Meet Byron

co-founder

My Journey

I was what a lot of people would call a typical born entrepreneur. Having a small type of rags-to-success story! I was from day one always selling something to someone. If it was not sweets and chocolates to friends, I was recycling cans to stringing rackets for the local tennis clubs. This insistent entrepreneurial spirit, this hunger to learn and try everything.

Having always had a huge passion for tennis as a junior, at age seventeen I started coaching, studied and became a qualified SA professional tennis coach. At the age of twenty-one I officially registered my first business. A new business I started from scratch, supplying all industrial, safety supplies and equipment.

I had what you would call quite an explosive and successful start. At age twenty-two I bought another small tennis coaching business and at the same time, I started a BCom Finance Degree. Two years into trying to juggle two businesses and studying, I had to make the difficult decision to drop my studies and put my full focus into my two businesses.

The small tennis coaching business I had bought, I managed to triple within three years and subsequently sold for double what I bought it for.

After this I put my full focus into my first business but struggled to grow and stagnated for almost four years. Not knowing what to do next I tried everything, studied everything – and I mean EVERYTHING! I became completely consumed by my business; started other small businesses; tried multi-level marketing; studied stocks and Forex trading; started property investing… any and all personal development.

Living in the future, I became completely destination focused and driven. Which also started taking its effect on my family but I was so consumed I didn’t stop.  

I finally decided to work with a business coach, only then did I finally break through! In the eighth year of running my first business and my coaches’ guidance I doubled my business in one year. The very next year I doubled my business again! I thought I was on the road to the success I had always dreamt of!

Little did I realize it had taken its full toll on my family which then sadly ended in divorce. Everything had started to fall apart and I had lost everything it took me to build up in ten years, within one year!

I took another long hard year to do some deep soul searching, trying to find a deeper purpose and meaning in my life. I had finally learnt to find joy in the NOW, learnt how to savor the NOW, those little moments in every day that actually make life. I had finally stopped living in the future!

I started another tennis coaching business, found an even deeper fulfillment in coaching and helping others and shortly found success again. Within one year I built the business up to what it took me three years to do the first time.

Through my experiences, trivial, trials and errors, I discovered that you cannot expect any success without a coach. Just as a professional athlete will have a coach, just as having a personal trainer at gym, you cannot run a business without a coach. Something I wish I had from day one!

This is when I joined my love for coaching; my love for entrepreneurship; my hunger to learn and my hunger for personal development, which all contributed and led to the building blocks for the foundation of Room 2 Learn.

I know there are invaluable lessons in my life’s journey and business experiences that I can pass onto the next person. This would be my way of giving back. My way of helping others through their ups and downs, their pits and avoiding the “school of hard knocks”.

Since founding Room 2 Learn, I have found a new meaning for life and have never felt happier and more fulfilled! My fulfillment is in empowering others, empowering others to start their own business – regardless of their education or background.

With the step by step guides we provide at Room 2 Learn, entrepreneurial skills CAN be learnt and are not necessarily inherent skills one should be born with.  Find YOUR passion!! Build your life, family and business around your PASSION! Since doing this, I have never worked a day again. 

I have found so much success and fulfillment in doing what I love! I have gained mental and physical health and wellness, I have formed new thriving businesses and partnerships and still learn every day, attending every event; seminar; workshop and Master Mind that I can.

I try to involve my family in anything and everything that I do. I have found balance between my work and family. A deeper balance and joy in the NOW and FUTURE – a future to keep pushing me, a past I have gained so many lessons from and a life I can live and love in the NOW!!

Meet Warren

co-founder

My Journey

A seasoned entrepreneur and expert in the art of sales. His journey began in the construction sector, where he gained valuable experience and honed his skills. With an unwavering entrepreneurial spirit, he embarked on a path of building and selling several small businesses.

Driven by his passion for sales, he embarked on a global quest to uncover effective tactics and strategies. Along the way, he shared his knowledge and expertise through small courses offered to aspiring entrepreneurs and sales executives, empowering them with the tools they needed to succeed.

However, his greatest accomplishment thus far has been the establishment of a business from the ground up in the smoke ventilation industry. Within a remarkably short span of two years, his venture not only provided employment opportunities for staff facing job loss but also grew into a multi-million rand company.

With a firm belief in the power of entrepreneurship and financial freedom, he continues to dedicate his passion and expertise to teaching others. His ultimate goal is to inspire and guide individuals on their journey towards becoming financially independent, empowering them to take control of their own destinies.

Through his dynamic approach, practical insights, and real-life experiences, he is committed to equipping aspiring entrepreneurs with the knowledge and skills they need to thrive in the world of business. With a track record of success and an unwavering commitment to his mission, he is a trusted mentor and guide for those seeking to unlock their entrepreneurial potential and achieve financial freedom.