Laura Gisborne is a highly successful business expert. She’s structured and sold multiple businesses ranging from small boutique businesses to a multi-million dollar wine and real estate empire. The innovative business model of her company exemplifies that companies can be both profitable and purposeful. Through her community thousands of women and children are receiving regular contributions across 5 continents.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Laura’s Grandmother
- Sandra Yancey
When business started difficulties overcame:
“in the first business… we all worked all the time, I literally mean that we lived at the restaurant… Whatever needs to be done each one of us were like putting out fires all the time . So there was a really interesting shift from that world to being what I would say a true business owner, really owning my role as the founder and the CEO of my company and not wearing every hat, and not really feeling like if I didn’t do it it couldn’t get done right. There was a lot to let go of and a lot of learning lessons… I’m pretty sure if I’m alive and breathing I’m still learning”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Scale: Seven Proven Principle to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back Book by Jeff HoffmanFavourite Quote:
“salud dinero a more tiempo para dispratardo” which means “health wealth and love and the time to enjoy them ”
Recommended Online Resources:
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.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“learn very quickly how to get out of their own way because I find that making money is really the easy part of business once you are clear about your business model and who your ideal target is. What I find slows entrepreneurship down is the leadership component where leaders fail like they have to do things that are not really their jobs. They stay into much of a small mindset. So if you can learn to get out of your own way and surround yourself with an amazing team it accelerates success so much faster”…[Listen for More]
More About Laura Gisborne:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“What do you need to start a business? Three simple things: know your product better than anyone, know your customer, and have a burning desire to succeed.” Dave Thomas, Founder of Wendy’s
Other Quotes From the Chat with Laura Gisborne:
- “I followed my passion”
- “Personal passion expressed in a professional way”
- “there is a way to lift each other up and grow together that’s not just peace love and happiness and ethereal but we are actually seeing the translation of that to business profits”
- “the biggest challenge I see for entrepreneurs is getting ready and all the hesitation and all the education and all the waiting. And I would say the secret to my success in life is being willing to take action even when it didn’t make sense”
- “when you actually know that you’ve got a great idea every entrepreneur wants to reduce this to 3 things: Who is it that you want to serve? What’s the challenge that that being or organisation is experiencing? And how are you uniquely qualified to partner with them to create a shift or change?”
- “An amazing hire actually not only pays for themselves but they generate more revenue”
- “I think that as entrepreneurs we have more freedom than probably anyone in the world to really create businesses that support a life we love. It’s easy to fall so into the trap of just working all the time and just being so focused on our business but what I believe gives us the juice of life is our relationships in the experiences we have”
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