Affordable Risk and the Entrepreneurial Journey with Stuart Morris

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.lifeKey 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 Morrishttps://oneinamillion.lifehttps://hightrenhouse.comhttps://ticpc.orgVirginia PurnellFunnel & Visibility SpecialistDistinct Digital Marketing(833) 762-5336virginia@distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarketing.comwww.distinctdigitalmarkting.co