After teaching English in Japan, Natalie Trice forged a successful PR career in London working on local, regional, UK, EMEA and global levels, managing Pan European teams, mentoring staff and exceeding board level expectations time and again. Today Natalie lives in Devon and works with female business owners and experts and has extensive experience in the B2B, broadcast, charity, consumer, corporate and lifestyle sectors. She is the author of two books, PR School and Cast Life and is the founder of DDH UK, a global charitable trust that supports thousands of people around the world who are dealing the hip issues, like her second son.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“my first step into being an entrepreneur I was probably about three months pregnant, living in London, really bad morning sickness and had to get myself some freelance work. So that was a challenge in itself because obviously I was only going to be working for about four months before I went on maternity leave… I suppose I like a challenge and I didn’t actually really even plan I am going to suddenly be an entrepreneur I just thought well I have got to make money, I have still got to work and I have got to find a way to make it work for me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Get Rich, Lucky Bitch!: Release Your Money Blocks and Live a First Class Life Book by Denise Duffield-Thomas
- Chillpreneur: The New Rules for Creating Success, Freedom and Abundance on Your Terms Book by Denise Duffield-Thomas
- Get Rich, Lucky Bitch!: Release Your Money Blocks and Live a First Class Life Book by Denise Duffield-Thomas
Also mentioned
- Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway: How to Turn Your Fear and Indecision into Confidence and Action Book by Susan Jeffers
Favourite Quote:
“Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway” Susan Jeffers
Recommended Online Resources:
Twitter #JouroRequest – Journalists who need with Articles or Features
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“don’t give up… I think if you have got that end goal and you just think I am not going to give up… You have got to keep going and then when you get the good things and you get the wins you write those down. And I do that myself and I keep a jar and I fold things up and if something good has happened whether that’s a piece of media coverage or it’s some good feedback or it’s a great trip to London I put those in. And at the end of the year you have got this great pile of paper to tell you actually won’t really well and why you do carrying on doing what you do”…[Listen for More]
More About Natalie Trice:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.” Jim Rohn
Other Quotes From the Chat with Natalie Trice:
- “I think you really have to go there and experience it.”
- “I have never had to invest a huge amount of money in my business because literally I set it up with a laptop that was it. That was all I needed at the beginning… My damage limitation was small. So, my main thing is my reputation and my relationships and it’s maintaining those that’s really key for me”
- “I think having an idea of your own goals… Listening to your intuition and I think that’s so important. I think being honest not pressuring other people is very, very important and doing a good job”
- “a lot of it is on your reputation and the work that you have done and if you do a good job, I think it comes back time and time again”
- “none of this is luck”
- “I think it’s so important to kind of stick to your guns and stay in your only, do your thing and not be side-tracked by what other people are saying they are doing because that can be absolutely disastrous and paralysing”
- “the more you fear something the greater I think that the impact can be if you go for it”
- “if you don’t do it you will never know. Otherwise you are going to be paralysed by fear if you don’t do it”
- “you have got to be fast; you have got to be relevant; you have got to be quick”
- “there’s no place for egos and being precious. If there is knowledge to be shared and you can help somebody do something to take themselves forward there is room for everybody”
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