Melanie Colling Melanie Colling is the Founder of Purpose Driven Projects, Co- founder of Experts On Air Podcast Booking Agency, an Amazon International Best – selling Author, Podcast Host, Business Accelerator Facilitator and Public Speaker. Melanie is a collaboration expert, passionate about helping business leaders and experts succeed and accelerate their businesses by developing valued connections to become in-demand industry leaders. She believes entrepreneurs, not governments, will make the change we want and need to see in the world, and is committed to supporting and connecting entrepreneurs to empower change! Melanie provides entrepreneurs and business leaders with a proven framework and strategies to accelerate their businesses through connection and collaboration.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I always knew that I wanted to have a business and I wanted to work for myself and be able to make my own decisions. I knew that from really early on. But it was really around what, what is that elusive that I do? And as I have said I tried all those different things. And it was always also about me and my confidence and just saying ‘yes I can do it’ and getting over that kind of fear of what if it doesn’t work et cetera. So those were the things that kind of held me back that I had to overcome. And that was just through a series of steps”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Richard Branson Books
- Winging It: Stop Thinking, Start Doing: Why Action Beats Planning Every Time Book by Emma Isaacs
- Autobiographies
- Unique Ability: Creating the Life You Want Book by Catherine Nomura and Julia Waller and Shannon Waller
Favourite Quote:
- “failing to plan is planning to fail” Winston Churchill
- Where are you now? And where do you want to go? And what’s your plan to get there?
Recommended Online Resources:
- Wealth Dynamics Profile Test – Wealth Dynamics is the only personality test that tells you exactly what strategy you should follow to build wealth
- Genius U Test – GeniusU is a web and mobile platform which connects over 1,000,000+ entrepreneurs to the right network, knowledge and opportunities based on their personal values, vision, passions, talents, and purpose. GeniusU’s A.I. Genies give personalized recommendations on who to meet, how to upskill, where to go and what to do based on their stage of business growth, global location and other personalized information.
- Strategic Coach – Premier Business Coach For Entrepreneurs Discover how you can grow your business exponentially with the leading company in business coaching for entrepreneurs
- StrengthsFinder 2.0 – Discover Your Strengths. Hundreds of strategies for applying your strengths
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“just do it. Like Nike says. Just get out there and do it and have a go and have a try. Yeah you might fail or you might look stupid sometimes. But actually, it’s not as bad as you think. You always think it’s going to be worse. But just go out and do it and try. And if you don’t try you will never know.”…[Listen for More]
More About Melanie Colling:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you’re not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were.” David Rockefeller
Other Quotes From the Chat with Melanie Colling:
- “we usually learn to get knowledge and learn through books. Entrepreneurship is really about applying it through action and learning through action”
- “the first step is knowing yourself. The first step is what is your purpose. So, what is your bigger why? Why do you want to do it? Why do you want to do this business and why is it important to you? And why you? Why would somebody come to you to do that? That’s all about building your identity and your brand”
- “I did a lot of personal development. But it was really about getting to know myself.”
- “I did the ‘Wealth Dynamics Profile Test’. I did a whole lot of other online tests that you can do and I still do them just to understand myself better and what value I can bring to things… The more you know about yourself, what you like and what you don’t like can help steer you in the direction. So, when you have opportunities come your way you can say yes that is a good fit for me or know that isn’t. Because when you are early on and you do not have that clarity you kind of say yes to everything, and then you get very distracted on your path, and then you lose time and money along the way. So don’t do that.”
- “In order to start you need one client. And one client to pay you or by your one product and then you have got the start of the business. And then you continue to do that and you tweak, test and measure, change and adjust as you need to”
- “knowing yourself is absolutely key. The more you can understand yourself, know what you like, what works for you, what doesn’t is key.”
- “I like learning through stories”
- “Where are you now? And where do you want to go? And what’s your plan to get there? And if they don’t have a plan it’s like how you going to get there if you don’t have a plan? Like you need to know.”
- “In personal life so you want to do this? How are you going to do that? Well how I going to do that I am always asking, so how? And what’s the plan to do that?”
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