440: You Can Let Life Push You Around or You Can Push Life Around with Shawn Blanchard Founder and Owner of Lions Dream LLC

Shawn Blanchard is a best-selling author, speaker, entrepreneur and mentorship specialist. He’s served as the Director of Youth Services and President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Initiative Liaison for the city of Detroit. Recently, he was named one of America’s 2017 Top 35 Millennial Influencers by The Next Big Thing Movement.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

• Tim Ferris
• Tai Lopez
• Tony Robbins
• Denzel Washington
• Will Smith

When business started difficulties overcame:

• “I’m working a 9-5 but I have this passion on the side, and I want this passion to take over but I’m working the 9-5 and working the 5-9 so until the 5-9 becomes 9-9”
• “I had to just learn in some instances instead of getting the profit and proceeds from some things and I couldn’t really pump my businesses the way I wanted to but I could surely learn a whole lot”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich Book by Timothy Ferriss
• Who Moved My Cheese: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life Book by Spencer Johnson

Favourite Quote:

“He who says he can, and he who says he can’t are both usually correct”

Recommended Online Resources:

• Michael Hyatt
• The Four Hour Work Week
• Podcast App

Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Do it, I think that something that is very simple about entrepreneurship is you can have all this advice and the advice can be specific but as an entrepreneur you’re not looking for specific advice you’re looking for principles”…[Listen for More]

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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.” Rasheed Ogunlaru

Other Quotes From the Chat with Shawn Blanchard:

• “Princes become kings because they were mentored by a king”
• “We’re the CEO’s of our life”
• “I like to be the change”
• “You can let life push you around, or you can push life around”

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