Amanda Sullivan is a Professional Organizer and founder of The Perfect Daughter: Chaos Control. Since founding her company she has helped hundreds of clients get organized. Amanda has appeared on Good Morning America and is now the author of, Organized Enough: the anti-perfectionist’s guide to getting- and staying- organized.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“There’s the financial fear, so when I decided that I was going to make this move, my husband and I had to sit down and say okay if we never order takeout again and we don’t go on vacation we could live on his salary which is obviously a luxury not everybody has”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui – Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever Book by Karen Kingston
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Book by Brené Brown
Favourite Quote:
“The future suddenly seemed as if it would be much more difficult than I had reckoned but it had also become much more real and more certain instead of undefined possibilities, I saw opening out before me, a clearly marked field of activity”
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Be brave and be excellent, start young. You can’t be greedy, I think sometimes people nowadays when there’s this cult of built in billionaires and to me the real reason I want to be an entrepreneur is not so much to be rich it’s to live richly, it’s to be in control of my own business and say no I’m not going to work that day because I’m going to go to my kids concert or whatever it is to control my schedule so I can have a great personal life”…[Listen for More]
More About Amanda Sullivan:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers.” Maximilian Schell
Other Quotes From the Chat with Amanda Sullivan:
- “Always trying to give every minute, my older clients say oh we can set our watch by, I’m supposed to be there at 10 AM, I’m there at 9:59 so I try to be low maintenance and just be really good at what I do”
- “Try to be pleasant to be around, when I’m with somebody for 4 hours; I work in 4 hour sessions it’s really important for them to want to spend time with you because it’s really intimate”
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