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Ep 380: 3 Lessons New Business Owners Should Learn The Leadership Stack Podcast
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Sean: From Alana, what lessons you've learned from your past mistakes can you advise a new business owner?
Le-an: I've been a business owner for like six, seven years now, for like multiple different businesses. There's a ton. I think I'll pick my top three. One is, to surround yourself with the right people, which is what we've been talking about this whole time, is you could have the best copywriter, you could have the best web designer, you could have the best marketer. If they don't have the right personality, if they're not the right people for you, whatever business that you're trying to do, that's just going to fall apart in a few months. It'll have a high, sure - because you have the best people, but then it's going to fizzle out really quickly. That was one of the reasons why I had problems with other employees before, was - that I didn't have a set of values. I didn't have the clarity of who did I really want to work with. And that's how the toxicity started and how all of the other stuff that I was talking about happened was, because I didn't myself have the clarity of who I wanted to work with.
Le-an: Second is to learn from the mistakes of others, which is again books, courses, TED talks, watching out for the people that you like their books, and then watching their interviews. So it's learning from mentors even though you never will really meet them. And then if you can, get an actual mentor also in person who can - have years of experience for the new, and who can advise you on their mistakes and then so you can skip it.
Le-an: And the third one is to - this is a little bit soppy and more for - something I realized as a female leader, not really as a general leader, but just keep in mind to take care of yourself. Like I am such a giver like I have that as one of the things that I know is part of my core, it's just I always try to give, as an ate as like, you know, 'Ate I need this' - 'here you go,' 'Ate I need that' - 'here you go.' I have to keep in mind of setting boundaries and also taking care of myself and being an 'ate' to myself. Like I know if I am not being able to sleep right, I know something's wrong. I'm not able to do my morning routine. Something is wrong. So as a leader, you can only show up as much as what you have in you, what you have inside of you. And if you don't take care of yourself in the right way, you're neglecting your sleep, neglecting yourself, neglecting your own needs because you want to make sure that everything works out fine for your business. The reality is you keep doing that, then even if you have this billion-dollar business, but you're kind of dying that it's not worth it at all. So just find the things, as I said earlier, find the things that you find joy with that you enjoy doing to take care of yourself, to kind of do that refill before you start giving again.
Sean: Yeah. Kind of dying, sounds like a sucky plan, right?
Le-an: Yeah, exactly.
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Sean: From Alana, what lessons you've learned from your past mistakes can you advise a new business owner?
Le-an: I've been a business owner for like six, seven years now, for like multiple different businesses. There's a ton. I think I'll pick my top three. One is, to surround yourself with the right people, which is what we've been talking about this whole time, is you could have the best copywriter, you could have the best web designer, you could have the best marketer. If they don't have the right personality, if they're not the right people for you, whatever business that you're trying to do, that's just going to fall apart in a few months. It'll have a high, sure - because you have the best people, but then it's going to fizzle out really quickly. That was one of the reasons why I had problems with other employees before, was - that I didn't have a set of values. I didn't have the clarity of who did I really want to work with. And that's how the toxicity started and how all of the other stuff that I was talking about happened was, because I didn't myself have the clarity of who I wanted to work with.
Le-an: Second is to learn from the mistakes of others, which is again books, courses, TED talks, watching out for the people that you like their books, and then watching their interviews. So it's learning from mentors even though you never will really meet them. And then if you can, get an actual mentor also in person who can - have years of experience for the new, and who can advise you on their mistakes and then so you can skip it.
Le-an: And the third one is to - this is a little bit soppy and more for - something I realized as a female leader, not really as a general leader, but just keep in mind to take care of yourself. Like I am such a giver like I have that as one of the things that I know is part of my core, it's just I always try to give, as an ate as like, you know, 'Ate I need this' - 'here you go,' 'Ate I need that' - 'here you go.' I have to keep in mind of setting boundaries and also taking care of myself and being an 'ate' to myself. Like I know if I am not being able to sleep right, I know something's wrong. I'm not able to do my morning routine. Something is wrong. So as a leader, you can only show up as much as what you have in you, what you have inside of you. And if you don't take care of yourself in the right way, you're neglecting your sleep, neglecting yourself, neglecting your own needs because you want to make sure that everything works out fine for your business. The reality is you keep doing that, then even if you have this billion-dollar business, but you're kind of dying that it's not worth it at all. So just find the things, as I said earlier, find the things that you find joy with that you enjoy doing to take care of yourself, to kind of do that refill before you start giving again.
Sean: Yeah. Kind of dying, sounds like a sucky plan, right?
Le-an: Yeah, exactly.
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