Christine Kane is the founder of Uplevel You™, a multimillion-dollar business coaching company based in Asheville, NC, which was a natural evolution from her 15-year career as a touring singer-songwriter with her own record label. Both businesses were built from scratch without a single investor. Learning as she went, Christine did it all step-by-step and now shares this wisdom with her clients, so they finally get it, apply it, and succeed on their own terms. Her company’s masterminds, trainings, and events draw entrepreneurs from around the world.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Dan Sullivan co-founder of Strategic Coach
- Gary Vaynerchuk
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I’m going to go back to my really clueless phase when I began and I can’t say that I knew this then, I can look back on that person now. When I started my music business, when I started being a songwriter, I was very much in what I call the wait’s… (you are waiting). And I at that time was waiting for discovery. Like I thought that maybe like Oprah would discover me or a record label would discover me and I was waiting for a rescue. Meaning I want somebody else to do all that nasty business stuff like the numbers and talk to my accountant and things like that. I had this sort of illusion woven around what it looked like to be successful. And what I learned and what I had to do was really enter into what I call now ‘I’m in’….”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Artist’s Way: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self Book by Julia Cameron
- Setting the Table: Lessons and inspirations from one of the world’s leading entrepreneurs Book by Danny Meyer
Favourite Quote:
“A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.” Timothy Ferriss
Recommended Online Resources:
Dotto Tech – Tech Made Easy. Dotto Tech are committed to helping you master the tech you need to live the life you want Anytime Anywhere
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“at its core your business is the territory of your own personal growth or your soul’s growth if you want to put it that way… I would say to keep that in mind. What that means is that your business is always speaking to you. Your business is always calling you out of your stuck spots, your conditioning and waking you up if you let it and if you can trust that”…[Listen for More]
More About Christine Kane:
- Uplevel You
- Christine Kane
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I wake up every morning and think to myself, ‘how far can I push this company in the next 24 hours.’” Leah Busque
Other Quotes From the Chat with Christine Kane:
- “I really believe that the entrepreneur is the core of the business. And when you build a business around that style and that creativity instead of what most of us do is, we try to become somebody else every business strategies as told us to be. When we relax, build the business around us and shape it around us we are more relaxed and we get better ideas”
- “most people are so frightened to explore who they are as an entrepreneur and they just try to put on a good suit and make it look good”
- “I made a lot very bad hires at the beginning… I dissed myself, I doubted myself, I figured I am an artist what do I know I’m lucky to even have anyone working for me. And I would just hire people very quickly and I would never honour my business and my needs. And it was a hard lesson…”
- “Self-awareness… Because if you don’t know where your ego is getting triggered and if you don’t know what scares the living heck out of you and if you don’t know when you are playing small versus it’s time to relax or whatever then you are reaching for someone else to tell you what to do. And that is not a great place to be. And so, I think self-awareness has to be first. I personally have flourished because I have coaches, the accountability that the coaching provides, the perspective coaching provides…”
- “It’s so easy to try to find a built-in excuse or it’s so easy to act like it really wasn’t your preference and your hands were tied and you couldn’t do this. But entrepreneurs have uncomfortable conversations because they want to be clear and they want to be honest and they want to be real even if it means forfeiting the good opinions of others sometimes”
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