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The Playbook With David Meltzer

You Need to Start Asking For Help With Qiana Allen, Collette Divitto, & Lexi Zanghi: Stars of Peacock’s “Born For Business” | #ThePlaybook 492

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers

4.61.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2021

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Qiana Allen, Collette Divitto, and Lexi Zanghi, stars of Peacock’s “Born For Business”, talk about how business leaders with disabilities are able to utilize their unique perspective in order to thrive, as well as how to find common ground with your audience. The trio chatted with host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, about a variety of topics including how to handle when others laugh at your dreams, why you shouldn’t be ashamed when you need to ask for help, and the role of empathy in entrepreneurship. The group also chats about taking on the challenge of proving your doubters wrong. The docuseries is streaming now on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com/watch/asset/tv/born-for-business/8001377678204359112 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Playbook, I have a trifecta of born to be business on Peacock and Crave.

0:07.8

That's Kiana Allen, Collette DeVito, and Lexi Zangui. And they're joining me to talk about

0:15.4

how their disabilities have become superpowers to be born for business. Join me for all this and more

0:22.8

on the Playbook. This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook. For each week, I bring you some of the

0:28.4

greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional

0:34.5

playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom.

0:40.5

I'm your host, David Meltzer. I am so excited. This is the most powerful group I've had on the

0:47.2

podcast ever. Even better than the ground cow skis. They're going to bring it for you. They have

0:51.6

a new series called Born for Business. Talk about right up my alley, dealing with their individual

0:58.1

journeys as entrepreneurs in business people. And I have just an amazing guest, Kiana Allen,

1:05.2

Collette DeVito, and Lexi Leslie Zangui. They're all featured here. Welcome everyone to the Playbook.

1:12.4

Thank you for having us. Thank you. I'm excited to be here.

1:16.8

Well, you are all special people. And I always say it takes a special person to be an entrepreneur,

1:22.5

people that are born for business. I've been blessed to be around billionaires,

1:26.0

millionaires, entrepreneurs, celebrities, athletes, and entertainers. And each of them have one

1:31.8

common denominator. And that is the desire that you must be what you can be.

1:37.4

Whoever it is, whether you're Cameron Diaz, whether you're Tillman Fertida, or Sadguru,

1:43.2

who wants to empower the whole whole world, he shames me. He wants to empower the whole world to be

1:47.8

happy. I told him I'd take on a billion of them or more. He's taken on the whole world.

1:52.8

So I'd like to start by asking each of you where that desire to be what you must be within

1:59.4

the context of who you are really started and how do you manifest that or illustrate that,

2:06.0

exhibit that in what you do. Lexi, you go first.

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