Amy Coats Amy Coats is an Entrepreneur, Corporate Exit Strategist, CFO, and founder of Virtual COO Solutions & Two Week Notice Society. After 20 years in the corporate 9 to 5 world, she realized she was destined for something far more satisfying. But it wasn’t enough for her to find her happy place in the world. She created Two Week Notice Society to empower women who feel the same way she did when she left the 9 to 5 grind and started her entrepreneurial journey. She is passionate about helping corporate women get their online businesses up and running, so they can leave their 9-5 and be the woman they dream of becoming! Her strategies contain the exact steps she followed to make it to the other side and love life all over again.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I would say for sure putting myself out there with confidence. That wasn’t something I was very comfortable with. I was kind of quiet and shy and so in order to really have my own business had to really step out of my shell and put myself out there”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Brendon Burchard Books
- High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way Book by Brendon Burchard
Favourite Quote:
“What got you here won’t get you there”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
- 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.
- YouTube, 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.
- Pinterest – is a social media web and mobile application company that operates a software system designed to discover information on the World Wide Web, mainly using images and, on a smaller scale, GIFs and videos. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann, Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp.
- Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.
- Trello – Infinitely flexible Incredibly easy to use Great mobile apps. It’s free Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Really create a business based around what you are passionate about. Passionate is something this loose word that we use but it’s really defining what is important to you and how you can create a business around that. Because otherwise I see people get frustrated because they just create another job for themselves. And so I think if you can really create a business around what is important to you, what you are passionate about it will really help you to show up and create that joy in your life”…[Listen for More]
More About Amy Coats:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” Stephen Hawking
Other Quotes From the Chat with Amy Coats:
- “I created a six-month plan for myself and then I broke it down into more actionable goals”
- “niching and down and really getting specific on who you want to serve and really defining who that person is. I’m still working on that. The more that I work with people the more I am narrowing that group of people down”
- “you never stop learning”
- “it doesn’t stop changing so you always have to be working on yourself, working on your business and really showing up to serve your community as well”
- “every little step I take takes a better part of me”
- “now that I am at where I am at, the next level I want to get to I have to show up a little differently. So, you never stop learning…it doesn’t stops changing so you always have to be working on self, working on your business and really showing up to serve your community as well”
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