Adam Markel is a speaker, author and entrepreneur, who inspires, empowers and guides people to achieve massive and lasting personal and professional growth. A recognized expert in the integration of business and personal development, Adam speaks and mentors around the globe in the areas of business, entrepreneurship, leadership, and transformation. His latest book is the best selling PIVOT: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life . Adam also hosts The Conscious PIVOT podcast, where he shares his insights on pivoting in today’s fast paced market and interviews experts, innovators and influencers to share their stories and wisdom in the areas of business and life. Adam is CEO of More Love Media, a company dedicated to empowering individuals and businesses to re-imagine, refocus, and capitalize on change in order to thrive in a world where constant disruption is the “new normal”. He has diverse and extensive experience in business, leadership, law, mentoring, and facilitation. As a result, Adam knows what it takes to thrive as an entrepreneur, business owner, and corporate leader.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“starting a business is a risky business. I say that and I am smiling when I say it but I don’t know that I knew that at the time… I didn’t know what I didn’t know and that’s dangerous. I think when we don’t know what we don’t know we can be dangerous. And at the same time, I am going to contradict myself little bit by saying this, that the way that we gain wisdom is through experience and we gain experience often through bad decisions… And from the time that we are very very little we are programmed to not make mistakes because we learn early on from the time that we are really really young that mistakes come with consequences. And we know what those consequences for us individually look like and have looked like since the time we were four or five or six years old… So we grow up thinking that mistakes are bad and we should avoid them at all costs. And the problem with that is that playing it safely doesn’t often lead to the kinds of results that we are looking for in our lives. And playing it safely is not innovative in the world today. And playing safely often translates into playing for the status quo”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself Book by Michael A. Singer
- The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection Book by Michael A. Singer
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- TED Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking Book by Chris Anderson
Book also mentioned by Neil:
- The Founder’s Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup Book by Noam Wasserman
Favourite Quote:
“I ask not, oh divine providence, for more riches, but for more wisdom with which to accept and use wisely the riches I received at birth in the form of the power to control and direct my mind to whatever ends I desire” Napoleon Hill
Recommended Online Resources:
- YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
- Google – Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- Search ‘Culture key note speaker’
- TED Talks are influential videos from expert speakers on education, business, science, tech and creativity, with subtitles in 100 languages Ideas free to stream and download
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“to learn how to follow your heart is not something we are necessarily born knowing how to do, it’s not necessarily something we’ve been trained to do but it is a choice. So to trust in your heart, to trust your instincts, to trust your gut I think is something that never leads us astray doesn’t leaders far astray. And I have come to regard that as the most important advice I can give is to follow your heart”…[Listen for More]
More About Adam Markel:
- More Love Media LLC
- Adam Markel
- The Heart of Enrollment Masterclass
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Mark Pincus, CEO of Zynga “Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Adam Markel:
- “Some of the biggest mistakes that I have made in my life in business have been taking partnerships to lightly, going into a partnership without really considering the potential downside – not knowing people in my partnerships as well as I would have liked, not having done the due diligence…”
- “The future is now”
- “the commitment to starting something is a big deal”
- “one action will lead to an action that is slightly bolder, bigger and that’s why you have to get started”
- “anybody who is thinking about starting a business it is time to just map out the baby steps and take one single micro step, one micro movement, one micro pivot you will each day. One step each day and before you know it 30 days, 60 days, 90 days later you’ve got something that you might not have even believed was possible in such a short amount of time”
- “to be able to speak on behalf of your business, to speak on behalf of your brand, to speak on behalf of your products and services, your company is so powerful”
- “the greatest marketing is word-of-mouth marketing, is the most powerful, the highest return on time, investment of time, energy, money et cetera”
- “get clear on your message and then to develop the skills to clearly communicate it in the market is the most powerful marketing tool that I know of”
- “trusting ourselves is ultimately the key to everything”
- “I believe tenacity is really important in business”
- “I believe being a lifelong learner , to be an apprentice to look at things through apprentice eyes as much as possible, through a child’s eyes, the eyes of not knowing, of unknowing, of unlearning, of unbelieving gives us access to a whole host of options and ideas and ways of seeing and perceiving the world that are not available to us when we are stuck in that place of yet I should know this, I know this, I got this, our ego driven mind that says says I am a big girl an big boy, I have got a degree, I have been doing this for 20 years , I don’t need practice you know. And it’s those kinds of folks that they don’t read books, they are not looking to apply new things”
- “we create our lives through our thoughts”
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