Jane Bishop is a self-proclaimed “unplanned entrepreneur.” She founded Take The Next Step out of her passion of investing in others to develop their inner core and grow4ward. Her expertise gleaned from academic/athletic, corporate, and business owners equip her to help entrepreneurs navigate the interpersonal leadership essentials of “entrepreneur land.”
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“obviously finances. It takes money to start a business and because I am an unplanned entrepreneur kind of surface that I had a difficulty of having a revenue source that was really going to position me to be strong at the very beginning in my business… I really had all the really good business pieces that you think of when you are a business owner and was quite adept in most of them. However it was learning how to connect all those people, those pieces in a framework that was going to be productive as a business owner”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Necessary Endings: The Employees, Businesses, and Relationships That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Move Forward Book by Henry Cloud
- Emotional Intelligence Book by Travis Bradberry
Favourite Quote:
” You’re Born an Original: Don’t Die a Copy” Mason John
Recommended Online Resources:
- Jot Form – Free Online Form Builder & Form Creator. If you need online forms for generating leads, distributing surveys, collecting payments and more, JotForm is for you
- DISC Assessments is a global leader in online DISC assessments and other behavioral profiling testing tools to organizations
- The Daily Digest – A roundup of key news in tech, music & apps. It is curated by Darren Hemmings, founder of Motive Unknown.
- Inc. This Morning – A daily news digest curated for those interested in entrepreneurship
- Six Seconds – The international nonprofit organization supporting emotional intelligence, authority for emotional intelligence information and development globally
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“be aligned with your inner core. Bring your it factor to whatever you are doing, not somebody else’s… You are born an original don’t be a copy. Learn from others but don’t try to be others… Stand on your story… When everybody’s bringing their it factor then we are better off for it”…[Listen for More]
More About Jane Bishop:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You just can’t beat the person who never gives up.” Babe Ruth
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jane Bishop:
- “I believe there is great value in learning from others both what has worked and what doesn’t work. So I believe the more I can work with them in terms of conversation and relationship I just think the better we are collectively”
- “I think some of the secrets to success is being true to yourself, being aligned with who you are and not compromising on that on a regular basis and being willing to stand on your story”
- “you have a story, the sum compilation of your experiences in your life to date that is part of your story. And being able to embrace that, and stand on that and continue to move forward I think that’s one of the secrets of success”
- “I was very clear about who I am as an individual and as a senior leader in this company. I did not put all that together in alignment quickly enough. So that is one thing that I would do differently to shortcut the learning curve”
- “there are some things you have got to celebrate, put away, and then move forward”
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