It starts with Action

After a really long break in navigating my career as a 20 something year old. 2022 taught me many lessons and one being how important the it starts with action philosophy is to me.  

As a career focused individual, 2022 helped me realise the importance of personal life in business. Without bringing your best self to the table, you can't do your best or bring out the best in others. Taking care of yourself should be your no.1 goal if you want success. Taking care of your health, sleep. mind , habits etc learning how to make decisions, how to have a healthy love life etc THEY ARE ALL IMPORTANT - I lost sight of how until I hit another rock bottom last year which caused many reflections and realisations - many topics important to be discussed which is why I'm excited to be back with greater intention to provide more value to listeners. 

Happy New year !

Hello amazing people! Just wanted to update you on everything life and podcast , excited to be back!

It's the summertime already and the first year of university went by so quickly! A quick solo episode about life and my personal development and career journey. If you want to reach out to me and share how you found the episode - send me a message! 

Anthony Trucks is a former NFL Athlete, American Ninja Warrior on NBC, international speaker, host of the Aww Shift podcast, and the founder of Identity Shift coaching. He uses cutting edge science and psychology to upgrade how you operate so you can elevate your life and business to reach your full potential. After being given away into foster care at 3 years old, being adopted into an all white family at 14, losing his NFL career to injury and more he learned how to shift at a very young age, and now his life mission is teaching others how to Make Shift Happen in their lives.

In this episode we talked about communication and identity shifting. How to navigate hard times and shift into the 2.0 version of you!

Where you can learn more about Anthony : 

Instagram: anthonytrucks

Website: https://anthonytrucks.com/

As Gary Vee suggests: document the journey. 

I'm Presence, a 20 year old student and host of the podcast, over the years I've changed a lot and since starting the podcast, I've learnt so much more about myself- more importantly, the blocks holding me back. I wanted to document the journey of life so that I can listen back in a couple of years but also to be real and honest with who and where I am at to my listeners - if it helps someone think more about life, feel less alone, or gain some insight then please consider following along my journey through following on Spotify and Apple podcasts as well as leave a review! Thank you!

Matt Gagnon is a professional Co-Active coach certified by the Coaches Training Institute, credentialed by the International Coach Federation, a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, keynote speaker, best selling author, and brings 15 years of corporate sales and leadership experience

 Key takeaways:

• If you were not rescued would you stay down would you make sure you get back up?
  
• You should want a healthy routine that you can adapt alongside implementing in case something ever happens (things don't go your way) you can adapt,adjust and still fill your cup
  
• The ability to follow intuition ties into trusting yourself and feeling as if you are enough
  
• If you can't trust yourself you end up relying on other people to make sure you are doing the right thing
  
• You should choose who gets your energy, it is a privilege for someone on this earth to get your energy and you choose who should get it.
  
• Never stop dreaming bigger.
  

Timestamps:

00:42 - How did it all start?

05:44 - Was one of your biggest turning points because you were burning out?

09:56 - What were the mindset challenges that you had to overcome to start your business?

17:20 - What kind of routines really helped you? And why is it so important

31:01 - What is the difference between the people who stick to their routine and those who stick to it and then get off track?

36:20 - DO you have any tips on how to start truly believing in yourself?

43:05 - How do you know when it is logic and when it is fear (limiting beliefs)

47:59 - How do you encourage other people to unearth the truth?

51:37 - What do you think makes a coach a great coach?

57:39 - In terms of values, what are your values ?

61:54 - What does your next  best version of yourself look like? And, how do you plan to get there?

 Key takeaways : 

- Design your life: write out exactly how it looks like and what YOU want 

- Follow your gut for 100 days 

- Anxiety and Depression comes from the body - get outside and move 

- build confidence and self esteem with stretch goals

John has created and grown a few successful consumer-led businesses over the last 35 years, both in the UK and the USA. He has learned hugely from both successes and failures and talks passionately and honestly about both. Having exited his third business, John now actively manages an Investor/Non-Executive Director portfolio, delivering value-added business growth advice, guidance and mentoring to businesses in early-stage and scale-up phase.

Timestamps

06:24 - What were the childhood experiences that shaped you to be the person you are

now?

11:42 - From your principles, what one stands out for you?

19:17 - For young entrepreneurs, what advice would you have for them?

31:16 - How can someone work on developing self-confidence to execute what they

want.

33:50 - How do you get to the point that you have the courage of your convictions and

have self belief when everyone is telling you is wrong

36:54 - What does your next best version of yourself look

like?

41:38 - What action would you like the listeners to take?

Dylan Gambardella is a Forbes 30 Under 30 entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and startup investor.  Dylan is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Next Gen HQ, a hub empowering entrepreneurs with the tools and resources to win at business and life. He works with leading brands including AMEX, Target, and Capital One to help them stand out and reach the next generation.  Dylan has been featured in Forbes (30 Under 30 - Education), Inc, Adweek, Entrepreneur, and USA Today for his work leading a venture-backed, scaling startup. A graduate of Duke University (‘17), Dylan has spoken in front of tens of thousands on global stages.

Time Stamps:

➔ 1:57 - How does the idea momentum arise?

➔ 4:32 - How did you start NexGen EQ

➔ 8:21 - How do you grow a community with so much momentum

➔ 11:09 - What type of challenges did you face and how did you deal with them

➔ 13:09 - At an example of a challenge when creating NexGen EQ

➔ 17:05 - Advice for an entrepreneur who lacks belief

➔ 19:20 - Have you ever thought of giving up?

➔ 21:15 - Key lessons learnt

➔ 22:46 - What does your next best version look like?

➔ 24:22 - Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years

➔ 26:45 - What is your idea of an entrepreneur's mindset of an entrepreneur?

➔ 28:32 - What does action mean to you?

➔ 29:46 - What lesson do you wish you had learnt earlier?

Key Takeaways:

★ Aimed to just solve a problem (After one thing leading to another we were able to

expand)

★ It all starts with giving!

★ If you give without expecting some return, it always comes back 100 times over

★ When trying to build a community, aim to just help people

★ Find your unique way of giving value while having fun and just do it and you’ll feel better

Are you an entrepreneur? Get the MOMENTUM to win at business and life: nextgenhq.com/getmomentum

Want more action - check out www.itstartswithaction.com

With 23 years of experience in the Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial space, Jeff has the real-world experience to help growing companies develop leaders to their fullest potential.  

In this episode Jeff talks about his journey from poverty to being a top leadership coach and tells you exactly how you can achieve the goals you desire.

Key points 

00:06:13 - WHat are your principles of success leading to your accomplishments

00:09:43 - What was it that motivated you to stay accountable

00:13:30 - What has been your hardest challenge?

00:17:15 - Trainer story

00:19:15 - Who were your mentors? And how would you recommend a mentor is found

00:22:44 - What encouraged you to take that leap from a full time job to entrepreneurship

00:25:46 - What would you tell Gen-Z to maximise their leadership potential in the long run

00:34:19 - ItstartswithAction question - What’s your vision of a better version of yourself

look like

00:36:17 - What challenge would you encourage listeners to do

From time to time I like to share my thoughts and experience to listeners. Having heard from a few friends who haven't been so happy I thought why not do a quick episode on the topic. Happiness is a choice and we can all choose to be happy and generate it from within. The journey to getting to where you want to be isn't always easy so how do we find joy in the process? Let's chat!

Life is about experimenting and making an impact even when you don't feel ready. I love interviewing guests and it's great to share their stories and learn from their experience but I still feel like I want to use the podcast to make a bigger difference. I like following people's journey and see them grow but I felt like I need more experience to start sharing my thoughts. 

Imposter syndrome :) 

I believe clarity will come after action so I'm going to add-in at least 2 solo podcasts a month about all sorts of topics related to taking action and personal development.  

I was going to do some proper planning and structuring before but I found it just delaying the action. And oftentimes momentum starts from just doing it and then improving later. 

Quick episode on my thoughts and experience of imposter syndrome as well as getting work done. I've talked to many people who have been struggling to do work during the lockdown including myself with certain university modules. 

Let me ask you a Q, Are you taking action towards being the person you want to be and achieving the life you want to live, or do you find yourself delaying the action because of fear, lack of self-belief, discipline? My name is Presence and I'm really curious about the topic of ACTION. For everyone, there is something in life that they would like to do: a dream they want to achieve, a goal they want to reach. However, they aren't taking action. It starts with Action is a podcast all about picking the brains of action takers. People doing extraordinary things and living extraordinary lives. It's also about being real and having deep conversations with people who aren't taking action, understanding why, and finding the solution. It starts with action is also more than a podcast but a way of living. To me, action means living a life of awareness, confidence, tenacity, intention, openness, and now - i.e present. Whether you're looking to hear from inspiring leaders for tips or motivation, or someone who is stuck with the same problem you have and want to see how we find a solution together, or you like to listen to a 20-year-old share everything she knows and learns about living a life with of action, then this podcast is for you. I would really appreciate it if you share this podcast to people you know who will benefit, give a review on apple podcasts and follow me on Linkedin and Instagram for more inspiration. Remeber, whatever you're goal is - it starts with action.

- feel free to skip to @26 mins if you want to skip my story. 

Thank you, everyone, for the amazing year, this episode is about the lessons Presence, the host of the podcast learned in 2020, her story and her WHY for the podcast. 

Neil is a Money coach, finance speaker, and author of the Book Millennial Money Mindset, Founder of Money Tipps, Creator of Football Formation Asset Allocation card game.

About Money Tipps :  
We educate, inspire, and coach better investing. Money Tipps empower you to make better decisions with your money.
By offering a unique new solution, we can save you £1000s from your pocket from avoiding paying expensive financial advice fees, saves you time in your day by following our simple five-step method, and reduces stress from your life by knowing where you are heading financially.
Money Tipps has created interactive learning experiences to make investing simple, fun, and achievable.

Oliver studied 6 subjects at university and made the Dean’s List for academic performance, before securing offers from several top management consultancies. He turned these offers down to become a teacher at a challenging inner-city London school, where he began his career helping students get into top universities. Since then, he’s lectured at UCL, been invited to the prestigious World Education Connection Board, and currently works as a Global University Advisor to leading universities around the world.

In this episode, we talked about his journey of starting Unirise, how he balances his time and works productively, how to network as a student, macro-level gratitude and micro-level gratitude. Happiness and productivity come from self-awareness.

Susan has over 35 years in banking and financial services, especially as a Bank Executive. She has extensive experience in the financial sector, specifically with all facets of the credit card business; leading a $100B online deposit business, including P&L management, operations, customer relations, digital banking, internet marketing, fraud countermeasures and advanced strategies, vendor management, credit card fulfillment, card personalization, PCI data security and AI/Machine Learning. Effective and increasing leadership over the years within companies and teams of all sizes across multiple locations, both domestic and living/working internationally.

Susan also opened her own Executive Consulting firm so that, assisting with projects for large and small financial institutions, participating in RFPs, business development, project planning, solving business challenges and executive mentoring. In addition, Susan has been working with several FinTech’s, which is extremely rewarding, including, banking applications, auto industry focused, online products and working with a fintech from the Czech Republic to assist in their planning, business development and launch in the US.

Rich is a LinkedIn Video Strategist for Executives / Media Company Owner / Podcast Host / Youtuber, he is the founder of Rich Cardona Media and an Ex-Marine Corps Group Level Legal Advisor.

In this episode, we talk about his journey, the key lessons he learned, and advice for early entrepreneurs. 

Connect with Jay: 

Hollywood Real | http://hollywoodreal.com

Instagram | http://instagram.com/jaymeneztv 

LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaymenez 

Website | https://jaymenez.com 

Spark on Amazon | https://amzn.to/3g03BtQ

Arnone Barnes started his first business at age 11 and built and sold his first multi-million euro company by the age of 28!

He is an explosive international speaker, author, investor and one of Europe’s leading and most exciting business mentors.

Over the past 7 years, Arnon has personally trained and coached more than 90 000 people from well over 65 different countries from all over the world! He has also coached a world champion and one of the finalists from the famous tv show Master Chef Australia!

Arnon has had the privilege to share the stage with other thought-leaders in the arena of Personal and Business Development including, Robert Kiyosaki - the author of Rich dad Poor dad, Les Brown, T. Harv Eker and Jordan Belford who was played by Leonardo Di Caprio in the Wolf of Wall Street and Chris Gardner who was played by Will Smith in the movie Pursuit of Happyness to name a few.

A very inspiring podcast where we talk about what it really takes to achieve greatness and advice for young people. 

Zulum is the former General Secretary (President) and Chairman of the London School of Economics Students’ Union (2018-2020), making him the first black man to hold the position in the LSE’s 125-year history. He is currently a board member of the Fair Education Alliance, a coalition of educators, business and social enterprises working towards a country where no child’s success in education is limited by their socio-economic background. He is also a board member of the Barbican Centre, Europe’s largest multi-arts venue, becoming their youngest-ever trustee at 24 years old.  In this podcast we talk about his time at LSE, getting the most out of university (and life), approaching leadership in a creative and artistic way, his passion for dance and choreography and more.

Feel free to connect with Zulum and Presence 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zulum-elumogo

https://www.instagram.com/zulum_elumogo/

https://www.instagram.com/presence_itstartswithaction/

A conversation between  a year 12 and year 13 ~~ Time for a new chapter ! 

You fear heights but want to travel. It's likely you'll still get on that plane and get through the journey because you know the destination and travel experience would be worth it.  

Grateful to have met Imisi who was my buddy on the Aleto Foundation leadership program, his entrepreneurship journey started when he was in year 3 - charging kids to play basketball with him ( interesting one ) to now growing his baby IAMEDIA. 

His journey was insightful, it's not easy to have your work torn and be told that it sucks - he could have decided to give up but instead cherished the feedback and worked hard to improve.  His view of appreciating the fact that people use their energy to criticize you as a sign that they care is a great mindset to have and what really inspires me. 

Listen to his story and valuable advice - link in comments 

Make friends with the imposter.

Imposter syndrome. It's real and many highly established entrepreneurs still deal with it. It was great to talk to Caleb Dykema about this topic, we both have the same goal of helping people turn ideas into reality through taking action and we are both experiencing Imposter syndrome at this current moment.

Is the imposter going to stop us? No.

Is it going to stop you?

No? Great ~~ Join the SWAG community, would love you to share your wisdom on how you deal with it.

Yes? Great ~~ you aren't alone, check out the episode and turn the Yes to a No. And join SWAG.

We also talked about other topics such as whether you need to have money to start a business :) nice one for entreprenuers~~

I was worried about missing my grades ... hopped on LSE's Q&A call... made a comment in the chatbox, Ejaz saw it, he could relate, found me on LinkedIn and our friendship began! The intention was to have him as a guest on the podcast but it seemed like he ended up as the host for this one.

we went from talking about coding to prisoners to creating impact VS money, the stereotype of an LSE student, losing your identity, being alone, my life of uncertainty, my struggle of making friends, why we will never look down on anyone, etc... basically my life in raw form + Ejaz's perspective on the lessons from it

It was a bit emotional but mostly full of laughter, jokes, and inspiration :)

From jack's ( Ep 26 ) episode, we talked about owning your story and Ejaz gave me the opportunity to do so, thank you both!