Lori Harder on Pivoting in Business and Reinventing Your Mindset for Success | Entrepreneurship | YAPClassic

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha

YAP Media Network | Hala Taha

Business, Marketing, Entrepreneurship

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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At a pool party, little Lori Harder got up on the diving board only to hear her peers chanting “Whale!” And just like that, she went from a bubbly child to one who hid because of her body. Refusing to accept that her size was genetic, she threw herself into the world of fitness. Through relentless hard work, she became a 3-time fitness world champion, gracing the covers of fitness magazines. But she didn’t stop there. She built a successful fitness brand and has since excelled at other businesses. In this episode, Lori shares her journey of reinventing herself time and time again, including lessons on rebounding from failure and pivoting in business. In this episode, Hala and Lori will discuss: (00:00) Introduction (03:11) Mindset Shifts from Childhood Struggles (08:16) Finding Motivation Through Hard Times (12:02) First Steps into Entrepreneurship (19:17) Scaling her Fitness Business Online (26:51) Selling Success in Network Marketing (30:53) Launching a Successful Podcast (32:55) Opportunities Unlocked with Podcasting (33:21) Joining Lewis Howe's Mastermind (33:51) Starting a Podcast: Tips and Challenges (35:10) Teaching to Learn: The Ultimate Life Hack (37:02) Raising Money Through Podcasting (40:38) Pivoting for Business Growth in COVID (50:24) The Importance of Relationships in Business Lori Harder is a serial entrepreneur, top podcast host, and bestselling author known for her expertise in personal transformation, mindfulness, and entrepreneurship. She is also the founder of Glōci, a skin routine you can drink. A former 3-time fitness world champion, Lori turned her passion for fitness into a thriving career in network marketing and coaching. She hosts the Earn Your Happy podcast, a Forbes Top 11 business podcast. Through her events, podcast, books, and courses, she helps women connect with their like-minded tribes, take bold leaps in business, and live out their entrepreneurial dreams. Episode Sponsors: Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at youngandprofiting.co/shopify Airbnb - Your home might be worth more than you think. Find out how much at airbnb.com/host Rocket Money - Cancel your unwanted subscriptions and reach your financial goals faster with Rocket Money. Go to rocketmoney.com/profiting Indeed - Get a $75 job credit at indeed.com/profiting RobinHood - Receive your 3% boost on annual IRA contributions, sign up at robinhood.com/gold Factor - Get 50% off your first box plus free shipping when you use code FACTORPODCAST at factormeals.com/profiting50off Active Deals - youngandprofiting.com/deals Key YAP Links Reviews - ratethispodcast.com/yap Youtube - youtube.com/c/YoungandProfiting LinkedIn - linkedin.com/in/htaha/ Instagram - instagram.com/yapwithhala/ Social + Podcast Services - yapmedia.com Transcripts - youngandprofiting.com/episodes-new Entrepreneurship, entrepreneurship podcast, Business, Business podcast, Self Improvement, Self-Improvement, Personal development, Starting a business, Strategy, Investing, Sales, Selling, Psychology, Productivity, Entrepreneurs, AI, Artificial Intelligence, Technology, Marketing, Negotiation, Money, Finance, Side hustle, Startup, mental health, Career, Leadership, Mindset, Health, Growth mindset, Career, Success, Entrepreneurship, Productivity, Careers, Startup, Entrepreneurs, Business Ideas, Growth Hacks, Career Development, Money Management, Opportunities, Professionals, Workplace, Career podcast, Entrepreneurship podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up, YAP gang?
0:13.0	In this episode of YAP Classic, we're revisiting an episode from last year with one of my most inspiring friends, Lori Harder.
0:20.2	We talk about a super important topic for
0:22.8	entrepreneurs, which is the art of pivoting. Entrepreneurship is all about embracing pivots,
0:29.1	and nobody knows that more than Lori. Lori is a serial entrepreneur, the host of the Forbes 11
0:34.5	business podcast, Earn Your Happy, which is in my podcast network, and the best-selling
0:38.8	author of a tribe called Bliss. Lori has had to reinvent herself at several points in our life.
0:45.3	She went from being a chubby kid with anxiety issues to then gracing the covers of fitness
0:50.5	magazines and becoming a three-time fitness world champion.
0:59.9	Then she built a successful fitness brand and made it big with a network marketing business.
1:02.5	By 32, she had made her first million.
1:07.1	In this episode, Lori shares her journey of reinventing herself time and time again,
1:13.1	including lessons on rebounding from failure and pivoting in business. So get ready for an inspiring conversation about turning setbacks into stepping stones and discovering your true
1:18.3	potential. Lori, welcome to Young and Profiting Podcast. I'm so excited to be here. I can't wait to chat with you.
1:28.6	Likewise. I love chatting with my girlfriends. And Lori, I thought I knew a lot about you,
1:34.6	but it turns out I didn't know much about you once I started studying all your work and your life.
1:41.2	And I found out that when you were a child, you were actually pretty overweight.
1:46.7	And that was so surprising to me because I've always known you as somebody who's super fit.
1:52.3	You've been a fitness model in the past. And I just had no idea that you had this transformation.
1:58.1	So I'd love to understand what was it like for you as a kid?
2:01.7	How did that actually shape who you are as an entrepreneur today? Oh my gosh. Coming from a family
2:07.3	that it really stemmed from all of our joy came from connecting over food. It was just as far as I
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