Author, coach, and principal of You Got This Public Speaking, Lisa Kleiman brings over 20 years’ experience helping people develop their communication skills. She’s held management and consulting positions at Fortune 500 companies and served as a faculty instructor teaching undergraduate and graduate university courses.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“just pushing through and believing in what I want to do. It’s one thing to be in your office or in your living room or wherever and you are thinking of ideas of what you might want to do, it sounds great. But it’s another thing to actually push that fruition and make it happen. So, I had a couple of other start-ups earlier on that I had gotten to a point but not very far but then I was afraid. I was afraid of going out on my own”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Endurance – Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition Book by Caroline AlexanderFavourite Quote:
- “there is no difference in trying and failing than not trying at all” Lisa’s Father
- “if you really look closely most overnight successes took a long time” Steve Jobs
- “the only person you are destined to become is the person you decide” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “if you think you will be you create your own reality the only limit to our realisation of tomorrow will be our doubts of today”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Small Business Administration – support America’s small businesses. The SBA connects entrepreneurs with lenders and funding to help them plan, start and grow their business
- The Balance Small Business – Looking to start your own business, or just make your existing business more profitable. The Balance Small Business experts can help make your small business dreams come true
- Associations and clubs related to your profession
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“don’t give up. If it’s truly something that you want to do then give it your all. If it’s a passion just know that you are going to have some hurdles but keep going forward. Learn as much as you can, do your homework, have a good business plan before you start, know what you are getting yourself into, know and expect that there will be changes and there will be forks in the road and you will have to learn which one to go down. Network as much as possible, have those mentors they can be really crucial in helping you go forward and then ultimately just have fun”…[Listen for More]
More About Lisa Kleiman:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” Ralph Nader
Other Quotes From the Chat with Lisa Kleiman:
- “I am still learning. I expect that I will have more detours as I go down this process”
- “being a solopreneur can be tough really because everything rides on you. So, seeking out people that can help you along the way can make a big difference”
- “I think it is really important to seek out those mentors sooner”
- “I think it’s important to know how my going to reach clients? How are they going to know about me?”
- “Follow your heart and your passion. I think it’s important to trust in yourself and believing yourself and what you want to do and then commit to that. Expect that there will be hurdles along the way, expect that they can be disappointments, if you view those disappointments but they are also great learning curves. And really take it one step at a time because each step gets you further along and it’s a learning process, a growing process. Have fun with it… The excitement of never knowing what the day is going to bring in to you might meet, what insights you might have, be open really for any ideas that might take your business in a different direction to what you would have even thought”
- “I think it’s really important to be brave in what you are doing”
- “learn as much as you can before diving in because ultimately your make better more informed decisions as you go forward”
- “there are trials and tribulations and there are ups and downs and there are some things that companies may face that really is important for a leader to be able to rally everyone and to lead them well through all these things so that they can make it positively on the other side”
- “we have control over the outcome of our lives through our thoughts and our actions”
- “it’s a lot harder to achieve what you want if you approach it with doubt”
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