Lisa Marie Platske left her action-packed life as a Federal law enforcement officer after 9/11 to become the CEO of the international leadership company, Upside Thinking, Inc. An award-winning leadership expert, author of 6 books, certified master coach, and founder of Design Your Destiny Live, Lisa Marie delivers high-energy presentations on vulnerability in leadership, connection, positioning and executive presence. She also serves on the board of several philanthropic organizations and was recognized in 2015 by The International Alliance of Women as one of the top 100 Women Making a Difference in the World.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
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When business started difficulties overcame:
“I did not have a business degree, I had never taken a business class in school, I knew no one who opened a business or who had ever owned a business and I was living 3000 miles from my closest friends or family member because I opened my business after I got married so there were a lot of things that were against me because I had no network or no business background”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Book by Gary W. Keller and Jay Papasan
Favourite Quote:
- “Comfort doesn’t change the world vulnerability changes everything”
- “There are 2 ways to live, one is if nothing is a miracle and one is if everything is a miracle”
Recommended Online Resources:
Emotional Marketing Value Headline Analyzer
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Don’t go it alone, set up your own advisory council, do things that are around other people and other pieces of advice around this are create spaciousness in your schedule, have your own self care practice, I meet too many people who are incredibly burned out because of the amount of hours they put in”…[Listen for More]
More About Lisa Marie Platske:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.” Thomas Pynchon
Other Quotes From the Chat with Lisa Marie Platske:
- “My business certainly did better when I became friends with failure because there’s no way to get it right 100% of the time and so until I got really comfortable with failure and the lessons that came from that, I found that there was a lot more struggle with pushing”
- “You are designed to focus on one thing at a time and in a world where so many people seek about multitasking a lot of people get to the end of the year having moved a hundred things an inch vs three things a mile”
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