After a decade in higher education, Shawn Wenner hung up the corporate gloves to launch a multimedia platform dedicated to food entrepreneurship. Having worked at a culinary school, he understood the challenges faced by aspiring food entrepreneurs and built entrepreneurial chef to provide ideas, inspiration, and advice to the next generation.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“That transition from employee to full time entrepreneur, I had to overcome that behavioural tendency to look for permission and find answers that would lead me to permissions so that was one of the hardest things, trusting myself, trusting my instincts and allowing myself to give me permission to move forward with something”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
How to Win Friends and Influence People Book by Dale CarnegieFavourite Quote:
“Between stimuli and response there’s a space and in that space there’s our power to choose our response and in our response lies our growth and our freedom”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Inc Magazine – for the latest issue of Inc Magazine and get advice, tools, and services that help your small business grow
- Forbes – is a global media company, focusing on business, investing, technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, and lifestyle
- Fast Company – is the world’s leading progressive business media brand, with a unique editorial focus on innovation in technology, leadership, and design
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Trust your instincts, trust your gut, lean into that, only get enough information that helps you take the first step and stop trying to learn at that point, if you can set a deadline for yourself that helps even more and then take that first step, see how you do, see how it feels, go back to your instincts, trust yourself on where you go for that next step and then potentially seek some new information”…[Listen for More]
More About Shawn Wenner:
- Entrepreneurial Chef
- Rennew Media, LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If you can get others to believe that your random guesses are actual answers, they’ll never guess that you never understood the question in the first place.” Craig D. Lounsbrough
Other Quotes From the Chat with Shawn Wenner:
- “No matter what business you’re in, you’re in a people business, you rely on people whether those people are your customers or are your employees, people are a constant in business and if you can understand them, understand how they operate, how they think, you can become more successful”
- “Look at it curiously”
- “If you’re curious it prompts you to begin asking questions”
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