HEY I'M KAZ
I built Grow Inspire because I've spent my working life watching people I care about and people I've worked for put everything into a dream, and then see it fall apart.
The financial pressure would start to mount, or the whole thing would start going in a direction they never intended, or the founder would end up doing work they should have handed over years ago, keeping everything in their head because letting go felt too risky. And the dream - the thing that started all of it - would get further and further away from them.
I've had five redundancies of my own and I've seen family businesses lost, and spent years working inside businesses watching founders lose their way when the right support could have made all the difference.
I found it genuinely sad - because these weren't people who failed through lack of effort or lack of ability.
They stopped leading from their vision, and without that the wrong decisions became a lot easier to make. Because without the vision as an anchor, every outside voice starts to sound like the right one.
That's why I started Grow Inspire.
WHAT I ACTUALLY DO
I'm not a coach and I'm not a consultant - I'm a visionary sidekick, which is the only phrase that really captures what this is.
The image I always come back to is a founder lost in a forest - surrounded by trees, by ideas, by tasks, by everyone else's opinions - working hard but going in circles because they can't see past what's right in front of them. The visionary sidekick isn't in the forest with them. They're above it, with a clear view of the founder, the dream they're trying to reach, and the route between the two - and the job is to help the founder navigate their own way there, not to take over the wheel.
What I see again and again is founders who aren't struggling because they don't know what to do - they're struggling because everything they've taken on has worn down the confidence they started with, and the constant outside input has made it harder and harder to trust their own judgment. My job is to help them get back to that - to hear themselves again, back themselves again, and lead from that place rather than react from it.
I work with every founder on three foundations - knowing themselves and their vision clearly enough to make decisions from it, knowing their audience deeply enough to speak to them honestly, and building the right team around them so they can operate as the leader their business needs rather than the person doing everything.
Confidence is what connects all three, and so are the beliefs that undermine it - and working on those is where everything else begins to move.
A BIT ABOUT ME
Outside of Grow Inspire I'm a mum, which keeps me grounded in what actually matters, and I'm happiest at a gig - preferably something loud - or somewhere near the ocean with enough space to think.
I've been to Las Vegas ten times and I'm still not bored of it, I trained as a beauty therapist before going back to college in 2009 to retrain as a marketer, and I've been fascinated by people and what drives them ever since.
I'm an Aquarius, which probably explains the need for freedom and doing things my own way.
FUN FACTS
FUN FACTS FUN FUN FACTS
FUN FACTS
FUN FACTS FUN FUN FACTS
I’m an Aquarius - which probably explains my need for space, freedom, and doing things differently.
I’m a boy mum, my son keeps me grounded, curious, and laughing when life gets too serious.
City living is not for me. If I could live anywhere it would be next to the ocean, or a huge lake.
I'm a fully trained beauty therapist, but went back to college 2009 to train as a Marketer.
I’ve been to Las Vegas ten times, and I’m still not bored of it!
I couldn’t live without music - Metal, Rock, and Punk keep me sane.
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