The Power of Listening and Service in Business with Nicky Billou

In this episode we welcome Nicky Billou, a business coach and thought leader, who shares his insights on achieving success and mindfulness. Nicky discusses his journey toward mindfulness, emphasizing the importance of shifting focus from self to others in business interactions, the power of making a decision, being coachable, and having a coach. He also differentiates between an expert and a thought leader, emphasizing the importance of focus, clarity, and a willingness to serve a specific niche.

Here are three key takeaways that can help us all enhance our personal and professional lives:

🔹The Power of Service Over Money: Nicky's transformative story of Dan, a personal fitness coach, illustrates that focusing on serving people's unique needs rather than financial gains can lead to unexpected and monumental success. Dan went from struggling to thriving by shifting his focus to helping people with missing limbs, signing up 400 clients in just 6 weeks.

🔹Building Towards a Greater Purpose: Alan offers a poignant analogy of goal achievement by likening it to building a cathedral. This mindset encourages us to imbue our work and aspirations with a higher purpose, positively impacting others and attracting goodwill and success in the process.

🔹The "4 P's of Business": Nicky emphasizes the intersection of people, problems, profit, and purpose as the core of any successful business. His father's wisdom that business is about solving people's problems at a profit, enriched with service and contribution, provides a timeless blueprint for alignment and fulfillment.

Connect with Nicky via his website: https://www.thethoughtleaderrevolution.com/about

Grab Nicky's book here: https://www.thethoughtleaderrevolution.com/free-book-thought-leaders-journey

About Alan:

Alan Carroll is an Educational Psychologist who specializes in Transpersonal Psychology. He founded Alan Carroll & Associates 30 years ago and before that, he was a Senior Sales Training Consultant for 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation. He has dedicated his life in search of mindfulness tools that can be used by everyone (young and old) to transform their ability to speak at a professional level, as well as, to reduce the psychological suffering caused by the misidentification with our ego and reconnect to the vast transcendent dimension of consciousness that lies just on the other side of the thoughts we think and in between the words we speak.

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