For established business owners in Bournemouth and surrounding areas
Build a more profitable business that gives you your time back
Build Your Business Freedom
A live, four-hour workshop hosted by Rachel Foord and Mick Betteridge. Rachel is the creator of The Life-Led Business Blueprint.
You've worked hard to build your business. Now discover where to start making it work better for you.
Learn how to track the numbers that matter, give your staff clearer responsibilities and take control of your time — so the business you've built starts supporting your life, rather than taking it over.
- 24 November 2026
- 9am–1pm
- Bournemouth
- £27 per person, VAT included
- Maximum 24 attendees
Exact venue details are revealed when you book.
One morning. A maximum of 24 business owners. A chance to step back.
This is a live, in-person workshop in Bournemouth — away from the day-to-day demands of running your business.
Four hours to focus on your numbers, your team and your time, and explore what needs to change next.
You've built a business. Why does so much still depend on you?
There are customers to serve. Work to deliver. A team to manage.
But being the owner can still mean being the person everyone needs, all the time.
Maybe your staff come to you with questions they could be answering themselves.
Maybe you're busy, but you're not always sure whether the work is producing the profit you want.
And maybe the time you meant to keep for yourself disappears into another late finish.
So you answer the question. Make the decision. Finish the job yourself.
You tell yourself you'll get things organised when it quietens down.
But what if the answer isn't to keep doing more yourself?
What if it's to get clearer about your numbers, your team's responsibilities and where your time really goes?
That's where Build Your Business Freedom starts.
Three areas to start making your business work better for you
Track the numbers that really matter
Being busy doesn't tell you everything you need to know about profit. Explore how to get clearer about the numbers that matter in your business, so you can make better-informed decisions about what needs attention.
The aim: greater clarity about your profits — not just how much work you're doing.
Give your staff clear responsibilities
When responsibilities are unclear, questions and decisions can keep finding their way back to you. Discover how to make it clearer what people are responsible for and where they can take ownership within their roles.
The aim: a more reliable team, with fewer day-to-day decisions depending on you.
Take control of where your time goes
Working late can become a habit rather than a deliberate choice. Explore how to get clearer about where your time goes and what needs to change, so there is more room for the work that matters and the life outside it.
The aim: working late becomes the exception, not the routine.
24 November 2026 · 9am–1pm · Bournemouth · Maximum 24 attendees
This isn't about working even harder
It's about understanding what needs to change so the business you've worked so hard to build starts supporting your life, rather than taking it over.
Build Your Business Freedom introduces The Life-Led Business Blueprint, Rachel's wider programme for business owners.
During this four-hour workshop, the focus is on three starting points: understanding your numbers, strengthening responsibility in your team and taking back control of your time.
You don't need to solve everything in one morning.
The purpose is to help you see where to start.
Practical ideas — not a morning that delivers nothing but a pitch
This is a four-hour workshop, not an event that promises to teach and then delivers only a sales presentation.
The focus is on practical ideas you can start applying to your numbers, your team's responsibilities and your use of time.
Refreshments are provided.
For owners with an established business — and more they want from it
This workshop is designed for owners in Bournemouth and surrounding areas who have already built a business, but want its success to translate into clearer control, stronger profit and more time for their life.
That includes:
- Trade businesses.
- Professional-service businesses, including accountants, solicitors, insurance advisers and financial planners.
- Health businesses and practices, including chiropractors, physiotherapists, opticians and dentists.
The strongest fit is an owner who has customers to serve, people to manage and too many things still relying on them personally.
If you've ever thought, "I've built a good business. I just don't want it to need quite so much of me," this workshop is designed with that challenge in mind.
Meet Rachel Foord and Mick Betteridge
Rachel Foord
25 years helping business owners improve how their businesses work
Over the last 25 years, Rachel has helped business owners improve their profits, strengthen their teams and take back control of their time.
She is a Coach of the Year finalist and the creator of The Life-Led Business Blueprint.
Her focus is helping owners start turning the business they've worked hard to build into one that supports their life, rather than takes it over.
At Build Your Business Freedom, Rachel will introduce that approach through your numbers, your team's responsibilities and your use of time.
Mick Betteridge
Mick Betteridge is co-hosting Build Your Business Freedom with Rachel Foord.
Mick is a multi-award-winning business coach: Business Enabler of the Year 2025, Coach of the Year Runner-Up (2022–2025), and winner at the Ferndown Business Awards (2023 and 2025).
Give yourself one morning to focus on the business — and the life it needs to support
Build Your Business Freedom
A live, in-person workshop hosted by Rachel Foord and Mick Betteridge.
- When
- 24 November 2026, 9am–1pm
- Where
- Bournemouth. Exact venue details are revealed when you book.
- Your place
- £27 per person, VAT included
- Group size
- Maximum 24 attendees
Refreshments are provided. Parking and a railway station are nearby.
Your £27 attendance-value guarantee
If you attend the workshop and genuinely feel you did not receive value, simply let us know at the event and we will arrange a full refund of your £27 attendance fee there and then.
Discover where to start with your numbers, your team and your time.
Frequently asked questions
You've built the business. Now start making it work better for you.
A more profitable business. A more reliable team. More control over your time.
If that's the direction you want to move in, join Rachel Foord and Mick Betteridge at Build Your Business Freedom.
- 24 November 2026
- 9am–1pm
- Bournemouth
- £27 per person, VAT included
- Maximum 24 attendees