Beyond profit and growth, what really matters in business? For many entrepreneurs, it’s not just about building wealth but about aligning work with their values. It’s also about honoring personal freedom and creating space for the life they truly want. True success isn’t measured only in numbers or revenue charts. It’s measured in the impact you leave behind and the legacy you create.
In this episode of The Best Business Podcast, host Daryl Urbanski talks with Glenn Bridges. He is a seasoned entrepreneur and mentor who has helped countless business owners 3X their revenue. He began with a youth-focused charity built on almost nothing. Today, he is recognized as a leader in sales, webinars, and joint ventures. Glenn’s journey is a testament to resilience, creativity, and designing a business around the life you actually want to live.
Prepare to uncover practical insights on building a business that fits your lifestyle. Learn how to build genuine relationships and create momentum through joint ventures. Are you looking for the freedom to shape your own path? Then this conversation will help you cut through the noise and focus on what truly matters.
Why You Should Listen to the Full Interview
- Learn how to specialize and carve your niche in the business ecosystem for maximum impact.
Discover how to build a business that supports your lifestyle using sales automation and joint ventures
Understand why deeply aligning your business with your personal values leads to long-term success and freedom.
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Interview Highlights
Glenn Bridges on Designing Your Life by Redefining Business
- Daryl opens with a reminder that too many entrepreneurs let business consume their life instead of designing it to support their dream lifestyle.
- Glenn Bridges joins as a trusted coach and dealmaker known for selling high-ticket offers via webinars and aligning business with lifestyle values.
- The episode talks about how to build a business that funds the life you love, not one that drains it.
- Glenn’s unusual entry into marketing came from necessity while launching a personal development charity from scratch.
From Nonprofit Epiphany to Business Philosophy
- Founding a youth-oriented charity gave him a trial-by-fire education in sales, marketing, and relationship building.
- With zero budget, he leaned on joint ventures, referrals, and service excellence to generate growth.
- He saw firsthand how transformational outcomes create powerful word-of-mouth engines.
- The experience taught him to dedicate energy to sales and marketing first, then everything else follows.
Why Most Businesses Overcomplicate Everything
- He explains that entrepreneurs often sabotage momentum by layering on unnecessary funnels, tools, and steps.
- Complication is often a mask for fear, a way to avoid direct conversations or simple offers.
- “If you can’t sell, nothing else matters,” he stresses; focus on leads and conversions first.
- Instead of 16-step systems, start lean: send an email, pick up the phone, test an offer.
The Transformative Power of Joint Ventures
- Joint ventures became his growth engine, low-cost, high-trust, and rooted in positive alignment.
- Strategic partnerships let solopreneurs borrow audiences and credibility they couldn’t build alone.
- Done well, these collaborations preserve energy and resources while multiplying reach.
- Glenn underscores the “three wins” rule: every JV must honor the client, partner, and you.
Selling 5-Figure Offers with Heart
- Glenn helps clients move from charging £50/hour to creating £5,000–£12,000 transformational programs.
- Selling at this level is less about “what’s in the box” and more about the outcome delivered.
- Clients invest in results that improve their family, health, or business, not in a checklist of calls.
- His approach reframes sales as service: honoring the result over the mechanics.
Your Business Should Meet Your Emotional Needs
- He introduces a director’s view of business design: it must meet both financial and emotional needs.
- Drawing on Tony Robbins’ six human needs, he shows how ignoring variety, connection, or significance backfires.
- A misaligned business creates resistance; one that honors personal wiring fuels momentum.
- The guiding question: Will this structure support a full life or suffocate creativity?
Conquering the Fear That Paralyzes Progress
- Fear, not laziness, is the real barrier to most entrepreneurs; fear of rejection, failure, or even success.
- Overwhelm often disguises fear, leading to stalled projects and abandoned ideas.
- He urges imperfect action: simplify, test, and move, rather than hide in complexity.
- Mastering fear turns entrepreneurship into a path of growth, service, and self-respect.
Freedom Beyond Finances: Five Levels of Life Design
- He outlines five freedoms every entrepreneur should aim for: time, financial, location, obligation, and expression.
- Many focus only on money or mobility, but neglecting the rest leaves them feeling unfulfilled.
- Expressive freedom, the ability to be yourself fully, maintains joy across all areas.
- True success is building an ecosystem where income, identity, and lifestyle are in harmony.
The Most Important Strategic Question
- Glenn Bridges challenges listeners to ask daily: “Is this business feeding the life I want — or consuming it?”
- Simplification is a sign of strength; it ensures sustainability for you, your staff, and your clients.
- A business built only on revenue goals risks burnout; a business built on values creates resilience.
- In the end, he reminds us to remember: entrepreneurship should honor your life, relationships, and legacy.
Glenn Bridges – Managing Director of Get Velocity & Purpose-Driven Business Strategy Coach
Glenn Bridges is the Managing Director of Get Velocity, a performance-based marketing agency. They work exclusively with coaches, consultants, and course creators to sell high-ticket offers. Based in Cheshire, UK, Glenn is known for his ability to keep business simple, high-leverage, and aligned with the life you want.
Before his work with high-end entrepreneurs, Glenn cut his teeth in the nonprofit world. He was a member then and today founded a youth development charity. This experience forced him to learn marketing. Through this, he learned sales, partnerships, and referral systems from scratch. Over time, he merged that foundation with strategic mastery in webinars, joint ventures, and simplified sales systems. His clients span fitness coaches, creatives, and consultants. This even includes Aston Martin representatives.
Glenn is much more than a mentor. He is also a student of life and deeply committed to his friends, love, and family. He is committed to honoring the human side of business. He helps entrepreneurs transition from overworked hustlers to intentional, profitable business owners. Entrepreneurs who preserve their health, relationships, and spirit. When not strategizing, Glenn dedicates himself to his family, staff, and the higher mission of impact.
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