Ben Gioia Ben Gioia (“joya”) is a two-time best-selling author, speaker, & creator of the Influence With A Heart™ Method. If you’re a speaker, coach, consultant, or leader with a big idea, Ben will help you bring your book to the world, make it #1, and create a media explosion in just 99 days.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“managing my own fear, doubt, worry, anxiety as I took the leap. And to manage those things constructively rather than destructively… Some of it was kind of the executive functioning kind of smartly scheduling things, smartly processing the notes that I took in a timely manner. It was a lot of how the hell do I do this thing where nobody is really telling me how to do this thing and the ripples from that”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Million Dollar Consulting: the Professional’s Guide to Growing a Practice Book by Alan Weiss
Also mentioned
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World Book by Cal Newport
Favourite Quote:
“Right on target”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“really respect, love, honour and heed the call of being an entrepreneur. And trust yourself in that process. And… don’ t hold too tightly to exactly how success has to look. Let yourself be surprised by all that you can imagine and even everything beyond that”…[Listen for More]
More About Ben Gioia:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you want to be an entrepreneur, it’s not a job, it’s a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6pm – last thing at night you’ll send emails, first thing in the morning you’ll read emails, and you’’ wake up in the middle of the night. But it’s hugely rewarding as you’re fulfilling something for yourself.” Niklas Zennstrom, founder Skype and Kazaa
Other Quotes From the Chat with Ben Gioia:
- “meditation, self-care, exercise, eating right…the body is the temple, getting enough sleep, getting that rest that you need in the different configurations of rest. And also giving yourself the opportunity what some people like Cal Newport in his book deep work calls deep work. What’s that? That uninterrupted time where you can just dig deeply into whatever that thing is – writing your book, doing the proposal, whatever. But no phone interruption, no Internet interruption or anything like that because you will get better results, you will deliver higher value, you make your brain and your capability even better and the value that you create and that you can create the people the more of that that you create the more people are perceiving it and understanding it the more money you make…”
- “Let yourself be connected with your purpose and express your purpose in what you are doing. Whether it’s the work you want to be doing or even not want to be doing. Because whether we can articulate our purposes or not we know our purpose, there’s some quiet knowing of something in there. So even if you can’t put it in words let yourself connect to that quiet knowing of whatever that is”
- “be the most wonderful amazing joyous full expression of yourself that you can be as much as you can be it. And let that be expressed through your work through how you’re communicating with people, how you are leading people, whatever the case may be”
- “be consistent in your actions for taking care of yourself, your body, your mind, your heart, your spirit first because from there everything flows”
- “do great work in high integrity and be respectful of all of the people that you get to interact with”
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