How a Note on a Napkin Became a Blockbuster Business | Ep. 97
The Big Shift: The Business of Making a Difference
Bill Baren
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2015
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
What would you do if an inner voice instructed you to create a business that seemed way outside your expertise? Here’s the story of a woman who chose to follow that inner guidance, and the incredible rewards it brought her.
It all started with a simple message that popped into Melinda Cohan’s head while she was riding on the freeway.
Then came the sentence she spontaneously wrote on a restaurant napkin.
Melinda didn’t know exactly what it meant, and she didn’t have a business plan.
But she’d found her mission—and the faith and strength to make it happen.
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| 0:00.0 | Today you're going to hear an incredible true story. |
| 0:06.7 | This is a story of how a woman's inner guidance led her to commit to a new business venture |
| 0:11.6 | before she fully understood what the business would |
| 0:14.4 | actually be and Melinda Cohen's phenomenal success story proves that |
| 0:19.2 | sometimes following an intuitive urge even if it sounds a little crazy, is the sanest choice you can possibly |
| 0:26.1 | make. |
| 0:27.1 | From Big Shift Studios in Oakland, California. |
| 0:31.1 | This is the Big Shift Podcast with Bill Barron. |
| 0:35.0 | Getting Real about Business Growth and Success Mind sets |
| 0:39.0 | for those making a difference. |
| 0:41.0 | Now, introducing your host Bill Barron, who owns more hats than Richard Branson's |
| 0:46.7 | had businesses. This episode of the Big Chef Podcast is brought to by Master of Enrollment. |
| 1:01.0 | Master Enrollment solves the hardest part of being in business. |
| 1:05.3 | The part where you try to get new clients but you just keep hearing no after no after no. |
| 1:10.9 | I used to live in this land of no, the land of no clients, no money, no fun. |
| 1:15.0 | Master of enrollment is the process that's taken me and more than 3,000 other |
| 1:20.3 | entrepreneurs from the land of no to the land of yes. |
| 1:24.0 | Clients saying yes to hiring you and yes to you making the kind of impact you've always |
| 1:28.6 | wanted to make. |
| 1:29.9 | Now I want to show you this very process that will skyrocket your success rate at landing new clients |
| 1:36.0 | in an awesome free training I'm presenting in the next couple of days. |
| 1:39.4 | Claim your spot by going to the big shift dot com forward slash training that's the big shift |
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