Charlie Hartwell is the Managing Partner of Bridge Builders Collaborative, a group of highly successful investors who have been investing in start-up companies in the space of mental wellness, consciousness, and spirituality. A Harvard Business School graduate, Charlie has served and led organizations in 14 different industries, including starting a non-profit in the slums of Kenya in 1986 that has now served health care to several million patients.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Charlie’s Great Grandfather founder of General Mills
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I’ve never had a problem starting a company. Finding the match of what company I wanted to start that there would be resonate with who I was, was more of a challenge. Once you decide to create the company then there are challenges that every entrepreneur faces of how do you get that funded? What’s your mission? What’s your vision? Who’s going to be on your team to support that? But for me just that entrepreneurial spirit that’s implanted. There’s nothing that gets in the way of that”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership Bookby Bill George and Peter SimsFavourite Quote:
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, ‘Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?’ Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. You are playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” Marianne Williamson
Recommended Online Resources:
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:
“find ways to connect to yourself… Then find a community of other entrepreneurs where you can trust, where you can go to share what’s happening with you, to go deep into what you are experiencing as an entrepreneur, where you can feel seen and heard and supported. I think community is really important because being an entrepreneur can be a very lonely place”…[Listen for More]
More About Charlie Hartwell:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.” C. S. Lewis
Other Quotes From the Chat with Charlie Hartwell:
- “I’ve tended to be an entrepreneur that when I find what’s resonant with me, I just go for it and then I sort of learn the industry. The businesses that I’ve started funny enough I’ve never known anything about the industries before I got into them. I just resonated with the mission and I wanted to create the change. So, in each of them I had to dig really deeply into understanding in the space that I was going to be operating in”
- “for me success is just living to be true to myself and making sure that I’m using gifts and skills”
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