Teneshia Jackson Warner is an award-winning multicultural marketing expert, purpose-driven entrepreneur and author of the new book “The Big Stretch: 90 Days to Expand Your Dreams, Crush Your Goals, and Create Your Own Success” (McGraw-Hill Education, November 22, 2019), which is a soul-searching, life-transforming, 12-week boot camp based on concepts that reveal how to get from where you are to where you dream to be – in life and in business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“getting up the courage to walk out a journey that society did not necessarily tell me to walk. So when I was raised it was definitely about getting a good job, I graduated college, I landed that good job but that path wasn’t for me. So, the first lesson when I reflect back on it is getting up the courage to walk a journey that was not popular among my family members… Or not popular at the time among my friends and many people that were in my world at that time. So the courage to do something different is something that I can remember in the early phase that I really had to become comfortable with”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Alchemist: A Fable about Following Your Dream Mass Market Book by Paulo CoelhoFavourite Quote:
- “All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare” Baruch Spinoza
Also mentioned
- “heroes don’t scale – you have to be able to hire and work with people better than you are – and not feel insecure about it.” Mark Hodges
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google Suite – An integrated suite of secure, cloud native collaboration and productivity apps powered by Google AI Includes Gmail, Docs, Drive, Calendar, Meet and more
- 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
- 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.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“lead with purpose in everything that you do. And so, making sure that you are extremely clear. What is the purpose of your business? What are you offering? How does it serve others? What becomes possible in the lives of others because your product or service exists? Those are key questions that are all grounded and rooted in purpose and if you can solve those questions you remain valuable in the minds of your customers… So, staying true to that purpose is very important. It’s not to say that it can’t evolve over time in how you deliver on that purpose but knowing the why is very important”…[Listen for More]
More About Teneshia Jackson Warner:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” Mark Twain
Other Quotes From the Chat with Teneshia Jackson Warner:
- “the power of setting your intention and having clear intention behind everything that you do. When you set your intention your ability to manifest and have results show up”
- “is a journey that is filled with change… Never get too tied to a particular stage or phase that you are unwilling to be fluid and flexible enough to move with a changing environment”
- “to beauty of when you start a business in a boutique environment it feels very much so family orientated”
- “as the business scaled and changed over time that original crew was not the crew that remains with us through the phase of scaling”
- “be open to change, be willing to allow for people to leave when their season is and also leave room for new people to join the team when it is time to elevate and go to new levels”
- “I think the ability team and work in collaboration with others is very important”
- “you have to be able to work in collaboration with others and actually build teams”
- “you make it to the top those positions are rare but just as rare as they are it can be that difficult to obtain them. And when I say difficult not difficult in a sense like so complex that you cannot figure it out but difficult in the sense that it’s going to take hard work, it’s going to take commitment, it’s going to take dedication and drive and determination. And keeping that sort of as my NorthStar has been the driver to keep me driven no matter what in ups and downs and to always have me push forward to continue to go forward”
- “one secret to success is service and the servant’s mindset. And so, I think when you approach business from the standpoint of what’s in it for others versus what’s in it for you that is your secret sauce fuel to propelling whatever it is that you do”
- “as business professionals and as entrepreneurs you have to believe in the talents and gifts with a new in order to ultimately make it… You have to have the belief and confidence in yourself”
- “being happy and joyful along the way is a secret. If you are stressed out over time and you don’t like what you do… people do business with people they like. And so if you have this passion and you’re joyful and it sort of magnetic you are going to attract others that want a piece of that. So being happy and joyful and loving what you do is also a secret to success”
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