In this episode of the Invest in You podcast, host Fredrik is joined by guest Rob Goddard, a business advisor and expert in selling companies. They discuss the importance of preparing a business for sale and the key factors that can make or break a deal. Rob talks about the need for business owners to make themselves redundant and build a strong team to ensure the business is not reliant on their day-to-day involvement. He also highlights the significance of having robust financial reporting and a clear growth plan to attract potential buyers. Rob shares valuable insights on the common mistakes business owners make when selling their companies and offers practical advice on how to navigate the process successfully.  KEY TAKEAWAYS The importance of determining a "magic number" when selling a business: The "magic number" refers to the capital sum needed from the sale of the business to start a new chapter in the owner's life. It is not necessarily the value of the business, but rather the amount required to sustain their desired lifestyle. Making the business owner redundant: To make a business saleable, the owner needs to build a succession plan and surround themselves with a capable team. This ensures that the business is not reliant on the owner's day-to-day involvement and increases its transferability to a new entity. The significance of financial reporting: Having up-to-date and robust financial reporting, including monthly management accounts, is crucial when selling a business. It provides potential buyers with a clear understanding of the business's financial performance and future prospects. The need for a growth plan: Many business owners lack a clear growth plan for their business. Having a well-defined growth plan, supported by reliable sales forecasts and a narrative that substantiates the numbers, can significantly increase the value of the business and attract potential buyers. The challenges of owner reliance: Businesses heavily reliant on the owner's involvement can be difficult to sell. Buyers typically expect a ready-made management team in place, and if the owner is the sales director or at the centre of everything, it can hinder the sale process. Making the owner redundant and building a capable team is essential for a successful business sale. BEST MOMENTS "I think it's the, I like educating business owners because most business owners have never sold before."  "So I've already seen their accounts by that point. So I give them a really low ball offer, right? I'll say, if I think it's probably worth 3 million, I'll say, do you know what? I think it's worth one and a half. Would you accept that today?"  "I want them to make themselves redundant and, and the business isn't reliant on their day to day input, expertise, knowledge, contacts."  "If you can show a reliable sales forecast based on real customers and how you retain people, all of a sudden now you can multiply the value quite easily."   ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Charlie Sandvall  LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/ Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram @ivansandvallThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode of Invest in You we interview Paul Griffiths, a corporate finance expert who shares insights on his coolest acquisition project with a ticket price of 4 million. Paul discusses working with private investors and investment groups, along with high-net-worth individuals. He also highlights his experience in corporate finance and his background in accounting and recruitment. Tune in to learn more about Paul's expertise in buying businesses and building senior management teams. KEY TAKEAWAYS Paul Griffiths runs a corporate finance business that primarily works with private buyers, trade acquirers, and private equity firms. They focus on businesses with a valuation of at least £1-2 million, but can handle larger transactions as well. Building relationships and trust is crucial in the acquisition process. Paul emphasizes the importance of forming personal relationships with sellers and buyers, as it helps generate confidence and traction in the transaction. To enter the field of acquisitions, Paul suggests developing skills in communication, analysis, relationship building, and project management. While a background in accounting or finance can be beneficial, there are various paths to enter the industry. Utilizing personal networks and proactively reaching out to potential employers or mentors can help young professionals break into the industry. Persistence, professionalism, and making an effort to stand out from the competition are key. Paul highlights the value of personal branding and utilizing platforms like LinkedIn to build a professional presence. Having a strong personal brand can help attract opportunities and establish oneself as a thought leader in the industry. Additionally, Paul mentions the potential for outsourcing certain tasks or roles to overseas locations to reduce costs and access talent. BEST MOMENTS "I think we, because I do mostly deal origination work at the front end of the process, it's a lot about relationships, it's a lot about giving people the comfort that we can deliver a service professionally, efficiently, ultimately, you know, giving them what they want, you know, deal flow, seeing enough deals, et cetera." "Everybody needs to move forwards." "And what I would advise is try to get an internship, try to offer your time for free." "So if you are doing good stuff, then you will stand out immediately." VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/pasha-munro/ https://blackboxglobal.net/ ABOUT THE GUEST Having served in elite military units, Pash Munro has honed his skills in high-pressure Pash’s leadership style is characterised by a commitment to teamwork, meticulous planning, and a focus on achieving objectives with the highest level of efficiency and effectiveness. He fosters a culture of excellence, empowering his teams to deliver results that surpass client expectations. Pash’s unwavering dedication to the principles of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality inspires trust and confidence in both clients and colleagues alike. Beyond his role at Black Box Global, Pash is a recognized authority in the field of security operations. He has shared his insights and expertise as a sought-after speaker at international conferences and has contributed to the development of best practices in the industry. Pash’s ability to analyse complex situations, think strategically, and provide innovative solutions has made him a respected figure among his peers. ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Charlie Sandvall LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/ Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall   Ivan Sandvall  Instagram @ivansandvall              This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik interviews Paul Harper, an attorney and executive search consultant in the UK. Paul specializes in the financial services industry, particularly wealth management and associated insurance. They discuss the recruitment industry, the challenges of sales job interviews, and Paul's involvement in mergers and acquisitions. Tune in to learn more about Paul's work as a "headhunter" and gain insights into the financial services market. BEST MOMENTS "People in the UK use the term headhunter because they know if someone calls them up and they say that they're a headhunter, what they do, which is to basically work for companies to find top executives for them." "If you want to be found, so if you're a candidate and you want people to find you, to head something for good positions, they need to be able to quickly look at your profile and work out what you do." "You just want people to believe that when they've got a problem, you might be able to help them solve that problem." "When you've got your own business unless you're going to pay loads and loads of money to other people to do things you should be able to do yourself, you have to know about finance, marketing, sales, everything, everything, everything, operations." "Qualifications and university is just a waste of time." ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Charlie Sandvall LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/ Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall Ivan Sandvall  Instagram @ivansandvallThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Join hosts Fredrik, Ivan, and Charlie Sandvall for a fun and insightful conversation about sales. They draw from their personal experiences, discussing how to overcome fear and build confidence when starting out in sales. They explore techniques like asking questions, listening, and establishing trust to create win-win sales situations and talk about the importance of believing in your product and identifying the true decision-maker. This energetic episode will get you excited about improving your sales skills. Tune in for key strategies on how to sell yourself, your ideas, and your business. KEY TAKEAWAYS Overcome fear of rejection by focusing on helping people, not just making sales. Ask questions and listen to understand what the customer truly wants. Establish trust and provide value, even if you don't make an immediate sale. Motivate sales teams by emphasising enjoyment over a stressful focus on results. Identify the real decision-maker, not just the person you are speaking with. Believe in your product and convey passion to make people excited to buy. BEST MOMENTS "It was almost as scary to knock on doors and to meet new people and to present yourself confidently, even when you're unconfident, it was actually scarier to sell than it was to fight." - Ivan "If you try to sell something that you don't believe in, try and fail and try and fail and improve yourself and learn, learn like the kind of arguments and the intricacies of it, you will eventually be able to sell that thing." - Fredrik "Well, I've actually only had a limited number of sales. And as you talked about, you have to be motivated. You have to, um. You have to really believe in what you're selling." - Charlie ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall   www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Charlie Sandvall LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/ Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall   Ivan Sandvall  Instagram @ivansandvallThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Guest Pasha Munro, Former SBS and Special Forces Operator and MD of Black Box Global talks with Fredrick, Charlie and Ivan about how he became a Royal Marine, being in the forces and his company Blackbox Having served in elite military units, Pash Munro has honed his skills in high-pressure environments and discusses some of his experiences and his drive for excellence KEY TAKEAWAYS Word of mouth and networking is the best way to generate sales I loved being in a team and being on the water and that’s how  I got into the royal marines You need to spend time building the connections and I spent a huge amount of time writing my profile on Linkedin prior to starting my business Coming out from the military means you have to intrigue people without giving away the details of what you have done and where If I don’t train I feel moody, it’s something I need to do every day Jungle training was early in my career so everything after that was easier, in the jungle it's about maintaining and putting back into your body I want to be at the top of the industry or area I am in You need to always understand your worth, and I want to pay those people  I employ what they are worth   BEST MOMENTS ‘I’m a unicorn because I have a military background and I like sales, it doesn’t usually happen’ ‘I like to run and be out in the freedom experiencing my man time’  ‘At Blackbox, we look after celebrities and royalty around the world’ VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/pasha-munro/ https://blackboxglobal.net/ ABOUT THE GUEST Having served in elite military units, Pash Munro has honed his skills in high-pressure Pash’s leadership style is characterised by a commitment to teamwork, meticulous planning, and a focus on achieving objectives with the highest level of efficiency and effectiveness. He fosters a culture of excellence, empowering his teams to deliver results that surpass client expectations. Pash’s unwavering dedication to the principles of integrity, professionalism, and confidentiality inspires trust and confidence in both clients and colleagues alike. Beyond his role at Black Box Global, Pash is a recognized authority in the field of security operations. He has shared his insights and expertise as a sought-after speaker at international conferences and has contributed to the development of best practices in the industry. Pash’s ability to analyse complex situations, think strategically, and provide innovative solutions has made him a respected figure among his peers. ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Charlie Sandvall LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/ Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall   Ivan Sandvall  Instagram @ivansandvall            This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode Fredrik chats with David Riemer, tech and ad executive, and marketer. He is the author of ‘Get Your Startup Story Straight ; The Definitive Storytelling Framework For Innovators And Entrepreneurs.’ He guides people to create the narrative of their startup, sharing their beginning motivations, their aims and values to create understanding between themselves and their target audience.    KEY TAKEAWAYS David has always been a narrative storyteller, has experience in journalism, and so has turned this skill towards startup business. Thinking in terms of a narrative, shifts the focus and viewpoint on the project. Stories have a structure. Overlay a classic story structure onto your innovation story and understand the motivations of your customer, the protagonist, and how your product or service is going to solve their problem.  One of the best ways to be successful as a business is to make a meaningful connection with your customer and understand them on a human level.  When you are telling a story, part of the narrative is conveyed by your facial expressions. Bear this in mind in zoom meetings and FaceTime. Show your expressions.  Include a human factor in your story that anybody can connect with no matter what your product is.  BEST MOMENTS   ‘I have seen this incredible thing happen when I talk to a founder about their project, and we talk about it in the context of a story. Who is the protagonist in your story? And they’ll say, “I am, I built this thing”. No, the protagonist in a product story is not you, it’s the customer.’ ‘You have to know who the protagonist is, you have to know what their motivations are and you have to have some insights into what’s motivating them. You have to understand the conflict in the story. You have to understand how their life will be better if they use your product.’ ‘People don’t care about what you say but they do care about the way you make than feel.’ ‘Why is he getting excited about this point? He’s waving his hands around. We all have to do that in a way that’s natural to us, but our bodies are part of the instrument we use as a storyteller, and our faces.’   ABOUT THE GUEST   David is a long-time tech executive and marketer. He led the ad agency J. Walter Thompson in San Francisco, held senior marketing roles at two start-ups and was VP Marketing at Yahoo! (during their heyday). David now runs Box Out Industries where he works with entrepreneurs, product managers and marketers to develop and convey their product stories. He also started Spiral Staircase Productions to collaborate with artists and is currently developing two original musicals. David teaches at Berkeley-Haas Business School and works with several accelerators throughout the Bay Area.   GUEST RESOURCES   Www.DavidRiemer.com ABOUT THE HOSTS   Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.fredriksandvall.com www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/   Charlie’s Youtube Channel:   https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Today Fredrik interviews international businessman Moran Prober. Based in Cyprus, Moran has business in U.S.A, U.K., Canada, Australia, Israel, Panama and Cyprus. He’s an expert in acquiring businesses for himself and his clients and is the founder of Acquisitions.com, helping people find the company that’s right for them.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Moran helps his clients buy profitable established business, finding the right sector and the best deals including financing.  Single run businesses with one owner are not easily saleable entities especially if it is a model that’s easily reproduced by an interested party. Financing options are very varied and there are many sources to fund the acquisition. The price often depends on the the relationship with the buyer. It’s takes time to acquire businesses so it doesn’t always pay to sell them straight away. You can acquire more business and merge them or grow the business. BEST MOMENTS   ‘In the last 3 years we helped and supported over 100 acquisitions, usually in the range of 1 to 40 million in revenue.’ ‘If you have one messy business and you want to buy 10 more businesses, you’ll just end up with 10 messy businesses.’ ‘It comes down to, why are you buying the business in the first place? For example, a lot of businesses buy other businesses for a very specific asset. Companies buying companies just for the talent.’   ‘We are making sure that we are helping them in the process, to be in the same level of knowledge us us.’   GUEST RESOURCES    Www.acquisitions.com Moran Pober LinkedIn  https://www.linkedin.com/in/moranpober/ ABOUT THE HOSTS   Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.fredriksandvall.com www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/   Charlie’s Youtube Channel:   https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

An impromptu and spontaneous transatlantic interview between Fredrik and his guest, Donnie Boivin. Author, businessman, coach, motivational speaker and podcaster, Donnie helps others to achieve a change in mindset and propel them forward to achieving their aims. He speaks candidly about the experiences and influences that have shaped his life and how he achieves a healthy momentum in his work.    KEY TAKEAWAYS Fredrik and Donnie both joined the Marines in their respective countries after finishing college.  After a long career in sales Donnie launched his business Success Champions and hit a steep learning curve and now passes what he learned from his mistakes to others to facilitate them to achieve a easier lifestyle with their businesses. A common mistake made by both Donnie and Fredrik is to accept too many tasks and become bogged down by process. The trick is to work on the business not in the business. Building a business involves a lot of bad days to get through and its best to keep these in perspective as, eventually, they will just be cautionary tales you can tell later.  With modern online instruction provided by information platforms like Google and YouTube you can keep yourself up to date without spending huge amounts of cash on training. Sanctuary is important. Donnie has a farm that is isolated from his business interests to which he can escape.  BEST MOMENTS   ‘I’m not a guy that does well with authority and people telling me what to do. When you’re going through boot camp or whatever and you realise that these people are going to keep yelling at you for a long period of time you really question your choices in life.’ ‘If you had cash, money of any sort then yes! I whatever that was that you needed done so we found ourselves doing websites, graphic design and *@$t that we had no business doing.’ ‘If you don’t educate them on how you will actually sell to them and how they can get involved to make this happen then the closing might be very odd later.’ ‘Being a salesperson is the only profession in the world where you will literally get rejected every day.’ ‘At the end of the day, do what’s right by you and I think that goes for your business as well.’   ABOUT THE GUEST   Donnie Boivin is a motivational speaker, author, podcaster, businessman and a coach that helps to change the game in mindset and success. His book “How to be a success champion: Business Strategy for Badasses” is a story of his own life that has inspired thousands to get out of their own way and go for it. Donnie Boivin has launched his career, from being a corporal in the US marine corps and spent over 2 decades mastering sales and marketing to becoming a Founder and CEO of the Success Champions family of companies. Success Champion Consulting, Growth Mode Podcast, Success Champion Magazine, the Badass Business Summit, Success Champion Networking and an award-winning professional.   GUEST RESOURCES    Donnie’s Website https://donnieboivin.com/   Text SUCCESS to (+1)8173186030 for a plethora of resources.  ABOUT THE HOSTS   Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.fredriksandvall.com www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/   Charlie’s Youtube Channel:   https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik interviews Niraj Kapur, online business coach and expert on using LinkedIn. Previously a sales trainer, Niraj found himself without a job at the beginning of the COVID crisis and switched to online training. He now specialises in using LinkedIn to achieve and facilitate his clients business goals via his training and coaching company Everybody Works In Sales. KEY TAKEAWAYS The importance of formality in virtual selling and online meetings is paramount. Put as much effort into your prep and appearance as you would to a face to face meeting. The similarities between online dating and online selling are numerous. Check out your client/dates profile to see what you have in common. Do not ask for a client meeting/date too quickly as it can unnerve potential customers/partners. Do not talk about yourself non stop. LinkedIn posts can be about any of your current business challenges you face; slow paying customers, staff retention etc. The most popular posts can be the ones that discuss how your personal life interfaces with your business life. Make the effort to meet your LinkedIn support network as it can be invaluable. Stop relying on email automation. Face to face contact and online meeting platforms such as zoom is still the best way of doing things. BEST MOMENTS ‘On a business level people would say that they know me as a coach who leads from the heart and gets results for clients.’ ‘I have grown m LinkedIn profile from 5000 people to 18,000 people. The really big growth has been from me talking about my vulnerability and the difficulty of being single in your late forties.’ ‘Personal posts work. They just do. On Father’s Day this year all my friends who posted pictures of their kids saying “this is my why” did so well.’ ‘Get on a plane, get on a bus, get on a train and go see people face to face. It’s one of the best things you can do to strengthen relationships and business is relationships.’ ‘If you have your phone there anyway and your too shy to do anything if you have the LinkedIn app you can actually send a voice mail and if you do this you actually stand out.’ GUEST RESOURCES   Niraj Kapur Sales Coaching and training ; https://everybodyworksinsales.com/ LinkedIn profile ; nkapur ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.fredriksandvall.com www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/  Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://youtube.com/c/SandvallThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In his episode of Invest in You, Fredrik talks to business and brand advisor Brendan Kane, author of ‘Hook Point : How To Stand Out In A 3 Second World’ and CEO and founder of Hook Point agency.  Brendan talks about how he started in his specialty of digital branding and publicity for the entertainment industry after initially attending film school and moving onwards to movie advertising. He details how he has helped many corporations and individuals find their “Hook Point.”   KEY TAKEAWAYS Initially planning to be a film producer Brendan found that film school offered no guidance or insight into the business side of film making so he decided to educate himself.  Brendan found his ‘Hook Point’ was his ability to assist film makers with post production online publicity of a movie. In 2007 he pioneered he idea of using YouTube influencers to publicise movies. Brendans company Hook Point helps people communicate at scale to customers and attempts to move marketing principles on with a digital forum to get their message out there with a more modern strategy. Platform algorithms have one job and that is to retain viewers so the longer they spend viewing the video the more likely that video will be seen by more viewers. Brendan spends a lot of his time meeting people and learning what they do to enhance his skills and recommends actual face to face communication as a learning tool. BEST MOMENTS   ‘As I said “I wanted to be a film producer” I could see everybody’s eyes glaze over, you’re Just one of a million. So I had to reassess and find what is my way to stand out, what is my “Hook Point.”’ ‘At my core I’m an entrepreneur. I want to build things and I found I was asking for permission to do things more than actually getting to execute.’ ‘As marketer’s or just people who want to disseminate a message at scale we are competing against hundreds of millions of messages and we need to have more nuance, more sophistication, more psychology in the way that we are constructing our content.’ ‘Most business owners have spent years mastering their craft. However, the more you become an expert in something the less you can distill it down into its simplest form.’   ABOUT THE GUEST Brendan Kane is an outside of the box thinker, speaker and author who empowers brands to scale by helping them stand out and beat competition in crowded and oversaturated markets. He is the author of the international best-selling book ​One Million Followers​ and the newly released ​Hook Point: How To Stand Out In A 3 Second World​, as well as the founder and CEO of the Hook Point agency. Brendan has worked with hundreds of individuals and brands providing business and digital strategy for more than 15 years, including MTV, Taylor Swift, Rhianna and many others. GUEST RESOURCES  Link to Brendan's new book Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World:​ ​https://book.hookpoint.com/   ABOUT THE HOSTS   Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.fredriksandvall.com www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/   Charlie’s Youtube Channel:   https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall   Youtube link to the mentioned videos Ivans "No spotter required"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzF6ImMmTYc Charlies "How to find diamonds using clay and maths"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ufkx7j67Unk This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this podcast Fredrick interviews Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm, entrepreneur and author of “How Hard Can it Be?”, a book discussing the pitfalls and methods for starting up and maintaining business.  He details his work advising companies on ‘Change Management’, the ability to change a workforce or person to facilitate new methods within an organisation.    KEY TAKEAWAYS ‘Change Management’ is the method of changing peoples perception, skills and training to facilitate new strategies and goals within an organisation. Arnaud started out his career in sales but felt more at home in Change Management and so pursued his business advisory role. He started writing the book when he realised how many questions occurred during his own startup journey that were difficult to find answers to. The book is a narrative that is entertaining written to inform you even though you don’t realise it. Arnaud gives tips on targeting your customers effectively rather than struggling to achieve maximum coverage to gain traction. BEST MOMENTS   ‘There is this idea that sales is a “nasty” thing, that salespeople as profession is not something we do but in fact we sell ourselves constantly. Everyday I’m selling to my kids to eat broccoli.’ ‘I think it was easier to write the book than do the journey that led to it.’ ‘No one could tell us the answers because our journey was unique. I needed to write that book that I wish I had read myself.’ ‘You do not need those million guys, you just need to ave those thousand guys that will buy from you because they believe what you sell.’   ABOUT THE GUEST   Arnaud Henneville-Wedholm is an entrepreneur, author and optimist. Today, he leads sales and business development at GLOBHE, a platform for drone data on demand. He is also a mentor at the Nordic Startup School, a leading startup accelerator in the Nordics. He is the founder of multiple startups, including internalDesk, a SaaS platform for enterprise collaboration. internalDesk was recognized as one of the ‘top10 tech rising stars’ in the Nordics in 2014 and was acquired by Woodreed in 2019. Arnaud’s interest areas include entrepreneurship, business models and everything related to mindset. Arnaud earned an MBA from the University of Leicester. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden with his wife and three children.   https://www.linkedin.com/in/henneville-wedholmarnaud/ booksite is:  www.howhardcanitbethebook.com   ABOUT THE HOSTS   Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall www.fredriksandvall.com www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/   Charlie’s Youtube Channel:   https://youtube.com/c/Sandvall        This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Global keynote speaker and passionate advocate for women in business; Hang Black joins Fredrik to discuss all things business, marketing and consumers. Discover how important it is to be equipped to sell value, the difference in millennial marketing and why investing in yourself means understanding the steps you need to take to reach your own definition of happiness.   KEY TAKEAWAYS   Not everyone who is selling, is selling things that are profitable. It is so important to have enablement because you do not want sellers to go in front of customers and have to drop their price. This could mean that now you are below cost in margin. You need to be equipped on how to sell value.   67% of marketing material is never even opened by a seller. This has been true for the last 30 years. With enablement you need to work out how to curate the right content and let your SME’s know which content sticks and which does not. You need to also find the processes that will keep the selling motion consistent and relevant. Make sure to modernise how to talk to your customers and reach them where they are.   44% of millennials do not want to meet their seller even one time. They want to have a contactless experience, this does not necessarily mean that they do not interact with them, it just means that they don’t contact them. One of the things you can do is to make sure when you interact with your customers you interact with them socially first. Engage with them in what they're interested in. 47% of the business decision is already made before the first phone call has been taken.   Sales is the front line to the customer, they are the closest conversation. You don’t know what is right for the customer without talking to them and collaborating with them.   Do not be afraid to try different things in your career and move around a little bit early on. You should never be afraid to take judicious risk. Careers are not necessarily linear but what you really have to learn is what your strengths are and what your values are. Learn how those two things align so that you can monetise them. Following your passions is a great saying but you have got to eat too!   Investing in yourself means giving grace to yourself. Take care of yourself before and understand what your leavers of happiness are, not other peoples definition of happiness for you, whether that be societal, cultural or familial. Understand what happiness looks like for you and invest in how to get to your definition of happiness and success.   BEST MOMENTS “What do we need to do to make it easier for the customer to buy?” “How do we meet them how they want to be met?” “It is important to have a goal of monetising your dreams.” ABOUT THE GUEST  Hang Black is a global keynote speaker on sales, leadership, and a passionate advocate for women in the workplace.   LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hangwithhang Twitter: @Hangwithhang Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Hang-Thi-Yen-Black/e/B08VL18837%3Fref=dbs_a_mng_rwt_scns_share Website: https://salesenablement.pro/experts/hang-b   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Charlie are joined today by motivational speaker and successful businesswoman Yasmina Fadli. Yasmina shares her personal story and describes how she went from strength to strength throughout the years. Together they discuss how to identify your core identity, how doing things differently will set you apart and how investing in yourself will allow you texpand you and your business.   KEY TAKEAWAYS No teenager should be left behind. They should understand that no matter what their circumstances are, they can build a life that may not seem achievable to them today. There are many possibilities and opportunities out there. Who they are to the core, is what the world is waiting for.   When you are a teenager in a vulnerable situation such as coming from a poor home where there are not a lot of opportunities around you, you need to try to connect with your core identity. Your core identity is not what society thinks of you. We all have a big potential in life and the world is waiting for that potential.   Do things differently which will set you apart. That is how you can identify who you need to become to ensure that your customers are served, you bring them value that they deserve and you can create long term relationships with your clients.   Many people consider sales to be ‘sleazy’, however if you serve from your heart and what to get your customer to achieve the results they are looking for then that is when you can become successful in sales.   Your business or your life will only expand in the ration that you are willing to invest in yourself. If you are not investing in yourself or growing your business and your life will all continue to stay the same. The more you invest in yourself the more your business and life will expand. At the end of your life, if you are learning, growing and staying focused on your vision then you are going to see that the end result will be higher than where you started.   BEST MOMENTS “I am more than the label they put on me.” “Those are two main drivers in what I am working for.” “I did things differently that set me apart.” “If I didn't invest in myself I would never have made it this far.”   ABOUT THE GUEST As a result of working with the Corporate Game Changers, organizations grow their revenue by at least 25%, expand their customer portfolio and develop new business pipelines. Yasmina combines her passion for customer excellence, curiosity in people and learning about organization's challenges and goals, to go outside of her own comfort zone and guide companies outside of theirs. That is where the change and the magic happens. Contact: LinkedIn: https://be.linkedin.com/in/yasminafadli Twitter: @YasminaFadli Website: https://yasminafadli.com ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Award winning business leadership coach, international speaker and one of the UK’s top 100 entrepreneur mentors Andrew Priestly joins Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie today to talk all things business. Together they discuss how important it is for entrepreneurs to know their own values, the mindset of an entrepreneur and how to invest in yourself means you need to first believe in yourself.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The best entrepreneurs are really clear on their values and their overall intentions. What is it you’re trying to do? Whilst making money is appealing in business, it is not the sole reason you should be an entrepreneur, think about what your overall goal is.   Most businesses work on this idea of ‘money’ and ‘volume’. So if you have a really low cost item, then you have to drive the volume up, you always want to make a profit. Your job is to market and drive traffic as you cannot offer something at a low price at a low volume.   The mindset of an entrepreneur is knowing that you can create massive value for people because you know who your market is, what they want and the problems they are trying to solve.   Direction and determination are two variables that drive entrepreneurs. You need to know where you are going and how you want to get there. You might know where you want to go but if you lack the direction, you won’t get there. You might have determination, but you don’t know where you’re going.   To get anywhere in life you have to invest but you have to understand what investing actually means. To invest means to deep dive, reflect and take time to think things through. You should also invest emotionally in yourself, invest in your dreams and desires and always believe in your ability to achieve them, that in itself is investment. A lot of people invest outwardly but they do not work on themselves internally.   BEST MOMENTS “You will get less people, but they will start paying more money.” “If you cannot get $97 worth of value out of a two hour seminar then you need to check for the pulse.” “As soon as you start to look ripped your ego goes through the roof.” “You learn a lot just by doing stuff.”   ABOUT THE GUEST Andrew Priestley is a qualified, award-winning business leadership and executive coach with extensive experience working with a diverse range of established SME and corporate clients worldwide.In 2017, he was ranked in the Top 100 UK Entrepreneur Mentors .Qualified in Industrial and Organisational Psychology, he is the best-selling author of three books: The Money Chimp, Starting and Awareness; and has edited several other best-selling titles including Retire Inspire, Sales Genius, and the bestselling Fit For Purpose Leadership series.He initially started coaching high-end compliance clients (aviation, mining, law, medicine, engineering etc) and developed an award winning leadership development methodology based on five traits of highly effective leaders, that is used worldwide.Andrew is a highly sought after international speaker and facilitator.   Contact: Website: https://andrewpriestley.com/about-andrew-priestley/ Linkedin: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/andrewpriestley Twitter: @ARPriestley   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Listen in to today’s podcast as Fredrik and Ivan are joined by former world boxing champion, personal performance coach and motivational speaker Billy Shwaer. With over 23 years of boxing experience, it is safe to say that Billy knows what he is talking about, together they discuss the mindset of a professional fighter, how the true test of your character is somebody who can show up when they do not feel like it, and why investment in your personal development should never stop. KEY TAKEAWAYS There are two fighting mindsets. The first is that you love to win and this encourages your need to be successful in the sport. The second mindset is that you truly hate to lose, this hatred spurs fighters on to become the best at their sport as they cannot stand the thought of losing. There is no right or wrong mindset, people have become champions with both mindsets.   It takes courage to step into the fighting ring and try yourself out. It is admirable of anybody who finds the courage to have a go and step into the ring. You will find yourself having to overcome that fear all the time.   Your true test of character has to show up even in the face of not feeling like it. If you don’t feel like going to training and you would rather have a day off, you have to go beyond yourself and find something within you that carries you forward even in the toughest of times. There are no hiding places in fighting, you have to summon something up from within in yourself. It is a huge test of your strength and willingness in the face of suffering pain and defeat to continue and fight for victory.   The biggest investment that you can make is the investment in yourself. Investing in yourself means investing your own time, effort and money into your personal development. You could have spent thousands of pounds investing in training programmes, courses or personal hobbies to develop yourself, but you should never stop investing in yourself.     BEST MOMENTS “I had to find a way to prove, cover-up and survive being weak, that was why I became a boxer” “It was tough getting punched in the face.” “It is euphoric and amazing.” “I want to be free, I don’t want to be tied down.”   ABOUT THE GUEST Billy Schwer is a former British, Commonwealth, European & World Boxing Champion who is now a personal performance coach. Billy is a reflective and engaging speaker who demonstrates honesty and intelligence through his Mental Boxing training programme. Billy believes that to produce world-class results in all areas our lives require a balance of mental, physical and nutritional fitness. Billy is a Certified Master Practitioner of NLP (ABNLP), Certified Master Practitioner of Time Line Therapy, a Certified Master Practitioner of Hypnosis and a Certified Master NLP coach. Billy spent 20 years at the top of his field in arguably the most gruelling and demanding sport there is – Boxing.  During his professional career, he won British, Commonwealth, European and IBO World Boxing Titles. With over 23 years’ worth of boxing experience and 10 years of studying Ontology (the study of the art and science of being), Billy believes that Boxing is a great metaphor for life. His experiences in the world of personal growth and change have helped him come to the idea of Mental Boxing. Billy is one of the most consistently brilliant fighters Britain has ever seen, with his sharp skills, courage, determination and grace in the ring he has attracted a huge fan base. His engaging personality and ready wit made him a favourite amongst other boxers, promoters, and the media. Using the lessons he learnt during his time in pursuit of the world championship, his life experiences after retirement from professional boxing, his principles of freedom, love joy and happiness, his utter conviction that anything is possible, Billy has built a successful business as an Inspirational & Motivational Speaker and Performance Coach for Mental Boxing. Actively involved in many Charities since 1991, Billy finds a great deal of fulfilment in positively contributing to the community and peoples’ lives.   CONTACT DETAILS https://billyschwer.com/ Email: Billy@billyschwer.com   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today's podcast, Fredrik is joined by international Yoga expert, wellness coach and entrepreneur, Train Calmeyer. Together they discuss how the pandemic has allowed for entrepreneurs to reflect upon their existing business model and how they can move with the times and the qualities behind a good leader. Train also shares some of her top tips to stretching and looking after yourself whilst working from home. KEY TAKEAWAYS The pandemic has required people to take a step back and reflect on how you can move your business and what that has to offer to an online platform. Use your current network of facilitators that you have gained over your experience within your niche industry and keep building upon that database to allow you to grow your company to new levels.   The engagement rate for on demand and pre-recorded content is quite low because it is completely dependent on the persons discipline to watch the content themselves. Anybody can go onto YouTube and watch a video if they have the will to do it. If you provide a live service whereby there is a person on the other end of the call to engage with and who you can ensure are listening to things.   When you have been sitting too much at a computer, one exercise that is highly recommended is to go and stretch against a wall. You can put your hands higher than your head, walk your feet back away from the wall and let your body sag against the wall, stretching out your back. This will help you to open up your chest. Anything to help opening up the chest and shoulders when you have been sitting at a computer too much is going to be a good thing.   A leader has to be focused on what their team is doing and has to be the example for their team. A real leader is always prepared for themselves and their team.   A very helpful thing to do, is to take a very deep breath. Repeat this in a sequence inhaling on a count of four, exhaling for a count of four. You will notice that your state, the way that you are breathing, and the way you are anticipating the breathing is going to calm you down.   Linked in has changed for the better post pandemic. A lot of people are sharing the realness of the working experience and it has gotten to be a more genuine and authentic social media platform. Twitter is another platform where entrepreneurs are able to share their real experiences in the industry. It also allows people to find a way to connect, collaborate and share information and ideas. BEST MOMENTS “I also definitely see that there is a disconnect in the online space.” “This whole part of your body that is usually quite compressed and working, gets opened up.” “I really love LinkedIn.” “ a leader has to be focused on what their team is doing.”   ABOUT THE GUEST Tarin Calmeyer is  an international yoga, meditation and wellness coach and she works with forward thinking brands who value the wellness of their workplace. She taught thousands of people around the world to implement simple, mindful techniques that result in monumental lifestyle changes. She founded Remote Team Wellness to support company well-being, regardless of where employees work from.   CONTACT DETAILS: Instagram: @Thechocolatepretzel LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tarincalmeyer Website: https://remoteteamwellness.com       ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today’s episode Fredrik is joined by financial consultant, health and life agent and podcaster Sarry Ibrahim. Together they discuss Sarry’s unique approach to investment, an approach described as ‘self-banking’. Learn today how to leverage whole life insurance policies to allow you to become your own bank, how to ‘Ten-X your life and why you don’t have to have lots of money to start investing. KEY TAKEAWAYS Nowadays a bank is just a middle man between people who have money and people who need money. They charge people fees on both sides and some banks do not have any money at all, they just leverage from one hand to the next hand and use other people's money in between.   Many people are able to become their own banks and have ‘self-banking’ principles. This does not mean you have to become a registered, chartered bank but having the infinite banking concept. It is the utilisation of dividend paying life insurance.   Whole life insurance has two parts if it is structured the correct way. It has cash value, and life insurance which is almost like a savings account inside the life insurance policy. If you build up your policy you can eventually start to earn interest and dividends every year, which compounds and the cash value grows. The banking part comes in by giving you access to the money. You can borrow against it without interrupting the growth.   Anybody can adopt this principle. It is about having the ability to understand what to do with the money from the moment you earn it until the moment you spend it. Before you spend the money you can have it sit in the whole life policy, borrow against it and then use that over and over again so that you can become your own source of financing whilst still growing cash reserves.   The ten X rule is valuable to investors. If you can take everything that you are doing, put it in brackets and multiply it by ten, then you will multiply every one of those things by ten. This theory works for everything from investment, to how many podcast shows you can get onto. If you can do that formula once, what is stopping you from doing it again?   Many people believe that they cannot do any money investing unless they have a lot of money. This is not true, there is a lot of leverage out there. The word ‘leverage’ to entrepreneurs is fascinating. It is especially fascinating what you can do, if you leverage other people's money.   BEST MOMENTS “You can still apply certain benefits even if you’re not in the US” “You don’t have to be in the banking industry, you don’t have to have millions of dollars, you can do this with any amount of money it is about having the ability.”   ABOUT THE GUEST Sarry Ibrahim’s business is to help high net worth individuals, real estate investors, business owners and retirees grow and protect their wealth predictably and safely. As a Financial Consultant, Health and Life Agent, Sarry has cultivated a reputation for putting his clients first, no matter what. He prides himself on attending all client meetings without expectations or preconceived ideas to ensure that he is solving his client’s problems. That’s the value Sarry offers.   VALUABLE RESOURCES Bank on You with Sarry Ibrahim:  https://omny.fm/shows/the-property-nomads/bank-on-yourself-finance-your-lifestyle-and-your-d https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarry-ibrahim-mba-ltcp-bank-on-you/   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Charlie take a trip down memory lane today as they look back on fond memories of places they’ve had the pleasure to call home, and places they’ve visited on their travels. Together they discuss their favourite countries, how your future may be dictated  by your country of origin and why it is important to enjoy where you live.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Your future success in life often depends where you were born and where you grew up. People from third world countries are often unable to access higher education since there is often a lack of internet connection or reading materials.   You will save so much time by choosing to live close to where your hobbies and interests are readily available. Another thing to take into consideration is where you work, how long is your commute? Many people spend hours in their cars or on public transport commuting.   Lebanon is a wonderful place to live and work. The people, food and climate are just some of the desirable attributes of the country. The people are extremely generous, if they have nothing they will try to give you everything. The spirit of the people is much like the spirit of the UK.   Be careful when you pick where you want to settle or where you want to be temporarily. There are places in the world where it can be dangerous for outsiders to visit. Make sure you stay in the safe areas of the places you are visiting so as to avoid being in the wrong place at the wrong time.   You are not a tree you have the ability to pick up your things and move wherever you like. If you are an entrepreneur your job is less location dependent meaning you can move around more freely than those who have a job in a specific location.   BEST MOMENTS “You could go skiing in the winter and go straight down and jump into the sea in the afternoon.” “I would like to check out more countries in South America.” “The number one question to consider is..where would you like to live?”   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today's podcast Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie are joined by a social media expert Mano Guiragossian . They share specialist knowledge of social media which can help you to get noticed in the crowded but ever growing world of social media platforming. Discover how to create organic reach, boost your engagement and how to lengthen your average watch time.   KEY TAKEAWAYS You don’t have to always produce ‘content’ you just have to document the process. Even if you are failing and you produce content about your journey, it is more valuable than the success. People can relate to real life failings because this is what they are experiencing in their daily life.   The problem with social media is that when people are producing content, not enough people are able to view it as they limit the organic reach. In most cases, the problem is not the quality of content but it is the distribution.   If you have a pillar piece of content such as Youtube or Podcasting, repurpose this into short clips or graphics and publish this on Facebook on Instagram. From there you can boost this shortened piece of content to reach multiple people. If your content is good enough you will gain subscribers who will then engage organically with your profile. The more engagement you get on Facebook, Facebook will recognise this as high quality and will then increase the reach for a low cost.   To increase your watch time on YouTube the first thing you need to do is keep the audience entertained. If you are talking about something educational, engage the audience by using animations. If you are producing other content, find ways to keep them entertained by promising them a bonus at the end of the video to encourage them to watch the entire video.   Podcasts can teach you new things from the guests that are being interviewed. Partaking in an interview for a podcast can encourage their audience to come over to your platform. Providing a podcast for your existing followership will give them additional value and encourage them to become loyal to you and your content.   If you have really good content and it is keyword optimised, you will still be getting traffic for years and years. This is because people are searching for it and will continuously view it, this is a benefit of search engine platforms like YouTube and Google.                     BEST MOMENTS “At the end of the day we are all people. You don’t have to always be right with your content. Just put out what you have and people will engage with it.”   “I always think of new ways to distribute my content and get it in front of new people.”   “I use my podcast to engage with my existing audience and provide them with additional value.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/manoguiragossian/   https://www.amazon.com/Money-Matters-Everything-Should-Learned-ebook/dp/B07M8DBKH2 https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronicakarascfp/ https://www.veronicakaras.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Ivan are joined today with American financial advisor and author of ‘Money Matters: Everything You Should Have Learned in School, but Didn't!’ Veronica Karas. Together they discuss the benefits of university, how money is the pathway to achieving your desired impact on the world and discovering your financial blueprint.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The biggest benefit of going to university is networking. Networking at university can kick start your career. If you plan to become specialised in a field such as finance or medicine, what you study at university will be used daily in your job.   Money is the pathway to the level of contribution and impact that you want to have in the world. More money means that you can help more people, reach more people and have the ability to set up programmes designed to help others. Money is the means to the bright level and impact that you want to envision for yourself.   Your attitude towards money is formed from childhood. Things that you hear from parents and your upbringing start to formulate how you see your financial life. Therefore they form a blueprint which influences decisions you will make with money. Whether you are a saver or a spender has a lot to do with how you feel about money.   If you don’t give yourself a plan B you have no way out of something. This is especially true in business where you will find ways to go until you succeed. If you have no other choice but to succeed, you will find a way.   The best advice for young investors is to start now. Even if you only invest $20 into the stock market, the sooner you start the better. Time is your biggest friend in investment.   BEST MOMENTS “I got into finance early enough so that I could understand what it would mean to have that debt.”   “Money is still the third most common cause of divorce in the world.”   “I made it happen because I had no choice but to make it happen.”   ABOUT THE GUEST Veronica Karas is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional who has been in the finance industry for over a decade. She began her career in life insurance then quickly moved into investment research before grabbing the opportunity to pursue her passion for financial planning. She enjoys the variety of helping clients from all walks of life achieve their financial goals and works with individuals and couples to minimize their tax burdens, maximize their savings and investment earnings, understand college funds, organize their estate planning, and everything else that touches their financial lives. Veronica’s passion is guiding people to make sound financial decisions and become financially independent in a way that works for them. She feels a deep sense of commitment to her work and truly feels grateful for every single client and colleague she has had the pleasure of working with over the years. In addition to her CFP® designation, Veronica also has an MBA & a Life & Health license. In her spare time, Veronica spends time with her husband and rescue pet in Port Washington, NY, and enjoys educating youth around the tri-state area in all areas of financial literacy and mentoring others as a Transformational Life Coach. She is committed to helping every single person she possibly can to achieve Financial Freedom! VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.amazon.com/Money-Matters-Everything-Should-Learned-ebook/dp/B07M8DBKH2 https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronicakarascfp/ https://www.veronicakaras.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Internationally renowned entrepreneur, author and keynote speaker, Robert Wallace joins the Invest In You podcast to discuss entrepreneurship, successful mindsets, reaching your goals and objectives and why it is critical to adapt to the environment around you. Listen in and discover business and life lessons that can help scale your business, build more strategic partnerships and disrupt your industry. KEY TAKEAWAYS The younger generation is not interested in nibbling around the edges of existing systems as that may not work, they will look to disrupt the system, break it and then re-build it into a system that is conducive and reflects the interest of the people.   You can get a lot more done by working with people through strategic partnerships. 99% of entrepreneurs who have been successful are where they are because they have built alliances and strategic partnerships with parties who share their vision.   Never lose the ability to dream. It is the power of a dream that will change lives and that will change the world. As we get older the pressures of life discourage our ability to dream.   Be clear on the destination point that you desire to be in the future and build a bridge to where you want to be by aligning yourself with others who share your vision around the world as they will help you to achieve your dreams. The environment around us will always be changing and it is critical that entrepreneurs must be able to pivot, change and adapt their business to be successful during tough times.   BEST MOMENTS “All of us have at least one book in our gut” “Always disrupt a system, break it apart and re-build it” “I wish I had learned the lessons of strategic partnerships when I was younger” “Never lose the ability to dream” “Be clear on the destination point that you desire to be in the future” “There is an art and a science to building partnerships to achieve your objectives in business”   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.robertwallace.com/     ABOUT THE GUEST Robert L. Wallace is an internationally known entrepreneur, author, business consultant and keynote speaker. With more than 41 years of industry experience spanning engineering, energy, IT and executive coaching, Bob leverages his expertise to educate and inspire entrepreneurs, executives and audiences around the world. CONTACT METHOD bob@robertwallace.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertlwallace/Tel: 410-962-6533   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Join an exciting discussion around entrepreneurship, mindset, sales and social media as Invest In You welcomes   Real-Estate Agent, Author and Speaker, Chris Stafford to the show. Listen in as they dive into sales and marketing techniques, how to build a routine of consistency and what it takes to start, grow and scale a business.     KEY TAKEAWAYS   Social media is a double-edged sword. It can be positive for advertising and for reaching your audience and sharing positive messages, however there is also a lot of negativity attached to social media that can affect your mindset, harm your brand and take up a lot of your time.   Your success as an entrepreneur is dependent on your routine and your ability to be consistent with ‘your way’ of selling. You have to find what works for you, for your business and what you can do on a consistent business to drive sales.   Entrepreneurs miss out on a lot of business if they’re not leveraging their S.O.I (sphere of influence). Referral marketing is a great way to get new clients. After service, survey your happy customers and generate a positive flow of new clients into your business. Social can also be used to connect with professionals that will be connected to your ideal customers so ask them for referrals.   Similar to listing and selling properties, starting a business takes tenancy, persistence, consistency and a fun environment to work in.   Investing in you means to invest in your physical and mental wellbeing and to develop a solid routine that sets you up for success.   BEST MOMENTS “The most important factor to sales is consistency” “Everybody has to have a consistent routine and your success is dependent upon your routine” “Entrepreneurs can be the connection to your community” “It’s important to put yourself in a state of joy by loving what you do”   VALUABLE RESOURCES www.TheAgentUnleashed.com Massive Abundance Book CONTACT METHOD Chris Stafford has been selling property in San Francisco for over 25+ years and is a successful author, coach and teacher and now helps others get into real-estate. Chris is the author of "Massive Abundance" and AFTER 25 YEARS listing properties, he has created a way to get more listings and more commission income without working 24/7 and spending everything on marketing and as a nationally recognised trainer and speaker, Chris regularly shares his knowledge on real estate tactics and mindset with those looking to get into property.     ABOUT THE GUESTChristopher StaffordDRE 01155105 www.TheAgentUnleashed.com www.Twitter.com/realcstafford https://www.facebook.com/Christopher.S.Stafford https://www.linkedin.com/in/theagentunleashed/ https://www.instagram.com/realcstafford/   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2 Contact Charlie SandvallCharlie Sandvall LinkedInContact Ivan SandvallIvan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik is joined by Digital marketing expert, founder of GrowthExpertz and leader in growing and scaling startups from Dubai to Silicon Valley, Andrew Miller. Listen in as Fredrik and Andrew discuss how to efficiently scale start-ups by growing your own PR list, how to master the foundations of marketing and why focusing on your mission and solving problems and not earnings millions is the key to success. KEY TAKEAWAYS   When starting and scaling a business, your goal should never be to exit, your goal should be to solve problems and help people. If you reach a point where an exit investment injection of capital will help you reach your mission quicker than you should take it, but your goal should never be to make millions.   Follow the marketing foundation by tightening your analytics, ensuring you have the right call to action and the correct lead magnet for your product, the right social media branding and onboarding process. All of these things, in the beginning, are hard to get right and it’s therefore important to hire a consultant for the first 6-12 months marketing for your start up.   Public relations and PR marketing boils down to building a list of people that you want to tell your story to and communicating it in an easy to consume manner that builds interest and intrigue and value in the minds of your audience.   Growth hack: Subconsciously grow your own PR list as you begin to develop your product. Over time your list will give you a head start when it comes to realising news about your product or service. BEST MOMENTS “Learn to walk on your own before you start sprinting with Facebook or Google etc” “People aren’t investing in the right areas of marketing at the right time”.   “Everyone is building products to help solve peoples problems” “When the goal is to make money and profit, you have a shorter fuse to move onto the next thing.”   “The US market for startups is worth 10-15 times more than the rest of the world combined and around 70% is located in San Francisco”   “You have to keep changing what you do in your life until you find that product-market fit that makes you happy. Until you find that, everything else falls by the wayside.” “Invest In You means spending money and time to create a better future for yourself.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Sign up for Andrew's book :) https://publishizer.com/0-growth/checkout/18925/   ABOUT THE GUEST Andrew Miller spent 15+ years building growth for young startups from Dubai to Silicon Valley. After three successful, VC-backed startup exits as Head of Marketing, he founded a boutique startup marketing consultancy GrowthExpertz, in 2016. Since then, Andrew has launched and scaled growth channels for tech projects in over 10 countries and lectured on Growth Hacking and Digital Marketing around the globe. I've worked with both 500startups and yCombinator projects, lead startup projects with multi-billion-dollar corporations, written for Startup Grind and Startup Nation and even launched my own interactive online growth hacking course (ask me for a discount). CONTACT METHOD Andrew Lee Miller https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewstartups/   Andrewstartups.com   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Many people say that education is the key to success and today’s guest, founder of education platform ScholarKid, Soraya Grace 100% agrees. Success needs a person with a strong foundation and lots of knowledge and wisdom and today, Grace shares her lessons on how to start, grow, scale and run a successful business. KEY TAKEAWAYS Business should be taught at an early age to nurture the entrepreneurial gift of a person at an early stage and gives people the advantage of time. Education is always the key to success, and parents should prioritise school and a comfortable environment for your child to build knowledge. Armed with knowledge, your kid will overcome lots of challenges. Nowadays, if you are not online or on any social media platforms out there, then you will not be as successful as you want. It’s easy to advertise your products or services online, buy goods and even work virtually and by being online you will be able to keep up with the trends to scale up your business. Your team will also determine how successful you become, because if you have a very good team that works for you passionately then your business will grow. Schools should be run wisely, as both a business and a school offering quality education to their pupils, striking s balance between a school and a business. People need to have a network as well as maintain a good relationship with the people in their network. BEST MOMENTS “A lot of children or students have different learning styles.” “It's so easy to start anything online now and social media.” “Making assumptions can lead us down the wrong path.” "England has made it pretty easy for anyone to start a company." “Every country has got its pros and cons.” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.scholarkid.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Soraya Grace is the founder of ScholarKid, an education technology platform founded in 2017. This is an online high school to help educate children who are living in third world countries. CONTACT METHOD https://www.linkedin.com/in/sorayagrace/ https://www.instagram.com/scholarkid/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Many investors have lost money in the stock market by listening to others, watching the news or following a trend. This happens because they make their decisions based on emotions, and in today's episode, Invest In You guest, Sean Tepper introduces us to software that reduces risk, saves money and invests confidently.   KEY TAKEAWAYS What is FIRE Movement? This is Financial Independence, Retire Early, and it's for those individuals who they want to do more in life than just work. They want to enjoy the hobbies and enjoy the freedom and it's about creating revenue streams that are leveraged, or build something and sell something and take a liquidity payment. A wise entrepreneur is someone that invests in different things and has multiple streams of income and does not depend on one. This is advantageous in that when one investment goes wrong, there's still income flowing in. Business people should also have platforms such as podcasts where they can educate young upcoming entrepreneurs and to elevate their voices and increase their reach. An entrepreneur is someone that has patience. Investing is one of those things where if you're looking for instant gratification, immediate rewards, it's not for you, you've got to be patient, but the payoff can be huge. There is no such thing as luck, to become successful, you have to work very hard, you need to put in a lot of your time into what you do and be wise when making major decisions in your company. The best investment that you can make is in the stock Buy shares when they are selling at a low cost so that you can sell them at a higher price and make a profit. BEST MOMENTS “You don't need as much money as you think to live a millionaire lifestyle.”“The foundation of logic is math.”“Don’t take risks but make definitive returns.”“Constant investments in yourself, it's not money, making sure you're bringing in the right knowledge.” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://tykr.pro/ ABOUT THE GUEST Sean Tepper, the founder and CEO of TYKR is a software guy and has been in software engineering for about 15 years. He’s an outdoors guy and lives in a suburb of Milwaukee city in Wisconsin. He enjoys boating, kayaking, fishing and does a lot of mountain biking. CONTACT METHOD https://paybacktime.pro/ https://tykr.pro/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/seantepper/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Do you want to make your questioning better and better and learn how to scale your business in extraordinary ways?  Discover Fredrik and Ivan’s major tips on how to question others, how to start and run your business successfully which businesses books can help take your venture to the next level. KEY TAKEAWAYS If you are an entrepreneur or you want to be an entrepreneur, you should read as many business books as you possibly can so that you can get the knowledge that is required in the business world. How To Make Money As a Teenager is a book that is about to go out to the public but it is still in the process of being finished and I'm sure that this will be one of the best business books there will be for everyone. Most people don’t know how to plan for their money, such that when they are given $100, it feels like nothing and they wouldn’t know what to buy with that. It is important that you learn how to use your money wisely if you want to be successful in life. Use the mental power to not dwell too much on failure and be super active. Attend training, study and involve yourself in positive activities, this will help you deal with failure. People are so stuck in their minds and sometimes they get hindered by consumption and using other people's products to become pacified and not do something themselves. Entrepreneurs just take the initiative and wait for the outcome. Invest while you are young because you have the advantage of time, in that, when you fail in the first trial, you still havetime to recover. You can keep the focus of this by keeping yourself active and physically fit through exercises. BEST MOMENTS “It’s a big process to put your thinking into words.” “Learn from your mistakes and do it better.” “Just do it.” “It takes 10,000 hours to become an expert in something.” "Don't get stuck applying for jobs that you don't get, stay home, live at home, save costs, live frugally, and build your experiences." “Work and live on your passion project.” “Spend the first few years working before trying to do any entrepreneurial things yourself.” “You can kill your passion by making it your job.” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://tribeofmentors.com/ Property Magic by Simon Zutshi Trust is the New Currency by Sheila Holt, Fredrick Sandvall How To Make Money As a Teenager ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn   Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall Instagram This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Most entrepreneurs are afraid of investing or owning a business abroad but have no fear because, in today’s episode, international speaker, best selling author and business strategist Lauren Cohen joins the show. Listen in as Lauren shares her tips on investment strategy, international business ownership and how you too, can build your own portfolio of properties across multiple countries. KEY TAKEAWAYS Investing while you are young is very important because you get to leverage the aspect of time, in that, when you fail in the first attempt, you still got time to try again the second time and the third time. Property investing is one of the best investments you could ever make because it's a lasting investment and can generate multiple streams of income. There are different types of visas in the immigration sector, and as an entrepreneur, you should have a better understanding of all these visas and understand the pros and cons of having a particular visa when investing in certain countries. Partner with different people with different skills and knowledge when investing globally and aim to have a local partner that can manage the project on the ground. As an entrepreneur in the United States, you should know the legal rules that are in each state and figure out which would state rules and regulations best fit your business sector and give you the opportunity for growth. BEST MOMENTS “Green cards are the coveted option, although not always.” “Investing in yourself means believing in yourself enough to take risks.” “If you don't invest in yourself now, you're going to miss the boat and not have the opportunity.” “When you're investing in a new country, no matter what country it is, you can't just get guidance from that country's professionals.” “Don’t cut corners and don't find your answers on the internet.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Finding Your Silver Lining Book by Lauren Cohen https://www.creativerealestateinvestorsacademy.com/ ABOUT THE GUEST Lauren A. Cohen, international speaker, #1 bestselling author and immigration and business strategist, is an attorney licensed in both the U.S. (TN) and Canada (ON). As an active AILA (American Immigration Lawyers Association) member, Lauren boasts a stellar track record of success. She was also recently recognized as one of 2017’s “Super Lawyers” by Attorney-at-Law Magazine. CONTACT METHOD https://www.linkedin.com/company/e-council-inc./ https://ecouncilinc.com/ founder@ecouncilglobal.com 8667240085  ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

David Blatt, the CEO of Capstack Partners & real-estate investor joins the Invest In You Podcast to discuss all things investing. Join in as David, Fredrik & Charlie dive into the art of negotiation, what a good deal looks like for you and your investors and discuss some golden rules real estate investors should live by when trying to secure deals at the right price, build a long-term sustainable income and create generational wealth.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Pre-COVID the market was so competitive and it was difficult to find BMV deals that made sense. Since Covid-19 has distributed the market it has brought about a lot of new opportunities in real estate investing and now deals are being struck at much better prices to the investor. If you’re only dealing in price than you’re not able to be creative. Real estate negotiating is all about learning what your counterpart needs and how you can help them. This could be the speed of the purchase/sale, flexibility, creating more value and “enlarging the pie” As an entrepreneur, If you want to stay in front of the computer screen then there are other businesses that are more inclusive that way, but real estate investing allows you to bring in a human dynamic to the equation, the skill of negotiation and ability to build lasting relationships. It’s important to think about your base price in a deal/negotiation that you’re willing to take on. It’s important to stay disciplined and only do the deal at a price that makes sense for you. Real estate is a source of wealth-building that requires a long-term horizon and no speculation as it’s not a liquid asset class. To be successful you must think for the long term and this can be beneficial when competing against institutions who have a 3-5 year exit plan for deals.   You should always be assessing your situation, learning and asking how you could do it better in the future. Investing requires discipline and the ability to understand what you’re going to walk away with after a deal is done. Is it worth your time?   BEST MOMENTS  “You’ve got to bring money into the deal and for me, it’s like putting together a puzzle” “CapStack is a mix of different funding sources bringing money to a deal. Usually a combination of debt and equity.”“Capstack means a pile of money, but also a bunch of risk” “Don’t get caught in the trap where you overstretch on price, hoping the market will help you recover your losses” “If you want to speculate, don’t play and real estate. Go and trade in the stock market.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Howard Marks - The Most Important Thing Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in Youhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=ukhttps://sandvallinvest.com/https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondonhttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2Contact Charlie SandvallCharlie Sandvall LinkedInContact Ivan SandvallIvan Sandvall Instagram ABOUT THE GUEST David Blatt is the CEO of CapStack Partners, an advisor focused on helping real estate clients find debt solutions, including project financing, loan sales & syndications, and loan workouts and restructuring. A licensed attorney, real estate broker and advisor. David is the host of the real estate investment podcast, "Make the Deal: Real Estate Investing with David Blatt" He has also been a professor at NYU and guess what he was teaching? Negotiation... https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidblatt-capstackceo/https://www.capstackpartners.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Discover today the benefits of investing in yourself both professionally and personally as Fredrik is joined by David Henzel, a veteran entrepreneur who has been building in the SaaS and e-Commerce space for over 20 years. Together they discuss how to invest in yourself, why having short and long term goals can allow you to stay on track and why accountability partners are necessary to your progress.   KEY TAKEAWAYS It is important to invest in each aspect of your life. This could be investing time in your family and investing in your business but it is crucial to invest in yourself. Invest in your own personal growth which is a combination of keeping yourself in shape, as well as growing mentally. A great way to grow is by investing in learning new skills and information, this can be through audiobooks, personal training, travelling and conferences.   Another way to invest in yourself is by building your personal brand. Build an amazing network of people with the aim of improving the lives of each person you meet. Each time you meet someone new, think to yourself ‘where can I provide value to this person?’. This could be by offering them advice in personal development, training tips or offering them business connections. Whilst there may not be much short term gain, think of the long game and how this can help you in the future.   Having a ten-year goal is a rough direction of where you want to go in life. Having a shorter 30-day goal is the actionable plan. These are the things that you want to quickly accomplish and they are goals that are achievable within that time frame. Set yourself further goals to reach in 90 days time, these are actionable goals that can easily be reached in this time frame with dedication. Without something like this, you are wandering around aimlessly without clear direction.   Having someone to discuss your training with, or even to train alongside will help keep you accountable. Accountability is the key to progress. Meeting in small groups for a short period of time, whereby you talk through your personal progress will ensure you are extra accountable and help you to stay on track. Having accountability partners makes all the difference and makes it easy to stay on track.   BEST MOMENTS  “I like being at conferences and learning from smart people, so yes, always invest in ourselves.” “If we don’t have health, we won’t have much. We won’t have the power to endure and enjoy.” “It is okay to nose dive if you get back up and do it again.”   ABOUT THE GUEST David Henzel is a veteran entrepreneur who has been building in the SaaS and e- Commerce space for over 20 years. He has had multiple million-dollar exits   including MaxCDN. Currently, he oversees a growing portfolio of startups under the umbrella of How We Solve, one of which is a group coaching platform called UpCoach. http://upcoach.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidhenzel/   VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today’s episode, Fredrik is joined by Blockchain Entrepreneur and Investor, Cryptocurrency expert and CEO of Token Metrics Ian Balina, along with former Goldman Sachs financial market thought-leader and Token Metrics ‘Chief Technical Analyst’ Bill Noble. Together they discuss the impact Cryptocurrency is likely to have on the world, warning signs to look out for when investing in Crypto along with discussing the importance of doing thorough research into Cryptocurrency before taking the plunge to invest.    KEY TAKEAWAYS   Token Metrics helps onward people into Cryptocurrency by giving them a trustable resource to help them build a winning portfolio in Crypto space. Not everybody has the time to do research into Crypto as it is unlike other markets. There are many scams in this space so Token Metrics is a trusted resource where humans go through and do fundamental analysis on projects, they then take data and find ways to help people find an edge in terms of investing. On the Token Metrics platform, they have a metric code and liquidity ratio where they take the daily trading value versus the market cap. Ideally, you want to be in a Crypto asset that has a ratio of over 10% or higher. You also want to be cautious of projects that have a ratio of over 100%. That means most of the people who hold it, put it for one day or less. Meaning it is heavily traded and could be on a VAT exchange where there is a lot of inorganic trading falling. Warning signs can come from within yourself. Many people come to Crypto with $1000 and they want to know how to make 10 X or 100 X quickly. The best way not to get scammed in Crypto is to go in with the right mentality that you have to first learn the space, and then you have to focus yourself on making 10-20% returns. For people who want to get involved in Cryptocurrency at a high level, it is definitely recommended to do the research. Keep up to date on well-known publications as education is crucial. Whether this is by getting books or subscribing to different new letters and YouTube channels. As you get better in the space then you will find yourself being more comfortable with Cryptocurrency and able to invest. Cryptocurrency is a free market. People who grew up with an economics textbook grew up with a reverence for price discovery for economics for free markets. Right now the only place you will find that is in Crypto. Crypto is building new money and new tech stocks. Crypto is not only the future of money, but it may also be the future of banking and tech, and it is being built quickly. Not only can Crypto be a financial asset, but it can also be a tech play unto itself.     BEST MOMENTS “As a technical analyst, I dedicated my whole life to helping people.”   “ If all else fails, if you go to a website for a Cryptocurrency and it has a logo that looks like it should be a tattoo and its only a one-page website, then you should be careful.”   “In terms of global market cap, Crypto hasn’t even registered yet.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram   Contact Guests:  https://tokenmetrics.com/?ref=fredriksandvall(The referral code fredriksandvall will guide you right)Bill Noble @crypto_nobleIan Balina@DiaryofaMadeMan https://tokenmetrics.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

How has lockdown affected your health and fitness journey? Join Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan today as they discuss how their fitness and lifestyle has been affected by COVID-19. Learn how to overcome the COVID restrictions when training, the benefits of volume training as well as how intermittent fasting can help weight loss.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Due to the restrictions of the COVID-19 pandemic training for sports can be more challenging. If for your chosen sport, you require a partner to spar or play with then you may need to adapt your training style. Compensate for your lack of partner or trainer by concentrating on getting a high level of strength and conditioning as well as mastering cutting weight to be bigger than your future competitors. When competitions or matches resume, this will help you to win your opponents on a physical advantage rather than a skilled advantage.   Very often, we get stuck in a routine. This means that you will be doing exactly the same training programme which is often limited to just a few key muscle groups in the body (usually visual muscle groups). You may find that your body will plateau very quickly as you do not really push the limits of your training programme.   Volume training is really good for improving your endurance. Not only for today and tomorrow but for your whole life. It may not be as convenient, and it may take a longer time to train but it gives you things which will be valuable for life. The more you train something such as cycling, the more improvements you will see.   Intermittent fasting is when you have a feeding window. It is a lifestyle and diet that is based around when you are eating. The point of intermittent fasting is to have a small feeding window, for 8 hours a day and a large fasting window of 16 hours. This can allow your body to use fat as fuel which will reduce your body fat percentage.   Losing weight is never going to be easy. You have to surround yourself with people that reinforce you that it is not easy but who will support you. It is great if you have followers who know you that offer encouragement and who may use your weight loss as inspiration. The traditional way of losing weight is usually the right way. Whereby you are constantly putting in the hard work, pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and doing your best.   BEST MOMENTS “Of course I didn’t know there was going to be a global pandemic, but I am still training as if it wasn’t there.”   “I allow a lot of time during the day to be in a calorie deficit.”   “It is just so nice to find oneself again.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today's podcast Fredrick, Ivan and Charlie are joined by the founder of MemberMouse and owner of LearnGongFuTea.com, Eric Turnnessen. Together, they discuss why it is important for people to have a personal practice which enables them to learn about themselves, the law of attraction as well as discussing how the things you invest your time in, is what will become of you.   KEY TAKEAWAYS With a 9-5 job you get certain dependability and a certain level of security but you also do not have any ability to make things speed up on your own. Personality-wise, if you are okay with taking risks and enjoy unpredictable moments then you will enjoy the life of an entrepreneur. It is really important for people to have a personal practice where they learn about themselves. It is about having something that you do consistently every day because if you do something consistently, you will learn to tune into the more subtle aspects of that experience. When you turn into the subtle aspects of something, you form a deeper relationship with it and you learn to listen more. The law of attraction is a positive thing. Like so many other things, it got ‘productised’ to the point where it almost lost some of its original magic. The fundamental action of making the law of attraction work is that you can’t skip the step of working on yourself and you can’t skip the step of having some discipline or daily practice. Commitment is the tool for getting to know yourself, without this you will not manage to overcome obstacles in your life. The challenge and the beauty of quiet are that you can’t look at anything but yourself. Anything that comes up, you cannot distract from the fact that that is you, so you either look at it or you run away. Ultimately, the path of surrender and trusting what comes is not about wanting something, it is about being open to whatever comes. Investment in yourself is about thinking what do we really have to give? The only thing we really have is time, and in each moment we need to look and see what we are choosing to invest our attention in. The things that you invest your time in is what you will become. Think about how much time you spent in your day, with yourself. BEST MOMENTS “So many times I got caught in the wheels of the business.” “How you do one thing is how you do everything.” “The problem with the law of attraction is that everybody thinks it is about what they want. Do you really know what you want? Where did the idea come from that you want a certain thing?”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram   ABOUT THE GUEST Eric Turnnessen is the Owner of LearnGongFuTea.com and founder of MemberMouse and the brains behind the operation. His absolute dedication to quality and insistence on perfection have made MemberMouse the premier WordPress membership plugin on the market today. https://www.linkedin.com/in/eturnnessen https://learngongfutea.com https://membermouse.comThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

We all have access to the same amount of time during the day, but how we use our time is completely different, if you often find yourself wondering where your time has gone, then join Fredrik and Charlie as they discuss time management skills and debunk some myths. Today they discuss ways to make your work into a vacation, choosing wisely who to spend your time and energy on and the importance of creating a schedule rather than an ever-growing ‘to-do list’.   KEY TAKEAWAYS We pretty much have all the same amount of time available, it is just more about what we decide to do with our time. There are lots of ideas and aspirations of what your dream week might look like, it is really worthwhile to think about, there are many questions you can consider about your own dream week, and to be able to live this you will probably need to be able to finance it in once way or another.   “We all get the same 168 hours each week.” is a true statement, but we all use those hours very differently. How you set up your life could be a way of how you can make your work into your vacation. There are many of your tasks that you are able to get done from a different company by working remotely, this is one example of how you can turn your job into a vacation.   Spending time with people that drain your energy might not be ideal. There are some people who we really want to spend more time with, and some people who we should spend time with but for some reason, we don’t.   Some things may be easy to do but many believe it is easier to do simply do nothing, and to stay in a none action mode, to pick up your phone and procrastinate. If you have a routine in place, procrastination may not be as big an issue as it will eventually become second nature and the longer you have something in your routine, the less you want to break it.   Instead of having a ‘to-do list’ it may be more effective to schedule things. If you place things into your daily schedule, this means it actually gets done instead of just having an ever-growing list of things to do. One of the most important skills we learnt from school was the importance of having to stick to a schedule in order to get stuff done.   Another trick when it comes to not having enough hours in the day is to prioritise your time wisely. We often know what will really help us towards our own goal, and this can hopefully help you to prioritise what is most important to you, your team, your company or wherever you like to pin your focus. BEST MOMENTS “There are so many ideas around time, and how to use your time in the best possible way.” “It is really important, how you spend time with different people.” “Usually whoever screams the loudest gets the most attention, and that is not at all how it should be.” “Do you want to fill your day or do you want your day to fill itself?”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Discover the importance of marketing your business today as Fredrik is joined by Johnathan Pach,  an award-winning entrepreneur, and the current CEO of ‘NXT Generation’ in London with future plans to relocate to LA. Together they discuss the uprising of video marketing, utilising social media to educate and gain future clients as well as the importance of creating a good work-life balance. KEY TAKEAWAYS Video marketing is the way forward. Gone are the days of creating 4 minute Youtube videos about your company, many people don’t have the time to look at those expansive videos. In order for a marketing video to be captivating it should be snippets and snapshots condensed into 10-15 seconds. Isolation has opened many peoples’ eyes to the possibility of creating something that they are passionate about. We will see a big influx of new entrepreneurs coming into the market coming up with fantastic ideas and launching their businesses. Now is the time to jump on board to launch a new business venture. Whilst it is still important to ensure you have a good website in place to make sure to use social media to reach your potential clients. Utilize blogging platforms and create informative social media content to educate your potential clients about your company so that they want to become a customer and use your product. Make sure you post on each of your platforms daily with lots of different updated media content. Invest in yourself by growing a great company, but also do not forget your health, your wellness and your spirituality is the number one thing that is important to you on this planet. Make sure you have that work-life balance, work hard, enjoy the process and love everything that you are doing but you must bring balance into your life. Property investment is always a good idea, purchase properties to rent out. This way you have the flexibility of passive income whilst you are working on your business, possibly overseas so that you don’t have to worry as much about your personal finances should you have some properties in your home country.         BEST MOMENTS “The human mind can only operate at a certain level, where they only have a few seconds of engagement and interaction with a product for us to know if we are going to go ahead with it or not.” “You’ve got to be passionate about a product or service, you have to have that inner passion so when you are selling it and when you are promoting your services, you have got the love of the game and the love of the product.” “Come up with a fantastic new idea which you are really passionate about and if you can work from your laptop and you only need to use the internet to accomplish your goals, it gives you access to move freely across the globe and not be stuck in one place. “   VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   ABOUT THE GUEST Johnathan Pach is an award-winning entrepreneur, and the current CEO of ‘NXT Generation’, an extraordinary direct response media & marketing agency based in London and Los Angeles. Being the serial entrepreneur he is, Johny has also experienced success in the PPE medical industry with his company ‘Buy PPE Equipment’. Johny is a renowned figure within a multiplicity of industries, which is largely the result of his exemplary knowledge and work ethic. On top of his understanding of investments, real estate, and digital marketing, Johny is an exceptional TV and Radio Presenter. With over 15 years of experience, and having worked for broadcasters such as BBC, FIVE, LIVING, MTV, and ITV, Johny knows what it takes to reach the top. He has interviewed an array of celebrities - such as Angelina Jolie, Chris Rock, Chris Pratt, Daniel Radcliff, and Dave Bautista – and has always brought the best out of them, due to his infectious personality and professional excellence. As a result of his prowess as a presenter, Johny has worked on a number of his own shows in Hollywood, such as ‘Showbuzz’ and ‘The Spin’on MTV. His hard work and dedication have led him to create and host his very own podcast, ‘The Johny Pach Show’, which is committed to inspiring its listeners to achieve success, contentment, and gratitude. Johny’s desire to help others has enabled him to feature as a motivational and keynote speaker at many corporate events globally. His passion for his trade is unmatched and is the primary reason for his accomplishments. Johny will not stop until the job is done. He is assiduous, disciplined, and inspiring. If there is one thing that he can do for you, it is this: Johny will transform your outlook on life, making you more attuned with yourself, and more prone to success.   Links : www.wearenxtgeneration.com  www.johnypach.com  www.johnypach.com/podcast Social : Facebook:   https://www.facebook.com/www.johnypach Twitter : johnypachtv IG : johnypachtv Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF0esCp66sg0AZWTuD_INhQ   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today’s podcast, Fredrick is joined by entrepreneur Kevin Aries, who discusses his new business venture ‘September ready go’ an online summer camp built to get teens “September-Ready” both mentally and physically, armed with the tools they’ll need to close any gaps in their learning. Together they discuss popular memory techniques, how to integrate yourself within business communities and why this is crucial as well as the problems with mass education and how you can help your teenager outside of the classroom. KEY TAKEAWAYS Memory techniques are not something often taught. The people who will benefit the most from having good memories are children, who have to pass exams and learn large amounts of information. Humans are good at memorising places, stories and vivid images. A useful memory technique would be to encode a piece of difficult information to learn and you turn that into a vivid image, you store it mentally by picturing that information happening in a particular place and you create a story with the new information. If you are a business person and you are not already plugged into a business community then you should immediately do that. Go and find some people who are motivated and fired up, that community is full of people who are pivoting like crazy, taking their businesses online and finding new opportunities. The problem with mass education is that everybody gets average teaching. Use other recourses such as books to educate them in business and entrepreneurship to read outside of the classroom, or if you decide to homeschool them. If you are able to create a group of teenagers or young people who are highly motivated and fired up, they are likely to become entrepreneurs. We know whatever happens, that teenagers are resilient and are able to constantly reinvent themselves with all the changes they face, if they are able to do this then they are going to do well.   BEST MOMENTS “Suddenly you realise there is such a better way of doing something that you did all the time, and you think ‘well why wouldn’t you teach a child that.” “The way it feels is like you were on Windows, and now somebody has uploaded Mac IOS, it feels like ‘oh my goodness, I didn’t know my brain worked like that.” “ We are so engrained by the state education system that says you have got to learn everything.”     VALUABLE RESOURCES Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book https://www.septemberreadygo.com/blog https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_DrOglHtSk ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode of the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik and Charlie talk to Tara Halliday, Director of Complete Success, about the significant correlation of being a high achiever and having impostor syndrome. Tara herself is a big dreamer and has been a ‘go-getter’ since childhood. But when presented with extra challenges, she goes back to her comfort zone because of her doubts and fears. Sound familiar? Well, you might have symptoms of impostor syndrome. Tune in today to know what it is, its causes, its symptoms, and some tips on how to prevent it. KEY TAKEAWAYS What is impostor syndrome? Impostor syndrome was first discovered in 1978, but it was only during the last 5 years that it become more talked about. It is “the secret feeling of being a fraud when you’re not and the fear of being found out.” It affects 70% of high achievers most of the time. People with impostor syndrome mostly feel confused, isolated, overwhelmed, and anxious. Fake it till you make it. This aphorism can be used if you have zero or less confidence in doing something. There is no other way to get comfortable with, for example, public speaking, than to try it. And then try it again until you’re already confident and good at it. What causes impostor syndrome? It’s a combination of 3 things: A very particular activity; gets triggered when we take on something unknown high challenge and low support the belief that my worth depends on what I do It’s okay to be nervous before doing things you aren’t used to doing. Don’t get held back by your fear. Calm your nervous system down. Breathe mindfully and do some meditation. Taking risks is part of getting the best results. Invest in yourself. Get the most out of your own life. Rather than being ‘driven’ by something, try to attain such calm that you’re ready and unafraid to take on any adventure—an adventure where you’re only thinking of how far you can go and not limited by anything. BEST MOMENTS “It is this low-level doubt that people have and it can hold them back. It can also lead to stress-related illnesses.” “A part of learning is being prepared to fail.” “The research says that people who experience impostor syndrome make up 70% of high achievers.” “People with impostor syndrome know they’re good. It’s just they feel that they aren’t good.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Read Unmasking: The Coach’s Guide to Impostor Syndrome by Tara Halliday. Order it now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Unmasking-Coachs-Guide-Impostor-Syndrome/dp/1781333009 Subscribe: Invest In You Podcast Order and Read Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book ABOUT THE GUEST Tara Halliday PhD Director, Complete Success Ltd Tara Halliday is a specialist in impostor syndrome and a trainer in applied neuroscience and excellence. Tara has a PhD in engineering and 20 years’ experience as a holistic therapist, coach and neurofeedback trainer.She is the author of ‘Unmasking: The Coach’s Guide to Impostor Syndrome’, and co-author of two books on leadership and relationships. She runs Inner Success, an 8-week intensive training and coaching programme for executives to eliminate impostor syndrome for good. Book: 'Unmasking' Available on Amazon Impostor Syndrome Quiz: http://bit.ly/ImpostorQuiz Website: www.completesuccess.co.uk   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram   https://www.linkedin.com/in/tara-halliday-phd/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik is flying solo for this episode as he reflects on the current worldwide situation and the changes it has already brought to daily life for everyone. Fredrik has experience as a medical officer in the special forces and considerable experience and expertise as a leader considering both others and his own welfare in extreme situations. He shares his thoughts on what’s important and how being prepared can be the best way to move forward in a world that is changing the way it operates rapidly. KEY TAKEAWAYS The economy is based on the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services. Due to the global pandemic currently being experienced consumption has changed. This global crisis will affect everyone but in different ways. Businesses have changed the ways they are working or have closed completely; the world has changed considerably in a very short amount of time. The positive financial market increases over the last few years have been wiped off. Billions if not trillions of value has been lost from the financial markets, at least temporarily. Politically over the last few years, there have been extensive power plays from different leaders and increased protectionism between countries which has been evident in the past weeks. For the financial markets, the Coronavirus has created the black swan of finance – as people continue to try and move liquid money out of assets. People have been exiting lots of different strategies at the same time Each country is trying to protect their own currencies by offering loans and implementing strategies that will allow people to operate on increased credit. Many industries have been stopped through government intervention and it’s difficult to know how this will look moving forward. The whole world is slowing down with less traffic as people work from home and the world operates in a different way. BEST MOMENTS ‘If you are working to be prepared then you are going to be in a stronger position overall’ ‘There is a huge fluctuation in currencies with the pound being at its lowest for some time’ ‘I took the tough decision to stay in the UK while my family are in Sweden and I don’t know when I’ll see them again’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book  ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Location-Independent Businesses are currently a hot trend in the business world. But what are they exactly? Who are the people operating them? And most importantly, could a Location Independent Business be a fit for you? Fredrik and Charlie take a look at this growing phenomenon, and give you a complete guide to working out if you could benefit from being location-independent. KEY TAKEAWAYS A Location-Independent Business is a business that can operate from anywhere in the world at any time. With the advent of the digital/online world, permanent connection allows business owners to free themselves from the limitations of location. Get rid of stuff - Don’t let your possessions be a barrier to your operating independently of location. Free yourself from everything extraneous. Develop relevant skills - Some skills are better suited to employment, while others will allow you take advantage of being location-free. Set up a location-independent business of your own - If your skills allow you to be free of locale, then you could use this option. But ensure that you are paying tax in the correct country. Make sure your permanent belongings are designed for being location-free. Things such as mobile contracts and subscriptions need to work anywhere in the world. Nomad Community projects present a huge opportunity for professionals who wish to tie travel into work, and operate around the globe. Lower your costs - Mainly applies to your home country. It is about making sure the costs during your absence are as reduced as possible. You can sub-let any properties you own in your home country in order to provide yourself with an income while you’re away. FIRE (Financially Independent - Retire Early) is a movement that’s been around for some time. It involves living from accumulated wealth, and being allowed total freedom of movement.  Assets such as real-estate and investments keep earning for you no matter where in the world you are. Building a portfolio with this in mind for the future is a very wise plan for those who aspire to travel later. Be frugal or splash out? Do you really need those luxuries? Could you do just as well by saving your money this time? Added pleasures are always welcome, but be wise in how you spend your money. Communications will become more and more essential the more location-free you become. Remember to stay as connected as possible. Your income will depend upon it. Prepare your family, and to some extent, involve them in your travel plans. But remember that in the end, it’s your life, and the decisions you make are your own. Live your life your way. Timing is everything - Don’t assume that just because you want to be location-independent, that you can do it any time. You many have commitments that keep you from this lifestyle, so consider carefully. BEST MOMENTS ‘Customise your belongings so that they’re slightly more mobile’ ‘It was the best sushi I’ve ever had!’ ‘You can live like a king, depending on where you choose to go’ ’Systems free up time for you’ ‘You can have candles - That was very specific!’ ‘It’s your life and your choice'     VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Nomad Communities - https://remoteyear.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk https://sandvallinvest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Charlie have an event upcoming on the 14th march 2020 for teenagers and parents of teenagers to help them build a business. In this episode they both discuss what their event will include and give you some tips for how you can start your own business too!   KEY TAKEAWAYS Humans can change what you want and your life, we all have free will. The power of why and how is so important to remember because it’s hard to do something if you don’t know how you’re going to do it. Alternatively, if your why is strong enough then you’ll find a way to do it. Find your preferred energy and what you’re best at so that you can play to your strengths. A lot of people just fall into a job or career but you don’t have to be an entrepreneur to prevent this. You could be an ‘intrepreneur’ for example. Set yourself goals so you have motivation to get out of bed and do what you need to do. You can choose the easy route or the hard route, often people follow the crowd as this is the easiest thing to do but it’s not always the right thing for you to do. Push your boundaries and boost your confidence by coming along to these kind of events. Choose a product that’s going to give your audience a lot of value and provide something that majority of your clients are demanding. Separate business activities so that you can delegate tasks to other people so that you’re not doing everything and you can focus what you’re best at.   BEST MOMENTS ‘You can become a new version of yourself’ ‘The more you can give value, the more you can sell’ ‘Entrepreneurship isn’t for everyone and that’s alright’ ‘A smile is free but it can provide happiness’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Find Jules @ www.standempowered.com or www.linkedin.com/in/julesjohan https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Genius-Marie-Ruzicka-ebook/dp/B07WSXGMYP London Event - How to Make Money as a Teenager: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-make-money-as-a-teenager-1-day-business-education-for-younger-people-tickets-93145844729   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

This week, Charlie and Fredrik talk to Daniel Priestley, one of the stars of the entrepreneurial world, whose incredible journey so far has seen him at the helm of numerous start-ups that have quickly become multi-million dollar ventures. Daniel talks about his recipe for success in business, how to accelerate your entrepreneurial journey, and how to stand out, scale-up and make a positive impact on the world. KEY TAKEAWAYS Daniel’s rise through business was rapid, thanks to aid from his mentor, and the instant take-up of the business he helped to found. Dent Global has been founded in order to make a positive impact on business, and on the world, by improving the ways in which businesses operate globally. Daniel and Dent have been focussing on rehabilitating offenders, and encouraging them to channel their sense of invention and drive into making a positive impact through business. Any idea that is going to become a product, actually has to become four products: A gift - something you can give away for free (as in a trial) A product for prospects - A low risk way of working together on something Core product - a full and remarkable solution Client product - managing the journey going forward Celebrating success in your business is an essential part of operations. If you don’t celebrate the payoffs of success, then your brain will not want to repeat the procedure.  So many seem to think that an invitation to coffee is an effective gateway into obtaining their wisdom as a mentor. Daniel is far more attracted to clarity, purpose and honesty. The best way to pre-market and gain funding for ventures, is through pre-sales. By going out to market and getting orders and deposits, or in some cases full payment, it’s easy to demonstrate to investors that you have a viable product. Acquisitions are a very healthy way of operating. You need to do your due diligence in order to make sure that the business is breathing on its own, but in general, they can be hugely sound in terms of investment. BEST MOMENTS ‘I got a front row seat in growing a business’ ‘An entrepreneur’s job is to go and make a dent in the universe’ ‘Profit actually happens as a result of the ecosystem’ ’The forces of demand and supply set the price’ ‘Business is all about doing the right things over and over again’ ‘With any great sport, you have to collect the trophy’ ‘When you buy a business, it’s like someone’s run the first 25 miles of a marathon for you'    VALUABLE RESOURCES   Invest In You Podcast Daniel Priestley Profile - https://www.entrepreneur.com/author/daniel-priestley Daniel Priestley at Forbes - https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielpriestley/#5b8b8f21b3cb Dent Global - https://www.dent.global ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD   Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk https://sandvallinvest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘It’s about the ability to keep going even when the suffering sets in, you get comfortable with being uncomfortable’   Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie are talking with former Navy Seal command, Founder of Sealfit and best-selling author Mark Devine.   As someone who understands exactly what it takes to push yourself physically, mentally and emotionally to the extremes Mark shares some great advice and experiences in this episode. Its ultimately not about going it alone but being part of a team, being authentic and being the best, you can be every day – for yourself and in service to others.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Sealfit Sealfit is a training and mindset regime designed to help people get physically and emotionally fit at a level appropriate to operate as a navy seal You can’t get through the hardest situations alone you need to work as part of a team. The more prepared and stronger your body the more you are in control of your emotions. The physical preparation supports emotional and mental strength. Sealfit domains; -Strength -Stamina -Cross fit – short bursts of intensive work -Endurance -Durability The physical, emotional and mental are all intertwined as part of the experience and we use a range of tactics to evoke mental challenge and develop thinking In the moment of choice, the individual has the opportunity to get stronger. Most people are prone to action and recovery can be perceived as non-action. You ned to reset your thinking to understand that recovery is a vital part of the process. Work without recovery will be detrimental to your physical performance. Mastery Mastery of yourself requires time, energy, focus, mental power, emotional awareness and money. You work every day to improve yourself whilst simultaneously working in service to others When you achieve mastery of yourself you are powerful and strong in your service of others Staring down the wolf  The book is written for leaders because no matter how effective we think we are it’s our emotional baggage that blocks us from elite-level performance in the team. There are 7 commitments needed for a team to flourish Courage, Trust, Respect, Growth, Excellence, Resilience, Alignment. It’s vital we cultivate authenticity, take off the masks and stop pretending to be perfect so everyone can grow and develop as part of the team. We need to develop past ego and be open to the things we share. It’s vital to work to bring out the best in ourselves and our teams every day   BEST MOMENTS ‘Anyone who undertakes  seal training is physically fit and theoretically capable of completing it’ ‘If you try to serve others and are not prepared then it is often the service to others that fails’ ‘You have to be open in your communication and able to accept criticism of your performance’   VALUABLE RESOURCES  Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Unbeatable Mind website Sealfit website Mark Devine website Unbeatable Mind book by Mark Divine 8 Weeks. to Sealfit book by Mark Devine  London Event - How to Make Money as a Teenager: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-make-money-as-a-teenager-1-day-business-education-for-younger-people-tickets-93145844729   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode, Fredrik and Charlie are with Jules Johan who is the co-founder of The Affirmative People and international best-selling author who helps individuals to find their Genius. Her focus is on finding others power through self-mastery, inner peace and purpose. They discuss in detail the work that Jules does, helping others understand their emotions and how they can master them so they can be a vital tool in decision making. In this positive podcast, you will find out more about self-mastery, martial arts and some insights to police work.   KEY TAKEAWAYS I help people to develop self-mastery skills so they can help themselves Understanding their beliefs and triggers around others Everyone has their own challenges and those who are homeless or living on the streets have much to teach us about resilience and perseverance and surviving These individuals need an opportunity for the ‘playing field to be levelled’ for  them There is a huge gap in self-mastery skills Emotions are a form of data and understanding them can help you to make better decisions. Our emotions can be tied to our values. People often suppress emotions instead of using them as a guide to help make informed decisions In life, it’s important to celebrate the steps we take I help people to clear their past self-limiting beliefs People go through life and enhance their survival instincts but often do not develop other skills such as resilience and perseverance. Ageing is a form of turning your belief systems into reality. Look at your belief systems what is propelling you forward and what is holding you back? It’s vital that people think about what the very long-term future will look like for them   BEST MOMENTS ‘In martial arts, it’s about controlling our thoughts and mastery of those thoughts and emotions’ ‘It’s a whole process that has to be followed’ ‘People are so busy with their businesses they don’t think about the ageing process’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Find Jules @ www.standempowered.com or www.linkedin.com/in/julesjohan https://www.amazon.com/You-Are-Genius-Marie-Ruzicka-ebook/dp/B07WSXGMYP London Event - How to Make Money as a Teenager: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-make-money-as-a-teenager-1-day-business-education-for-younger-people-tickets-93145844729   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future but I know it’s going to be good’ Fredrik is talking with Luke Carter from ‘The Carter Family Office. They discuss their experiences in business and what really matters. Luke and Fredrik share a passion about legacy and heritage, what you instil in the future generations they discuss how leaving opportunities and the right mindset are vital legacy elements as if you have the right mindset and know-how to open yourself to opportunities you can achieve whatever you want in life Giving back often starts at home and giving someone that mindset is vital, find out what and how Fredrik and Luke are preparing their legacies in this engaging and thought-provoking episode.   KEY TAKEAWAYS It was instilled into me that the challenges are all surmountable. You can not only learn from your own experiences but also from watching the experiences of others. The same set of circumstances can be seen as both positive and negative I get excited when I face a challenge because I know it can change me, I can learn from it and will make me stronger. There will be a point where I strip away limiting beliefs and learn. I don’t like to waste time doing things that waste productivity. If I spend my time working on strategies them my implementation is better and has more impact It’s easy to do more hours for your ego but some of the most successful people take the time to complete meditation before they start and this makes their productivity huge. If you are positive and ‘can do’ this is reflected in the people around you. When you feel fear for something that’s the thing you need to change first because its what is holding you back the most. If you go into something with a positive mindset and work in the present moment with acceptance then you are able to be your true self. There is room for innovation in the social media sector. Society is guilty of setting people up to buy things to feel better. Goals are essential and it’s vital to make sure you know why you are setting them. When you do things with passion you are likely to be successful.     BEST MOMENTS ‘I learnt from my upbringing it was great fun and you see the creative process first hand, you see the ups and downs and challenges’ ‘My best work comes when I work in nature and get inspired’ ‘It’s a simple life for me but making an impact and increasing my reach, helping as many people as possible are hugely important to me’     VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   thecarterfamilyoffice.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukecarter07/ @lukecarter07      ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘Being an entrepreneur is hard not everyone can do it’ In this episode James Sinclair, serial entrepreneur who has multiple bricks and mortar businesses including children’s day nursery’s, entertainment parks and commercial property Talks to Charlie and Fredrik about how he started out, why it’s important to recognise not everyone can be an entrepreneur and the why YouTube is the winner in social media engagement. James offers an insight into his books and shares some business advice that can be effectively used by anyone who is thinking about getting into business. As someone who himself decided to ‘just go for it’ James, Charlie and Fredrik chat about how to effectively grow your brand from a young age in a way that is scalable and effective, listen in and hear more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS I started building a magic business performing at children’s parties and then we went onto open our own attractions. I learnt that what I had was a profitable job, not a profitable business. This inspired me to want to build a team around me so that I could step away from the day to day running. Once you get the mindset right you can source the money We are told that if we are not good at something we should keep trying when in fact what you should do in business is buy in what you are not good at and focus on the things you excel at. When you look at great leaders they are passionate, resilient and they have a great vision. You can’t see ‘it’ but those people who have ’it’ are the ones that will survive and thrive as entrepreneurs. People spend on average 40minutes on YouTube, if you can get people to watch you can engage them. I have always tried to get in front of mentors who are doing really well and better than me in the sectors I’m in. Entrepreneurship plus management equals success Entrepreneurship starts a business; management makes it a success. Choose a business that has margin and you’ll always be able to make it a success. Choose a business that has instant sales. From day one you’ll have instant cash flow business don’t fail because of lack of money they fail because of lack of cash flow. Choose a business that someone will want to buy. At some point, there will be an exit and you will want to have a business that someone will want to buy. Choose a business that banks like to fund. Some sectors are easy to fund, some sectors are hard to fund. Choose a business with high price profitable sales. You also want to have low price profitable sales so people can try you out. Is it a ‘me too’ business or one with barriers to entry. Try and make barriers to entry, the more niche you are the less competition there is.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Most entrepreneurs are control freaks and want to do everything themselves’ ‘With exactly the same content some people take action and smash it making huge amounts in a very short amount of time whilst others are still sitting on the side-lines’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book  James Sinclair website The Millionaire Clown - James Sinclair Getting Customers - James Sinclair The Business Experience - James Sinclair     ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

2020 is upon us and New Year’s resolutions are flying around! In this episode, the team talk about their goals and aspirations for their health in 2020, and share with you the ways in which they hope to optimise their wellbeing as well as the activities and techniques they’ve used to get them to the new year. KEY TAKEAWAYS Health is the first keystone of a happy life, and affords us the opportunity to be better in everything we do. Therefore it is a paramount cornerstone of any successful person’s strategy. If you have difficulty in setting and sticking to resolutions in January each year, then another idea might be to start a new program of health or development on your birthday. Wellbeing can come in many forms. Whereas Ivan and Frederik have spent their time dev eloping their physical fitness, Charlie has focussed on mental wellbeing, working hard o his studies. The Apple Watch is recommended as a fitness monitor, and can be useful not just for exercise metrics. but also for setting goals and keeping an eye on your heart. Ivan’s aims are to secure a black belt and gold medal in 2020. Frederik wants to do more mountain biking. Charlie wants to compete in more fighting technique competitions. BEST MOMENTS ‘If we don’t have health, we don’t have much to be happy about’ ‘You’re lifting really heavy, really often, with very little rest’ ‘Right now I’m more competing with myself than anyone else’ ‘You want to push them to find their own boundaries’ ‘It would hurt me to see you hurt!’  VALUABLE RESOURCES   Invest In You Podcast ABOUT THE HOST   Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD   Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk https://sandvallinvest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

  Men and emotions… these are things that you don’t go quite often. Men are the worst when it comes to acknowledging and managing their emotions. Why are they so afraid of expressing and feeling so deeply?  In this episode of the Invest In You Podcast, the Sandvalls are joined by Dr John Schinnerer to talk about how he helps take down into pieces the good-for-nothing traditional ways and upgrade to a more boundless belief system. He focuses on how one can get out of the so-called ‘man box’ with ease and be successful and happy at work and in life. Learn also how to be proactive rather than reactive when you’re dealing with problems when you start listening in!  KEY TAKEAWAYS  Self-care is your utmost priority if you really want to be of service to others. How can you give your best if your mind, health, and body isn’t at its ultimate functioning level? You got to show up for yourself first before for anyone else.  How does John recharge, get back up from his lows? For him, it’s exercising (to release the happy hormones) and hanging out with his loved ones.  Oftentimes, we react quickly (and furiously) to certain situations without even understanding them fully. It is just then after it happens that we get a grasp what we have done—and most of the time, the consequences are not what we really want.  John helps men get out of the man box, where they are told that they are the dominant sex and are enforced with the traditional notions of being a man. One can be successful without imposing your masculinity. You must see everyone as equals.  BEST MOMENTS  “A lot of angry men only recognised they’re angry shortly after the fact.”  “The first step is awareness and having the ability to talk about it.”  VALUABLE RESOURCES   The Evolved Caveman Podcast | Apple | Stitcher  ABOUT THE GUEST  Dr John Schinnerer coaches men to perform at their peak from the boardroom to the bedroom. He also leads retreats for men and couples around the world. Dr John graduated from U.C. Berkeley with a Ph.D. in educational psychology. He was an expert consultant for Pixar’s Inside Out. He has spoken to organisations such as Stanford Medical School, U.C. Berkeley, Kaiser Permanente, Sutter Health, Gap and UPS. He has been featured in national media such as U.S. News and World Report, Readers Digest, and SELF Magazine. His areas of expertise range from high performance, to stress management, to positive psychology, to anger management, to creating happy, thriving relationships. Dr John hosts a podcast to help men evolve, The Evolved Caveman. Over 10,000 people have taken his online anger management course. He recently recorded micro courses on anger management and forgiveness for Simple Habit; they have been listened to over 80,000 times in the first 6 months. Visit TheEvolvedCaveman.com to learn more about the podcast. For information on high performance coaching, visit GuideToSelf.com.  FB: TheEvolvedCaveman  IG: TheEvolvedCaveman  LinkedIn: DrJohnSchinnerer  Twitter: JohnSchin  ABOUT THE HOST  Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD  Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk   https://sandvallinvest.com/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  Contact Charlie Sandvall   Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn  Contact Ivan Sandvall   Ivan Sandvall Instagram  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

A simple glance in the newspaper will tell you that stocks and shares are the lifeblood of the financial institutions of the world. Fortunes are made and lost on the whims of the market. For some, the stock market is the quickest way to make money, but what are the pitfalls to look out for? And how can you tell when stock prices are at an all-time high?  In this week’s show, we talk about the risks and potential benefits of rolling the dice on the stock market, and use the now defunct Boo.com as an example. KEY TAKEAWAYS com was founded in 1998 and was dismantled within two years. They attracted lots of money and had fantastic forecasts. They were, unfortunately, twenty years too early. The price of bitcoin is decided by the market, and if the value falls, this is known as a discount. This can be confusing as discounts traditionally mean that a price has been purposefully reduced in order to sell. Boo’s theory behind its business was sound, it was simply too early. The infrastructure was not yet in place. Logistics realities such as delivery and supply were not as efficient as today. Boo were not just unfortunate in timing. They also spent their venture capital far too quickly on promotion and marketing. BEST MOMENTS ‘You can pretty much buy bitcoin at a 50% discount’ ’The whole industry lost billions of dollars’ ’They need to sell the idea of why their idea is so fantastic' ‘We should teach by having an imaginary portfolio’ ‘Listen to the experts but also take it with a big punch/pint of salt!' VALUABLE RESOURCES   Invest In You Podcast ABOUT THE HOST   Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD   Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Charlie are in conversation with Jarrod Glandt, President at Cardone Enterprises and Co-Host of the ‘Young Hustlers’ podcast.  He has worked with Grant Cardone for a number of years, orchestrating and moving the chess pieces around on the board, making sure all the businesses are integrated and effectively represent Grant and who they are.  This episode has something for everyone and is packed with value as Charlie, Fredrik and Jarrod discuss the journey, mindset, the meaning of 10X and the importance of getting started young. ‘The only ones who condemn the hustle are the ones who have given up on it themselves’ listen in and find out how to hustle effectively with passion.     KEY TAKEAWAYS  Mindset  People leave opportunities on the table because they don’t understand how much work is needed to achieve the result it’s about persistence ,perseverance and being relentless.  You need to consider that the consumer has more going on than they ever have. The competition for their attention and money is greater than it has ever been.  You have to adopt the mindset that you are in so many places you are omnipresent - everywhere they look, everywhere they turn they should see you.  Young hustlers  Our weekly show about helping young hustlers get their money right. You need to think about money at a young age if you want to get ahead. If I had started at 18 rather than 26 I’d be retired by now so it’s vital to understand the importance of getting money right   early on.  The meaning of  10X  Do whatever it takes in every area of your life. How much impact can you make in how many areas? 10X is about having it all and being it all, Trying to achieve a level of greatness in all areas of your life.  Making money when you are young  The pathways are different now there are a lot of ways for people to make money.  It’s all about learning the art of selling, picking up the phone and getting in front of people.  Invest in You  You are still you no matter what, so as long as you continue to invest in that core thing that will be with you forever, you are developing an asset that can never be destroyed.    No matter how good or bad an economy is you are still you.  Being a sales leader  Make sure you gain the respect of your team. This is achieved by showing them you are willing to do all the things you ask them to do and by having their back and fighting for them.  You have to give them the confidence and belief that you are willing to go into battle with them.  Investing for the future  It’s about cash flow, building a residual passive income that continues whatever I do  It’s about being able to choose to work rather having to work.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘The most exciting thing is seeing new people come in and them making more money than they ever have before’  ‘The purpose of the 10x rule is to multiply the amount of effort and creativity and work required to get the result you want’  ‘If I had started at 18 rather than 26 I’d be retired by now’  “You can’t build a passion if you are not interested in something’      VALUABLE RESOURCES  Invest In You Podcast  Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall  Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book   10X Growth website  Young Hustlers Podcast  Jarrod Glandt LinkedIn     ABOUT THE HOST  Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD  Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk   https://sandvallinvest.com/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2      Contact Charlie Sandvall   Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn      Contact Ivan Sandvall   Ivan Sandvall Instagram This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Charlie explore the different angles on 2 very different things this week, Black Friday discounting and the launch of the Tesla cyber truck. Fredrik and Charlie both love the truck design but some of Charlie’s friends don’t, this reflects the effect this reimagining of truck design has had – people either love it or hate it! The launch was close to Black Friday a time when everyone was at their computers and looking to buy was this a deliberate move? Find out more about Charlie and Fredrik think about discounting, whether it really works and Elon Musk’s latest unveiling,  tune in now.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Black Friday It’s a time to buy before the Christmas rush and has its origins back in sales events that happened offline. Every year it starts earlier and lasts longer now it’s a cyber weekend It causes a massive spike in sales for retailers People can put off buying at full price if they are expecting items to be discounted during an event such as a cyber weekend. Black Friday can cause problems with a spike in sales meaning it’s difficult to fulfil the orders, in conjunction with lower sales, prior and post the discount period. Shops have to follow the online lead because otherwise, all shopping would be online. Some shops begin discounts prior to the Black Friday weekend so that they can take shoppers money before it is spent online. Premium brands do not benefit from discounted prices if they discount heavily it becomes difficult for them to justify their high-ticket prices at other times. Many companies may market a 70% discount but in reality, it is only 40%, they put up prices to be able to discount and make the product more appealing. Tesla cyber truck It has polarised people’s views you either love it or hate it. By taking the traditional design and twisting it to be ready for Mars, where Elon Musk is going anyway, he gets to have the vehicle today. Being able to buy for just £100 is very tempting, but have people thought about the rest of the money due?   BEST MOMENTS ‘What you buy is usually for yourself’ ‘I like selling because ultimately that’s how any business will grow ‘It’s super cool that a design like the ‘pick-up truck’ has been completely re-imagined’ ‘If you are spending your money you may want to think about saving some of it and the method of payment you are using’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book    ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Mike Winnet is THE self-appointed, uninspirational, backwards thinking "leader" currently influencing thousands of, below average, people on LinkedIn and YouTube. Through his “Contrepreneur” series, Mike has amassed over 25,000 subscribers on YouTube, and has led others to success, by successfully investing in himself. Mike joins the show this week to talk about the formula that’s led him to success, the experiences he’s gained along the way, and how they can actively benefit you. KEY TAKEAWAYS To Mike, investing in yourself means the ability to think critically. It means not believing what you’ve been taught about what you can achieve. It’s about discovering yourself and working on your strengths by using your time in the right ways. Mike’s experience has come through practical means. He advises this route as the fastest and most efficient ways to learn. Sales techniques are important. You shouldn't have to get everyone’s blood pumping, and send them to the back of the room to sign up for your product with no cooling-off period. If you are, then your product can’t be that great. The great mentors aren’t the ones spoon-feeding you content that’s already on the internet, or out there in some other form. Often, the best advice is already out there for £12 on the Kindle store. If you aren’t seeking it out first, then the blame is on you for overspending on advice. Conventional entertainment will expire one day. YouTube will become the new television. People like short, sharp input, and an endless content library to choose from. The issue with YouTube and other platforms is that you are always at the mercy of their systems and regulations. Owning your platform and brand is always the best way. BEST MOMENTS ‘I learned more from that environment that I could ever have learned in business school’ ‘People are sometimes too eager to become an entrepreneur without doing the ground work’ ‘You need to earn it’ ‘If I was a bad guy I would put that on my profile’ ’TV will die one day’ VALUABLE RESOURCES   Invest In You Podcast Mike Winnet YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UComkllJTMHNZr4UNxCThdcw Mike Winnet LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/demotivatemeuk/ ABOUT THE HOST   Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD   Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

John Lee Dumas is a true visionary. A podcast veteran of over a thousand episodes, and with more than seventy-million downloads to his name, he has truly conquered the world of broadcasting and influential speaking. John joins the podcast today to talk about his outlook on business, the importance of transparency, his creative process and his exciting plans for the future. KEY TAKEAWAYS John has been incredibly successful in business, but the only reason he's been able to sustain it is because he has concentrated on health and wellness. Self-education and development is crucial to moving forward. No one ever progressed in life without investing time into yourself. You should always be learning. When financial independence doesn’t remain a priority in a generational sense, then it gradually affects society as a whole. People don't buy houses, and they don’t invest in those around them. Transparency has helped people to see that John is on the level, and has also inspired others to believe that anything is possible. The future for John is open wide. He is focussing on a book due to be published in 2021, and though he is already financially free and essentially “retired”, he continues to inspire and lead, as he loves the life he leads and wants more people to feel the same way. We should always focus on the things we’re best at; double down on the things we’re amazing at. Why concentrate on becoming mediocre at our weaknesses, when instead we should focus on becoming the ultimate at the things at which we already excel. BEST MOMENTS ‘Life is good’ ’There’s nothing that will make you less happy about success than being unhealthy and in pain’ ‘What do successful businessmen and women actually do?’ ‘A lot of people overestimate what they can do in a year’ ‘You’re not the first one to say 150 to me’ ‘It means spending the time, money and effort in improving yourself in the areas you want to improve in' VALUABLE RESOURCES   Invest In You Podcast EOFire - https://www.eofire.com John Lee Dumas Twitter - https://twitter.com/johnleedumas?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor John Lee Dumas YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXfzpliAfdjParawJljHo2g John Lee Dumas Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/johnleedumas1 Borrowed Future Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/borrowed-future/id1478188105 ABOUT THE GUEST John Lee Dumas is the host of Entrepreneurs on Fire, an award winning podcast where he interviews inspiring Entrepreneurs who are truly ON FIRE. With over 2000 episodes, 1 million + listens a month, and seven-figures of annual revenue, JLD is just getting started. Visit EOFire.com to set YOUR Entrepreneurial journey ON FIRE! ABOUT THE HOST   Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD   Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik is talking with Sean-Paul Stephenson who has a background in banking and lending and is now working with rent to rent and serviced accommodation. He is a rent to rent mentor coach for HMO and SA with his own property journey spanning in excess of 20 years and is the founder of a rapidly growing property training company The aspect of not owning things but controlling them is very intriguing, along with customer demand changing from owning to temporarily using things. It is more and more popular to change things around quickly so how can you monetise this changing trend and be agile in this market. Sean shares how he has done it, listen in and be inspired.   KEY TAKEAWAYS We take an asset and repurpose it using it for something different. We might take a property and use it in a different strategy making a profit from it. It’s disrupted the property market in the way uber disrupted the taxi sector. It may only be around for the short term but it currently has good returns.   Currently, air BnB only accounts for 3% of any overnight stays in this country so there are still great opportunities. We work in the uber space of the property market, Airbnb, where you can control something but not own it. For rent to rent we don’t own the asset so we are agile and can give it back if the market alters. There is massive scope in the ‘not to own sector’ and the opportunities across the vehicle sector are massive. To get a property you have to transfer certainty. Whether it’s through your systems, website or how you speak to people. You need to transfer certainty to the landlord and letting agent to be able to secure the property. I’ve grown more in the last few years because I’ve invested in myself. The more you learn the more you earn, every time I’ve been on a course, listened to a podcast, read a book I’ve learnt more and this has led to me earning more. The power of helping others without the big ask in return It’s a great way to do any kind of business. The more I give away the more I get back   BEST MOMENTS ‘It was nerve-wracking to start but people could get to know me. It’s improved my business tenfold’ ‘You need to transfer certainty, it’s huge’ ‘By leveraging the landlord’s power team, it has taken a lot of my work away’ ‘He took bits of information and advice from different source and moulded it together into something that was useful for him’     VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book  Sean-Paul Stephenson Facebook Sean-Paul Stephenson Twitter   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘There are so many ways to make money as a young entrepreneur’ Rob Moore who was a guest on the 8th episode of Invest In You is back talking with Charlie and Fredrik about young entrepreneurs. Rob is known as the disruptive entrepreneur, he writes books, does podcasts, runs a training business and is an investor in property. They discuss the opportunities for young entrepreneurs and how you can get started This episode has lots of great content about being entrepreneurial and enterprising especially if you are young and want to create a business now.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Whatever you have knowledge in, expertise in, experience in or just love to do there is scope for selling products, mentorship and masterminds and educational programs. For content creators, fan funding and crowd funding can come together through the Patreon platform and the Facebook supporter program. Young entrepreneurs I encourage young entrepreneurs  to use their youth, vitality, strength Some worry about their lack of experience but with experience can come scepticism. The great thing about youth is the energy and the naivety being able to take risks because there is less to lose. If I was a teenager now I’d be doing e-commerce and building a personal brand across various platforms. Education is geared towards creating professions and jobs, not entrepreneurship, enterprise, innovation and becoming wealthy. If you want to create your own business and take over the world being innovative then the education system may not be for you. Lots of people are looking at what they get paid and then doing the minimum to get that pay it is not an enterprising or entrepreneurial mindset. Starting over If I had to start again I would start earlier, I would probably do similar things – training and property because I enjoy them so much. I’d invest in property and get into a low overhead high margin business with a  business partner who I could leverage my skills against. I would look to leverage social media more, building a personal brand and following when you have a loyal following it doesn’t matter so much what the product or service is. There are huge entrepreneurial opportunities around climate change. If you are able to bring a solution you could become very rich very quickly and be making a significant change for good.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I just want to learn from anyone I can learn from and give some of my experience to anyone who wants it’ ‘It’s not about the money it’s about what I’ve learnt along the way’   ‘I have a foundation that works to help as many people as possible get financial education and start and scale their business’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book     ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Who would’ve thought Special Ops is similar—in so many ways—with entrepreneurial businesses? Both are no jokes. Both require intricate preparations for a successful and efficient operations. Today, on the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik highlights the different ideas from Special Forces that you can use in the business setting. There are so many values and principles that overlaps when these two very different niches are compared, so tune in. KEY TAKEAWAYS • Before joining the Special Force, just like entrepreneurship, be decided, be physically & mentally ready, before joining. Interest alone wouldn’t cut it; be prepared. • There’s a practice of selection in the military, which is the same in any business… you always pick the best to join your team. • As much as possible, you want the best equipment, training, service, etc. for your team and clients, just like in the military. • All the team members also have designations depending on their specialties. The team leader must be able to oversee and manage his team well. • Timing is also important in the two different niches. Every business project, every military tactic, needs organisation and precision. • You need courage to grow and change. You also need courage to motivate and push your team forward. • Discipline aims to remove good habits to practice good habits. It forces you to the important tasks you don’t want to do. • How do I do things in Investing? 5 F’s: o Find a great deal. o Fund it. o Fixing it. o Filling/Flipping. o Flourish. • Secrecy is needed if you want to thrive. Winning can be within your grasp if you’re unpredictable. • Planning helps you solidify the path in achieving something, but plans need to be flexible so you can be ready when an unexpected thing happens. • Think unconventionally; don’t do things that people expect you to do. • Control your fears. They exist to motivate you, to be aware of all the learnings you can get, to keep you grounded. • Persevere. Survive. Push harder. BEST MOMENTS • “In business, it’s not often about life and death, but sometimes, it can be about life and death… it’s often about survival.” • “I was fortunate to have chosen a profession that really worked well for me.” • “Timing is key. It’s how we can pivot one thing to the next.” • “Work on your skill level; don’t stop learning.” • “Plan helps you to think of all contingencies.” VALUABLE RESOURCES • Survival of the Fittest by Charles Darwin • Invest In You Podcast • Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall • How to Make Money (book) - www.h2m.money  • Branding Yourself: How To Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself by Kyle Lacy and Erik Deckers - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/branding-yourself-3rd/9780134786636/   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

There are so many ways, using words, on how you can express what your ideas, your feelings, etc., but the perfect one to convey it to your target audience requires some skill and practice. In this episode of the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik and Ivan interviews Erik Deckers, the owner and President of Pro Blog Service, to talk about writing, blogging, and producing content. Erik is a professional writer and has been blogging since the ‘90s. He’s got some tips prepared today regarding writing, especially if you want to improve your online presence through your social media accounts. He also sheds a light on plagiarism and repurposing one’s content. Sharing your experience, stories, and expertise to other people is the best way on how to position yourself in your industry. Discover how to write your first content, today.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Writing has always been part of his life. When he was in college, he was part of the school newspaper. And now, it’s not just his passion, it’s the very core profession. Ghost-writing is an emerging niche right now in the writing industry. For some, they get list down as the co-author, but for most, they don’t any credits at all. There are so many things that you should be wary of when producing your own content, like plagiarism. Writing his book, Brading Yourself, has helped him share his ideas, improve his craft and meet new people. It’s now the norm for teenagers to find a job, not just to support their lifestyle, but to also explore and know what they’re capabilities are. Anyone can start as early as they want to achieve financial freedom. Erik’s advice on writing a book (i.e. non-fiction): Create an outline. Try posting a chapter online and study the feedback. Stick to your deadlines. Schedule your writing time as much as possible. How to focus on writing? Remove all distractions. For Erik, it’s social media. So, a 30-minute writing prompt becomes a 2-hour job when he gets distracted, so he fights the urges. BEST MOMENTS “If I had to choose and I can only do one, I’d rather be writing.” “I never miss a deadline.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall How to Make Money (book) - h2m.money Branding Yourself: How To Use Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself by Kyle Lacy and Erik Deckers - https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/branding-yourself-3rd/9780134786636/ ABOUT THE GUEST Erik Deckers is a best-selling author about social media. Published in many languages with multiple columns for many years in newspapers, blogger since 1990's. Erik’s LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erikdeckers/ Laughing Stalk Humor Blog – laughing-stalk.blogspot.com Erik's Writing Portfolio - erikdeckers.contently.com Erik’s Twitter - @edeckers   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHODHow to Make Money -the book Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘Human connection is about a generosity of spirit, compassion and helping people’ Fredrik is discussing the power of the human connection with Simone Heng, Global Keynote Speaker. During her career in the entertainment industry, Simone honed her skills making memorable connections with audiences face to face, online and on air. She now speaks to organisations about the importance of human connection techniques and how they can transform interactions. In this fascinating episode, they discuss Simone’s journey and the true value of human connection across the globe.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Beginning and changing I began in broadcasting and commercial modelling and was not trusted to say anything of my own, I didn’t have a voice. Radio empowered me to build my voice and how in the execution of my voice, my opinion could be shared in a likeable and accessible way. When you work in the world of entertainment you can lose your way and start to accept being validated by your appearance only neglecting your intellect. The best way to realise your intellectual potential is to begin reading and taking courses. It’s a beginning when your mind is receptive to information. Invest in you with Self-love When you show yourself some self-love and compassion you are able to show compassion towards others and are less judgemental.  Interviews It’s not about you as the interviewer you are the conduit for the messages and the answers. It’s vital to put your ego out of the way and connect with the other person as a human.   If you want to get a good interview, you need to relate to the person being interviewed on a human level and make a connection.  Human connection Human connection is about a generosity of spirit, compassion and helping people. As the conduit for the message, the researcher the art is finding the common thread of human connection that runs through all the case studies and interviews by pulling out the major themes. The more you learn you more you understand what you don’t know yet  Around the world I love little pieces of each country I've lived in; the precision and cleanliness of Switzerland, the straightforwardness of the Australians and in Singapore I love that the city is both quiet and frenetic. I would like to think I’m an amalgamation of all the places I have lived and it makes you a great speaker as you can relate with ease to a global audience. Money and value Money being taboo as a subject comes from valuing money too much, if we valued money less, took it less seriously we’d talk about it more. I'm open about money because it's not that important to me I grew up with immigrant parents who always talked about money with a threat mindset because there wasn’t enough. The minute I started giving things away that’s when my following grew because people don’t really care about me they care about the value I add to their lives. I’m the conduit for the value, compassion and empathy I add to their lives, it is not about me, I’m a shell to share the experience.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I was born and raised in a house where education was more important than food and my mum bought more courses for us to do than groceries for the house’ ‘If you are diminutive and of a certain ethnicity there is an initial perception. It's not just fighting the external perception it's fighting the internal cultural shadows’ ‘You get to the point in your career where you yourself have become a brand through the skills you have built’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book    ABOUT THE GUEST Simone Heng is a professional keynote speaker, international MC and former broadcaster. Over her career in the entertainment industry, she has found her way and the importance of the human connection.   CONTACT METHOD Simone Heng website  Simone Heng Instagram  Simone Heng LinkedIn   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘It’s always best to learn from the best in the world and the best entrepreneurs in the world are those are the people who’ve created the most value those with the highest net worth’ Fredrik is interviewing Rafael Badziag, best-selling author of ‘The Billion Dollar Secret’ a global entrepreneur and top TED speaker who is highly valued as an expert in the psychology of entrepreneurship. In this episode Fredrik and Rafael discuss why being a millionaire today is not exceptional and how becoming a billionaire only accomplished by 1 in every 3.5 million people globally, making it a truly exceptional achievement. Having worked with a range of billionaires for his latest book Rafael offers a fascinating insight with his wealth of knowledge into what makes a billionaire  exceptional in business, listen in and find out more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The best entrepreneurs It’s always best to learn from the best in the world and the best entrepreneurs in the world are those are the people who’ve created the most value those with the highest net worth. I wanted to find out about billionaires’ mindset and how they approach problems. This book is the firsthand experiences and thoughts of billionaires. I was able to compare and identify the common denominators. The global net worth measure is an effective filter resulting in a total of 2000 people meeting the criteria, this equates to 1 in every 3.5 million people being a billionaire. In the beginning it was difficult to get people to speak with me but with each person its easier and now they come to me as it provides exposure. They do not seek exposure for themselves but the companies that they care about and everything that supports legend creation in their companies is desirable to them. Trust It’s not about who you know, or likes you it’s about who trusts you in business. This is an important element in business and the building of sustainable relationships and growth. Billionaire elements It is important to develop all the time never stop learning and seeking self-improvement. Billionaires are all readers understanding that continual learning is a vital part of growth. The best knowledge comes from experience in your business through trialling, improving, and tweaking. This is the only way can you make a breakthrough to great value and wealth. If you use the existing knowledge you can only be the same as everyone else. There is an image of the billionaire but in reality most self-made billionaires like making money more than spending money. Billionaire Habits They all get up early at around 5.30 am creating time for themselves before the working day begins. They are physically active whatever their age Billionaires in most cases have traditional and stable private lives. Having a supportive partner who understands what you are trying to achieve and your goals is key as you can concentrate on your business life without stress and change in your personal life. There are a lot of sacrifices- long hours and extreme effort over possibly decades to achieve billions and this will include absence from significant family and personal events. Often billionaires have the same friends as when they started out as these are people who understand and believe in them. It’s important to have shared values and understanding then it is possible to work as a team and this can be very powerful.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I realised that in business now being a millionaire is average, it is mediocre’ ‘Even though he is a billionaire, he still lives in the same apartment, the only luxury he allows himself is books’ ‘The  greatest decision is having the right partner’ ‘They are disciplined and have a morning routine consisting of physical activity and some sort of meditation’ ‘People become very interested in the individual as a brand but through this, their businesses also benefit’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book  The Billion Dollar Secret book by Rafael Badziag   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘I’m connected with people all over the world and it’s an amazing feeling’ Fredrik and Charlie are talking to influencer Jayde who has over 1.1million followers on Tiktok and 41.9 million combined likes on My Videos so far this year. She is loved for her dance shuffle and high level of interaction with her fans. In this episode they talk about influencing, being true to yourself and giving something back. This is a fascinating insight into Jayde’s journey as an entrepreneur and influencer listen in now and find out more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Getting started My parents have always pushed me to follow my dreams and I wanted to be a creator My Mum is a dance teacher so I have grown up with dance. Being big on social media has opened many doors and provided me with lots of opportunities. When my Tiktok videos started to blow up and I was gaining more and more followers we started to see the possibilities of it as a business. People come to me and employ me as the face for their product. Businesses are growing through influencers and influencers are growing through the businesses. Tiktok As a video creator who creates lots of content, quality and being consistent is very important. If I find a song I really like I will just freestyle dance to it and I do all sorts of different styles of dance. You can express yourself  really well and I love that influencers can put themselves out there on Tiktok Businesses are putting their products on Tiktok in really fun ways and it's helping them to grow and be successful. Getting yourself out there is very important and more and more businesses are joining Tiktok it’s a platform where influencers and businesses bounce off each other creating success. If you live your passion and stay true your following will grow. As a creator, I’m always trying to connect with my fans and give something back. I’m always interacting with them personally and want to help them. I'm passionate about what I do, people identify with me and follow me because of my passion. Looking forward It's important to be yourself and always be true to yourself and genuine. I worry and panic about things too much I would advise others to not worry, keep your cool and be genuine. Moving forward I want to be able to help others and see myself being able to do this and lead businesses forward using creators and social media to promote their products successfully. It's vital to invest in your future, material things come and go but knowledge stays with you.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I’m now much more open and feel I could do anything with anyone’ ‘On Tiktok you just record the video and post it with YouTube there is more to do and I’ve still got lots to learn’ ‘I’m always showing support for them and want to help them’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book  Jayde Vincent LinkedIn Jayde Vincent YouTube Jayde Vincent Instagram Jayde Can Dance TikTok               ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘The best teachers in my world are those who are outside of the classroom teaching about actionable stuff’  This is a very special day as the kick starter campaign for the book ‘How to Make Money as a Teenager’ launches today.  The book is not just a book but a complete education program and in this episode, Fredrik and Charlie share the journey and explain why they chose to crowdfund.  This is another great episode so listen in and find out how to invest in you and help others.     KEY TAKEAWAYS  The book ‘How to Make Money as a Teenager is about helping teenagers to make money of their own.  It’s about how you can wire your mind for success. Many people do not have opportunities to learn about the mindset for success and how to be an entrepreneur.  It can be hard to engage kids and teach them about entrepreneurship, this book explains clearly the fundamentals of business and the mindset needed to be a successful entrepreneur.  Most young people have no idea about cashflow. Understanding money and how much things cost is the basis for cashflow. The book clearly explains cash flow and how it applies to your personal spending and your business.  This book is a tool you can use to help you learn about business and move forward  achieving your goals.  By starting to make money and save early you have more time where it can compound.  The book is a complete learning program and contains interviews with real people including teenpreneurs sharing key learning and informative case studies.  The more you help us the more we can help you and the more you can help others,  small ideas at the right time can change your life.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘It’s about sharing the Invest In You journey’  ‘There is not only the book but an education program which is scheduled for next year’  ‘A plan for launch is very important but you must take it and  put it into action’  ‘When you are very young if you put pocket money into a crypto asset. If you pick the right one your asset will rise overtime’  ‘Kick starter is there for creators to launch their stuff and find someone to fund it’      VALUABLE RESOURCES  Invest In You Podcast  Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall  Kickstarter How To Make Money As A Teenager book         ABOUT THE HOST  Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD  Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk   https://sandvallinvest.com/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2      Contact Charlie Sandvall   Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn      Contact Ivan Sandvall   Ivan Sandvall Instagram This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘Videos organically get a lot of exposure; people are doubling their connections in a month’   Fredrik and Charlie are in Sweden and  in conversation with Zac Scriven, creative content creator, influencer and host of the ‘Zack Scriven Podcast’  With a background in industrial automation, Zack shares his passion for creative video content and the vital role it plays in increasing engagement across social media platforms.  Listen in and find out how to increase your followers, expand your network and make a difference.     KEY TAKEAWAYS  I wasn’t in this industry  of  video content creation, personal branding and being an influencer until a year ago when I quit my engineering job to pursue my passion full time, I do content in and around the niche of industrial automation  I have a background in industrial automation, part of an experience is sharing the experience with other people and I have shared my journey of transition from employee to content creator and influencer.  There are jobs out there that will be more in alignment with your passion and closer to where you want to be.  Be yourself and bring your true value to the world  In general, the industrial automation industry has lacked video content from a personal perspective and I have been able to focus on creating video content for this niche.  Part of the process of working with me is the network effect, you associate with me and we get exposure to each other's customers and share our LinkedIn contacts. We all get to grow together; influencers can make a real difference.  With LinkedIn you are getting real-time exposure but has a short lifetime, there is not really any searchability whilst YouTube is the largest search engine and has a lengthy lifetime.  They are both very powerful when used together  I’m focused more on the long term and getting to work on projects that are interesting to me. I'm more interested in someone coming to me and having the creative freedom to work in the way I want.  You’ve got to bring your best value to the world, because ultimately out life has no meaning other than the impact we leave on others.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘YouTube is more or a long-term play whilst LinkedIn is short term engagement’  ‘Commenting on others it is a powerful engagement tool to grow your following’  ‘The gear didn’t matter it was more about doing it in the first place’  ‘You need to understand why you want to grow your following’              VALUABLE RESOURCES  Invest In You Podcast  Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall  Zack Scriven LinkedIn  Zack Scriven Podcast  Invest Like a Boss Podcast  Graham Stephan YouTube     ABOUT THE HOST  Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD  Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk   https://sandvallinvest.com/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2      Contact Charlie Sandvall   Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn      Contact Ivan Sandvall   Ivan Sandvall Instagram This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

 ‘I’m investing in myself by investing in others’ Ivan, Charlie and Fredrik are in conversation with David Wood CEO of ‘Play for Real’ His own real-life game spans snowboarding, paragliding, comedy and coaching for high performing entrepreneurs and prisoners, helping them to play for real and live regret-free lives. Having completed coaching calls from a phone booth in the wilderness of Thailand, David has lots to say and shares some incredible experiences and advice in this interview which has something for everyone.   KEY TAKEAWAYS What do you do? I help high performing entrepreneurs, executives, teams and even prison inmates to play for real and live a regret-free life. I want everyone to get the most out of their life, for some this will be a great business success and for most people, it will include deep connections with other people, more expression more authenticity and more daring What do you really mean by ‘play for real’? Life is the best game there is, there is something that happens when we play we can achieve a flow state and have fun. You can fit many things into life both good and bad and we need to play but play for real as if our lives depend on it because it does. Why were you sceptical about personal development prior to trying it? When I first discovered personal development,  I held the view that self-help was for weak people, people who couldn’t get their act together. My first experience of personal development was a RYLA camp (rotary youth leadership awards) it completely changed my viewpoint and understanding. I was able to connect with other people, I cared about people and people cared about me. I am drawn to people who are making an impact and am fascinated by those who are on massive missions to change the world, it seems such a great game to play. What do you enjoy most about your job? It is a  privilege being trusted by people and helping them to move their ideas forward. Working with prisoners and changing their views so they can look at living their lives constructively has a positive impact on both them and me. What is your greatest strength? I can take thousands of pieces of information about someone’s life and identify the key points and patterns. I can combine this with the emotional depth of being able to hold space for anything that someone is going through.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I’m investing in myself by investing in others’ ‘Part of my brand is that I want people to know I’m an absolute straight shooter with a high level of integrity’ ‘If they are having an impact in the world is it any of my business what their motivation is?’ ‘I thought I could use finding out about who I am but they were are wearing name tags and smiling, so I figured I’d get in and get out but they soon cracked my cynicism’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall Are you playing for real? Take the 5-minute Life Assessment at http://www.playforreal.life   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall InstagramThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Charlie and Fredrik are sharing the learning hat can be taken from the life story of Steve Jobs. They explore the inspirational reveals for new products and dedicated tribe that Apple has become known for. Steve Jobs was not a people person but was able to bring people together working towards a common goal, a goal he was utterly committed to achieving. Listen in to hear what Charlie and Fredrik think about the movie and the journey of Steve Jobs, a disruptive force in business.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Steve Jobs is inspiring in the way he reveals and pitches a new product, at the time he was disruptive taking a whole new perspective on how a product can be better. He was not a people person and found it challenging to work with others but understood that to succeed he needed to leverage other people’s knowledge, skills and experiences. Not only was Steve Jobs a good storyteller and pitcher he was a great salesperson At the start any entrepreneur needs to be able to sell and in particular sell their minimum viable product in order to generate money. To expand a business, you need investors and bring them on board you need to pitch Steve Jobs was successful at finding investors because he kept on trying, pitching multiple times before he got the investment he needed. Investors are calculating the value of a company in the future when they make an investment. Every time you sell up and sell equity you lose some power, selling your equity to big investors can result in your business becoming diluted. Steve Jobs was really good at building a vision about something that didn’t yet exist and pitching to bring it into reality. The values of Apple – to disrupt, innovate, push through and challenge have created a very strong tribe.   BEST MOMENTS ‘He was wheeling and dealing when he started out’ ‘He found a common goal for everyone to work towards together’ ‘When an entrepreneur is successful selling they then have to take the next step and put together a team to produce the product’ ‘To expand a business, you need investors and to bring them on board you need to pitch’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode Charlie, Ivan and Fredrik are talking about young entrepreneurs. They focus on the question ‘What would you like to be now?’ and how you can get started with or without money. This is a great opportunity to hear what it’s like to be the parent of young entrepreneurs and what Ivan and Charlie as young entrepreneurs have experienced and learnt as they discuss the importance of purpose, paying it forward and getting started early.   KEY TAKEAWAYS The entrepreneurial parent Some people may not even know about entrepreneurship, having an entrepreneurial  parent who can get you started and offer advice is a huge advantage. An entrepreneur doesn’t have to come up with the idea they don’t need to be an innovator. An entrepreneur takes an idea and makes it doable; they are able to monetize it. When you are a parent to a young entrepreneur you are having the same business conversations as you would have with someone who is 30-40 years old. Having enough time The world is moving quickly, and people are realising that starting earlier is better. Across all areas of business, there are successful young people. Many adults ask, ‘what do you want to be when you grow up?’ But the real question is ‘what would you like to be now?’ Focusing on the now is important We all have a limited amount of time so we must make the most of it. If you begin young then you have more time to develop and compound your business. You can start with nothing, but it is always better to start with a resource. Resources can be in the form of knowledge and experience. Paying it forward and giving back By giving today you help benefit those in the future. It goes around in a circle, if you get caught up in the money you lose your sense of purpose. When you help other people, you have no idea how much it might mean to them in the future, it could be life-changing Lots of young entrepreneurs give away a lot because they don’t have any need for the money currently.   BEST MOMENTS ‘If you are a young entrepreneur you must remember that if you don’t ask you won’t get’ ‘I have no requirement currently for a job, I do it because it’s about understanding the value of money and teaches the perspective of work’ ‘Money can help because it gives you options, but it can also destroy, it amplifies behaviours’    VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  Charlie Sandvall LinkedIn    Contact Ivan Sandvall  Ivan Sandvall Instagram      This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode Fredrik and Charlie welcome author, speaker (and scuba diver!) Vicki Wusche as their guest and cover a broad range of topics including Investing in Yourself, life choices, entrepreneurship, property, the proper way to put a value on your time, retirement and picking the right personal development trainer - enjoy! :). KEY TAKEAWAYS Vicki used to be a university lecturer, and is passionate about educating young people about money. This is in direct alignment with the Sandval’s method of parenting, which involves educating children on the best practices when it comes to making money, and more importantly, the wisest ways in which to invest. There is an attitude in the UK whereby people who don’t own property are seen as failing somehow, when this isn’t true. Mastering property is important, but you don’t need to own the place in which you live. Investing In You, to Vicki, comes in three steps: Investing in yourself - health, spirituality, mental wellbeing and mindset Investing in family - Contributing time and knowledge to aid in the family’s development Investing in the future - Having the right amount of money to enable you to live the life you have planned The education system needs young people to conform to their teachings, instead of the other way around. That’s why it’s vitally important for education to continue through other channels. It’s important to carefully select any kind of development trainer. Often their only qualification is that they’ve invested some money and spoken in public about it. Look for voices and people that have actually achieved something.  Investing in yourself is an economy. We not only spend money on self-improvement, but also time. We need to ensure that the time we spend on these endeavours is worth it. We only have so much time to give. BEST MOMENTS ‘I like to say that I’m a “Heinz 57” European!’ ‘Learning money is just like learning how to drive a car’ ‘We need to have a grasp of property as a tool for wealth creation’ ’The future is about time and how you want to spend it’ ‘It’s really tough to teach stuff you’ve never done’ VALUABLE RESOURCES   Invest In You Podcast Vicki’s Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/VickiWusche  The Scorecard - www.vickiwusche.com/scorecard  #WhooshOnomics ABOUT THE GUEST   Vicki Wusche started investing in property 2008. She was named in The Telegraph as one of the UK’s 25 most influential people in property, and is currently an international speaker focused on helping clients enjoy their Non-Traditional Retirements.   ABOUT THE HOST   Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD   Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Charlie and Fredrik are talking books in this episode, Fredrik’s latest book ‘Trust is the New Currency’ is newly published and they are continuing work on their next book project ‘How to Make Money as a Teenager’ They share their experiences and knowledge of how to write, share and market a book successfully with advice that can help anyone get started.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Books are available in a range of formats – paper, audio and e-books and Amazon as an affiliate, facilitate the link between sellers and buyers. How do you begin to write? To make it easier have a structure What will the book be about? Who is if for? What’s the purpose of writing the book? If you write for academia you are aiming to add something to what is already out there. The majority of books are written to entertain and fill your time with engaging content being key. Value In any area there is a very small percentage of authors who dominate the sales in the niche. It all about gaining long term customers and to do this you must provide value through content. How can you market your book successfully? You need to have something to sell and a relevant audience. A marketing campaign including planning, and strategy is vital. You can amplify your marketing campaign through social media. If you achieve a ‘best seller’ you can use it for future marketing. Sending your potential business customers your book enables them to get to know about you in-depth before you’ve met. A book can be like a CV and helps to build your brand.   BEST MOMENTS ‘How you perform overall on Amazon and in the various categories – its challenging to find out how the rankings work’ ‘Get it out there and perfect it later’ ‘Different people, different interests in books’ ‘Eventually it comes down to whether people actually buy’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Trust is the New Currency book by Sheila Holt & Fredrik Sandvall   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/?originalSubdomain=ukThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

There’s a new currency. It’s TRUST. In this episode of the Invest In You Podcast, we look at Fredrik Sandvall and Sheila Holt’s book, Trust is the New Currency. While we think we have it all effortless and comfortable in this world, we miss on the most valuable stuff. And one of these is trust, which is valuable in growing yourself, your career, or your business. Fredrik, Ivan, and Charlie read some praises from successful entrepreneurs and also share some snippets from the book. Discover today how you can put trust back at the very core of your business. Fredrik and Sheila are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to this.  Fredrik is fond of educating others while Sheila is interested in growing relationships and understanding how people think. Be financially free for the rest of your life when you unlock the secrets. KEY TAKEAWAYS Daniel Priestley wrote the foreword of the book. Daniel met Sheila and Fredrik in one of the property events in 2013. He trusts them on their expertise about creating and scaling up a business. They share the world’s leading entrepreneurs’ ways on how they continue to attain success. So, if you want to learn about the business and finance world today, the dream team can help you. Success and failure are predictable. The 3 elements on creating and growing a business: Profile Finance Team Trust is central in how we operate our own businesses. There always appear innovations now and then but trust builds our relationships (partnerships, teamwork, customer relations, etc.). it’s valuable in the growth of your business. The ‘Trust is The New Currency’ book has 3 parts: The Foundation of Trust. Building the Business Engines. Partnering to Create Wealth and Investments. Why is this book perfect for you? To develop a fresh approach to business. To build relationships founded on trust. To use ‘trust’ as the currency to attract the right business partner. To create new alliances and more wealth for your successful businesses. BEST MOMENTS Some of the reviews: ‘I love the concept of this book and I agree that “trust is the new currency”. This book has been well thought out and presented in an easy to understand format, which will help you build an effective core team. All entrepreneurs can use the high-level information here to introduce trust and keep it flowing within their business. It’s great to see Sheila and Fredrik collaborate in this way. Highly recommended.’ Simon Zutshi, Author of bestseller Property Magic and Founder of Property Investors Network ‘Trust is the new currency. Couldn’t have put it better myself. In the modern world of business, the internet and social media, trust is one of the most important, yet overlooked, tools. By applying the principles that the authors detail in this book within your business, communication and relationships will improve, you’ll be able to manage projects better and will find it easier to get the results you want.’ Rob Wilkinson, Co-founder, Crowd with Us ‘Three new models explained and with clarity. The Trust Triangle, the Business Engine and the Investment Triangle are bound to help any entrepreneur on their journey to success. Apply them in your business.’ Andrew Eggelton, Presenting Mentor VALUABLE RESOURCES Trust is the New Currency Official Website Trust is the New Currency: How to build trust, attract the right partners and create wealth through business and investments by Sheila Holt and Fredrik - http://bit.ly/TrustSandvall ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com https://linkedin.com/in/Sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘Business on the beach is a dream scenario for many people but even better is a business that is so well run it doesn’t require you at all’ Fredrik and Charlie having been working together on a new book and in this episode are talking productivity, focusing on the elemental aspects for a successful business and how to achieve a mobile lifestyle as an entrepreneur. With examples from work and life Fredrik and Charlie bring together top tips and systems that will work to enhance and increase productivity wherever you are working in the world.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Start with the why – why do you want more productivity? What do you want to achieve? make sure you have clarity around this. Take a big task and divide it up into smaller tasks ‘chunk it’ – split it into smaller more doable and achievable tasks. A laptop business is a business that can be run from your laptop or mobile enabling you to physically be wherever you want to be in the world. There are many integrated Apps to support a mobile lifestyle, you can delegate, outsource and translate. Consider whether  you can offer your staff perks so they can also benefit from the flexibility in your business. A big part of productivity is saving time. Tools on computers and on your phone can help you systemise things, help automate, organise and delegate however it’s vital you  make sure people have access to shared systems and communication is transparent. Routines enable you to schedule tasks, such as responding to emails, in a specific reoccurring  time slot. Informing others helps communication and expectations across your business. Compartmentalise tasks and schedule them – the basic things make a difference, the most productive people chunk time into 6-minute slots. When creating a plan, also make a detailed communication plan; how will we do this? If you work with specialists keep them engaged and look after them as working with those who know and understand you can save time. Delegation – dare to do it and expect the result to be different, it may even be better if you don’t micromanage.   BEST MOMENTS ‘We have had a really productive time running different scenarios and planning the kick starter video’ ‘I like to have the freedom to work from various places  in the world but it requires a few things’ ‘I am an avid user of tech and use delegation to work across areas’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast The 4-Hour Work Week book by Timothy Ferris    ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2    Contact Charlie Sandvall  https://www.linkedin.com/in/csandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk   This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

If you don’t have a final destination, how will you know when you are there? In a first, Charlie and Fredrik are talking dream cars and goals in an unusual episode recorded whilst test driving the BMW M850i Xdrive. a car they review as sending your heart racing and being great for solo adventurers. The car is sizable but quiet enough for recording as they discuss the importance of goal setting in their lives and how visualising your goals is key to achieving your dreams. As Fredrik and Charlie experience this dream car they share the different ways you can set goals and achieve them, turning your dreams into reality.   KEY TAKEAWAYS What is the point of setting goals? If you don’t know where you are going how will you know when you get there? Some people like to have an image, a board with have visual representations of your ultimate dreams It’s really important in business to set goals for yourself, your team, your investment fund. As an entrepreneur, it is difficult to achieve if you have not set goals. Using milestones can clarify the route you are taking. When growing up in the Swedish countryside I had no idea I would travel the world experience 80 different countries and work across 40 countries globally. Goal setting and achieving your goals gives you a choice about where you live and what you do in your life. You can have goals for a long time, but the key is to take action, without this nothing will happen or change. You can change your goals what is important now may not be important in the future, but it’s vital to always have a goal, a destination for your journey.   BEST MOMENTS  ‘I'm in the testing phase, I'm going to try it out to see if it’s what I want to do’ ‘Curiosity has taken me across the world and now I live in London but where I will live in  five years’ time nobody knows’ ‘I would never in my wildest dreams have believed I would be driving a car like this ; it was just for the rich people’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast Crushing It book by Gary Vaynerchuk     ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

This episode is a summer update from Fredrik and Charlie Sandvall. Within this episode, they reveal what exciting future plans they have for their business within the next 5 weeks including a social media challenge!      KEY TAKEAWAYS  Charlie and Fredrik will be doing a social media challenge, travelling, writing books and keeping you updated over the next 5 weeks! The book will be about how to make money even if you’re young!  Fredrik has been working on a Crowd funding platform in order to grow his business.  We will also be publishing more episodes over the next few weeks too! Charlie is focusing on writing his book, with the support of Fredrik, and doing a kick-starter campaign.  Kick-starter is a site where you can market or presell your stuff. It’s great for preselling because you can test the demand before making the product. Let us know what you would like to hear more about by getting in touch!  The social media challenge!  - They will be publishing and posting on social media at least once every day. This could be something silly and non professional or some business tips so keep a look out!  Charlie and Fredrik’s book called ‘Trust Is The New Currency’ is now with the publishers and we will be keeping you updated with the launch. The book will be about how you can use trust to grow your team, make friends and help get you investments.  Charlie’s book will be called ‘How To Make Money As A Teenager’ which will focus on how to make money as a young person now days.  Another book that they are both working on is based around investment tactics which was wrote last summer but will not be published until the trust book is a best seller. The final and 4th book will be focused around crowd funding.   We have 2 great interviewee’s lined up to come on our podcast so far and we would like to invite you to come on it too. Get in touch with us to ask questions about anything!  BEST MOMENTS  ‘You can make money if you’re younger or older.’  ‘We are open for business even if it’s summer time.’  ‘Trust is the new currency.’  VALUABLE RESOURCES    Invest In You Podcast  Climb Con  Climb Online    ABOUT THE HOST  Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD  Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You      https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk   https://sandvallinvest.com/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon  https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2 This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this special episode, Fredrik meets Mark Wright, the winner of BBC's The Apprentice in 2014, and founder of Climb Online, a digital marketing company run by Mark and Lord Alan Sugar. In this remarkably candid conversation, Mark shares his insights on the business landscape, as well as practical advice for those looking to grow, as well as the story of his own journey, both past and present; one that has led him from humble beginnings to the highest level of the business world.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Mark had a passion for business and creativity from an early age, and figured out quite quickly that a normal job wasn’t going to be a fit. From rural beginnings in Australia, Mark chose to develop his own personal training company. From here, he went into sales, and quickly found success. Success with Lord Sugar, and in the expansion of Climb Online has enabled Mark to become the owner of five more companies. As an investor, it’s far more important to understand the person you’re investing in, rather than the business. Self-improvement is paramount to Mark. By attending events, he realised that he needed to associate with people far more successful than he was, so that their value could transfer to him. This is what led him to set up Climb Con, an event which aims to provide incredible value to those wishing to take their growth to the next level. Discipline is the key to success and focus. Mark recognises that a background in military or sports training often leads to success in business, due to the military’s insistence on imbuing their recruits with an enhanced sense of focus and purpose. As Mark has grown, the meaning of investing in himself has changed. From wanting nothing but financial freedom, he now values personal development time, such as gym work and free time, as the most valuable aims in life.  Formal education is all very well, but often by the time a course of education has ended, the landscape has changed. Developments have occurred which can mean that parts of your education are redundant. Mark advises practical experience, and learning from ever-regenerating information sources, such as podcasts and seminars, as well as the advice of business peers.  Too many people are not risking enough. Often people play to not lose, instead of playing to win. You have to risk a little to win big. Those wishing to make serious money must expand exponentially. You must always be growing, because monetary success can only come by scaling up your business. Starting is the key. When you have a full-time job, you are given the perfect excuse to never take the leap, because you already have security. Mark advises quitting and giving your venture a proper try. Even if you fail, you can always tell yourself that you tried. As time has gone on, Mark credits new concepts with being his driving force. After having accumulated wealth, ideas and their development are what attract and excite him. Germinating an idea from concept to reality provides the strongest sense of satisfaction. BEST MOMENTS ‘I’ve always been this prolific in my own head’ ‘From the day I went into The Apprentice boardroom, my life just changed completely’ ‘You’ve got to have an instinct for when you get onto a good thing’ ‘You never invest in a business. You invest in a person’ ‘Don’t get bitter. Get better’ ‘I love games where it takes a lot to be the best at it’ ‘Success is being happy within yourself’ ‘Making money gives you freedom’ VALUABLE RESOURCES   Invest In You Podcast Climb Con Climb Online   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Charlie are talking about Robert Kiyosaki’s latest book Fake; Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets: How Lies Are Making the Poor and Middle-Class Poorer.  They discuss and review the book providing pertinent real-life examples to highlight specific concepts presented by Robert Kiyosaki in his book.  If you have followed the story of the book  ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ many of the things in this book will be known to you, listen in to find out more about what Fredrik and Charlie think about this new publication.     KEY TAKEAWAYS  If you have not read anything of this kind previously, this book will enable you to review what is an asset and what is a liability.  Fake money  In the book, Robert discusses the technology of cryptocurrency originating with the people and the role of Governments in trying to control banks.  Fake teachers  A great teacher is good at what they do, they have good subject knowledge and are able to communicate effectively with the people they are teaching  A teacher who doesn’t have an in-depth understanding of what they are teaching is unable to communicate well and have a positive impact on their students learning.  It is preferential to have a teacher who has business experience in the area they are teaching. They are able to bring real experience to their teaching.  Fake Assets  A real asset puts money in your pocket. A fake asset takes money out of your pocket, it is something that promises to make you richer but actually requires ongoing finance from the individual.  In this latest book Robert Kiyosaki continues to explore the value of financial education and thinking critically,  knowledge and an approach that some only have the opportunity to learn about later and some never learn about, effectively creating the divide between the rich and the poor.     BEST MOMENTS  ‘He was really good at marketing as a practitioner, doing the doing, not only just from a teaching point of view’  ‘I strongly believe we all have at least one book inside us, whether we have written it or not’  ‘Any book good or bad can help you’  ‘Land and property are better as real assets’     VALUABLE RESOURCES  Invest In You Podcast  Fake; Fake Money, Fake Teachers, Fake Assets book by Robert Kiyosaki  Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money book by Robert Kiyosaki      ABOUT THE HOST  Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD  Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You   https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

We are all on different social media platforms for different reasons and it is important to review your own profile. In this episode, Fredrik and Charlie share what makes an effective LinkedIn profile. You can download a checklist from Fredrik’s LinkedIn page and effectively review your own profile to ensure you are sharing the most complete profile with others. This podcast also includes invaluable advice on how to extend your reach and presence across the LinkedIn community, listen in now to find out more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS First Impressions Photo – this should be a business photo, indicating you are a professional. Title & description – customise your title and ensure your description is interesting and provides keywords. Activity – regular activity is vital, commenting on others and posting Completeness – highlight your competencies and areas you specialise in to ensure others have a complete view of you. Company Website – this should be active. You can also include any other links you have. Summary – this is an opportunity to use keywords ensuring others know about what you have to offer. Networking Connections  - aim to have between 100-500 connections dependant on how niche your field is. Recommendations – you will increase the chances someone will recommend you if you recommend them. Public Profile URL – ensure this is correct Job history Complete and accurate – this is your online CV the more complete and correct it is the better. Role description – this is an opportunity to explain what you actually do in your job. Achievement focus – these are additions that can make all the difference. Date continuity – if there are gaps, explain what you were doing in your time away from work. Professional credibility Skills and expertise - This links to your job role, if you are a manager list the skills that are relevant to this. Education - You may find alumnus who you can connect to in a business you want to work with. Contact information - you need to be contactable and approachable but be aware this will also bring multiple sales calls.   Groups and organisations Membership - You should be a member of at least 5 groups to be credible. Relevance – it's vital that you ensure the groups are relevant to you and your area of expertise. Following key accounts - Follow key accounts and prospective clients, this will enable you to find out the latest news about them. Questions – ask questions in groups to raise your participation. Voted the best answer - If you are smart, strategic, helpful and friendly people can like you within groups. Applications Publications - In LinkedIn, you can publish articles these are similar in format to a blog. Reading – ensure you are doing this regularly Slideshare - You can post keynotes and slide shows here to share with others. Advanced Answers – you can post answers to help groups Link to twitter – you can link any content to your twitter account. Form own group – you can start your own group Events – you can post upcoming events and inform others. Polls – you can create polls to promote interaction.   BEST MOMENTS ‘There is so much knowledge in these groups’ ‘You can become an influencer on LinkedIn through groups’ ‘If you are part of a group you can help multiple people’ ‘I find it more difficult to link up with people who haven’t got a photo’   VALUABLE RESOURCES  https://itunes.apple.com/pk/podcast/invest-in-you/id1353355236?mt=2  Fredrik Sandvall LinkedIn checklist   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You    https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Change is a constant challenge for any business and being able to adapt and manage change successfully are key for any entrepreneur, Charlie is asking the challenging questions and Fredrick shares his extensive expertise and experience of how change can benefit your business if you have the right mindset and can adapt positively, listen in to find out more.   KEY TAKEAWAYS What things might change? The number of things that may change are limitless, everything is moving constantly and being able to adapt to change is vital. How important is your mindset in adapting and managing change? Any challenge can be viewed in a number of different ways. This is dependent on the mindset of the individual facing the challenge. Is it important to believe in what you do? It is vital to like and believe in what you do. It is only when you believe in what you are selling and doing that you can grow and be successful. How can you survive change at a strategic level? As an entrepreneur it can be easy to get involved in the detail and lose sight of the overview but it’s key to have an overarching  strategy and goals for the future. There will be multiple events that are tactical in moving towards the ultimate goal. In which way do platforms disrupt or destroy old markets? You can provide value by being a piece in the puzzle, the connector. Customers are able to connect with products they would not have found otherwise How and where can you get inspiration on how to update your business? You must invest in yourself and look to others. You can keep educating yourself and join a mastermind group. Feedback from customers can help you to evolve over time and being open minded will help you to pick up new ideas. Why is it difficult to have a competitive edge? It is always difficult to be in the position where customers think of you first. Your competitors are all competing for this position. Creating an ecosystem of solutions that make it easy for the consumer will give a business a competitive advantage. How can you to adapt to fast change in business? If you are an innovator and disrupter you will be the person who comes up with a great idea, but it is the adopters, those who copy and refine an idea who are more likely to be successful. You can take a problem and focus on the solution being a positive experience. Most people are happy to pay a small premium for something that is much better.   BEST MOMENTS ‘How other people talk about you makes a huge difference’ ‘I’ve learned so much from working with other people’ ‘Would you like to have nothing or a lot more than nothing’ ‘Changes are all around us all of the time’ ‘Hopefully he’s going to be spitting out some good answers so you can learn’ VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest in You Podcast Sandvall YouTube   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondonThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

When you get bored, what do you usually do? You browse the internet hoping that something could entertain you. The truth is a big bulk of traffic on the web is composed of people consuming (reading, streaming, playing, etc.) content. If you’re trying to be an expert in your industry, it’s best that you try to jump on the other side of the fence – by starting to create the content. We dive deep about social media content creation in this latest episode of the Invest In You Podcast. Fredrik, Charlie, and Ivan share everything that you need to know could increase the value you contribute, the sales, and the engagement with your followers. It takes the drive, the skills, and the knowledge to position yourself as one of the top players so make sure to tune in to get their helpful tips. KEY TAKEAWAYS Charlie hosts his own YouTube Channel, and he shares that anyone can earn money by entertaining others. Most YouTube influencers rely on ad revenues or by getting sponsors. For podcasts, it’s best to invite people of credibility and of experience whom the listeners can relate to. It’s not just assuming that you’re giving out the most significant value to your audience, but also this increases the engagement with followers and the sales. You can also collaborate content ideas with them. Creating content builds your personal brand. Branding is essential if you want to cement your place in the industry. You want to be the go-to person, their own guide to everything they want to learn and know. It’s important to trust yourself and be confident of what you’re putting out there. And remember to be consistent on posting content on social media. Grow your following in every social media platform. Find a way to link your other platforms in the contents you make and post. One exception though is to consider a follower’s convenience, so they continue supporting your content. For example, if you’re planning on posting a video on Facebook, it’s better if you directly upload it in there, rather than diverting it to YouTube. Look at what the numbers are telling you. Are you gaining enough engagements? What topics are not interesting enough for the viewers? If there is negative feedback, use it as a learning tool and a motivation to improve yourself. BEST MOMENTS “Is it okay to collaborate with people who are ahead of your journey? That’s just better for you.” “To me, it’s important, so eventually I might have this as a job, and make money and produce more.” – Charlie “I was trying to create a content bank. I was creating not just junk content but trying to get good quality in my content and trying to make as much of that as possible.” – Ivan VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest In You Podcast #43 A Good Deal is Different for Different People (Interview with Anna Harper) Omny | iTunes | Stitcher ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com https://linkedin.com/in/Sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Richard Newman is the founder of Body Talk, and the author of the book ‘You Were Born To Speak’. A communication expert, he has been training clients all over the world for twenty years in business communication skills, how to best utilise business storytelling, mindset, and how to perform at their best in the key moments in life In this episode, Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie Sandvall talk to Richard about how to hone their communication skills, using methods and techniques that have taken Richard a lifetime to perfect.   KEY TAKEAWAYS From an early age, Richard discovered that his communication skills were lacking, which led to difficulties in forming relationships and interacting socially. This lasted throughout his school life, and until he one day decided that he needed to better his skills in this area. In India, while living among Tibetan monks, he was forced to use his own creativity to interact and form relationships with them. It was here that he learned to make effective use of non-verbal communications, such as body language and facial expressions. At acting school, he further developed these skills. Subsequently, through a very unlikely connection, Richard then began training companies in how to communicate more effectively. Richard now trains over 10,000 people each year, all over the world.   Everything we desire in life, that we don’t already have, is outside of our comfort zone. If it’s inside our comfort zone, then we already own it, or we don’t really want it that much.   When interacting with people in authority, or “VIPs”, it’s always best to treat them as a human being. Be respectful, be kind., But putting them on a pedestal will not help your interactions. What does this person care about? What’s important to them? They will appreciate and respect this approach, as all humans do.   Human beings have not risen to the top of the food chain on the planet because we’re the fastest or the strongest beings on the planet. We have become the most prevalent species on the planet because we are the best species at communicating. We have used communication to form governments, to organise strategy, to enable the replenishment of our species. This proves that we are all far more capable when it comes to communication than we often think.   In life and business, you can have the perfect speech, pitch, language and script in the world. But it means nothing if your delivery is not working. Equally, you can deliver a speech perfectly, but you have nothing to say, then they won’t take action. So we have to make sure we possess both. Congruency is key.   A person’s imagination is a strong component in communication. Words can evoke imagery in the mind. Utilising the correct words can create pictures and even memories for people, which can then be used to influence feelings.   A successful speech doesn’t mean you have to memorise every word. There’s a journey you need to take your audience on, and you can visualise that journey. All you need to do is then embark upon that journey in your mind and take your audience with you.   To get people hooked into an idea, or to put it another way, one of the main ingredients in a “viral hit”, we must tap into the journey that every human is looking for. We like stories. They help to make sense of the world around us. We are all, sometimes subconsciously, looking for the “hero’s journey” story archetype. The skill in a great communicator is transmitting that central concept into every story they tell.   To Richard, investing in yourself means nourishing yourself completely, from physical stimulation, to culture, to food, to becoming the best version of yourself there can be, in order that you can recognise where you are at that moment, where you want to go, how you’ll get there, and how you’ll make that happen.   BEST MOMENTS ‘I started to feel as though I was in a bubble, and that I couldn’t connect well with people’ ‘Even when you have no use of words, no common language, you can connect with people on a deeper, richer level’ ‘Because I embraced something that was a far bigger challenge than I was ready for, I was able to achieve something very fulfilling’ ‘You’re never quite ready and that’s okay’ ‘You really have to push yourself to improve’ ‘Everything you want in your life, is outside of your comfort zone’ ‘People like to speak, and people like to listen’ ‘Be as good as you possibly can be every day, not just when a VIP is visiting’ ‘We all have some kind of fear’ ‘Actually, all of us are naturally good communicators’ ‘You can say the right words and get the wrong reaction’ ‘We are essentially visual creatures’ ‘Words lead to pictures lead to feelings’ ‘There’s an amazing power that words have to create pictures’ ‘A pause is an audio highlighter’   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardnewmanspeaks/ https://www.facebook.com/richardnewmanspeaks https://www.ukbodytalk.com/  Invest In You Podcast   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.     CONTACT METHOD LinkedIn Sandall Invest Facebook  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Is it possible to have a 10-year plan? In this episode, Fredrik and Charlie are talking about where and what they will be doing in 10 years’ time. This is an opportunity to consider what you might be doing and where you might be in 10 years’ time.  A plan and focus over this period of time makes lots achievable for anyone who wants to make a change. Listen in to hear what and where Fredrik and Charlie want to be in the world.   KEY TAKEAWAYS What is your 10-year plan? There are key questions that you can ask when formulating a plan for the next 10 Years, Where would you like to live? What might your income streams be? If you take what you have today, and you double it will it be sustainable for your costs in the future? If you’ve got 10 years to turn your life around or make changes you can achieve a lot. Working within a 10-year time frame there is the opportunity to make incremental changes. To make a shift in relationships, health and wealth over a 10-year period is very obtainable. Gradual improvement will be compounded over time to realise significant change. A lot can be done if you are consistent over time. You should try to master what you are interested in and get as much experience as possible. Money helps to provide freedom and choice. Ultimately you can become whatever you want.   BEST MOMENTS ‘Travelling isn’t for everyone, it's not for everyone the hotel room lifestyle, some like to be in a place for a longer period’ ‘Be even more remote, investing with a team in place to manage in your absence’ ‘Look at your portfolio today and consider where it will be in 10 years’ time and what the loan to value looks like’ ‘Knowing what you know about yourself and your team consider whether you want to restructure or remain the same’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest in You Podcast Sandvall YouTube   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon    This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

‘If he has to choose between family and friends he chooses climbing’ he has an obsession for climbing’ Today Fredrick, Ivan and Charlie are reviewing the film ‘Free Solo’ which documents the preparation and climb of El Capitan by free soloist Alex Honnold. They discuss the ways Alex prepared and the technical challenges of filming such a climb along with the learning that can be taken from both the preparation and the actual climb. Listen in now to hear what they have to say   KEY TAKEAWAYS Free Solo is the documentary about Alex Honnold climbing El Capitan. Free solo means no safety equipment,  it’s just him and the wall. Why is ‘Free Solo’ an unusual way of climbing? Due to the fact no safety equipment is used from 3 metres upwards climbing becomes very dangerous as any fall is statistically likely to be fatal. He practises the routine any climb over and over again like a gymnast when he undertakes the actual climb it is like a performance following intense and extended rehearsals. Alex Honnold started the Honnold foundation which ‘seeks simple sustainable ways to improve lives worldwide’ He has used the interest in his climbing to raise funds that have been used to create sustainable energy projects. Through the foundation, he has been able to integrate his passion with his profession and also do something great for people and the environment. The learning that can be taken from the climb is about thoroughly preparing and rehearsing what you are facing, and this can be applied to business where good preparation is vital for success. In business, you can also actively consider how you can pre-empt outcomes and de-risk a plan or a project.   BEST MOMENTS ‘He’s not just a jackass, he doesn’t just climb it he practises over and over again’ ‘Imagine the Olympic games where if you don’t win its certain death’ ‘He had climbed the range previously using ropes and knew it very well but prepared by rehearsing sections of it over and over again’ ‘Alex considered it was low risk with high consequences’ ‘Alex has been climbing for around 20 years of which 10years have been at a very high professional level’ ‘He is so dedicated to climbing that he lives in a van’   VALUABLE RESOURCES Invest in You Podcast Sandvall YouTube Free Solo Wikipedia Alex Honnold TED talk   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk  https://sandvallinvest.com/  https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondonThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Learn 30 great success strategies and tactics in more or less than 30 minutes today in this episode of the Invest In You Podcast! Fredrik and Charlie were able to put what every expert, every professional, and every influencer has to say about success in this very brief but very informative list for all of you. All you have to do is to bookmark it, save it, or take mental notes so you’ll have a pick me up whenever you feel you’re lost in the path you traverse to achieve your goals! KEY TAKEAWAYS Success strategies and tactics: You are on a mission. You’ve got a goal to do, and that’s the ONLY option. You’ve got to do the tasks, so you progress. Problem Solving. Once you find the best solution for a big problem, you get rewarded and elated. You need to have physical health to do the things you need to do. You miss out on opportunities if you have ill health. It’s all in your mind. If you think you can do it, then you can do it. Reason why. If the idea why you’re doing what you’re doing is clear, then your path should be pretty straightforward. Goals, targets, and action. Your goals and target without actions are pretty much useless. Discipline. Stick to your checklist and your plans if you want to achieve your goal. Help others. Have a service attitude. It’s all about sharing your knowledge and skill set to be able to help others. If you do your preparations, then it’s easier to commit to your plans. Train regularly to develop your talent or skill. Project Management. Learn how to divide your tasks into different projects. Manage risk. Lower the risk of failure by careful planning and effective execution. Performance and results. Always do your best to get the best results. Multitask and focus. It’s different for everyone. For some, focusing on one thing is way more effective than doing everything at once. Learn how to survive through the ups and downs so you can achieve your goal. Change and adapt. The world is ever-changing, so you have to learn how to adapt to it to make sure you’re climbing up the ladder. Travel and get to know other cultures. It expands your mindset and your perspective about life and others. It’s all about running and guiding your team expertly. The flawed idea of doing what you Love. It’s better to play to your strengths and delegate. If it’s not your expertise, let the expert do it for you instead. Don’t give up. No matter how big the challenge, face it and overcome it! Continuous learning. Learning does not stop when you exit the classrooms. There is no limit to how much and where you can learn. Have a good mentor who you can get guidance from, talk your ideas with. It’s nice to make and collaborate on projects with other people. You learn and grow with them. Explore automation for your business; operations become more efficient. Arrange your services to a system. Additional business tactics: Develop income skills Sell Skip junk media Disregard media and advertising   BEST MOMENTS “The bigger the problem, the higher the reward.” “If you don’t have health, you can’t do anything at all.” “Surviving is good when you want to achieve something in your life.” “It’s not about what you love, it’s about what it takes.” “If you do give up, you might be left with an unsolved task, a disappointed team, an unfinished business, etc.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Simon Sinek ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com https://linkedin.com/in/Sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie are together and discussing the importance and power of obsession in realising your goals and aspirations. They share their own obsessions and how they are focusing on achieving positive results. If you want to understand more about the role and power of obsession when you are learning new things and on the journey of self-improvement then listen in now. KEY TAKEAWAYS Being obsessed can be great if you are obsessed with the right things. If you are obsessed you can develop positive habits, and this can be a productive part of your life. If, like Ivan, you are obsessed with training to achieve a goal you will have focus and achieve positive results. Being obsessed can make you push yourself to learn new things and reach new heights. If your obsession is video and parkour, like Charlie, then you can learn and improve your skills and techniques Over the past few years Fredrik has had several interests that he has focused on and in recent years an obsession to achieve successful outcomes in property has helped him reach results that are, in many cases, significantly more than others achieve. What’s the opposite of obsessed? It's that weak lethargic guy who only does enough to survive. He hasn’t gone the extra mile or tried to do anything to improve himself. Is that who you want to be? We all have the choice to flick the switch and go ‘full on’ or to not touch the switch at all. People who are obsessed have made a positive choice to really improve. Obsession is about pushing through and doing a lot more than is normal. Whatever you choose to do in your life it’s important that in your chosen space you strive to be extraordinary. You need to know what your destination is with specific goals and a detailed plan to achieve success. Even if you don’t achieve your goals you will have improved and have started on the journey. If you set high goals you will push yourself harder to reach them and move more rapidly. You know you are truly obsessed when no one is watching, and you are still doing the work. Others may see an obsession at its peak, but there will have been many years of training to reach that point BEST MOMENTS ‘I'm obsessed with helping others and this means I often say ‘yes’ more than I should’ ‘Wouldn’t you rather be obsessed and awesome’ ‘If you are obsessed with the wrong things then this is destructive and negative’ ‘Athletes and high performers are sure they are going to get there’ ‘I know exactly where I am going to go and know I’m going to get there’ ‘Anyone can be obsessed and what you are obsessed about is up to you’ ‘Obsession can take the form of wanting to challenge yourself in different ways such as climbing a mountain’ ‘When you think that working super hard towards your goals is fun then you are obsessed’ ‘Life is so short do what you want to do’ VALUABLE RESOURCES https://itunes.apple.com/pk/podcast/invest-in-you/id1353355236?mt=2 https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ivan+sandvall https://www.instagram.com/ivansandvall/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk https://sandvallinvest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

On Invest In You Podcast’s 50th episode, we introduce you Rewind where we closely look on a person’s stories and experience which hugely contributed to whoever he is today. In the very first episode of Rewind, Invest In You’s very own Fredrik Sandvall takes the hot seat! Charlie interviews his father on everything you need to know about his career, business, and personal life. They talk about Fredrik’s hobbies and inspirations. Fredrik learned a lot along the way on which he owes so much of his growth not just on being an entrepreneur, but also as an individual.KEY TAKEAWAYS Rewind is a new Special from the Invest In You Podcast. In the Rewind episodes, they dive deep on the interviewee’s past and learn everything about them that made them who they are today. Fredrik Sandvall was born in Sweden. He served his time with the Navy and the Marines which he really enjoyed. He also tried working with Intelligence units, aid work, special forces, diplomatic work, etc. Fredrik’s hobbies that have helped him a lot to grow as an individual. He played football where he learned all about teamwork. He was part of the Scouts where he learned about survival, relationship skills. Fredrik’ mentors showed him true leadership that he eventually applied in his business and also thought to his kids. The book Rich Dad by Robert Kiyosaki has changed his life. It taught him about getting out of the rat race, about real estate, and about business. BEST MOMENTS “A lot of selfish people don’t take into consideration that if they help others, they might tend to help them as well.” “The price is not the only thing that matters… the relationship is the big one.” “Sometimes, when you have a relationship with someone, they might break your trust. Sometimes, they might even trick you.” “The temptation to jump into something that’s too good to be true is always there and we have to fight it with ourselves.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com https://linkedin.com/in/Sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode of the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik and Charlie talk to Carl Hutchings, CEO of Elite Property Trading, about his career, his passions, and personal experience. Carl shares his great strategies on how he grew his portfolio and also helped his clients prepare for their lives after retirement. Discover how you can raise your funds quickly, how important it is to build your network, and how you can leverage some tasks while you enjoy your life and grow your business. Make sure to tune in as he also shares the highlights of his football career. KEY TAKEAWAYS Who is Carl Hutchings? According to him, he is a family man, an entrepreneur, and a big believer in achieving your dreams. His family, especially his children, serves as big inspirations for him to do still what he’s doing and strive harder. Highlights from his football career: Walking out of Wembley during a playoff final with Brentford during the year 1998. Leaving Brentford to Bristol City. Carl’s business model has always been about development. Carl shares that you have to observe what’s significant and what’s not in the market right now and in the future. You have to move with the market. An ideal day for Carl is very laidback since he’s been leveraging for his business now. So, even without his presence, his company’s operations run efficiently. Developing relationships takes time. It’s a period of time also that you have to invest. You can’t land on a deal easily if you haven’t gained their trust yet. When Carl was raising funds, he approached people who have known him for a long time, so it became effortless. Take note that people do back out the last minute. So, learn how to manage your expectations. And when it happens, you should have a backup plan. BEST MOMENTS   “I’m a big believer that working with others is a great thing.” “As a property investor, my main goal is being solution-oriented. Just to see how can I help you get to a solution that you want… that also works for me and my business.” “Everything we know is inside us. We experience things over and over. It’s the little things that trigger things in our mind.”   VALUABLE RESOURCES Rob Moore|The Disruptive Entrepreneur Podcast ABOUT THE GUEST Carl Hutchings is an English retired professional football utility player. He spent 5 years of his football career in the Football League with Brentford. He also played league football for Bristol City, Southern United, and Exeter City. He is now a successful Property Entrepreneur and the CEO of Elite Property Trading. He has been helping his clients prepare for life after retirement. http://carlhutchings.co.uk/ http://elitepropertyinvest.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-hutchings-70680820/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com https://linkedin.com/in/Sandvall/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode, Fredrik and Charlie explore why you should sell through social media. Charlie has been researching different social media platforms and how they can be successfully monetised. Listen in to find out how to start making money from your social media accounts today. KEY TAKEAWAYS Most people spend lots of time on social media, for Facebook, this can upwards of 2 hours per day If you use only a fraction of this time to be a producer or content creator and monetise it you can move up. Social media platforms YouTube is the prime account as I like the video style and share lifestyle stuff, funny things I do and occasionally content Instagram -  I don’t have a fixed thing I do so its varied content. I often use it to advertise the YouTube channel. How have you increased followers on YouTube this month? By being more active and making better videos. I have also been promoting more awareness of my YouTube channel and have now reached 100 subscribers. How have you increased your Instagram following? Following other people means there is a likely hood they will follow you back, so I have followed more people, and this has been a successful strategy to increase my followers. Social media is about being social linked to relations, interaction, communication, sharing, liking. You need to follow others to build your own following. How have you made money from your accounts? By joining the affiliate program, you sign up with Amazon, post the link for a product on your accounts and if someone clicks through you get a commission. Amazon has requirements that must be met – you need to have a following, complete the required forms for Amazon and adhere to the tax rules for the country you are in. Use YouTube to advertise your merchandise Use a video to show people the merchandise and refer people there. People can then link to you to purchase the product. BEST MOMENTS ‘Depends on the sort of audience you have’ ‘Using social media to get coverage’ ‘Use social media as leverage, along with your friends ‘The speed of doubling is interesting to monitor and track’ ‘Learning as we are doing and practising, How can you write about something you  have never done – you need to get experience’ ‘This podcast is another way to serve many people’ VALUABLE RESOURCES https://itunes.apple.com/pk/podcast/invest-in-you/id1353355236?mt=2 ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk https://sandvallinvest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Hi listeners! I am leveraging using the podcast format to share about how we will help 10-20 entrepreneurs to raise many millions! This is what the podcast is 100% about, and promoting this programme (which is delivered in London) with a strong start - April 2019! Next episode is back to normal with Investing Skills !! Prerequisites for the programme: -You need to know what the money is for and how to repay them. -Goals to raise at least hundreds of thousands in non-bank finance in the next financial year. Ideally millions. -You need to have some assets and knowledge to leverage to your success. It is not a beginner programme - It is advanced, so that everyone can learn from each other. 10 days of content and experts used to larger deals delivering the programme The main contributor is Fredrik Sandvall; https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ http://fundx.global/ Testimonials: Fredrik Sandvall just keeps on impressing me. He is a very successful businessman and has replicated that success when he started to learn how to invest in property with us. He has become a very successful investor working with many partners and is also one of our coaches for the Property Mastermind Programme. He has a great work ethic, he is very trustworthy, and I am happy to recommend him. -Simon Z – Industry leader Fredrik delivers excellent business development training courses. I have personally participated in a number of these and always find some gems to incorporate into my day-to-day working. These courses are very interactive, and Fredrik actively uses the breadth of his experience to create a very positive learning environment. -Roelof – Large deal sales Core modules: -Getting ready for business -The deal or offer -Pitch -You as a brand and influencer -Be the bank -Team and other people -Time -Life – what other areas of life are important -Next – your plan going forward after Next Level Investing "Build one of the most valuable and sought-after skills there are in society - become a rainmaker, deal enabler and influencer" Fredrik Sandvall. Just do it!This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

To understand the ‘how to” you need to understand where you are in your life journey ‘Where are you going with your life?’ In this episode, Fredrik and Charlie discuss what you need to get to ‘how to’ They explore motivation and leverage providing some pertinent examples If you want to understand more about what motivates us then listen in. KEY TAKEAWAYS The Life Puzzle In very early childhood we are trying to work out about the world around us. In early childhood, we learn more about values and this is taught by those close to us. Where we live in the world and religion can be things that influence these values. In later childhood, we are trying to figure out what we want to do with life. We develop relationships outside of our family circle. In early adulthood, we make many more steps and seek clarity. During this period, we will make decisions that will affect us in the coming years. In order to understand the ‘how to” you need to understand where you are in your life journey ‘Where are you going with your life?’ You can answer this by working out the following; Why – why do you do want to do whatever it is you are doing? Who – who do you want to work with? Where- where in the world do you want to do it work? When – when do you want it executed by This approach can be applied in many different situations such as an event or a to a marketing strategy, but to make it a reality you must apply lots of action. What is leverage? It is the use of something for maximum advantage.  Leverage can be applied to all aspects of life. You can trade money for time or time for money and you may use leverage differently to achieve the desired result at a particular point in your life. BEST MOMENTS ‘Some people say you can have it all, you can but it does require focus and discipline to split your time equally’ ‘You can leverage a place if it has value to others. These are factors in deciding where you live’ ‘You can share your message with lots of people’ ‘We always aspire to what we don’t have’ ‘The more money you have the more you can buy back time’ ‘Is it worth your time?’ ‘So often people know what to do they just don’t do it’ VALUABLE RESOURCES https://itunes.apple.com/pk/podcast/invest-in-you/id1353355236?mt=2 ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk https://sandvallinvest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2 This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Tune in to hear Fredrik in discussion with Robin Waite - business coach, mentor and author Robin focuses on helping people to get out of their own way and improve their mindset.   This in-depth discussion includes examples of how a business can be transformed through fearless coaching and explains what it takes to make those changes for success.   KEY TAKEAWAYS Making a Change It’s a natural thing that as you get filled up with information it becomes more difficult to take on new things and make changes. It’s in that process of it being difficult that the biggest results are realised.   We know at that point of difficulty, we’re breaking old habits and shifting to a new way of doing things and that is ultimately going to build the momentum needed to create that compounding effect.   Forcing the difficult stuff on ourselves enables us; because if you can get through then you will be even stronger.   Pricing Most people look at their competitors and come up with a price that is comparable. They are not thinking about what is in it for their customer at that point.     When you are charging money for time, the only person who benefits is the supplier. It is a huge change for businesses to become masters at working out the ROI for their customers but is key to making the change to results based.   The Transformation Step one – Raising the price This is the easy part Step Two- Validation This is the harder part. It is about validating your price through demand for your service. It is at this point that mindset and limiting belief systems kick in and they can be overwhelming. When you raise your price the number of yes’s will go down, but you will be able to get better results for your clients with a lower conversion rate. You will need to be able to sell confidently and believe in your product     BEST MOMENTS ‘I move them from exchanging time for money to a results-based approach’ ‘So, you believe in it enough that you would buy it?’ ‘Most business owners just find it too hard and give up’ ‘Realising they have to put the work in’ ‘Don’t ever stop learning, find something you are passionate about and pursue it’   VALUABLE RESOURCES https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/invest-in-you/id1353355236?mt=2   ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk https://sandvallinvest.com/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2   Contact Robin Waite, Business Coach www.robinwaite.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/OnlineBizStartup/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

“Life is good when you make money.” – Nitin Shakdher In this episode of the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik chats with Nitin Shakdher, the Founder and CEO of Green Capital, about investments. For almost 20 years, Nitin has been helping individuals and institutions growing their investments. He shares with us how he manages to stay at the top of his game despite the stress his work brings. Discover how he finds time to bond with his family every night, in addition to the overseas trips he makes on almost every quarter of the year. Nitin also lets you in some if his trading and investing philosophies which has been proven to have helped him.KEY TAKEAWAYS Nitin has been an investor since 1998 – investing in equity markets. He says investing can be easy as long as you are in control and you know what you want to do at some point in time. This also gives you the benefit of enjoying other things in life, as well. What does Nitin do when he’s not working? Nitin plays golf and reads a lot of books. He sees to it that he’s always updated of what’s happening around him. He also enjoys walking around the cities when it’s good weather. Nitin sees to it that he makes time for his family. When he goes home to see them, he makes sure that there should be no work that will get in the way of their family bonding. Nitin, not only works with individuals but also institutions. He works with a variety of people – from business entrepreneurs to sports stars to fashion designers. When it comes to investments, these professionals are still not clear of what to do so Nitin is there to guide them. A lot of investors prioritize emotional IQ rather than financial IQ. Financial investors have to be emotionally stable. You don’t have to equip yourself with all the financial knowledge to succeed. Nitin’s #1 Rule on trading: Do a risk assessment so if it comes to the point that it doesn’t work, you’re able to hold your position for 7-8 years. Always think that it is a long-term investment. Nitin’s perfect office doesn’t involve fanciness and intricacies. He’s okay with just his laptop, WiFi with high-speed internet, and maybe a drink on his hand at the beach. Nitin’s insights on Blockchain and cryptocurrencies in India: cryptocurrencies will not necessarily replace physical cash in the near future. Blockchain as a technology can be adapted in the future. BEST MOMENTS “Like all family men, it’s very tough to balance certain things because sometimes, in the evening, your mind is in different space and your family demands attention… I try to switch it on and off. I don’t take too much work or stress home. It’s good to have it well-balanced and to open your world to different things.” “Sometimes, investment professionals and the people in the finance industry get very involved with the whole attribute of the whole space and what happens. Then, we stopped realizing that there are other things to life as well.” “You need to be disciplined, you need to be emotionally strong, you need to look at the larger picture, you should be willing to risk your capital, and you should know what you are doing at all times.” “It’s easy to look at good times… everyone thinks it’s a party, and everyone enjoys it, but you have to be a good investor to stick to the bad times. And you can’t be a great investor if you haven’t seen crashes in the market.” “It’s important to travel once every 2-3 months because when you travel, you come out from your own individual work perspective and you look at the world with a different perspective.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Family Office Club Green Capital ABOUT THE GUEST Nitin Shakder is a professional investor and the Founder & CEO at Green Capital, a private capital investments firm and a multi-family office. He has over 20 years of experience in marketing, business, brand strategy, and financial market investments. Email nitin@thegreencapital.net Nitin’s LinkedIn Nitin’s Twitter Nitin’s Instagram ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com https://linkedin.com/in/Sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

On today’s episode, serial entrepreneur Fredrick interviews personal branding strategist, keynote speaker and award-winning LinkedIn professional, Dr Natalia Wiechowski.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Be the person that you truly are on the inside and if you found your message and your thing, then the right people will like you and will do business with you. Dr Natalia insists that people believe in themselves and she says that by doing this, you will achieve everything that you have ever wanted to achieve in your entire life. What is the personal brand? Your personal brand is what other people say about you when you're not in the room. Branding is another word for reputation. The way how you move, the way how you speak, the way what you say, the way how you dress, your messaging, is your entire brand, your personal brand. Personal branding is based on your values. Who are you? What's important to you? How do you help other people? How do you add value? What do you want to be known for? So it's all about getting your personal brand out there. The benefits are tremendous, clients will find you, you will earn more money, you will get more visibility, and you will be invited to great events, whatever the targets are. Believe in quantity, yes, but if you’re asked between quality and quantity, you should always go for quality.   The human capital theory. This theory believes that the more you believe in yourself, the more you can achieve anything in life, and the more you will invest in your studies and in your knowledge and in everything is related to your job. If you want to transition smoother from university into your first job, you need to improve your skills, you need to be good in your major, you need to have practical experience, the interesting part we need to know is how to market yourself, and you need to have already invested in social ties or social relationships to people in the job market. It’s very important to understand what is the service or the product that you're offering and does it solve a real-world problem for you to become an entrepreneur. You also need to have a proper structure and framework and plan. Knowledge. You need to have knowledge or education on the businesses that you want to invest in so that you can become a top earner entrepreneur.   BEST MOMENTS “Be the person that you truly are on the inside and if you found your message and your thing, then the right people will like you and will do business with you.” “The way how you move, the way how you speak, the way what you say, the way how you dress, your messaging, is your entire brand, your personal brand.” “Just be so good that people cannot ignore you and that they find you.” “Out content other people.” VALUABLE RESOURCES http://fundx.global/ ABOUT THE GUEST Dr Natalia Wiechowski is originally from Germany and is currently living out in Dubai. She is a personal branding strategist and coveted keynote speaker. Dr Wiechowski is also a LinkedIn professional and she teaches people how to use the social media platform and as a result has won a number of awards. https://www.linkedin.com/in/nataliawiechowski/  instagram.com/thinknatalia  youtube.com/thinknatalia  thinknatalia.com ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com https://linkedin.com/in/Sandvall/   https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode Anna Harper a successful property entrepreneur talks about her strategies and discusses with Fredrik the changing investment market and the creative and diverse  ways investors are working. Anna shares her journey to investment and what she is investing in for the future. KEY TAKE AWAYS As a woman in property felt when first started there was a difference but not now In the beginning very aware that I was the only  female but don’t think about now. If you are thinking about sharing an exciting message then you forget about yourself. Personal development is about Learning new things and Investing in yourself is very important if you are working for yourself. If you enjoy learning along the way, mistakes don’t matter if you learn from them The 3 metrics for investment decisions reward to risk reward tp effort opportunity cost can also be applied to personal development. Try to keep interested and curious and on your learning journey be conscious and understand where you started your journey. Podcasting provides accessible information and listening to learn can really help. If you have knowledge of your own it’s a perfect way to share and help others Most people don’t get into property or grow because they fear rejection. Finding right finance solution is a  big challenge for many people. To find the right investment you have to be prepared to 1 find the right deal 2 pick up the phone and expect at least 9 rejections before you get a yes  When looking at an investment decision Not just looking at the property asset and the plan Also who’s going to be doing it whats the local context Theres so much more to a property deal  than just the price Important to have a clear strategy, it might change but it is something to follow know your own strengths and be able to use them effectively. Knowing your customer is vital and don’t  be afraid to make mistakes, as long as you learn from them.  BEST MOMENTS “Room should feel brighter when you enter, Positive energy  and working  with people who are fun” “Stay in your lane, it can be easy to get distracted and get hung up on what others are doing” “Good mentor figures are vital,These relationships really important” “A good deal is different for different people”  VALUABLE RESOURCES Fredrik Sandvall, Invest in You: https://itunes.apple.com/pk/podcast/invest-in-you/id1353355236?mt=2 ABOUT THE GUEST Anna Harper https://www.linkedin.com/in/annaclareharper/  ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life.  CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk Website: https://sandvallinvest.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon Investing Skill - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/investing-skills/id1445899547?mt=2 This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this illuminating episode Fredrik discusses with Dominic Colenso the vital components required for successful communication and pitching across a range of business contexts. The important elements for successful pitching and communication are all discussed enabling us all to understand how to successfully approach these vital aspects of business. Dominic Colenso – is the founder of Inflow Global a specialist communication training company working with businesses to help their people speak and perform under pressure, focusing on all aspects of verbal and non-verbal communication. KEY TAKEAWAYS Communication - How do you work with other people? A starting premise is always that everyone has the ability to communicate, we’re doing it all the time and we’re doing it in lots of different scenarios. Working with people on heightening their awareness and understanding how they’re coming across in different situations means they have more choice. When people understand what range, they have available to them they can dial things up, and certain things down depending on the context they are in. How do you really connect with a person? Putting spotlight on the audience, who you’re talking to and what their needs are and making sure you meet those needs are the key aims to be met. Communication is the transfer of energy between 2 or more human beings and when you’re the person driving the communication it’s your responsibility to take care of your audience and give to them what they need. Pitching – How can you get it right? It’s important to understand what are your hot buttons, what are the triggers? Be completely honest with yourself is there certain behaviour in other people that makes you tense? or are there patterns? e.g. in the way the room is set up. Rationalising the triggers enables you to be better mentally prepared. Preparation is the only way to bring those words to life. Rehearsing is absolutely vital this doesn’t mean you need to learn script it’s about understanding what your key messages are then saying them out loud as many ways as possible so when you’re in the situation your body knows what to do. The key is to make eye contact, be available to people in the room. Its important to make an impact when you enter room and you should move into the space with your head up and making eye contact. Start with something different and own the space. Engaging the audience and creating that equal relationship is vital. If you’re going in asking for money or investment then they are interviewing you, but you are also interviewing them there is a balance of power. If you go in and give it all away the end results and end relationship can be disastrous. The ‘call to action’ is a vital component, you need to be clear about what the next steps are, you’ve got to agree some way of moving forward – be upfront and ask. BEST MOMENTS “You have a responsibility to take your audience on that journey”. “There is always a balance –it’s your duty to try and understand.”  “Some people bring light to the room some people bring darkness” “In the realm of pitching – how do I influence and inspire other people?” “We begin to breathe in a way that helps pump adrenalin quicker, moving us to flight or fight mode.” “I like the whole idea of being an influencer, to be someone that gives so people are attracted to you that’s a massive thing in today’s society.” “Crazy thing is most of us we had it, we dared to do things then stuff happened and made boundaries for our whole life.” “I am always looking to open up dialogue to give the client or audience as much space as possible to tell me what they need, then I can tailor my offering to meet their needs.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Fredrik Sandvall, Invest in You: https://itunes.apple.com/pk/podcast/invest-in-you/id1353355236?mt=2 ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneur Fredrik Sandvall loves sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. He hopes to ensure you take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoy the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Contact Fredrik Sandvall – Invest in You  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandvall/?originalSubdomain=uk Website: https://sandvallinvest.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon Dominic Colenso – Inflow Globalwww.linkedin.com/in/dominiccolenso @dominiccolenso www.inflow.global This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome back to another episode of Invest In You. On today’s episode, serial entrepreneurs Charlie and Fredrick, interview successful property developer, Thor Portess. They talk about how you can set up and fund a business in the early days and then scale it to something far greater than you may have ever thought would be possible. Hop in to learn and find out how to start, grow and scale your own business venture.KEY TAKEAWAYS● Where should you invest more for your business to succeed? You must invest very much in the team and then also into the systems if you want success in your business.● Core things you can do to help you achieve your success in your business.o Sales. Know how to sell your product to the customers.o Deal-making. Having the ability to close any kind of deals will automatically bring success to your business life.● Marketing and sales. These are the two core aspects of the business along the product and the financial aspect.● Wins in marketing. Leafleting, advertising, SEO and Google AdWords, public speaking which is presenting in events. ● How does one set up a crowdfunding platform? Start with the idea, fund it with your own cash if you have some, build a platform and you know all the tech guys with you where payment services firm which allows you to distribute all the proceeds to the hundreds of investors at the click of a button, it also helps you to fund the money for projects at a click a button we do all the anti-money laundering and Know your client. You also have to comply with regulatory constraints. Your development bank should contribute some money and the investors also should contribute the money too and the developers too. ● The internet and, digitized action of the processes. Probably will take the most fundamental aspects of will enable you and your business to scale.● The social media aspect. This will also take the most fundamental aspects of will enable you and your business to scale.BEST MOMENTS● “Investing in you is a continuous journey”VALUABLE RESOURCES● http://fundx.global/ ABOUT THE GUESTThor is a successful property developer. He is a property successful investor and also lately, he has been working with a FinTech company called crowd with us.CONTACTWebsite: Https://www.crowdwithus.London Facebook: Thor PortessLinkedIn: Thor PortessABOUT THE HOSTSerial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHODFredrik Sandvall● https://fredriksandvall.com/● https://linkedin.com/in/sandvall/● https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ ● https://fredrikinlondon/Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

The Serial Entrepreneurs welcome back Ivan Sandvall to the Invest In You Podcast to discuss productivity and how you too can make simple changes to your daily routine to become more productive and get more done.  They go on to use examples from their own life's and bring you their top tips on living a more productive life.   Discover if you have a productivity dip and how to leverage your productive hours as much as possible and find the peak moments where you can complete your most important tasks. Look out for the Serial Entrepreneurs upcoming books - Trust is new currency - Fredrik Sandvall - How to make money as a teenager - The Serial Entrepreneurs KEY TAKEAWAYS Tips To Increase Productivity Work with others to push yourself to learn more and do more. Productivity is getting better and better every day to see improvements. As long as you're developing and progressing your brand you are being productive. Make sure you're learning all the time and constantly educating yourself. Reduce your useless tasks and swap them out for something productive. Set yourself a daily standard and stick to it. Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity. You'll get more done with slow consistent progression. Learn how to 'Just Do It' and stop procrastinating Being productive is to be continuously progressing Productivity is not only you, but it's also the people around you. This is your power-team and peer group. Systems and automation can also help you be productive and get more done BEST MOMENTS "When producing content and increasing your social media reach you need to put out emotional and informational content. This is what will help increase engagement." "Aim to out content your competition and own the space" "Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity" "No big company is completely self-made, you need a team and to have accountability" VALUABLE RESOURCES http://fundx.global Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too. Gary Vaynerchuk ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome back to another episode of Invest In You. On today’s episode, serial entrepreneurs Charlie and Fredrick, talk about one of the investments you can do in yourself which is relationships and in this case, networking. What’s networking? What is networking all about? Answers to all these and more are in this episode, hop in to learn and find out this and much more. KEY TAKEAWAYS What is networking? One of the most important skills as an entrepreneur, it's also one of the most valuable assets you have got to yourself and it's all relating to other people and how you link, connect and help others and how they can help you. What is networking all about? Networking is all about keeping your existing contacts, is also about adding new ones. What to do for networking to succeed. In this case is if you don't follow up, then you wasted time. You should always do a follow up on the people you have contacts. If you don't collect the details, and you don't even know if like to follow up with the people, that is a waste of time. How to pick or find people when you are networking.  Group number one which is the people who are on their own, they might be standing there filling with telephone, they might be standing looking to the wall, they might be standing there with a drink or without a drink, they feel uncomfortable to be there, you actually help them by approaching them in a careful way and introducing yourself because it means they are not alone anymore, which means you save them the hustle to try to find one to speak to.   How do you approach a group or two people? You are making the couple into a tree, which means that you are the odd one out. The other people might already have a rapport between them. What I do is just super quickly, I excuse myself, introduce myself, and then I say please carry on where you were, don't let me drop and then people usually do or they start to engage with you.   At the bar is also a good place to pick up new people to talk to because they come there to grab a drink and maybe learn to engage a new person. You can also pick up people in a hall or meeting or a gathering. In order to save yourself more time, you can ask the host to connect you with people in there who might be interested.   How do you break away from people? We have introduced ourselves; we’ve said hi to some people, you might also bring your business cards, which means people can get back to you. Take the details and capture the details on the phone and there are also some apps which allows you to very quickly Connect. After all that and pitching your business idea to them, you can now tell them goodbye and go to the other person. Why network as an entrepreneur.  There are some really good meetings where you can be one of the key people in the room, I always recommend if you can try to be the speaker, that means that people would like to come to you and you're very much in demand to speak to and its way easier to do networking and get what you want.   BEST MOMENTS “Network is your network.” “Sometimes you find what you are looking for in the most unusual context.” “Networking is a super important business skill.” "Try to be interested not interesting to people you are engaging with while networking so that you can learn as much as possible from them.” “In networking, be professional from how you dress how you speak, how you approach people, your handshake, your eye contact and your business card.” “Try to be yourself and don't play a role.” VALUABLE RESOURCES http://fundx.global ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall https://fredriksandvall.com Https://linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ https://@FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5Iw  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome back to another episode of Invest In You. This week our serial entrepreneurs, Fredrik and Charlie, talk about Consulting. What’s it all about? What does a consultant actually do? How do you start a career as a consultant? Answers to all these and more are in this episode as Fredrik talks through his own experiences of consulting over many years. Key Takeaways What Is A Consultant? A consultant is someone who tries to help companies solve problems they might have. Ideally, a consultant is external to the organization to avoid any bias they might have if they were internal to that company. What Are The Downsides To Being A Consultant? There are some downsides to being a consultant, not least that you can end up living out of a suitcase for long periods of time. As a consultant, you are rarely still working for a company at the implementation phase of a project. This can mean that your ideas, suggestions and plans aren’t always implemented in the way you set out. How Do You Get A Job As A Consultant? Anyone can be a consultant, there is no direct qualification needed to be a consultant. Many MBA students aim for a career as a consultant. Working for a big four company or the next tier down of companies can be helpful. There is always the option of setting up your own consultancy which can be very rewarding but it can be difficult getting your foot in the door with larger clients. How Hard Is It To Get Customers? If you’re good and you’re good at selling then it’s easy. Sometimes getting involved in bigger projects where you might be a smaller cog can be a really effective way of learning, and meeting potential customers. Always try to improve your network and continue learning. Consultancy As A Career? Consultancy is a great career, often highly paid and highly rewarding. As a consultant you’re constantly learning new things, and using creativity to solve problems to ultimately help people. Best Moments ‘You can have the best trainers in the world but if you don’t have the implementation then nothing will happen.’ ‘It’s useful to hire consultants for specific tasks.’ ‘You’re paid well, and you can help solve big, relevant problems.’ ‘If you’re really good, and you’re really good at selling getting customers is easy, if you’re not so good and you don’t like selling, it’s impossible.’ ‘Mentoring and Consulting have many similarities.’ Valuable Resources http://fundx.globalAbout the HostSerial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. Contact Method Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

The Invest In You Podcast is back and they are on the road with an episode live from London. Fredrik and Charlie look back at what they have learnt on their recent business trip which took them from Sweden to Boston via Germany. They share some key learnings picked up from the conferences and events they’ve been to while on the road. In a special announcement Fredrik and Charlie reveal and preview an exciting new book project they are writing together entitled “How To Make Money As A Teenager.” Key Takeaways Being Productive Under Stress. You can still be productive when you’re under stress or travelling. Create effective routines and implement deadlines, even if they are fake deadlines, as a way of increasing your productivity despite your busy schedule. “How To Make Money As A Teenager” is a new book project which will be targeted at teenagers but applicable to everyone. It will look at various practical ways teenagers can start to earn money, and develop as entrepreneurs.   You Might Have To Unlearn What You Have Already Learnt. Get into the right mindset before approaching the task of earning more money, be open to learning something new and be prepared to unlearn things that might not be as helpful. The concept of YOLO, (You Only Live Once) is used as a guide to always strive to push yourself. Multiple Income Streams. The importance of having multiple incomes. As a teenager, you might have some money from your parents in the form of pocket money. But how can you create other income streams? For example, your hobby or other skills, so that you are able to become financially free sooner. Life Hacks. The book will detail a series of Life Hacks which are applicable to all ages, giving case studies in how you can learn best, how you can apply those things in your normal life and what you can learn from them, as well as other entrepreneurial skills. How To Make Money? This section looks at the raw ways you can make money. How can you best invest in assets to create effective passive income? Income that requires little to no direct interaction from yourself. Selling and utilising social media are important aspects of generating income and are essential skills to master. Controlling Your Cost. Ensure that you control your costs and keep your expenses under control. An aspirational goal is saving 40% of your income in order to invest in your future effectively. Making some sacrifices now can be really effective in helping achieve your long-term dreams. Best Moments ‘All prices are made up’ ‘Buy high, sell even higher’ ‘Cash is trash; cash flow is king’ ‘I love to give value to others’ ‘You’re never too early or too late to learn.’ ‘You might have to unlearn what you have already learnt.’Valuable Resources Mark Wright - ‘The Apprentice’ Winner Episode #35: Voices From Harvard Business School on Life Long Learning Episode #36: Different Peoples Thoughts About Negotiation, Harvard Business School Rich Dad Poor Dad By Robert Kiyosaki About the Host Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. Contact Method Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

The Invest In You serial entrepreneurs are back live, recording live from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. Today, Fredrik and Charlie interview the students attending Harvard’s Masterclass In Negotiation and get their top tips on negotiation in business and in life and get their opinion on what investing in yourself means to them. KEY TAKEAWAYS Top Tips On Negotiation From Harvard’s Marterclass In Negotiation: Get the facts and be prepared. Preparation is the key to knowing about both sides of the negotiation. The impression is everything, you'll be worked out very quickly. It's about relationships and building trust and rapport. Negotiation is key in business and for yourself. You are constantly in negotiation with everything big decisions and small. Mimicking the opponent's behaviour in a negotiation is vital to the success How you present yourself will determine the impression your opponent has. What You Learn On The Course: Identify and eliminate your negotiating weaknesses. Learn how to leverage your bargaining skills in new ways. Become expert at resolving and defusing conflict anywhere. Develop the skills necessary to remain in—or ascend to—the C-suite and upper management. Master new strategies that most negotiators have never seen before BEST MOMENTS "Mimicking the opponent's behaviour in a negotiation is vital to success" "You are always negotiating and you want to be able to put the best version of yourself forward" "The answer is usually yes if you ask in the right way" "The best of people come out in the worst of time" What does Invest In You mean to you? ‘I believe in lifelong learning and constantly updating my skills and education. This helps me and my clients.’ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome back to another episode of the Invest In You Podcast. In this episode, the serial entrepreneurs are recording live from Harvard Business School, Boston, USA. Whilst attending some executive training Fredrik and Charlie decide to hear from some of the voices from Harvard and get their opinion on what ‘Investing In You’ means to them. KEY TAKEAWAYS How did you end up at Harvard Business School? I've had my eye on Harvard business school for the last 10/15 years. I thought to myself how do I balance my engineering degree and understanding business at the same time. This year the main focus has been strategy, finance and data management. You need to always be investing in yourself, your skills and your education. By laying that foundation you are preparing yourself for future opportunities that come down the road and gaining a broader perspective on opportunities. Harvard has helped round myself and give me a global understanding. At Harvard, we use case learning for education. Case learning gives you opportunities to confront opportunities and see different strategies being utilised. It allows you to ask yourself what would you do? and how would you react? Ben - San Jose, California. Engineering Degree MBA What does invest in you mean to you? The entrepreneur's organisation experience has been great. If you're an entrepreneur or business owner or CEO it can be a lonely place and you often need advice from people with less of a stake in the business as you to give you perspective. Harvard is interesting because with the executive education I'm able to invest in myself by looking at case studies and thinking about strategy. In one word invest in you, it means learning. - Wally Evans - Birmingham, Alabama. Entreneures organisation executive education. What brings you to Harvard? I just wanted to see what it's like I plan to apply in the next couple of years. Ideally, I want to apply to the business programme in conjunction with the law. My first step into owning my own business was photography. I was able to easily gain experience and get out there. Outside of that, I started a brick and mortar second-hand lego store. You learn a lot by owning your own business. What does invest in you mean to you? The biggest thing is trying to invest in my confidence and willingness to take risks. It's part of success and finding out what you're made of. Finding out if you can exist in the world of sales and entrepreneurship. - John Swain BEST MOMENTS "Invest in you means learning" "I'm a lifelong learner, I enjoy the challenge and it's more fun than working" “Sales are about relationship building and getting people to trust you. They need to trust that you will do the best for them.” "Risk vs Reward is key to success in entrepreneurship" ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode of Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik and Charlie discuss Cash Flow. You have to take note of your income and your expenses. Be it in business or in your personal lives. It is best that you know where your cash is going or where it is disappearing to. You can do this manually or easily? have a bank to monitor all the cash flows of your personal or business life. A lot of things are considered so you will have a smooth cash flow. It is best to earn money and save on the expenses. With the right advice, you will be on the right track. More pieces of advice on cash flow on this episode, so stay tuned. KEY TAKEAWAYS Cash Flow. What are your incomes? What are your expenses? You can put that on paper or have the bank do it. So you will know where all the money disappeared. You can also do this manually. Cash flow is the one that goes out every month. Working for investing in assets vs. working for a salary. Fredrik tries to work mainly for creating assets, for spending most of his time either refining assets, working on how he can make the best out existing assets and building very much for the long haul. He does not make the most money from his salary. He can guarantee that his salary is lower than most of the audience. Cash flow aspirations. Cash flow dream is around 100,000 pounds. Business Cash Flow. If you make it in the business, you can spend money before. That could make a huge difference. It is after tax. Matching income with expenses and the reason why most businesses go out of business is they don't have enough sales. Business failure has got to do with the management of cash flow. Financially free. You don’t have to work but you get yours. If you strip out the things which cost you a lot in your daily life, you get rid of expensive debt, you tidy up amongst us expenses and all of a sudden you might have yourself a financial freedom number which is linked to a cash flow. When you are financially free, you have more. External help. It is really hard to challenge ourselves. We need to have external help. Someone gets to hold up the mirror to be the accountability portion especially when it comes to setting up a new direction. Someone to help makes us everything from the planning to the follow-up and so on and so forth and we're still talking about cash flow money coming in and out all the business. Mentor or Friend. The mentor, he or she can help out because they have been there done that and got the t-shirt. A friend, it depends on the quality of the front. They must be direct and challenging enough, to make it a stretch to do the tough choices. Help you to say that actually if you carry on what you're doing, you will fail. It is important to know how qualified your friend is. Individual Cash Flow. It is quite the same as business cash flow, but it is even more granular, how you spend your money in your household. Good debt vs. Bad Debt. A credit card is a temptation for us to overspend. Credit cards are carrying a high interest which means that not only do you need to pay back your debt, you need to pay more. Payday loans, these are horrible for your cash flow. You not only have to pay the principal, but you might also have to pay even more as an interest. Owning a house. So, therefore, if you do have a home, that usually means that you have a negative cash flow for your home where else rented or you own it. If you got maintenance on it or not as usual as a big fat - usually. Unless you have a lodger, you will earn by having it rented. If you have a couple of events in the house, you can also earn money. If you have a theatre, you can actually sell tickets. Or fly some people from other people to have training in your house. Or rent it to someone getting married. So, cash flow is great to rent. Combining cash flow and privately. All of Fredrik's car travel, all the travel back in 14 different countries that took a lot of, that is pure business. It is like pretty tax money. Many times no means it's a massive saving, so you might remember when we start this conversation like a dream for many people would be to make like £100,000. How many other people who make £100,000 they actually get 50,000, so therefore you can live for much £50,000 and live a style much easier by allowing the business to pay for all those things. Make more money from the accountant’s money than you actually pay them. They should be able to give you tax advice worth more than their face. Rich problems. The need to have financial advisors because they have so much money to invest. The kids must be spoilt too, so they spend a lot of money on them. The whole family lifestyle, etc. Poor problems. If you're poor you don't have too much. It is a huge problem not to have enough. Income is another problem. Then finding the right advice is another one. You're not so well off. You're usually in a job working for a salary or you're self-employed. For whatever reason, that usually means that you are not really optimizing the tax. You're usually ending up having to pay a lot of money. When you retire, your money diminishes your savings decreases. It is probable that you will go from poor to worst. That's a good idea to invest in your knowledge so that you can get out of a situation. Best advice. If you are in business, try to invoice really really early or even better get paid before you lived on the job. Selling a merchandise. Sell before you even have the product. Credit cards, it would be best to pay them early before they are due before you go into any kind of fees. BEST MOMENTS “We are not the best person to set goals for ourselves. We often need to be challenged.” “If you think we can, if you think we can’t, either way, you’re right.” “A lot of things are possible basically. So you can actually use your home for a lot of other income activities assuming that you own it yourself. There are some restrictions if you're renting it because often the landlord will have some ideas and thoughts, how he how you may or may not use the house of course.” “Don’t own your home, rent it.” “If you pay a really good accountant, they know more tax rules you, therefore, get more tax benefits.” “The more money you can usually make, you have all of a sudden unlocked a whole level of different investments which does require a high level of financial IQ. So unless you like to lose big, then you need to know a lot or we need to have lots of good advice as to help you. And if you don't know what those pieces of advice are, it will cost you a fortune as well.” ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome back to another episode of the Invest In You Podcast. In this episode, the serial entrepreneurs play the popular Rich Dad Poor Dad inspired investing game - Cashflow, How To Get Out Of The Rat Race. Discover the key learnings from the game and how it demonstrates managing cashflow, good vs bad investments, passive income and life’s responsibilities. Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan share with you the teachings, instructions and key points from the wealth building game and show you how you too, can get out of the rate race. KEY TAKEAWAYS What does the rat race mean? How most people live their lives. Getting up, going to work, spending your money and then repeat. It’s a repetitive cycle that is tough to get out of. It’s a way of life in which people are caught up in a fiercely competitive struggle for wealth or power. Cashflow, How To Get Out Of The Rat Race was developed by renowned entrepreneur and motivational speaker Robert Kiyosaki, author of the bestselling personal finance book of all time, Rich Dad Poor Dad. The game is the ultimate realization of Robert Kiyosaki's vision for an interactive tool to teach investing and wealth building. BEST MOMENTS “Learn how to escape the rat race in the comfort of your own home.” “The game teaches you about income Statements, balance sheets, savings and passive income.” VALUABLE RESOURCES Board Game -  Cashflow, how to get out of the rat race Rich Dad Poor Dad - Robert Kiyosaki ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ @FredrikinLondon Invest In You Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/groups/1nvestinyou/ Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode of the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik interviews Nigel Best and Ray McLennan. Today, the serial entrepreneurs discuss raising finance and how both Ray and Nigel are investing in themselves. Discover how they decided to jump into business together and also what they get from working with each other and how they raise finance. Nigel is a property investor, business owner, dad, and husband. He does a lot of things and tries to get the most out of life. Ray helps people find money for business or for property projects. He also has a few property projects of his own on the go. Tune in today to learn about investing in oneself and what stops one from doing so. KEY TAKEAWAYS: Learning. Where it starts for people is when they have an interest in something. If somebody develops an interest, if you develop an interest in personal growth or if you develop an interest in teaching and training or whatever, you can go out there and start finding that information. And one thing leads to another lead to another. And they've actually scientifically proven it. If you give a person a book that's of interest to them, the pupils actually dilate which they open up to take in more information. And if you're teaching other people that subject, you'll learn quicker. How to raise finance? Scarcity mindset. There's no shortage of money. People need to realize that. A lot of people can have a scarcity mentality. Thinking, Oh there's not enough money out there. Or Oh there's a recession on... Not true. There's more money in the world than there's ever been. Self-sabotage. Without skills and knowledge, all they gonna do is sabotage themselves. People have to work their way up. They channel. So when it comes to raising finance, you have to be realistic about now. Example, if you are thinking, I'm gonna do a commercial conversion and I don't have this experience, you can join and venture with someone who does. So, you can fast-track your way to that experience. But if you try and do it yourself, you run the risk of self-sabotage. Fear. This fear that there isn't enough money. This fear that the deal of the century only comes along every hundred years as opposed to every day. This fear of what we were talking earlier, and we were saying one of the biggest that holds people back is actually asking the question, would you lend me some money? Would you like to jayvee in this deal? Would you like to invest in this project? These very simple things now when we debated what was the reason, it's probably we're a product to the system. so, it's been highly structured for many hundreds of years, where we are predominantly shackled by our way of thinking. The concert pianist story. After the concert, they’re having drinks and someone would say to the pianist, I'd give anything to play the piano like that. And she turned and looked him straight in the eye and went, oh no you wouldn't. No you wouldn't. You wouldn't give anything because you've had your chance. You had piano lessons and you gave it up. So, you didn't. So, there comes a point in most people's lives you would imagine where there's a crossroad, there's a junction, there's decision to be made. It's the same when you invest in yourself, it's a never-ending process. Risk. Risk is risky if it is unknown. Just turn on the light. The internet is free. It's all there but why don't we do it. Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results. By James Clear. The idea on that is to do granular tiny change each day. This invest in you never stops. And we're always seeking ways to make a lot of changes. Incremental change. Tiny little changes on a daily basis. This invest in you doesn't have to be expensive, difficult, big, it can be tiny things. You don't have to be an expert. You can become an expert in something quite quickly by just a few hours of research. That's all it takes. It's very difficult to jump up 10 flights of stairs in one step. You got to take each step as it comes. When you open up your mind, you realize that you can choose to react to anything however you want. And you don't have to follow any other person. You can choose to do it yourself. Doing it. It is better to make a decision even if it's a wrong decision than to make no decision at all. At least you learn something. You learn something by doing it. It is not the thinking about it that matters, It’s the actual doing it that you will learn. Mentality. We are mentally obese because we fill our head with the equivalent of junk food. And I think that we need to get into at some sort of fitness regime for mental health fitness which is taking things in. Surround yourself with like-minded people. Surround yourself with inspirational people. Avoid the negative media. Don't get suckered into petty arguments of and joining in. Advice: Every morning and every night express gratitude for at least 3 things. Do that for the next week and you will see a completely different change in your mood. Advice: If you find yourself in a situation where normally you would be very negative about it, for example, road rage or something/someone cuts you up, just choose to pause and smile and wave and not judge them or anything like that but just relax yourself and don't rise to any bait... just choose to react differently. BEST MOMENTS: “I think it has to do with having an open mind. And if you have an open mind, there are no barriers. There's no ceiling. There's no limit. You learn something all the time. You think you know everything. All you have to do is watch a few quiz shows on tele, you realize how much you don't know. There's never an end.” “You are aware that you are walking down a corridor but no one's pointed out or you haven't realized just how many doors there are. And how many doors you haven't even tried to open to see what's behind that door. And then suddenly when you are almost when you become conscious and you are working on all these things, you are suddenly aware of how many doors are up. You are suddenly aware of how easy they are to open. And when you peer inside you realize, it is a whole new world that you're completely unaware of. And how much more there is to know. so, you almost need a hundred lifetimes to  kind of experience everything that's out there.” “It's a bit like washing or shaving or personal hygiene. You don't have to do it every day but it helps. And it's the same when it comes to investing in your self, you don't have to do it every day but it really does help.” “A great way to invest in yourself is to teach others. You have to invest in yourself so therefore you are worthy to pass all the knowledge to other people.” “Churchill. Give a man a label, and he'll live up to it or live down to it. And I think that's what we're doing.” ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs,personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Invest In You Facebook Page Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M- OzUrpfiP5Iw ABOUT THE GUEST Ray McLennan is a keynote public speaker and former corporate solicitor who has many years of experience owning and operating a variety of businesses in the UK and Ireland. Ray is the Regional Manager for Scotland & Ireland for Angels Den, which has over 13,500 high net worth Angel investors that help to find funding for property and SME businesses. Ray also helped to create Property Angels Den (PAD) in Sept 2014, which matches High Net Worth Investors with property proposals of all sizes. PAD now meets regularly and has funded dozens of property projects all over the UK. Nigel trained as an accountant but has for the last 11 years run the family care business. With a 7 figure turn-over and over 100 employees, the role has given Nigel quite a few valuable lessons! Nigel and his wife, have focused more and more on property over the last few years. The latest project is a 20 bed HMO with 12 SA rooms. But in the last few years Nigel is now helping property professionals understand that social media is a way to increase your customers, get more deals and earn more profit! CONTACT METHOD Ray@raisingangelfinance.co.uk Maria@raisingangelfinance.co.uk Howtoraisemoney.co.uk Nigeltbest.comThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today’s episode of the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik and Charlie show you why picking the right location is essential to success, in business, investing and life. Discover why you really need to think about where you place yourself so you can succeed in lots of areas of life and be flexible. Be careful to invest a stable amount in an unstable place. Our environment is changing so be aware of its relevance moving forward and invest in the right location. KEY TAKEAWAYS Fredrik likes to invest in property and specifically London. It's an investment capital and with investment coming from all over the world it's a safe haven that will continue to increase in value. The value of homes in London will increase so picking the right investment in the right location is vital. You need to always be looking at the capital inflation value. There's a difference in cash flow strategies and long-term capital gain. knowing your strategy will impact on the location you desire for your investment. Location can help you arbitrage products and leverage another locations economy to sell them for more. Africa, Asia and South America are growing quickly and could be great investment opportunities Fredrik wishes he could do business in some countries he hasn't been fortunate to visit such as New Zealand or Australia. Charlies hopes to spend more time on holiday with her family in Bali, Monaco and New Zealand. BEST MOMENTS "You are not a tree. You don't have roots, you can move around" "There's no one place in the world, you need to have flexibility" "It is sometimes smarter not to own properties and to rent. Especially if you want to travel around" “Always consider if your ideal customers are near to the location of your business.” “Fredriks ideal location lifestyle means having flexibility in both his business and his life.” “The Big Mac Index - How much does a big mac cost in $ between different countries? this will give you an idea of the cost of living in different countries” “You can't have a different version of you in different areas, living different lives you need to make the most of your current location” ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Invest In You Facebook Page Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode of Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik is on a road trip from the UK to several different countries: France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Sweden. While he is travelling, he talks about the Holy Grail of Investments, No Money Down. How can you invest money with none of your own money? People would really love to know this very trending topic. You will need to work with other people’s money. Fredrik talks about all the ideas that he has come up with about No Money Down. He talks about it in details explaining each one of them with great knowledge based on his experiences and the books he’s read. KEY TAKEAWAYS         2 concepts that have been discussed over and over o    No money down o    Other people’s money         If you don't put any money into a deal, there is no deal usually. There is always some kind of transaction of funds. One way or another. And it can be everything from 1 pound upwards. It can also mean that there might be a substantial amount of money which will change hands but it might not be yours.         Five F Formula o    Find. Find the actual whatever you going to purchase and acquire. That also clears, of course, to analyze the deal if make sense or not. It also involves how to negotiate it. o    How to fund. Funding. How to come up with a funding solution for whatever you intend to acquire. That can be debt. It can be equity. It can be working with cash. It can be a loan, a mortgage. It can maybe sum in different ways. It can also be done with a broad range of interests and layers of finance of different categories in terms of risk. And often, high risk usually means that they need to pay more for you. o    To fix whatever it is. The fix stage is if you are working in property, real estate, it is all around, for example, to do a renovation, a restoration, a refurbishment, you might as well add value using skills such as planning, uplift, you might extend. The property upwards to the rear, to the sides, or downwards. You might also move around the interior design to be a better purposely done for what you intend to use the property for. If you relate fixing to a business, that can be everything to doing cost savings, changes in the staff structure. It can often be linked to becoming better at debt collection. It can also mean that you improve the cash flow so your fostered collection and you negotiate better terms so that you can pay later. o    Flip. So that is a trading profit or it can also be that if you would like to maintain it. It around filling it. And if it is a business, is filling it with more purpose energy. The right direction. If it is in property, it is filling with the right kind of tenants to ensure that you also got a right structure in place. Which hopefully means using as little time as possible from yourself. o    Flourish. Flourish is using your own knowledge or your partner's knowledge or coming up with really creative ways how to add a substantial amount of value. For example, seeing things that other people can't see. Having an extraordinary level of financial IQ or be really business savvy. It can also be having unique skills and talents that add to the deal in one way or another. o    Bonus. Why would they ever like to give you any money at all? You don't look like a bank. You don't appear like a bank or do you? There are many aspects of how to do this. So if you take the best from what we can see in the financial sector, what is good and common practice and you apply that. Things to consider are why would people like to do business with you? You would like to build trust. Trust is so important in this case. Beyond having that level of trust, you need to know what you can offer in any kind of negotiation.         Best advice: If you would like to do something and you would like to save yourself both time and headache, find the best person who's doing what you would like to do and do it with them.         Build Credibility online. Social aspects of things to link to your personal brand. Example, in Social Media platforms like Google, LinkedIn, YouTube, etc. Take control of the first page. Google your company. Just be aware of your social footprint.         SPV - Special Property Vehicle.         How we are as potential borrowers ensure that we can get the money out of the deal? Example, use an investor to repay another investor.         Buying things below market value.  Buy something at a discount, even a 25% discount.         Get much higher value for the money. How to do this? It is a magic trick. You need to dare to ask other people for the money. No rocket science.           Ten ideas linked to how to buy a property using none of your money: o    Use someone else's money. You borrow money from someone even the equity part. o    Another way to do it is to do a so-called lease option with a purchase. o    Take over an existing mortgage. Particularly useful if they got a low-interest rate. o    Take a property and exchange it for another one. Swapping it. o    Offer your time, skills, and knowledge to get a property. o    Vendor finance. Get the seller to finance this impart. Most sellers put part of the money in the bank. o    Offer a much higher price but that will be paid in a number of instalments. o    Joint venture. A partner who puts in all the money. o    Purchase a property by exchanging them. Exchange maybe at any amount of money. Delayed completion. o    Try to always buy for cash flow.         Challenges with no money down. You, your head, your mind, and your potentially limiting beliefs of your own capability.         Advice from Belgium: o    It doesn't take money to make money. It takes courage to make money. You take a risk, a calculated risk. Have the courage to ask for other people's money. Do you have the courage to dare to work another with other people's money so that you can do a no money down deal? o    It is all linked to money. The money is increasing value. Countries are printing money. Who has got my money? Think hard. Would you like to have some of the profits? Come with a sale of a plate. Get a list of people that you want to offer that profit opportunity. Happy customers will come back to you. You can be oversubscribed when it comes to your deals. o    You need to be aware of what is legal and what is not legal. Just be aware of the local rules. o    If you are looking for other's people's money, then really what you need more than anything is to understand this is a matter of selling, influencing, helping and supporting. You have to have an activity or there will be nothing         One reason why no money down deals are so exciting is that it forces you to be more creative, more solutions driven, inviting you to search problems, and usually the bigger the problem, the bigger the pay. The bigger the problem, the lesser the competition.         Control. Influence. Accept.         You don't have to do everything yourself. Who else do I need to engage to find the best solution for this? What can we do to bring this to the best possible solution?         Due diligence. You are very much responsible for doing the analyzes on the deal which is at hand as part of finding something. Highly recommended that you and the potential investor are doing the due diligence on each other.         Find out the real motivator.         No money left in the deal. Time and money and speed of money that you can use and recycle the money at a higher pace, that's really really key. You can use the money over and over.         Timing is essential. To match the deal and the money flow are equally important. It needs to happen at the right time or it might be lost.         How we can customize the message so it is best understood? Treat other people the way they like to be treated. That is the golden standard of communication.         Values. Foundations underlying. Values very much drive the habit and the behaviours. How to work with someone else? What do other people value most? Understanding what their life is all about.         It is really cheap money to refinance money from your home to use for investments. Also, if you have got a business, you can also get a business loan.         Two core components are security and commitment. BEST MOMENTS “So I have the philosophy not to be too highly geared or leveraged which means I got a number of my different investments, mortgages, and loans on some kind of repayment structure.” “Trust is always been almost like a currency that you can trade with.” “There is no such thing as no money down. The money has to come from somewhere.” “Many people don't get to work with other people's money because they don't dare to ask. What is the worst that can happen? You can get a no. A no is not that bad after all.” “What really kills any business is the lack of cash. It might have a super asset rich business but if it doesn't have enough money to pay the staff, the people that you owe money, and then all of a sudden the whole business can be felled in a very fast way. The creditor can be really tough and start legal actions very fast.” “It is around the mindset. If you believe you can, if you believe you can't, either way, you're right. So if you believe you will find a way to find money, guess what, you will.” “If you don't ask for the money, have the right network or connections to position your proposal, guess what, you will never find the money.” “Don't jump into bed just because you need the money.” Every deal is unique. ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today’s episode of the Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik and Charlie discuss alternative methods of learning and how you too, can continue to learn in different shapes and sizes. Understand the value in learning from your mistakes and prioritising what it is you want to do so you can 10x your passion and be successful. Finally, Fredrik and Charlie show you not to be afraid to invest in your education, your learning doesn't stop when you leave school, it's just getting started. Look forward to episode #030 where serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan discuss how to invest with no money down. Discuss alternative learning styles what you can learn in school and what you can learn outside of school KEY TAKEAWAYS Fredrik and Charlie discuss an upcoming trip that spans 8 countries in 10 days and an unrivalled learning experience. Fredrik will be attending an executive training experience in negotiating at Harvard University whilst also showing Charlie a range of different cultures outside of school that she can learn from. Sometimes it's more motivating to see someone fail than it is to see someone succeed. It's okay to fail as long as you learn from the experience and improve as a result of it. We learn the in the best way by doing, but we must ensure we learn from your mistakes, stop and prioritise what it is you want to do so that you can 10x your business and achieve your goals BEST MOMENTS “All successful people became successful as a result of their success.” “You can use tutorials on Youtube to help you obtain skills that you might not have already” “Always undertake tasks that are a good use of your time” VALUABLE RESOURCES Upcoming Training Outside of Traditional Education 10X conference with Grant Cardone Property Mastermind Local Simon Zutshi Finance Raising Programme Tai Lopez ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In this episode of Invest In You Podcast, Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall chat with Sheila Holt, the Founder and Managing Director of Sapphire Lending Ltd. Sheila shares her experiences and expertise in growing a business – from creating a business model to setting-up a routine. Sheila also gives an update in her upcoming book, "Trust is the New Currency", which she co-wrote with our very own Fredrick Sandvall. Discover how fundamental is communication in all aspects of the business and how important is to her to have some leisure time despite the hectic schedule – visiting the seas around the world. Her company has long been creating solutions for lenders and brokers but this year, Sapphire Lending Ltd hits a milestone. They’re one of the three finalists in the Alternative Lender of the Year Category of the Credit Excellence Awards 2018. So, make sure to catch all the business learnings and strategies you’ll get from Sheila! KEY TAKEAWAYS The lenders are looking for ways to grow their money while the borrowers don't want the slow decision-making and inconsistencies in banks. Sapphire Lending Ltd.’s business model leads to a trusted relationship between lender and borrower. It makes sure that everything is done in an organized and timely manner. There's an honest communication taking in mind their principles and values. 5 Steps of Sheila's transparent business model for lenders and borrowers: -Doorway -Financial Review -Application -Agreement -Draw Down How did Sheila Holt invest in herself? She's a life-long learner. She decided to take in two new business partners who she could brainstorm with and learn new stuff. She is also currently enrolled in 3 business classes. Sheila's routine: Daily – She sees to it she gets up early and does tasks from the most difficult to the easiest. Monthly – Aside from the tasks and responsibilities, Sheila sees to it that she visits the sea every 5-6 weeks as a habit. It's not just in Britain. She was able to visit seas in other countries. Going back to when you started your business, what would you do differently knowing what you know now? Sheila will do everything a lot faster. Avoid snowballing. BEST MOMENTS "All values in all business are all about integrity, doing the right thing, and creating lifetime relationships." – Sheila "I love to learn and I also know that if we're not learning moving forward, guess what? We're falling back and falling behind." – Sheila ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. ABOUT THE GUEST (SHEILA HOLT) Sheila Holt is the Founder and Managing Director of Sapphire Lending Ltd. Sapphire Lending Ltd. caters to lenders (investors) and borrowers (property developers). She’s about to release her upcoming book, “Trust is the New Currency”, which she co-wrote with Fredrik Sandvall. CONTACT METHOD Sheila Holt Email: pa@sapphirelending.com Sapphire Lending Ltd. Facebook Sapphire Lending Ltd. Twitter Fredrik Sandvall fredriksandvall.com linkedin.com/in/sandvall/ https://www.facebook.com/FredrikinLondon/ Invest In You Facebook Page Charlie’s Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRYA8B8P29M-OzUrpfiP5IwThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Ever wanted to start your own podcast? In today’s episode, Fredrik and Charlie discuss podcasting and how you too, can begin your own podcast, no matter what niche or industry you’re in. Podcasting gives everyone a great opportunity to learn, meet new people, grow your network and connect with like-minded individuals. Tune in today to discover how to start, grow and scale your very own podcast. KEY TAKEAWAYS Always consider your audience and what’s relevant to them. By knowing what content you’re putting out there you can more accurately target your audience and grow your reach in that particular area Ask yourself - Do you have a niche podcast or a broad podcast? Will your podcast have guests or a co-host? And what content are you looking to create? A varied podcast is good as it can provide the audience with the best content possible and a range of informative information. Podcasting has a variety of great benefits: Build A Deeper Connection With Your Audience Your Audience Can Take You Almost Anywhere Connect With Professionals In Your Industry Get Recognized As An Industry Leader/Expert Helps You To Find Your Voice BEST MOMENTS “Stay relevant and provide valuable informative information to your listeners” “With Podcasting, not only do you learn yourself, you teach others” “Podcasting helps you learn new things and help out other people, especially young entrepreneurs” VALUABLE RESOURCESRob Moore - The Disruptive EntrepreneurTim Ferriss - The Four Hour Work WeekZoom RecordersMini-zoom microphone ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/investincrowd/ Crowdfunding platform - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Your Property Puzzle Limited - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today’s episode, Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie interview a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator, turned communications coach and businesswoman, Nicki Perfect. Yes, she is Ms Perfect. She has a wide amount of knowledge to share on how to deal with life and with the people around you. Learn about the 4 different types of Listening. Nicki shares her business tips for the younger generation, especially when they are still starting out. She also gives some important advice you can use and instantly apply in your daily lives. So, Tune In! KEY TAKEAWAYS Four types of LISTENING: Solution listening. This is when you are listening to the person and automatically gives a solution when you hear something that sounds like a problem that can be resolved. Attentive listening. This is a good trait. You just attentively listen to the one talking. Competitive listening. This is when you are listening to the person and you respond automatically as if you are in competition with the person. Your response will always be greater than the one talking. Combative listening. You will always find a way to bring the conversation in your favour. Business Tips especially for young beginners: You have to find out about money. Learn about money and how you can use the money for your own advantage. Learn how you can use the money to work for you. Think about other people’s perspective. But remember that it is their perspective. It does not mean that they are always correct. There will be a lot of people that will tell you not to do something. You have to choose your own group. Surround yourself with people that you want to follow. It creates an aura of positivity and you will be more encouraged to pursue the business that you have in mind. Invest in property. You have to have multiple income streams. Having one income stream is risky. Charlie: Do you like investing in yourself?Nicki: All the time. I’ve personally invested in myself and started to learn more and more. Charlie: What does Invest in you, mean to you?Nicki: That means that you take your experiences. Good or bad. And you take your life lessons with them and you use for your next steps. And you share with all the people. Teaser messages: It is not all about you. It’s understanding that your life is all about you and what you believe to be true Live in the moment. Live in the now. It is easier said than done. We all have our story. And we are all facing our own challenges. It is okay to share that story and help others learn from it. BEST MOMENTS “I realized that world is the people you meet every day, interaction everyday. How you can change their lives?” “Listen without judgment.” “Everyday is a school day. Keep learning, keep growing all the time.” VALUABLE RESOURCES thecommunicatingcoach.co.uk Book: Routine = Results by Rob Moore ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/investincrowd/ Crowdfunding platform - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Your Property Puzzle Limited - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922 ABOUT THE GUEST Nicky retired from the Metropolitan Police in January 2018. After 30 years. For over a decade, she was a Hostage and Crisis Negotiator, becoming the lead for UK Hostage and Crisis Negotiation training and travelling the world teaching these and communication skills to police officers and military personnel. She was also deployed internationally working with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office helping those who had been kidnapped or caught up in terrorist incidents. She now has 4 businesses of her own, including coaching others in communication and behaviour change. CONTACT GUEST Nicky can be found at www.thecommunicationcoach.co.uk or on Twitter and Facebook @NickycommscoachThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In today’s episode, Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie interview accountant, property investor and multiple business owner Lorraine Gannon. If you’re looking to monitise your knowledge and create cash flowing and recurring income generating assets, this episode is for you! Tune in today, and hear the guys discuss the value of systems and automation and how you too, can investing yourself to create a life where you live and do not work. Learn the 3 things that you need to create an online information business successful and the methodology of the 5 E’s, which helps businesses get their knowledge online and stop exchanging your time for money. KEY TAKEAWAYS Three things that can help you monitise online Know what your valuable IP is - What can you offer other people, how can you serve their needs? The right structure - Every recurring income structure needs the right structure for it be consistently create a monthly cashflowing income Sell it - You have to sell stuff on an ongoing basis to generate an online income Test your product or service Explore your IP Expressions of interest Execution Expand Evolution Ivan: How do you invest in yourself? Lorraine: I have coaches, I have mentors and I regularly participate in training programmes. I also work with an accountability group to ensure the goals I set are met and I’m constantly working towards them and deliver on what I set out to do. One of my biggest values is learning, which is partly why I’m involved in helping to create Charlie: What does Invest in you, mean to you? Lorraine: The world’s changing and we are becoming more and more entrepreneurial and our education needs to adapt to help facilitate that. As we move forward, businesses will be the key drivers of education. Charlie: Have you taken the wealth dynamics test? Lorrain: I am a ‘star’ and my husband is a ‘mechanic’ given the profile of our business it makes perfect sense, we are both co-founders of Gotenant.co.uk a piece of software that automates HMO management systems and it means we have no voids and zero arrears, because of those systems and processes we have in place. BEST MOMENTS “We live in a digital world and businesses need to realise that, people can make money out of things like YouTube etc and if you embrace it you will be at the forefront of businesses in the future” “I have a passion for creating a return on investment and helping entrepreneurs generate a recurring revenue” “Writing stuff down and systemising it is very important” “Social media has enabled a whole community to communicate and interact with one another” “It’s when our property portfolio took off that we discovered investing for cash flow, rather than just flipping. Now we focus on HMO’s” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Sack the boss, fire the clients - Lorraine Gannon www.newera.training ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/investincrowd/ Crowdfunding platform - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Your Property Puzzle Limited - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922 ABOUT THE GUEST I’m Lorraine Gannon, I am an accountant, property investor and multiple business owner. Over the years I’ve created many assets that give me time and financial freedom. Currently, I am focusing on helping other people monetise their knowledge and put their intellectual property online to make money with less hassle. Initially, I started investing in property and grew and scaled that business to become financially free. The next step was to help others do the same, through courses and memberships. Organically I helped other non-property related businesses do the same and that’s when I realised how others could monetise their knowledge. I know what the 3 things are that you need to create an online information business successful. Then I created the methodology of the process the 5 E’s, which helps businesses get their knowledge on line in the form of courses, subscriptions and memberships. My book on this process will be out late November ‘Sack the job, Fire the Clients’. I hope to help as many people stop exchanging their time for money, and I am also working towards helping others in 3rd World Countries escape their equivalent money trap, which is walking 3-4 hours per day to get clean water for their families. For me, it’s all about changing yours and others lives. CONTACT GUEST Facebook; https://www.facebook.com/lorraine.gannon.75 Twitter;  https://twitter.com/LorraineGannon Linked In; https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorrainegannon Register for more information about monetising your IP; https://newera.trainingThis show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik and Charlie interview owner of Digital Marketing Agency, Brandlective Communications and creator of The Content Waterfall process & The Gamechanger Method, Stacey Kehoe. In today’s episode, discover how to dominate your brand, grow your social media and avoid the common mistakes businesses make when attempting to grow their digital marketing. With the experience of helping over 500 businesses, Stacey answers some killer marketing questions that will help you to build a brand, gain clarity and understand your value proposition. KEY TAKEAWAYS Charlie: Do you have any tips for building a good brand? Stacey: The first thing is deciding how you wish to be perceived, you have to offer some form of value in order to be indexed on google and understanding your value proposition and the story you want to tell to dictate the way you share your content. Charlie: What do you think is the difference in social media, when comparing different generations? Stacey: Every generation has different ways that they consume information, it’s more the millennial generation that favour Facebook and Instagram. However social media is consumed differently by different generations, there’s not one platform that’s used my one specific generation it’s a spread among multiple that simply follows trends. It’s important to have a presence across lots of platforms because you don’t know how trends or algorithms will change. Charlie: What are the most common mistakes businesses you work with make? Stacey: Usually lack of direction, businesses don't necessarily know why they want to grow their online presence. You need to understand why you want to grow and tighten up your niche to attract an audience. BEST MOMENTS “If you try to attract everybody to your business, you’ll end up attracting none. You need to become the natural choice for a specific niche.” “Marketing is not sales and sales is not marketing, but they feed each other” “Diversify your online presence and own a website” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals How to style your brand - Book ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to ensure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/investincrowd/ Crowdfunding platform - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Your Property Puzzle Limited - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922 ABOUT THE GUEST I’m Stacey Kehoe, the owner of Digital Marketing Agency, Brandlective Communications. I’m the creator of The Content Waterfall process AND The Gamechanger Method.  Which is a 6 step digital marketing strategy which helps small to medium size businesses to craft a marketing campaign that actually works! I host a podcast called: The Vault with Stacey Kehoe and I’m currently writing my first book which will help small businesses create their own digital marketing strategies. CONTACT GUEST Stacey Kehoe http://www.staceykehoe.com/452-2/ https://twitter.com/StaceyKehoeUK https://www.linkedin.com/in/stacey-kehoe-b8b25319/ Brandlective Communications - Digital Marketing Agency http://www.brandlective.com https://www.facebook.com/brandlective https://twitter.com/brandlective https://www.youtube.com/user/Brandlective https://www.instagram.com/brandlective/     The Vault - Membership Community & Podcast http://www.thevault.global https://twitter.com/TheVaultSays https://www.instagram.com/TheVaultSays/ https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-vault-with-stacey-kehoe/id1429928744This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik, Ivan and Charlie dive into the subject of time, how you’re investing it, what you can do with it and why it’s important. Understand the value of time and discover how you too can start to get more done in less time and priorities the important things in life. Learn how to treat your time as currency and invest it in worthwhile things that can increase your wealth, improve your health or simply give you more freedom. It’s difficult to manage your own time and often things can seem urgent but are not actually important so map out your activities a week in advance and create a routine to ensure you’re productive and get everything done. Finally hear how to implement Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle and how to use time effectively, not just efficiently. KEY TAKEAWAYS Important activities have an outcome that leads to us achieving our goals, whether these are professional or personal. Urgent activities demand immediate attention and are usually associated with achieving someone else's goals. They are often the ones we concentrate on and they demand attention because the consequences of not dealing with them are immediate. When we know which activities are important and which are urgent, we can overcome the natural tendency to focus on unimportant urgent activities, so that we can clear enough time to do what's essential for our success. BEST MOMENTS “You can trade time for money and when you look at the rich they are careful about how they invest their time” “By spending money to create freedom you are investing in your own time” “Don’t wait until a life-changing moment to decide to change your life. Invest your time now and make a difference” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals https://www.kickstarter.com/ http://www.crowdinvest.com/ https://www.crowdwithus.london/ https://www.crowdproperty.com/ Film - In Time Eisenhower's Urgent/Important Principle - Using Time Effectively, Not Just Efficiently ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to insure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/investincrowd/ Crowdfunding platform - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Your Property Puzzle Limited - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome to another episode of the Invest In You Podcast. In today’s episode, Fredrik and Charlie respond to popular demand to discuss the topic of good debt and bad debt and how you too can be the bank, set the rules and avoid the money trap. Discover Fredrik’s top tips to avoiding bad debt and learn how to turn bad debt into good debt with educated investments in cashflowing assets. Improve your financial IQ in this episode of the Invest In You Podcast and understand how good debt is good and bad debt is bad. Avoid rat race and stop living hand to mouth. Don’t get yourself trapped in the hamster wheel and improve your financial situation. Learn how to arrange manageable payment schedules and build a portfolio of assets. These essential fundamentals are not covered in schools, so subscribe now and educate yourself on investment, finances, crowd-funding and much much more. KEY TAKEAWAYS Debt is the sum of all money that you owe someone. There are many types of Debt, including personal debt, credit card debt, student loan debt, and more. Taking on Debt can also mean incurring interest fees, meaning you'll be charged money for the privilege of borrowing money. In most parts of the world, debt means you need to pay back an amount of money, usually with interest adhering to a payment schedule.   Limited Liability - The condition by which shareholders are legally responsible for the debts of a company only to the extent of the nominal value of their shares. Unlimited Liability - Refers to the legal obligations general partners and sole proprietors because they are liable for all business debts if the business can't pay its liabilities. Charlie: When you are in financial debt is it important to invest in education? Fredrik: Yes, it’s important to improve your financial IQ. It is important when you are in debt to have assets or invest wisely to improve your situation. You can have good debt, for example borrowing money to buy a cash flowing asset or something that appreciates in value. When the asset is making more than the debt repayment you are increasing your revenue this can be an asset such as property investment. BEST MOMENTS “Debt usually means you need to pay the debt back in full, and then sum” “One thing I value in my life is freedom. When you sign up for a mortgage you agree to reduce your freedom” “Property goes up in value but money goes down in value. This is also known as inflation” “It’s good to hold assets, it’s good to take control of other people’s things. You need to be the bank, set the rules and avoid the money trap” “Inflation is eating up the value of loans” “Taking on bad debt has allowed me to grow faster than having to save the traditional way.” “Good debt is good and bad debt is bad” VALUABLE RESOURCES https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals https://www.kickstarter.com/ http://www.crowdinvest.com/ https://www.crowdwithus.london/ https://www.crowdproperty.com/ ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to insure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/investincrowd/ Crowdfunding platform - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Your Property Puzzle Limited - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

The Sandvall family sure is very particular when it comes to taking care of their health. Fredrik has cycled, Charlie has Tae Kwon Do, and Ivan has training workouts. When you add all of these good physical exertions to their healthy eating lifestyle and very positive attitude, there’s no need for you to look the other way around for tips and strategies on how to invest in your health! You, yourself, are responsible for your health. Time to listen to Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan share the effective ways to stay healthy and fit on this latest episode of the Invest In You Podcast! KEY TAKEAWAYS Investing in your health will benefit you. You live longer. It risks of cardiovascular and other severe diseases. It helps with bone density and building muscles. You stay fit and will have a healthier physical appearance. It improves your mental capacity. It increases your confidence. Tips on how to do it: Consistency is important. Exercise regularly at your chosen schedule. Make sure to evaluate and apply a progressive increase of activities if need. Proper nutrition. Eat a balanced healthy diet. Know the macronutrients, micronutrients, and vitamins of what you’re eating. Get even. Everything should be in moderation. Don’t try too hard; you’ll overwork your body. Rest should be in the equation. You have to let your energy recover. Have a training buddy. He could encourage you to do it and not choose to be lazy. Just do it. Don’t slack too much. Don’t sit too much. Use the 5-second rule to finally do what you’re not interested to do. Count to 5, think about nothing else, and just do what you have to do! Have a positive mindset. Have a jolly disposition. Be optimistic when you face each day. Listen to music. Dance. It gives positive energy. VALUABLE RESOURCES “‘Simplicity is the key to excellence.’ All that basically means is that when you train in a simple manner and you know how it works, you’re not spreading yourself too thin. You’re focusing on the stuff that actually works. You’re not doing nay stuff that’s not giving any benefit.” – Ivan “If you train in a simple, effective manner, be consistent with it because it takes less time and energy out of your day with the maximum results” - Ivan “Find a balance. If you finally come up with a system, still do your research and ‘shock the muscles’ as Ivan said.” – Charlie “The mindset on training is to get over the obstacle of starting. Once you’ve started, that I usually where things start to happen.” – Fredrik “Think about everything positive in your life. You can think about the negative, so you can take away the negative… you can learn from it but you can’t be all moody about it. Try to think of the positives if you can.” - Charlie ABOUT THE HOSTS Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Facebook Page This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

An unscripted interview between Frederick Sandvall and son Charlie reflecting on the lessons taught within T. Harv Eker's Book, Secrets of a Millionaire Mind - Think to Get Rich and how to practise them in every day life.  KEY TAKEAWAYS Your income can grow only to the extent that you do. To me that means the more you do, the more you get better. If you have a hammer lying there and you don't do anything with it, nothing's going to happen. If you have a pile of money, nothing's going to happen unless you invest or do something with it. If you want to change the fruits, first you must change the roots. If you want to do something visible, first you must change the invisible. A tough one, but one of the ways I see it is if you have a huge pile of cash and you want to multiply it into a really massive and visible pile of cash then you have to invest it and change your mind-set also. Money is a result. Wealth is a result. Health is a result. Illness is a result. Your weight is a result. We live in a world of cause and effect.  Your actions play a huge part in what the result is. If I decide to eat lots of candy every day, it's going to effect my health over a long period.  Thoughts lead to feelings and feelings lead to action. Action leads to results.  It all starts in the head. I recently learned how to somersault off of a wall, if I didn't have that feeling of 'I'm just going to do it' in my head, I never would have succeeded. Many times, it's not what you say to people but how you make them feel. If you say something to someone and they don't care, they won't care, unless you make them care. If you make them feel special and pay attention to them it makes a hell of a difference. When the subconscious mind battles between deep-rooted emotions and logic, emotions will certainly almost always win. What you want to do is definitely much stronger than what's good for you. Sometimes you want to do what's best for you but it's very difficult. Wealth Principal: If your motivation for acquiring money or success comes from negative roots such as fear, anger or the need to prove yourself, then money will never bring you happiness. If I'm scared to do a flip but I think it's worth it to do a flip then I probably won't land on my neck but I'm really good at it then I should do it. Don't let feelings take over too much. The only way to change the temperature in the room is to read the thermostat. The only way to achieve financial success is to reset your thermostat. If you have a thermostat and you want to build up the temperature to a comfortable level then that's OK in a room, but in a business then you almost always have to deal with a little bit more than you're comfortable with.  Rich people believe that they create their life, poor people believe that life happens to them. Again, about actions. If you decide to do something good with your life then something good will happen. If you do something that isn't so good for your life, the result isn't going to be nice. Money is extremely important in areas which it works and extremely unimportant in areas in which doesn't. So if you have a massive money pile, lying there and you decide to invest with it, it'll then multiply and you can use that money as a tool to keep on investing. When you're complaining you become a living, breathing crap magnet. I do this myself, it's not easy! People should complain less and take responsibility for their choices. I'd rather hang out with those who don't complain. There is no such thing as a really rich victim. You get really rich from taking responsibility, learning from your mistakes and improving yourself and your knowledge. If your goal is to become comfortable, chances are you'll never be rich. If I was not comfortable with doing a backflip on the ground a month ago, now I'm comfortable with it because I improved my comfort zone to that level. If you improve your comfort zone, you're going to get better. Rich people are committed to being rich, poor people want to be rich. What's the difference? It all starts in the mind. If you want to do something, usually you'll get better as long as you learn from your mistakes. if you do nothing, nothing happens.  One reason why people don't get what they want is because they don't know what they want.  You have to know what your goal is, then you need to set that goal, commit to it and try to accomplish it. If it doesn't fit you, find a better one. If you're not totally and truly committed to great wealth, chances are you won't. It comes down to commitment, mind-set and not complaining. Rich people focus on opportunities; poor people focus on obstacles. You can focus on obstacles as long as you're willing to learn from those mistakes. If you see the obstacle and choose to do nothing about it, it's similar to complaining. What do you think about parkour and obstacles? If you don't do anything, nothing happens. It all starts in the mind. Do you boss them or clam up and freeze? Rich people associate with positive, successful people. Poor people associate with negative, unsuccessful people. It depends on who you're with, what you're doing, etc. If I have lots of amazing friends and contacts, then I can use them and they can use me and we can get better together. If I associate with negative people it'll have the opposite impact. Rich people are willing to promote themselves and their value. Poor people think negatively about selling and promotion.  Rich people are usually more confident about what they're doing and they're willing to share what they do because since they're rich, they've usually done a lot of successful things and learn from their mistakes. You should believe in what you do! Leaders learn heck of a lot more money than followers. Yep. Leaders are leaders and they're good at what they do. Followers learn from the leaders, they may become leaders too. Leaders know the most, hence wise they lead unless it's someone who's been chosen to be leader, but isn't great at it. Rich people are bigger than their problems. Poor people are smaller than their problems. Rich people usually ignore their problems once they've discovered what they are and how they can change it. Poor people usually think too much about it, they should let it go but not forget. You should be able to adjust what you do and what happens in life. BEST MOMENTS If the leader of the company doesn't take care of himself, why would he take care of the business? Don't complain too much, hang with the right people and have a great mind-set! VALUABLE RESOURCES The Secret of the Millionaire Mind ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACTS Facebook Page Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Welcome to another episode of the Invest In You Podcast. Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan discuss the basics of crowdfunding and how it can help you. There are many way you can invest money and crowdfunding is a growing area. With interest rates close to zero crowdfunding can be a great investment opportunity. Fredrik talks about the need to be smart about the investments you choose and why you should consider the track record of the people involved, as you are heavily reliant on their success. Consider the projects forecast for success and the need to spread your investments across multiple platforms and varies projects. Ensure to think about what your investing in, does it affect the environment? or have negative morale implications? As a borrower of crowdfunding finance, you risk the deal could not get funded, or the platform used not finding you an audience willing to invest. However when a project does obtain investment you can have multiple rounds of funding as your project progresses, and as your status grows you will become more well known and as a result people will approach you to invest in your ventures, rather than you approaching them. Example of a deal - Your property puzzle limited Turning the property into a HMO and toward the end of the project you will obtain a share in the project Region: UK: South-East Term: 1 year Property Type: Residential Property Stage: Existing Property Security: Partially Secured Target Yield: 8.00% https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922 KEY TAKEAWAYS What is crowdfunding? - Where you fund a project or venture, and raise an amount of money of any amount and back by a number of people, usually conducted via an online platform. How does it work? - If you are on the side seeking funding, you need to create a pitch for your project or venture, understand how much you are looking for and What are fees involved with crowdfunding? - There are potential transactions costs and fees for the crowdfunding platform itself. However if you pick the right one as the investor you will have no fees to pay, these are usually absorbed by the party seeking the funding ie. the borrower. What does the risk warning mean? - This means The crowdfunding platform is not responsible for your money. Such as lack of liquidity, loss of the value of investment, delusion of shareholding. When you invest any lost in value this isn’t covered by the financial services compensation scheme. BEST MOMENTS A crowdfunding platform is like an advertising board, where you can display your project and people can meet each other Always be pitching Only invest money that in theory, you are willing to lose. Spread your investments so that if you lose, you haven’t lost everything, and realise that even in a loss you learn and gain knowledge As crowdfunding investment increases you could end up with less pieces of the pie, although the pie will be much bigger Crowdfunding can compound your finances and give you a great return with interest. VALUABLE RESOURCES https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals https://www.kickstarter.com/ http://www.crowdinvest.com/ https://www.crowdwithus.london/ https://www.crowdproperty.com/Financial conduct authorities ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influences. Invest In You is about investments, entrepreneurs, personal development and doing fun things. They hope to insure you to take action, helping others and yourself, plus enjoying the journey we call life.   CONTACT METHOD Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/investincrowd/ Crowdfunding platform - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals Your Property Puzzle Limited - https://investincrowd.envestry.com/deals/1922This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

DESCRIPTION Welcome to the Invest In You Podcast. In this episode Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan interview Rob Wilkinson Co-founder of Crowd with Us, an FCA approved Property Crowd Funding platform. This is a gritty episode where the hosts lead the guest with a series of both formal and informal questions in a relaxed and friendly chat host style. The listener will learn from the interview how life at the top of the game can have a lot of rewards and what values in life count. KEY TAKEAWAYS Fredrik leads Rob with a brief synopsis of Rob’s life working at sea on a superior super yacht and commercial shipping and how it leads to Crowd Funding Rob discusses how he started work at 16 years old and progressed to a Master Mariner working on the biggest Yacht of its time “My Rising Sun”. He discusses what it is like to work with big ships for 20 years, working with large numbers of crew to manage. Rob also tells us about how 10 of those years were with the world’s richest man. He worked six months of the year with him so was able to invest in buying his first property in London at 20-21 years old. Charlie’s interest was how Rob organised his time and life. Rob has some compelling skills to share with her and subsequently the listener. Both Ivan and Charlie are able to discuss with Rob health and well being, gym routine, martial arts and sitting in the Alps in his office looking out onto the mountains! Fredrik analyses Rob’s approach to life, discipline, and success. BEST MOMENTS Fredrik tells us” Rob Wilkinson has had contact with at least one president of America” Rob says “I ended up working for the Saudi Royal Family” Ivan asks Rob “ are you an early riser or night owl” this leads to us finding out part of Rob’s disciplined life-style “Good habits, reading , reading , they are all relentless readers” VALUABLE RESOURCES Business Mentor Podcast The 10X Rule Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger Joe the Body Coach Fiverr The Disruptive Entrepreneur ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACT METHOD Jay’s Instagram Jay Dhillon’s Website Jay’s Facebook THE GUEST - Rob Wilkinson Rob Wilkinson, Co-Founder of Crowd with Us, an FCA approved Property Crowd Funding platform. rob.wilkinson@crowdwithus.london Facebook: robrwilkinson | Instagram: rob_wilkinson46 | Twitter: @rrwilkinson Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall interview Jay Dhillon, serial entrepreneur and business owner with over 18 years experience who works with The Prince’s Trust and helps younger people get into business. Jay started in recruitment, taking a fledgling company from 0-500 staff, doing around £35,000,000 in sales before being selling to an investment firm. Now he invests in property and has an online recruitment business called www.recruitmentboss.com which helps people advertise jobs online. KEY TAKEAWAYS Prince’s Trust is a UK Organisational Charity which has been running for around 50 years, set up by Prince Charles to help young people get into business or find work. Prince’s Trust runs mentorship programmes to help you people realise their business plans. Take advantage of E-Mentoring! What are your top tips for people looking for a job Jay? Make sure your CV is up to date, professionally laid out. This is why investing in yourself is so important, if you can’t do it then pay somebody on Fiverr or another website, $25-50 to get your CV formatted correctly. Also, learn how to interview. This might sound crazy, but the amount of people who I’ve interviewed who haven’t researched the company is crazy. Always quantify yourself, give evidence and show proof, i.e. your figures. Take a written reference too! What should an employer look for when recruiting Jay? High level attitude! I would take someone on who isn’t as good but is willing to stay until 6:30pm and make that extra phone call. When you advertise, make sure you get the right job description. Don’t advertise for peanuts either, look at the value this vacancy will bring to your business. Have you got any good routines in your life Jay? I get up at 5am, do half an hour on my bike or treadmill, then I’ll spend 20 minutes reading a book. I keep a notepad and when I’ve read 3-4 chapters I summarise my book. I do that then set my goals, spend time with my children and drop them off at school, then go to the office. Selling: Get past that first call, once you get past it and you keep doing it and doing it, you get better at anything, so do the best you can and have discipline. BEST MOMENTS Jay, what does Invest In You mean to yourself? I think it’s very important and very underrated. For me it means always improving yourself. I invest in books, education, mentors… This year I’ve invested in my podcast, networking and I’m constantly reading! Spending money is really important if you’ve got it because it really commits you to your programme. Tell us about your property business Jay? My property business started in 2007, with the profits from the recruitment I was buying single lets. Then I moved on to investing in HMOs in 2013. I used to place a lot of my contractors who worked for my agency in there and when they left I went to the professional market. My next venture will be commercial. My goal now is to buy blocks of apartments. I went to university and graduated with a degree in Business Studies, but new nothing about business, it was more about computers! Nothing about cash-flow, profit and loss. After working at a corporate company for two years I realised the whole system took you away from actually selling and making money. Put yourself out there and the opportunities will come. Do everything to the best of your ability, set yourself up routines and always ask questions. Jay, what’s the coolest office you’ve had so far? The best office I had was on Singapore Airlines. I’d never flown business class before. They give you a pen and paper, ask you if you’d like a drink. Working on that airline was my best location if that makes sense. Also, we had a hide in Mauritius for two weeks, top floor hotel apartment and on the balcony was a little desk. When you were working you could hear the waves. Jay on independent and personal growth: The top two tips I would give would be invest in sales and learn how to sell. Always ask the question! Re-negotiate your mobile phone bills, anything you’ve got, ask the question! If you can’t sell, get on the phone and ring your phone supplier and say look, I’ve been with you five years, can you negotiate on my contract? That’ll get you in the mind-set to sell, because that’s a soft sell. Do as much research as you can before setting your business up. Don’t go into it because it sounds good. VALUABLE RESOURCES Business Mentor Podcast The 10X Rule Total Recall - Arnold Schwarzenegger Joe the Body Coach Fiverr The Disruptive Entrepreneur ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. CONTACTS Jay’s Instagram Jay Dhillon’s Website Jay’s Facebook Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

DESCRIPTION Charlie, Ivan and Frederick interview Grant Cardone, author of the 10X Concept and billionaire entrepreneur. An inside look at the history behind Grant, the power of investing in yourself, the importance of selling, having the right mentors and getting connected! KEY TAKEAWAYS How can I increase my business by 10% or 50%? Don’t think like that, think in terms of 10X. Have you ever used mentors, Grant? Yes, I’ve always used mentors to guide me along the way. I’ve made a lot of mistakes along the way by picking the wrong people to emulate and follow. You have to be very, very selective. Study not what they do in not just one part of their life but all parts of their lives. Pick the right mentors and people around you. Don’t be satisfied with a piece of life, have it all. “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” ~ Bruce Lee Do the selling or somebody’s gonna sell you! I like to be in charge of the selling, then I can be in charge of the outcome of the situation. What does 10X your business mean? The guy who wants to be a champion at tennis does ten hours, not one. Get obsessed, become completely consumed with the concept. Lebron James slept with a basketball, woke up with a basketball, went to sleep with a basketball, had lunch with the basketball. He felt every little divot, dimple, everything you can touch on that ball he’s gonna know about. Same thing with business people. When you have information and you’re not certain, it takes longer to do and you’re not confident. Success moves to certainty, money moves to certainty and winning moves to certainty! Grant, could you compare traditional schooling vs. specific events? I know you’ve tried both, as have I, what are your thoughts? Well, I like speed and efficiency so for me to pay $7,000 to go to an event that’s 2 days vs. $47,000 to an event that’s going to last a year or two or three. It’s a no-brainer to me! The problem with going to college or university is, who you gonna be connected with? Unless you go to some of the best colleges in the world, it’s going to be a long process. BEST MOMENTS What does it mean to Invest In You, Grant? Investing in myself is the most important investment I can make. It’s a guaranteed, sure thing, I can never lose. You can’t take it away from me! The other part is me knowing the right thing to do, instead of knowing more. A lot of people look to know more instead of be sure of what they do. If Grant Cardone loses all of his money, he will never go to 0. This is because he has so much knowledge and assets, and he’s always selling. Everyone wants to talk about money all the time, we all want to sell better - Stay obsessed. It’s OK to be obsessed! If you left the world, what would be your legacy, Grant? That you guys will be talking about me when your 50, 60 years old! Replicate that 50/60 million times, that’d be awesome! Grant, what’s been your best office so far? Ok, well, 51,000ft, 600 mph, -80˚F outside, going across the sky, most commercial airliners fly at about 40,000ft. There’s no traffic up there! £10,000 of fuel per wing! With internet, it’s cool! Three cameras in the tail, one underneath at the back, one looking down and one at the nose. VALUABLE RESOURCES If you have a passion and talent for selling then reach out:#sandvallcardoneglobaldeal ABOUT THE HOST Serial entrepreneurs Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall love sharing ideas and interviewing world-class entrepreneurs and influencers. Invest in You is about investments, entrepreneurship personal development and doing fun things. They hope to inspire you to take action, helping others and yourself plus enjoying the journey we call life. Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Special interview with Kathleen Audet from Your Authentic Image. Kathleen works with executives, business owners, workplace professionals, entrepreneurs and speakers providing customised style coaching and consulting services, based in the USA. In this episode she shares her industry knowledge on how to get into the mindset necessary to use clothing as a tool and a resource to feel authentic and confident. Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Fredrik Sandvall gives a prevue on the upcoming Expert Empires event for ambitious authors, coaches & mentors who want to build a global empire, and also shares his concept of TASK FORCE in relation to mastering the growth of your business. Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Alice takes a deep dive into explaining how to master complex sales, shorten their cycle and build a sales plan that gives sustainable growth. She also relates how powerful LinkedIn is as a tool used to interact and build relationships that lead to sales. Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

In his capacity of being an international speaker and marketer, Adam talks about the areas of investment in today’s world of digital marketing and the powerful effect in positioning oneself on the social media to build one’s reach. Thus, he speaks about what is good marketing. He also gave some vital tips on public speaking. Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

The Sandvalls, father and sons share how they discover their true profile using the Wealth Dynamics with amazing clarity in the direction on what path they are to follow in becoming successful entrepreneurs in business and investments. Fredrik also speaks of his experiences in using this profiling tool in his commercial and residential property investments and thus benefitted much from it. Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Having worked with the Angels Den, Ray McLennan  shares his vast experiences and dealings iin various aspects of investing, in particular property investing, Angel investing. He also gives insights and tips into how best to invest and build a successful business. Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Invest in You interviews Simon Zutshi about investing in oneself, helping others and his top tips to successful investing.  Top tips: - Model successful people - Invest in yourself - Time is valuable - Continually invest in oneself - Get out of your own way - Keep up to date - Get a mentor - How to build a property portfolio using other people’s time and money = Working with motivated sellers pin - Property Investors Network  Property Magic the book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Property-Magic-Using-Peoples-Experience/dp/1784521280/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1518036744&sr=8-1&keywords=property+magic Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Ivan, Charlie and Fredrik sharing a speedy fireside chat President Franklin D. Roosevelt style from the 1930's with The Disruptive Entrepreneur and Investor Rob Moore from Royal Peterborough. Live during a break in the Podcast Masterclass.  Rob's view of investing, investing in himself and the teams and where that has taken him so far.  Rob is a 3 x World Record holder, best selling author, founder of Progressive Property and Ultimate Success. You don't want to miss this high energy episode.  Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Ivan, Charlie and Fredrik Sandvall sharing top rated and shared content from the FB page Junior MBA.  Why we started Junior MBA - Entrepreneur 4 Good in the first place.  + Accountability + Who dares wins - SAS and Special Forces + Innovation iPhoneX  + Steal, borrow or develop others' ideas further + Positive thinking and posture Various thoughts from the last 2 years with the team For more information about Junior MBA http://junior-mba.com/ https://www.facebook.com/JuniorMBAglobal/ Please share this episode and future ones with people you care about young or older ;) Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Johnny FD is living the traveller dream by exploring new places and "works" with online business and content creation. He is also the co-host for the podcast invest Like a Boss.  Johnny FD page Invest in You is a podcast for you who like to live life more like your dream than just normal. Create your new normal Fredrik, Charlie and Ivan Sandvall connects you with interesting learnings and people from all over the world.  Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Cassie Footman is our guest and she is working in many countries to help others to find their flow in life and business. She is a coach and investor.  Cassie's page Invest in you is the podcast for you who wants to make a difference in your own life and with others. Learn more, Do more and Invest more so your life can change for the better and you can give more back to others.  Subscribe and Charlie likes 5* reviews :)  Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Joe Hanney helps personal trainers and studio owners to increase their profit. With a whole career in fitness, he has seen it all and health is at the core of Invest in You we could not miss the opportunity to interview him.  This podcast is for you who like to do more, be more and enjoy more with a better health, you last longer :)  The Fit man Collective is the best place to find out more. Ivan Fredrik and Charlie Sandvall interview world leaders in their fields so you can become a better version of yourself.  Junior MBA with us Please subscribe so you hear this first and don't lose out Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Christian Rodwell is a coach mentor and podcaster sharing and helping people to find alternatives to the traditional 9-5.  He has many ideas around investing and how to invest in oneself. To follow his work go to https://www.etrr.online/podcast/ Invest in you is a podcast for people just like you who want to learn more, do more and help more. Invest today so you can have benefits of freedom for a long time ahead.  Charlie, Ivan and Fredrik Sandvall are the hosts and operate in various countries across the world as investors and entrepreneurs.  Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

John Williams entrepreneur and author sharing his story and what important to him around tech creativity and innovation.  Ideas from his books "Screw Work, Let's Play (How to do what you love & get paid for it)" "Screw Work Break Free: How to launch your own money-making idea in 30 days" And from his Ideas LabHe advocates:- try things- social media isn't all something to sell is a better starting point- skills for the future  Screw Work Break Free http://theideaslab.org/ Invest in You the Podcast - subscribe to hear it first Junior MBA Fredrik Sandvall - Linked In Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media

Ivan, Fredrik and Charlie Sandvall explain briefly where we come from, what we do an how we hope to help you.  Charlie and Ivan are graduates of Roger Hamilton's incubator iLab in Bali 2017. They have already had their first event in London helping younger entrepreneurs to get clarity and motivation to start a business.  Fredrik is a serial entrepreneur who really likes to help others, he has businesses in property, consulting, education, finance and investments.  Invest in You Podcast is here to help you take ideas from, inspire, connect and just by listening you will Invest in You and learn things.  How we define Investing. What can we learn from Special Forces? The power of small and the power of "0". We all have to give to others.  How can I take my business to x 10?    Welcome to join to listen to this and future podcasts, feel free to subscribe, come back for more content.  Music by Dewolf  http://www.dewolfemusic.com/  This show was brought to you by Progressive Media