Making the Leap into Entrepreneurship with Lora Poepping

Lora Poepping,  President of Plum Coaching & Consulting, returns to the studio to share her journey from being a Corporate champion to starting her own business, allowing her creativity and passion for helping others in their careers to shine.

Show Notes

• Become a human bumper car - try it, even if you bump into something you can change direction
• Everything Lora does teaches her what to do, and everything that doesn't work out teaches her what not to do again
• Consider a coach
• You can make your own mistakes, you can do it
• Be open to signals
• Be open in communicating what you're looking for to your network
• Take ego out of it
• "The world does not know that it needs you."
• Don't dig in your heels and think you have to go it alone
• If what you are creating would be helpful?
• Ask people who are unafraid to be honest
• Take to heart the feedback that you receive
• A brain trust of people, honest opinion of what you are wanting to do
• Be malleable, be open, don't be a pushover
• People want you to be successful
• Be open to all possibilities
• Go out and float your idea to understand whether your idea is viable in the marketplace
• If you see someone that looks like they're an overnight success, dig a little further and you'll find that they've been working at it for a long time
• You'll never think as hard about your job than you do for your own business
• Fine tune the value proposition
• Practice your message with trusted advisors to make it more appealing to people that you don't know
• Know your audience, are you a potential competitor to the person you're seeking advice from?
• The underlying reason you're doing this is not just about you...it's about providing a business, service, or product for others