Carla Johnson is a world-renowned storyteller, entertaining speaker, and a prolific author. Over the last two decades, she’s helped people leverage the art of storytelling to inspire action through amazing experiences. Today, she travels the world teaching anyone (and everyone) how to cultivate idea-driven teams that breed unstoppable creativity and game-changing innovation.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Carla’s FatherT
- Debbie Sterling Founder / CEO at GoldieBlox
When business started difficulties overcame:
“thinking beyond just money in and money out. Because I have a service business, I didn’t have to be concerned about getting capital investment and things like that. But I think my biggest hurdle that I had to overcome was understanding that it is more than hours for dollars and how do you start to scale… How could I start to scale what I know and starting to put it into things like intellectual property? And how do I bring contractors on to help me scale? And things like that. It was all very new to me”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future Book by Daniel H. Pink
- Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? By Seth Godin
Favourite Quote:
“Your life is your story, write well and edit often” Susan Statham
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“put aside other people’s expectations of what your entrepreneurial journey would look like. And I think one of those expectations is that when you start and have an entrepreneurial life that you are working 24/7. And I think especially as an entrepreneur you need to make sure that you take time away from your business because it’s with that time away that you come back with a fresh perspective. Both energy but also ideas and a lot of blind spots go away. So, it’s that ability to make sure that your journey as an entrepreneur is true to what you believe and not falling into that trap of all this is what entrepreneurs do”…[Listen for More]
More About Carla Johnson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Change is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, trans-formative success is.” Seth Godin
Other Quotes From the Chat with Carla Johnson:
- “it’s your choice if you have a business and how successful it is is how hard you work and how smart you work also”
- “going to people who I respect- to a certain degree not nearly as broadly as I am willing to do now and say ‘you know what I love what you’re doing that what I do is parallel to what you do or overlaps enough but I would just like to learn what you do’”
- “having control over your day and to do that I would say if you want to have a productive day you have to have a productive morning and if you have a productive morning you have to have a productive evening meaning that you have to plan your day the night before. And the more I schedule my time and make sure that I focus on my big goals and opportunities and priorities the most successful I am. Because otherwise it’s all the other day-to-day things that come up for every entrepreneur that eats away your time and you are so busy being active that you don’t get anything that really matters accomplished”
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