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S: What motivates you now considering<br />
the success you have had both with<br />
4Networking, Speaking & Business<br />
Books?<br />
B: Making a Positive Difference...I am<br />
going to do some speaking at Dartmoor<br />
Prison so if I can help show there is<br />
another way. I am quite realistic that if I<br />
would of made different choices when I<br />
was younger it could be me in there as<br />
growing up in Salford Manchester was<br />
tough and at times I lost my way..<br />
unemployed for periods..but I always<br />
wanted to make a difference. I love<br />
working on my speaking and that is a<br />
real passion for me, I purposely don’t<br />
watch other speakers as I don’t want it to<br />
influence my style.<br />
S: So what is a normal day for you now?<br />
B: I still get along to 4Networking<br />
meetings about 4 a month I was doing 3 a<br />
week beforeChristmas but with both Steff<br />
Thomas and Terry Cooper onboard with<br />
me it does run itself to a degree, attend<br />
business events, mentor some<br />
people..but time is a factor.<br />
S: What are <strong>your</strong> future plans now Brad?<br />
B: Too take 4Networking globally, we are now in<br />
Australia so it will happen...but not with me at the<br />
helm my focus is now on other areas and I am<br />
surrounded my a great team I am also in the middle<br />
of writing my forth book called Next it will be full of<br />
short stories to give insight and inspire business<br />
owners. Do more speaking gigs I love it, I have done<br />
The Business Show for six years now and the JCB gigs<br />
are brilliant.<br />
S: Thanks Brad for <strong>your</strong> thoughts, anything<br />
else you would like to add.<br />
B: At the beginning when I started 4Networking I<br />
needed a fight to keep me going and that adversity<br />
built the result of the business today. But now it is<br />
different 4Networking is the establishment so it vital<br />
that we keep things fresh. Ohhhh yes....A Daft idea is<br />
only a daft idea if they don’t work.<br />
Thank you Brad...You can<br />
Connect with Brad on<br />
Twitter @BradBurton and on<br />
website http://bradburton.biz/<br />
S: You spoken before about having a<br />
breakdown a few years ago, are you ok to<br />
talk about that?<br />
B: Yeah sure...Sometimes in life you<br />
end up making bad decisions and I was<br />
making bad decisions in both personal<br />
and business especially if you run a<br />
business <strong>your</strong> personal and business life<br />
are thesame thing..you don’t clock off at<br />
5:30 in self employed world. So I made a<br />
few bad calls you end up drinking more,<br />
trying to mask the issues and boom you<br />
end up having a breakdown. What I learnt<br />
from the whole thing was..Never to<br />
confuse Bad Luck with Bad Decisions.<br />
Interview By<br />
Steve Taylor<br />
www.uniquemediagroup.co.uk
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