£35 gold coffee or Starbucks! ! ✨ Gold leaf lattes & chocolate truffles. Is it worth the hype? (Spoiler: I got gold all over my lips!) #Starbucks #GoldLeaf #Latte #Chocolate #Truffle #Foodie #Luxury #Reels
2025 has been pretty special
⚫️ Launched Advanced Healthcare Group and acquired our first business, 135 year old Allardyce Healthcare
🟡 Acquired a Occupational Therapy business, commercial cleaning co, two electrical companies
⚫️ Stayed in the worlds only 7 star hotel, Burj Al Arab, plus a week in the Atlantis Royal, Jumeriah Al Naseem and flying the family business class
🟡 Launched The Kong Club 🦍 for ambitious entrepreneurs
⚫️ Key Speaker at Dealfest Dubai 2025 dressed as super Mario 🍄
🟡 Wembley box to see Sunderland AFC promotion to the premier league
⚫️ YouTube channel hit over 250,000 views
🟡 Co coached South Tyneside Boys U14s, unbeaten in the league and qualifying for all England champions cup knock out phase, Theo making county squad
⚫️ Got to see my eldest lad follow his dreams off travelling for a few years
🟡 Sebastian Lynch starting his competitive football journey with Washington fc
@emmalynch14 being the rock making all of this possible
U14 DISTRICT LEAGUE CHAMPIONS 🟢⚪️🟢
First season with these boys and what a season!
League 🏆 and Cup 🏆 Double ✅
Unbeaten all season in league ✅
Most goals scored ✅
Least goals conceded ✅
Job Done ✔️
These boys have been unreal and totally deserve the accolades and success this season
Proud to have played a small part
Unbelievable boys 👏🏻👏🏻
The biggest mindset shift I made, happened around 2021 after I sold my first business (and spent much more time in my own self development)
I stopped complaining!
I made this a new standard and I held myself accountable on this
I had a long hard think about what consumed my energy
Now, if something is within my control, I use my skills, experience and contacts to go and do something about it
If it’s not in my control, I don’t use any energy on it
It’s definitely something i still have to check in on regularly and still have to remind myself on
But it’s something that has made a big difference to my life
Stop complaining about things around you that are not your business or you can’t control
Spend that energy on something that actually matters and you have influence over
Watch your life change
Fail, then learn from your mistakes
I’ve failed more times than i can count
Taking on too much debt in the early days, bringing in the wrong people into key roles, deals falling apart at the final stage
We’ve all failed, most of us, including me on many occasions, but that never ever stopped me
Just setbacks with an opportunity to learn and sharpen my mindset for the next opportunity
Every difficult period built something in me that the good periods never could
Resilience isn’t something you’re born with
It’s something you build by refusing to stay down
The goals i’ve achieved
The life i’ve built
None of it happened because i avoided failure
It happened because I embraced it
#entrepreneurlife #businessstrategy #businessgrowth
Their revenue is unpredictable and they can’t control it
One month is great
The next is a scramble
I lived that personally for years and it was painful
The shift came when i started locking in revenue to long term contracts with NHS trusts and local authorities
Three year minimum, most 5 years
Business buyers then see certainty, modelled out over the next three to five years
No guessing
No hoping
Just committed recurring income they could underwrite with confidence
That changes everything in a sale process
Business buyers, in particular PE don’t pay a premium for potential
The amount of times I’ve now been on the buying side and been told next year will be our best yet… without any substantial evidence
Buyers pay a premium for predictability
The most valuable thing i built into my business wasn’t a product or a team
It was revenue certainty
Build revenue that a buyer can model with confidence
Everything else becomes easier
You know you’re around the right people when things that once felt out of your reach now feel very achievable
But first you have to find that right room
For most of my career i didn’t know these rooms even existed
It wasn’t until i invested in myself
Took a course
Joined a mastermind
Got myself a mentor
That a door opened i never knew was there
Behind that door was a completely different world
This was a world where people were buying businesses instead of building them from scratch
Structuring deals instead of grinding for more customers
Building wealth strategically instead of hoping organic growth would be enough
Then inside that room was another door
Behind that one another
Each one only visible once you’d walked through the last
I discovered M&A because i pushed myself into an unfamiliar room
That decision changed everything about what i believed was possible
The right room doesn’t just change your thinking
It changes your ceiling
Find your next room
