Episode Notes:
Guest Overview:
- Stuart Morris: Neurodivergent entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, and CEO of the International College of Professional Celebrants.
- Author of 1 in 1,000,000 Life, a book about intentional living.
- Owner of High Trend House, a retreat center in Yorkshire.
- Career highlights include mentoring entrepreneurs, teaching at Henley Business School, and co-creating a billion-dollar startup.
Key Topics:
- Embracing Change: How Stuart pivoted careers and businesses to create a fulfilling life.
- The Value of Celebrancy: Training celebrants to lead personalized ceremonies and foster connections.
- Living Intentionally: Designing a life and business that align with your values.
- Affordable Risk: The concept of starting small and testing ideas without risking everything.
- Empowering Teams: Why letting go and trusting your team can be transformative.
Takeaways:
- Balance passion and practicality to build sustainable businesses.
- Celebrate failures as learning opportunities.
- Start with the customer, not the product.
- Build a business that works for you—not the other way around.
Resources:
- Join Stuart’s intentional living community: https://oneinamillion.life
Key Questions
(02:21) Can you kind of give us the synopsis of how you ended up where you are today, and the kind of the journey along the way?
(09:13) Do you have any tips on how to look for the, or be aware and open to the next opportunity without just having shiny object syndrome?
(11:50) With your retreat, do people just come there and you facilitate things? Or is it like companies come and then they do their thing? All of.
(14:52) On this two aspects, how do you get in front of people for the retreat side as well as people for your the celebrancy training aspect?
(21:16) Have you been using LinkedIn or just cold outreach?
(29:12) What do you think is the biggest roadblock from you reaching those various goals?
(32:20) What's the best advice that you have ever received?
(35:30) What's the best advice you have ever given?
(37:01) Do you have any advice on de-risking entrepreneurship?
(44:49) With everything that you have going on, how do you make sure that the appropriate things get the appropriate attention at the appropriate time?
(49:41) Is there something that you would like to talk about that we haven't yet?
Stuart Morris
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