Jennifer Goldman has 30+ years experience helping $10 million or less revenue businesses boost growth, team, operations, and profitability. She identifies the hurdles, solutions, and guides their leaders through implementation to achieve the great impact with the least amount of effort, energy, and cost. She offers consulting, group coaching, and online micro classes.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Jennifer’s Role Models
- Business Friends
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I am risk adverse so I had to overcome being scared about the financial risk of starting a business. You don’t have that solid pay check every month, some people do out of the gate and that’s wonderful. But that was a big thing for me. The other thing is I didn’t love sales… That was really hard for me to overcome and make that outbound connection. In the third thing is I knew I was going to grow a business with staff and I feared that I lacked the skills to manage people”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less Book by Greg McKeownFavourite Quote:
“progress over perfection” Jim Kwik
Recommended Online Resources:
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
- Archangel Community
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“when you start in business you should start by writing out a plan knowing every part of that plan is going to change. I do think some people jump into being an entrepreneur before they are ready or they put some concrete ideas together. So, I don’t want to stop them from doing it but it’s really important… If I can give you a structure to write out ideas around profitability, around growth, around the people that you someday might want to have and around how to stay productive. I think that’s really important. And then what I had said earlier, you have got to talk to similar businesses, similar business models and learn from their mistakes”…[Listen for More]
More About Jennifer Goldman:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I now tried a new hypothesis: It was possible that I was more in charge of my happiness than I was allowing myself to be.” Michelle Obama
Other Quotes From the Chat with Jennifer Goldman:
- “one of the biggest things and I am quite sure if I went back in time and somebody told me again, I still wouldn’t have listened was writing things down. I was really not a big fan of the idea of writing. I thought it was in my head and it was organised we were good. And I tell you that really would have saved me a ton of money and mistakes and time. So now I write down every crazy or non-crazy idea in”
- “forgiving yourself, you are not going to always get it right”
- “resilience, trusting your gut… I think we need to do a lot more of that the redo”
- “being vulnerable… One of the things that I’ve learned over the years is that it’s okay to say that you just don’t know the answer. And again, talk to your mentors, talk to your competitors that are willing to talk with you. There is something great in that. And honestly when you look outside and you think other entrepreneurs have got it all together, they don’t have it altogether. They don’t. So, don’t think you have to have that either”
- “I am a giver, I am an empath, I am humble”
- “every day I am making progress even when I don’t feel I am hyper- productive”
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