Embracing the Entrepreneurial Spirit with Gina Mollicone-Long

The Proven Entrepreneur

Don Williams

Entrepreneurship, Marketing, Careers, Business

5 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Welcome listeners! We're thrilled to have you join us for another exciting episode of The Proven Entrepreneur Show. I'm your host, Don Williams, and today we have a truly special guest, Gina Mollicone-Long. Gina is not only a dear friend but also one of the most inspiring entrepreneurs I've had the pleasure of knowing. Get ready for a conversation filled with incredible stories, valuable insights, and a whole lot of inspiration.

In this episode, Gina takes us on a journey through her fascinating life, starting with her family's immigrant roots. She shares the courageous story of her grandparents, who left everything behind in Europe to start anew in Canada. Their resilience and entrepreneurial spirit laid the foundation for Gina's own path. From her early days studying chemical engineering to working as a welder at Chrysler, Gina's diverse experiences have shaped her unique perspective on business and life.

Gina's corporate journey at Procter & Gamble provided her with invaluable lessons, but it was her transition to entrepreneurship that truly defined her career. She opens up about the challenges she faced, including navigating the impact of 9/11 on her business and the unprecedented hurdles posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Through it all, Gina's unwavering belief in perseverance and self-belief shines through, offering listeners a powerful reminder that success often comes from embracing adversity.

As Gina prepares to embark on a new adventure, pursuing a PhD in neurotheology at Oxford University, she reflects on the importance of following your bliss and never giving up. Her story is a testament to the power of resilience, adaptability, and the relentless pursuit of one's passions. Whether you're an aspiring entrepreneur or a seasoned business owner, Gina's insights will inspire and motivate you to keep pushing forward, no matter the obstacles.

Key Entities Mentioned:

Gina Mollicone-Long: Entrepreneur, author, and speaker.

Don Williams: Host of The Proven Entrepreneur Show.

Procter & Gamble: Gina's former employer.

Chrysler Corporation: Where Gina worked as a welder during her university years.

Morgan Stanley: Gina's brief encounter with the financial world.

NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming): A significant part of Gina's coaching and training methodology.

Oxford University: Gina's upcoming PhD journey in neurotheology.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Are you an entrepreneur looking for more free time, more money, or just looking for that success blueprint?
0:11.6	The proven entrepreneur is the podcast for you.
0:14.6	Host Don Williams and his guests share real success stories from proven entrepreneurs.
0:19.7	Here's your host, Don Williams.
0:29.1	Hey, it's Don Williams. Here today, today's episode of The Proven Entrepreneur Show. A little tongue
0:34.8	tied, it's a new mouth. I'm just trying it out, but I got a really, really good friend, literally one of my favorite people on planet Earth. Gina Molokone
0:43.1	Long, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me, and I would echo that sentiment. Yeah, so love you
0:48.5	lots. Thank you so much for being here. Gina's coming in early this morning. Are you in Toronto this morning? I'm in Toronto this morning. It's just, I'm not sure what to do with this giant glowing orb in the
0:58.4	sun. I'm in the sky. I'm a bit scared by it. So I loathe to close the window shade when we did
1:04.7	to do this recording. I was like, no. If you need to lower the shade, if you need your sunglasses, if you need a welder's helmet, it's all okay. I'm good. Hey, I want to take you all the way back to little Gina. So like five years old. Are you there? Okay. And so in the household in which you're raised, and kind of everybody's household was a little different. But in the household where you were raised, was there an adult who was an entrepreneur?
1:33.4	Yeah.
1:34.1	Oh, God, yes.
1:34.9	I mean, we didn't call it that.
1:37.6	So my grandparents came from Europe.
1:43.1	And they came, well, they came from what we would call the Czech Republic now,
1:48.7	but they were originally from what we would have called Yugoslavia back then and the
1:53.3	Austro-Hungarian Empire. And as you know, things weren't going so well after World War II.
1:58.3	So at the age of 27, I always love to tell this story, my grandmother with three
2:03.6	daughters under the age of seven, and my grandfather thought they would leave all of their wealth
2:09.1	and privilege and aristocracy and all of that jazz behind, get on a boat and go to a country
2:15.3	where they didn't speak the language, couldn't bring their money.
2:19.3	And this was a better option.
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