Podcast 242: Joan Sotkin: It's Better Being Different Than The Same When Creating Career Success

JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Business, Education

5.0 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2014

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Todays guest is a lady who has been on a journey of success, failure, struggles and self discovery For years, she suffered from a long list of physical, emotional, and financial problems. After giving away all her possessions, an extended spiritual journey connected her to the deeper parts of herself that led her to everything she needed to find health, well-being, and peace of mind. In the 1980s, she thought she was on the way to financial security as she rapidly built a wholesale, retail, and mail order business to the point where she was grossing over $30,000 a month. Sounds good doesn't it, but her lack of business and financial skills led to her downfall—and bankruptcy. But although a dark period of her life, she knew that she lacked the knowledge to prevent this happening, so studied everything she could to ensure it would happen again She set out on the path of learning everything she could about business and financial management. This knowledge allowed her to flourish as an entrepreneur while sharing what she had learned with others. But there is so much more to her story, than we can cover in a short introduction like this. So how did she create this online success, when quite openly admitting that she didn't have the knowledge to be a business success? And where does she see the common issues that others encounter as they start there entrepreneurial leaps? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Joan Sotkin.

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0:00.0	When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be
0:05.2	but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.
0:09.2	Join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.
0:15.0	This is your blueprint for greatness.
0:18.0	So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.
0:27.0	Yes, good morning to you.
0:28.8	I hope you all had a lovely Christmas yesterday
0:32.2	with your loved ones. You got everything that you wanted and now you're ready for the well it's the run up to 2015. This is when it all starts so all your dreams should be fulfilled and you're starting the plans to new ones.
0:45.8	And we've got an amazing lady on the show today.
0:48.2	She is a lady who has been on a journey of success, failures, struggles, and I guess self-discovery. For years
0:55.4	she suffered from a long list of physical, emotional and financial problems.
0:58.9	After giving away all her possessions, an extended spiritual journey connected her to the deeper parts of herself
1:06.0	that led her to everything she needed to find health, wellbeing and peace of mind.
1:10.4	In the 1980s, she thought she was on the way to financial security as she rapidly built a wholesale retail mail order business to the point where she was grossing over 30,000 a month. Back in the 80s, that's a fortune it's pretty good nowadays as well
1:23.3	sounds good doesn't it but her lack of business and financial skills led to her
1:28.2	downfall and bankruptcy but although a dark period of her life she knew that she lacked the knowledge to prevent
1:34.4	this happening, so studied everything she could to ensure it wouldn't happen again.
1:38.9	She set out on the path of learning everything she could about business and financial management.
1:43.7	Now this knowledge allowed her to flourish as an entrepreneur while sharing what she had
1:48.0	learned with others, but there is so much more to her story than we can cover in a short introduction like this.
1:54.4	So how did she create this online success when quite openly admitting that she didn't have the
1:58.3	knowledge to be a business success?
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