The quickest way to innovate is to take lessons from one world and apply them in another. Jenny Davis was the fastest woman in Scottish sprint cycling. As a Commonwealth Games Medalist, Jenny understands what it takes to plan, train, compete, and thrive on and off the track. Using timeless principles she has successfully created and led change management and continuous improvement programs for teams as small as 5 up to business units of 1500+. Jenny takes what she learned in excelling in sports to help entrepreneurs and business leaders lead their teams through crisis and change. To stop the constant fire fighting, high stress and high emotion, ‘running around like headless chickens’ feeling in their teams, businesses and personal lives. Instead, she helps them gain calm and control for their teams, businesses and personal lives, by taking those core sporting principles and applying them to business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“finding the time to do it. I was juggling a sporting career with various jobs and trying to have a personal life with my family and friends at the same time. And it’s a good thing and a bad thing I guess because of my sporting background I am quite comfortable pushing my boundaries both physically and mentally. But if you do that a lot you tend to drain your energy massively and that can impact your decision-making and your creativity. So I guess over the years through trial and error I got really good at having to be efficient and effective at finding either the quickest way of doing tasks or removing things that didn’t add value or I found other people to help me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success Book by Darren Hardy
- Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More – Use The 80/20 Principle to invest and save money, improve relationships and become happier Book by Richard Koch
- The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary Keller and Jay Papasan
- Click the following link to listen to the Jay Papasan Podcast episode on The Entrepreneur Way
Favourite Quote:
“you only get one life and it’s actually your duty to live it as fully as possible” Jojo Moyes
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“no one does it alone and especially for entrepreneurs no one does this gig by themselves. Every single person who’s had success, business, personal life, sports, music, art, science they’ve all had support through coaches and mentors, mastermind groups, bosses from a previous life, fellow entrepreneurs. Either one-on-one or through resources like this podcast. And my advice would be to lean on them for support and guidance and help. They will challenge you where they think you need challenge, encourage you to keep going and make sure that you’re on the right path ”…[Listen for More]
More About Jenny Davis:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don’t do too many things wrong.” Warren Buffett
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jenny Davis:
- “when I had my lightbulb moment about nobody does it alone I sought out help through my own network of friends, colleagues, coaches, mentors and other entrepreneurs and ask them for feedback. And I asked and I reached out and I asked them for help. From that is allowed me to look at other places that I could expand my network and add value at things like conferences and events. And I am where I am today because of their support and guidance… If you want to shorten your own learning curve best advice I can give is you don’t have to do it yourself there are people out there that can support… The entrepreneur Way is one of those ways that you can shortcut your own journey and make sure you learn from other people’s mistakes rather than having to suffer them yourself”
- “one of my main ones is setting myself up for the day and keeping on top of a good health and fitness routine is the foundation of everything that you do comes from the foundation of your body and your mind. I think for both of those two they are really important for success across the whole of life not just in business”
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