Sahar Paz didn’t grow up playing house, she played office. At the age of 13, she launched a baby and pet sitting company generating more cash flow than all the lemonade stands in the neighborhood! A natural leader with an active left-and-right brain, Sahar was 25 years old in New York City with a lucrative career in Finance and bored out of her mind. Inspired to share what she learned in business, she pivoted and dedicated herself to feeding the entrepreneurial voice of teenagers by founding Free Your Star Foundation. The nonprofit partnered with low-income high schools in Brooklyn with credit-earning programs written by Sahar herself. Championing the voice of others to help them understand their emotional intelligence and their personal drivers has always been Sahar’s mission. Her book, Find Your Voice part-memoir, part cognitive behaviour guide, epitomizes that pursuit. Published in 2014, her message gained attention within forward-thinking organizations such as HBO, Facebook, Whole Foods, and the Texas Medical Center, where Sahar was invited to deliver keynote presentations. After five years on the road, Sahar became the CEO of Own-Your-Voice Strategy Firm, a personal branding agency that focuses on placing professionals on stages to speak. Today, she resides in Houston and has given up pet sitting to play with her dog Rico instead. Please help me welcome today’s speaker, Sahar Paz!
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Sahar’s Family
When business started difficulties overcame:
“It was really around having the right team and the right processes. I think before really hitting go with owner voice I was trying to find advisers or a team to really validate that I could do this and go for and looking for that validation may be in the wrong sources and what ended up happening was that initial team that I started with didn’t work out and ended up leaving and I had to restart.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Crossroads of Should and Must: Find and Follow Your Passion Book by Elle LunaFavourite Quote:
“Don’t put a ceiling on yourself”
Recommended Online Resources:
Lynda: Online Courses, Classes, Training, Tutorials. Learn software, creative, and business skills to achieve your personal and professional goals
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“start that personal brand even if it is a founder page on your organisations website. Have your personal mission up there, tell the why behind your story even if it’s a one sentence sort short story. Stop hiding behind your organisation, be proud of what you have created and get that personal brand out there”…[Listen for More]
More About Sahar Paz:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Be so good, they can’t ignore you.” Steve Martin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sahar Paz:
- “knowing when to pivot, assessing those priorities and guiding your team to assess them as needed, knowing that brilliance exists outside of our comfort so and how can we push ourselves in small and big ways within our team in a safe way to do that”
- “I try to think of change as inevitable”
- “I set up my systems, my processes and my people with change in mind”
- “don’t should all over your life. But then there is our must. What is it that I must do? ”
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