if I had to guess the main reason probably for that is because it's7:50
not related to their passion at all so how important do you think it is for young people especially to tap into that7:56
passion I think it's probably the single most important thing that they can have in life because if you're working on8:03
something that frankly you don't really give a about then honestly it's just not going to work for you I mean8:09
there have been times when me and Samba for what's you know 12 30 in our days but it's not really felt like work8:15
because you're working with something you're passionate about and you're just so focused on making the vision that8:21
you've got you're so focused and making it a reality that you just stop looking at the clock and it's just the case of8:26
how can I get this done and then once that's done it's you know what's next and how is that helping us grow so you8:33
know as a kid actually I always wanted to go into Investment Banking and then over the last two or three years you8:39
know you realize more about doing this for I just just want to make money get rich but actually is the passion there8:45
for that and for me the answer it was just no it's not yeah no I get that and and talking of like the workload I'm a8:52
writing saying shortly after setting this up the the company up you went into uni is that right yeah yeah that's right8:58
so I set the company up when I was in the the latter stages of S6 at school so9:06
then I moved to University and obviously workloaded University taking a part-time9:11
job at University as well to fund the business and just fund daily living costs and then the business of course9:18
itself going to the gym has been a struggle balancing all of this but you9:23
know it's just one of those things that you have to get done and just keep moving with it and just quickly as well I forgot to mention obviously where you9:29
grew up and you mentioned school there was there much of an influence or role9:34
models for you that was anyone else doing this sort of thing or was you was you sort of one of the only ones trying9:40
to pursue an entrepreneurial path I think in my school certainly in my year9:45
I was the only one but because I had my co-founder who was in quite a similar9:51
position he also went to a nearby school and was in a similar position because we9:57
had each other it didn't feel like much of the time and then building off this and building off you know what it just10:03
mentioned our Focus early on was definitely getting into the right Network because what your network is10:09
especially starting out it can be everything and honestly I don't think would still be going if it wasn't for10:15
the network we managed to build up uh quite early on you know you mentioned school10:21
um there was a person two years above me uh certain mean he'd built up a similar10:26
agency in the space thing influencer marketing so I reached out to sir I was like you know I'd love to just chat with10:32
you for you know 10 15 minutes sometimes picked at a 10 minute call went on for about an hour and a half and by the end10:38
of it you know but kind of found ourselves a mentor there it's done everything we've done and was happy to10:43
share the experience and pass on the knowledge they've gained I I laughed then um I don't know whether you know10:49
like I know I know Sue hit so that that was quite that's who I was thinking of because I know obviously you're both10:54
from the same area I should have known each other um but yeah that made me think like it's11:00
quite surreal that that happened that connection but it also shows the importance of showing up like and and11:07
documenting a journey as well because if if super hit wasn't documenting his11:12
journey you may never have known what he was up to and it makes sort of not11:18
necessarily past the Baton down but you get what I'm saying right like it may never have sort of sparked in you to to11:23
ask for advice and then help you get to where you are now so people in a couple years time or perhaps now are actually11:30
probably watching you and you'll have the same impact that had on you and then it would just be like11:37
I mean that that's definitely the the power of building a brand in public I11:43
mean it's often a fine line between kind of you know talking too much about your own exploits but then what I've realized11:50
is that people are genuinely interested in what you're doing they're curious to kind of follow your progress uh your11:56
goals Etc and if you're building a brand in public and the key thing is to make sure you're sharing kind of the wins as12:03
well as the losses it means that people that are in a similar stage of development as you can look at it and12:08
think that they're not allowed in what they're doing there are other people out there that they can reach out to for12:14
support to have as part of their Network and it's quite a key it was definitely a key in our growth and you know it's nice12:20
to think that someday we might be able to have the same influence as someone that suits and Rob with Mack Isaac and12:27
other men to remind that they've had on us and and talking about the actual uh practical steps like how did you get12:34
started then like once you had sort of understood as a market you wanted to get in to you you've got a bit of advice12:39
what were some of the Practical steps say to like get your first client like how did that work yeah I mean of course12:45
the first month to be honest there was no no effort to get clients at all which12:50
was mainly because for us we wanted to understand absolutely everything about the space so that meant literally just12:57
consuming content on influencer marketing Creator economy making sure that before we spoke to clients we knew13:03
exactly what we were doing and then the second part of that was actually just having lots of Zoom calls Google meets13:11
um just discussions with Brands and the space that would be you know future prospects not to try and sign them but13:17
just to understand is there really a demand for what we're doing because when you're starting a business the most important thing is validating13:24
that customer demand because you can it's fine to you know set up a business form the company get a website Etc and13:31
then you realize actually no one wants to buy your service so the key thing for us at first was making sure all these13:37
Brands uh they actually needed us and the solution that we could offer them was one that they'd be interested in13:42
going for yeah no I love that I love that you've done it that way because a lot of people do it the opposite way they and so I've been dealt with this in13:49
the past like because I'm like my background's more marketing I enjoy building the website and building the13:56
fires and building all this like the emails and stuff so I do all of that I do all the promotion before I've even14:02
got the product so I'm glad you do it did it that way um do you have any14:08
do you have any regrets or thoughts on the way that you did it would you go back and change change that process14:14
because it seems like like I said it seems like you've done it like the perfect way I guess to be honest we did14:20
go about the rate we're doing and of course that was because from the start we had kind of mentors in place for14:26
advising us at every stage of the process so once we've done this Market validation again returned to them and it14:32
was you know one of the steps that we now need to take to find clients and then the answers there were one14:38
obviously we spoke about building a brands in public the extension of that is using that public and you know14:45
personal Brands to actually find clients in the space so what we started doing was posting content on marketing14:52
influence and marketing health and wellness four or five times a week on LinkedIn and just attracting our Target14:58
Market on there you know health and wellness Brands we were trying to reach all the key decision makers and kind of15:04
impress them with our content and then have them coming to us as inbound leads them we could then not try and convert15:10
over time and then the second part of this was going to all the kind of trade shows and events so we went to Ife in15:17
March of 2022 and we must have spoke about a thousand health and wellness15:22
Brands there over the course of four or five days and you know from that it was just further learned that there was a15:28
demand for us and you know got a lot of prospects out of it as well it's good to hear that you did it that way you put in15:34
the hard work because a lot of people especially young people given the15:39
generation as well right of of everything instant gratification you go on Tick Tock yeah instant a lot of15:46
people want to put out content but they don't want to put out free content they want to yeah they want15:52
to get paid for it like well I put in a few hours making this content so I should get paid for it whereas what15:58
you're saying I guess is no you put in the few hours yeah that's the best way to do it it doesn't mean that you have16:05
to sort of pay for it let it go out let it go out for free and you'll generate more value and more leads that way I16:12
guess absolutely I mean I think you've hit the nail in the heads with the kind of instant gratification idea but the16:18
thing is you know in the long term especially for you to build a business that is successful16:24
the first few months are not going to bring you you know instant rewards and instant gratification it's more a case16:30
of building a solid kind of foundation a solid base that then after that everything you do is just adding to it16:36
rather than you know kind of building the base as you go and for us with the content our thought process was if we're16:43
giving out all this free advice to Brands all this kind of free value then from their perspective their thinking if16:49
these guys are posting this stuff for free then just imagine what I could get if I actually work with them on a paid16:54
capacity and that's what's kind of held through for us even till now yeah I love that and talking about giving out stuff17:01
for free I'm a writing saying part of the work you do for the client or part of the ideas that you you come up with17:07
and you create one of those ideas was like to to give out free drinks to influencers is that part of of what you17:14
do how does that work yeah so essentially um I think what you're mentioning there is one of our campaign strategies and17:21
that is influencer seating and you know the term has became increasingly popular in the space now and that's because with17:29
especially the the recession kind of coming the big Focus right now at an influencer marketing campaigns and17:34
marketing in general is running campaigns that are authentic and genuine and by this what I mean is if you go to17:41
influencer tomorrow and say you know what I'll give you two grand just make some posts with my products just you17:48
know highlight these aspects of it that's not a very authentic campaign you've told them what to post and they're not really getting their own17:54
message across and the thing is to that influencer's audience this will be so clear so you're not going to see results18:01
from it whereas what we have been doing for the past few months is running seating campaigns where brands are18:07
sending out products to influencers uh no strings attached so the influencer doesn't need to post a return18:14
but what we're doing there is tracking how the influencers engage with it whether they're you know because if18:19
they're putting out content just like that it means that they're truly engaging with the brand and truly buy against their mission and is these18:26
influencers that we then look to Target on the long-term paid capacity basis and talking of that strategy there are like18:32
they're only are there any other strategies that you can talk about like obviously without giving your whole18:37
entire business model away but like other other strategies that companies or18:43
even personal Brands out there um Can Implement because some of the things I've heard over the past year are18:50
like micro influencers are more important yeah personal brand building a community are they still things that are18:57
in place or have they died out as well what's the lands yeah these are all very much in place and the the shift that19:03
we're seeing to working with all these micro Nano influencers is definitely a trend that's going to remain very19:09
relevant in 2023 and again that's just building on the trust and authenticity19:14
aspects as well as engagement because these micro influencers and animal influencers they've been able to build19:21
very close to net communities their followers are you know very close to them close to heart and it's because of19:27
this that these guys they really Drive conversions and as well as this they can be instrumental for Brands to build that19:35
close to that community that kind of passionate audience that will really engage with their products and you know19:41
it's just something that we're going to see a lot more of going forward as well into the year and talking of uh small influences in19:49
terms of seeing results or clients that are easy is to work with is it easier to work19:56
with a smaller client with untapped potential or is it easier or better to20:02
work with a bigger client that already has eyes on the brand like because I know there's that sort of balance you20:07
you the bigger brands have the audience already but it may mean that there is the change may be quite small whereas20:14
the small brands are fresh so it's a whole fresh canvas isn't it so yeah what's your take on that what who's20:20
better or easier to work with yeah I mean that's a great question and obviously we've been able to work at20:26
both ends of the spectrum when we started off the focus was on working with smaller Brands and really building20:32
up case studies testimonials and then recently we've been able to scale to working with big eight figure brands for20:39
example Hunter and gather be brought on are valued at I think you know 8.1 million or something crazy like that so20:45
you know they were a big big client for us um I think in terms of working with them20:51
the main thing for us and it doesn't really come down to the size of the brands but what we've seen20:57
is some brands are just a lot more Hands-On which is great in terms of communication and showing an actual21:03
interest and passion for you know what we're doing for them the best clients we've worked with for example one of our21:09
very first clients they were a startup but because of this their founder he was you know every day if we thanked him21:16
he'd be replying fairly uh quickly anyway showing an act of interest every week and what we were doing the results21:22
were bringing uh ideas for how we could scale you know with him he was very Hands-On with that whereas some other21:29
brands we've worked with it's more just a case of you know leaving at SARS which is fine but then if we want to run21:35
something uh past them and they're taking you know a week two weeks to reply it's not very practical for us to21:41
then scale the campaign and keep going with momentum and speeds and talking of of the results that like how easy is it21:47
to track results because like I said I come from a marketing background as well and sometimes it's hard to sort of21:54
attribute certain acts to certain results because you may put out like say this podcast I may say wow this podcast22:01
amazing I'm going to put it out and then someone owes and buys one of my caps and it's like yeah sometimes it's not easy22:07
to track say well this person watch the podcast then went away on a friend's computer and then bought my cap like22:13
it's so hot sort of like attribute those things so yeah how do you go about tracking results yeah so dragon's22:20
definitely an aspect that many Brands struggle with so what we've kind of done over time is we've built in kind of22:27
tracking materials and resources we can use for example with seeding campaigns we've got a kind of custom spreadsheet22:35
that has every influencer and then we've got automations in place so that if any influencer post content it automatically22:42
logs into the spreadsheet and then it has links to the content as well for Brands to view and then with kind of22:48
more paid campaigns the big thing there for us is using affiliate codes UTM22:53
links all these methods of tracking to ensure that effort influencer is driving sales then we can attribute that to the23:00
influencer because otherwise not just from a Brand's Roi perspective but for23:05
us looking to go forward we need to know which influencers are performing best so that we can put more budget into their23:12
spend and also find influencers who have similar audiences and similar23:17
characteristics because they're more likely to perform better so for this obviously we need to be able to see23:22
which influencers are driving the the higher wise yeah none of that makes sense and you sort of mention it there23:28
about assigning budgets is is marketing almost like a pay-to-play landscape23:37
um because it's something I've been thinking about a lot some of my other guests they've mentioned some of the things they've done in terms of going23:44
viral with with content that's like completely free like one one person23:49
Keelan he's got a company called brownies and I say brownies because that's the that's the name of it that23:55
isn't my list or anything like that um yeah he's got a brownie company um and what he done he put out like a24:01
post saying that he he made a brownies McFlurry and that went viral on LinkedIn24:06
and he got hundreds and hundreds of messages and that was obviously all free so what's your thoughts on that is24:12
marketing a pay-to-play aspect and how much can you do for free24:18
yeah I mean great question but you know what we like to tell clients is that you can actually get involved with very24:24
little or no budget at all for example the great thing about influencer seating is that you're not paying influencers so24:30
it's very easy to get started especially on a kind of low scale um you know start because all your all24:38
your costs are essentially as whatever your manufacturing cost was and I think you know like you're mentioning there24:44
about the tech talk what we are seeing now is an attention economy moving into 2023 and what I mean by this is that24:52
consumer attention is very scarce it's very limited but Brands keep on putting out content there are new brands coming24:58
in every single day and what this means for Brands is that they need to be making a conscious effort to gain25:04
attention and hold on to it you know some great ways of doing this are short form content like you mentioned Tech25:10
talk and then also the other one that we are quite big on Brands using is user25:16
generated content and simply this is is just content which is made by the users of a brand so from the seating campaign25:23
for example if you send across product influencers and then they are reposting25:28
it or making views with it this kind of content is proven to perform so much better because as a consumer you would25:36
rather see another consumer sharing and documenting their experiences with the brands rather than just a video of a25:42
brand saying to you this is our products this is what it does etc etc you want to see exactly how someone that was once in25:50
your place how they're benefiting from it and that's that's really useful for for myself and my audience as well I imagine25:57
in in terms of other strategies like what would you suggest so26:03
for for smaller Brands and perhaps perhaps a bit of a left-filled one but like for personal Brands who may not26:09
have a physical product to to to send out to people say like what platforms26:14
what processes do you think they should be doing is it like sort of like you mentioned there about Tick Tock and reels is it just putting out content26:21
content content yeah I mean I think it's definitely a mix when it comes to Quality and quantity but like you've26:29
mentioned especially for a personal plan going forwards this year I think the short form content space will be massive26:35
it's something that you know myself I'm looking to start rolling out more and more but the thing a bit short from26:41
content is you know it's not very long it captivates attention and people can26:46
flick through it really easily so because of this um you can re-watch a certain piece of content a lot of times and then on Tech26:53
talk especially the algorithm just kind of shoots that to the top so I think for anyone looking to make a personal brand27:00
short form content is a must and then if you're looking to build a brand from what kind of business reasons or27:07
entrepreneurship reasons platforms such as LinkedIn are where you need to be uh just kind of posting value on there you27:14
know whatever your target audience is you need to think what kind of problems will my target audience be experiencing27:20
and how can I solve them so for example what we've done at the start of this year was had conversations with bigger27:27
brands in our space uh seven figure eight figure Brands and we spoke to them saying what problems are you guys27:33
worried about in 2023 and what goals do you have in 2023 and based off their27:38
responses to this we formulated our content strategy which was designed to essentially Target these problems so27:45
that anyone seeing our content uh they kind of knew how we could help them and what problems we could tell themselves I27:53
love that and talking to content you're definitely making this easy for me like the way you speak is so accurate and27:59
precise like I understand exactly what you're saying so these these will make really good Clips to go out online as28:04
well so thank you um the final few things like let's do a28:10
quick fire around if you don't mind yeah of course the first quick fire question what would your one piece of advice be28:16
for young entrepreneurs honestly what cards like it can be very tempting sometimes to you know just have lazy28:23
days and that's fine have have one but the main thing is you need to build momentum so just try and strain together28:30
things like if you are focusing on going to the gym every day for example try and string together two and then three and28:36
then four and then once you've built that momentum it's just so much easier to carry on with it so whether it's28:41
meditation whether it's going for a code dip in the sea or a cold plugs like I said that you've been doing the main28:47
thing is uh consistency with it just make it a habit to do it every single day and then don't look back after it28:53
yeah I love that and I'm glad you uh called me out on that because yeah that's definitely something I've I've been trying to do as well just show up29:00
every day and if you've got to take one day off do it but then come back the next day absolutely yeah I loved it29:06
um the second one who are some of your favorite favorite creators or entrepreneurs out there at the moment29:13
um I know you said you was on LinkedIn so I don't know whether you've seen anyone in particular on LinkedIn but yeah who are some of your favorite29:20
um creators and entrepreneurs yes in terms of entrepreneurs the motor role29:25
models are absolute Inspirations to me so that would be so I mean obviously we spoke about and he's basically built up29:32
a seven-figure agency in our space and then the other one is Robbie mcisaac who basically I met him through a summit but29:39
his mindset and his kind of Drive the termination to work well is something that's played a big part in me kind of29:45
having the same attributes and I'd say to any other young entrepreneur out there your mindset is basically what's29:52
going to make a break the dream for you because you need to be able to put a long days of hard work you need to be able to just get done even when you29:59
don't want to do it and honestly Robbie's you know one of the best people for that in fact it was on Dragon's Den30:05
like you know two or three days ago and last night actually it was on Dragon's Den so incredibly proud of him for that30:11
that's amazing I'm gonna check that out I think I may have seen a little clip on yeah earlier so I'm gonna I'm gonna30:16
definitely check out that absolutely oh that's amazing um is there anyone you sort of touched30:21
on it there is there anyone you'd like to thank I guess those would be the two right yeah I mean the big one that I've30:27
not mentioned yet but obviously have to be my parents I mean I'm very very fortunate that my parents30:34
are so kind of supportive of what I'm doing um my mom especially is just even with30:40
the cricket stuff when I was 15 I was playing for Scotland so I was you know going halfway across the country and you30:46
know my mom would just be like yeah let's find out I'll drive you no problem so two or three hour Journey should certain way they will a play come back30:52
and then even when it comes to just basic stuff for example I'd go to the gym come home you know nice hot meal was31:00
ready chicken rice she doesn't even eat chicken but because I wanted it for the nutrition she was31:05
like yes that's fine I'll cook it for you so yeah I mean they played a massive part in this and then my co-founder31:11
samboth like I cannot I couldn't be doing this alone to be honest and I guess that just goes to say to everyone31:17
else out there that's looking to start uh having the right co-founder can be what makes or breaks it for you as well31:23
because the Ruby days where you just can't work you're just you know not31:28
feeling it at all and then having a co-founder there to either help you out or just push you on Spar you or motivate31:34
you it is literally one of the the biggest benefits that you can have in a business and finding the the right31:40
co-founder is I think it's crucial yeah no 100 I agree with that one without my co-founder and one of my other31:46
businesses I would have quit a long time ago you just need someone to keep you accountable to check in at 100 yeah31:54
and what a couple last Quick buyers what what's one thing you wish you knew at an32:01
earlier stage obvious see my show is called If Only They knew so that's a question I think about a lot so what's32:07
one thing you wish you knew I mean I mean sometimes I wish there had been more clear than earlier on about the32:12
whole kind of discipline and perseverance aspects like over the last year I've been reading a lot of seller32:18
development books and sometimes I just wish that it got started earlier for anyone that's looking to do this is very32:25
easy like even simple books such as you know Seven Habits of Highly Effective People or mindset by carlswick these are32:32
all great books for error looking to start out in the space and just keep on building from there because what I found32:38
is that instead of making mistakes yourself and learning from them if you can just read and consume as much32:45
knowledge as you can you'll learn from the mistakes of others and you just won't repeat them yeah no 100 I agree32:50
with that one as well I've agreed with everything you've said so far um the last last couple what is the32:57
meaning of life to you now this is a question that's thrown a few people off so far in this season but yeah that's a33:03
deep question um for me it's definitely not something33:09
that I've you know sat and thought about but at the moment I guess looking back33:15
in 10 years time I'd have wanted to make this a successful business and then oh honestly I'd love to just have something33:21
that positively impacts people so whether they're starting a health awareness brand of my own something that33:27
we're very very passionate about right now is just kind of giving back so we've got plans in place to run some charity33:33
events and kind of increase the impacts we're having whether that is working with some Charities on a kind of pro33:39
bono basis stuff like that we're very keen to look into doing that as well I33:45
mean I know everyone says this but I think at the end of the day we all just want to leave some kind of Legacy behind33:50
and just something that we can be remembered by and 4B that is leaving behind something positive and33:57
like so it's like like for obviously if I can Inspire even one more young entrepreneur to just go for it and take34:03
the plunge then that's a successful day for me that's amazing I really like that answer what what's next for you then in34:10
terms of working towards that Legacy is there anything in the pipeline for for say the next few months the next few34:16
years what's next well from a business perspective we've got a few events coming up so we'll come back to Ife in34:23
March and an event called performix where we're looking to just again meet uh hundreds of Brands uh hopefully work34:30
with a few of them and from our personal aspect I'm really big on just continuing the the self-development and kind of34:38
just getting better one percent every day and a dream of mine that I've started actively working on now this34:44
year as well as I'm looking to launch a book towards the end of the year just34:49
kind of containing you know stuff on mindset motivation young entrepreneurship just kind of34:54
documenting all my experiences some life hacks some you know actionable pieces of35:00
advice that other young people can take and just take the first step so I've set35:05
the timeline for around start of December I'm just looking forward to cracking on with that as well yeah that35:12
does sound really exciting and the good thing about being a podcast host is you get all these young entrepreneurs on and35:18
then you get to sort of understand who they are and then grow as well so yeah I'll be excited to watch your journey35:24
the very very final thing then from me um what have you got a final message to35:29
anyone listening or if not where can people find out more about you and your company yeah I mean final message after35:36
is kind of any young entrepreneur out there then the two things that I'd say to them is one find the right Network35:44
because if your network is dragging you down and by Network here I mean the people that you surround yourself with35:49
on a daily basis if they're dragging you down you know they've got bad habits then that will rub off in you I know as35:56
a person I was the same I always wanted to think that I'm strong enough that my environment won't affect me but the36:03
truth of it is if your friends are going out every single night drinking you know not doing anything productive then that36:08
is what you'll turn into so you need to surround yourself with other high value individuals whose other people that have36:14
the same goals same aspiration same motivation and then that will play a massive part in you reaching yours and36:20
uh yeah I mean Freddie was looking to find me LinkedIn is probably a good uh good place for that36:27
so it's just a DTR Aditya mahapatra on LinkedIn and I'm always happy to chat to36:33
anyone that reaches out there perfect it's been an absolute pleasure having you on mate I really appreciate your36:39
time as well as well so I'm going to watch this back afterwards and make some notes for36:44
myself it's really going to help me so thank you so much appreciate that thanks for having me on appreciate that
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