Melissa Krivachek takes people who have experienced devastation, death or divorce and helps them create radical change in their lives, businesses and families. The point at which change happens is a decision … a decision it takes many of us years to get to.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Melissa’s mentor
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I tried to build my business in my parents living room for the first 3 and a half years and there was a lot of sacrifices that went with that, I did not have a car, I was in the middle of a town that doesn’t really accept entrepreneurship so basically I was up night and day trying to figure it out and so there was 3 and a half years of no relationships whatsoever with men”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Rocket Fuel: The One Essential Combination That Will Get You More of What You Want from Your Business book by Gino Wickman and Mark C. Winters
Favourite Quote:
“We accept the love we think we deserve”
Recommended Online Resources:
Elephant Journal – Videos, blog, articles on the mindful life Organics, Ecofashion, Buddhism, Conscious Consumerism, Education, Arts, Wellness, Adventure
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Do the exercise that I told you to do in the beginning of this podcast, if you do not map out 15 minutes every day for the next 7 days you’ll constantly say I don’t have time I don’t know what to do I don’t have money, I don’t know what I value when in all actuality you do based on this exercise”…[Listen for More]
More About Melissa Krivachek:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Man who waits for roast duck to fly into mouth must wait very, very long time.” Chinese Proverb
Other Quotes From the Chat with Melissa Krivachek:
- “In entrepreneurship you have 2 options, let’s talk about a train for a second because I’m going to use an analogy here, you can either lay the tracks or you can run the train but you can’t simultaneously do both at the same time so you can be the conductor of the train or you’re going to lay the tracks, one or the other but not both, so if you’re the visionary, you’re laying the tracks but if you’re the detail oriented person, you’re the conductor of the train”
- “When something is changing you’re either going to embrace it or it’s going to force you to embrace it, it’s like push pull, you’d rather be pulling than pushing because you’re going to exert less force, you either embrace the change or it’s going to embrace you”
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