Our guest today on the Coal Face Stories Podcast, left his dream job, working with a great team of people he loved, making great money with great job security.
In order to create his vision and start his own business at the sametime as moving his family to a new country.
So it gives me great. please to welcome co-founder and CEO of The Five Percent Marcus Murphy to the podcast.
In today’s podcast Marcus will share
- What’s it like to be an American observing their country and the political process from the outside
- Growing up in rural America, being mentored and influenced by his grandfather and the importance of learning good old fashion values
- The honour of being asked back to speak at his old high school about leadership
- Failing early on as an entrepreneur
- His learning journey working in a variety of roles at Yelp, Infusionsoft and with Ryan Deiss at Digital Marketer
- That 95% of businesses fail in the first 5 years
- The importance of building solid foundations when starting a business
- Importance of having coaches and mentors to help on the journey
- His family’s move to live in London
- The vision for his new company The Five Percent
- How he found the perfect business partners Daniel Curtis and Alistair Graham from EMC3 to help turn the vision into reality
- The power of using stories
- His pet peeves about people and social media
- and so much more…
How to connect with Marcus Murphy
- Instagram: @marcusamurphy
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcusamurphy/
- Website: thefivepercent.com