Multimillionaire serial entrepreneur May McCarthy is a successful entrepreneur, angel investor, philanthropist, speaker, and author who has grown six profitable companies to as large as 250 employees and over $100 million in annual revenues. May is an advisor for the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Center at Seattle University and serves on several business, philanthropic, arts and university boards. May has spent 32 years uncovering the mystery of how to rely on intuition to experience great levels of success, financial abundance, and freedom. She is the author of the best-selling book The Path to Wealth (Hierphant Publishing 2015).
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“Confidence and fear, when you’re as young as I was starting and you hear other people’s stories about failure, you start to think about that possibility and what I learned and what I had to overcome was my desire to get information from people that were older and therefore in my opinion probably were wiser only to hear their naysayer attitudes that I couldn’t accomplish what I wanted so what I had to overcome and learn is that not everybody is rooting for you”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Karmic Management: What Goes Around Comes Around in Your Business and Your Life book by Geshe Michael Roach, Lama Christie McNally, Michael Gordon Conscious Capitalism: Liberating the Heroic Spirit of Business Book by John Mackey and Rajendra SisodiaFavourite Quote:
“We all have an intuitive mind that’s a sacred gift and a rational mind that’s a faithful servant but somehow we’ve created a society that honours the servant or that rational mind and he’s forgotten the gift of the intuitive mind”
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Make sure that you believe that it’s possible to achieve the success that you have planned, make it familiar and welcome into your life and surround yourself with people who support you in your dreams, make sure you find some mentors if possible, if you’ve never done this before, find some mentors that have who can encourage you and help you to avoid some of the mistakes that they made”…[Listen for More]
More About May McCarthy:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions. The questions are diamonds you hold in the light. Study a lifetime and you see different colours from the same jewel. The same questions, asked again, bring you just the answers you need just the minute you need them.” Richard Bach
Other Quotes From the Chat with May McCarthy:
- “If you create solutions and business models that serve in a positive way all your stakeholders, it’s my belief and my experience that you’re able to achieve greater success than you originally planned”
- “Success is not a secret, it’s a system, and it’s a system that everybody can learn how to do”
“If you’re really clear on your goals and word them as though they’re already completed with gratitude, if you see the outcome in advance and focus on that every day, what will happen is you will notice more possibilities and opportunities to achieve those goals”
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