Lisa Bean is a UK based motivational speaker, best-selling author and online business coach, teaching heart-led entrepreneurs and business owners how to manage their mindset for success, how to increase sales and how to develop their unique thought leadership to build successful businesses online.
As the founder of three six figure businesses, with over seven figures in personal sales, Lisa is an expert in online sales and has a proven record of creating offers, making sales and changing lives. Lisa has completed over 1000 hours of coaching with start up entrepreneurs, six and seven figure business owners and eight figure corporations, and has delivered training for NatWest and The Guardian.
Having overcome clinical depression by giving in to her purpose and speaking her truth, Lisa is a trauma informed coach and is studying towards her masters in psychology to deepen her understanding of how change works in the mind. Lisa will be pursuing her doctorate in psychology following her masters.
Lisa’s first self-help memoir, First Sh!t Version, was self-published through an editorial company in 2020 and sold over 4,400 copies through word of mouth and Amazon searches. The book reached number two in the Kindle charts, number six in the paperback charts and number one in ‘hot new releases’. Lisa was shortlisted for Penguin’s WriteNow competition in 2020 (against 3,700 applicants).
Lisa is a keen cook, gym go-er and DIY-er and currently lives in the Northeast with her partner (Lucy), her step-daughter, a whippet and a tortoise. They’re midway through a renovation project and wondering what on Earth they were thinking.
HOW I GOT HERE:
I first started in business when I was 23. I left a Head Office corporate job in finance to launch my first company – a multiple six figure graduate recruitment company, which I sold and exited a few years later. Around the same time, I built a half a million-pound digital marketing agency, which I eventually shut down in order to pursue my true passion: purposeful businesses and entrepreneurship. DARETOGROW, my online education company, hit multiple six figures before I pivoted to step out under my own name and brand as a speaker, writer, coach and consultant.
In my early business years I learnt three key things: (1) If you don’t have a proper plan for your money, you will spend it and likely overspend it. (2) Of course you can help everyone, it’s just not smart marketing to attempt it! Businesses who attempt this look impressive, but don’t make money. (3) Your blueprint as an entrepreneur will play out in your sales, positioning, profit and success. In fact, your life and business results will show your blueprint, if you can find the courage to look.
To scale your business, therefore, you must change the way you see yourself, learn new skills in sales and marketing implement a proper strategy for online marketing, profitable sales and operational growth.
AFTER A DECADE IN BUSINESS, I NOW BELIEVE THAT…
Your blueprint is running the show. You have subconscious beliefs about what is normal, possible, and appropriate for you. To change your results in life and business you must increase your consciousness over that blueprint and change it!
Clarity = movement. Making a decision and knowing it’s the right move gives you energy and a clear path forward. Knowing what you do and standing for something is worth far more than sitting in a sea of opportunities with no clear way forward.
You only really need to do two things in business to make sales: (1) Decide on your offer and finish it, and (2) Learn how to get the right kind of person to consider it and show it to them. The rest accelerates these two things.
Business won’t make you rich – investing wisely will. For the vast majority of people, your business won’t make you rich. Knowing what to do with the money you collect in your business WILL make you rich! As an entrepreneur, your first job is to collect cash and build cashflow by being useful. Your second job is to learn how to balance business growth with personal wealth, to build a truly rewarding life.
There are three levels to manifesting the life and business you want: Level one is DOING the work. This means taking action and building positive habits. Level two is organising and leveraging information. This is about upskilling, getting guidance, and learning how to leverage what you have. Level three is about getting into alignment with the life you’re choosing. This means removing the blocks, shifting your blueprint and getting into the emotion and energy of success. Put all three together and you have magic.
You’ll get there in the end. Trust your gut. Put in the work. Let go of things you’ve outgrown. And try, try again.