Dr Tiffany Jana is the Co-founder and CEO of TMI Consulting, a global diversity and inclusion B Corp. She is also an international public speaker, and the author of several articles, and one book, ranging from workplace diversity to overcoming personal bias.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Tiffany’s mother
When business started difficulties overcame:
“So I was lonely and alone, I think I became an entrepreneur out of a sense of necessity, I found myself divorced after a domestic violence relationship and I had 2 children and at the time had not yet completed the degree, I started having children one semester shy of graduating with a degree and this is someone who started college at 15 so it was really unfortunate”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Integrity: The Courage to Meet the Demands of Reality Book by Henry CloudFavourite Quote:
“Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be”
Recommended Online Resources:
Farnam Street Blog – is devoted to helping you develop an understanding of how the world really works, make better decisions, and live a better life.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Don’t give up, it get’s hard, it can be lonely, it can scary, all the unknowns and the inevitable change but entrepreneurship is definitely a game of perseverance so I would say stick to it and when you do fail and you will because we all do, just don’t beat yourself up, learn, take something from it and try to do something better”…[Listen for More]
More About Tiffany Jana:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.” Jacob Bronowski
Other Quotes From the Chat with Tiffany Jana:
- “Keep company with people who are smarter and more successful than you, don’t be the smartest person in the room it’s not good for you”
- “Every single job that you have, you had the capacity to learn something from it that will absolutely change and influence the way that you grow your business, the way that you operate as a leader in your next job, all of it has value and every single person that you meet has the potential to be someone in your future who opens the door for you that you didn’t know was there”
- “You have to leave every interaction in the best way possible; you have to represent the highest version of yourself, live into your highest values because all of it counts”
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