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This week, we talk to former Flint, Michigan mayor and current candidate Karen Weaver on her previous time in office, the water crisis, and the future of Flint.

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Learn today how you can leverage the opportunities that coincide with the governments most recent announcement of Lockdown 3.0. Join Rob as he describes ten ways in which you as an entrepreneur can make the most of lockdown, including inoculating yourself from mass fear to taking advantage of social medias newest platform Clubhouse discover how to make this lockdown count.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Inoculate yourself from the mass fear that could turn into anger. You cannot turn anywhere without having a conversation about the government, lockdown or pandemic. Whilst it is okay to read the news and get the facts and figures having numerous conversations every day about the pandemic can become draining and could cause you to become unproductive.
• Change the conversation. When people start talking to you about Covid-19 or lockdown, change the conversation. Talk about the new opportunity that comes with the new lockdown. Give people hope, leadership, vision and belief. Spin the conversation around for other peoples’ benefit as well as your own.
• Clubhouse is going viral. We all wait for the new social media platforms to go big and we all wish we had got into these platforms early. Clubhouse is great for increasing your followership, your brand and research. People in Clubhouse are talking about what is happening now and therefore it is a great opportunity to find out what the new problems, pains and solutions are.
• There are new problems in the world right now. The quicker you find them, the quicker you solve them and the more global they are means you will win big. An entrepreneur finds meaningful problems, creates meaningful solutions and scales it to as many people as possible on the planet.

BEST MOMENTS

“Energy is everything and right now there is a lot of black hole type of energy.”

“Leverage online. There is going to be so many more people online.”

“Marketing generates leads, leads create sales and with no sales, you have no business. Without marketing, you have no business.”

[Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors]

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ABOUT THE HOST

Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors”

“If you don't risk anything, you risk everything”

CONTACT METHOD

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LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979

disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

As the coronavirus grips the world, Trevor covers an Italian success story and the closing of the U.S.-Canada border, and Roy Wood Jr. discusses test access for A-listers.

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Trevor talks about how a false alarm caused by a backfiring motorcycle in Times Square demonstrates the state of terror that mass shootings have created in the U.S.

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