Wize Mentoring - Brenton Ward

“I think mentoring is just one of the most undervalued, underused utilized education systems we have available to us.” - Brenton Ward

Brenton Ward started his first business at the age of 23 and 10 years on has founded and grown 3 companies to 7-figures in short periods of time. Brenton has a passion for working with experts in their field and bottling their knowledge to share with global audiences.

This has led him to co-found his most recent venture and passion project Wize Mentoring -  a membership platform and community dedicated to helping Accountants and Bookkeepers around the world build a firm that runs without them. Brenton is from Australia, but lives in Dublin Ireland with his wife and family.

Brenton shares with us his mentoring platform for accountants and bookkeepers worldwide who are stuck in their business. 👊

1. If you could take a time machine and go back in time, and you can change one life or business or both decisions. First off, would you change it? And if you would change it, what would you change it to?

Brenton: I would, it's interesting, actually, I probably wouldn't have started my business for maybe like another 18 months compared to when I actually did start it because to go back, it's probably 10 years now. I was working with a mutual connection of ours, Rob Nixon, who's one of the godfathers, of the coaching world for accounts around the world.

Spent three years with Robert, I was 23 at the time, and I was in that environment and being around someone like Rob, who for anyone who knows him is an incredible entrepreneur, a lot of energy. Now, this environment is just really, really sort of energizing in a way that it makes you think about well, do I have this flair? Should I be an entrepreneur? I've talked to Rob. Yeah, yes, I can visualize that. So he almost gives you the bug for you know, wanting to create your own destiny and take control of your own destiny.

So I decided at 23. Well, it was time to fly the nest.

And with Rob's blessing, he said, go on your way and do your thing. And I went out and started my own financial planning business because I was a financial planner by trade. And 18 months down the track, I think I was probably just a little bit early out of the gates, we were starting a business. I think if I'd spent another 18 months with Rob I would have gained some more knowledge and was better at building the foundations for a business.

I was probably a little bit cocky at that time, and thought I could do it all myself and do it better than what most people were doing. So I wouldn't change my path. And I wouldn't change my history because it's created and shaped what I've done today, but I probably would have not flown the nest for another 18 months or so

2.  If there's one decision, business life combination that you've made, that worked out super positive, do you have one of those that you could share?

Brenton: I do. And it's interesting, actually, because before this decision, business was my life, it was everything. That was my passion. That's what I did every day. It was what I thought about all hours of the day. But after this decision, it became the vehicle to allow me to live the life that I wanted to live rather than consume my life. So the decision itself was enterprise provides some sort of context.

And the big decision that you've asked is, I decided to pull up stumps and move my entire life from Australia to Ireland, and leaving two businesses behind. I was going back to Australia every six weeks from Dublin, which is a 24 hour plane ride, and working six weeks at a time. So it was a decent commute to work for two years. But that decision helped me make a lot of sort of flow and decisions with relation to my business.

3. Do you have methods, tools, techniques that you use for any kind of getting stuck that you use? And that you advise your clients that you could share?

Brenton: So each time I feel like I'm stuck, what I find is if I keep myself in the same environment in which I'm stuck in, I don't find the answers. So these days, whether the stuck piece is a small bit or it's a really large decision, I actually changed my environment. I know it's probably not, you know, a huge out of oil thing but I just changed my environment and look at the stickiness from a different angle or look at the challenge from a different angle.

4. If you had to start from scratch? What would you do from here?

Brenton: Yeah, there's two things, I think I'm fairly bias on the first one, because it's what I do for a living now on some mentoring, I would be finding someone who has done whatever it is I want to do, because they exist out there in some way, shape, or form. And I'd be learning from them or asking to learn off them. Because I just think mentoring is just one of the most undervalued, underused utilized education systems we have available to us. So that would be the first thing. And the second would be to, to not chase shiny things.

5. Is  there's anything that you wanted to close with, and anything that you had to offer to the listeners that might be able to help and support them.

Brenton: So if there's any business owners who want to want some support, or want to a soundboard or want to community that they'd like to get some feedback on how to build a business that works for them instead of them working for it, then we'd love for you to check out some of the resources that we have available. completely free online.

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Brenton Ward Contact Information:

LinkedIn Profile URL:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentonward

Email Address: [email protected]

Phone Number: +353 83 834 9068

Website URL: https://www.wizementoring.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wize.mentoring.92