Judith Morgan, Wealth Coach for Entrepreneurs

The Elite Entrepreneurs Make Me Cry

During last week's Mastermind meeting of the Elite Entrepreneurs Club, I had to reach for the tissues not once, but twice!   One of my clients, with whom I have been working for a couple of years, came up with his best idea for his business yet.   An idea so stonking and so brave that I was in awe and the tears came quickly.   Another client managed to do the same thing to me, her achievements are awesome.   You both know who you are - thank you for making me cry, no really!

I wonder if anyone else other than a coach could know how precious it is to be present when your client emerges as an even better version of themselves?   More confident, more successful, more energised, more powerful.

One of the team even said to me "are we doing this next year?"   With results like that?   You betcha. I couldnt stop this work now if I wanted to.   Just to be present to the magnificence of my clients is a unique honour.   Not to mention the fun we had at the party the night before!

The Elite Entrepreneurs Club will indeed start again in September 2008 when we will re-convene a Wednesday Group and a Friday Group.   If you would like to talk to me now to make sure you get one of those precious seats in one of our EEC Mastermind Groups, then please don't delay, email me today.

Sharing the Dream with new Entrepreneur Lorraine

Today I enjoyed a very surreal day out.   I was invited to be the guest of Lorraine Armstrong, the new owner of Share the Dream as she went to present an award at The Wedding Awards 2008 as a proud sponsor.   Lorraine recently acquired this business from Money Gym client Debbie Bissett.   Debbie and her partner Claire are serial entrepreneurs who have decided just to focus on their own recruitment business and thus divested themselves of their online wedding dress exchange.

WOW!   What an eye opener.   The wedding industry is HUGE.   I sat next door to two sisters who won the best wedding venue for the second year running for their Leez Priory in Essex.   My table also included a shoes lady, a wedding planner and a dress designer, but none of them won sadly and I was feeling part of their teams by then!

The Wedding Awards 2008 was a very pink event - yay!   The champagne reception was OK, the lunch OK but the highlight of the day was the awards ceremony itself, and my favourite bit was when Lorraine was on stage!   Let me share the story of Lorraine, who I was thinking about as I drove to the gig this morning...

Entrepreneur People - Real Stories

I was interviewed this evening by Sherry Borzo for her show on BlogTalkRadio called Entrepreneur People - Real Stories about real people that teach lessons in business and in life.   I am proud to tell you I was Sherry's first Brit!   Sherry is based in Iowa which reminds me from one of my favourite quotes from Field of Dreams..."is this Heaven?   No, it's Iowa".   Should have asked Sherry if she'd seen Kevin and his field.

Anyway, I digress.   Sherry is looking for Entrepreneurs the world over to be interviewed on her show and share their real story.   If you fancy it, contact Sherry directly at dsmBuzz and mention my name.

Here's my interview.   She says I was awesome and wonderful but you know how those Americans talk. Gee!   Actually she was delightful and so if you love to talk and talk about yourself and your entrepreneurial tendencies and your business, get on down to Iowa, virtually.   Ain't the web wonderful?

Talking Business - radio phone-in callers required this Sunday!

It's your fourth and final (for the moment) chance to hear me on the radio this coming Sunday morning at 10 a.m.   I know, clashes HORRIBLY with The Archers!   The only programme on the radio I listen to every week, and now I am on at the same time - doh.

I've been having a blast in Golders Green on Jcom radio over the last few Sunday mornings.   I was invited to co-host Talking Business with Mike Segall.   It has been an eventful couple of weeks.   The first week the entire building was evacuated at 10.15 in the middle of our show as it was discovered to be live - electrically live, the building that is, not the show which was always intended to be a live small business phone-in.

The second week I was a minor guest on the Mike Segall show and the third week I came storming back and with a vengeance, I am the woman who bought Santa Claus to Golders Green! Apparently those of the Jewish faith do not have/believe in Santa Claus - who knew?   How naive of me and ill researched, mea culpa.   Happily they smiled at me in a beautifully indulgent and gentlemanly way.   Bless them, the Jcom boys.

Entrepreneurs, will 2008 be YOUR year?

Is yours a Great Little Business that's not yet working like the well-oiled machine you know it COULD be? 

Are you still chipping away at the coalface but not really making much impression where it counts - in your bank account?

Are you working all hours but exhausted and poor, fearing burnout but too terrified to stop?

But most importantly of all, are you ready to stop the rot and DO something about it?

Talking Business on Sunday Mornings

Jewish Community Radio launches this week in Golders Green and guess who is going to be on it on Sunday morning!   Yes!   That's right, it's me... isn't that exciting?   Well, after all, Judith does mean Jewish Princess.

I am going to be part of the team presenting Talking Business at 10 a.m. for four consecutive Sunday mornings starting Sunday 28th October and you can listen live at www.jcomradio.net and if you live in North West London, Jcom will also be broadcasting on 101.4 FM.

Here's the pre-publicity from the radio station itself - and it's a phone-in so do ring in on 0208 905 5505 with all your questions about wealth creation for entrepreneurs, small business success and the joys of self-employed life.

And very good luck to JCom on their worthy mission:

Want A Millionaire Mindset?

Have you watched The Secret several times and felt inspired and excited but are still left wondering "how do I do that?"

Have you been trying to use the Law of Attraction principles and getting limited success - sometimes it appears to work and sometimes it doesn't?

Are you asking yourself over and over again why it seems to be working for other people and all those celebrities and personal development gurus but not for you and thinking there must be something wrong with YOU?

Are you worried that any negative thoughts whatsoever will be blocking the flow of wealth to you?

What is omitted from The Secret is a viable method for changing your vibrations and it is vital to know how to change your energetic frequency otherwise this can never work for you.

I know the missing link and I can't wait to show you what I know, so you can start to get this stuff working for you immediately.

Top Business Tips (2) - Love Your Clients

Come from a place of love, allow it to permeate everything you do including what you think and say - wrap everything in love, this is very, very attractive to The Universe.

If you have any client you can't love for any reason - refer them on to someone else!

Demonstrate your love for your clients in every way, make your premises a lovely place for you to work and for your clients to visit.

What's This Blog All About, Judith?

It's about... Helping and mentoring solopreneurs how and why to Create a Business to Love | Teaching small business people how to become Elite Entrepreneurs | Alleviating the lot of the Lonely Entrepreneur | Increasing your financial intelligence with The Money Gym | Starting your own turnkey business with a branch of The Cleaning Biz | How EFT can help you manifest your success easily and effortlessly | knowing how your Wealth Profile can keep you in the flow and make you richer | Judith Morgan and her mission to share her financial acumen and business savvy acquired over 30 years at the coalface as a raging entrepreneur and business woman, small business accountant and finance director | Loving small business people, knowing them, easing their pain and wanting them to create wealth from their self-employment.  If you run your own small business, work for yourself, are self-employed or an entrepreneur, there's a nugget of gold somewhere in here for you - in the shape of some help, advice, wisdom, tips, community, coaching or mentoring - so read on!

Top Business Tips (1) - Love What you Do

Love what you do and do only what you love. Work out what that is, create a list of what you love and what you don't.   Give yourself permission (or you have mine) to do only what you love.

This doesnt mean all the other stuff can't or doesn't get done.   Far from it.   And you are probably ignoring most of those bits already, and that doesn't make you feel great. You need to find a way to clear the clutter and get those bits handled, either pay for it to be done for you or swap your skills with someone who has what you need.

Bureaucracy Stifles The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Red tape does my head in, but the very wonderful man who helps me with keeping on track with the legal requirements of being a limited company has emailed me this week with news affecting all business owners, especially if you have a website.

First of all, read this, if you have the stomach.

I tried to read it, honestly I did - twice!   But it did my head in.   In the end I wrote to Brian (the wonderful man who is good at this stuff) saying...

10 Steps to Entrepreneur Heaven

This week sees the end of a group business coaching teleclass series I have been hosting called 10 Steps to Entrepreneur Heaven.   I have been joined by some truly inspirational businesswomen, what Nicola calls ordinary people doing extraordinary things.   They have been a joy and, as ever, I have learned much from them.

The 10 Steps are:

Entrepreneur Success Tips

Following on from my previous posting, here are a few success strategies which I have seen my clients use in their businesses to good effect.   People work in myriad different ways which is great, and I get to observe other people doing it their way and to see what works for them so I can share it with you. 

Although the control freak in me often erroneously thinks my way is best, happily clients prove me wrong all day long and equally I am happy just to have faciliitated their success.   It doesn't matter how they get where they want to be, just so long as they do.

These tactics have mainly been exhibited by business owners I work with in The Cleaning Biz where I help them to achieve the results they want financially by running their own small business which also just happens to be a branch of mine.   And I see these success strategies replicated all over in all types of business.   They will also work in yours.

Entrepreneurial Doubts

Do you have doubts?   Do you doubt that you can pull it off, make your business successful?   Yes. Me to, even though I've been doing it for thirty years!   And have built and sold several successful and profitable businesses.   Weird.

So it must be part of the human condition then.   What makes us doubt?   Well, I've just had a rather meaningful exchange with Nicola on IM and here's our consensus:

Business Mentoring -v- Business Coaching

Increasingly I am beginning to re-position myself as a business mentor as opposed to a business coach. "What's the difference?" I'm asking myself and you might be interested in this too, and have valuable opinions to share.

As a coach in training we were taught the rather purist "elicit their greatness" stuff, of which I am a big fan when I coach.   I believe in my clients (often rather more so than they do in themselves) and their coach believes they already have all the answers inside and frequently they do, especially about "problems" such as lack of focus, how I procrastinate, why I don't practise extreme self-care, why it's different for me (yeah, right) and so on.

But this is all rather different when it comes to money and business. 

Tales of the Lonely Entrepreneur (2)

The second contribution has rolled in today from Ann Harrison who runs no fewer than 4 (four!) coaching businesses and websites (note to self: must have a word with Ann about focus), but then you just can't keep a good entrepreneur down, thank Heavens!  Here's Ann's inspiring story:

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"By February 2002, I had had enough.  I used to go into the Ladies’ room, just across from our staffroom in the college where I worked, enter the cubicle furthest away from the door and just scream, silently, to ease my stress and frustration.  I must have looked like a perfect replica of Edvard Munch’s famous painting, ‘The Scream’.  Yet 15 years earlier, I had been a brand-new teacher, fresh from teacher-training college and enjoying my job immensely.  So, what had gone wrong in the intervening period?

Lonely Entrepreneur Stories

I had a brilliant idea today, of course I did.   Actually it wasn't the first time I had had this idea, but it was resuscitated during lunch with Happy Nurse, Claire Westwood, in the sense that during lunch I remembered I had had this brilliant idea again in the shower this morning and forgotten to write it on my To Do List.

My brilliant idea of today is to collect and share the stories of the Lonely Entrepreneurs and then publish them in a book, profits to charity.   Let's find out who we really are, us rabid entrepreneurs, and why we do it!

Business Mentoring for Entrepreneurs

A coaching colleague and I were having a bit of a debate yesterday about whether or not I am, in fact, a coach.  How annoying is that!   I have spent five years learning to be a great coach and marketing myself as that and building a Great Little Business as one and then pfff! Pin in my balloon, followed by much soul searching.

While I do bring coaching techniques to my work, can you really coach anyone to create a better business? No matter how much I elicit your greatness, if you don't know what you need to know, it's simply not going to come forth like magic, is it?   I've got to teach it to you, based on my thirty years in the business game myself, either doing it or learning from top mentors of my own.

Hmm, so my chum has a point then...

The Elite Entrepreneurs Club

Judith's Elite Entrepreneurs Club goes live in September 2007!   

This is my dynamic mastermind group which will provide full-on wealth coaching for ambitious entrepreneurs.   Bring your business(es) and let's make them even more successful and profitable within one year - the loftier your ambitions, the more exciting and challenging for the rest of us.  Lets inspire each other, and be inspired.

From 1st September 2007, I will cease all the other coaching work I do and just concentrate very firmly on 21 clients and work with you, and only you for at least a year until you have the business results you desire.  The programme will run for 8 months during the academic year, September 2007 to July 2008 (there is no coaching in December 2007 or Summer 2008) and re-commence in September 2008 should you wish to stay on the team.

Turnkey Business Opportunity

Not wishing to take up too much of your time now that this glorious June sunshine has arrived at last,  I do want to remind you that my Cleaning Biz is always actively recruiting people who work at home and would like an additional income stream.

Proudly I can tell you that we now have 22 branches of our business all over London and the South and we are working on continuing that all over the UK - first target 150 branches!

Would you like to run a branch of our business?   Or do you know someone else who might, because we do pay you £500 for that introduction when your friend joins us formally.

The 4-Hour Workweek

Can it be done, Nigel?   Dunno yet, but I know I want it.

Have you read the latest must-read book?   Are you in on the skinny?   I'm not going to reiterate here how all this fuss started, suffice to say that Sandra did that better than me in her blog earlier in the week.   But there he is, in all his glory, inciting me to "escape the 9-5, live anywhere and join the new rich" as it that didnt encapsulate in ten words what I've been working for since 2002!

I love hard work as much as anyone, but Timothy Ferriss is half way through teaching me to give it all up and scarper to the sunshine NOW.

Judith's Summer Special for Entrepreneurs

Have you ever wished you could have a one-off consultation with me and that we could brainstorm your business together?

It occurred to me in the bathroom this morning, one of my most creative places, that it would be lovely to be able to speak to all of my readers across the summer.

Summer began yesterday as far as I am concerned, with my first frock of the year and although it's still a tad chilly, I'm getting my summer wardrobe out now.   Summer is by far and away my best and favourite time of the year and to celebrate this, I want to offer my readers the chance for a one-off review and brainstorm on the phone or face-to-face.

The point of this would be to talk about what you can do to be more wealthy, more successful and more profitable in everything you do.   I make no bones about it, money is my forte, especially (but not exclusively) within your own business.   These are very powerful and life-changing sessions.   Are you up for it?

Wealth Creation for Entrepreneurs, I call it.

These are the just some of the things I have been proud to co-create recently:

Your Fifteen Minutes of Fame?

Do you need cash for your business idea?
Dragons’ Den is in its fifth series and continuing to offer entrepreneurs from across the country the chance to make their business dreams come true.

Last series 10 entrepreneurs received investment from the Dragons’ Den.

My 5 Top Success Tips

Andrea Lee has started another round of blogtag and I have been tagged by Sandra De Freitas, top web techie from Toronto.   I love blogging and I love blogtag, though I did elicit a round of groans last time I tagged five other bloggers.   I shall find five new ones this time who I suspect will relish the challenge and rise eloquently to the occasion.

Andrea's question is ths:   What 5 Things Do I Do Nearly Every Day to be Successful?

Hmm, let me think...

Shiny Entrepreneurs

Three shiny co-incidences within a very short period of time.   Yesterday morning in one of my coaching groups we were talking about success and what it means to us.   Slippery customer, difficult to define, as success means different things to all of us, thank goodness.

My own gibbering attempts at getting close to this included "not hiding from any opportunities to shine" and one of my clients graciously fed back later in the day that she found that provoked a big light bulb moment for her.

And then, synchronicitously, later in the day I found myself ...

Lunch with My Accountant

Last Wednesday, I had lunch with my accountant.   Who is The Accountant's Accountant?   Who on earth would want that job?  Well, I had forgotten but he remembered that we met when I advertised for a partner in my accountancy business over 15 years ago, and although we didn't go into business together, we did go into business alongside one another and in fact, he credits me with encouraging him to jump ship from his job and start up on his own!   Thank Heavens for other people with good memories.

He has been suggesting we meet up for some time, but I didnt fancy it.   As I told him, it feels like being called to the Head's study, to account for oneself.   I can remember when my clients used to say "ooh, I'd rather go to the DENTIST, than come to the accountant".   I dont think they meant me (or him) per se, I just think dealing with our accounts can be quite painful for a lot of us, otherwise why would we put this off?

Three New Coaching Offerings

I have recently been fortunate enough to find a way to give up my day job.   Only ten years (!) after selling my accountancy business, I have finally found a way to disentangle myself from my last few, much beloved clients.

This has freed up both time and energy to put together some new and revised mentoring and coaching offerings.

What would suit you best?   Working one to one or in a group?   Over the phone, or face to face?   What will you choose to invest in yourself and your business at this time?

Time Management for Entrepreneurs

When you work for yourself there is no-one telling you what you must do in the course of your working day.   You decide.   Hooray!   That’s one of the freedoms we have achieved by electing to work for ourselves.

How good are you a managing time?   Have you had time to observe your working patterns?   Do you know when you have turned in a good productive day, and when you have not achieved what you set out to do?   What made the difference?   How can you do more of the former, and less of the latter?

There is a theory that we cannot manage time – there are and always will be twenty four hours in a day – and I hope you are not working all of them!   You choose how you get to spend your time.

Extreme Self Care for the Entrepreneur

One vital thing to remember about working for yourself is that you are the most important asset of your business and anything you invest in yourself will return to you multiplied many times.   The reason for this is that without you, your business is nothing.

Now, all by yourself, you may not be sufficient for a wholly successful business but that’s another story which I will cover later in this series of thoughts.

Meanwhile, your job is to keep yourself fit and healthy, well nourished in every way, and fully of energy and enthusiasm for the task at hand, that of creating a thriving business around your original idea.

You know better than me what it takes to keep you “up”.   You probably also know how easy it is to get into a habit of working very long hours and achieving less and less as you do so.

So resolve from the outset to invest in you.   What makes you feel well, energetic and enthusiastic?

Working On My Mission

I'm re-visiting my mission for my business.   I think I may have lost sight of it and perhaps it needs re-visiting.   This has been prompted by a great book I am enjoying which was recommended to me and my ABC Coaching Group, by Chantal Cornelius of Apple Tree, who also owns and runs Just Add Content, the service I use to send out my email newsletters.

The two ladies who wrote the book, Stacey Hall and Jan Brogniez, have a website called www.PerfectCustomers.com and you can sign up there to receive a Free Daily Attraction Tip.

Planning To Be A Small Business Success Story

It may seem obvious, but how many of us start out with the end in mind?   How many of us believe on Day One that we are going to be the next big success story?   Are you planning for success, or failure?  You know what they say… failure to plan is planning to fail.

Now, speaking as an entrepreneur, I know that all talk of planning is pretty dull.   So, how can we liven this up a bit?

The things I feel you need to find a way to plan for in due course include:

• Your vision
• Your mission
• A business plan
• A marketing plan
• A financial plan with targets

Where to start?

Business Goals 2007

In my newsletter In The Pink! last weekend, I put forward my goals and intentions for myself for 2007 and invited readers and clients to send in theirs.   I've had three or four replies so far.   I forgot to ask if I could share them, for public accountability.   So I'm going to publish mine again here.

If you feel inspired to share yours, would you post them as a comment please?   Outing yourself might help you keep on track!

There was something niggling at me all the time I was compiling this list that I have forgotten one I'm quite excited about - and I have - and when I remember it, I will add it as an addendum.

Pink Laptops - OMIGOD!

Have you seen these gorgeous things?

They have invented the pink laptop, finally, whatever kept them?

If these just aren't the most delicious and desirable things I ever saw, I don't know what would be, and the sadness of this is, it's my Year of Not Buying It, so will just have to make do with what I have!

Going to put them on my vision board - no idea how I am going to attract them into my life, will leave that to The Universe!   Essential tools of the Girly Entrepreneur and those of you in touch with your feminine side.

Check them out at www.sony.com and www.asus.com

Judith Morgan, Radio Star

I had a shock yesterday morning, I couldn't believe that one of my 2007 dreams, desires and wishes could possibly have come true so soon.   Yes, I know we are all into the Power of Intention, the Law of Attraction and so on, but golly, it was only 4th January - and that's going some by any standards.

Here's the e-mail I got, apparently personalised to Judith Morgan, The Business Coach - perhaps you got it too?

Radio Interview with Judith Morgan - Time Sensitive Material!

Where's Ivan?

I donned my curious coach hat and went deep, deep underground in order to research entrepreneurial opportunities in St Martin, largely and pretty exclusively by picking the brains of Ivan, he of Where's Ivan, our local post-prandial ice-cream and espresso stop.

That's a lovely idea, isn't it?   You stop off after dinner (or sometimes instead of dinner) for a cup of coffee and a tubbie of ice-cream and sit outside in the balmy evening, being bitten to death by mozzies (but that's a whole other story), enjoying your dessert and coffee in a sidewalk cafe, in the Plaza del Lago, Simpson Bay.

My Office on The Deck

Your coach keeping on top of e-mails at sunset!

Great Little Business

Emily Gordon is one of my success stories.   Happily, Emily was assigned to me to coach in The Money Gym.   From the outset, I "got" Emily and I don't think she will mind me telling you that she was challenged in many ways when we first met, both financially and in terms of her own life.   Emily is the first to tell you that the Money Gym has changed her life.   And as a Mindset Queen Ithink the first thing she would tell you is that she changed her mind.   Once she got her head and her heart together, everything else just unfolded like a dream.

Emily is making successes in property, on the internet, in running her own small busines - in fact, everything Emily touches now turns to gold.   Emily can attract and manifest her heart's desires in all aspects of her life.   It's truly inspirational to behold.   A transformation.

Entrepreneurial Dreaming

Last Thursday, I went north to Leeds.   To play with Michael Gerber of E-Myth fame in his Dreaming Room.   Gerber (who looks a little like Mr Magoo) is now 70, but as entrepreneurial as ever and he listed to us the many projects he's just starting and shared with us that his Enneagram number is a 7, as is mine and that of my travelling companion.   A 7 is The Enthusiast.

He was rude, profane and abrasive, homophobic, and lot's more besides which could offend, but here's a few nuggets of what I learned by putting that aside and allowing his undoubted business acumen come at me and re-awaken the Entrepreneur within.   That's his current mission.

Authentic Business

Here's a gorgeous little film which I came across last week which talks in a very inspiring way about creating a business to love.   I hope you enjoy it.

http://www.monday9am.tv/archive/play /35

An Entrepreneurial Gulp!

I was lucky enough to get the opportunity to ask Gabriella Goddard some questions about her latest book Gulp! and its Virtual Book Tour and her Gulp Together challenge week which is 4-10th September - so still time to join in if you are contemplating a life-changing challenge.

Gulp! is the essential guide to overcoming fear and finding the confidence to break through challenges.

Read my interview with Gabriella:

Turning Pain into Profit

With the launch of my Lonely Entrepreneur club for people working for themselves, I have been reflecting on what it means to be an entrepreneur and to get up every morning and create your own opportunities.

And it's a strange old mix of push-me pull-you energies I notice in myself even though I have been self-employed or employed by businesses I have created for nearly three decades now.

Time To Go Back to (Business) School?

Are you still struggling to get it right in your own small business?   Do success and profits still elude you?  Well not to worry!   You might join us in our ABC Small Business Coaching Gym, as the Autumn term starts on Monday 4th September at 10 a.m. with group calls, 1-2-1 sessions and much more.

Here's some more info about it - hope to see you in school!

Ready to up the ante?

The Mastermind Coaching Groups meet virtually to problem-solve, brainstorm, network, encourage and motivate each other and receive coaching. They are a powerful tool for your business success, accelerating your growth.  The basic philosophy is to achieve more in less time by people working together and we meet twice a month on the telephone for 3 months to share ideas, thoughts, information, feedback and resources, challenging you to 'up your business game' quite considerably.

By gaining perspective, knowledge, experience, coaching and resources from me and the others in the group you will move beyond your own limited view of the world, advancing your own goals and projects more quickly and helping others to do the same.

Experts on Call

We have been fortunate in the ABC coaching groups we work with on www.ABusinessToLove.com to have had access to the experitise of Guy Levine talking about powerful e-zines and Nicola Cairncross talking about websites that work.

Upcoming experts include Claire Raikes talking about blogsites, Paula Gardner talking about PR, Rob Mottram bringing us NLP tips for small business success, Annie Meachem helping us with our Attraction marketing and Tim Birch energising us just before Christmas and showing us how to keep fit for business, even through the social season.

Managing Time

I went to a seminar on Saturday about managing time.   We were asked to go round the room, as an ice-breaker, and introduce ourselves to three strangers and tell them what we were hoping to get out of the day and what we would do if we had more time.   Write a book, maybe?

Anyway, I found myself answering the first question with "do less".   I'm coming up to August which is a time of the year when I now habitually choose to do less, without actually being away on holiday.   The irony struck me by coffee-break.   If you want to do less, Judith, what on earth are you doing here on a Saturday?   As soon as I decently could, I cut out of there and went home and did, well, nothing!

A Business to Love

My new website and baby www.ABusinessToLove.com went live today.   I'm delighted, nervous and excited.

The website takes over from the wonderful sales letter created for the program by Mark Lewin and describes our small business coaching gym, previously and provisionally called ABC (Affordable Business Coaching for All).

The Starbucks Club

We had our inaugural meeting today in Starbucks opposite Guy's Hospital at London Bridge - me and Marie, and Lydia and Jacqueline.   It took some organising but I am happy to tell you it was entirely worth it.   We had a lovely chat and a pretty productive two hours in which we were able to share business projects, nag each other, listen attentively to new ideas, and give and receive feedback on our plans for business success.

I am really looking forward to the next one, we shall try to make it a monthly event and I am thinking of doing one in the City of London (London Bridge would work for that) and one in the West End.   Do let us know if you would like to join our Starbucks Club and if the West End suits you better than the City, which branch do you favour?

PS   I did most, if not all, of the nagging by the way - the others were far too polite!