Anne-Marie Faiola is a successful entrepreneur, author, crafter, lifestyle coach, mother and founder and CEO of Bramble Berry Handcraft Provisions. Anne-Marie’s most recent book, Live Your Best Day Ever, takes the reader on a journey, through stories and insights from personal experiences, on how to choose to live your best day ever, every day. This goes along with her all-inclusive lifestyle brand, Best Day Ever, which helps women find their best life through classes, merchandise and other resources for daily inspiration.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Oprah
- Martha Stewart
When business started difficulties overcame:
“Lack of cash, lack of capital, I was turned down by over 20 different banks for any sort of even business loan, so a business loan that was a building loan that was going to be backed up by real estate, I was turned down by over 20 banks, I didn’t have any former business training so I didn’t know how to read profit and loss and I also had never hired people”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen CoveyFavourite Quote:
- “How you do anything is how you do everything”
- “Handmade is best made”
Recommended Online Resources:
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“It doesn’t matter where you are in your entrepreneurial journey, you could just be thinking about it, you, could be doing something right now but they say that the best time to have started something was 20 years ago but the next best time is to start tomorrow and I really think that is true for every single entrepreneur no matter where you are in your life, whether you have a side hustle or a passion project…[Listen for More]
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Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don’t know the answer.” Douglas Adams
Other Quotes From the Chat with Anne-Marie Faiola:
- “The person you are on the inside needs to be the same person you are on the outside”
- “If you’re already an established entrepreneur, coming up with that plan, that one year plan, that quarterly plan, and then starting doggedly, persistently, painfully, boringly on that plan and on that path will get you some place amazing in the end”
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