Lisa Johnson is a multi 6-figure business coach specialising in helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses using passive income from memberships and courses. After a tough childhood spent in social housing, Lisa went on to have successful careers in law, banking and the entertainment industry. Her background and overcoming obstacles has helped mould her into a bold, straight talking coach, who is never afraid to be an authentic and outspoken truth teller. Lisa lives in Hertfordshire, UK with her Husband and 7 year old twin sons but coaches entrepreneurs around the globe.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“my first difficulty was knowing nothing about business and unfortunately I decided not to overcome that until a year later after I’d already made all of the mistakes. But I still overcame it eventually. I think a really big one for me having been bullied quite a lot when I was younger was to put myself out there. Like with any business you need to be visible, especially these days you need to be visible that’s what social media is for, and I had a real fear that if I was visible I would be judged or even bullied again. And people told me at the time, that coaches told me that isn’t true you are just thinking that because of what happened, you can put yourself out there and everything will be fine. And actually I have found that that is not the case”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine Book by Derren Brown
- Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine Book by Mike Michalowicz
Favourite Quote:
“and this too shall pass”
Recommended Online Resources:
- 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
- Calendly – Say goodbye to phone and email tag for finding the perfect meeting time with Calendly. It’s 100 free, super easy to use
- Google Keep – Capture notes, share them with others, and access them from your computer, phone or tablet Free with a Google account
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“stay in your own lane, keep really focused on what you are doing and don’t get shiny object syndrome where you look at somebody else and what they are doing and decide to do what they are doing instead because maybe what you are doing hasn’t had an immediate result. I think that the whole of business rests on consistency. So you have to do something over and over again for a long period of time before it can work”…[Listen for More]
More About Lisa Johnson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Hire character. Train skill.” Peter Schutz
Other Quotes From the Chat with Lisa Johnson:
- “just ask them because sometimes we think we know what our audience wants and it may be completely different”
- “I wish I had realised how important having an email list is”
- “my gut feeling doesn’t come into it, my teams gut feeling does because they are much better at that the me”
- “secret of success these days, and I don’t think it was always like that is to just be very you, not to try and emulate anybody else’s way of doing something or to act how you think an entrepreneur should act or how you think an Instagram feed should look like. For instance, I think it should be very much just be you and don’t change who you are and if that means you don’t attract everybody that’s all good, you only need to attract your ideal client”
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