Pam Thomas is a mindset coach and founder of What’s Within U an international coaching practice that offers a variety of coaching services and programs to leaders, entrepreneurs and other coaches who want to make cool things happen by creating a mindset that supports them in believing in what’s possible.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“My own really cruddy stories and boy where there some real big ones. Stories of who do I think I am to do this? You don’t have what it takes. The impostor syndrome story. Those stories played on a loop. I read and re-read those stories until the pages were really yellow and dogeared. And as a matter-of-fact what helped me overcome those obstacles or those challenges of those stories was when one of my mentors said to me you know Pam people really don’t care about your training, they don’t care about the college that you went to, they don’t care about the letters behind your name, what they care about are the fires you’ve walked through that are going to help them walk through their own. And I think that was a defining moment for me when I realised yeah I can do this, I can overcome all of this and share my fires”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Brené Brown Books
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Book by Brené Brown
Favourite Quote:
“the universe only puts in front of us that we have yet to master. Once we’ve mastered it it no longer puts it in front of us”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Medium where words matter. Medium deliver’s the best stories and ideas on the topics you care about most straight to your homepage, app, or inbox.
- Feedspot – Read All Your Favorite Websites in one place. Read your favorite Blogs, News Websites, Youtube Channels, Podcasts, Magazines, RSS feeds and Social Sites accounts from one place on Feedspot
- Insight Timer – Free Meditation App for Sleep, Relax & More. With the world’s largest FREE library of more than 30k guided meditations, 5k teachers the world’s most loved meditation Timer
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“the only thing that ever stands between you and what you really want are the things you tell yourself. So as mentioned earlier watch yourself talk because your mind believes everything that you tell it”…[Listen for More]
More About Pam Thomas:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Leadership is the ability to get extraordinary achievement from ordinary people” Brian Tracy
Other Quotes From the Chat with Pam Thomas:
- “why reinvent the wheel when there are really cool people, amazing people out there doing some neat things that we can learn from”
- “I think stretching still makes me uncomfortable. I do it but it still makes me uncomfortable. And that’s the beautiful part about stretching myself, I am growing”
- “I think beliefs and vision… If you have a vision and you believe in it that can carry you a long way ”
- “change is sometimes uncomfortable as an entrepreneur but that’s a good discomfort in many respects”
- “recognising where your areas of weakness are because those weaknesses can turn into strengths if you are willing to put some elbow grease into it”
- “change can be scary but it can also be really awesome and we can learn a lot from the change… I think that’s what’s important is not running from it, not hiding from it”
- “authenticity and vulnerability are kind of the cornerstones and the connectors in my business… And the foundation”
- “I look for opportunities to learn in my business from my mistakes so that I interrupted patterns that don’t serve me or my business”
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