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

From Betty: Being in business means being visible. Being ethical in business means being authentic in how we present ourselves.

The trouble is… Many of us carry wounds around being seen, accepted, and celebrated as the individual we are. Left untended, these wounds divide our will, i.e. we end up with conflicted desires:

Part of us wants to be visible to grow our businesses, but another part of us is absolutely dead set on staying well and truly within the shadows…

…whether that means literally hiding under the duvet (I've been there 🥸),

…or whether that means pretending to be someone we are not, so as not to stand out (I've also been there 🤫).

Not only is this BORING, but also… it doesn't WORK:

When we hide our personality, we hide the exact aspects that enable our perfect fit clients to find us, so we end up with people that aren't really a good match, or worse, no one at all.

It's time to drop the shoulds and start being UNAPOLOGETIC in your business.

Save your seat at Betty's free 2 hour authentic visibility masterclass now.

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