Description

Ian interviews Gordon Grant; serial entrepreneur and property investor and specialist in Strategic Planning, Program Management, Outsourcing, IT Consulting, Business Consulting, Management Consulting, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development and Life Coaching. (Also fairground rides and encyclopaedia sales!) He owns Dads Means Business, who work together one to one with clients to analyse how they spend their time during the week and  identify how they can do things differently – so that they can get an extra 1 day free every week.
Gordon and Ian talk about how Gordon started out, the keys to success, property investment in the economic downturn, work and family balance, challenges, personal motivations and philosophies.
KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Gordon is passionate about fairness and helping those suffering injustice. 
• Starting in IT Consultancy and ending up in his own International Software business, Gordon eventually sold the business and realised that lots of people were struggling with balancing family and work pressures.
• After researching this problem Gordon set up Dad's Mean Business to help people trapped in the work cycle and allowing them to free up opportunities to spend time with their families. 
• Returning to his IT roots he set up another consultancy and created his own property investment business that helps nervous armchair investors take their first steps.
• Be willing to try new things and be open to new adventures and new challenges to achieve success.
• The Super Dads Super Business is a ninety day program created by Gordon, tailored to each individual client, to free up time to spend with their families without sacrificing efficiency of business.
• By changing mindset dads can feel properly invested in their families and their own lives and no longer a slave to their work.

BEST MOMENTS
‘I set about learning and researching and teaching myself how dads get into this situation of setting up businesses and then finding out they’re trapped in their own businesses.’ – Gordon
‘(Property Investment) is something that a lot of people aspire to but because the numbers are so big they think that’s not for me and it’s all a mindset thing.’ – Gordon
‘Obviously you’ve got multiple businesses there and different strands, what do you think the keys to success are?’ – Ian
‘You’re running a successful company, why do you think you can get involved in a little property business for yourself?’ – Gordon
‘I love my job. I love working. I reckon if I won the lottery I would still work. I love the experience and the challenge, but also to just provide for my family as that is a key thing for me as well.’ - Gordon
GUEST RESOURCES
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/gordong
VALUABLE RESOURCES
https://www.ianjrogers.com/
ABOUT THE HOST
Ian Rogers is an entrepreneur running businesses in the Real Estate, Construction and Facilities Management arena. Ian has over 40 years’ industry experience, as he was effectively born into construction with his father having his own building company and Ian spending time working on sites from the age of 11!. As a result Ian has seen the industry from a trades person perspective, as a chartered quantity surveyor working on large commercial projects, as a project manager and then working on structured project finance through PFI/PPP deals. This has given Ian a unique whole life approach to any project by considering the end game at the beginning.
CONTACT METHOD
https://www.ianjrogers.com/

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