WHY TURNER INVEST?
Catherine & Stephen Turner first started in property investment and entrepreneurship in 2012. Turner Invest was then formally created a few years later in early 2015 with the tag line and aim, that still stands true today, of:
Catherine & Stephen Turner first started in property investment and entrepreneurship in 2012. Turner Invest was then formally created a few years later in early 2015 with the tag line and aim, that still stands true today, of:
"Empowering People To Live The Life of Their Dreams"
Initially, we achieved our aim by packaging and managing property investment deals for people in order to receive hands free monthly returns in addition to the capital growth of their property. We also Joint Ventured with inexperienced investors to us help achieve property flips (buying, refurbing and selling) where our partners benefitted from returns as well as experience.
Since then, Catherine & Stephen have grown and progressed from single let properties, flips & Houses of Multiple Occupation (HMOs) into Serviced Accommodation (SA) and have now been successfully running a SA business for 3 years. Along with this they started and are running a successful podcast (Leveraged Lifestyle), eCommerce & amazon business and evolved Turner Invest into the business education company it is now, delivering online courses in leverage, outsourcing, systemising and automation to people all over the globe, partnering with the UK's largest Property and Business Education Company.
Catherine & Stephen have developed and utilised their complimentary strengths over the years in the business, with Catherine mastering the art of being the front person of the businesses and Stephen running everything smoothly behind the scenes.
Catherine, as a mentor and public speaker, has now spoken in front of and inspired thousands of people into creating the lives of their dreams. She has spoken in front of thousands at the Entrepreneurs Bootcamp in Brighton, is a regular on stage at the UK's largest Property and Business Education Company in Peterborough and at multiple large business events in London. Plus, Catherine has successfully launched Leveraged Lifestyle podcast to Number 1 in all business iTunes podcast chart and inspires thousands through webinars and events such as Project Inspire and the GoSustain (London Sustainability Summit).
Stephen has managed to utilise his 13 years of management accountancy skills to efficiently systemise and leverage all of our businesses and mentors other business owners to create the same for their businesses. The SA business now takes Stephen just 4 hours per week to run with no work required at all from Catherine. Stephen had developed all of our internal operating procedures, turning these into training videos for Life Leverage Online Masterclass, and uses them to help other entrepreneurs and business owners successfully hire their Virtual Assistants (VAs) in a hassle free, systemised way through The VIVA Club.
In line with their business values (see below), Catherine and Stephen are between them part of four separate masterminds, covering business, property, speaking and podcasting to ensure they continue their learning & growth and can provide the most up-to-date information, knowledge and experience to the people they mentor.
Catherine, Stephen and the rest of the Turner Invest team are motivated and committed to share their knowledge to empower thousands more business owners and 'would-be entrepreneurs' to create the life of their dreams. Meet the team below.
OUR VISION
Catherine & Stephen's personal vision was to achieve complete freedom in order to travel the world, raise their family & inspire others to do the same.
Complete freedom for them meant:
Catherine & Stephen's personal vision was to achieve complete freedom in order to travel the world, raise their family & inspire others to do the same.
Complete freedom for them meant:
Freedom in all three areas giving the ideal mobile lifestyle |
Our Mobile Lifestyle Freedom Vision
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OUR METHODOLGY
Business Values:
Unacceptable Values:
We detail out unacceptable values in order to fully communicate to our team and the people that we work with, what will not be accepted. This ensures that the whole team (for all of our businesses) are working towards the business vision and in accordance with the business values listed above.
Our Methodology:
Business Values:
- Growth, education & innovation - this includes continual learning & development for personal & business growth across all of our businesses and team members. We aim to inspire and empower people to grow, develop and reach for more, by sharing our learning and experiences through the services we offer.
- Trust, honesty & reliability - this means delivering what we say we will, with excellent internal and external communication.
- Add value to everyone we come across - always provide good quality content and value from our blogs, podcasts and newsletters through to our online masterclass and masterminds, whilst treating people as we'd want to be treated.
- Live the life we promote - we promote and believe in financial, time & location freedom, achieved by systemising, outsourcing and scaling your business. If we were unable to achieve this mobile business vision, it would not be right to promote it. Therefore, we always run our businesses and life in this manner to ensure we are up-to date with our learning, technology & systems to ensure the information we share is current and of great value.
- Only promote what we truly believe - only delivering services and information that we would be happy with and only promoting those that we use ourselves
- Be morally, ethically and environmentally sound - this include taking care of one another and of others investments & interests, providing excellent service, as timely and effectively as possible, getting the details right, respecting our environment to do all we can to protect it
- Work towards the UNs sustainability goals - Catherine & Stephen both try to live in line with the UNs sustainability goals which is cascaded down across our businesses. For example, each of our Serviced Apartments are Toilet Twinned which provides much needed santitary facilities to developing countries.
- Give back - whether this is through our blogs and podcasts, or supporting local charity events (most recently helping raise money for a local special needs school in Chelmsford), Turner Invest and the Directors are always looking to give back where they can.
Unacceptable Values:
We detail out unacceptable values in order to fully communicate to our team and the people that we work with, what will not be accepted. This ensures that the whole team (for all of our businesses) are working towards the business vision and in accordance with the business values listed above.
- Selfishness
- Poor content/content for contents sake
- Not caring for the customers/community
- Causing harm or distress to another
- Corruption, fraud or misrepresentation
Our Methodology:
Meet the Team
Catherine Turner - Founder / Director
Expert Speaker / Property Investor / Entrepreneur / Multi-Business Owner / Podcast Host
When Catherine discovered property investing in 2012 she was looking for a different way, a way out of trading time for money, a way to make a real difference. Catherine has always worked in roles that served others, but never felt it was making a difference on a personal level. With property investing she could see it’s true potential, beyond it allowing her to give up a job that she had become disillusioned with, it would give her a way to help others on a deeper level. Yes, on a mechanical level investing in property can make your money work harder for you, but what can having money that is working harder for you really mean?
It means more time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do, whether that is to see more of the world, give to and support charity with your time, to see more of your family and support them achieve their dreams, to go on that grand adventure of a lifetime or it could just be for the simple things in life, like the peace of mind that comes with knowing all the bills are covered before they even come in.
Catherine has always had the entrepreneurial bug since sitting in GCSE Business Studies wanting to be her own boss. She remembers hatching plans with dancer friends, after the weekly Saturday morning dance class about how they could start their own dance and drama school. In fact, this bug started even earlier with lunchtime meetings at Primary School to set up a school magazine. However, it was only on meeting her now Husband and Business Partner, Stephen that Catherine found the confidence to take the leap of faith and has from then onwards been on the steady road to financial freedom through property investing. She has been a hands-on landlord since 2012 and has experience in single-lets and houses of multiple occupation (HMOs).
Having worked on a number of Joint Ventures (JVs) Catherine has seen what works well and what doesn’t. She loves working with others, whether they be at the beginning of the their investment journey or whether they have been doing it since before she was born. She feels you can learn from everybody, you just need to listen hard enough to find out what that is. She finds it inspiring to work with other female entrepreneurs and young people, their passion and drive is incredible.
Outside of property and business Catherine can usually be found making healthy foods which she posts on The Inspiring Vegan instagram page, listening and dancing to uplifting music, watching thought-provoking dramas and documentaries and making lists of new places to travel to with her husband, Stephen, and their children, on the income they generate through our investments.
Stephen Turner - Founder / Director
Qualified Management Accountant / Certified Project Manager / Property Investor / Entrepreneur / Multi-Business Owner
Stephen joined the world of property investing slightly after Catherine. Stephen always supported his partner and her decisions, but since attending his first property and self-development course in 2013, Stephen has not looked back.
As a qualified management accountant (CIMA) and project manager (Prince2) Stephen knew what it took to take their individual property investing and form a business that could assist others to invest in property no matter what their background. Stephen is renowned for his calculator brain, his love of spreadsheets, his tightly managed budgets and easy to read financial forecasts and statements.
Outside of property Stephen can usually be found outside running, listening to his favourite inspirational audio books, and sharing on his page The Bookrunner, playing football and enjoying new experiences in different places around the world with his wife, Catherine, and their children.
As husband and wife, Stephen and Catherine knew they had complementary strengths that would lend well to being in business together and so formed Turner Invest with the aim of taking what they had learned both in theory and in practice and share that in a way that was easily accessible to people who wanted hands free investment opportunities or to build a successful, mobile business of their own, without it becoming another 'job'.
Expert Speaker / Property Investor / Entrepreneur / Multi-Business Owner / Podcast Host
When Catherine discovered property investing in 2012 she was looking for a different way, a way out of trading time for money, a way to make a real difference. Catherine has always worked in roles that served others, but never felt it was making a difference on a personal level. With property investing she could see it’s true potential, beyond it allowing her to give up a job that she had become disillusioned with, it would give her a way to help others on a deeper level. Yes, on a mechanical level investing in property can make your money work harder for you, but what can having money that is working harder for you really mean?
It means more time to do the things you’ve always wanted to do, whether that is to see more of the world, give to and support charity with your time, to see more of your family and support them achieve their dreams, to go on that grand adventure of a lifetime or it could just be for the simple things in life, like the peace of mind that comes with knowing all the bills are covered before they even come in.
Catherine has always had the entrepreneurial bug since sitting in GCSE Business Studies wanting to be her own boss. She remembers hatching plans with dancer friends, after the weekly Saturday morning dance class about how they could start their own dance and drama school. In fact, this bug started even earlier with lunchtime meetings at Primary School to set up a school magazine. However, it was only on meeting her now Husband and Business Partner, Stephen that Catherine found the confidence to take the leap of faith and has from then onwards been on the steady road to financial freedom through property investing. She has been a hands-on landlord since 2012 and has experience in single-lets and houses of multiple occupation (HMOs).
Having worked on a number of Joint Ventures (JVs) Catherine has seen what works well and what doesn’t. She loves working with others, whether they be at the beginning of the their investment journey or whether they have been doing it since before she was born. She feels you can learn from everybody, you just need to listen hard enough to find out what that is. She finds it inspiring to work with other female entrepreneurs and young people, their passion and drive is incredible.
Outside of property and business Catherine can usually be found making healthy foods which she posts on The Inspiring Vegan instagram page, listening and dancing to uplifting music, watching thought-provoking dramas and documentaries and making lists of new places to travel to with her husband, Stephen, and their children, on the income they generate through our investments.
Stephen Turner - Founder / Director
Qualified Management Accountant / Certified Project Manager / Property Investor / Entrepreneur / Multi-Business Owner
Stephen joined the world of property investing slightly after Catherine. Stephen always supported his partner and her decisions, but since attending his first property and self-development course in 2013, Stephen has not looked back.
As a qualified management accountant (CIMA) and project manager (Prince2) Stephen knew what it took to take their individual property investing and form a business that could assist others to invest in property no matter what their background. Stephen is renowned for his calculator brain, his love of spreadsheets, his tightly managed budgets and easy to read financial forecasts and statements.
Outside of property Stephen can usually be found outside running, listening to his favourite inspirational audio books, and sharing on his page The Bookrunner, playing football and enjoying new experiences in different places around the world with his wife, Catherine, and their children.
As husband and wife, Stephen and Catherine knew they had complementary strengths that would lend well to being in business together and so formed Turner Invest with the aim of taking what they had learned both in theory and in practice and share that in a way that was easily accessible to people who wanted hands free investment opportunities or to build a successful, mobile business of their own, without it becoming another 'job'.
Mary Cabrera - Virtual Executive Assistant
Graduated from Adamson University with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She's a former Preschool Teacher, and a Technical Support consultant before she decided to be a full-time Freelancer.
A highly organised Virtual Executive Assistant of the Directors, Steve and Catherine Turner, with exceptional reliability, Mary is a dynamic, resourceful and energetic individual who is comfortable with being the go-to person for anything related to the seamless running of a virtual office. There is never a task too small or too big for Mary. With a keen eye for detail and a meticulous work ethic, it’s no wonder Mary brings great value to all who go to her seeking assistance.
Mary is also co-founder of The Very Important Virtual Assistant Club. She oversees the business process services and she is responsible for managing the business, formulating and executing long-term strategies, and interacting with clients. She is The VIVA Club's secondary decision- and policy-maker, setting the tone for the business’ values, ethics, and culture.
Her years of corporate experience coupled with her administrative expertise and people skills have proven extremely effective in helping business owners to move their businesses forward.
Contact Mary today on pa@turnerinvest.co.uk to see how Turner Invest & The VIVA Club can lift that burden of working day to day IN the business and set you on the road to working ON the business and to you ideal work/life balance.
Graduated from Adamson University with a degree of Bachelor of Science in Psychology. She's a former Preschool Teacher, and a Technical Support consultant before she decided to be a full-time Freelancer.
A highly organised Virtual Executive Assistant of the Directors, Steve and Catherine Turner, with exceptional reliability, Mary is a dynamic, resourceful and energetic individual who is comfortable with being the go-to person for anything related to the seamless running of a virtual office. There is never a task too small or too big for Mary. With a keen eye for detail and a meticulous work ethic, it’s no wonder Mary brings great value to all who go to her seeking assistance.
Mary is also co-founder of The Very Important Virtual Assistant Club. She oversees the business process services and she is responsible for managing the business, formulating and executing long-term strategies, and interacting with clients. She is The VIVA Club's secondary decision- and policy-maker, setting the tone for the business’ values, ethics, and culture.
Her years of corporate experience coupled with her administrative expertise and people skills have proven extremely effective in helping business owners to move their businesses forward.
Contact Mary today on pa@turnerinvest.co.uk to see how Turner Invest & The VIVA Club can lift that burden of working day to day IN the business and set you on the road to working ON the business and to you ideal work/life balance.