Cali Estes Dr. Cali Estes is a highly sought after Addiction Professional (MCAP, MAC ICADAC), Life Coach, Recovery Coach and Wellness Guru that blends talk therapy with forward and positive change to assist her clients in unlocking their true potential. She has been featured in books, magazines, radio and television for her work in the addictions and therapy fields. She works with individuals, drug and alcohol treatment teams and addiction professionals looking to advance their knowledge base.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the biggest hurdles are getting other people on board to understand I can do this… So getting people to understand I have the skills and talent… The biggest hurdle was getting him [Cali’s husband] to see and believe and I could scale it and I could make it go big”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Power Of Intention: Learning to Co-create Your World Your Way Book by Dr Wayne W. DyerFavourite Quote:
There are three kinds of fish in the sea: Dolphins, Sharks and Tuna.
Dolphins are wonderful creatures: intelligent, happy, and playful. They communicate; they swim in schools. They’ve been known to ward off a shark attack and protect the other fish. They are fun-loving and beautiful, arcing in graceful leaps over the waves.
Sharks are eating machines. It’s not their fault; they were born that way. But their job is to eat you. If you find yourself in the water with a shark, put your shark fin on or get out of the water. It’s very difficult for a dolphin to act like a shark, and you’ll never be as good at it as a real shark, so I recommend getting out of the water.
Tuna fish are food. They don’t know that the blood in the water is their own. They think everything that happens to them is somebody else’s fault. They take no responsibility for their choices. It’s like there are three kinds of people: the people that make things happen, the people that watch things happen, and the people who say, “What happened?” (Those are the tuna.)
Sharks will steal your money and tuna will leech money from you. Real money is made when you have dolphins on your team.” Chellie Campbell
Recommended Online Resources:
YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google’s subsidiaries.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“if you haven’t started someday is not a day of the week. Start it today. Even if you just go and print business cards, it’s the simplest thing to do, get it done, hand it out, tell people what you do. If you are already doing it don’t ever tell yourself you can’t. A lot of people say okay I’m going to do this, they put it out on social, this is what I’m going to do, they tell everybody and then they sit back and wait for the phone to ring. And I say you haven’t done anything. You haven’t sent out ships to come into the harbour. You have sat around and told everybody what you are going to do but you haven’t done it. As an entrepreneur you have to set the intention then you have to do the work to get the people in the front door”…[Listen for More]
More About Cali Estes:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You may quit on everything in this life, but once you have quit on your dreams, that is when you are truly lost.” Unknown
Other Quotes From the Chat with Cali Estes:
- “I can go out and hustle, I can put the time and energy in and the effort in and do it”
- “write down your three-month goals, six-month goals, nine-month goals, one-year goals, five-year goal and ten-year goal. You have to have some roadmap. It doesn’t have to be super detailed but you have to have a general idea of what you want to do and where you want to go. And then once you write it down start making it more detailed. So, in the first three months these are the things I’m going to do because this is where I want to get…”
- “Had I not gone through some of the experiences I probably wouldn’t be where I am. And I think had I had shortcuts I probably wouldn’t have as much experience to give and share had I done it in a shorter manner”
- “perseverance especially in the face of adversity”
- “hustle until your haters ask if they are hiring. You have to hustle”
- “you have to not care what your family thinks”
- “if you are throwing money at something and it is not working give it a duration, cut it off and do something else. And that can be anything; social media marketing, it could be a product you are pushing. If it’s not making you money and it’s not received give it a time limit and cut it off. Don’t stick by it and go bankrupt because you have this vision that isn’t working”
- “as an entrepreneur in the back of your head you are always hearing I can’t do it, I’m not smart enough, it’s not going to work, it’s going to fail. As soon you do that you have doomed it to fail”
- “if I focus my energy on making it work it will work”
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