Sonia Thompson spent more than 10 years living the corporate life, helping grow million and billion dollar healthcare brands around the world. Now she’s a consultant and digital marketing strategist that helps businesses get the customers they want and keep them coming back for more. She’s the author of the book Delight Inside, as well as a host of a top-rated podcast, and a columnist at Inc.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Seth Godin
- Jeff Bezos founder of Amazon
- Ryan Holiday
When business started difficulties overcame:
“The blank sheet of paper was probable the most difficult thing and it was something that I was completely unprepared for because I feel like my entire life, aside from maybe when I was a kid, you don’t really have a blank sheet of paper, you do but you don’t follow it in that sense, you’re going to school, they’re telling you what they want you to do, they’re giving you some parameters, you go to college you go to university you go to business school, giving you parameters and you work within those, you go and you follow a career. But whenever you’re given a blank sheet of paper and then you can make whatever you want, that paralysed me for a little while”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
What to do when it’s your turn (and it’s always your turn) Book by Seth GodinFavourite Quote:
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Recommended Online Resources:
Inc Magazine – for the latest issue of Inc Magazine and get advice, tools, and services that help your small business grow
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Get in motion and stay in motion, getting in motion is actually the first step because then the law of physics will kick in, I believe Newton’s first law of motion is that an object in motion is much more likely to stay in motion unless you have an equal and opposing force acting on it so the hardest part is to get in motion and once you’re in motion you’re much more likely to stay in motion. An object at rest is much more likely to stay at rest; once you build that first step it’s much more easy to build momentum” …[Listen for More]
More About Sonia Thompson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day.” Albert Einstein
Other Quotes From the Chat with Sonia Thompson:
- “If you follow the path everybody else follows then you’ll end up where everybody else does but if you want to be extraordinary and be different then you need to go take a different way, the road less travelled and maybe even the road never travelled”
- “You can’t be thinking about the work, you got to do the work”
- “Take the time to build your network”
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