Ken Blackman is a former Apple software engineer turned full-time relationship coach who’s worked with hundreds of couples from San Francisco to Paris to Sydney and trained thousands of students in his workshops on intimacy and connection. His work has garnered mentions from Best Self Magazine to Business Insider to Cosmopolitan to Playboy. With nearly two decades of experience, Ken’s powerful, unapologetic break from conventional relationship advice is shifting the global conversation around love and committed coupledom.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the transition to being in business for myself was pretty rocky, it was pretty rough. I didn’t handle my finances properly, I didn’t plan well, I didn’t know a lot about how to be in business for myself, I wouldn’t do it the way I did it back then. I left my job and just started my own business, I didn’t have a big cushion, what I did have is a lot of people that really appreciated the work that I did and a lot of them came with me and started working with me one-on-one… It’s taken a while to learn the business side and have that be caught up with my domain expertise”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Book by Cal NewportFavourite Quote:
“iterate yourself to awesome” Marisa Murgatroyd
Recommended Online Resources:
Self Mastery Breakthrough with Derek Rydall. Mastering Yourself And Life And Fulfilling Your Full Potential Isn’t Complicated There Are Proven Steps Based On Universal Principles
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“believe in yourself and trust what it is that you want to bring to the world”…[Listen for More]
More About Ken Blackman:
- Powerful Woman Confident Man
- Ken Blackman Consulting
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ken Blackman:
- “We want is it to be perfect. And it’s never going to be perfect if it sits on a shelf”
- “bring stuff to the world and get the feedback that you need to have it iterate and get better and better and better”
- “I had to claim my culture and bead me rather than being what I think people want”
- “bring what you believe in”
- “have it be a side project before you launch fully”
- “I often have to lean on my intuition”
- “there is a core within me that does not change that is a thread that runs through everything that I have done in my life and that helps me to be flexible as things shift”
- “the best way to get your next greatest work is to take your current greatest work and bring it to the world”
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