Book Coach to Best Sellers® Kim O’Hara navigates authors from the dream of writing a book to the reality of having a published book. Her clients entertain, inspire and educate their readers while creating a new trajectory of success in their own lives.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Money ceiling: I didn’t believe that I could make money over 25,000 dollars a year. I had always been grossly under paid in the movie business… I had to work with some money mindset people to believe that I had the value to charge what I charge and make more money than 25,000 dollars a year. So that was for me the biggest shift was believing I was worthy of making an income that would sustain me and my children”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles Book by Steven Pressfield
- How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life Book by John C. Maxwell
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times Book by Pema Chödrön
Favourite Quote:
“Fear always springs from ignorance.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recommended Online Resources:
- Libsyn Podcast Hosting The podcast hosting, distribution, and monetization platform since 2004. Enjoy wide distribution, and detailed statistics.
- Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic, currently as a platform inside the Google Marketing Platform brand. Google launched the service in November 2005 after acquiring Urchin.
- LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
- Women’s Business Journal – The premier online journal for women in business 17 Hottest Rising Female Stars
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“don’t always just go everywhere with a hustle on. People can smell that and see that… You know those people that they are talking to you and they are not really looking at you anymore. They are looking for the next target… Sometimes just go to events and see what it feels like to not be in sales mode or connected business mode. Have a conversation with somebody. Like you find out they sale, talk to them about their boat. Or you find out that their mother is sick. Make a note of that. Call them, ask them hey how’s your mom, I was just checking in. That’s where the deepest relationships will start and then see what shifts when you let go of the outcome”…[Listen for More]
More About Kim O’Hara:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts. These mean nothing. It is simply service that measures success.” George Washington Carver
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kim O’Hara:
- “shortcut the learning curve… I just don’t think there are shortcuts”
- “I worked really hard for the first two years. I like to say my eyeballs would bleed; I would work until so late at night getting certain things done. I guess the shortcut would be don’t believe that you have to do everything that everyone else is doing. You don’t have to sign up for every single free webinar…. So, it’s just trusting it’s going to evolve in the time it’s going to evolve”
- “the secrets to success… Every day get up, make your bed, have your coffee, have your breakfast. Do what you are supposed to do that day. If you wake up and you don’t feel capable doing what’s on your to-do list three things you know you can accomplish and accomplish them by the end of the day. They don’t have to be ground-breaking; they don’t have to be huge. Don’t cancel clients unless you are really sick, don’t cancel phone calls unless you are really up against the wall. Show up for everything every day – It’s so important as an entrepreneur.”
- “We are all just an ego”
- “We think we have to know everything. And that’s because we are scared that people are going to find out that we don’t know anything when in fact we know everything we need to know at any given moment for exactly where we are… That we are ignorant sucks the joy out of what we are doing”
- “don’t be afraid to reach out to…and say ’I really respect what you do. I’d love to have a 15-minute conversation with you.’ And just see where it goes. Some people will say yes and some people say no, some people won’t even write you back at all, it’s not personal.”
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