Deb Currier Smith is the visionary, Founder & CEO of Rewardify, a mobile game company. Deb, a serial entrepreneur and lifetime gamer had a vision for rewarding game play with real world rewards and she then recruited senior game developers and raised $2M to fund development. Their first game, Match to Win, a Candy Crush style puzzle game with cash rewards is crushing it.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“to really step out of corporate ‘job’ and take that big leap it’s interesting because I look back and at the time, I was a single mom. You know I got tell you Neil I look back and it mystifies me how I did that. I believe it was the project. I am a strong environmentalist and the time I really believed in what I was doing. We created a fibre for a fibre composite to replace waste wood applications. I just think I was so enthralled or so passionate about the possibility of this new material and what it could contribute to the planet that I just stepped into it”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Game Changers: What Leaders, Innovators, and Mavericks Do to Win at Life Book by Dave Asprey
- The Creation Frequency: Tune In to the Power of the Universe to Manifest the Life of Your Dreams Book by Mike Murphy
- The Power of Eight: Harnessing the Miraculous Energies of a Small Group to Heal Others, Your Life, and the World Book by Lynne McTaggart
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Book by Eckhart Tolle
- Dr Joe Dispenza Books
- The Code of the Extraordinary Mind Book by Vishen Lakhiani
Favourite Quote:
- “How You Do Anything Is How You Do Everything”
- “don’t burn any bridges”
- The golden rule “I want to treat people the way I want to be treated”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google – Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
- LinkedIn Groups provide a place for professionals in the same industry or with similar interests to share their insights and experiences, ask for guidance, and build valuable connections.
- Appfigures – Mobile App Store Analytics, ASO, and Marketing Intelligence. All the tools you need to monitor your iOS and Android apps Analyze your downloads and revenue, track ranks and top charts, read and reply to app reviews, and more
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you are going to have the dark mind of the soul there is no doubt about it. You are not going to love every minute but you should love it most of the time and it should really make your heart sing. And it doesn’t it’s probably not the right thing”…[Listen for More]
More About Deb Currier Smith:
- Rewardify (Games)
- Rewardify Inc
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.” Babe Ruth
Other Quotes From the Chat with Deb Currier Smith:
- “you have got to have the resources to stay in the game and that doesn’t mean that you have everything but you have to be aware of what is at risk and willing to absorb those risks”
- “without tenacity, without the drive to find a new way to go… I hit a wall, I don’t try to go through the wall I look and see is there a path on the other side of the wall. And as long as I see a path forward then I can keep going”
- “I think having the willingness to attract the right team, the ability to raise capital to a venture is really important”
- “lunge very very easily, I think it’s one of my skills”
- “you always have to be learning, you always have to be growing”
- “I view life as a spiral staircase and I truly believe if you are not moving up that staircase you just automatically are winding down. Often you learn and it’s a turn in the spiral staircase, you are still you and everything is the same and yet you are looking at it from a different perspective”
- “I really believe in asking questions”
- “there is such amazing technology now out there. Find the technology for your business because data is everything. Being able to analyse things and make quick decisions is invaluable”
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