You folks REALLY got a lot out of the recent special video edition podcast around the subject of ‘mentors’ with Paul McFadden. So much so, that you flooded us with feedback, messages, comments, and most important – questions! And so, Richard managed to convince Paul to come back on the podcast and on the screen, to answer the most burning questions from our listeners. As usual, Paul was completely open and never shirked a question. He bared his soul on some very personal insights, and he gave great value and information in reply to every listener question. Listen in, look on, and learn even more about the power of using a mentor to succeed…

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• There are people who should NOT work with mentors; who are they…
• The uncomfortable phase with a mentor that made Paul reassess some of the personal changes that he was experiencing…
• From gigantic paradigm shifts to tiny little tweaks, which all provide great results…
• From using a credit card to pay for education, to paying out 6 figures for a mentor without thinking about it…
• It’s not just in business or property that a mentor can help you develop and evolve into the best version of yourself…

In today's show, Richard sits down again with recent guest Jim Tebbett - Senior Compliance Executive at the Advertising Standards Authority.

Jim very kindly agreed to a Round 2 podcast to go even deeper and more detailed into the world of property, and how the ASA can support and guide us in keeping things right in some very specific areas...

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• Why the property sector is high on the agenda for the ASA to monitor...
• The do's and the don'ts of describing your properties...
• Fees: is everything above board and compliant...
• How auctions are covered, and the curious world of Property Raffles...
• You can claim to be #1 no problem, but you better be ready to back it up...

This morning's show comes from a holiday setting on the wonderful Isle of Anglesey.

Richard keeps you up-to-date with all the latest news from This Week In Property and from PMW...

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Mentor, business coach, life coach, accountability partner... Whatever label you want to choose, what is the power of such a person? Is it worthwhile? Is it crucial? Does it lead to success? How do you find one, and how do you work with one? Richard chats with Paul McFadden in this very special edition VIDEO podcast for This Week In Property...

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• The classic rags to riches: from impoverished city childhood to Gleneagles mansion...
• The key ways that an external mentor can pinpoint the areas for change and expansion...
• Why mindset is the foundation for ALL ventures and paths...
• How not to be an Askhole with your mentor...
• The many different ways you can work with a mentor to fine tune your success...
• Much more than just business and money...

In today's show, Richard sits down with Jim Tebbett - Senior Compliance Executive with the Advertising Standards Authority. Jim's lengthy experience and day-to-day knowledge of advertising, rules, and regulations, was the perfect backdrop for a conversation that will provide property professionals and business owners with some great resources, materials and pointers on advertising to our customers in the right way...

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In today's show, Richard sits down with Tom Jones, CSO of Airsorted. With promises of "Hassle Free Hosting" and how they'll "Look After Everything", Airsorted have set a high bar for standards. And being the world's largest management company for Airbnb, it's a high bar they insist on reaching every time...

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• The exciting and fast-paced world of startups, PropTech, and global domination...
• Learning from the hassles of landlord and tenant alike, and then seeking to cure those hassles as a business model...
• The enormous potential for income that lies in wait for lots of properties and their owners...
• How you could be up and running by the very next day...

In today's show, Richard sits down with Harry Downes, Managing Director of Fizzy Living. What started as a pioneering initiative in 2012 has grown to a highly successful venture, which delivers a viable long-term solution to providing high-quality homes for the private rental sector on a large scale...

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• Learn how Harry identified a gap in the market that he not only filled through successful partnerships, but has made that gap become a recognised sector in its own right...
• How landlords should consider The Amelia Test in selecting the right properties for their tenants...
• Moving on from the ancient mantra of an Englishman's home being his castle...
• Going the extra mile for your customers to keep them happy and to enable them to guide your business evolution...
• Hiring and organising the correct "Bob" and working with a smile on your face...

In today's show, Richard sits down with fellow PMW colleague, and previous podcast guest, Sean McIntyre to open up the digital mailbag and answer questions from the listeners. In a wide-ranging conversation, they tackle questions from around the country, tackling the subjects of property and business...

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• The raw truth and hardships of taking on a property journey...
• The different ways that someone can make the jump from their career into property investment or property trading...
• Forecasts and opinions about Brexit and UK interest rates...
• Challenging trades people, collapsing deals, and the scourge of broken boilers...
• The real fears and blocks faced in business, and the ways to get past them...

In today's show, Richard sits down with a small group of people who have attended the very latest Property Protege Intensive event with PMW. Janet Downing, Kerry Cattell, Simon Bourke, Martin Casserly, and David Degnan have sat down only a couple of days after the intense rollercoaster that is Property Protege...

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• The childhood experiences that are the fires lit underneath the desire for more from life...
• Discussing the fun, the challenges, the comfort stretches, the information, and the wealth of knowledges delivered in Protege...
• The plans and strategies for moving forward, and how some are already off and running after only a couple of days...
• Discussing the personal WHYs of wanting to play in the game of property...

In today's show, Richard gets to chat to not 1 but 3 fabulous guests, and the theme of the chat is property in Ireland. Brian Farrell, Fran Gaffney, and Gary Logue, chat about the country and its culture around land and property, and dig into a thousand fascinating little topics that will inform and entertain listeners...

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• The bigger picture: the culture, the Tiger Economy, The Crash, and looking ahead...
• Negative Equity: the startling statistics and how it affects the strategies of deal structuring...
• How to get around your obstacle of not having enough time to cover all the tasks of building your property business...
• How to get around your obstacle of not having your own money to invest in deals...
• The integrity and ethics of working properly with people, and ideas for longer terms and building legacies...
• How the passion and interest in your property business will drive you farther and quicker, but how patience is also essential...

In today's show, Richard chats to a property expert in the big smoke of London. Leslie Asante-Ntoni has been involved in property in the city and seen lots of changes in certain Boroughs of the city. And he shares that knowledge, those opinions, and those deals with the listeners. He also invests in another English city, and we discuss the details there too. But behind his business, his success, and his drive, is a powerful life changing incident from his youth...

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• The fork in the road moment that led Leslie to choose the path that he's currently on...
• Knowing your area, your market, and your customer...
• How to invest and run projects at a distance...
• Family negotiations and the power of a promised kitchen...

In today's show, we get to go behind the scenes at the early launch phase of an interesting new system created to help First Time Buyers get onto the property market. Richard sits down with an interesting young gentlemen called Osei, to learn all about his venture called Huuti...

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• Osei is the classic entrepreneurial tale of 'scratching your own itch'...
• The fascinating world of FinTech and how Financial and Technology products can help to solve offline problems...
• Helping someone understand their finances, credit score, and mortgage profiling...
• Beta testing, VC funding, mentors, and the Pursuit of Happiness...

In today's show, Richard sits down with an amazing, and hilarious, father and daughter team: Gordon and Dani Spence. Although heavily involved in the property world, it's their other successful family business that Richard delves into. And it's a subject that can help many property professionals out there protect their portfolios and wealth for their partners, for their children, and for future generations...

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• Cake in a Death Cafe...
• Have you REALLY protected and secured your important portfolio...
• The 2 single most important documents you should have in place as insurance to protect your property business...
• The most challenging cases that Gordon has dealt with, technically and emotionally...
• Why Gordon and Dani are passionate and fulfilled with the help they give others...

In today's show, Richard hits another spot in the UK to chat about all things property. This time it's the Kingdom of Fife in Scotland, and property investor and business owner Jay Turner is the local expert sharing his views and insights from the area...

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• Hear how Fife is producing some of the cheapest deals and the biggest returns for investors from all over...
• Jay's successful lettings empire is building upwards and outwards...
• What kind of person should be a letting agent, and what kind shouldn't...
• Facing challenges and setbacks with business partners and broken deals...
• How Jay's entrepreneurial mind has captured a 3-point-plan to combine multiple successful areas in property...
• Rent-to-rent, PRT, COC: Jay cracks all the jargon and offers his opinions to help others trying to get into property...

Richard sits down with Wealth Manager Stuart Duffin to chat about all things wealth related. Property is an incredible investment tool, but it's just one tool, and one part of your overall wealth picture...

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• Are you protecting your portfolio properly...
• Why you should empty out that Cash ISA immediately...
• What are the nuts and bolts of Diversification...
• Pensions Freedom and how you must ensure you've got the right product these days...
• Risk adversity, phases of life, and planning for growth, for security, and for your family...

In today's show, Richard sits down with Paul McFadden to discuss a skill used in every area of your property business: Negotiation. From buyers, to sellers, to agents, to builders, and everyone in between, you have to communicate and negotiate to find success...

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• It's not just money that we negotiate on...
• Why is negotiation such a bad word...
• Don't negotiate; just have a conversation...
• The right mindset for dealing with a motivated seller....
• The 10 Golden Rules of Negotiation...
• Helping people to make their own decision...
• Property deals: it's never really about the money...

In today's show, Richard sits down with Laura Chapman from Chapmans Property Lettings & Management. They discuss everything lettings related from the new PRT legislation, to Code of Conduct changes, to the relationships that the agent has with both landlord and tenant. Laura offers a ton of insights for listeners to learn from, and to help ensure the success of your property portfolio...

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• Private Residential Tenancy, and how we need to understand and adapt to it...
• Code of Conduct and how the best agents will work to it and deliver the best service...
• The key relationships that the letting agent has with landlord and tenant alike...
• The property market: local, regional, and national...

In today's show, Richard kidnaps a small group of students who have literally just finished the 4-day intensive kick-starter course known as Property Protege. We get to hear the real stories from real people. From London to the north of Scotland, and all in between, these are the tales of real people and where they are in their lives and what they're aiming to achieve....

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• Hear just how rigorous and challenging Property Protege can be...
• The group discuss the sections they found the most fun and motivating...
• From skeptic to advocate: some students openly admit how cagey they felt before the course, and how being on it has turned their entire mindset around...
• How one student was reduced to tears during the negotiation exercise, but thankfully it was all just part of the character...
• From their starting positions, with their challenges and real life situations, to the dream picture they're all aiming for...

In today's show, Richard sits down with the one and only Peter Sage, setting out to help many listeners' appeals for how they can deal with adversity. With a slew of enormous business successes under his belt, but also the authentic honesty about failures he's faced, Peter has walked the talk for many years. A serial entrepreneur, one of Tony Robbin's top trainers, and a teacher and mentor to hundreds of thousands of people in his own right, Peter has developed a philosophy, a framework, and very detailed steps on how we can all face and learn from the challenges and adversities that we must all face in both business and life...

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• Why you should start thinking of adversities as Graduation Events in your life...
• The concept of Power versus Force, and how you can master it to succeed in the game of life...
• From collapsed deals, to total business failures, to relationship issues, to losing family members, there's a reason and a lesson in them all...
• How those Rumble Strips in life are there to help us to grow, if we allow them to...
• How Peter faced his biggest life challenge in 2017, and completely took advantage of it, turning it into a giant opportunity to grow and contribute....

In today's show, Richard sits down with experienced Estate Agent Stuart Wylie to chat all things property. With a finger on the pulse in Glasgow, Stuart is able to offer great insights into the city's market, supply, demands, constraints, and growth. He also shares his opinions on the wider market, and the factors that influence it. And the talk ended up covering a ton of different perspectives, from buyers, sellers, investors, landlords, and everyone in between...

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• The do's and don'ts of presenting a property in the best light...
• Just how has the likes of Glasgow coped with the market, with Brexit, with interest rates, and with supply and demand...
• The investor's dilemma: to dress or not to dress...
• Where should we budget and scrimp, and where should we be lavish and confident...
• High Street v Online v Hybrid estate agents...
• What exactly to look for in an agent to get one of the good ones...

In today's show, Richard sits down with the inimitable Davy Hutton. Not to talk about income and taking in business, but balancing that with giving and philanthropy. In typical style, Davy openly shows his heart, touches on eventful life milestones, and all important connections with people, and how we can lead and help and give...

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• An artistic present from wee Cara, aged 9...
• The number 19880 on Davy's arm...
• Listen to the concept of anxiety being the 10% fear that can manage to eat up the 90% of your hope and dream if you let it...
• "Everyone has an effect on the world," so what is yours going to be...
• The 2 perspectives of losing a bag of money...
• The whole remarkable story of Corinne and Finding Your Feet
• Davy's traumatic experience of collapsing in a KFC car park...
• From the little girl in a red coat, to a blogger in a Calais refugee camp...

In today's show, Richard kidnaps 4 superstars from ALG's very own Platinum Mastermind Event to put another panel talk show together. He manages to quiz Gavin Bateman, Cheryl Gallagher, Laura Noble, and Ross Dougan about the latest chapters in their lives in the trenches of property investing. From a mix of UK locations, with different focuses, strategies, tactics and areas in the property world, the talk from the team is invaluable for listeners...

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• From sourcing, to trading, to 1st time buyer strategies, to Serviced Accommodation, to portfolio building, to flips - this is a group of professionals that cover a ton of areas in the property world...
• Hear their honest reviews of 2017, and the things and areas they plan to focus on for 2018...
• They lay their soul bare about the lessons they've learned and how they've changed in the last year, and give handy tips to help listeners starting out on their journeys...
• Think global; act local. This team have an awareness of UK and International investment, interest rate forecasts, and share their expert opinions about their own local areas...

In today's show, Richard sits down with Jan Alexander to discuss the all important element in business: people! With a long and illustrious career in some of the UK's top corporate structures, Jan has a wealth of experience in dealing and managing people effectively. We discuss the skills, approaches, and mindset that she has used when interacting with people, and how the quality of your personal connections is crucial to your business success...

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• Why you HAVE to become a people person in order to succeed...
• Why you must first understand, before you can be understood...
• Meetings and connections - why human relationships are slow builders and long-term projects...
• Why most people fail in their approach to meetings...
• Due diligence isn't just for property, it's for the people you're working with too...
• The surprise question that Jan asks her prospective builders to put them on the back foot and really open them up...
• Staff - how Jan hires slow, picks carefully, and trials for a month to find the best people...
• The headaches, the problems, the failures, and broken expectations - how to deal with them properly...
• You're not just building a business, you're building a personal brand - learn how you treat your people will strongly affect that brand...
• Learn how Jan has a fantastic relationship with someone, and yet they haven't even met so far...

Richard sits down with Jan Alexander to chat about the career jump that many property entrepreneurs have made, and many more workers in the corporate world dream of doing...

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• Jan - the identical twin from the 1950s who hasn't confirmed to the norms...
• From the insecurity of the theatre to the security of the corporate world and the first £8,000 home...
• The all important support of a partner...
• Leaning on the power of intuition to guide those big decisions...
• Mindset and self-belief - the power underlying all decisions and actions...
• Focus - the power that helped Jan jump ahead on her property path so quickly...
• Everyone is at different phases in their lives. Learning to realise where you are, your priorities, and how and when you can start your property journey...
• Respecting the job you have, and then using all other time to build your property business...
• Different paths for different people. Are you a ship burner or are you a parallel builder...
• Fears, doubts, and concerns - how do we face them and overcome them for taking the jump...
• Life-long learning - how you should embrace learning about your new entrepreneurial path after all your earlier educational and corporate learnings...
• Cashflow - the major factor in supporting your jump...

Richard sits down with Graham McCaig and Steven Clark to uncover the naked truth of property refurbishments. They delve into their current projects, previous mistakes, big wins, how they price their jobs, how they manage trades, how they run the numbers, an every detail that's essential for a successful refurb.

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• Hear Graham's story, which led him to be a top property investor...

• Learn how Graham's first project led him to make a profit BY ACCIDENT...

• Hear about Steven's childhood obsession with property, and what led him to where he is now, constantly doing countless deals...

• 2006 and Steven captures one of the fabled no-money-down deals...

• The joys and the risks of involving family in your refurb...

• The magic of equity and how you can put it to good use...

• Spotting a pattern of circumstances like repossessions during a crash, and being ready to take action...

• Dealing with that common obstacle of: "If property investing was that easy, everyone would be doing it!"...

• How risk can be calculated when calling upon funds from sources like credit cards...

• How the colourblind investor organised his outsourced property decoration from the other end of the country...

• Generating a revenue stream from project managing other investors' refurbs...

• The mistakes of NOT outsourcing and getting too involved with the work...

• How anyone can use their network to build up their refurb power team...

• How can you know if the quotes you're being given are accurate...

• A real life case study of a damp horror story...

• How Steven's social media profile has led to more business and more relationships...

• Nothing ever goes to plan.  Hear the naked truth about issues and nightmares, and how to face them...

• How having multiple viewpoints can reveal a saving or a better plan that you've not thought of...

• Velux windows, flat roofs, skylights, and planning permission - the guests dive into some real nitty-gritty details...

• Budgeting: an art form or a guessing game...

• Know your market, know your buyers, and work around them...

• The magic of the simple things like a shoe cupboard, downlights, or the choice of internal doors...

• If the guests could start over again, knowing what they know now, what changes would they make...