095 – LEONA WATSON – LET’S GET CHEEKY

095 - LEONA WATSON - LET'S GET CHEEKY

Leona Watson is the founder of Cheeky Food Events, a corporate team building cooking company with a twist. After many years in the corporate world, Leona decided it was time to do something for herself and followed her heart to become a corporate Chef. During her training, Leona realized that it wasn’t about the food, her passion lied in the togetherness of people that food brought. Cheeky food Events has now been established for over 13 years and has hosted over 2500 events!

Health

When I question my podcast guests if they have any personal habits that contribute to their success, an outstanding amount of people talk about their health and wellness routines.

Successful people usually stick to a general routine.  Whether it’s getting up before sunrise every morning for a walk or daily meditations, successful entrepreneurs always have some sort of routine they follow. This allows them to stay on top of their health and fitness and understand what they need to do to keep their diet and life style healthy.

As busy entrepreneurs, it can be challenging to stay on top of healthy eating. Lunch meetings, conferences, grabbing food on the go or even working through lunch with no food – there are times when we have all let the ball slip in these areas. I know I have!!

But staying on top of our top of our nutrition is not only good for us physically it also helps our mental and cognitive function too. Listen to the audio to hear Sally Garrard’s advice about choosing the right food for your brain.

Wow! As entrepreneurs and business owners we need our brain function to be on point to help us achieve greatness in our business ventures. To help you prepare healthy, wholesome healthy food at home, Sally has developed an e-receipe book and Inspiring Greatness Listeners 15% off her e-book through her website. The discount code is maxumcorp17.

Big Changes

I have recorded over 44 Golden Nugget Friday episodes since inception of the Inspiring Greatness Podcast.  However after heaps of contemplation, I have decided to discontinue our Golden Nugget Friday episodes. We will continue with the Tuesday interviews of amazing entrepreneurs. This has been a difficult decision for me as really enjoy providing deep dives into interesting topics! I have learned so much and I hope you have also. 

Part of the reason I’m cutting back to 1 episode per week on my podcast.  I have had an overwhelming response to the Maxum Corporation Retreat discount advertisement running the past few months.   For anyone who may not know Maxum Corp offers business services specializing in training/coaching including off site retreats & high growth strategy planning sessions for Businesses, their executives, advisory or Board of Directors.   To my delight my schedule is filling up and I am a stickler for keeping a balanced life style as you have heard me talk about on several previous episodes.  Practice what you preach RIGHT….

The second part or reason on cutting back is I am delighted to announce I was selected to be a Trainer for the Entrepreneurs Organization Accelerator Program.  I just returned Wed from training in Chicago which was amazing.

I have had previous guests talk about this programs but would like to share again for those of you who may not know about it.

The Entrepreneurs’ Organization offers an Accelerator program which is the catalyst that enables first-stage entrepreneurs to catapult their business to the next level. The mission is to empower you with the tools you need to grow your business to more than US$1 million in sales and provide you with the skills to make yourself a better entrepreneur and leader.

To qualify for the Accelerator program you must:

• Be the owner or founder of an operating business with gross yearly revenues between US$250,000 to US$1 million.

The specific learning opportunities provided by the Accelerator program Include quarterly learning days covering content on 4 core areas: Strategy, People, Execution & Cash

Strategy

Create Sustainable Top Line Growth

The keys to sustainable top-line growth are: knowing your core customer, developing a clear brand promise, and developing your BHAG® (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) for sustainable revenue growth.

People

Become a Magnet for A-layers Who Are Dedicated to Results

• Growth companies’ most difficult decisions involve getting the right people in the right seats. Is everyone in your company aligned, pulling their weight, and contributing as they should?

Execution

Develop a Strategic Advantage Over Your Competitors

• One common challenge that quietly sneaks up on successful growth companies is the subtle transition from excellent, precise execution to passivity, complacency, and eventually poor execution disciplines. Tightening up your execution habits can dramatically improve your gross margins and profitability while reducing the time it takes to get work done.

Cash

Accelerator Cash Flow to Fuel Your Growth

• The first law of entrepreneurial gravity is “Growth sucks cash.” We encourage companies to examine their cash acceleration strategies. This measures the time between spending a dollar (on marketing, design, rent, wages, etc.) and earning that dollar back throughout the company.

On top of all that this program assigns you to an Accountability Group

• As an Accelerator participant, you will be matched with other participants to form a small group known as Accountability Groups. These groups will ensure that you are learning and growing as an individual, both through the learning provided in the classroom and through the interaction with your peers. Groups will be provided a framework and tools to keep in touch between meetings to help each keep on track with their committed goals.

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