How asking one simple question led to a multi-million dollar company with Abby Walker
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2018
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Abby is the CEO of Vivian Lou, a company that empowers women to wear high heels 4x longer without pain, and the author of Strap on a Pair – a raw and humorous memoir that documents her journey from corporate executive to successful entrepreneur.
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1. Welcome failure in your life and use it to move forward.
2. Don't be the person to limit yourself.
3. Stop undervaluing your product or service.
Visit Abby's website - Vivian Lou
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| 0:00.0 | Hold on to those afterburner's Fire Nation JLD here and welcomed episode |
| 0:08.0 | nineteen hundred and eighty six of EO fire right chat with entrepreneurs on fire |
| 0:13.5 | seven days a week and if you're ready Fire Nation to master productivity |
| 0:19.0 | discipline and focus in just one hundred days will visit the mastery journal |
| 0:24.0 | dot com now let's chat with today's featured guest Abby Walker |
| 0:29.0 | Abby are you prepared to ignite I am indeed Abby's the CEO of Vivian Lou a company |
| 0:37.0 | that empowers women to wear high heels four times longer without the pain |
| 0:42.0 | and she's also the author of strap on a pair a raw and humorous memoir |
| 0:47.0 | that documents her journey from corporate executive to successful entrepreneur |
| 0:51.0 | and Abby when listening to your own book name can make you laugh you know you did a good job |
| 0:56.0 | so congrats on that. He committed fill in some gaps from the intro and give us a little glimpsier |
| 1:03.0 | personal life. I started this journey with Vivian Lou just a short three and a |
| 1:10.0 | half years ago and believe it or not I did not set out to be an entrepreneur. It |
| 1:15.0 | happened simply because I asked one question and was given this amazing |
| 1:22.0 | opportunity to become the exclusive distributor of this phenomenal insult for high heels |
| 1:27.0 | and has been a wild ride but such a fun fun ride over the last three and a half |
| 1:34.0 | years. Well during those three and a half years what would you say you've developed |
| 1:38.0 | as your area of expertise right now. I know this is going to sound a bit funny |
| 1:43.0 | but my I am an expert in asking questions failing and googling. |
| 1:50.0 | The three core skills any entrepreneur needs to have. It's so true. It's so true |
| 1:59.0 | and let's go a couple of levels deeper than that because it's so true at the surface |
| 2:02.0 | but what don't we know or do as entrepreneurs that you you don't have just |
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