How Not to Run a Business – Details, episodes & analysis

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Every wondered why some people seem to be make success look easy and you struggle? There's a reason why, and when you realise what it is, it will blow your mind!

In this episode I discuss the role of luck in business and how it relates to success. I emphasise that success is not solely defined by material possessions and status, but rather by achieving one's own version of success. I explore the concept of luck and opportunity, highlighting the importance of taking action and creating opportunities for luck to occur. I share a personal example of luck in my own business and encourage listeners not to compare themselves to others.

Takeaways

• Success is subjective and can be defined differently by each individual.
• Luck and opportunity play a significant role in the chances of success.
• Comparing oneself to others can lead to feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt.
• Taking action, creating opportunities, and persisting are key to increasing the chances of success.

Chapters

03:00 - Defining Success

06:11 -  The Role of Luck and Opportunity

08:35 - The Concept of Luck in Business

12:23 - Personal Example of Luck in Business

14:21 - Comparing Success to Others

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Mindset is something we talk a lot about and it's the foundation for us all being successful. The truth is, we are going fail in our journey to grow and succeed. It's a part of life. An important part of failure is your mindset and approach to how you deal with failure.

In this episode I discussed the relationship between your mindset and success. How does it impact on your ability to recover from failure. I open up about my grappling with failure since closing my business and a realisation I saw about my mindset and how it was stopping me and holding me back. 

In this episode I talk about:

• What mindset is.
• Growth vs. fixed mindset.
• Theory of intelligence: entity theory vs. increment theory.
• How your approach may determine how you will react to failure.
• An example from my life around how my mindset has impacted my ability to be successful.
• Important things you need to know to help develop a growth mindset.
• How other people's opinions can shape your life.
• How we can reframe and reset our mindset to help us recover from failure.

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Jeremy Jacobs is an experienced entrepreneur, business consultant, and mentor. He started his career in digital marketing, managing multi-million-pound campaigns for well-known global brands. He left that career to start 2 businesses including a food manufacturing company with his Mum which ran successfully for 13 years. He now works as a mentor and consultant for a wide range of businesses including start-ups and solo entrepreneurs through his marketing and management consultancy, Cookie Jar Consultancy. He has an MBA with Distinction from the University of Sussex.

He is proudly neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He lives in Sussex with his partner and their two dogs.

Personal website: https://jeremyjacobs.co.uk

Cookie Jar:  http://cookiejar.info/

Social media accounts:

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjacobsuk/

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

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/jeremyjacobsuk

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Dr Fiona Peters  is a UK based leading expert in Neurodiversity in the workplace and in her personal life, as well as an authority on the impact of the mixed-race classification in organisations and families.

She has ADHD and she was diagnosed in her early 50s. We sat down to talk about ADHD, failure and how to heal post-diagnosis.

Fiona has a mission to help support people in business with ADHD. Using her extensive experience and her personal experience of having ADHD we had a fascinating conversion about her journey to diagnosis and what impact that has had on her personal and professional life.

We touch on the experience of being diagnosed in an adulthood as children of the 70s and 80s and growing up in a world where little was understood about ADHD and neurodiversity.

It was a very deep, raw and honest conversation that I know will support those with ADHD or thinking they may have it.

This is part 1 of a two part episode.

Fiona's website: drfionapeters.co.uk

Fiona's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-fiona-peters-frsa-9a55a876

ADHDLIFE.Team Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/httpswww.drfionapeters.co.uk/

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Jeremy Jacobs is an experienced entrepreneur, business consultant, and mentor. He started his career in digital marketing, managing multi-million-pound campaigns for well-known global brands. He left that career to start 2 businesses including a food manufacturing company with his Mum which ran successfully for 13 years. He now works as a mentor and consultant for a wide range of businesses including start-ups and solo entrepreneurs through his marketing and management consultancy, Cookie Jar Consultancy. He has an MBA with Distinction from the University of Sussex.

He is proudly neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He lives in Sussex with his partner and their two dogs.

Personal website: https://jeremyjacobs.co.uk

Cookie Jar:  http://cookiejar.info/

Social media accounts:

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjacobsuk/

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

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/jeremyjacobsuk

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Want more joy, happiness and fulfilment in your business and life?

If it's a YES, then listen to this episode, NOW!

Have you heard of the Eisenhower Matrix? A powerful time management tool to help you focus on the things that are urgent and important and stop doing the things that aren't helping you achieve your goals.

I've updated it to help you not only focus on what's important and urgent BUT what you are good at and what you LOVE doing.

I've called it the Jacobs Matrix! Bold, I know!

Check it out and see if it will help bring more joy to your business and life!

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Jeremy Jacobs is an experienced entrepreneur, business consultant, and mentor. He started his career in digital marketing, managing multi-million-pound campaigns for well-known global brands. He left that career to start 2 businesses including a food manufacturing company with his Mum which ran successfully for 13 years. He now works as a mentor and consultant for a wide range of businesses including start-ups and solo entrepreneurs through his marketing and management consultancy, Cookie Jar Consultancy. He has an MBA with Distinction from the University of Sussex.

He is proudly neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He lives in Sussex with his partner and their two dogs.

Personal website: https://jeremyjacobs.co.uk

Cookie Jar:  http://cookiejar.info/

Social media accounts:

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjacobsuk/

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

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/jeremyjacobsuk

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You've just won a fantastic new client, you've worked incredibly hard to get them and you just want to get started but you haven't agreed any terms and conditions. You worry that asking them to sign will put them off. What do you do?

I wanted to understand how you can stop yourself from getting into legal disputes in your business. They can cause so much stress for business owners and entrepreneurs.

I sat down with Alvin Ittoo, Commercial Law Solicitor from Acumen Business Law to talk about the key things any business owner needs to understand about contracts and disputes.

We covered:

• What mistakes do businesses make when it comes to contracts.
• Why protecting intellectual property (IP) is critical and how you can protect yours.
• One key thing you want to make sure you do protect any IP your suppliers create.
• What to do when someone isn't paying because they aren't happy with the work you have done.
• What to do when things goes wrong and how to stop a dispute going to court.

I asked some key questions:

• Are verbal contracts legally binding and what are the dangers?
• Do you HAVE to get your terms and conditions signed?
• Can you use boilerplate contracts or take other people's contracts and rehashing them for your own use?

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Jeremy Jacobs is an experienced entrepreneur, business consultant, and mentor. He started his career in digital marketing, managing multi-million-pound campaigns for well-known global brands. He left that career to start 2 businesses including a food manufacturing company with his Mum which ran successfully for 13 years. He now works as a mentor and consultant for a wide range of businesses including start-ups and solo entrepreneurs through his marketing and management consultancy, Cookie Jar Consultancy. He has an MBA with Distinction from the University of Sussex.

He is proudly neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He lives in Sussex with his partner and their two dogs.

Personal website: https://jeremyjacobs.co.uk

Cookie Jar:   http://cookiejar.info/

Social media accounts:

LinkedIn:   https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjacobsuk/

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

Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/jeremyjacobsuk

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I was diagnosis with ADHD in my 40s. Over the last few years I have been on my own journey of discovery.

In this episode I share my journey of ADHD diagnosis and the impact of having ADHD has and had on my personal and professional life.

The intention of this podcast episode  is to help people understand ADHD whether you have it, think you might have it or know someone who does.

I explore:

What ADHD is and what is going on in the brain with people with ADHD?

What the three sub types of ADHD are and how they impact individuals with ADHD.

What the main symptoms of ADHD are.

How diagnosis works.

Doesn't everyone have some level of ADHD? (Spoiler alert, no).

Are more people "getting" ADHD because of smartphones and social media?

Bring neurodiverse in a neurotypical world.

What medications are used to help manage ADHD?

What can people with ADHD do to manage ADHD without medication?

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Jeremy Jacobs is an experienced entrepreneur, business consultant, and mentor. He started his career in digital marketing, managing multi-million-pound campaigns for well-known global brands. He left that career to start 2 businesses including a food manufacturing company with his Mum which ran successfully for 13 years. He now works as a mentor and consultant for a wide range of businesses including start-ups and solo entrepreneurs through his marketing and management consultancy, Cookie Jar Consultancy. He has an MBA with Distinction from the University of Sussex.

He is proudly neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He lives in Sussex with his partner and their two dogs.

Personal website: https://jeremyjacobs.co.uk

Cookie Jar:  http://cookiejar.info/

Social media accounts:

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjacobsuk/

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

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/jeremyjacobsuk

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How can we, as entrepreneurs improve our fitness levels and do more exercise?

Fitness and exercise doesn't come naturally to everyone, unless you are fully committed or a personal trainer then you may find it a challenge to get out for a run or down the gym for a workout. This is even harder if you have dependants like kids or people you care for.

The challenges entrepreneurs and business owners face only makes it harder. Especially when you start out or you are going through a rough patch.

That said making exercise part of your routine is critical to support you in being successful in your business.

In this episode I explore the topic with personal trainer, fitness expert and entrepreneur Lynsey Treharne. She is deeply passionate about helping women get into the weight section of the gym but anyone can benefit from her passion, knowledge and experience.

• How can we improve our fitness and wellbeing with the pressures of running a business?
• Is there a link between success in business and having a success fitness regime?
• How do you manage to fit exercise in when you have no two weeks that look the same?

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Jeremy Jacobs is an experienced entrepreneur, business consultant, and mentor. He started his career in digital marketing, managing multi-million-pound campaigns for well-known global brands. He left that career to start 2 businesses including a food manufacturing company with his Mum which ran successfully for 13 years. He now works as a mentor and consultant for a wide range of businesses including start-ups and solo entrepreneurs through his marketing and management consultancy, Cookie Jar Consultancy. He has an MBA with Distinction from the University of Sussex.

He is proudly neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He lives in Sussex with his partner and their two dogs.

Personal website: https://jeremyjacobs.co.uk

Cookie Jar:  http://cookiejar.info/

Social media accounts:

LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjacobsuk/

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

Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/jeremyjacobsuk

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Why are business leaders still leading through fear and intimidation? Treating people with a lack of respect? Why does this seem to be more prevalent in the investor community?

We see it on TV and I see it happening in the business community, investors speaking to their potential investees like crap. In this episode I explore what's wrong with this attitude and why it needs to change.

This episode is useful for small businesses that are seeking investment from investors.

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Jeremy Jacobs is an experienced entrepreneur, business consultant, and mentor. He started his career in digital marketing, managing multi-million-pound campaigns for well-known global brands. He left that career to start 2 businesses including a food manufacturing company with his Mum which ran successfully for 13 years. He now works as a mentor and consultant for a wide range of businesses including start-ups and solo entrepreneurs through his marketing and management consultancy, Cookie Jar Consultancy. He has an MBA with Distinction from the University of Sussex.

He is proudly neurodivergent and a member of the LGBTQ+ community. He lives in Sussex with his partner and their two dogs.

Personal website: https://jeremyjacobs.co.uk

Cookie Jar: http://cookiejar.info/

Social media accounts:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeremyjacobsuk/

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

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jeremyjacobsuk

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My friend Alex Chisnall did me the honour of joining me on the podcast to talk about his journey from cabin crew, to not being able to get a job interview at Tesco to becoming an entrepreneur.

Come on his journey from serving drinks at 35,000 feet to having a number one podcast on its 500 episode after 6 years and his own successful podcast agency.

He's the man responsible for helping me get How Not to Run a Business off the ground, so he's a very special guest.

It's an open, honest, and frank conversation about his journey, his successes and failures. He started his journey having no idea what he wanted to do. After spending a year developing a business plan, he got started building a sports injury clinic. It all came crashing down around Alex to the point he had a debt collector park his car on his drive and refuse to move it until he paid up. Now he's running his podcast and his podcast agency.

This is an important lesson in scaling too quickly and taking a step back from your business too quickly, not planning and avoiding paying your rent!

We touch on his journey to launch his podcast from 2 downloads in the first week, then to 50,000 downloads a week. It's a great lesson is perseverance and determination.

It's an incredible conversation, Alex's honest is refreshing and you will learn a lot!

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