Taly Dery is a worldly entrepreneur and a business development enthusiast who believes in sustainable and exponential growth through dedication, exploration and a winning strategy. She is CEO and co-founder of BetterAir North America who is the innovator of the world’s first and only probiotic air, surface and object purification systems.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the biggest difficulty that I had was being in a wrong partnership and getting out of it… It slowly creeps in and then you kind of have to face the truth that the partnership is not going to help you… so I think my major challenge was wrong partnerships that you don’t know that they are wrong when you are getting into them. It’s only through work and challenges or successes even you learn it’s not what you are looking for… you are not going to be able to sustain it long-term. It’s better to leave off where we are as opposed to continue…I think this was the biggest difficulty for me and then finding the right ones and not giving up”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level Book by Gay HendricksFavourite Quote:
“We Do Not Inherit the Earth from Our Ancestors; We Borrow It from Our Children”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Blinkist -lets you read the key lessons from 2500 nonfiction books in 15 min or fewer
- Audiobooks – Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iPhone, iPad, or Android
- Headspace – Live a happier, healthier life with just a few minutes of meditation a day on the Headspace app
- Way of Life App –is your assistant to break a bad habit or build a good ones with spending less than a minute daily
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“get some knowledge in a lot of things as opposed to mastering one thing. You need to have the mastery but you also need to understand legal implications, you need to understand some accounting, you need to understand some finance… learn human interactions, human traits, understand people, body language, don’t forego that, I think by far this is the most important thing, Is to understand how to relate to certain people even though their style is different to yours. Just be successful with people and I think everything else will fall into place and you need to technically understand the rest. But people is what is going to get you through passages in life and is going to make you fall if you don’t understand people. So I think this is by far the most important for entrepreneurs”…[Listen for More]
More About Taly Dery:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The question occasionally invents the answer.” Gregory Maguire
Other Quotes From the Chat with Taly Dery:
- “you make the best progress forward when you combine a few things that you learn along the road”
- “I had an urge to make a dent in the universe and apply myself and my creativity to something that requires more of my talent – and my talent is with people and travelling and doing good”
- “get rid of the garbage in your life, get rid of relationships that don’t work in your life, get rid of the noise and the anger, disappointments and things from the past that hold you back and you don’t even realise that they are even there”
- “get experienced people, people who have been around already that have the knowledge required”
- “acquiring the knowledge or acquiring the connections that you need through your own experience is the long way of doing things and I don’t believe that today’s economy and business environment allows you the luxury of time”
- “you want to decide and actively search what do you want to do with your life? What do you want to achieve? What you want to contribute? And if you do that you acquire certain skills and experience and connections and resources in a certain area. I feel like if you build on it then you are not throwing it all away. The best investment in that is people skills because that you can take from career to career with you…”
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