Katia Pryce is the founder of DanceBody, a dance-inspired fitness experience with locations in New York City, Miami and The Hamptons and on their unique online streaming platform DanceBody@Home. A hybrid of dance cardio and toning, the classes draw everyone from A-listers to fitness newbies.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Oprah Winfrey
- Sara Blakely
- Arianna Huffington
- Carly Zakin and Danielle Weisberg founders of The Skim
- Entrepreneurs who are filling a void where they are the first customer because they understand it best
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think it was all difficulty because I didn’t actually realise that I was starting my own business . So for example all of a sudden one day I realised that oh I can’t teach every class at Dancebody, that’s impossible, and I didn’t realise that. So I realised I had to hire employees but I had no idea how to do that, no clue whatsoever. I didn’t have a process for it, didn’t have a business plan for it, all I knew was that I needed to hire people immediately and that was a big challenge. I was navigating it very very blind…”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It Book by Michael E. Gerber
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Book by Ben Horowitz
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
Favourite Quote:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn – 500 million+ members | Manage your professional identity. Build and engage with your professional network. Access knowledge, insights and opportunities.
- 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.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“find someone, who has done it better than you have, or in a place that you wish you could be, and connect with them. That’s a great piece of advice. Find someone else who has done it better, bigger and bolder than you have and see what you can gain from that person. It’s all about the experience.”…[Listen for More]
More About Katia Pryce:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.” Guy Kawasaki, co-founder of Alltop
Other Quotes From the Chat with Katia Pryce:
- “the why of what I do is I want people to feel powerful, empowered in their lives”
- “I realised I actually know more in my gut than I would asking for outside help sometimes”
- “Seek out the people who are doing what you think you want to do and really research what they are doing, and really attention to it and observe it. Ask them questions. What I really learned is if you find a business you admire and you start asking questions you will be surprised how flattered people are and how readily they share information. Because anyone who has done the business wants to disseminate the information that they’ve learned.”
- “the earlier you can get someone on board who has experience even if you cant afford to pay them, maybe you give them a piece of equity in the company to keep them interested so that they can help you elevate quicker”
- “I shy to say that I am successful because that seems like an end point and I never quite feel like I am there”
- “treat people how you want to be treated. I think that’s super super simple, is keeping your staff and people around you very very happy with their circumstances”
- “be very true to your original mission and focus intensely on that one mission that you have and don’t deviate from your mission”
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