361: Listening to Your Gut Feeling to Avoid Serious Mistakes with Kathy Wong Founder and Owner of Moeloco

Kathy Wong has a degree in visual communications which she has used to start three businesses in the area of design branding, marketing, and publishing. Kathy is passionate about community, loves 80’s music and hates chokes. After retiring for ten years , Kathy has come out of retirement to become a social entrepreneur, where she is making a difference to children in poverty with her business Moeloco. Moeloco designs and manufactures a rubber flip flop that leaves positive messages in the sand such as I am peace, be grateful, etc. For every pair sold, Moeloco donate one pair of canvas shoes to a child in need, that then allows them to attend school and protect their health.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

Richard Branson
Blake Mycoskie

When business started difficulties overcame:

“The difficulties we all have are financial resources, skill resources however in the scheme of things they weren’t my major hurdles, again I come back to my mindset, they were my major hurdles, and still continue to be”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

The Promise of a Pencil: How an Ordinary Person Can Create Extraordinary Change Book by Adam Braun

Favourite Quote:

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because the world needs its people who have come alive”

Recommended Online Resources:

Tomoson – is the first software as a service geared towards influencer micro influencer outreach. The community and the Tomoson’s dashboard organize the process…

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Just go for it, if you really feel you have something you want to go and do it, go and do it, don’t worry about the how you’re going to do it, if your why is such a strong why, that’s going to be what gets you the results that you want”…[Listen for More]

More About Kathy Wong:

Moeloco

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.” Scott Westerfeld

Other Quotes From the Chat with Kathy Wong:

• “Go and find people who have done what you want to do”
• “Every time I have not listened to my gut I have made serious mistakes”

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