54: Personal & Business Success with Joan Sotkin
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2016
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
A holistic approach to personal, business and financial success with Joan Sotkin – founder of Prosperity Place and host of The Prosperity Show podcast. She shares stories from her diverse background, including the challenges and failures she overcame before finding long-term success as an entrepreneur. Joan explains that "everything about you is a habit." She shares advice on changing your habits to achieve success in life and in our small businesses. "The situation doesn't cause the emotion, the emotion causes the situation."
This episode is hosted by Henry Lopez. The How of Business podcast focuses on helping you start, run and grow your small business. The How of Business is a top-rated podcast for small business owners and entrepreneurs. Find the best podcast, small business coaching, resources and trusted service partners for small business owners and entrepreneurs at our website https://TheHowOfBusiness.com
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business. |
| 0:10.3 | The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way. |
| 0:18.6 | This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues, |
| 0:22.7 | challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of the |
| 0:27.8 | How of Business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. This is Henry |
| 0:36.6 | Lopez, and I have a guest with me today, Joan Sotkin. Joan, that I pronounce your last name correctly. |
| 0:41.8 | Yes. Great. Well, welcome to the show. My pleasure to be here. Oh, it's our pleasure to have you. Let me give our listeners a brief background on you and then have you add to it. Joan for over 25 years has helped entrepreneurs and practitioners use their inner |
| 0:57.4 | resources along with practical techniques to experience freedom from the struggle, struggles |
| 1:03.1 | personally, professionally, and financially. Thousands of her clients have benefited from her |
| 1:08.1 | groundbreaking book, Build Your Money Muscles, Nine Simple |
| 1:12.4 | Exercises for Improving Your Relationship with Money and her ongoing support programs. I've had a |
| 1:18.3 | chance to download and read the book. It's a great book, and we'll touch on that throughout the |
| 1:22.2 | interview today. Joan is a holistic prosperity and mindset mentor, and a dynamic, inspiring speaker who brings a depth of knowledge, plus a huge dose of empathy and compassion to her work. |
| 1:35.4 | She is the expert when it comes to understanding how emotions learned in early childhood can affect a person's earning capacity as an adult. |
| 1:43.9 | And Joan lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. |
| 1:45.9 | So once again, Joan, welcome to the show. |
| 1:47.4 | Please give us a bit more about yourself and what you're up to these days. |
| 1:50.9 | All right. |
| 1:51.3 | Well, I've been around a long time. |
| 1:53.8 | And I've been doing business online for 21 years. |
| 1:57.9 | And in the 1980s, mid-1980s, I had a big business. |
| 2:03.6 | I had a crystal business that I started from nothing. |
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