After world-class training, Dr Katherine (“Kara”) Hartl Johnson moved to interior Alaska and opened a remote solo medical practice. She fell in love with her ability to create something from nothing. Cara’s passion has now turned to medical technology and how these advances will change the very fabric of medicine and the world.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Anyone who starts a business makes a lot of errors and some of them are extremely expensive. The most expensive error I made was actually by wasting time. Because as we all know time is far far more precious than money because you can’t get time back, you can always earn some more money later but you can never get time back. So, one of my biggest regrets is not having brought in other skill sets. Whether I outsourced something…”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams Book by Matthew WalkerFavourite Quote:
“To whom much is given, much will be required” Bible: Luke 12:48
Recommended Online Resources:
- Google LLC – is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Also mentioned:
- Entrepreneurs’ Organization – The Entrepreneur Organization enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“believe in yourself first and foremost. Believe in yourself more than anybody else believes in you. Because if you believe in yourself when you fall down you say if I get up, I will succeed. And if you fall down again you say no, I just need to get up I am going to succeed. If you fall down again and again and again you just get up because you believed in yourself enough you are going to make it happen. And in those moments where we all feel this as an entrepreneur, there is moments when you feel like an utter and complete charlatan but you are fooling everybody because you are a complete impostor, you have that glorious impostor syndrome that we all know. Stare at yourself in the mirror and say you’ve got this, believe in yourself even if you have to brainwash yourself, believe in yourself. Because at the end of the day if you tell yourself you can do it enough you will do it. And one day you are going to wake up and be like oh my gosh I am not an impostor I actually made this happen and it starts with believing in yourself first and foremost”…[Listen for More]
More About Katherine Hartl Johnson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Nothing can dim the light that shines from within.” Maya Angelou
Other Quotes From the Chat with Katherine Hartl Johnson:
- “The fact that I can’t not do it hurts me to not do it because I am watching somebody else suffer because I haven’t been able to fix that problem yet. And so, I fix it because I have to because I can”
- “it doesn’t need to be perfect. If you wait for every tiny little thing to be perfect you are going to get nowhere. So, 85 percent of perfect is going to be good enough for right now because you need to move on to the next 500 things that need to get chosen. And sometimes you are choosing an answer just because someone needs an answer”
- “I can train someone to do their job but if they are not going to be a fit if they are going to be a bad apple that creates toxicity in the environment… No longer do I make the choice; my team makes the choice because the team gets to choose who comes on the team”
- “don’t give up. That’s probably the biggest one. And the weight of responsibility which is very, very heavy taking care of my people. And you don’t give up, you keep going. It’s like being a parent, you can’t fail”
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