If you want to put a rocket under your ideas and ambition, start or grow your own business or revolutionise your current business, and make your own choices and your own money, then you need to meet Danielle LaPorte. She is one hot woman. She made me think differently about aspects of my own business, and I wanted to share some of her magic with you. ~ Beth
1) At a time when we are starting to come out of a global recession, you are encouraging entrepreneurs everywhere to blaze their own trails and set the world on fire. Why is it important and how does it feel to you?
Because liberation and self reliance are amazing things. Because cubicles are hell. Because the system is broken. If you want to make lots of really good stuff happen, then that’s really exciting – for all of us. If you want to earn a living by doing meaningful things – then that’s exceptional. This truth is most evident: we entrepreneurs, artists, and change agents define ourselves on our own terms. Does it get better than that?!
2) What do you want to revolutionise with the Firestarter Sessions?
My intention is that people will start heeding the call of their core desires. “Revolutionary” is basing your strategic plans on how you truly want to feel, not chasing external things and hoping they’ll make you feel a certain way. “Revolutionary” is using grace as a measurement for success, and generosity as part of your bottom line.
3) What does it take to spark genius?
Hunger. An open heart. Flexibility.
4) What is your superpower?
Listening. I also have a knack for getting people just the right gift. But that goes back to listening…
5) What is the one piece of explosive advice you can give to entrepreneurs trying to transform their dream into a rocking business?
Let ease be your metric. Here’s what I mean by that: Using the “ease factor” as a metric for making right choices is counter-culture, of course. It’s been drilled in to us to work hard. Blue collar, white collar, dog collar – hard work pays off. Pay your dues. Put in your time. Prove yourself. Check the right box. Stay the course. Meet expectations. Train in pain, and then reap the rewards. Doing what comes easily to you isn’t about shortcuts or cleverness, and it’s certainly not about making mediocrity acceptable. It’s about leverage. It’s about casting your seeds on the most fertile soil. It’s about your best chances for success.
I don’t do it if it’s not easy. That simple. That fun. That rad.
Now over to you…
