Kate Cook is passionate about making nutritional change easy and effective. She is a highly experienced international speaker and her successful practice methods have secured extensive TV appearances, publishing deals, magazine features and commissions as an international keynote. Kate aims to empower people to adopt healthier lifestyles.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I didn’t even know that I had a business because I am a consultant in effect. I am not selling a widget; I am selling our services… Not really having a plan, understanding things like tax… I sort of wish that I’d had a course or wish I’d had some coaching at that time… Having that knowledge of at least knowing how those systems worked and being much more conscious of them rather than learning on the job ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- How Will You Measure Your Life? Book by Clayton Christensen, James Allworth and Karen Dillon
Also mentioned:
- The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Book by Clayton M. Christensen
Favourite Quote:
“Never, never, never give up.” Winston Churchill
Recommended Online Resources:
- Tim Ferriss – author of The 4 Hour Workweek
- Dave Asprey
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“we can be too bound to our computers and to bound to that being the way we access everything so I really think it’s about staying creative – whatever that means… Ask yourself: What is the most important question I have today?… You sit there, instead of being glued to your computer you sit there getting your right brain engaged and it’s kind of like coming up with creative solutions, coming up with creative ways of getting in touch with people, staying fresh and actually getting inspired by what you do instead of bogged down with what you do… What gets you business is getting out there, being yourself and always being true to yourself. People do business with people… And if people like you they are going to do business with you, they are not going to know that if you are behind an email”…[Listen for More]
More About Kate Cook:
Kate Cook – Working Health (UK) Ltd
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations.” Steve Jobs
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kate Cook:
- “getting an ology is a really great way of propelling yourself in that business / entrepreneur ship… You need good knowledge and good information”
- “always how I get all of my business is through never-ending relationships… Not even nurturing those relationships for any particular reason sometimes, just the relationship. And through those relationships comes other things”
- “always looking forward not backwards, being optimistic”
- “I never watch the news ever; I haven’t watched it since 2001. But you still learn about the news from other sources meaning newspapers or whatever, I see headlines and stuff, I know what’s going on and about want to look I will dig into it. I read books or watch something more intelligent than just headlines to scare people. So, it keeps me very optimistic because I don’t get dragged down by other people’s stories – at least I try not to be”
- “it’s a hilly journey sometimes and knowing what to do when it’s quiet or quieter not taking that quiet time personally it’s just sometimes there’s cycles”
- “Ask yourself: What is the most important question I have today?”
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