After their stage-4 cancer experience (as patient and caregiver), this married couple, Tamara J Green and David Dachinger, created the Loving Meditations App, a self-care mindfulness/meditation resource that helps those living with cancer to experience more calm and ease. David is a Grammy® nominated composer, fire lieutenant and cancer survivor. Tamara is a psychotherapist, dating & relationship coach, and meditation facilitator, whom Elle Magazine dubs “the soul-centered relationship and meditation expert.” All Loving Meditations programs provide stress-reducing tools for cancer patients, caregivers and survivors in health care facilities and at home.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“we the working multiple jobs so if you can imagine I was composing music for television, working full-time as a firefighter as well, and Tamara has a couple of different practices that she does that take her into New York City for meeting patients in the office and also doing phone sessions here. So we were still maintaining that whole flow at the same time as we were building the business. And that in and of itself for time and energy purposes is certainly a challenge – very busy”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration Book by Ed Catmull
- Design Sprint: A Practical Guidebook for Building Great Digital Products Book by Richard Banfield, C. Todd Lombardo, Trace Wax
Favourite Quote:
“Be So Good They Can’t Ignore You”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Word Hippo – Powerful word tools – Powerful word tools for your creative needs Find the word you re looking for!
- Canva – Create beautiful designs with your team Use Canva s drag and drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more
- Blog Title Generator – gives you endless catchy topic headlines, title suggestions and creative content ideas Generate a year’s worth of topic and titles for your blog
- Fiverr – is the world s largest freelance services marketplace for lean entrepreneurs to focus on growth create a successful business at affordable costs
- 99 Designs – The top creative platform for custom graphic design logos, websites and more Hire a talented designer or start a design contest. 500k happy customers have used 99designs to grow their business
- Evolutionary Business Council – A global & inclusive. community of high-level influencers & thought leaders.
- Toastmasters International is a US headquartered non-profit educational organization that operates clubs worldwide for the purpose of promoting communication, public speaking, and leadership skills.
- Tim Ferriss – The true bio and details of Tim Ferriss, author of The 4 Hour Workweek
- Masters of Scale -Reid Hoffman – Reid Garrett Hoffman CBE is an American internet entrepreneur, venture capitalist and author. Hoffman was the co-founder and executive chairman of LinkedIn, a business-oriented social network used primarily for professional networking. He is currently a partner at the venture capital firm Greylock Partners.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“doing your own business can completely take over your life, it can take over your weekends, your evenings because when you are starting off especially you are just doing everything. So my advice is to make self-care your absolute number one priority, do not let that fall to the wayside at all. So if you have a practice of maybe some kind of body movement like exercise or yoga, whatever don’t stop doing it. Or if it is meditation do not stop doing that. Or maybe it’s socialising and getting together with friends every once in a while. Make it a priority. Each part of your day and even week needs to be about self-care; take care of your emotional self and your body, your physical self”…[Listen for More]
More About Tamara J Green and David Dachinger:
- Loving Meditations
- Mind Health, LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Somewhere a man answers courage with courage” Anne Michaels
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tamara J Green and David Dachinger:
- “a transformation agent for real change”
- “What is the gift in this situation?”
- “its all about having your sense of purpose. Once your purpose is defined and it is something that you need to participate in on a daily basis, something you need to put your heart and soul into. If you have done that and you are making a change in the world with it then that to me is success. It’s really a matter of bringing your gifts and your expertise, whatever your contribution is to people out there. If you are making that change, you’re having an effect on the quality of people’s lives and the quality of their experience that’s a home run.”
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