How do you use Setbacks to fuel your future success? How do you focus enough to build multiple streams of income? How do you get successful people to coach you?
In this interview I caught up with Carrie Wilkerson, author of the Barefoot Executive and mentor to over 100,000 successful entrepreneurs. Carrie’s got a really inspirational story – she overcame $100,000+ of debt, battled depression and weight problems to launch her first business which became hugely successful.
In this interview you will learn:
- Why adversity can make us more successful
- What’s the number 1 reason most people fail (and how to overcome it)
- How to use Mentors and Masterminds to accelerate learning and success
- How you can ask anyone to be your mentor
- Why an Irishman should never attempt to pronounce Guy Kawasaki’s name
Check it out:
Buy the book: The Barefoot Executuve
Get a Free Chapter of her Book
http://www.barefootexecutive.tv
Your Turn: What did you think of Carrie’s advice? Share your thoughts in the comments below…
September 23, 2011 at 1:45 pm
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September 23, 2011 at 1:57 pm
The biggest learning was from the mastermind part. I am finding that a community with like values is a crucial element of success in an early-stage venture.
September 26, 2011 at 2:53 pm
Hey Mozart – I completely agree! Are you part of any Masterminds right now?
September 23, 2011 at 5:00 pm
I get through my setbacks by thinking of the ALTERNATIVE!! I will NEVER go back to a 9-5!! That lights a fire under me every time!
September 26, 2011 at 2:52 pm
Hey Lynn, great fighting words – thanks for dropping by
September 23, 2011 at 10:10 pm
Howard,
Thanks for another great post! Prior to this interview, I’ve never even heard of Carrie Wilkerson, such a great leader to learn from. Looking forward to your next interview
September 28, 2011 at 2:42 am
Ahoy Howard,
Carrie is the best. I tweeted your post above and I am posting a comment.
I hope you have a wonderful week!
Arrrrrrrr.
CaptRob
September 28, 2011 at 4:44 am
I absolutely love and respect Carrie and can listen to her any day all day. I’m not even sure she realizes that most everything that comes out of her mouth carries with it some sort of lesson any listener can learn from. Her gift is in the way she perceives, interprets, and then translates life into the wonderful words of wisdom she shares. And the best part is, you never really have to work at trying to get or understand the Big take aways.
Thanks for the sharing the interview.
November 4, 2011 at 7:51 am
This is a very well done interview, congrats on that.
She seems to be a very genuine and sincere person who has her heart in what she does. I think that there is a lot to be learned from this woman! With that said, I perceive her as being extremely contextually American in her way of speaking – everything she says is Americanized. I am curious Howard as to how you feel about that?
November 5, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Hey Kevin
Carrie is super awesome – I highly recommend her book if you ever get a chance to read it.
I don’t notice the contextualised American way of speaking – I hang out with lots of Americans here in the UK and when I was in University. I also say ‘awesome’ waaaaaaaaay too much which is pretty american too. ‘Awesome’ word though
How do you feel about it Kevin – does it put you off the interview at all?
November 6, 2011 at 8:12 pm
Hey Howard,
Thanks for your response!
I will make sure that her book is the next one I read.
It did actually put me a bit off the interview in a way, as I had a bit of a hard time applying it to the kind of lifestyle in Denmark or in other countries (i.e. staying at home is not something that women want in Denmark, things were spoken of in a very “American Dream” kind of way etc).
She is successful, no doubt, and I have no idea of her success globally, but the truth of the matter is that many American entrepreneurs seem to have a very difficult time in understanding the rest of the world around them. Previously, America (and still to much extent) is such a strong, large and influential economy that it hasn’t been all too necessary to look beyond it’s borders; I just feel that it is becoming more and more of a relevance to understand the global market and especially U-markets.
Does that make sense?
Maybe in the future, it would be an interesting idea to direct some of the questions in your interviews to a more global perspective when interviewing Americans who over contextualize?
I must say though, that your website is really awesome and your interviews have been brilliant! – thanks.
By the way, I’m an american
(albeit who has lived in many countries and speaks many languages)