EP028 | The Three P's for Self-Employment Success, with Derek Britton
01/30/25 • 33 min
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In this episode:
I speak to my wonderful former client and all-round excellent human being, Derek Britton.
Derek and I originally worked together years ago when he was a marketeer at a B2B software firm that I was doing PR for, and then last year he became a coaching client after becoming a casualty of the ongoing tech industry layoffs.
With three decades of in-house experience across the marketing and sales enablement mix, Derek’s initial assumption was that he should seek a similar corporate role, but something was nagging at him about that idea. So, he hired me to help him think through what he really wanted.
It is now 12 months later, and Derek has just completed his first year running his own B2B tech marketing consultancy.
In this episode I invite Derek to share with you how he made the choice to work for himself; and how he recognised and overcame the fear associated with this journey into the unknown.
If you listen, you’ll also hear us walk through the top three strengths that he believes have been instrumental in helping him to get his new business off the ground with real success. Some great, real-life insights in this one – come join us!
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GUEST BIO:
Derek Britton is an experienced leader in B2B technology marketing, and runs his own marketing consultancy.
His career spans three decades, having directed product marketing, corporate brand, marketing communications, customer marketing, product management, and sales enablement.
A computer science graduate with a solid technology background, prolific content creation and a proven leadership ability, he is uniquely capable in helping technology go-to-market teams – as clients and colleagues - to deliver successful business outcomes. In his spare time, Derek is an aspiring author.
ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
In this episode:
I speak to my wonderful former client and all-round excellent human being, Derek Britton.
Derek and I originally worked together years ago when he was a marketeer at a B2B software firm that I was doing PR for, and then last year he became a coaching client after becoming a casualty of the ongoing tech industry layoffs.
With three decades of in-house experience across the marketing and sales enablement mix, Derek’s initial assumption was that he should seek a similar corporate role, but something was nagging at him about that idea. So, he hired me to help him think through what he really wanted.
It is now 12 months later, and Derek has just completed his first year running his own B2B tech marketing consultancy.
In this episode I invite Derek to share with you how he made the choice to work for himself; and how he recognised and overcame the fear associated with this journey into the unknown.
If you listen, you’ll also hear us walk through the top three strengths that he believes have been instrumental in helping him to get his new business off the ground with real success. Some great, real-life insights in this one – come join us!
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GUEST BIO:
Derek Britton is an experienced leader in B2B technology marketing, and runs his own marketing consultancy.
His career spans three decades, having directed product marketing, corporate brand, marketing communications, customer marketing, product management, and sales enablement.
A computer science graduate with a solid technology background, prolific content creation and a proven leadership ability, he is uniquely capable in helping technology go-to-market teams – as clients and colleagues - to deliver successful business outcomes. In his spare time, Derek is an aspiring author.
ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
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EP027 | The Provocative Philosophy of 'Dying with Zero', with Alison O’Leary
In this episode:
I want to share a provocative philosophy with you.
I’ve been really inspired by a book I listened to called ‘Die with Zero’, by Bill Perkins.
On the surface, it’s all about aiming to die with zero pounds (or dollars) in the bank. Now I appreciate this sounds quite drastic, and possibly a bit mad, but the deep premise behind Perkins’ philosophy is about aiming to consciously get the utmost out of the life that we have.
He challenges us to really think about our death – something most of us do a great job of avoiding - and work backwards, considering how to get the most out of our money and our life, rather than putting things off for some far-flung time in the future, or our retirement.
It blends eye-opening insights about time, money, and happiness from a psychological science and behavioural finance perspective, and it makes a timely, convincing, and contrarian case for living large.
Intrigued? Honestly, this stuff is fascinating. Join me in this episode as I get into it with you!
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ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
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EP029 | 7 Types of Rest That Unlock Your Happiness Secret, with Alison O’Leary
In this episode:
I delve into the subject of REST. It’s a really interesting topic to talk about because I’m not just talking about sleep here. Oh no!
In fact, there are seven different types of rest that we all need to feel fully alive and completely ourselves.
I want to get into this subject because so many people I work with, and know personally, are struggling with fatigue.
Whether it’s a general malaise, a persistent level of tiredness that just won’t leave, or full-on burnout, it can make it really hard to figure out what happiness looks like, and what you want from a work and lifestyle point of view, if you’re just feeling exhausted.
So, in this episode, I’m going to get into the ins and outs of rest, covering the seven different types first introduced by Dr Saundra Dalton-Smith. I’m hoping this will help you to think about what you might potentially need more of, and the kind of actions you can take to top it up.
Because then, once you are fully tapped into all the different types of rest, you’ll be in the very best position to identify what makes you happy, so that you can go after it.
You ready? Great, come and join me!
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ALISON O’LEARY BIO:
Alison is a highly experienced, certified life and career coach and is an active ideal life advocate.
She’s the founder and designer of the Work WonderlandTM process, her proprietary model that helps people make career and life choices that truly align with their values, strengths, passions, skills and life goals.
Alison hails from a high-paced, London-based corporate background, working for more than 20 years in the field of PR and Communications, until she made her own radical transition to her ideal life, living and working from a remote mountainside in Wales.
Today she focusses her life coaching on supporting professionally successful people in making career changes that facilitate transformational life change.
When Alison is not working, you can find her outdoors - walking beaches at the crack of dawn; experimenting with the universe and consciousness; trying her hand at paragliding; and delighting in the magic of the superhero’s quest. She is also Marvel movie obsessed.
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All episodes are video recorded and can be watched in the website show notes, or on YouTube.
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