Motivational business podcast marks Global Entrepreneurship Week

It’s never too late to start chasing your career dreams, according to a successful sexagenarian business owner featured on a new inspirational podcast, released to mark Global Entrepreneurship Week this week (14-18 November).
This instalment of The Brand New Business Podcast, by Trudie Avery of Avery Creative, tells the story of James McGinty, who hadn’t worked for five years, suffered the loss of his wife and was practically penniless when he decided to take something he was passionate about and turn it into a profitable business.
James, now 67, followed his passion for public speaking and five years later boasts more than 100 awards for his speaking, training and coaching business.
Trudie said: “There’s no perfect time to start a business, just begin! The time is right now. You will fail more than you succeed in life, if it doesn’t work, try something else – that is the nature of business.
“I think it is important for potential business owners to see, through conversations like the one I had with James, that anything is possible if you have drive, resilience, integrity and passion.”
James is one of many guests that have already featured on The Brand New Business podcast, which launched in September. The series focuses on real life people telling real life stories to encourage and inspire.
The show is a shining example of all that Global Entrepreneurship Week celebrates – innovative and exploratory entrepreneurs working to start and scale a company.
Previous guests include the inspiring Sarina Mann who suffered 10 years of chronic illness, including 2 years of being bed bound with fatigue and mobility issues, and focussed on small achievable goals in order to build her own public speaking company.
And the galvanising Rachel Haith, who left the RAF after 17 years of service with her self-confidence in tatters but turned it around to become an empowerment coach.
Rachel said: “I think that what happens is, you shrink your dreams as you get older. When you’re a kid it’s absolutely fine to be dreaming of being an astronaut – you can be anything – and then as you grow older you shrink those dreams in accordance to where you end up.
“So, you fit yourself into the box, usually of where you’re employed, and you think this is what I’m worth because this is what I’m earning. I’m not worth any more than that. Until you realise actually, you define your worth. It’s accepting that there could be more fulfilment should you choose to seek it. We don’t need to wait to make a happier, more contented life.”
Trudie is thoroughly enjoying recording the weekly episodes of The Brand New Business Podcast, which puts the spotlight on incredible, uplifting and emotive stories of start-up pitfalls and business successes. It aims to inspire the unfulfilled workers out there trying to find the courage to make a career change or start their own business.
She added: “All my podcast guests have really great stories and I’m so glad that I launched such an uplifting and motivational series for others to be inspired by.”
The Brand New Business Podcast is available at: https://logolady.com/brandnewbusiness and on Apple Podcast, Spotify, Amazon Music, Podcast Addict, Podchaser, Pocket Casts, Deezer and YouTube.