Rosemarie Barnes is a Professional Speaker and Presentation Trainer, founder of Confident Stages Executive Development, and international best-selling author. Whether from stage or page, Rosemarie champions others to strive for excellence in personal, professional, and leadership roles through respectful and clear communication, through team leadership strategies, and by cultivating increasing confidence in all areas of our lives.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I started my business immediately upon arriving in a new home in a different part of the country without knowing a single solitary soul. That’s a difficult way to start a business. To that end I had to become the Queen of networking… Because I didn’t know anyone on this island I… got myself known all over the island… I needed many, many, many more hours in the day to get all the networking in because if people don’t know you they are certainly not going to be interested in what you have to offer them”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business Book by Gino Wickman and Mark C. WintersFavourite Quote:
“Success does not breed confidence it can instead breed complacency. Confidence is born out of your belief in yourself and only you can give that to you, it’s your belief in your own self-worth. Know your worth, live your worth”
Recommended Online Resources:
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- People with whom we associate
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“learn to speak, learn to market, learn to represent yourself and your business in accordance with your values. And if you don’t know what your values our find out, there are a million ways to do that… And then re-examine those values, they change over time. Every five years reassess your values and make sure that your company and your personal values match. Otherwise there is a dichotomy, it will ring as false and the very important element of trust will die before it’s even born”…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.” Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft
Other Quotes From the Chat with Rosemarie Barnes:
- “I could have saved myself a couple of years of stagnant growth time if I had realised earlier exactly what niche I wanted to fit into”
- “one of the important things is to decide indelibly is what your values are that you are going to place on everything that you do. Every word we say, every action we take represents what we believe. If we are not absolutely convinced that our values are stronger and true that’s going to be a very difficult road”
- “entrepreneurship is hard, it’s got a lot of peaks and a lot of valleys. It’s a little bit like being bipolar, the highs are so high and the roles are so low and we don’t really know which bomb is going to go off when. If we don’t have the passion to continue to see us through it is very easy to lose our way”
- “without passion and then without perseverance and stubbornness to keep moving ahead we will often find ourselves closing down just before the dawn breaks – passion is essential”
- “for every visionary there must be an integrator, and for every integrator there must be a visionary”
- “know your worth, know that you are valuable, find out the pearl of that value and work toward it”
- “people are our best resource”
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