Summer Turner is the founder of Business Breakthrough Training LLC. She creates programs to help introverted women entrepreneurs navigate and thrive in this extrovert-biased world. She has a degree in Psychology, and her background includes adult learning, instructional design, and creativity training. Knitting is her hobby, which keeps her sane.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I didn’t have a clue to what being an entrepreneur was, I didn’t have any role models, my dad worked for the same company his whole life, from the time he was a university student to when he retired having been a vice president of the company for most of his career, and that’s the paradigm that we were told is the right one”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results book by Gary Keller
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment book by Eckhart Tolle
Favourite Quote:
“Don’t ask what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and go do it because what the world needs is more people who have come alive”
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Don’t be like me, at some point in my process in becoming an entrepreneur I realised I had one foot on the accelerator and one foot on the brakes and this is probably common for a lot of people, especially risk averse people like me and one way I had my foot on the brake is that I was timid about declaring my core message, my strong differentiating core message because I realised it could be polarising and that was scary to me so it wasn’t until I proved my concept in beta testing that I finally got the courage to declare it so I guess I have to say that my best advice is getting out there with a beta test”…[Listen for More]
More About Summer Turner:
Business Breakthrough Training LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there’s no problem, only solutions.” John Lennon
Other Quotes From the Chat with Summer Turner:
- “If your people have a good experience with your service and your product and they get the result that you promised, they will not only get you great testimonials you can use in your marketing, they become ambassadors for you, they will spread the word about you organically and they become your loyal tribe who’ve got your back so you don’t feel like you’re going at it alone as you move forward”
- “Be radical about doing what feels right for you”
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