22 | Alana Winter | Born To Be An Entrepreneur

The Greatness Machine

Darius Mirshahzadeh

Entrepreneurship, Education, Business

5.0 • 135 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

It sometimes seems as if certain people are born to be entrepreneurs. That's certainly true of Alana Winter! In today's episode of The Greatness Machine, Darius chats with Alana Winter, serial entrepreneur, creative thinker, founder of MI6 Academy and Stiletto Spy School and guide on the path to self-aware leadership. Her journey has taken her from university admission at 16 to simultaneously being fired by her dad and set up in her own business. Following a string of challenges and feelings of burnout, she sold her business in 2006, leading to some powerful questions: "Who am I now? What do I do with my life?" In this wide-ranging discussion, you'll discover how her upbringing in a family of entrepreneurs has helped guide the path of her life. You'll learn why a lack of passion and alignment with your business can open the door to greater and greater difficulties. You'll discover how Alana sold the business she was no longer passionate about, and how doing so forced her to decide who she really was and what she really wanted in her life. You'll also learn how a trip to a James Bond film eventually gave rise to an entirely unique form of coaching: The MI6 Academy and Stiletto Spy School! Join Darius and Alana as they explore the fascinating, unpredictable and sometimes frustrating path that is entrepreneurship. Enjoy! What You’ll Learn in this Show: Alana's background and unusual upbringing, and why she was literally born to be an entrepreneur. How her father helped her start her first business... by firing her. The challenges she faced in that early business, such as burnout, employee theft and even embezzlement from a business partner. Why she believes that a lack of passion and misalignment set the stage for the challenges she faced in her early entrepreneurial career. How she navigated "the void" after selling her first business with no plan for the immediate future. And so much more... Resources: Alana's Website MI6 Academy ‎The Greatness Machine Podcast Website Facebook Instagram YouTube Twitter LinkedIn This podcast uses the following third-party services for analysis: Chartable - https://chartable.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:06.0	So after I worked for my dad for, I was a little over a year, he called me one day and he says I was opening up the store up in the boonies he called me and he said two things I tell you one is you're fired and the second thing I want to tell you is, you know how we like went around and we got inventory for other stores for other stores that are opening up?
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