Brendan McGurgan on Scaling, Personal Transformation & Keeping Score of the Things That Matter

 

Brendan McGurgan is the co-founder of Simple Scaling: an organisation that helps ambitious business leaders to 10x their business through accelerator programs, best-selling books, acclaimed podcasts and the upcoming ScaleX Summit.

He’s also a certified Wim Hof Instructor and self-confessed sauna-junkie.

In today's episode we talk about:

  • His first job picking apples as a boy in Armagh

  • Why he quit his retail gig over a coke

  • (And got hired elsewhere an hour later)

  • What led him to go from feeling “bulletproof” to being humbled

  • The number one thing that holds business owners back from scaling

  • How parenting prepares you for entrepreneurship

  • Why scaling could be Northern Ireland’s superpower

  • His personal scorecard for life

  • And how “simple” and “easy” are not the same thing

Check it out!

P.S. Click here to get tickets to the upcoming ScaleX Summit.

Magic Moment 1: Your kids are a mirror that reflect who you are

Magic Moment 2: Quit Job Over a Can of Coke

Magic Moment 3: It's not about the numbers

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