Angela Cusack is referred to as an organization’s secret weapon. She is understated, patient, and moves with ease as she partners with executive leaders in shaping cultures that produce deeper connections, higher engagement, overall well-being and prosperity. Organizational and C-suite success is ignited when she illuminates the “space between”.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Shawn Boyer founder of Snagajob
When business started difficulties overcame:
“those were some challenging times before I launched into my business. Just sort of staking a claim to what I believed the world needed and I was ready to deliver. The first was simply building the confidence in my own competency. You see I had this vision that I had to have grey hair in order to do what I wanted to do, that I needed more experience, I had to have more life experience, more corporate experience, more business acumen and just more, more, more, more, more and more”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles Book by Steven PressfieldFavourite Quote:
“It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.” Steven Pressfield, The War of Art
Recommended Online Resources:
- Microsoft OneNote – digital note taking app. Microsoft OneNote has your digital notebook needs covered. With OneNote they’ve made their notebook organizer tools even stronger and collaboration easier
- Small Business Administration – support America’s small businesses. The SBA connects entrepreneurs with lenders and funding to help them plan, start and grow their business
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“you don’t need to do it alone. Just ask. So many of us start off like we have to do it by ourselves. It’s a very independence, we’ve got something to prove, something to do, and idea that we don’t want to share. The reality is being a really strong entrepreneur means you have a lot of strong people around you in whatever support that they can offer. So do the work, investing yourself before you start asking other people to invest in you. Which means you are willing to ask for the support that you need at any point along the journey. So just know you don’t have to do it alone”…[Listen for More]
More About Angela Cusack:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.” Mark Twain
Other Quotes From the Chat with Angela Cusack:
- “ask for help early. So I grew up believing that I had to do it all myself, I had to pay my own way, I had to make my own money. The whole idea of being independent was what my family taught me. Be independent, stand on your own two feet. What I didn’t learn soon enough was the power of interdependence and asking for help because you don’t have to do it alone. The fastest way to start-up is by allowing people who are a little bit ahead of you on the path to give you some insight and tips just like you do hear Neil on the entrepreneur Way has them get a little bit further down the road faster”
- “you have got to have a big dream. I mean big. You have to believe in it with all your heart. Believe hard, believe big. And then you have got to be committed and have conviction to just do it. And most importantly you have got to have compassion for yourself when you stumble and you fall because you will. It will happen a lot. But it’s only in having the compassion… can you actually get back up, brush yourself off and keep going down that journey. And always, always, always, always look for what’s in the space between. What are you learning that isn’t obvious, what are you experience that isn’t always visible and in front of you or behind you? Because that’s where the magic is. That’s where the new products, the new service, the new offering, the new conversation that will create just the amount of disruption for a new breakthrough to emerge ”
- “you have got to be willing to deal with those who don’t necessarily want to be on your team. But you have got to be in the game”
- “you have got to be in the game. If you want to win and want to do amazing things in your life and you want to change the way the world is, the trajectory of the world you have got to be in the conversation, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and get dirty. And you have got to be willing to get knocked down. Being in the arena as Brené Brown says isn’t easy and takes the things we talked about earlier, it takes conviction and courage and compassion in order to shut that inner critic down that often were getting our way”
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