Scaling Trade-Based Businesses with The Apprentice Winner Joseph Valente

This week on Don’t Get Left Out In The Cold host Mick Norris is joined by Joseph Valente, winner of BBC show The Apprentice, best selling author and entrepreneur. 

Joseph speaks on being expelled from school at 15 and how this led him to start working as a tradesman. He also shares the impact reading Alan Sugar’s Biography had on his mindset and how it had a hand in convincing him to set up his company ‘Impragas’ at 22; which was turning over 600k a year by the time he was 25 years old.

 

Joseph also talks about his experience on Alan Sugar’s business-focused reality game show The Apprentice and how he was able to run his business while being on the show for 9 weeks. He details the aftermath of winning the competition and what impact that had on Impragas.

 

Joseph built Trade Mastermind after realising that trade workers needed help to go from construction workers to business people. He gives countless stories and lessons in business most of note being on the power of persistence.

 

In this episode you will hear:

 

• Joseph’s entrepreneurial journey
• Building his 600K a year business ImpraGas
• The experience of winning the apprentice
• Helping construction workers gain business skills using Trade Mastermind
• The importance of persistence

 

To connect with Mick or for more information on M & R Plumbing and Heating head to ​​https://www.mr-group.co.uk/ 

 

Don’t Get Left Out In The Cold - brought to you by M & R Plumbing and Heating - is a show for tradespeople, by tradespeople. This is the podcast that gives tradesmen and tradeswomen a voice, where the real talk of life as a tradesperson can be heard and it's a place for like  gh journey and this podcast is designed to help you understand that transition, from the perspective of people who are out there doing this every day.