Reshma Jobanputra‘s first entrepreneurial experience left her on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Her confidence and spirit were shattered, she thought she had failed. She developed an aversion, a fear of entrepreneurship. Yet now 3 years later Reshma is a qualified Career Transition coach/ speaker and has started her second enterprise, one that is doing well. Her biggest lesson; entrepreneurship is not a one size fits all. As Eistein said ‘Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will believe for its whole life that it is stupid’. Her core message to all is; do work that you find meaningful, fulfilling and above all fun! The success will come almost automatically.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“I thought I’d failed the first time, of course time and distance showed me that I hadn’t but that is how I felt at that particular time. I almost didn’t want anything to do with the word’s entrepreneur. I refuse to acknowledge that I was an entrepreneur in any way. A lot of it I think is my own insecurities”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
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Favourite Quote:
“Don’t be scared to build castles in the sky, that is exactly where they should be. Now just put foundations under it” Henry David Thoreau
Recommended Online Resources:
Natwest and Metrobank Entreprenerial hub
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be a dreamer. When you start to work be practical about it as well. Just be realistic, be practical and build up to that amazing vision that you have and if you’re scared that you can’t be an entrepreneur, don’t be because anybody can be, anybody can be an entrepreneur. So, don’t worry that you can’t be or you can’t do this amazing thing that you want to because you’re not an entrepreneur. You can be”…[Listen for More]
More About Reshma Jobanputra:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you can dream it, you can do it.” Walt Disney
Other Quotes From the Chat with Reshma Jobanputra:
- “It takes 10 years to be an overnight success”
- “Remember the purpose for why you did start this, whatever the purpose is”
- “I don’t have anyone I want to be like because I can’t do that I can only be me”
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