Jacki Smith; entrepreneur, teacher, podcaster, volunteer, and witch is also a best-selling author of Coventry Magic (Weiser Books 2011) and co-author of DIY Akashic Wisdom, Access the Library of Your Soul (Weiser Books 2013). Her calling in life is to promote empowered belief and does so in her classes that teach self-healing and ways to take authority over your own life, as well as the philosophy of supporting her wholesale clients; “Your Success is My Success.” Since 1992 Jacki has created and sold over 2 million magical candles through her company Coventry Creations. Being first on the national market with her Blessed Herbal Candles, her creative candle line gave birth to the spiritual candle industry. Currently, you can find Coventry Creations candles in over 700 stores around the world.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Todd Palmer Click this link to listen to the Todd Palmer podcast on The Entrepreneur Way
When business started difficulties overcame:
“believing it was true… Feeling less than. I really felt like a fraud like I was making it all up and I really should not be this successful, I’m not smart, I have to find people smarter than me to do whatever. That really was my own self esteem I had to overcome.” (4 Lines minimum) …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Hire someone today and other ways to grow your business
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen Book by Donald Miller
Favourite Quote:
- “Be the change that you wish to see in the world” Mahatma Gandhi
- “make it good and then make it better”
Recommended Online Resources:
- G-Suite – An integrated suite of secure, cloud native collaboration and productivity apps powered by Google AI Includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more
- SBA – Small Business Administration – support America’s small businesses. The SBA connects entrepreneurs with lenders and funding to help them plan, start and grow their business
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“it’s messy, go ahead get messy, make mistakes, think big and then clean up the mess when you are done”…[Listen for More]
More About Jacki Smith:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Wonder what your customer really wants? Ask. Don’t tell.” Lisa Stone, co-founder and CEO of BlogHer
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jacki Smith:
- “I am a recovering micromanager”
- “I do have a great passion for empowering people”
- “if I had the experience then that I have no it would be absolutely design your own labels because you love the design part but job out all this other stuff that you don’t actually need to master”
- “is not just being a boss is being a leader that inspires your staff and inspires people to level up and uplift themselves in the business”
- “your staff is everything, without your staff you can’t grow”
- “I am in this place of growth”
- “I have a world of possibilities in front of me”
- “openness is the secret to success because when you get married to one particular outcome, when you are so connected to the expectations you can’t see anything else”
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