Bridget Venus Grimes, CFP® is the author of Corner Office Choices: The Executive Woman’s Guide to Financial Freedom. She is the founder and president of WealthChoice, a firm focused on helping women turn their professional success into financial success. She is also a co-founder of Equita Financial Network, Inc.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Bridget’s Father and Sister
When business started difficulties overcame:
“one of the fears is not having income… so there is a series of issues. One is not having a revenue stream, not having that nice W-2 pay check, and that’s a bit nerve wracking because you only earn what you make yourself. So, it was getting up and running and having a really strong business plan that you hope would be on target. And I have to tell you I think one of the things that I did in the beginning that could have been done better was more accurate expectation of revenue. So that was a little tricky. But how do you know right. You really don’t know. You know you have got all of these costs that you know you have to cover with this firm but you also can only guess how revenue is going to come in. So that was a little tricky and I would say I overestimated revenue coming in when I thought it was going to come in and it didn’t”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Art of Happiness – 10th Anniversary Edition Book by Dalai LamaFavourite Quote:
“happiness is a choice”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Specific industry blogs
- Google – Search the world’s information, including webpages, images, videos and more. Google has many special features to help you find exactly what you’re looking …
- Resources of people who had launched firms just like mine
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“my best advice and what helped me personally the most was to reach out to others who are successful doing what you want to do and ask for their advice… I can’t recommend it enough. I would absolutely say go out and find who are the biggest players in your industry who are super successful doing what it is you want to do and what you want to build. And go to them. And more often than not they are going to take the time to share with you what has worked and hasn’t worked and their resources – I couldn’t have done it without them”…[Listen for More]
More About Bridget Venus Grimes:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Sometimes, you ask questions not to get the answer but to get a better understanding of the question itself.” Foaad Ahmad
Other Quotes From the Chat with Bridget Venus Grimes:
- “having a plan and saying okay these are the things that are on the way between me living a good life and not. And I am going to incrementally tick off some steps to get to get to a better place”
- “we no statistically that if you write down your goals your chances of actually achieving them are exponentially greater”
- “people in my industry are really giving and there is this fabulous abundance mentality which I have completely embraced”
- “reach out to other folks and help one another because there is enough business for all of us regardless of what your industry is”
- “I think that there is no such thing as luck, I really don’t. I think that we create our own success”
- “you have got to have drive, you have got to have a real passion for what it is that you are building”
- “I think that my business is such an extension of myself. I launch this business because I wanted to be happy personally and I wanted to have fulfilment in my life and I wasn’t getting that working for someone else”
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