Dr Annika Sörensen, MD comes from Sweden and is a stress strategist and Calm Catalyst, Author, International TEDx Speaker, Mentor, and Seminar Leader. She has changed her focus from disease to business related health promotion and stress-to-calm management. She is today helping busy Business Leaders find calm, feel less stress, get more done and create bigger success!
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I tried to start my business long before I actually did start my business, and it really goes further back that. I was in a mentorship program as a doctor and they had some kind of leadership program and they did a test in there or an analysis or whatever they would call it and that analysis to me that I am totally not an entrepreneur – you need safety and you are never going to do anything entrepreneurial. That’s what they told me. ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Being Unapologetic: Empowering You to Become an Influential Speaker and Visionary Leader Book by Davide Di Giorgio
- High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way Book by Brendon Burchard
Favourite Quote:
“A smile is the shortest distance between two people” Victor Borge
Recommended Online Resources:
- LinkedIn – LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Facebook Groups – A Facebook Group is a place for group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion.WordPress is a free and open-source content management system based on PHP & MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores.
- Canva – Create beautiful designs with your team Use Canva’s drag and drop feature and layouts to design, share and print business cards, logos, presentations and more
- Evernote is the app that keeps your notes organized. Memos are synced so they’re accessible anywhere, and searchable so you always find what you need.
- Pixabay – Find your perfect free image or video to download and use for anything ✓ Free for commercial use ✓ No attribution required ✓ High quality images
- Survey Monkey – Use SurveyMonkey to drive your business forward by using our free online survey tool to capture the voices and opinions of the people who matter most to you
- Trello – Infinitely flexible Incredibly easy to use Great mobile apps. It’s free Trello keeps track of everything, from the big picture to the minute details
- Skype – Stay in touch! Free online calls, messaging, affordable international calling to mobiles or landlines and Skype for Business for effective collaboration
- Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems Zoom Rooms is the original software based conference room solution used around the world in board, conference, huddle, and training rooms, as well as executive offices and classrooms Founded in 2011, Zoom helps businesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless environment to get more done Zoom is a private company headquartered in San Jose, CA
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“don’t forget to take care of yourself and your own health first. If you don’t feel well your business won’t feel well and that shows. So, like on the aeroplane tell you in the unlikely event of whatever then put the oxygen mask on yourself first and then help others. So it’s not selfish to help yourself first it’s the only way to survive in the long run”…[Listen for More]
More About Annika Sörensen:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Andre Maurois “Business in a combination of War and sport.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Annika Sörensen:
- “I didn’t know a lot when I started and I had to learn everything and I’m not sure what I shouldn’t have learned what I would not have needed to learn. So, it’s a long learning curve.”
- “When I get uncomfortable is selling and that kind of stuff because you don’t learn that in medical school”
- “we are right here where we are and this is how it is today and then we go from there. And then tomorrow will be something else”
- “personal development or mindset is 80% or some say 90% of business. So, I think this is the most important part.”
- “If I smile, I release feel good hormones with myself. And if I smile towards someone who has to get it because it’s contagious, they will also get feelgood hormones. And I think that is one of the beautiful things with biology”
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