Sarah Foster is an experienced Leadership coach specialising in Banishing Burnout for High Achievers in Midlife. Long ago a librarian her background is over 20 years in the fast-paced adrenaline fueled world of IT. Her super power is listening for the missing. She is animal mad and musically inclined.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Arianna Huffington founder of Huffington Post
- Milana Leshinsky founder of Simplicity Circle. Click the following link to listen to the Milana Leshinsky podcast on The Entrepreneur Way
When business started difficulties overcame:
“self belief. Can I run a business? what business could I do? Have I got the energy for it? Because I had burned out very badly. Can I keep going? Can I do this? It was all around every question I am asking myself is all around can I believe I’d do it, I had to get over that, I had to make sure I was in the right headspace to do it really. I didn’t have any other problems getting in my way, there was nobody saying I couldn’t do it, I have an incredibly supportive family ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World Book by Andy Merrifield and Elizabeth MarshallFavourite Quote:
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” Norman Vincent Peale
Recommended Online Resources:
- Social Media
- Paperly Collect content that s aligned with your customers interests, and deliver it wherever they are Automatically share content on social media, publish your own web newspaper and send email newsletters
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“pay attention to how you feel. It’s so easy to get caught up in logic and rationality and numbers and formal data. But how you feel is how you are living your life so pay attention to how you feel emotionally and physically and be prepared to respond to what you notice”…[Listen for More]
More About Sarah Foster:
- A Bit Feral Ltd
- Your Midlife Revival
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” Jack Canfield
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sarah Foster:
- “if you are lacking autonomy and you feel completely powerless it’s a grind”
- “I like collaborating, it’s way beyond teaming, there’s a magic in collaboration, there’s just a great energy”
- “don’t be angry with yourself for not having taken the first step yet. There is a lot you can do in preparation”
- “the title of your podcast is perfect, The Entrepreneur Way, it’s your own personal journey and sometimes you have to go on the journey to reach a reasonable destination, to reach a good destination, and you can’t always predict what that would be and what you learn on the way with valuable when you go onto the next journey, and the next journey, and the next year”
- “it’s breezy out there on the edge”
- “spend a lot of time minding what’s going on in your head, paying attention. And I don’t mean throwing things out and ignoring them if you don’t like them I mean paying attention to them and examining them and then doing what you need to do to get the right things in your head. Keep your mind a fertile open place”
- “have people around you who are wiser than you who will give you a perspective you cannot see, who will give you truthful feedback. It might not be nice feedback but it will be kind feedback”
- “the open to changing your mind… Be ready to change your mind and regroup”
- “do not confuse stopping with giving up. They are two completely different things and sometimes the best thing to do is stop. It might stop permanently or it could be stopped to think, it could be stopped to change direction. But don’t confuse that with giving up, they are not the same thing”
- “I like change. Obviously, I don’t like it when the rug is pulled out from underneath me. Who does? But I enjoy the journey that change can bring you if you are just ready to dip into it. So, keeping up-to-date with the latest thoughts is fun for me”
- “your thoughts are under your control and you pay attention to them and how you look at the world as a function of what’s going on inside your head”
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