Leah Hynes is Co-Founder and Chief Inspiration Officer at The Connection Effect. She had a successful 10-year career in Public Relations before launching the company in 2013. Leah, a licensed NLP Meta Coach based in Brisbane, Australia, is passionate about seeing humans flourish with a sense of community and connectedness.
Nazrin Murphie is Co-Founder and Chief Disruptor at The Connection Effect. She is committed to disrupting the old business paradigm where people are turned into faceless numbers and ‘lists’. Naz, a former police officer, is a certified NLP Master Practitioner and Associate Certified Meta Coach based in Sydney, Australia.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Her kids
When business started difficulties overcame:
“For me it was internal struggles, internal battles of is this possible, can i do this, so all those normal internal battles we see people struggling with when they first start out”
“And for me it was transitioning from being a police officer to an entrepreneur, how do i go from having a solid income to not knowing what were gonna earn or when”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary KellerThe Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream Book by Paulo Coelho
Favourite Quote:
“Life begins at the edge of your comfort zone”-Unknown
“Be the change that you wanna see in the world” Ghandi
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be willing to work, be willing to put the blood sweat and tears into it, I’m not saying that’s necessarily a bad thing like a horrible like hard thing to do but as we said before there is no substitute for this you actually have to do the work to make it happen for yourself and its completely worth while and give it a go, whats the worst that could happen.”
“My best advice would be don’t go it alone, get support, whether that’s at a peer level or you join a course of like minded people but don’t go it alone its a recipe for burn out when you are behind your computer day in day out completely isolated and not feelings support, get some advice you didn’t already have. Remember part of the journey is wanting to give up and wanting to walk away because you’ve just burned out, that’s why its important to get a good network of people around you feeding you positive energy”…[Listen for More]
More About Leah Hynes Nazrin and Murphie:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
Jeff Bezos “Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Leah Hynes and Nazrin Murphie:
- “What they ended up doing (her kids ) is going door knocking all the neighbours, poor neighbours and trying to sell their goods door to door, they never sat there and said this is a failure, I’m going inside and I’m going to play PlayStation, what they did was they said this isn’t working lets try something else, our customers aren’t coming to us so how do we go and find our customers, there’s so many lessons that can be learned just from them and the main ones being failure doesn’t exist for them and fear doesn’t exist for them and I think that’s such a great lesson for all of us”
- “For me it would be like right back before we started the business, it is really about getting yourself in a really strong and solid position, so doing the hard internal work that a lot of people don’t wanna do because you are going to become the foundation of your business, so when things aren’t great its going to be your strength of character and who you are”
- “I’m much more of an in the flow type of person, probably if i had more discipline then that would help a lot”
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