Irene Lyon is a nervous system specialist and therapeutic coach who helps people transform their bodies, businesses, relationships and lives through healing and regulating their nervous systems via the power of neuroplasticity. She is a master in the mind-body healing arts and holds two degrees in exercise and biomedical science.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Seth Godin Books on businessWhen business started difficulties overcame:
Well I think it was when I look back to it was not really knowing what it was all going to look like. So for example now I have got this great set up, this great programme but if I think back to before I started it was kind of like you were making…I don’t have a good analogy for this…but it was like you were making something out of nothing. Its like is this going to be and it was like I don’t know what this is going to be, and it’s the trust I think, the trust that this is going to do something good. So that was probably one of the hardest things…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Seth GodinThe Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference Book by Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success Book by Malcolm Gladwell
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? How to drive your career and create a remarkable future by Seth GodinFavourite Quote:
“most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.” Morpheus – from The Matrix Movie (1999)
Recommended Online Resources:
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Podcasts
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
Well in addition to everything I have just said. Follow your gut. You know I think…I joke about it but it is true. If you can get into your body and learn to listen to it from a very deep level, from a cellular level, from a physiological level…this is very different from your mind and you your behaviour. If you can really skilfully master what is going on in your physiology, and this isn’t woo woo, I have seen this happen with my clients who are business people, and they get into that that they know what to do, they know what decisions to make, they know who to trust, who not to trust…[Listen for More]
More About Irene Lyon:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Efforts to develop critical thinking falter in practice because too many professors still lecture to passive audiences instead of challenging students to apply what they have learned to new questions.” Derek Bok
Other Quotes From the Chat with Irene Lyon:
“some people think that they are entrepreneurs but they are only hobbyists”
“to be an entrepreneur means you need to make money whilst you sleep.”
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