A successful entrepreneur, author, speaker, business coach, and mentor, Aurora Winter has trained emerging and established leaders both nationally and internationally. She is the author of six books, including her newest release, Thought Leader Launch. ABC, CBS, KTLA, FOX, Hallmark Channel, The Huffington Post, Oprah radio, Success magazine, and other media have featured Aurora’s uplifting and useful advice.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“What difficulties didn’t I have to overcome when I started?… Back in time my first business was with my husband and we started a yacht charter company because it was the only business we can think of to start without any money because we managed renting other people’s boats that were just sitting in the marina. And we had no money, he was 14,000 dollars in debt when we got married, I had maybe 300 bucks in the bank, we were just college students… Our office was on the landing leading on the stairways up to a hotel room where we lived for the year while we were launching this business and eating mac and cheese, running out of cash, we had to collect unemployment insurance, I was so mortified, it was so humiliating. My husband had to get a part-time job; we almost didn’t make it”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Becoming Supernatural: How Common People Are Doing the Uncommon Book by Joe Dispenza
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups Book by Daniel Coyle
Also mentioned:
- Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers Book by Timothy Ferriss
- You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life Book by Jen Sincero
Favourite Quote:
“How can you set things up so if you win you win but if you lose you still win?” Tim Ferriss
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“what is your massively transformative purpose? So, I think defining your massively transformative purpose is really a way to add fuel to the fire that’s authentic to you so that will help you build your dream life and your dream business and not end up building a trap… Your massively transformative purpose will be you just brain dump a dozen, two dozen things that you are curious about or interested in that you naturally want to know more about. That’s your fuel. And then brain dump a dozen or so problems that you see that could be solved”…[Listen for More]
More About Aurora Winter:
- Aurora Winter
- Same Page Publishing
- Thought Leader Launch
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Most of our competitors were one-product wonders … They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out.” Bill Gates
Other Quotes From the Chat with Aurora Winter:
- “for me the secrets of success and knowing what I love to do, what I am good at, what gives me joy… Tuning in to what I love to do is one of my secrets to success. And then being willing to be vulnerable productively is one of the keys to my success”
- “I have kind of a restless/creative mind that sees possibilities that others don’t see and that allows me to provide more value and it’s also fun for me”
- “the best way to learn something is to do it… If I had leaned into that earlier in my life that would have been helpful”
- “have a coach or mentor because nobody can see in all of their blind spots”
- “I love money and money loves me”
- “what I want wants me”
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