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Episode 241: Employee Mindset vs. Entrepreneurial Mindset

Barbara Winter has been wondering for decades why we aren’t all self-employed. She is Making A Living Without A Job and teaches the concepts in her book with the same title. Barbara helps emerging entrepreneurs navigate in the land of the joyfully jobless.

Barbara describes her joyfully jobless journey, making your life attractive, and delivers an intriguingly honest assessment of human absurdities with humor. “It is okay to get paid for being miserable. If you are having a good time, isn’t that enough?” DOWNLOAD

“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” —Peter Drucker

We are definitely in a new world, especially our youth trying to navigate the beginnings of their work life. Over the decades, getting a job and climbing a predetermined ladder replaced the entrepreneurial mindset of harnessing your creativity to bring about change through business ownership. The coronavirus has spawned the rebirth of Making A Living Without A Job.

“Get comfortable with auditioning your ideas,” says Barbara. You don’t know which ideas will take hold of you and your audience. “An innovation has no value until an ambitious entrepreneur builds a business model around it and turns it into a product or service that customers will buy.” —Jim Clifton and Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal, Ph.D.

“The entrepreneurial spirit is universal to who you are and who you want to be, not unique to Americans.” Find out why Barbara has found that statement to be true.

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Conscious Attentive Leadership Mentoring

After listening, do the following three WeMentor C.A.L.M. Exercises:

Take this risk: Schedule a one-hour $49.00 Brainstorming Session with Barbara Winter. Take this time to hold yourself accountable in following through on ideas. Buy Making A Living Without A Job by Barbara. Plus, you can take my Entrepreneurial Characteristics Appraisal to find out how entrepreneurial you are, send me an email, nancy@wementor.com.
Apply Self-Compassion: Stand in place. Feet hip-distance apart. Move your arms freely from side to side. After a few times, straighten your arms in front of you, palms up. Bend your elbows and move your arms forward and back slowly about five times. As you inhale your arms toward your heart, you are moving energy to you. As you exhale, you are giving energy to others as you extend your arms. When you finish that last round, grab your shoulders and give yourself a big hug.
Welcome Appreciation: While hugging yourself, say, “I accept myself for where I am today. I accept others as they are. I am doing the best I can. Others are doing the best they can. I will bring joy to myself and share the joy with others today.”

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Mine your experiences with new learnings so you can reinvent (or evolve) yourself as you redesign your business. When WeMentor… your life gets better!!! Mentoring WORKS.

Podcast Guest Mentor

Barbara J. Winter. Barbara is a pioneering self-employment advocate, writer, and teacher who has spent the last thirty years pondering the question, “Why aren’t we all self-employed?” Helping others discover the Joyfully Jobless life is her favorite occupation. To readers of Winning Ways newsletter, the longest-running self-employment publication of its kind, she is editor/publisher.

Readers of Making a Living Without a Job, a book that’s been in print since 1993, know her as the author.

Participants in Barbara’s seminar of the same name, along with others including Establish Yourself as an Expert and How to Support Your Wanderlust, know her as a passionate teacher.

She also leads retreats to help small business owners bring creative thinking and fresh ideas into their work. She is convinced that small is still beautiful and loves working with one-person enterprises. Barbara is also an intrepid world traveler and a curious lifelong learner. When she isn’t out exploring the world, she can be found blogging at JoyfullyJobless.com, connecting with other entrepreneurs on Facebook, or reading a really good book.

Episode 241: Employee Mindset vs. Entrepreneurial Mindset

Author: Nancy A. Meyer, M.A.

Nancy A. Meyer, M.A., is a seasoned entrepreneurial leader, business and life mentor/coach/teacher, podcaster, author, and certified mindfulness yoga and meditation integrator (she integrates those skill sets into everything). Nancy’s compassionate and collaborative approach reinforces resilience while maintaining accountable conversations supporting how you redefine your lead while redesigning your business. Nancy calls this “Dual Innovation Leadership.” Nancy founded WeMentor, inc. in 1992 to change the leadership in our country by providing emerging and existing business owners with mentoring in Dual Innovation Leadership. She has mentored thousands and is eager to work with you! Assert self-leadership and get started today! Clients say, “Nancy is a compelling, engaging, and ‘decipher the trees from the forest’ kind of mentor, speaker, and leader. A dedicated entrepreneurial leader and mentor who role models what she preaches. Her style and candor enrich the content she delivers and the results clients experience.” Nancy accepts people where they are while inspiring them to breakthrough into new dimensions:  As an Entrepreneurial Leader (Innovator),  As a Competent Business Owner (Practitioner)  As a Mentor (Role Model)  As a Spiritual Being and Self-Leadership Master! Start by subscribing to WeMentor Mondays with Nancy PODCAST. Join your peers and...