The Unique Genius Superheroes Interview Series is about ordinary people who have created businesses they love around their purpose.
Everyone has a purpose (or “calling”), and there are always ways to turn your purpose, any purpose, into a business you love. It’s easier to live your purpose daily when you do it for work!
Cameron Herold is one of the country’s most innovative business leaders and was a leading force behind one of the most successful new business ventures of the last decade, 1-800-GOT-JUNK?
He was Chief Operating Officer for nearly seven years and his innovative business leadership helped enable the company to build a presence in 46 states, 9 provinces, and 4 countries. During his tenure, numerous MBA programs studied the company, including the prestigious program at Harvard. He helped grow the company from $2 million to over $100 million in revenue!
One of the many things that I admire about Cameron is that he knows building a successful brand and hyper-growth business isn’t about personality or luck. It’s about having the right systems. Cameron can give you the framework and proven solutions that will accelerate your revenue, build your profitability, and help you avoid costly problems. It really IS like having a COO right in your back pocket.
Cameron’s Unique Genius is: “to lead and energize people by using quick, intuitive alternatives to build plans that reverse engineer their dreams.” ~ AWESOME!
Here’s some of what we covered in the interview:
- how writing 20 minutes a day and making lists led him to the work he loves, his dream business
- how clearly & specifically Cameron describes his ideal clients (awesome!)
- a great story about how he got over being chicken and fired someone he’d needed to fire for six months (ps – his mentor gave him the advice that ‘you’ve been stealing his life from him by not firing him’)
- why his “painted picture” visioning is so important for clients, and why he started it after learning how olympic athletes used visualizing
- his three key areas of vision, people, and focus
Cameron and I also talk about his last chapter called “Letters To Myself”…which includes all kinds of advice to his ‘past selves’! That section of the interview and in the book you do not want to miss.
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More About Cameron Herold
- Back Pocket COO
- Double Double, the book
- Cameron’s Ted Talk: Raise kids to be entrepreneurs not lawyers
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About Unique Genius
There’s a process to discovering your purpose and turning it into a business. Find out the latest at www.UniqueGenius.com.
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Unique Genius Superhero Interview: Jennifer Lee, Author of “The Right-Brain Business Plan”
May 3rd, 2011
The Unique Genius Superheroes Interview Series is about ordinary people who have created businesses they love around their purpose.
Everyone has a purpose (or “calling”), and there are always ways to turn your purpose, any purpose, into a business you love. It’s easier to live your purpose daily when you do it for work!
Today I’m interviewing Jennifer Lee, the author of The Right-Brain Business Plan. She helps people really get clear about what they want in their life and their business, AND she makes what people really want happen! Jennifer is a certified coach, writer, artist, yogini, and the founder of Artizen Coaching. Before pursuing her own passions full-time, she spent time in the corporate world, consulting for ten years for companies such as Gap Inc., Accenture, Sony, and HP, helping leaders and organizations manage change.
Now she is on a mission to empower people to awaken their innate creativity and make a living doing what they love (sounds familiar, doesn’t it?!). I was honored to talk with one of my fellow empower-ers on how she helps people.
In the interview, Jennifer shares about:
- how she fell in love with life coaching in 2003
- how she reached her limit and finally made the leap out of the corporate world in 2006
- how she integrated her art and creative side to become a source of revenue
- how what “services” you in the corporate world might “sabotage” your passions
- the pitfall of “compare and despair” when creating your business
- how to engage in “income and expenses” in a fun and artistic way
- how making a visual business plan can help you perform more effectively
- a few easy ways to bring more creativity into your life
And… she also shares the advice she would have given herself back in 2003 ~ valuable!
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More from Jennifer Lee
- her website: the Right Brain Business Plan
- Artizen Coaching
- get free playsheets from Jennifer’s book
- on amazon: the Right Brain Business Plan
About Unique Genius
There’s a process to discovering your purpose and turning it into a business. Find out the latest at www.UniqueGenius.com.
How are you making your business plan “visual”?
I did my own version of a visual, circular version of a business plan here.
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