Wendy Lipton-Dibner is a multiple-time bestselling author & internationally-recognized authority on business development through impact strategy & ethical influence. President of Professional Impact, Wendy has presented at the U.S. Senate, delivered thousands of programs for corporate, healthcare, entrepreneurial & non-profit organizations, & is a trusted advisor to executives, doctors & top influencers worldwide.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Wendy’s family
Wendy’s mentors in graduate school
Wendy’s clients
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The biggest difficulty I had was that I didn’t know I was an entrepreneur, so I thought there was something wrong with me, because I was sitting in this job thinking of other ideas whilst people around me were committed to their ideas. It was a long time before I understood what entrepreneurialism was really about, so for all those years, even when I was starting businesses, I thought there was something wrong me, because I couldn’t hold onto a job that’s how I felt. Which wasn’t true, I just couldn’t be happy doing the same thing over and over again”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Focus on Impact: The 10-Step Map to Reach Millions, Make Millions and Love Your Life Along the Way Book by Wendy Lipton-Dibner
Also mentioned:
All You Can Do Is All You Can Do, but All You Can Do Is Enough Book by A. L. WilliamsFavourite Quote:
“All you can do is all you can do because all you can do is enough”
Recommended Online Resources:
Audiense Gain rich and actionable social insights which allow you to create and analyse audiences based on what they say, who they are, how they think and engage.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Focus on impact. All the data shows without exception if you focus on impact and do it strategically the money will come. So forget about the money, focus on impact, so that you can do what you were born to bring the world. If you get all focused on making money you won’t have the life you wanted. I learned the hard way by watching my mother pass away at 59 that life is far too short to settle for less than you truly want in business or in life. So you have to wake up each morning and look in the mirror and ask yourself one question; are you making the impact you want to be making? If not do something that day to make your impact happen”…[Listen for More]
More About Wendy Lipton-Dibner:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You know, it’s weird being interviewed! Because the weird thing about being interviewed is you get asked these questions that you’ve never thought about, and you find out what you think as you answer.” Neil Gaiman
Other Quotes From the Chat with Wendy Lipton-Dibner:
- “Once I discovered the difference in how I think was a good thing, everything shifted.”
- “Make sure the business you start capitalises on what you already know how to do”
- “I didn’t want to be influenced by all the other models people had used before me”
- “I didn’t learn about leadership until I was in it, that messed me up a bunch of times”
- “Don’t think about your business, think about what you want your business to get for you”
- “My biggest mistakes in business have been when I went against my own instincts”
- “Those that focus every area on their business on impact have more sustainable and enjoyable success than anyone else around”
- “Once I figured out what I would want if I could only have one thing, then I figured out what I would have to do that I love that would help me capitalise on what I already know. And for the things I don’t know, what kind of a team could I build so I don’t have to take as much time learning”
- “I said what is the culture you want, as she started to describe it, it was a culture that had never been done in her industry, which I think is very exciting. I think people get afraid about cultures because they think they are restrictive and cause boundaries. What I have discovered is the greatest freedom we will ever have as entrepreneurs comes the moment where we realise the ideal culture is the culture that will give you the freedom to create with no limits”
- “What I’ve learned is even when we’re doing something truly new that no one has ever done before, there are still things we can look to, to give us a leg up. There will be pieces of what I’m creating that will have been done before and how can I capitalise on that, where can I learn that.”
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