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Creating a Meaningful Business That Makes You Feel Good (And Does Good) with Laurence McCahill

Betty Cottam Bertels Season 3 Episode 4

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Laurence McCahill, together with his long-term friend and business partner, Carlos Saba, runs The Happy Start Up School, whose annual Summercamp in Sussex, England, is the UK hippy business owners event of the year -- where festival fun meets inspiring talks, workshops and invaluable network connections with like-minded entrepreneurs & change-makers from around the world. 

  • Laurence tells the story of how The Happy Startup School came to be; from starting out with a design agency with co-founder Carlos; and feeling there was something missing somehow
  • The evolution of Summercamp – from a one day event in Hyde Park and the evolution into a three day festival-style event
  • Laurence on how growing up in pubs and in an Irish family gave him the vision for a more relaxed, authentic style of networking
  • The power of letting go & saying “we need help” 
  • The Summercamp Church of Fail - Betty on deciding to share her “fail” – and how it turned out not to be a fail after all
  • The increased need for authenticity in business in the modern times - bringing your whole person to your business
  • Laurence; we are bringing wellbeing & business together
  • Betty on how being at Summercamp felt like finally being at home
  • Laurence’s favourite moment of Summercamp
  • Laurence tells the story behind Alptitude, a week-long retreat for business owners
  • Betty asks Laurence for tips on starting & running an event
  • The importance of finding a good venue
  • What to avoid when launching an event
  • Being ok with saying “I don’t know what I’m doing”
  • Laurence on his and Carlos’s group coaching program Vision 2020
  • Covid and cancelling Summer camp
  • What / who is the happy start up school for?
  • Laurence on his new podcast ‘50 WTF?’
  • Laurence on a near fatal accident while backpacking in New Zealand, and how that has impacted his life

The Happy Start Up School website: https://thehappystartupschool.com/
Alptitude, Summercamp & other events: https://thehappystartupschool.com/events/

Laurence on LI: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/laurencemccahill

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