Victoria Lioznyansky teaches introverted entrepreneurs and business professionals how to overcome their fear of public speaking and become confident, compelling, captivating speakers. Taking her own experiences going from scared to sought-after speaker, Victoria founded the Brilliant Speakers Academy®, an online public speaking coaching program for introverts. She also owns Nutty Scientists of Houston, a passion project about inspiring kids to fall in love with science.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I knew that I wanted to do web development, I knew that I was really, really good at it and that’s all I knew. I wanted to be my own boss. I kind of knew how businesses are run because I’ve been in small businesses before as an employee. But I didn’t know much. And so, the biggest difficulty in starting that business was figuring everything out, even the simplest things that right now I am not even thinking about much”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It by Michael E. GerberFavourite Quote:
- “Be Yourself. Everyone Else is Already Taken.” Oscar Wilde
Also mentioned
- “It always seems impossible until it is done.” Nelson Mandela
Recommended Online Resources:
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
- Amy Porterfield is a marketing strategist helping entrepreneurs build their business online
- Marie Forleo – named by Oprah as a thought leader for the next generation, shows you practical ways to become the person you most want to be
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” George Addair
“we have to take risks; we have to get up in the morning and go and make those steps. Those steps that you are going to make they may be in the wrong direction; they may be completely wrong steps and it doesn’t matter. Because my personal belief is that we have to act. We cannot sit and wait to see what happens, we have to take action and every action will lead to another action and another action. And even if you make mistakes. Even if you have this massive detour you will end up where you are supposed to go and you are going to look back and you are going to say what I thought was a mistake was a gigantic learning opportunity and if I didn’t learn that back then I wouldn’t have been where I am now ”…[Listen for More]
More About Victoria Lioznyansky:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Leaders think and talk about the solutions. Followers think and talk about the problems.” Brian Tracy
Other Quotes From the Chat with Victoria Lioznyansky:
- “do not save money and time by not putting legal agreements in place. It’s better to invest in a lawyer and make sure that everything is done right, that if you do have a partnership everything is put in place correctly. It’s better to spend the time and money making sure that the legalities of everything in the contract and agreements are all in place and 100 percent vetted by a lawyer than later down the road regret you did the handshake”
- “I think the biggest secret to success for any entrepreneur is tenacity. There is really nothing else. It’s getting up in the morning and knowing that it may be hard and knowing that you may make a mistake, knowing that you may make a wrong decision you may need to take some risks but still going in and doing it”
- “when we are building a business, we are building something that is not even tangible yet it is just a dream in our mind. And then start building it and it seems like my gosh it is impossible there is so much to do and you are going to fail and you are going to fail again and again and again and again and make mistakes. But what I think is a trait of any successful entrepreneur is that when you fall down you get up, you fall down again, you get up, somebody just knocks you off your feet, you still get up and you keep on going and you keep on believing in that dream. And then it is done and it did seem impossible”
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