Sales meeting in the toilet (2005)

I am a dad of three children, Molly 7, Millie 6 and Henry who will be 2 shortly. I am on my third relationship and have experienced my fair share of adversity in my life. My family are very close and like any close family we spend a lot of time in each other’s houses.

My mum and dad, although semi retired now, were successful business people and worked in the retail fashion trade and without their support, guidance and the occasional kick up the butt, I would be lost. The integrity that they both possess is very difficult to find these days, especially in our modern generation.

Since a young lad I have been highly motivated and possess high levels of energy. I would and have worked all the hours around the clock and travelled great distances to go to work and earn a pound note.

I enjoy motivating others and love getting up on stage, speaking to an audience and doing some really crazy inspirational moves to get people to move out of their comfort zones.

I have run my own businesses and worked for other companies but one constant remains and that is – I want to be the best at what I do! During my business and personal career I have succeed and failed in equal proportion.

I was working in 2004 for a small advertising directory sales company and we had just 35 staff when I joined. I grew the staff headcount to over 250 people employed on a full and part time basis. The energy and sexiness within the outbound call centre environment that I created was truly awesome and on a good day, sales and motivational was unrivalled.

Sales on one particular day were way were way off what they should have been and my staffs were sluggish, not performing and KPI’s were way in the red zone. Even my managers were downbeat and were not inspiring their teams and I was starting to lose my patience.

I was watching the floor, which was an 8000 sq ft open planned call centre and waited for someone to take action. No action came and as a result I went to the front of the floor and told everyone to finish their calls, put their phones down and join me at the front of the floor.

I always held two meetings every day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon after lunch. I was always well prepared and inspired my teams using a mixture of personal and business related topics and information.

People always used to say to me that my meetings were awesome and that I pushed people way beyond their own personal expectations for what they could achieve in sales and indeed their lives.

I have always believed that motivating and teaching people is a two way game. I always say “You hold onto one end of the rope and I will hold the other. As long as you hold on, ill hold on but if you let go then so will I”.

Inspiring people is an art and they have to love you, trust you and fear you all at the same time.

So, I am at the front of the floor and I now have 140 staff, 6 sales directors, 8 sales managers, an operations support team, IT team and the CEO looking on. I could see by the looks on their faces that they knew a crap storm was coming and there was an eerie silence as they waited to hear the inevitable.

The meeting that I was about to give them was by no means going to be my usual motivational and inspirational ye ha lets go type of address. This was going to be far from inspirational, but little did I know!

“OK team, sales are down, calls are down, profit for the day is down and not one of you, including my senior team have stood up and made any positive changes that could influence a turnaround for the day’s sales – Why? You have all the tools and personal and business reasons to achieve your daily goals. Yu have the ability and coupled with the superb product that we have you should be smashing the days sales out of the ball park – Why is it that we are having this crap day?”

Not one answer came from my entire team. They knew better and they also knew that in this team we fight, we fight for every inch and we stay on top of our game regardless of what challenges we face. That knew that with excellent performance come great benefits, commission rewards and other team and company incentives and recognition. On the contrary, poor performance comes with one almighty kick up the arse.

“OK then, if you guys are happy with such a crap performance then we are going to hold this meeting in the toilet, which is where the crap goes”.

With that I marched over 150 people into the men’s toilets and packed them in every piece of space that I could find. Some were standing on the toilets, others in the sinks, some were on other peoples shoulders and we were packed to the rafters. I forced and pushed every one into this toilet until the doors were bursting with people.

Whilst in the toilets I explained in no uncertain terms that we do not accept any kind of poor performance and that when things are not going to plan that you stop, adjust, evaluate, change and move forward. I cannot put the exact words in this book that I used but let’s say the use of my vocabulary was colourful.

Inside the room it was hot, stuffy and people were feeling uncomfortable being in the toilet, but they soon got the point. My HR Director was spitting kittens about my methods and I would not recommend using the toilet as meeting point for anyone in today’s tough employment law society.

The bottom line was this:-

I – My managers realised that they needed to see things before they happen as prevention is better than cure.

2 – Not everybody is motivated all of the time but if you can motivate and keep your top performers motivated then the rest will follow.

3- If you do not perform when I am around then the shit is going to hit the fan and literally, it did.

4 – You can bring some humour into your everyday business life and people will never forget these moments.

The outcome of the afternoon kick up the arse toilet session was that the team flew out of the toilets and went on to smash their daily target to pieces. Now I do not know whether it was because they did not want to go back into the hot sweaty toilet again for another spank or because they were actually inspired by my meeting. Either way, it got the job done and that’s the kind of unconventional guy I am.

Best Wishes for 2012

A great year ahead!

Regards Brad

Getting a million pounds Investment and loosing everything!

Its 6.30am in the morning, the month is January, and the year is 1994. The birds are tweeting; the sun is rising. I am 24 years of age and have been working night and day for nearly three years building my promotional clothing business. I am on the way to my office, situated above my mum’s shop in Epping Essex. Today is the day that is going to change my life forever. I am going to sign a contract today that will secure me over £2 million pounds worth of imported clothing from Indonesia. The problem is that I do not have one single penny to put down as collateral.

Last night I was working on a fast food stall and Wembley Arena earning extra money selling hotdogs to support my business. On the way home at 2am D:ream were playing on the radio “Things can only get better”.

I had worked on the stock market as a blue button when I was 16. The stock market crashed a year later and I lost my job. I bought my first market stall business when I was 18 years of age costing me £15,000. I also bought my first house when I was 18 and interest rates increased sharply to 15%, resulting in losing my £34,000 life savings that I had invested. I went bankrupt when I was 21 and thought my world was at an end. I clawed back from bankruptcy and started my promotional business when I was 21. I had already experienced major adversity and I was still only a baby.

 

I arrive at my office in Epping at 7am to prepare for my biggest ever business deal, one that would set me on the road to entrepreneurial stardom. A Korean gentleman called Mr Kim was arriving at 11am to see my business in action. He had been sent by his company, The Kolon Corporation, a multi-billion dollar organisation to open export channels in Europe and I was his one of his UK supply options.

The other two companies who wanted this contract were already turning over millions of pounds, had an established client base and had sound financial backing. Not only that, they had showrooms and warehousing in the clothing wholesale capital of London, Commercial Road E1.

My company was turning over just £250,000 a year. I had little stock and few customers. My first floor office was 300 sq ft with a few racks of stock. I had no office furniture and only two spare chairs, one of which had a broken leg and paint all over it.

I knew that I had to impress Mr Kim and I also knew that if I secured the deal it would mean that I could take my company to a multi million pound turnover business, pretty much over night. In business belief is everything and if you are prepared to do what your competitors do not have the imagination or balls to do then you will win.

I called in four friends dressed in smart suits and sat them at desks and placed phones on the desks that were not connected to any phone lines. I told them that when Mr Kim arrives that they should be on the phones closing deals and mentioning high profile companies. I also asked my family to call and place orders at a precise time and not to stop until we called to say that Mr Kim had left.

It’s 10.45am and Mr Kim had arrived early. My palms were sweaty, my heart was beating and my legs started to shake. I had to calm myself down and prepare for the pitch of the century. The boys were ready, the order pads were out, phones were in their ears ready to take orders and my family were ready to call in 5 minutes to place orders…… Ok action stations here we go!

I greeted Mr Kim downstairs, shook his hand and walked him up the stairs to my office. The only two incoming phones lines I had were ringing off the hook. The sales guys were on the phones that were not plugged into anything pitching customers and taking orders. My family were playing their part in helping me secure the deal.

Mr Kim questioned me for almost two hours nonstop. The sales guys kept taking order and my family as requested kept ringing in. After about an hour someone took an order from my family, later I found out it was dad. The order was for 6000 jackets and I can remember saying to myself “calm down family”, that is an order for £120,000 and if they keep placing silly order like that, it’s going to blow my deal out of the water.

Mr Kim had questioned me about sales, marketing, manufacturing, ranges and design styles, colours and size ordering breakdowns. We had discussed import and export duty, ports of origin and ports of destination. In fact we had covered everything from fabric and the mills that would be making it to container sizes, shipping and warehousing costs.

I understood it all and had been studying about manufacturing for a long time and besides, both of my parents had inducted me into the world of fashion from about 10 years of age – Thank you mum and dad!

Mr Kim knew that I was buying jackets from a Company in London called The Cobles Company ran by a Jewish man called Lawrence Cohen. Mr Kim also knew that Mr Cohen was spending a good few million dollars in Indonesia producing the jackets. What I did not know is that Mr Kim knew his exact import numbers and had the use of the factory two streets away producing the same goods and he had his eyes set of Western Stardom and needed me to make his dream a reality.

Another 30 minutes went buy and I held my nerve and made Mr Kim believe that I did not need his imports. I finally shook hands and Mr Kim left the building.

What I had achieved in the last two and a half hours was this:- I secured over £2 million pounds of imported goods ordered and ready to be delivered in ninety days to my 20,000 sq ft warehouse. The beauty of the deal was this. I did not have to lay out a single penny security. I had just placed an order for £2 million pounds without a single penny deposit. To this day I have not heard of a deal being done like that by a guy of 24 years of age.

I had no warehouse, no customers, no distribution and no way of even financing the deal I had just signed. I had just ninety days to prepare to take a business from turning over £250k a year to a £3 million a year business.

I did just that and by 1996 I was supplying Walt Disney, Coca Cola, Wembley Stadium, Capital Radio, The Spice Girls and had supplied products to just every brand that you could imagine from food to drinks, pop and rock groups, formula one racing teams and SkyBSB. I built a blue chip client network that was the envy of the promotional clothing world. I was turning over £3.3 million pounds a year, had been approached by Dunn and Bradstreet for outstanding growth as well as Sir Richard Branson’s Fast track 100.

It all seemed to be going so well until the Far East Crashed in 1998 costing me over half a million pounds and everything that I had built over a 5 year period.

When you lose everything it hurts, but the extraordinary people get back up, learning from their experiences to go on and achieve greater things and that’s why – Everyday People Achieve Extraordinary Things.

 

Best Wishes

Bradley Chapman

Business Networking and Motivation – It will change your life?

It is my great pleasure to be speaking at this weeks Best for Business event in Kent. I love inspiring people and I am going to raise the roof on this one leaving all the attendees with a feeling of “I can do anything” when I come off of the stage. www.rawbusiness.com

Title: Business Networking and Motivation – It will change your life?
Presentation Time 40 minutes

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1. Who is Bradley Chapman?
2. Belief is everything – Hows your Marmite?
3. Moving out of your comfort zones to discover the new you
4. What will networking do for your business?
5. Finding the motivation from within
6. The one penny motivation answer
7. Q+A

Description

Kent Business Networking Forum – Membership is FREE

FOUR EVENTS IN ONE

• EXHIBIT FREE your goods and services – bring your stand, leaflets, pull-ups etc, no space restriction
• Network – Meet a minimum of 70 NEW BUSINESS CONTACTS
• Guest Speaker BRADLEY CHAPMAN who is determined and passionate with his unique style of motivating and inspiring businesses to prosper – not to be missed
• Plus from 10.45 am – 11.45 am FREE OPTIONAL SESSION on ‘How to spend less on Marketing’
The more business people you meet the more successful you can make your business, so maximise on every opportunity and be part of the Kent Business Networking Forum (Membership is FREE).

From the moment you arrive until the time you leave, you will be meeting new business contacts and with a little help from us you will be amazed at how successful you can be.

• A great way to meet new leads, clients and customers
• Provide opportunities to promote your services/products
• Enable you to meet owners/decision makers from many businesses
• Allow you to share and gain knowledge, expertise and contacts
• Opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with others

NEW

Genuine offer for anyone who employs staff but time is running out. Stay on for our marketing session and it is very likely that you are eligible to attend at no cost to yourself a fully funded half-day Executive Masterclass on how to improve your marketing but spend less money.

On this intensive Executive Masterclass we only book on four attendees so you will receive maximum attention tailored to your business. This is really a unique opportunity to vastly improve your marketing.

Don’t miss out, book your places NOW

PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

“Bradley is engaging, passionate, insightful and a humorous speaker. He has great and personal insight into business and wealth of anecdotes having interviewed many of our top businesses leaders”
Phil Hall – MD PHA Media, Former Editor of The News of The World

“Motivation plays an important part in any business owners career and if you are struggling to find yours, hear Bradley and he will fill you with energy that you can turn into bolts of lighting to positively impact your business”
Charlie Mullins -MD Pimlico Plumbers, Prince’s Trust, Enterprise Fellow

Guest Speaker: Bradley Chapman

Bradley Chapman believes that “Everything is Possible” if you have the right mindset and motivation to support your dream, goals and vision. He has faced and overcome major adversity in both his personal life and the various businesses that he has owned, managed and built during his career. He believes that everyday people can achieve extraordinary things.

Bradley Chapman – Entrepreneur

Motivational and Inspirational Speaker, Business Mentor, Business Coach, Entrepreneur and dad of 3 beautiful children.

DOB 24^th May 1970 age 40
3 Children – Molly, Millie and baby Henry
Business Experience 20 Years +

“Everyday People Achieve Extraordinary Things”

Bradley Chapman believes that “Everything is Possible” if you have the right mindset and motivation to support your dream, goals and vision. He has faced and overcome major adversity in both his personal life and the various businesses that he has owned, managed and built during his career. He believes that everyday people can achieve extraordinary things and delivers this message through motivational and inspirational speeches, seminars and networking events.

Bradley has over 20 years of business, business management and entrepreneurial business experience. He has traded both in the UK and internationally for clients including Walt Disney, Wembley Stadium, Coca Cola, pop and rock groups including Oasis and The Spice Girls as well as supplying promotional products for major TV campaigns, leading UK brands and major Blue Chip companies.

Over the years Bradley has owned various businesses including an import and export business, retails shops, fast food catering businesses, clothing mail order, textiles manufacturing, wholesale and retail businesses and most recently Raw Business – The Entrepreneur Network which offers Business Networking and a Business Magazine called Raw Business Magazine to the companies readers and members.

After a painful relationship break up in 2007 Bradley left his home, taking with him a few black sacks of clothes. He decided to leave his six figures + job Hugo Boss suits and launches a business to help aspiring entrepreneurs and existing business owners achieve their dream.  That was not before he declared himself bankrupt. He then promised to build a business networking company and business magazine with no money. Bradley said that within three years he would have interviewed some of the UK’s highest profile entrepreneurs, built a successful business network and published a leading UK business magazine… that was in 2007.

Today Bradley has interviewed and worked with some of the UK’s highest profile entrepreneurs including Charlie Mullins, Phil Hall, David Gold, Richard Farleigh, Jacqueline Gold, Max Clifford, Caprice Bourret and Rachel Elnaugh.  He has successfully created the Raw Business entrepreneur network that has thousands of members and has published 15 editions of Raw Business Magazine, which has been read in over 70 countries worldwide.

Bradley was invited in January 2008 to speak at the British Library for the Inspiring Entrepreneurs series of events titled “Business Nightmares”. He talked about his first business-networking website called Million Impossible, which he launched in 2007. The event was headed by Rachel Elnaugh, former Dragons Den panellist and owner of Red Letter Days. Bradley’s speech was warmly received by the audience after he raised the volume in the auditorium by asking over 250 people to network with each other in the audience.

Bradley is a down to earth, passionate, determined and courageous entrepreneur that has a unique style of motivating and inspiring business owners, entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneur to take the first steps in business. He also has an ability to bring business, employees and team together to fight for one cause – SUCCESS!

Personal recommendations:

“I recommend Bradley, his company Raw Business and of course his business magazine Raw Business. Motivation plays an important part in any business owner’s career and if you are struggling to find yours call Bradley and he will fill you with energy that you can turn into bolts of lightning to positively impact your business”.

Charlie Mullins – MD Pimlico Plumbers – www.pimlicoplumbers.com
(Prince’s Trust – Enterprise Fellow)

“Bradley is engaging, passionate, insightful and a humorous speaker. He has great and personal insight into business and wealth of anecdotes having interviewed many of our top businesses leaders”.

Phil Hall – MD PHA Media www.pha-media.com
(Former Editor of The News of The World)

Websites:

Raw Business – www.rawbusiness.com

Raw Business Magazine – www.rawbusinessmagazine.com

Bradley Chapman – www.bradleychapman.com (under construction)

Number Sourcer – www.numbersourcer.com

Bradley’s Interviews:

Raw Business Interviews – http://www.rawbusiness.com/interviews/index.php

Raw Business Magazine editions – http://www.rawbusiness.com/raw-business-magazine-6-0.php

Blog Links:

Everything is Possible
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/everything-is-possible-149.php

Finding the Motivation Within
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/finding-the-motivation-within-120.php

How I secured investment
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/raw-business-hq-officially-opened-by-deputy-mayor-and-simon-burns-mp-109.php

Video’s:

Bradley Chapman, Million Impossible (Inspiring Entrepreneurs – Business Nightmares)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKn5B0P0qtY

Finding the Motivation Within
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5AjsYJts

Previous Million Impossible interview video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbvuTlFXHdQ

Late Night Motivation 1.20am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7avevz4dkQ

I met Lord Sugar but still no Interview
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/i-met-lord-sugar-finally–but-i-still-do-not-have-an-interview-for-raw-business-108.php

Bradley Chapman – Entrepreneur

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Motivational and Inspirational Speaker, Business Mentor, Business Coach, Entrepreneur and dad of 3 beautiful children.

DOB 24^th May 1970 age 40
3 Children – Molly, Millie and baby Henry
Business Experience 20 Years +

“Everyday People Achieve Extraordinary Things”

Bradley Chapman believes that “Everything is Possible” if you have the right mindset and motivation to support your dream, goals and vision. He has faced and overcome major adversity in both his personal life and the various businesses that he has owned, managed and built during his career. He believes that everyday people can achieve extraordinary things and delivers this message through motivational and inspirational speeches, seminars and networking events.

Bradley has over 20 years of business, business management and entrepreneurial business experience. He has traded both in the UK and internationally for clients including Walt Disney, Wembley Stadium, Coca Cola, pop and rock groups including Oasis and The Spice Girls as well as supplying promotional products for major TV campaigns, leading UK brands and major Blue Chip companies.

Over the years Bradley has owned various businesses including an import and export business, retails shops, fast food catering businesses, clothing mail order, textiles manufacturing, wholesale and retail businesses and most recently Raw Business – The Entrepreneur Network which offers Business Networking and a Business Magazine called Raw Business Magazine to the companies readers and members.

After a painful relationship break up in 2007 Bradley left his home, taking with him a few black sacks of clothes. He decided to leave his six figures + job Hugo Boss suits and launches a business to help aspiring entrepreneurs and existing business owners achieve their dream. That was not before he declared himself bankrupt. He then promised to build a business networking company and business magazine with no money. Bradley said that within three years he would have interviewed some of the UK’s highest profile entrepreneurs, built a successful business network and published a leading UK business magazine… that was in 2007.

Today Bradley has interviewed and worked with some of the UK’s highest profile entrepreneurs including Charlie Mullins, Phil Hall, David Gold, Richard Farleigh, Jacqueline Gold, Max Clifford, Caprice Bourret and Rachel Elnaugh. He has successfully created the Raw Business entrepreneur network that has thousands of members and has published 15 editions of Raw Business Magazine, which has been read in over 70 countries worldwide.

Bradley was invited in January 2008 to speak at the British Library for the Inspiring Entrepreneurs series of events titled “Business Nightmares”. He talked about his first business-networking website called Million Impossible, which he launched in 2007. The event was headed by Rachel Elnaugh, former Dragons Den panellist and owner of Red Letter Days. Bradley’s speech was warmly received by the audience after he raised the volume in the auditorium by asking over 250 people to network with each other in the audience.

Bradley is a down to earth, passionate, determined and courageous entrepreneur that has a unique style of motivating and inspiring business owners, entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneur to take the first steps in business. He also has an ability to bring business, employees and team together to fight for one cause – SUCCESS!

Personal recommendations:

“I recommend Bradley, his company Raw Business and of course his business magazine Raw Business. Motivation plays an important part in any business owner’s career and if you are struggling to find yours call Bradley and he will fill you with energy that you can turn into bolts of lightning to positively impact your business”.

Charlie Mullins – MD Pimlico Plumbers – www.pimlicoplumbers.com
(Prince’s Trust – Enterprise Fellow)

“Bradley is engaging, passionate, insightful and a humorous speaker. He has great and personal insight into business and wealth of anecdotes having interviewed many of our top businesses leaders”.

Phil Hall – MD PHA Media www.pha-media.com
(Former Editor of The News of The World)

Websites:

Raw Business – www.rawbusiness.com

Raw Business Magazine – www.rawbusinessmagazine.com

Bradley Chapman – www.bradleychapman.com (under construction)

Number Sourcer – www.numbersourcer.com

Bradley’s Interviews:

Raw Business Interviews – http://www.rawbusiness.com/interviews/index.php

Raw Business Magazine editions – http://www.rawbusiness.com/raw-business-magazine-6-0.php

Blog Links:

Everything is Possible
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/everything-is-possible-149.php

Finding the Motivation Within
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/finding-the-motivation-within-120.php

How I secured investment
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/raw-business-hq-officially-opened-by-deputy-mayor-and-simon-burns-mp-109.php

Video’s:

Bradley Chapman, Million Impossible (Inspiring Entrepreneurs – Business Nightmares)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKn5B0P0qtY

Finding the Motivation Within
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OK5AjsYJts

Previous Million Impossible interview video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbvuTlFXHdQ

Late Night Motivation 1.20am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7avevz4dkQ

I met Lord Sugar but still no Interview
http://www.rawbusiness.com/blogs/i-met-lord-sugar-finally–but-i-still-do-not-have-an-interview-for-raw-business-108.php

“Everything is Possible” – Bradley Chapman 2010

We all need a little push at times

Sometimes we all need a little push. No matter how self-motivated we claim to be.

It just goes to show that when you are motivated, wonderful and amazing things can and will happen to you. I would like to thank Mark Weeks for his kind words and for letting me know that my videos, blogs and motivation efforts are having a positive impact.I am so glad that the webcast helped you.

Please feel free to read Mark’s full article here

Thanks Mark

Regards Bradley Chapman

www.rawbusiness.com

Sometimes we all need a little push. No matter how self-motivated we claim to be.

I got my ‘little push’ from Bradley’s podcast about seizing the day. And I vowed to make the most of this day and every day for that matter, untill I reach my goals.

So after a dreary morning onsite in the rain where my current contractor is refusing to take responsibility for their actions; no change there! I returned back to my office  more jaded than I had started the day, to say the least.

After an hour and several cups of coffee I remembered that this was my day, my opportunity to move forward and claim what was rightfully mine.

But then I started to slip into my comfort zone once more as I watched the Valentine Palmer Raw TV podcast on presentation skills; which is great by the way. I started thinking I’ll use these techniques tommorrow when I feel more with it.

Then I started to buzz once more like I had in the morning, I think the coffee had kicked in! Bradley’s voice echoed in my head, which can be quite infuriating when your nice and comfy; with a full list of excuses. Eventually I took to the phone. Taking a deep breath and following Valentine Palmers lessons; even though I was talking to prospects I had been chasing for months for work my attitude had changed slightly. After four calls I was rewarded!

Bradley Chapman delivers – Seizing the Day – Motivational webcast

Bradley Chapman - Entrepreneur

Good morning everybody

I felt totally compelled to record a live webcast this morning as i feel so alive with enthusiasm and energy. I wanted to share my thoughts with you on how you can seize the day. I love being an entrepreneur and more importantly i love helping business owners grow and develop their businesses.

If you do one thing today before you start work or you need extra motivation during your day then watch this webcast and i guarantee it will inspire you and help you deliver amazing results today.

Wake up and Seize the Day – with Bradley Chapman

You can view the video in the viewer below but i strongly recommend you click the link and watch it in the full video platform, which displays the powerpoint presentation slides.

View the full webcast platform here

www.rawbusiness.com
www.bradleychapman.com

www.rawbusinessmagazine.com
www.numbersourcer.com

Thank you Action Coach Peter boolkah from Bradley Chapman

I have now had three meetings with my Action Coach, Peter Boolkah and we have not even started to uncover what we will achieve together.

Peter has helped me look at myself before anything else and I have to say I feel great. The business has had its ups and downs and as I am sure, you will all agree – That is part of being an entrepreneur.

Two things he has helped me with so far

1 – Am I happy in what I am doing?

2 – Is my work life balance in order?

Peter has made me look at the business holistically, taking emotions out of the decisions I am making. He also suggested I read a book called “The Secret” which has already influenced my life in a positive way.

I am no longer fighting the universe, instead learning to go with the flow and accept what comes my way and by accepting that good things have started to happen.

I feel more energised and more comfortable with what the future will be. I spent so long fighting against positive forces by telling my adversity story over and over again. Instead, I should have been talking about and sharing my aspirations.

It is not just Peter that I have to thank for this positive change in my life but also some other talented Action Coaches who have also inspired me with their words, stories and belief and I would like to thank them personally:-

Mandy Hildred – http://www.actioncoach.com/mandyhildred (North Yorkshire)
Clive Sury –  http://www.actioncoach.com/clivesury (Yorkshire)
John Davison – http://www.actioncoach.com/johndavison (North Yorkshire)
Nick Ruddle – http://www.actioncoach.com/nickruddle (Essex)
Ian Christelow – http://www.actioncoach.com/ianchristelow (Suffolk)

Thank you all for reminding me that man on journey who can get lost in the day-to-day hubba of running a business can find himself – As long as he reaches out and accepts that some things have to change.

If you are looking for an Action Coach then stand by for our 12 page interviews, information and promotion of some of the UK’s highest results performing Action Coaches in the next edition of Raw Business Magazine. I have even had the great pleasure of interviewing Brad Sugars, founder of Action Coach Worldwide, who, I am pleased to announce is our front cover interview feature.

I liked Action Coach so much that I now have my own coach. Peter you are amazing! Thank you for your time, belief and support during these few weeks. I love you man.

If your business is based in Essex and would like to talk to Peter to see how he will help your business then call the Boolkah hotline on 07773 773 560 or visit his website at http://www.actioncoach.com/peterboolkah/

If you would like to find out who is your nearest coach then call Ian Christelow who is the UK Master license holder on 01284 701648. Equally if you are looking to move into coaching then call Ian and you could on your way to changing your life and many others.

Thank you Action Coach – “Once I was blind and now I can see”

Lots of Love

Bradley Chapman
Managing Director

www.rawbusiness.com

David Gold – Successful Entrepreneur

I had the greatest pleasure today interviewing David Gold, Chairman of West Ham United FC, Ann Summers and former owner of Birmingham City FC and Sunday Sport Newspapers.

David Gold came up the hard way clawing his way from abject poverty growing up in London’s East End to become one of the UK wealthiest and most successful entrepreneurs. I met David at his home in Surrey today and spent an amazing two hours with him asking questions about his rise to success and what it took to get there.

We spoke about everything from poverty, pornography, West Ham United FC to Anne Summers and of course being an entrepreneur. At 73 years of age David is one of the youngest men i have had the pleasure to meet.

You can read an intro to my interview with David HERE. The full interview will be available on both the Raw Business website and Raw Business Magazine web site in a few days.

I wish to thank David for his time and for the kind gesture of the personal gift he gave me today. I will cherish my time with you for a long time to come.

Can I borrow your car David?

With Best Wishes
Bradley Chapman
www.rawbusiness.com
www.rawbusinessmagazine.com

Charlie Mullins and Pimlico Plumbers Christmas Party – Royal Garden Hotel Saturday 12th December by Bradley Chapman

Well if you are going to throw a xmas bash then you might as well do it in style! Charlie Mullins and the gang at Pimlico did just that on Saturday night.

I was kindly invited to attend the xmas party by Charlie. We have only met a few times but in that time we have struck a good relationship. The first time we met and I interviewed him for Raw Business Magazine he reduced me to tears with his wit and character. The second time I tried to steal his beloved Bentley – Oh I can still smell the leather! Of course I did not get the car instead he bought me a bacon sarny from his on site cafe at Pimlico HQ.

I won a Bentley at the Pimlico xmas Raffle

Three wise monkeys!

Who is the famous guy in the middle?

Chris I told you any time you wana go 10 rounds im your man!

On arrival at The Royal Garden Hotel we were welcomed with champagne and canapés. We met Charlie his lovely wife Linda and he beautiful family – how lucky you are Charlie.

Charlie introduced me and Mat to Chris Eubank, Craig Fairbrass, Billy Murray, Vanessa Feltz and a few other celebs a well 103 year old Buster who has made major press all over the country.

On the left is Charlies youngest son called Buster – You’ve been overworking him Charlie

 

Over 400 people we packed into the reception and the buzz was amazing. Charlie gave us ringside seats on the dance floor (of course I could not help strutting my stuff as usual). The entertainment was hosted by Les Bonson and we had some pretty amazing singers and cabaret acts throughout the night.

Our table was rocking and we soon discovered the party box on the table and started blowing balloons, popping party poppers and got the xmas razzle on. The food was awesome, the night was one I will remember for a long time to come and I feel so honoured that Charlie invited me.

The night eventually drew to a close around 4am and we continued to party in the reception area where I guess some continued on to 6am and beyond.

Charlie Mullins you’re the man!

Thank you from myself Matt Hickey and of course Matt Birch for photographing the event in such style.

Merry Xmas
Bradley Chapman
Founder Million Impossible and Raw Business Magazine