Kathryn Kemp Guylay has spent more than 25 years in the business and nonprofit management world as a coach, founder, management consultant, and CEO. Her clients have included IBM, GE, 3M, Motorola, Siemens, and dozens of other Fortune 500/100 companies. Kathryn’s current transformational project is Make Everything Fun, a platform for online education, training, resources and podcasts. As a bestselling author and publisher, she’s working on her seventh book and has received ten awards for her books which span nonfiction, self-help and children’s books. Kathryn is known for being “relentlessly helpful” to her clients and students. She is also a dedicated wife, mom of two teenagers, and exercise partner to two dogs.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“So I started my entrepreneurial life by writing and launching a book, and what was so difficult about it is it was very difficult to get that profitable. And know a lot of people have the stories about becoming megarich through launching a book and getting a contract that pays them a huge advance but that is really not that common today. And for me I kind of had heard all the stories and thought oh my gosh I’m going to be cashing in at the bank when the reality was is I was investing so much in order to create quality product. So the biggest challenge was turning a profit, was getting from the red to the black”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear Book by Elizabeth GilbertFavourite Quote:
“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly” Albert Einstein
Recommended Online Resources:
- Just Get Flux – Is your computer keeping you up late f lux is a free download that warms up your computer display at night, to match your indoor lighting
- Inbox Pause – gives you control over when emails appear in your Inbox It s proven to increase productivity and lower stress Try it today in Boomerang for Gmail or Boomerang for Outlook!
- SCORE – is a non-profit organization that provides free business mentoring services to prospective and established small business owners in the United States.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“so for entrepreneurs they need to create a vision overall for their life…they then need to break down that vision into smaller achievable steps. And I always say that baby steps add up. And on top of that get outside. Your best ideas are not going to happen at your desk they are going to happen likely in the shower; people talk about but for me it is when I am moving my body, blood and circulation is happening and blood movement, oxygen, that’s where you are going to get your best inspiration”…[Listen for More]
More About Kathryn Kemp Guylay:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Old formulas don’t give new solutions.” Israelmore Ayivor
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kathryn Kemp Guylay:
- “there is a military process called the OODA loop and you start with first Observing and Orienting before you Decide and Act, it’s a loop. And so military personnel do this over and over and over. So they observe, they orient, they decide, they act, they don’t just decide and act they go through this orientation and observing process”
- “I had to learn from being in the red and feeling the pain”
- “I am a real action-oriented person”
- “I would recommend to everyone that they find a mentor”
- “I really feel that coaches today can be so helpful. But I would say that with one caveat, make sure that you work with a business coach…and make sure that you work with somebody who has done it and has done it successfully”
- “The more I am uncomfortable the more I am excited about what is going on. And the reason I am saying that is that I know that all growth happens in the discomfort zone”
- “let fear come along for the ride but it just can’t be in the driver’s seat”
- “we all have fear but we just have to control it”
- “FEAR – Fantasized Experiences Appearing Real”“we should welcome violent opposition because then we can question where that opposition is coming from. Is it coming from someone’s mind that we revere? Maybe we should go around that obstacle and try not to worry about it…from a mediocre mind float around it like a river floats around a rock”
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