Josh Levent is a thinker, speaker, doer, and maker who solves problems to make the world better. He is a pitch coach to entrepreneurs, and a business designer to businesses looking to innovate. He is the host of the podcast Humans with Josh Levent and lives in Bern, Switzerland.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I think the biggest difficulty for me was public speaking. I think if you are an entrepreneur you have to also be a leader and to be a leader you have to be able to speak in front of people. And that was something I was terrible at. I remember being at a conference in 2008, the moderator asked the question, I stood up to answer and I sat back down feeling completely misunderstood. The friend came up to me afterwards and he said you have really good ideas but nobody understands you. And I said okay what do I do about it and he gave me some tips and I spent time practising it…” …[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way Book by Richard Branson
- Finding My Virginity: The New Autobiography Book by Richard Branson
- Autobiographies about Entrepreneurs
Favourite Quote:
Marianne Williamson – Return to Love
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear in that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the World.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel unsure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
As we let our own Light shine,
we consciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Focusmate – Stop Procrastinating, Boost Productivity & Get Focused on Work
- Canva – Create beautiful designs with your team Use Canva‘s drag and drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more
- Figma – A better way to design Design, prototype, and gather feedback all in one place
- Upwork – You can find The Perfect Freelancers For Your Projects! It’s easy and affordable with secure Payments and will help you to increased your productivity
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“don’t be afraid to think differently. There is plenty of competition to be like everybody else and there is basically no competition for people to be their unique self… Being yourself is not about staying the same it’s about evolving into who you are becoming. And it just means not imitating other people because that’s a tendency that we have to imitate successful people. There is no space for the next Richard Branson or the next Gary Vaynerchuk those spots have been taken and it’s better to do something out and to do something new”…[Listen for More]
More About Josh Levent:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“See things in the present, even if they are in the future.” Larry Ellison, co-founder of Oracle
Other Quotes From the Chat with Josh Levent:
- “it’s about taking the steps that I needed now to get from stage one to stage two while having stage thousand in your mind and then seeing where things could end up”
- “something that was a challenge for me is asking for help and that for me is a shortcut. There are plenty of people who have done what you want to do before and if you can ask them for help most people are very happy to help. So I wish I’d known that at the start and I wish I had done it. I was arrogant enough to problem not do it if somebody had told me”
- “I think beliefs around money are pretty important… Requires you if you want to lead a company you have to be comfortable with large amounts of money regardless of whether you want to keep that for yourself or donate it all to charity it doesn’t matter you just have to be comfortable”
- “there are two major gremlins, one is you are not good enough and the other one is the, Who Do You Think You Are? Either we think we are not enough or we are arrogant”
- “when we talk to people who have small ambitions are also instinctively kind of make our ambitions smaller and I think that is really dangerous”
- “my thinking small because it’s easier, I don’t want to do that”
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