Michael Lines brings 25 years’ experience in the natural and traditional consumer-packaged-goods industries. Currently as Founder, President & CEO of Wellness Natural Inc. (SimplyProtein), Michael and his team lead all aspects of the SimplyProtein business in North America and 2 international markets.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Nicholas Reichenbach Founder and CEO of Flow Alkaline Water
- Joe Jackman
When business started difficulties overcame:
“there is a long list of difficulties Neil. I think with respect to simply protein and building wellness natural as a company, as a stand-alone company I think that the first difficult thing was we were carving the brand out of a billion-dollar company – we were buying it from a billion-dollar company. And as amazing as the seller has been to us, just great collaborators. It’s still difficult to carve a business out of a billion-dollar business, it’s complex, it’s a heavy exercise”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups Book by Daniel Coyle
Also mentioned:
- Think Like a Monk: The secret of how to harness the power of positivity and be happy now Book by Jay Shetty
Favourite Quote:
- “While successful culture can look and feel like magic the truth is it’s not. Culture is a set of living relationships working hard towards a shared goal. It’s not something you are it’s something you do”
Also mentioned:
- “spend more time being interested and interesting” Jim Collins
Recommended Online Resources:
- Inc Magazine get advice, tools, and services that help your small business grow
- Forbes is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle
- Pivot – Every Tuesday and Friday, Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. After all, with great power comes great scrutiny. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
- On Purpose with Jay Shetty. my purpose is to make wisdom go viral. I’m fortunate to have fascinating conversations with the most insightful people in the world, and on my podcast, I’m sharing those conversation with you. New episodes Mondays and Fridays. Listen anywhere you get your podcasts, and please rate and review the podcast if you enjoy it. Live life today ON PURPOSE.
- The Daily – News Twenty minutes a day, five days a week, hosted by Michael Barbaro and powered by New York Times journalism.
- The Entrepreneur Way – Learn from successful Entrepreneurs with Free Daily podcast interviews that reveal their business success secrets
- Harvard Business Review – Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world’s best business and management experts
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“No matter what stay true to yourself and take care of yourself… a great example if you are flying and the oxygen masks drop they are very specific about make you are taking care of your own oxygen first quickly before your family member. And I think to be the best version of myself for the team, for the brand, for investors, I have to take care of myself – exercise, sleep, nutrition, meditaion. Those are really important and I think as entrepreneurs you lose sight of that very quickly because there is always 100 things to do. Better finding that balance”…[Listen for More]
More About Michael Lines:
- Wellness Natural, Inc
- SimplyProtein US
- Simply Protein Canada
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
Other Quotes From the Chat with Michael Lines:
- “in the morning the way to approach the day is really only one of two ways, it’s light or dark. And it’s not in a literal sense but it’s in terms of your mindset and how you prepare for the day. And he just more days than not just chooses the light route.”
- “I wish I had done little more homework on… carving business out a large organisation, a large multinational company. I didn’t probably spend enough time and I didn’t have experience… So, I think if I had done little bit more homework and maybe spending as much time asking folks in my network and preparing myself for that element of it a little bit better, I would have shortcut the learning curve a little bit”
- “be really transparent and vulnerable and don’t feel you need to be the smartest person in the room…”
- “More times than not I definitely in the mode of learning versus telling”
- “think one of the secrets of success is that sense of vulnerability”
- “your listen to talk ratio… And if you are somebody that find yourself talking all of the time and listening very little that’s going to be tougher you”
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