Start-up to Scale-up with Channel 4 Ventures: Scaling to Success with Nikki Wicks
In this exclusive series I interview five distinguished entrepreneurs, courtesy of Channel 4 Ventures, starting with the incredible Nikki Wicks, CEO of The Body Coach. He shares fascinating insights on the evolution of their business, their content strategies, the shift to mobile app development, and the challenges and opportunities in separating a personal brand from the business. Ideal for small business owners, course creators, membership owners, and coaches looking to understand the dynamics of scaling a business and attracting investment, this episode highlights the importance of investment when scaling a business. Full of practical tips and inspiring stories, you’re going to love it! KEY TAKEAWAYS COVERED IN THE PODCAST If you enjoyed this episode then please feel free to go and share it on your social media or head over to Apple podcasts or Spotify and give me a review, I would be so very grateful. LINKS TO RESOURCES MENTIONED IN TODAY’S EPISODE Connect with Nikki Wicks on Linkedin Connect with Teresa on Website, The Club, Sign up to Teresa's email list, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter Transcript Teresa: Hello and a really warm welcome back to this week's episode of the Your Dream Business Podcast. And this week I have something very special for you. You see, we're not just doing one episode like [00:01:00] normal. We're actually doing. Five, which I know sounds a bit crazy, but I have a super special podcast series that we're doing for this week only. You see some time ago, I was invited by channel four to go to their offices in London because they were having an event alongside other media sort of business outlets and leaders in business. amazingly got invited along to go and see what they were doing. And as part of this, I have put together a special series of podcast episodes. As part of this event, they had four really amazing entrepreneurs come along and talk about various things. And I was given access to these entrepreneurs and the ability to interview them for the podcast. So this is going to be really, really cool because I have got some people who are coming up that you will probably recognize their [00:02:00] business names, if not their names. For those of you who are not in the UK, Channel 4 is one of our main channels. So like the BBC, you'd probably know about that if you're not in the UK. Channel 4 is one of those channels. So it's, you know, one of the first four channels that we UK. So it's quite a big deal from my point of view to be part of this. But basically, Channel 4 has an arm of their business called Channel 4 Ventures and it's an investment team within Channel 4 that specializes in media for equity, where high growth, unprofitable startups exchange shares, i. e. equity in their business for Channel 4's advertising space. So if you want some investment in your business rather than getting money, you can do that. You will get advertising and Channel 4 would get a, you know, part...