Carrie Brummer is an artist and professional educator who taught for years around the world before creating Artist Strong, an online artists’ community and school. She now runs courses and an artists’ mastermind, as well as a thriving online Facebook community.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Carrie’s Grandfather
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I knew nothing about starting a business and the world online platforms and using online to help you build your business. So, I was really starting from scratch. The other piece of the puzzle that was a bit of a challenge for me is I went from being in school systems my entire childhood through young adulthood to immediately teaching in school systems. So that meant for the 10 years or so that I taught after being a student still also had a schedule that told me year in advance when I had holiday when I had a certain event. So, I had a very structured life. So moving from a completely structured life with a calendar year in advance to the day to moving to a new country and having no schedule except the one I set myself, that was quite a transition”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level Book by Gay HendricksFavourite Quote:
“You can kiss your family and friend’s good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.” Frederick Buechner
Recommended Online Resources:
Amy Porterfield is a marketing strategist helping entrepreneurs build their business online
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“embrace failure”…[Listen for More]
More About Carrie Brummer:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Some people dream of success while others wake up and work.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Carrie Brummer:
- “I have always had a desire to serve others”
- “we can get caught up in all this research about any topic when you are trying to build your business but there is no one formula and we have to test and trial different things to see what really works for our business”
- “I am a recovering perfectionist”
- “the failures I have had in my life where I am giving in to the path that is ahead of me instead of fighting change, those have been moments when I have had real growth and seen up levels in my personal and business life”
- “I wish that school and family culture would encourage failure more. I think failure is an integral part of figuring out what’s actually going to work for you”
- “for a long time, I felt failure was a sign of not being good enough and I didn’t understand that it was information that I could choose to use to inform future decisions”
- “that’s how you know if you really care about something, you stick with it even when it gets really hard”
- “I think mindset is an integral part of dealing with constant failures that we can have as entrepreneurs because that is the path”
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