Podcast appearances and mentions of Penny Power

“Emotional wealth leads to financial wealth.”For Penny Power, business is personal. Join Kevin as he engages in a captivating conversation with Penny, a true advocate of the personal connection in both business and leadership. Kevin and Penny delve into the transformative impact of nurturing others' growth and maximizing their potential. Tune in to unlock the secrets of infusing heart and humanity into your business endeavours, and discover the profound difference it can make.Penny, an advocate of "community-led growth," has made a personal approach to business her trademark. Her book "Business Is Personal" has guided numerous entrepreneurs to success and fulfilment by embracing this philosophy. In 2023, she will release her third book, "Community Mindset," emphasising the importance of placing "citizens" at the core of business strategies for powerful outcomes. Recognized with an OBE in 2014, Penny pioneered the world's first social network, connecting over 650,000 business owners globally before LinkedIn's emergence. She has observed the impact of technology on human behaviour, from social networking to social media and the use of LinkedIn as a CRM tool. Now, amidst the rise of AI and tools promoting disconnection, Penny aims to help companies build trust and loyalty with their staff and clients.Connect with Penny here. The podcast is brought to you by Sales Code, helping revenue leaders unlock added value in B2B SaaS sales teams. Your views on our podcast are always welcome, as well as any questions you might have for our podcast guests.Connect with host Kevin Thiele here.

Penny is a UK entrepreneur, international public speaker, author, and community builder. She is the mother of three adult children and has been married to Thomas Power for 32 years. Penny believes in "community-led growth" and has always approached business in a highly personal way. Her latest book, Business Is Personal, has helped thousands of business owners find success and happiness in their work. In 2014, Penny was awarded an OBE by the Queen for her "contribution to entrepreneurs through the power of community." This recognition was in part due to the work that she and her husband, Thomas, did to bring community to business owners in 1998, before LinkedIn and Facebook (which followed four and six years later). The platform they co-founded, Ecademy, grew to include 650,000 members across 52 countries. Since then, Penny and Thomas have dedicated their lives to working with business owners and promoting community values. You can find out more about Penny at https://www.pennypower.co.uk/ Thank you for listening. This show is brought to you by Dance Business Lab. Dance Business Labs founder Deborah Laws is a multi-passionate dancepreneur, dance business expert and number one best selling author of The Ultimate Dance Business Planner. Deborah's sole purpose is to help facilitate the personal journey and growth of dance business owners like you. Through Dance Business Lab membership and coaching programmes Deborah aims to empower you to learn more, implement new exciting strategies, create goals which Deborah will keep you accountable to and teach you leadership skills that will sky rocket your team and families to truly become your dream school. . To find out more about Dance Business Lab and work with Deborah head to https://dancebusinesslab.com To find out more about working with Deborah through her exclusive Dance Business Lab membership programs follow the links below. Sparks membership - https://dancebusinesslab.com/memberships/sparks Ignite membership - https://dancebusinesslab.com/memberships/ignite Illuminate membership - https://dancebusinesslab.com/memberships/illuminate This episode of The Ultimate Dance Business Podcast is brought to you by SHOW TIME CIRCUS. Showtime Circus was founded in 2018 and is a fully inclusive circus school for babies, children and adults. Showtime aim to provide a safe space for everyone to explore learning and try many skills on their own personal journey. With teachers who are able to tailor their technique to individuals, Showtime welcome any and everyone and have classes to suit children and adults from all different backgrounds. They really are a caring, community, circus family. Find out more at ⁠⁠⁠https://www.showtimecircus.co.uk/⁠⁠⁠ If you love the show and you would like to support then why not buy Deborah a coffee simply head to http://buymeacoffee.com/DeborahL

My guest in this episode is author, speaker & entrepreneur, Penny Power, OBE. I first met Penny in the late 90's when she had just started the first Social Network, Ecademy with the declared aim of helping business people achieve success through online tools, community, and friendship. At that time there were a lot of people talking about online tools but very few talking about community, friendship and love , all of which have permeated Penny's work throughout her career. The intro to her 2018 book ‘Business is Personal' says ‘Penny has poured her heart into this book, and it is incredibly revealing' and I feel very privileged that she did the same in our conversation. It would be easy for Penny to paint a rose-tinted picture of the journey she has been on, and she is the first to say she has much to be grateful for. But alongside that, life has thrown up some massive challenges, awful luck, and real tragedy. Penny takes us through both sides of that story in the open, honest, and authentic way that is her trademark and I find it genuinely inspirational. I always tell my guests:  ‘it's completely up to you how you want to approach the episode and the story you want to tell. All episodes are a mix of music nerdery and life story but the balance between them is different for each guest/episode which is one of the joys for me. This is an episode that is more focussed on the life story, but Penny's song choices enhance her story so much and I would be surprised if you don't choke up to at least one of them (and I'm very glad I allowed Penny two songs from the same artist) Her song choices are: 60's        Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da                                    The Beatles 70's        Solitaire                                                                Carpenters80's        One Moment in Time                                   Whitney Houston90's        Get There                                                            Oleta Adams00's        I Didn't Know My Own Strength           Whitney Houston10's        Just the Way You Are                                   Bruno Mars20's        The Rose                                                              Bette MidlerIf you would like to be on the show then please contact me at musictalkspod@outlook.com Please follow and like Music Talks on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/musictalkspod . You can also find me on Twitter @musictalkspod .

LFYC | S3 E25 – Obi Abuchi interviews Penny Power | The Magic of Self-Empowerment On this week's Leading from Your Core Podcast and Vodcast, Obi Abuchi interviews Penny Power.Penny is an entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Author and Community Builder who believes in “Community Led Growth', her belief in business has always been highly personal. Her latest book “Business is Personal' helps thousands of business owners to find their success and happiness in business. This book has been Penny's philosophy; she manifests this belief through communities, herself, and to aid clients with their creation.‘Business Loneliness' is a mental challenge that impacts the financial results for many, however, Penny focuses on this aspect of mental support through building and serving business communities.She was awarded her OBE by the Queen in 2014 for her ‘contribution to entrepreneurs in the Digital Economy, citing the work she and her husband, Thomas, achieved to bring community to business owners in 1998 before LinkedIn and Facebook (who followed 4 and 6 years later). ‘Academy' grew across 52 Countries with 650,000 members. Working with Business Owners and their dedication to Community values has been their life ever since. Penny and Thomas launched an exclusive Business community for "Experts" in 2020. Business owners who have decided to devote their lives to a skill that will benefit others. The BIP100 community reflects their beliefs in small intimate groups,' ensuring intimacy, privacy, trust, and support for business owners, where they can grow and support each other with strong kindness values. To maintain community intimacy, the BIP100 Group will never have more than 100 members. They also run a Community Accelerator to teach others how to build a community as a central revenue and customer retention strategy.She is a mother of 3 Adult children and married to Thomas Power for 32 years.In this episode:The power of self-empowermentThe essence of choosing happiness in the face of adversityThe significance of self-compassion and love for othersThe advantages of finding happiness in yourselfBeing self-aware of self-empowermentRecognizing happy moments during difficult timesThe Influence of Mindfulnessovercoming adversity and embracing self-developmentUnderstanding your constitution and determining whether it works for or against youHow to progress if your constitution is working against youHow to gain control of outside forces that control usRecognizing that our self-worth is not dependent on the opinions of othersThe value of celebrating success and failuresIncorporating love into business to boost resilience You can find out more about Penny via the link below:LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/Whatsapp - +447771 543478Twitter- @pennypower Instagram- @pennyfpowerConnect with Obi Abuchi and CORE Leaders International on Social Media:LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/obiabuchi/Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/CORELeadersInternationalTwitter - @CORELeadersIntInstagram - obiabuchi01Get a copy of Obi's latest book, Leading from Your Core -

Minter Dialogue with Penny Power Penny Power OBE, is an entrepreneur, cofounder with her husband Thomas of Ecademy, a Mastermind Host, who is obsessed by community-led growth, and also author of "Business is Personal, Be the leader of your life and business." In this discussion, we explore Penny's life trajectory, her extraordinary ups and downs, building businesses and suffering massive setbacks and how she cultivated resilience and persevered through them. We look at her book, the link between professional and personal spheres, as well her work today developing the BIP100. If you've got comments or questions you'd like to see answered, send your email or audio file to nminterdial@gmail.com; or you can find the show notes and comment on minterdial.com. If you liked the podcast, please take a moment to go over to iTunes or your favourite podcast channel, to rate/review the show. Otherwise, you can find me @mdial on Twitter.

How To Use Social Media Networks Effectively To Build Your Business Penny Power OBE is a British author and speaker. The former founder of Ecademy In 1998, she founded Ecademy with her husband Thomas Power and CEO Glenn Watkins with the aim of helping business people achieve success through online tools, community and friendship.[1][2][3] As of May 2011, shortly before its demise, the Ecademy community had 3011 paying members [although Power claims a membership of 650,000. Penny Power published a book in August 2009, titled 'Know me, like me, follow me: what online social networking means for you and your business'.[4] In 2012, Ecademy was acquired by SunZu, owned by Lyndon Wood. Power was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to entrepreneurship in social and digital development.[5] This Weeks Main Questions #1 - Penny what do you think are some of the major tech trends that have been accelerated during the pandemic and how will these affect relationship building in the future? #2 - How do you get any insights/tips connected to how people can effectively build their professional networks in 2022? #3 - LinkedIn - I've personally got a love-hate relationship with LinkedIn but basically I think it offers some great opportunities have you got a couple of tips/insights connected to using it effectively? #4 - With the "Me Too Movement" a lot of businesses in the tech sector are struggling connected to what can be allowed in their individual companies connected to nonbusiness discussions in the office or on Slack have you got any insight connected to this? #5 - How with the acceleration of remote working connected to the pandemic how do you see this affecting company culture and effectiveness? #6 - What have been some of you memorable mistakes you have made that you are happy to share with us and what did you learn from these business mistakes? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penny_Power https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/

In this week's episode we talked about Nicknames, Biscuits and we have part 3 of our interview with Penny Power from BIP100

In this week's episode we talked about The Chase, Youtube and we have part 2 of our interview with Penny Power from BIP100

In this week's episode we talked about Previous Interviews, Celebrity Voices and we have part one of our interview with Penny Power from Bip 100 club

In this episode with my guest Penny Power OBE, we will be discussing, how Penny and her husband Thomas grew ‘Ecademy', a community of business owners to 650,000 members, across 52 countries, in the days before Linkedin and Facebook. The business had to close in 2012 and Penny openly shares this painful experience in order for others to learn how you can grow and rebuild from adversity.Penny is an entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Author, and Community Builder. Mother of 3 Adult children and married to Thomas Power for 31 years Penny believes in “Community-led Business Growth', her belief in business has always been highly personal and underpins this with the awareness that it requires a strong emotional and mental foundation to ensure success.In 2020 Penny and Thomas launched an exclusive Business community for ‘experts'. Business owners have decided to focus their lives on a skill that will have an impact on others. The community, called BIP100, reflects their beliefs in ‘small intimate groups', ensuring intimacy, privacy, trust, and support for business owners, where they can grow and support each other with strong values of kindness. The BIP100 Group will close for applicants when it reaches 100 membersPenny Power OBE contact details:Website: www.pennypower.co.uk/businesshealthcheckTwitter: @pennypowerInstagram: @pennyfpowerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/Whatsapp +447771 543478 Like this show? Please leave us a review here.Follow us on our social media accounts:website: www.lesleyathomas.comLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-thomasInstagram: www.instagram/en/lesleythomascoachingFor Female Entrepreneurs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefinancialfreedomcollectiveSign up for access to FREE RESOURCE: https://lesleyathomas.com/lets-talk-money/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode with my guest Penny Power OBE, we will be discussing, how Penny and her husband Thomas grew ‘Ecademy', a community of business owners to 650,000 members, across 52 countries, in the days before Linkedin and Facebook. The business had to close in 2012 and Penny openly shares this painful experience in order for others to learn how you can grow and rebuild from adversity.Penny is an entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Author, and Community Builder. Mother of 3 Adult children and married to Thomas Power for 31 years Penny believes in “Community-led Business Growth', her belief in business has always been highly personal and underpins this with the awareness that it requires a strong emotional and mental foundation to ensure success.In 2020 Penny and Thomas launched an exclusive Business community for ‘experts'. Business owners have decided to focus their lives on a skill that will have an impact on others. The community, called BIP100, reflects their beliefs in ‘small intimate groups', ensuring intimacy, privacy, trust, and support for business owners, where they can grow and support each other with strong values of kindness. The BIP100 Group will close for applicants when it reaches 100 membersPenny Power OBE contact details:Website: www.pennypower.co.uk/businesshealthcheckTwitter: @pennypowerInstagram: @pennyfpowerLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/Whatsapp +447771 543478 Like this show? Please leave us a review here.Follow us on our social media accounts:website: www.lesleyathomas.comLinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/lesley-thomasInstagram: www.instagram/en/lesleythomascoachingFor Female Entrepreneurs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/thefinancialfreedomcollectiveSign up for access to FREE RESOURCE: https://lesleyathomas.com/lets-talk-money/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Tonight Denise is joined by Penny Power OBE. Penny tells us about creating the first social network for business in 1998 and how this played a part in supporting small business owners today with BIP group, book, and speaking. Useful links Guest Penny Power OBE Website: https://www.pennypower.co.uk/ Denise Ferguson - Find Surveyors Website: https://www.find-surveyors.co.uk Email: admin@find-surveyors.co.uk I'm Not Doing This Without Alcohol Enquires Email: podcast@find-surveyors.co.uk Vicky Galbraith - Podcast VA Website: www.podcastva.co.uk

Tonight Denise is joined by Penny Power OBE. Penny tells us about creating the first social network for business in 1998 and how this played a part in supporting small business owners today with BIP group, book, and speaking. Useful links Guest Penny Power OBE Website: https://www.pennypower.co.uk/ Denise Ferguson - Find Surveyors Website: https://www.find-surveyors.co.uk Email: admin@find-surveyors.co.uk I'm Not Doing This Without Alcohol Enquires Email: podcast@find-surveyors.co.uk Vicky Galbraith - Podcast VA Website: www.podcastva.co.uk

Penny talks candidly about her journey in business, the successes, the pain points and moments of complete despair. Sharing her drivers and the elements of building a business that brings her Joy. Hear all about her latest venture with Thomas ( husband) BIP100 ...you will be sure to leave this podcast feeling inspired. @pennypower - twitter @pennyfpower - insta FB page https://www.facebook.com/PennypowerOBE Li https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/

This week's guest is Penny Power OBE  a pioneer in the world of online business networking with Ecademy which lost its foothold when Linkedin came along. With her business, home & mental health  swept from under her, she rose again to build a whole new way of being a leader in life and business, and her book and philosophy Business is Personal were born.Lou and Penny discuss how  she overcame death by a 1000 cuts; from tragedy after tragedy, bad luck and toxic board members, to a hallucinogenic panic attack. After going deep into therapy she regained her sense of self and her place in the world. Now she helps others through her work with the Business is Personal group of 100 experts, living more simply and happily, with her husband Thomas Power, her children, family, close friends, electric bike, a motorhome and some healthy, life-affirming habits.You can find more about Penny's work on www.BIP100.club and follow her on instagram at @pennyfpowerFollow Lou @brave_newgirl CLUBHOUSE: @Louhamilton and get her books Brave New Girl- How to be Fearless, and FEAR LESS on Amazon or Waterstones or Barnes & Noble. UK & US versions available.Thanks to Silk Studios - the Podcast Guest Agency for producing, & sourcing guests for the series https://silk-studios.co.ukMusic is licensed from Melody LoopsSupport the show (https://www.paypal.com/biz/fund?id=S7WVQQ2YC26RN)

Imagine going through this pandemic without the internet. It's like a story from a dystopian movie. But we do have the internet and it's enabled you to talk to your family and see their faces, order food straight to your door or work collaboratively with your work colleagues. We're in a world where the internet has brought people together through tribes but also created echo chambers. These are the thoughts of Penny Power OBE, co-founder of Ecademy, the first social media platform for business established in 1998. Penny gives us a glimpse into the rise and fall of a tech business and how she desperately tried to cling on to her belief that business should be personal. Penny never let go of this belief and has now authored a book, Business is Personal. We also talk about how technology has been used in a cold unfriendly way and that it doesn't have to be that way.So make sure you check out the full episode.I'm Chris O'Hare your Quick Win CEO, in this show we talk to entrepreneurs and industry experts on different ways to improve your business along with their 3 quick win recommendations. | https://www.hare.digital/quickwinceo | See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

First Imagine going through this pandemic without the internet. It's like a story from a dystopian movie. But we do have the internet and it's enabled you to talk to your family and see their faces, order food straight to your door or work collaboratively with your work colleagues. We're in a world where the internet has brought people together through tribes but also created echo chambers. These are the thoughts of Penny Power OBE, co-founder of Ecademy, the first social media platform for business established in 1998. Penny gives us a glimpse into the rise and fall of a tech business and how she desperately tried to cling on to her belief that business should be personal. Penny never let go of this belief and has now authored a book, Business is Personal. We also talk about how technology has been used in a cold unfriendly way and that it doesn't have to be that way.So here we go, Penny Power.I'm Chris O'Hare your Quick Win CEO, as a CEO I've run businesses, founded startups, consultant for others and even won awards. But in this show, we'll be talking to entrepreneurs and experts to help you understand key concepts for your business along with 3 quick wins that you can take away and apply to your business today. Every week we'll be finding out about the entrepreneur themselves and diving into a different but important topic.You can tell Penny has prevailed from some bumps in the road, it's a great story. What did you think of Penny's Quick Wins?Quick Win Number 1, Invest your time into finding about your values, how you take care of yourself and understanding your character. Write down a list of things or people that make you feel happy or unhappy, motivated or stressed. Have the courage to embrace change.Quick Win Number 2, Start noticing your happy moments throughout your day.Quick Win Number 3, Surround yourself with a small community where you never have to pretend, either find one or build one.But what was your favourite bit of this show? You can tell me on Clubhouse, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok or youtube where you can find me with @haredigital. Remember there are several other podcasts available to listen to which you can find on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. Whilst you're there, I would be so grateful if you can subscribe and write a review. But Until Next time, I'm your Quick Win CEO.Signing out.Podcasts:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/quick-win-ceo/id1545855230?at=1l3vwYfSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3OY1Jgo3cZl9giE2muwfac?si=eDh6jouFSzmoWZozdk5UEAAcast: https://shows.acast.com/quickwinceoYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6za6u1zPjh19_7mpGndlrn7_ANozf8VJSocial:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/haredigital/Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/iamchrisohare/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/haredigitalFacebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/quickwinceoTwitter: https://twitter.com/haredigitalTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@haredigitalClubhouse: @haredigital See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Thoughtful Leader with Mindy Gibbins-Klein   EP 002 Good Business is Thoughtful and Personal with Penny Power, OBE Penny Power reached entrepreneurial acclaim by starting the first social network for businesses, with her husband, Thomas, in 1998. Ecademy grew across 52 countries and gained over 650-thousand members. She was honored for her contributions to entrepreneurs in the digital economy with an OBE from the Queen. In September 2020, Penny and Thomas launched BIP100, an exclusive, members-only branch of their hugely successful Mastermind program. At the center of Mastermind and BIP100 is the importance of having a group of like-minded peers, who share the desire for personal and business growth, seeking guidance in a loving business community. In our conversation, Penny shares her insights about thoughtful leadership including: How she defines thoughtful leadership. Her drive to create environments to help people. The mistakes of a scarcity mindset. Searching for shared visions and values. The importance of building true connections. I have known Penny for 20 years and she definitely deserves the title, Thoughtful Leader. Here's to your Thought Leadership Journey! Connect with Penny: Website: pennypower.co.uk Facebook/LinkedIn @Penny Power  Connect with Mindy Gibbins-Klein Website: https://www.mindygk.com/   Book: The Thoughtful Leader Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prepare to be inspired, energised and uplifted in this, the first of our keynote speaker series in 2021. Our Keynote speaker series is designed to provide firms with the inspiration and direction to put the right strategy and approach into their marketing. And who better to kick things off than Penny Power OBE – entrepreneur, author and founder of the world's first social network for business. Penny was awarded the OBE in January 2014 for her contribution to entrepreneurship in the social digital sector. This session is thought provoking, uplifting and practical – exactly what we all need right now. With a focus on how we can stay relevant in a changing world Penny shares her experiences. Penny talks about many things including: How to stay relevant when all is changing around us How to keep close to and understand your clients The importance of your brand and your values and how you connect and build your reputation Penny 'bares all' in her frank review of her personal trials and tribulations. She references her experience of setting up the world's first social network for business as well as drawing from her two books – “Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me” and “Business is Personal: Be the Leader of Your Life and Business”.

Today we talk about why business is personal and why you can't separate your life, your goals, ambitions, or mental and physical health from what you're doing in your business. I am joined by Penny Power OBE, an author, speaker and one of the first movers and shakers in the online space since 1998, when she and her husband Thomas Power founded Ecademy, the first social network for the businesses in the world.  What You Will Learn In This Episode: The importance of honesty, integrity, transparency and depth of relationship with people in business Why our brand burns very quickly if we don't live by our true values  Why we need to take ownership of what's happening in terms of mental health and social media What you need to do to maintain stability and wellbeing Make sure that you're building something that truly represents you so you don't find yourself disconnected from your business and unhappy with how you feel.   Resources: Business Is Personal, a book by Penny Power Connect with Penny Power: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pennyandthomas   https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/  Twitter and IG: @pennypower https://www.pennypower.co.uk/ Apply for my Podcast Mastermind at https://annaparkernaples.co.uk/mastermind

Being a woman in business comes with its share of challenges, but we also have our superpower to help us navigate them. In this episode, #16 of the Living Inside Out Podcast, I share four tips for the new female business owner to help her win at life and business. Business Life Hack: Build Your CommunityThere is a saying in business that goes you can’t work on your business while working in your business. Take out time to zoom out of your business so you can make an informed decision about what needs to be done. You will find that you need help. From babysitting to having a shoulder to cry on and having someone to bounce business ideas of, your community is the one place that you should feel safe and comfortable requesting for help. You have got to create that community, using your intuition and the relationships you currently have. Also, be open to new friendships. Another business woman’s hack is to build your business network. Business Hack: Network for BusinessDon’t run to every networking event you are invited to because you will burn out. Instead, be intentional about being in places where you can build community and grow in. Have a clear understanding of your audience and go where they are. You will; connect with the right people if you are authentic. In my early days, I believed I needed to be someone that my clients could relate to. But I soon found out about the power of authentic living. It is a force that breaks down barriers so you can connect with real individuals- how else will you know what they need? Or that you have something to offer them? Episode 3 goes into details about the concept of authentic living. Eventbrite is great for finding events. Meet Up is also a good option. Explore business networking organisations like Athena, which is specific to Women Entrepreneurs and BNI. These groups have chapters all over the country, BNI has chapters all over the world. Usually, the expectation of your commitment level is quite high so think before joining these weekly meeting groups.  Life Hack: Know what’s on your plateFor a number of years, I hosted learning brunches. They were designed to equip us and elevate us by feeding the spirit soul and body. I really enjoyed them and still get people asking when I’ll be resuming them. The year I opened the shop, I scheduled a brunch event.I did not understand that I had taken on a sizeable task that required a lot of my time and energy. I ended up cancelling the event because I just didn’t have the bandwidth to carry on. I learned a lesson. You cannot keep adding things to your already full plate, just because you can do it doesn’t mean you should attempt to do it all. Life Hack: Start the night before:I believe the best start to a good day begins the night before. Planning your day ahead works wonders, and gratitude cannot be overrated.Go to bed each night with three things that you are grateful for. Even better if you write them down. This helps to eliminate any lies that say you are not enough. Gratitude opens our eyes to the things we have, and the opposite, which is being oblivious to what you’ve been blessed with will lead you to focus on what you don’t have. This causes discontentment and neediness AND will have you chasing after things instead of making choices that produce results. Another tip by my coach, Valorie Burton who is a bestselling author and life strategist is to have one thing to look forward to tomorrow. I want to end with an illustration I learned from Penny Power years ago. A candle is made up of two parts, the flame and the wax. The flame represents your passion, that which you do so effortlessly, it even infuses you with energy as opposed to drains you. The wax represents that part you do not enjoy. In my case, its admin but both admin and speaking engagements are needed for my business function. What may be wax to you is a flame to someone else.  This means that my admin and paperwork that I dislike so much is busy giving energy and life and joy to someone else. This little illustration really helped me to stop beating myself up because I am struggling to complete a project.

Branston Adams owner Paul Adams, chats to local entrepreneur Penny Power, about the 3 things that have shaped her career so far

In this episode, I'm joined by Penny Power OBE and Richard Woods as they answer questions and provide inspiration to a live audience on this webinar.  

In this Podcast we talk to Penny Power OBE who started Ecademy the first scoop network for business people. It became very successful but ran into problems with the economic crash and when Linkedin Started up. Although having achieved an OBE, Penney found her self worth and self esteem challenged and then had to start anew and had to reassess her life and her goals. In this webinar we will discuss the journey she went through. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/globalnet21/message

I was delighted to be a guest on the recent #ThursdayswithPenny Podcast with the fabulous Penny Power talking about gaining confidence and overcoming Imposter Syndrome

Author and Professional Speaker, Penny Power OBE, joins me as we discuss about the personal side of business.She shares the lessons she gleaned from her 14-year experience running Ecademy, the world’s first social network for business people, the habits that have kept her going as an entrepreneur, and the importance of the mental health of an entrepreneur.

Juice Bits reflections on: #1 Treating yoiur investors with care #2 Growing your social capital #3 Learning about your own mental fitness

Anna Jordan chats to Penny Power OBE, an author, public speaker, mentor and business owner. She tells us how a mental breakdown led her to realise her strengths as an entrepreneur. Be sure to visit SmallBusiness.co.uk for more articles about looking after mental health and wellbeing in the workplace. Remember to like us on Facebook @SmallBusinessExperts and follow us on Twitter @smallbusinessuk, all lower case.

To tell the tough stories that an entrepreneur needs to hear is not an easy task. Listen to how Penny Power wrote a book, 'Business is Personal', a memoir that matters for entrepreneurs at every stage of their life and business.

Penny Power OBE, the woman responsible for Ecademy, shares her story. The first social network for business people, with 650,000 members, Ecademy sadly closed its doors in 2012. Penny now focuses on helping other business owners achieve their dream. In this episode, Penny and I touch on everything from the "Instagram lifestyle" and marketing to mental health in business. A very real, down-to-earth episode, with key points that sometimes - we all need a reminder of. This podcast is brought to you by d&t advisory, helping you unlock the magic of your business, and sponsored by QuickBooks – helping UK small businesses stay on top of their finances. For more The Carl Reader Show, follow me on social media @CarlReader.

Author and Speaker Penny Power joins Bernardo Moya on the latest episode of Inspiring People to talk about goals, technology and growth.To find out about Bernardo’s latests projects get a free coaching lesson or download my book go to www.bernardo-moya.com For more information go to: www.thebestyou.co or to view the video recordings go to www.thestyou.online

Today, I am focusing on why relationships and our network are the essential ingredients and even our shortcut for a meaningful life. I am sure you’ve heard many times that your network is your net worth! Or you are the average of the 5 persons you surround yourself with. This is a reality that I understood later in life! I always thought that I could rely on myself to achieve my goals. This determination brought me some results but up to a certain point! Around me I could see that some people less smart than me but with the right network & connections were getting way ahead of me! I talk more about this in my book Personal branding in the digital age and this is in part why I wrote that book. This reality really hit me when I left my corporate job to start my business. And this is when I started to pay attention and decided to deliberately create my success network. Perhaps you are also late to the game and are just realizing why you should deliberately start to build a solid network. In this episode I talk about: The two key steps you need to take to build a network that can absolutely change your fortune I explain the relation between relationship and money matter Why you should listen to the episode 14 with Penny Power and her take on building great networks Why building strong relationships is crucial now in a fast-changing world than ever How to build effective relationships even if you are not naturally good at it Three practical tips to boost your relationship skills how to Leverage the internet to build the relationships you want Action points This is what you to do to start investing in your network today.     Download the success network weekly sheet Write the name of at least 5 people you would like to see in your network in each of the categories and connect with these people – If you do this each week, at the end of the year you will have an amazing network. Once you connect keep nourishing your network – each month try to send a message using a content strategy tool    Leave a message in the comment section below to let me know about your key take-away from this episode. If you are looking to build your network goals faster and sooner book a call with me to discuss your objectives. If you’ve enjoyed this podcast and want to show your love and support, subscribe to the MWML podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or the app where you are listening to this podcast and leave me a 5-star review

Find your voice - Episode 20 "It's a curse to call yourself a true Entrepreneur, unless you really are" - Penny Power #20Tagline: "Love is the most powerful force in the world, the more you can live within that energy, be that energy and give that energy the better your life will be "Penny Power, OBE is an incredible woman who could complete a podcast series alone. Having labelled herself as an 'Accidental Entrepreneur' Penny formed the first social network for business owners exceeding 650,000 members. However, as many entrepreneurs can relate, she was then forced to handle many ups and downs along her journey and forced to really look deep within herself. Through a journey of self care and discovery Penny began to deal with depression and really find her true purpose and love for herself. A journey she may even consider tougher than the entrepreneurial one.More importantly than the above, Penny is an extremely proud mother to 3 and wife to her husband all of whom she considers the greatest gift she ever received. Penny now coaches people on a 1-2-1 basis transforming not only their lives but also living her true purpose.From depression, to business, to self care to coaching we discuss so many facets that many of you today can relate too and hopefully take nuggets of information to move your lives forward and find your voice!Please check the links below and follow Penny's journey as she is credible, honest and an overall lovely soul.Thanks for listeningFree Audible book sign up:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Audible-Membership/dp/B00OPA2XFG?actionCode=AMN30DFT1Bk06604291990WX&tag=are86-21Best book on Mindset by Carol Dweck: Mindset https://amzn.to/2QajMvZSupport the podcast: https://www.patreon.com/findyourvoiceLinks to me:Website: https://www.arendeu.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/aren.deu/Twitter: https://twitter.com/arendeuFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/aren.singhLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aren-deu-65443a4b/Podcast: https://www.findyourvoicepodcast.com YouTube: http://tiny.cc/51lx6yLinks to guest:Website: https://www.pennypower.co.uk/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PennypowerOBE/Twitter: https://twitter.com/pennypowerInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/pennyfpower/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pennypower/Books: https://amzn.to/2DPEvfUHave an awesome day#JustDeuIt #FindYourVoice[Music]welcome to an episode of find your voicea movement led by yours trulyAren do a guy who has overcomecrippling anxiety adversity anddifficulty like so many of you in lifewhose main goal now is to help youcombat your excuses take control of yourlife write your own story and mostimportantly find your voice so nowwithout further ado I welcome the hostof the show himself mr. Aren do what'sgoing on people thank you for tuning into another episode of find your voice myname is Aren and as always I am thehost of the show so I'm extremelydelighted to bring to you todaypenny power now for anyone who knowspenny they might also know her as theaccidental entrepreneur and the reasonfor that is because penny created thisabsolutely monster of a social networkfor business people in 1998 whichactually had over 650,000 businessowners in it not knowing what she had atthat time penny was sadly disrupted bywhat we know today as linked in sothere's definitely a brilliant storythere and we do discuss that furtherinto this episode alongside this pennyhas also received an OBE in 2014 for thework that she's done and she's seen bymany as a winner and having spoken toher in some depth not just during thisepisode but prior to it she certainly isthat alongside being a mother to threechildren and a wife to her husband pennynow sees herself working with clients ona one-to-one basis and we're in asociety today where a lot of coaches arealmost spawning overnight I mean we'reseeing people with one or two years ofexperience becoming a coach and thenselling their services and being a bitskeptical apart a lot of these coachespenny is somebody I'm certainly notskeptical about because if I was ever torecommend anyone as a coach it wouldcertainly be penny because penny has theexperience and you can tell from the wayshe speaks in this interview she knowsthis stuff so I think without furtherado we're gonna jump straight into thisone it's extremely exciting for me tobring somebody like penny onto mypodcastand I'm extremely grateful for that andI hope you all enjoy this episode thanksfor tuning inok so firstly I just want to thankeveryone for tuning in to today'sepisode today and I've just had afantastic discussion with penny prior tothis actually going live so I've got toknow her a lot there but I think it'svery important that you guys listeningtuning in today get to know the realpenny or Penny powers she is known tomany of us out there today so firstlyhow are you doing todayvery well I feel very well warmed uplovely conversation with you it was itcertainly was I could almost have anepisode out of that just in itself butI'm just for their sake of the listenerswho have just tuned in now and obviouslymay or may not have heard of you couldyou please just maybe give us an insightin relation to where you first started alittle bit about your journey andbasically what brings you here today andso I think you know and I think it'sbeen a journey of finding my voice whichis just perfect I'm gonna try and keepit little 16I went into the IT industry when I was19 I didn't go to university I went intosales and tele sales and joined it whenit was really booming and so it wasfairly relatively easy to excel and Iended up with in about by the age of 24I was sales marketing director of a 80million pound company with about 400staff that I was responsible for and an80 million pound sales line and we hadoffices around the country eight officesand but my first day there I just wentinto there and completely just out ofscarcity and needed to leave home and itwas a job and and I realized I was quitedifferent to everybody else in the roomyou know I wasn't really that focused onthe sale but I was focused on the impactof the sale that would have on whoeverwas buying the product and I actuallyresigned after seven months and I wasgoing to go to the University to do apsychology degree I had finally got myplace and my boss took me into a roomand said why are you leaving I said I'mjust not cut out for business it's notmy world I want to be have more impactin business and he said but you have noidea of the shift that youcreated in the culture of ourorganization and I was ripped shots as a19 year old to be told that and he saidjust be you stay and be you verypowerful when someone says that to youso I did and I built quite a nice careerI'd sort of left that company andactually went off to four othercompanies and then was invited back tobe their sales marketing director whenthey had grown quite substantially andthen at 28 I was blessed with my babyHannah and two more children and that isabsolutely that and my marriage is beingmy highest values my highest joy thething that I think is the most importantthing in my life I think you know thatfall saying charity begins at home Ithink if you put oxygen on your familythen you build a family that doesn'ttake from the world it can give to theworldi I've taken my role as a mum really asmy most important thing in my life andmy merit and my marriage because thatcompletes the family and but I am quitedriven I love I do love business andwhen I was 33 so I had Hannah was fiveand then I had Ross who was three and TJwas just not long born about six monthsold I came up with the idea of the factthat business seemed so lonely peopleworking on their own my husband beingone of them and sort of subject of nightnetworking in 1998 wasn't huge but therewas it was sort of going on but therewas no online networking for businessthere was Friends Reunited and MySpacebut nothing for business so I created acommunity for business online with aculture of reducing loneliness helpingpeople with their self-esteem and herself-worth and helping people to be whothey were rather than just what they didand it grew and it grew and it wasphenomenal but then we got massivelydisrupted we were growing up organicallyit was a subscription-based business tenpounds a month ten dollars ten eurosdepending where you were in the world wewere in 52 countries had 5000 offlineevents here and then LinkedIn took holdso retweet hoffman had actually visitedand used our site a little bit he thenraised three hundred and thirty milliondollars when in theokay we just couldn't raise any moneywe'd raised very small amount of seedinvestment but interestingly he justwent a different route and culture hewent to the business world with hisfantastic tool but it's said it's onlyabout what you are and actually then wesaw that was in 2002 so that was fouryears after we had grown then in 2004Facebook came into the student market2006 Peter came in and the mark I thinkwe all polarized you know this is Who Iam on Facebook this is what I am onLinkedIn an academy sat somewhere inbetween we needed to pivot the businessmodel by now we had lost our house inorder to keep the business going it wasvery challenging the trout childrentraveled around the world meeting ourmembers had little lapel badges withtheir names on them shaking hands atteach ethics or he first startednetworking and anyway in 2008 we went tothe bank and said look can we have aloan to pivot this business and theygave us a 5 year loan enabled us tostart looking at how we can offer freeand start basically doing what we didn'twant to do but in order to survive whichwas going to be sell your data so youyou know what we now upset about in theother markets so obviously that meant alot of our members that were happy topay we're unhappy but did get some newmembers joining who were happy that itwas free but it really challenged ourvalues and then three years into thatwith two years left around the bank loanthe banking crisis happenedwe got a 30 day notice to pay back therest of the two years and they broughtthe business down the bank after 14years so an incredibly painful definingmoments in 2012 and it has been anunbelievable climb to get back any senseof self-worth self belief a big journeyI which we can we can look into it waswonderful in 2014 out of the blue came abeautiful letter and offering me an OBEfor the contributorslovely feeling of validation andbut actually what I really learned isyou can get huge amounts of externalinvalidation in life but unless you canvalidate yourself and believe inyourself and feel your own sense ofself-worth these things are just a bitof gloss on your life and that's been ajourney which culminated in me writingmy book last yearfantastic and your book is called it'scalled business is personal well firstlywhat a journey I probably got more noteshere that again I could do probably apodcast on separately so I just want totouch on a few things throughout yourjourney so you ended with the validationstatement which I don't want to go intocuz I think that's so importantespecially in today's society yeah youwere 19 years old you had almost kind ofdisrupted and made a positive scene inthis industry where there was a fittingcomment and you said just stay and beyou yeah I loved that because I filmedmyself and in an industry where a lot ofmy business comes through social mediathere are people not just beingthemselves I feel that a lot of peoplehave a magic or they're saying thethings that they necessarily feel theyneed to say yeah what people want tohear and I think sometimes we all havesuch a unique gift or skillset that wemay not ever get to see if we're toobusy trying not to be ourselves if thatmakes senseI think I think that was beautiful andyou touched the game moving after thatabout your family and I just resonatedso much with your values in terms ofbreathing oxygen into your family andhow important your marriage is so wetouched obviously prior to this show alittle bit about one of your children Ilost a TJ and just the incredible personthat she is so again that's a testamentto your values and that kind of bringsme to where I am so I touched on theLinkedIn obviously disrupting and it'sand sadly for yourselves you had toalmost kind of pivot but you mentionedsomething which I just found fascinatingwhich was the values bit that reallykind of struck you so it's nice to hearand it's quite refreshing from yourselfthat yes you could have pivoted thebusiness and almost kind of taken on aLinkedIn approach but that's not whopenny is so using that and realizingthat in that moment getting the externalvalidation of OB what did you then do interms of your business I mean is thatstill going now that sort of business orhave you completely shifted it nowtowards really helping people trying tofind out about themselves as in terms offull of himself with yeah I mean Idefinitely has been a thank you for thatthat lovely reflection of what I said Ithink it's been a journey you knowsomething I say when I am coaching andmentoring and I run a mastermind groupnow I take two cohorts yeah so I Isupport people through a mastermindgroup which is beautiful experience wedo need in our values we do need to havea brand we need to know what we're herefor you know that lovely saying to bestdays of your life the day you're bornthe day you discover able all of thesethings are very very powerfulstart with why simon Sinek what it'screated it's created a massive panic ofpeople that don't feel they have it yetand you can't force it so you know wascoaching a lady yesterday it wasincredibly inspired by brainy Brown andher vulnerability statement and simonSinek and all these role models andshe's desperate to find her big messageand I just said just it will come but itabsolutely starts with the seed of whoyou are and you can't force it becauseyou want to market yourself better orwrite a better book or you've just got alot now having a coach or a mentor or aloved one help you coach that out of youis very powerful and I was with abrilliant guy called Sun hartleyyesterday and he's a performance coachand he said these three things you knowyourself be yourself accept yourselfI loved that thought I love that knowyourself be yourself accept yourself andI don't think that we can you know Iwent through a process last year withpsychologists and group therapy becauseI broke and I didn't break to the pointwhere I was you know I was shaking inthe corner but I had a really day ofdevastating experience that dangerousand scary experience on the 30th ofNovember 2017 that I went off to ahospital thinking I had had a stroke orsomething and they found no new logicalthings and and anyway through going tosee psychologists discovered that and Iwas now having some form of mentalhealth challenges and I actually spent alot of time reflecting and thinking andI think I started to break probably foryoubefore I had that incidence it's notsomething I was fat you know you couldstart off you could start off beingcompletely disabled with a bad legthrough or hip through eighth rightousit would start years before you know youget the so I think mental health issuesyou have to start becoming veryself-aware of how you're showing up inthe world before you really know you'vegot them and and you know I believe inmental fitness but there's anothersubject you know starting before itstarts like you do when you look afteryour physical health so the valuesfinding your voice knowing your valuesare very critical you can't force thesethings though and you know when I talkto CEOs of businesses or leaders ofbusinesses they've got pulled into avortex of ambition like this whirlwindof ambition that actually is fantasticif economies create that culture becausethey create to the fear and they createthe culture of you're lacking andtherefore scarcity and and fear and youlack and the market is a brilliance hasit online saying you could be moresuccessful you could be richer you couldbe more beautiful which immediately whenyou actually read that your subconscioushears I am lacking really wave love sobrilliant it's so clever but revoltingso we have to step away from things likesocial media and comparison andRoosevelt said comparison is the thiefof joy it's my favorite quote yeah it'sbrilliant isn't it love it yeahabsolutely and and it's it takes a hugeamount of reprogramming your mind tostop doing thatbut at least once you're aware you'redoing it you feel yourself doing it youcall yourself back into line becausewhen you look at the ingredients of whoyou are you know what makes you up thereis no single human being on this earththe same as you say mercury yourknowledge your skills your intentionsyour passions your experiences youradversities you've it's just absolutelynothing that could make someone the sameas you so therefore comparing yourselfis the first downward spiral really andone that people are so locked into andso you know anyone listening I'll justsay calm down listening to yourself justhave more self-awareness think of yourjoys think of what really sets you onfire all that's that which other peoplewill say but really do it not to makemoney from it to begin with I sawpowerful again I mean I can resonatewith this and I'm not sure if you'vefollowed it in my story or any of myprogression but I try and say a lot ofthis myself because again probablysimilar to yourself I found myself inthe state of comparison initiallyespecially when I started the propertyjourney and I have this habit now andI've kind of I don't do this in a way tooffend people or be rude but I'vestopped almost going on social media andliking people's posts and stuff becausewhat I effectively do now is I have amessage every morning or every eveningthat I want to share with the world andwhat I'll do is I'll write it out andI'll send it out and all of a sudden I'moff social media I'm not there to seehow many likes I get or how many sharesI get because if I fix ain't myself onthat metric in itself what's gonnahappen is if it's law one day the nextday I might be scared to share my truthagain and I think I think one of theimportant things you touched on again ispeople are almost in this panic of wedon't have it but they probably do andit's a patience game I suppose and whereI always say to people he's just speakyour truth speak whatever that comes toyou it's your own perspective it'llresonate with certain people and we'realmost in a society where people aretrying to almost say key and buzzwordsbecause they feel like that's what theyneed to almost same and I think you hitthe nail on the head and I think withyour experiences Ryan you just brieflymentioned the coaching aspect I thinkpeople listening to this show can gainso much value from that so I just wantedto touch on your mastermind that youmentioned is that what's something thatpeople would necessarily need to do inperson or is it something that you cando online from the comfort of your ownhome a really great question so I'vebeen on my own journey and I'm gonnacome back to that if that's not tooannoying so really so when I my - I callmyself an accidental entrepreneur foryears because I was when I came up withhe had a me I didn't know his tiger bythe tail but I had and then I started mysecond business after he had me calldigital use academy which it was highlyimpactful it was workingyoung people I created the digitalmarketing apprenticeship that is nowwidely used and I got investors to putmoney in we invested three hundred andfifty thousand pounds in an e-learningcent system and we distributed thatthrough further education colleges as anapprenticeship and over three years Iout two thousand unemployed very hard toreach young people into jobs giving themthe confidence that their digital skillshad value in the world and and hopingthat they would go into it with us thesort of culture that I believe in aroundsocial media so that was my second whatI call on two-player journey then Istarted my third which is called thebusiness cafe and it was that part ofthe journey that broke me because it wasanother push and what I feel is um theterm entrepreneur is really dangerous tome entrepreneurs are creating somethingfrom nothing and have massive ambitionand Luke Johnson in his book stopsstartup I think it's called saidambition is a curse and not everybodyhas it right to be a true entrepreneuryou have to be massively ambitious andyou have to know how much you're willingto sacrifice in terms of time money andgratification because being true you'rebuilding something as scales and hasimpact and this is the Silicon Valleyworld you know go out raise 300 milliondollars and there and reduce all your 1%and you know it's long busks and MarkZuckerberg the thing that a lot ofpeople your generation and two centsthat my generation came you know we wewitnessed from about 20 to 23 years agowhen ecommerce everything started so Iwould say that you know it's a curse tocall yourself an entrepreneur unless youtruly are so my own personal journey isand where I am finding so much joy nowgoing back to your original questionyeah is that I was employed had mychildren then became an entrepreneuraccident accidentally then they becamean entrepreneur a game with digitalyouth academy then tried to be anentrepreneur game with the business cafeand I still want to bring the businesscafe to market but when I broke my basicmy cup was full I was overflowing foreven a got out of bedmy resilience had gone and I wasexhausted and burnt and the way I'vecome back is by saying actually I'mgoing to be a small business much nicerof course yeaha small business is what is my value toone person and how can I exchange thatvalue for money and impact their livesdirectly so at the moment starting fromJanuary when I launched my mastermindand my mentoring coaching program thisyear I only need to work with about 34amazing people and I will fulfill notonly my emotional needs but my financialneeds and when I go into a room withsomebody I'm coaching I know that I getthat gratification I'm not only seeingthe impact I'm making on that one personbut also they're paying me yeah money isactually ultimately one of the ways weget our worth it is it's I know we don'tchase money but if we're broken and I'vebeen broken and if we can't financiallyafford to feed our children trying to bean entrepreneur is a very very dangerousjourney so going back to your questionam i delivering it online yes I've beenasked that a lotyeah if as soon as I do that I'mstepping away from my direct impacts interms of I'm putting a computer betweenme and and being able to love and holdand touch and care and look in the eyesof the people I'm wanting to impact andso this year that's what I'm doing thankyou for that answer so I want to playdevil's advocate just a little bit onthe the last night you said there so Ifully understand the whole direct beepthere directly impact them hold themlove them and touch these people thatyou weren't have been on a one-to-onebasis and I suppose when I first startedpersonal training I literally startedpersonal training because one I had losta lot of weight and done a qualificationwith a bit of spare change I had but Ithought it would pay for my way throughuni and then obviously doing that Ireally enjoyed it I loved transforminglives and seeing people lose weight gainconfidence which again I felt fantasticas being mothered journey and I got to apoint myself as I and I rememberI should take this online and almost dolike an online coaching for personaltraining where I will check in withclients online again losing that thatone-to-one communication thing but atthe same time getting back some of mytime so my yeah and perhaps potentiallymaking more money and I initially kindof was with yourself I was like I don'twant to do that it's got it's kind ofalmost dilute my power and my gift thatI have when I work with people but thenat the same time I had somebody questionme and again this is a question I wannaask you is do you not then feel becausein this very brief moment with yourselfthe reason I ask this is because I don'twant it to be that penny is based inthis part of the world or this part ofUK and we don't have access to pennyright now because I feel that if you areable to connect with more people yes themessage might be slightly diluted but Ithink your message is so powerful thatyou could affect so many more people sois it something that maybe your identitylater or I used sorry I'm gonna give youa really long answer to this Aren okayso at the moment I don't believe inmyself enough okay it's getting thereand this is the story I'm gonna tell youand it's absolutely true and it's themost up to date story I can tell youabout my life okay yeah please do I havealways wondered why people would spendmoney on an aspen all our mulberry orGucci handbag right so you're gonnathink where the hell she kept okay Inever needed itI never wanted even when Thomas and Ihad money you know and life was a biteasier didn't turn me on Thomas cameback from Dubai once on a speech hasbrought me back in a beautiful good shebox a handbag and it sat in the box forthree years I never used it didn't writeand but my daughter Hannah who we talkedabout a little bit and and hopefully youmight interview so absolutely would bean honor so when she was 20 and I wedidn't spoil our children they had towork from the age of from a young ageand at 16 they got jobs in supermarketsor Starbucks or whatever and age 20 shegot an internship at Barclays and I mether after work one day and we went offto Marburyjust off Oxford Street and she spent 900pounds in a bag I didn't judge her Ididn't judge at all is her money she'dworked hard for it and that was somesymbolism she wanted that bag and shehad this private relationship Reeves mybig my older sister who's 10 years oldand me because my elder sister he's 10years old of me loves designer handbagsand I used to watch quite jealously thisbut I think I want to join that Club I'mnot in certainly sign a handbag but Iwas quite jealous of these this banterthat I would hear and then looking ateach other's bags because ever sincethen Hannah's brought more bags anywaywhen I started this mastermind group wewere meeting at some Pancras stationit's beautiful meeting place and arestaurant there and that's where mymaster minds are going to be in aprivate room there and I had 12 separatemeetings because I have a four-hour oneto one with all the masterminds beforethey join and I would walk past anAspinall shop right eight and I walkpast it looked in sort of smug that allHannah would love that and walked upthese steps into this restaurant anywayone day I about the bath Inc was aboutthe ninth meeting I went into theAspinall shop took a photo of thislovely handbag and said to Hannahyou'd love this handbag Hannah and shesaid yeah is lovely the next time I wentback my 10th time I went in and I got itoff the shelf and I put it on myshoulder oh yes quite not put it back11th time went back went in looked at itand asked him how much it was and talkedto him about it last week was my 12thtime and I said to Hannah the nightbefore I was going back to London for my12th meeting Hannah I fallen in lovewith an astronaut bag yeah and she wentby it by it mom buy it buy it buy itreally and she said I am mom you reallydeserve it buy it so I said don't be nosomebody who works for Aspen orsomething I could get a 30% discountoh yeah I can look into overnight if youwant mum so we'll do that that'd belovely done it anyway next morning Iwoke up to get the train to London myjob meeting and I sent her a text andsaid Hannah I'm gonna buy it I don'twant it discounted I went in and Ibought it and we came home and wechampagne while I opened it at home andThomas said to me just said out of theblue how come you've decided to buyyourself back and I said Thomas I'mworth it and it was so poignant thateverybody cried because Hannah has saidto me mum why don't you believe inyourself you've gotten an OBE look whatyou've done look at the lives you'vechanged look everything you've done andI said I just didn't believe it insideme until I've got I do now so this isthe most up to date story I can tell youour an a my journey and it's been reallyinteresting I share it because I'mreally open with everyone if somebodywants to judge me for the the pain I'vebeen through and the losses I've beenthrough and judge me is a bad businessperson because I'm not achievable youknow I could have achieved I don't Ireally don't care about that I'm just meand um and I will share that that storywith the world because it's we've got tofind our own self worth deep deep deepdown now so in answer to your storywhich was bad to me to go online andexpect somebody to want to pay for anelectronic version of me I haven't gotto that point yet believing in myselfenoughthat's incredible thank you for sharingthat I'm grateful for you sharing thatbecause as you were saying that therewere so many parts of it maybe some ofthe listeners could probably resonatewith it where I'm on thisentrepreneurial journey where I'm kindof bootstrappingas and when I can and stuff like the bagif we use trainers for example where myyounger brother who's nine years youngerthan me we're going spend to endureparents on a pair of trainers where I'mlike I can't do that I can't possiblythink I'm doing that I mean you grew upin slightly different generations wherefinances were different and growing upbut I don't know something tempting justclick there and I thought maybe there isa is an element within myself where myself-worth needs to kind of at least bereflected on and maybe people listeningto this can reflect on that because itwas a beautiful moment I could almostpicture you coming homepopping up and that bottle of champagneand then having this moment where you'relike do you know what I am worth it soit's a beautiful story that you've justshared there and in relation to thediluting the messagething which is the question that I askedyou and you feel that you're notnecessarily worth it now can I just askis that kind of like an impostorsyndrome that's going through your heador do you I think it's partly that I'vewatched so many I don't want swear youcan sway tosses is the places I say sella dream online and manipulate and andcorrupt I don't want to be part of thatworld and I've seen people close to meyou know hire an expensive house rent afat Ferrari and stand outside and sayyou can be as rich as me if you do myprogram and and they are multimillionaires but I have seen so manylost souls back up their lives leavingthat story and so I've got to I've gotto get to a point where for me to jointhat world I've really got to feel safethat I am never going to do that toanyone penny I loved that about youthat's like for me it's kind of likeabout the Family Fortunes TV episodegoing through my head reach that topanswer and it's like kind of bleedingbecause for me it's one of the thingsthat I hold very close to my heart so II got taught off by my wife actuallylast night so this is a very currentstory and I was writing a post and Ikind of just write post from my heart orwhatever I think I don't spellcheck it Idon't think about it I just literallywrite it there and then and as I waswriting it I sinner peeping over it shewas kind of looking at it like why youkind of she's seen it as me being kindof argumentative or not I'm just tryingto think of the wrong bird a bit againstthe grain kind of thing because mymessage yesterday was very similar toyourself so I'm in the property spaceand in the property space there are allthese millionaires selling this poorthingdream and I absolutely hate it because Iwas fortunate that I had 12,000 poundsleft in my account which I spent on theeducation I still believe I would havebeen where I am now without thateducation because in hindsight it wasn'tas good as I've published sin so sincethen I have probablymove people away from the education andI've offered my free service I've givenmy course material that I've paidthousands for because I'm like listenyou can learn all this yourself youdon't need this shiny book or thiscourse that's gonna change your lifebecause I've done it I joined thiscourse thinking twelve months time I'mgonna be a multi-millionaire blah blahblah all of that so you've obviouslyseen these kind of and I put crooks Idon't call them houses but appearancesis probably a better word and it reallyreally it gets it gets to me because atthe same time I also feel I have valuein some of my skills that's where I cango out and coach an extensive amount ofpeople but then I almost getting thisimpostor syndrome myself thinking Idon't want to ever be seen like thesepeople out there exactly doing it thewrong way so I fully get there andobviously we're at different stages inlife you're a lot more advanced andexperienced than myself and I get thatand at the same time I'm like I'm seeingpeople with less experience than myselfwho have fabricated their results takinggood selfies on one Facebook and thenall of a sudden the selling weekendcourses for two thousand pounds and Iread a book recently on it and it wasabout neuro linguistic programming NRPcalled the dark psychology and there wasa brilliant quote in that and what itsaid was you can either manipulatepeople or persuade people basically andthe people there's a lot of people whosay I want to help you I want to do thisfor you and you need to be able toassess are they trying to manipulate youI looking at their own self gainirrespective of whether it's going toactually get you what they're promisedin you or are they're just trying topersuade you to abandon life and I'm I'mgrateful that I've managed to have thisinterview with you and lets you connectwith you because you're one of the goodpeople and it's nice to see somebodydoing it the right way and I do feelthat sometimes we may not get there asquick as other people and we may have toprobably face more obstacles but I justbelieve it's just so much easier to goto sleep at night doing things the rightway well it does it goes back to whatyou said at the beginning about yourcore values and and and whether you cansleep itself you know these CEOs thatSam you this someone was telling me theycoach it said the CEOs are in fear oflosing their jobs or their businessbecause all around them they have nola they've just lost everything we'velost their wives they live norelationship with their children intheir strife for success of whateverthey decided success would be when theywere young they have and now they sit infear in these big jobs because if theylost their job or they lost theirbusiness they have nothing else left andI think we have to think about what isit we want to surround ourselves withTomas and I have lost everything and westill had our marriage and our childrenand it's it's all that matters that's tome that's the possible and I thinkpeople need to go deep into their valuesbut they chase this ambition or thisdream or this comparison or whatever itis that's confusing them yeah absolutelyI think that's a fantastic message thankyou for sharing that penny I reallyappreciate itso now that you're you're definitely anentrepreneur I think I don't thinkanyone's gonna disagree that you're anentrepreneur whether it is by accidentor whatever I mean I feel I'm a bigbeliever that everything happens for areason and if we choose to we can findour own way and I'm grateful that youfound your own way but what I want toask is so for somebody who's beenthrough been through it all should I sayin terms of the journeys of ups anddowns what's your daily routine likebecause I'm a firm believer thatmotivation doesn't last forever and I amstrongly I'm strongly for sorry and thatwe should discipline ourselves incertain aspects hence your nutrition orthe thoughts you tell yourselfaffirmations being grateful all thatsort of stuff in order to get throughthe darker days and not everyone speaksabout the darker days but what's yourdaily routine like Monday to Sunday umso I am always been an early Waker evenas you know child when I was teenagerdid my revision early I always wake sodoes my husband around 5:00 o'clock andwe love that and we go down and get twocups of tea each one of us goes and getsfour cups of teaand we do have that television in thebedroom which we absolutely love so thismorning we watched we loved all thedramas we watched the final of motherfather son for example and we lie in bedtogether and we holehas and we have a cup of tea and wewatch that and then we do that from ournow this is I'm not rushing to Londonfor trade and then I share and then Ifor the last six years I have made avery lovely drinks which containsspinach kale berries chia seeds flaxseeds hue carrot and and then I startwork because I love work so either startwork in the office or I will go toLondon I do try to go to London after10:00 because hey the trains are so muchcheaper oh I go on the train I mean it'syou know how much that makes adifference to your monthly outgoings ifyou if you do have a discipline of doingthat and I just feel better if I do thatthen I get a good start in the morningand then my ideal day is to coach oneclient today about three times a week soin the afternoonsI'll meet at this lovely place and coachthem if it's better in the mornings Iwill do the morning because it's reallydown to where they when they get theirbest energy of course Alice and threetimes a week I'm really grimacing here Itry to go to the gym okay Red Mill anddo some weights but I'm not achievingthat very well moment and I do have ayoga routine that I try to do everymorning before I get dressed that's itfantastic do you do any sort of them Imean I know you've touched on yoga theredo you do any meditation or anygratitude journaling or writing yourgoals down is that so I do I am I have aattitude of blessings and gratitude allthrough the day and I do start my daywith that I definitely don't even haveto consciously do it I just comes intomy mind that I have not that I feel itnow it's I think it's incrediblypowerful that mindfulness meditationthat would completely elude me I justdon't have you do that but mindfulnessI'm trying to learn that my son who'sstudying psychology at University whoand there's quite a high performing butvery him puts a lot of pressure onhimself a lot of pressure on himselfhe's learnt mindfulness and he'sactually done a certificate in it nowand he has it's it's incredible how itstransformed him he said he can't livewithout it and so it is that's andiscipline I'm trying to bring into mylife like I've got itfantastic and just actually if we mayjust going back to something we touchedon earlier we touched on mental fitnessand I know we spoke about this before Iclick the record button yeah do you wantto just briefly elaborate on that aswell because I think that's going to bevery important for the lissa so I when Ihad this sort of breaking moment Iultimately took a while but in the endthe psychologist diagnosed me with PTSDwhich I always thought needed to be ahuge trauma you know something itdirectly happened to you but PTSD isbasically anything that everyday comesback into your mind and it is and itfills your cup before you because atwork Venus that started today and I had12 things that from the age of 3 throughto about 3 years ago that were still onpains that I hadn't accepted andreconciled and I wasn't a victim of thembut they were still front of mind and Ihad to go through a process called EMDRto work through them which was a hardexhausting painful process of acceptanceand letting it go and then when you doit goes into your you might back in yourmind the other thing that I gotdiagnosed with is a form of depressioncalled cursive strong which is a badbook by dr. tim cavanaugh onhe owned a Mazon he worked for thePriory and he found that people thatwere coming to him who were very dynamicvery hardworking high levels ofdiscipline were he'd ended up diagnosinghit them with this and what I gotdiagnosed with and it's basically a formof depression that means you will notself care and look after yourself rightif you just get up every day and youjust keep pushing until until you justyou just just exhausted and so when Iwas going through my psyche my grouptherapy and times with my psychologistwhich talked about in my bookthere was healing triggers and emotionalmental repair that I talked about in mybook that I feel is relevant to everyentrepreneur every human yeah I believearound your belief systems your valuesto thoughts your feelings yourpersonality type etc and what I thenthought was actually if I had no in thistwenty years ago before I became anentrepreneur or even younger I wouldhave focused on my mental fitness notmoment I'd not got to a point where Ihad mental health issues so now I'm anadvocate of mental fitness because Ithink that there are things that wecould learn about ourselves so to meresilience isn't about how hard thepunches are that you are willing to takeand bounce back from resilience is likea boxer you learn what to dodge you'vedone the things that your personalityand your who you are and what matters toyou that you do not want to beconfronted by and you dodge and thatwould enter Fitness to me fantasticactually the first time I've heard itexplained like that I think I think themessage is clear though and I'm quitefascinated now you've got me intriguedinto your own personal book so I know Idon't read books in terms of thehardcovers but I am an advocate ofaudible and listening to books is yourbook available as an audible version oris it strictly a hardcopyno it is I went into studio recorded itso it's on audio it's on Kindle and it'son poppy yeah okay fantastic so there'sno excuse for me not to buy that thenI'll definitely be checking that outthank you for that thank you okay so thenext thing I always ask my guests andagain this is something that willhopefully give the listeners maybelessons that they can take on or somesort of advice is about adversity nowyou've obviously been through a lot ofadversity some of it we probably haven'teven touched in this very short episodeso I know you mentioned briefly and youlost your house you mentioned I think itwas November you were having thesemental health challenges if you couldeither choose one of those or somethingelse in your life where you've beenthrough adversity and just tell us howyou've basically overcame that and thelessons that you've got from it just tokind of give the listeners maybe sometools that they could perhaps use yeahy'know happily so there have been Imentioned that there were I think Imentioned there were twelve things on mylist when I went to the psychologistthat bothered me that was still throwfront of mind went back to his childhoodnot that I was abused or anything butthere was something you know things thatbothered me and all the way up to adultsso I think one of the greatest learningswas that the second business that Istarted digital youth academy I got someinvestors involved I didn't do any truediligence on them but because I hadknown of them and they certainly seemedto have my best interests in the passionof the business in their hearts whenthey invested but I think I was at apoint of scarcity when I went into thatrelationship which is always dangerouswhether you're taking on a client or asupplier or a marriage whatever you oweinto it in a scarcity fear mindset thenit's going to be very difficult and soultimately I had to work my way out ofthat relationship even though I lovedthat business very much we had to exitand sell that business and the issue wasthat because I was in scarcity andclearly was lacking in personalself-worth I enabled them to havecontrol over me and one of the thingsthat strapline of my book is how to leadthe life and business that you want andI was told by actually somebody whoworked for me in that business Russellwho now runs the Starbucksapprenticeship program across Europe hewas a brilliant guy he was ops directorworking with me and he said to me petone day penny I can tell and when Ifirst met you two who you are now thingsyou're not as happy as you used to beI said well that's a real shame and hesaid I watched a documentary last nightand they said there were three parts ofhappiness and they've done a big studyglobally and three parts were 50% ofhappiness is your Constitution are you ahappy person he said penny you alwayshappy and you are a happy person10% is the achievement of the things youwant and you know in this study we knowthat we all always want something elsesoon as we got something we always wantsomething else that's why us so much andinnovate and keep going you know we'renot happywhy we're not animals and that's why weare so progressive 40% of happiness ishow much control you have a have overyour own life and decisions you make andhe said clearly you're being controlledand I was now I had to then unwind thatand I talked about this in my book howsometimes you have to positivelysurrender to a situation and I realizedthat I wasn't going to change a patternthat we had created between us as arelationship where they were assertiveand I was passive where they were theadult and effectively they were treatingme as a child and it was my own doingbecause I went into this relationshipalready in a bad place yeah and so partof the learning I had to go through isI've got to a point in my life whereanybody who was assertive with me I hadwas labeling them in my head as a bullyso I was catastrophizing anybody whoseemed to want to have control over meanybody that had an opinion that wasstrong I saw as bullying and I had tolearn as a naturally not assertiveperson anyway I had to learn to be moreassertive and realized that beingassertive is actually a very adultcommunication style it doesn't have tobe angry that's one one lesson I canpass on absolutely I think that's alesson that I've had to learn myself aswell because when I first I property Iwas very probably a similar situation toyourself as our kind of put people on apedestal yeah I think thinking that Iwasn't worthy or didn't have in muchknowledge yeah yeah in fact I probablydid in hindsight now the funny thing isI got ripped off I got builders runningaway taking advantage of me I hadpotential business partners see me asnaive and trying to make me do more workthan initially agreed to so I had allthese kind of problems and teeth andissues initially as well and I remembermy mom actually saying and you need toyou need to be stronger you need to stopbeing like a walk or a pushover and Iwas just like it's just who I am as inand I was always confident that if Ididn't become this again I assumed ithad to be a nasty dictation person and Iwas as long as I just be myselfsomewhere along the line I will get therightkind of people around me and and maybe Ihave developed some level ofassertiveness over the last few yearsbut I've certainly now got a team aroundme who I can trust and they know me frommy skills I know them for their skillsand it certainly helped but I think youhit the nail on the head there where yousaid it's a skill to learn and and in myhead it's always been if I come acrosstoo assertive are people gonna think I'ma bully or embossing axe or whatever itis so yeah that's really interesting Ithink I think people can definitelyresonate with that good yeah definitelyso penny what's your biggest fear umI suppose my biggest fear is currentlyis long-term sustainable income becausewe you know when you lose everything andI'm it's amazing some people I'mattracting now as co2 coach them is alot of people in their 50s that havehuge skills and but they haven't reallybeen able to manage their business lifethe way they needed to and and createthat sustainable income so I loveworking so I'm going to be very happyworking well into my 70s and Beyond ifpeople still have me but creating somesense of security into my old age is isprobably what what I suppose drives mebut also drives me negatively because itis also a fear okay that's interestingso a bit of a shameless plug here haveyou thought about property investing asI sort of yes I've not anywhere nearthat place to be able to even considerthat well if you ever ask them please doreach out yeah I will I appreciate thatand I will and I think we'll definitelydo that much thank you so much whatwe're gonna do now is actually we'regoing to completely mix it up now we'regoing to go into what I call the funpart of the show so at this stage of theshow all I'm gonna do is literally askyou the most random questions that I canthink of from my list in front of meyou've got no idea what I'm gonna askyou we're gonna do the buzzer for about60 to 90 seconds so there are no rightor wrong answers so literally just saythe first thought that comes into yourhead oh gosh that's very good god yes nono you'll be absolutely fine okay we'regonna start in three two onewhat did you eat for breakfast my shakethe ability to fly or be invisible liewhat is the best thing about being anentrepreneur Breeden if you couldeliminate one thing from your dailyroutine what would it beexercise what is the best gift anyonehas ever given to you my children wouldyou rather have a rewind button or apause button on life pause don't saywhere your fame o'moneyyour proudest moment my childrengraduating your favorite food choiceokay Netflix our YouTube Netflix yournumber-one goal this year to help 34people achieve their dreams yourfavorite TV show ever pride andprejudicewould you rather know how you would dieor when you were dying how if you couldsit with one person in the world for anhour who would it be my husband speakall languages or be able to speak toanimals all speak to animals and finallyif you could abolish one thing in theworld what would it bereligion okay fantastic so that's theend of the fun part of the show itwasn't that hard was itno that's very good okay brilliant sowe're almost at the end of the show nowI just got the last final few questionsI just want to ask you penny and now thenext question is about reflection soobviously hindsight's a wonderful thingwhere we can always think of ways to getourselves somewhere quicker easier orwith less heartache but I guess thejourney also teaches us a lot as well sowhat I want to know is if knowingexactly what you know now you could goback to a younger penny and maybewhisper something in their ears toinspire her for the journey that liesaheadwhat would you say it'll all be okay Ithink I've probably just give her thatcomfort really just that reassuranceit's just the reassurance yeah and thatactually suddenly brings us to the lastquestion then what for the show andagain this is something asked for all ofmy guests and it's about legacy so if in150 years time science fails to save usall and all that's left is this book andthis book is about penny and her lifeand everything she's accomplished andall of the great wonderful thingsfirstly what would the title of the booktell us and secondly what would theblurb at the back read to us cost I offthe cuff yeah well the first the title Ithought was love okay and it would justsay that that love is the most powerfulforce in the world and the more that youcan live within that energy and be thatenergy and give that energy the betteryour life will be thank you for sharingokay brilliant so that brings us toliterally the end of the show and justbefore I leave penny what I want to dois give you a chance to connect with theaudience so if you wouldn't mind couldyou please tell everyone listening howthey could reach you and maybe if youhave time and the capacity for them tomaybe engage with you that's very kindthank you so I'm on Twitter so at pennypower I'm on LinkedIn so I'll be easilyfound as penny power I'm on Facebook butunfortunately I think I've just aboutreached that five thousand limits andI'm absolutely rubbish and got to put mypage right but I don't have a page I'vegot a lovely community on Facebookcalled the business cafe global andthat's a very caring very honest andreal community of small businesses I'mon Instagram as penny F power and then Ihave a website which is penny power UKand on there there's different contactforms that's fantastic and what I willdo is I will put all of those details inthe show notes thank you that's verykindno no you're very welcome I'll also puta link to the book as well because I'mlooking forward to reading that myselfand I just want to say once again pennythank you so much for your time todayit's actually been a fascinating talkeven the stuff we spoke about before theepisode and I just wanna thank you foryour time I want to thank everyone athome as wellthanks for listening wonderful andremember this podcast is absolutely freeso all we ask in return is for you toshare this with a friend and drop us afive star review over on iTunes have anawesome day See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Penny Power is Entrepreneur, Community Builder, Professional Speaker & Author. She Founded Ecademy, the first online business community for business in 1998, for which she was awarded an OBE in 2014. In this conversation, Penny opens up and tell me about the reality behind the glamour. What we never get to see behind the shiny side put forward and why she decided to talk openly about it now. She tells me the unplanned circumstances that led her to go into business and how an encounter with a young child developed her passion for helping others. She also shares why she and her husband are passionate about building great network of entrepreneurs and how they went from being valued at £22 million pounds to zero with 3 young kids to feed and the surprising lessons learnt from this experience. She tells me how she realised that the online world was causing isolation and mental health issues and has decided to talk about the hardship of entrepreneurial journey from a mental and emotional point of view. Penny believes that we should treat one another in business with kindness and create safe places to feel like we can be ourselves. If you are going through some hardship in your life and feel isolated, this open and honest conversation will re-ignite you and give you food for thought. Now let’s dive in

“Do what makes YOU happy, not what makes other people happy.” ~ Penny PowerIn the words of the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lau Tzu, “To be whole, first allow yourself to be broken” and our wonderful guest has lived this advice to become the person she is today. Penny Power is not only an incredible woman with a super hero’s name, but her journey is so extraordinary it will have you gasping in disbelief as it unfolds. In 1998 Penny created the first online business community, Ecademy. It connected business people to one another using the power of blogging, community, events and the culture of “friendship first.” Penny’s achievements were recognised by the Queen in 2014 and she was awarded an OBE for contribution to entrepreneurship in the Social Digital Economy. With her husband, she is the director of a company, Social Power Ltd. As well as a wife and mother, Penny is an author, speaker and “accidental entrepreneur.” Penny kindly opens up to us today and shares the highs and lows of being a pioneer of new ideas; you’ll be introduced to some of the hard-nosed horrors of the banking world that will make you shudder in disbelief, and that business is personal (also the title of Penny’s book!). You’ll also learn: • Business doesn’t need to be commercialised, unfriendly and automated, and how to apply and value different ways of working.• Why “small is beautiful” in the business world• Why it was that Penny allowed herself to be vulnerable and where this lead her• What caused her to sell her business for £1.00• Through all the hardships in business, and the horrific personal circumstances that would have floored the strongest of us, how Penny put the pain away and kept going.• The meltdown moment where she took Lau Tzu’s words and allowed herself to break...and the new terms under which Penny pieced herself together • What it was that lead Penny to build boundaries, and where she went to find faith. Are you self employed, an entrepreneur, or an already established business in need of guidance? This interview will help you learn and grow whatever position you’re in, and if you feel you’re not on the rise, it may save you hitting rock bottom! Learn more about our amazing guest on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram or on her website pennypower.co.ukWe love hearing from our Kitty Listeners! If you’ve got a question about today’s episode or want to leave us some inbox love, you can email us at ask@kittytalks.comOr, you can always find Kitty chatting in our Kitty Talks Facebook Community. Become part of the Kitty Club and sign up www.kittytalks.com See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Making breakthroughs in business isn't easy. In fact, it can get quite difficult. Really personal. Ask Penny Power - she's learned a lot of hard lessons, and is willing to share them all.  In this week's podcast we get very personal with Penny Power. She's started businesses and put her all into them - then saw them fail. She's learned (and shared). In the course of her "hard knock lessons" she took notes, then compiled them into a new book.  In "Business Is Personal" Penny writes about the hard work and frustrations - and the successes - that come with business.  In the course of her ups and downs, Penny has become recognised as a mental health expert for her understanding of the struggles of small business owners. To listen to her is to hear first-had the upsets and the small victories that make business so rewarding.  In the New Year Honours 2014, Penny was awarded an OBE for ‘Services to Entrepreneurship in Social and Digital Development’ by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth. The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service.  And in her struggles and successes, you hear the lessons that every business owner needs to hear. You're not alone. Penny's by your side.   

Penny Power is an author, coach and founder of one of the first business social networking platforms before Facebook and Linkedin existed. In this episode we spoke about the importance of maintaining our mental health in business and her new book “Business is Personal - be the leader of your life and business” in which she talks openly and honestly about her own emotional and mental learning after dealing with a series of major life challenges. This episode is a must listen for any entrepreneur who has faced the stresses and pressures of owning your own business as well as those working in any corporate or business environment. Enter to win Penny's book here Sign up for my weekly(ish) email for all our giveaways and updates here.    Ione Butler Facebook Instagram Twitter  Podcast  Website  IMDB   Uplifting Content Website Uplifting Clothing Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube   Penny Power Website Facebook Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

Sam talked with Thomas and Penny about how they were days away from floating on AIM and making the Powers multi-millionaires, to the low of losing their home when it all came to an end after the dot-com market crashed.The subsequent rollercoaster ride is an amazing story in itself which they tell in this podcast.They talked about how the lows were low but the subsequent recent highs have been great. Penny has since written a book about her experiences called ‘Business is Personal’Penny told us in practical terms how she fixed herself and came back to run a successful Mastermind coaching business and was awarded an OBE from the Queen in 2014 for services to business.This interview is open and very raw with warts and all but you come away feeling invigorated and rooting for Thomas and Penny as they embark on the next chapter of their life journey together.

Have you considered or perhaps experienced some of the pressures that starting your own business can have on your mental wellbeing? My name is Christian Rodwell and today I’m talking with Penny Power OBE. In 2011 due to the banking crisis and the actions of a bank, Ecademy was sold and Penny’s lessons in business and life took her on a personal journey of rebuilding. Penny has dedicated herself through her honest speaking, community building, and friendship to thousands of business owners and corporate employees. A highlight in Penny’s business and personal life came when she was appointed ** Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) In the 2014 New Year Honours for services to entrepreneurship in social and digital development. Penny has just released her new book ‘Business Is Personal: Be The Leader Of Your Life And Business’ where she shares the areas of business that are rarely discussed, but have been learned the hard way by Penny and others. The emotions we need to understand, the mind we can be in control of, and tools Penny learned, following years of hard work and many challenging moments. Penny has poured her heart into this book and it is incredibly revealing. You can pick up a copy on Amazon here In this episode we discuss: Some of the most challenging aspects of being a business owner Why Penny loves being a business owner The knowledge she wished she had of had when she started out in the world of business aged 19 Some tips to help you from experiencing self-belief challenges with your own business and personal life Links & Resources mentioned in this episode: Business Is Personal: Be The Leader Of Your Life And Business Book Guest Details: Penny Power Official Website Penny Power LinkedIn Profile Connect with Escape The Rat Race [#ETRR]: Official Website Private Facebook Group ‘ Sack Your Boss: The Ultimate Guide To Escape Your 9-5’ - [Book] Out Now! Thanks so much for joining us this week. Have some feedback you would like to share? Send us a message If you enjoy listening to our show every week, please leave us a review on iTunes! (It really helps spread the word ;)

"I'm a techy VA & hear people, including Nicola, talking about outsourcing to people overseas for $10 per/hour. How do I get across the value and compete?” Nicola’s 21 Day Challenge is all but over and 3 out of 10 active participants have joined her Clicks And Leads Academy. She has a houseguest, a dog called Wilfred Owen! In the end, after some frustration, Judith enjoyed Monday without access to internet either at home or via her mobile mini sim so apparently across all networks; sometimes you are obliged to take an unscheduled day off. What’s Fuelled Their Fire? Judith July 2018 Low-Carb Pilot is nearly a week old now and she’s done ten inductions in the last week, cajoling people into giving up their foodie addictions. Nicola’s very moved to have been hired by a long-term client as her marketing partner, something she considers to be perfect in many ways. Focus of the Week “I am a very techy VA and I keep hearing everyone (including Nicola on the podcast) talking about outsourcing to people overseas for $10 an hour. I am based in the UK and charge more than that per hour but I’m much more efficient and so much faster, as I know the various software inside out, I know about internet marketing, websites, direct response copywriting, funnel strategy, so I bring much more to the table in terms of what I can do, not to mention troubleshooting, using my initiative and my ability to see future implications of client actions etc. How do I get across the value and compete in this environment?” Words of the Week Nicola goes for Patience and Judith picks Choice. Project Updates Judith updates the listener on her de-niching, and Nicola confirms that podcast download numbers on the day each new show goes out are up from 150 to over 200. Who or What’s Impressed? Judith discovers Gertrude Bell via a film on Netflix called Queen of the Desert. Nicola’s got three – Penny Power and her new book, a revisit to a book called Profit First (while doing her own accounts) and today’s message from the Universe at TUT.com which spoke to both Judith and Nicola equally powerfully. Thanks for listening! To share your thoughts: Leave a rating and review via your podcast app Ask a question in our Facebook Group  To help the show: Subscribe via Radio Public, iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube, TuneIn, Libsyn Please share on Twitter, Facebook or whatever social media platform you love to use and tag us if you can - we love to read your comments! Website: OwnItThePodcast.com

Penny and I speak about what she wants the Business Cafe to bring to small business owners and communities, the challenges of finding the right investor and how important it is for us to look after ourselves. Penny also talks about the most important skill any business owner needs! We also talk about how loneliness impacts usand the every changing demands of the digital world and how The Business Cafe will support business owners in getting started using the tools they need.

This week we have the closest we'll probably get to having royalty on the Business Growth Podcast.   Recently I had the pleasure of interviewing Penny Power OBE.   Penny is a published author, one of the UK's most inspirational female entrepreneurs and a highly engaging and sought after speaker.   Penny founded Ecademy, the UK's first social network for business, a fore-runner to LinkedIn which followed in 2002 and FaceBook in 2004.   She authored her book in 2009 entitled “Know Me, Like Me Follow Me: What Online Social Networking Means for You and Your Business.   Penny has been married since 1990 to Thomas Power (our guest last week LINK) and has three children: Hannah born in 1992, Ross in 1994 and TJ in 1997.   Penny is no stranger to the media spotlight and regularly speaks at conferences and events and writes for press across the globe.   Understanding the small business market has resulted in Penny being sought out to advise small business owners, and the Government on issues relating to the challenges that are critical to small business success.   Recently Penny has been speaking and commentating on the changing face of society and the affect the Born Digital Generation should have on the business environment if they are given a chance to enter the commercial world and listened to by business leaders. Penny talks about the asset of Social Capital and how we must seek to grow this as well as our human and financial capital.   More recently Penny has been working on an innovative new idea, The Business Café® (LINK) which will bring social networking to the High Street via a network of Business Cafés dedicated to SME's, run and managed by Young Adults being trained in giving Digital and Fintech Skills to the local business community.   This is yet another fascinating conversation on how your business can stand out in the digital age regardless of whether you yourself are a fan of social media or not.   This is a wide-ranging and fascinating discussion that will reward repeat listening. Enjoy the show!

Special guest Esteban of the Roboplastic Podcastalypse in person! In this episode: The Big Event in Flushing, NY, "American Dream" Dusty Rhodes, "The Nature Boy" Ric Flair, Monster Mania, Tobin Bell, Dina Meyer, Judge Reinhold, Lin Shaye, Claudia Wells, Robert Patrick, and Christopher McDonald, the Eliza Dushku Fan of the Year, Cinemax Banshee, Esteban's NYC and NJ subway, smells, and experiences, the Spanish version of The Transformers, Scooter in the "Last Magic Man" episode of Challenge of the GoBots, dumb names for GoBots and He-Man characters, Penny Power and Zillions children's magazines, the Tomy Armatron, Bucky O'Hare comic books, Esteban's cringe-worthy interview with Larry Hama discussing "Pirate Jenny", celebrity deaths (James Best, Richard Dysart, Geoffrey Lewis, and Stan Freberg), Richard Dreyfus sues Disney over What About Bob? royalties, the upcoming Robotech movie debacle, young people don't know the phrase "jump the shark", Preschool Mastermind in Brooklyn, why Esteban is also called Steve, Nintendo warehouse employee "Robin Graves" complains to Kotaku, the Times Square Toys "R" Us, shopping for toiletries in the middle of the night, and would Bob Budiansky remember any of us? 120 minutes - http://www.paunchstevenson.com