Modelpreneur, Daisi Jo Pollard is a model, beauty queen, businesswoman, author, influencer and actress. She founded Daisi Media Corp, a talent- first media company that promotes creative autonomy which includes publishing, licensing, and advertising. DMC’s properties include Brazen Influencers, Brazen Studios L.A., Daisi Jo Reviews, and My Product Model.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Charles Revson founder of Revlon
- Elon Musk
- James Altucher
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I started my first business and I was 24 and although that is a very popular thing to do now it wasn’t so back then – it wasn’t that popular and people looked at you and treated you like you were young and dumb. An entrepreneur wasn’t a thing – not a popular word back then. It was not a word that people were using so freely and the word start-up only existed in Silicon Valley for the most part, it wasn’t in our language. So, I took overcome a lot, being a woman, being young and being a minority was a lot. For whatever reason for me I was unaware of any of those things when I started”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Choose Yourself: Be Happy, Make Millions, Live the Dream Book by James AltucherFavourite Quote:
- “fear is faith in the shitty future” Unknown
- “I’m an artist and dressing is my art” Unknown
- “I think deep thoughts about shallow things”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Facebook Groups – A Facebook Group is a place for group communication and for people to share their common interests and express their opinion.
- The Hustle – Join over 1 million people who read The Hustle bold business and tech news. They cut through the noise with the most impactful headlines
- Trends by the Hustle – Your next business idea, delivered weekly. They track emerging industries and trends before they explode, and then show you how to capitalize Join 6000 innovators today
- Podcasters’ Paradise – The Podcasters’ Paradise Private Facebook group is a place for fellow Paradisers
- Quora is a question-and-answer website where questions are asked, answered, edited, and organized by its community of users in the form of opinions. Its publisher, Quora Inc., is based in Mountain View, California.
- Pivot – Every Tuesday and Friday, Recode’s Kara Swisher and NYU Professor Scott Galloway offer sharp, unfiltered insights into the biggest stories in tech, business, and politics. They make bold predictions, pick winners and losers, and bicker and banter like no one else. After all, with great power comes great scrutiny. From New York Magazine and the Vox Media Podcast Network.
- Octoly – Influencer Marketing at scale. Connect with vetted influencers and consumers for authentic product reviews across social media and eCommerce platforms
- Find Your Influence – Influencer Marketing Solution for Brands & Agencies. Find Your Influence is the industry s leading all in one influencer marketing solution powered by proprietary technology
Also mentioned:
- Final Cut Pro X revolutionises post production with 360° video editing and motion graphics, 4K HDR support and advanced tools for colour correction
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“entrepreneurship is messy, it is competitive… It is not a perfectly curated Instagram feed or a YouTube channel. You can make a business out of using YouTube and using Instagram but that is not a business within itself that is just one spoke on a wheel. The wheel itself is the business and you have to decide what that is. And if you are going to be an entrepreneur and if you are going to be successful you have to do that wheel all of the way… It is a ground and pound lifestyle for the most part until you can get to a place where it’s not. But there is always going to be the next level”…[Listen for More]
More About Daisi Jo Pollard:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.” George Bernard Shaw
Other Quotes From the Chat with Daisi Jo Pollard:
- “there is something to learn from most people…there is no one I follow to the core it is just who can l learn from”
- “the people that you are around the most will have impact on your life and your success whether you want them to not. And so, taking care of your relationships and people that are around you is really important. Making sure that the people that you spend the most time with share your values and your ideologies is really important… If I could go back, I would be very hard on removing people from my life that I did not share the same values with regardless of how hard that may be in the moment I think that the payoff is exponential to your growth and to my growth as a person ”
- “the hard thing about hard things is that they are hard. That’s just what they are going to be. The matter what you are doing and how much you love it is that you are going to have hard days and those hard days do not stop. No matter how good you get there’s always going to be something else that’s hard. Instead of looking at things as hard versus easy and therefore I don’t want to do it because it’s hard… One thing I to learn about myself is that hard versus easy is less important to me than choosing and committing to doing something”
- “understanding that this is a capitalist society, this is a capitalist country and that is before everything… And so, understanding that capitalism and business is before everything in this country is no matter what anybody else says is important in this country and what we value in this country it doesn’t matter. What we value is success, is money and that is at forefront of everything. And so I think understanding the system that you are in and that you are operating in and accepting it for what it is doesn’t mean that in your heart of hearts you have to agree with it and you can wish it could be different and you can also work to make it different in your community and hope that it spreads beyond that. But as it stands this is what it is and the quicker you can learn that and learn where you want to be a player in that system the better off you are going to be. I think one person does not change the world and one person does not change a country or a culture or a society it takes a cumulative effort over time to change”
- “I think the learning process is very important”
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