Entrepreneurial Success - Discover The Entrepreneur Within You (Come For A Walk Down Memory Lane...)

In this episode, I take you down a walk down memory lane. We'll be going through 5 prompts to bring out the stories that set you up for entrepreneurial success way back when.

If you've ever wondered if you're cut out for entrepreneurship, this episode will definitely be for you. One of the things I specialise in is helping my community remember who they are again.

 
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Hi, my loves. My name is Ruby Lee on Japan, a digital nomad. Chris saw obsessed free spirit and founder of the own Your hustle movement. And this is the own your hustle podcast. Here you'll be so motivated to start that business you've always wanted to grow it unapologetically and go all in earning powerfully with ease and grace. I'm so excited that you're here and listening in, and I'm so grateful that you made it so welcome to the only hustle way of life full of freedom. A dose of Wu and plenty of random tangent laughs along the way. You know, I started my company working 9 to 52 is a recruiter. I was working for adventures based business in the urban cool city of Melbourne, Australia. And today I'm travelling the world young family in tow, working with the most amazing humans ready to build a career on life by design Strap in, my love, you are about to binge on all of the most incredible guess that I bring onto this podcast and guess what? There started their businesses through purpose and calling mostly while still working a day job. Let me also share this. I called my company owned your Hustle as a reminder for us daily that we get Tau love our sole lead Hustle are now decisions to grow big. Stop playing small, create with joy. Take the risk. Say yes to adventure and from time to time, be okay with those meltdown moments. These episodes are filled with joy and strategy, spirituality and business, tactical tips, big picture concepts, musings and, of course, some of that ruby coloured energy. So if you already I'm ready, let's get started. Hey, gorgeous humans. It's so awesome to be back on the air this week on DH. Yes, it's still quarantined for most of the world. I hope you are keeping well, keeping safe Ondas Muchas you can connecting back to self and keeping those energy levels up. You know, I have to admit something. It definitely has Bean very contrast ing thiss week. I have been really mourning the loss of a really big part of my life, which is that element of travel and a really big and deep pot of my value system being freedom. I've been really needing to find ways to reinvent and re frame what that value looks like in this current condition of our worlds and the state of play at the moment. And 90% of my day was travelling and exploring new coaches and always thinking about which country we could hop to next and literally our conversations would be, Hey, do you want to go Teo Turkey on the weekend? You want to go to Greece on the weekend when we were in Europe and to go from that sort of lifestyle to being in the house like all day, every day has definitely bean very confronting the reality of not travelling and not being able to see my friends. Also, that freedom element of being able to work from a really cute bar or a really gorgeous cafe. You will know that I love working from hotel lobbies or even just from like airport, you know, lounges and things like this. This is where I get a lot of my inspiration from a lot of my energy from even talking about it. And picturing being in that scenario has has me really smiling from ear. I'm doing a bunch of things to keep me very grounded, and it's really something that I really share with you around how both Michael and I are making the most of this whole scenario, how we're hunkering in and you know what we're doing with this time that were gifted with. So what's been keeping me grounded is knowing that I am so blessed to be healthy, so and also incredibly blessed to have a family that are also healthy. So my heart goes out to all of you out there who have either experienced Corona virus or, you know, someone who's gone through it. I really do, from the bottom of my heart sincerely hope everybody is keeping safe and healthy, and I'm sending you all the healing vibes during this time. I'm also very, very blessed to be back in Australia somehow, somehow, at just the right time we were brought back here. The outbreak sort of happened when we were in Vietnam, and it just lead us back to Australia just before lock down happened just before. A lot of the government's have sort of said, we're shutting borders and we're no longer doing flights like we really could have been on the other side of the world like we had just come back from Europe and then we're making our way back from Europe. Teo Dubai, Dubai to Asia, Asia, back to Australia. So I'm so thankful and grateful that, you know, the universe led us back to our home turf during this time. And I'm very, very thankful for that. And also the stability of not being able to move around so much has really kept me very grounded. I mean, of course we love to travel and it's such a big part of our life and our energy source. But on the flip side, being grounded gives us an opportunity to really feel connected. More than ever, I feel so, so, so connected. Teo Australia again. Being able to see the beach and being familiar with the surroundings has Bean quite comforting in a way. But I want also talk about what's keeping me happy. So feeling grounded is one thing, but also feeling happy is another. So what's been keeping me really happy right now? My daily walks So we are still allowed to go out for walks and take the exercise and get some fresh air with lots of social distancing. So I've bean going on my daily walks every day with my son Teddy, because Henry and Mike are homebodies, so they like staying indoors like this's honestly, them, like living the best life. They love it. So maintain DEA like manifesting generators. We love to go outside. I am also making so many Tic Tac's. So if you're not following me on tic TAC, I'll leave my tic Tac link below or you can just search for me. It's the same as Instagram Underscore Ruby Lee underscore, and I have found a tic Tac strategy that is really starting to take off. I've gotten like 45 new followers in, like the last five days, and I had one video go quite good, like it had over 2500 views in the first day. So that was really cool to see my new little strategy come tto life. So I will be sharing that if you guys want me to and taking you through how I'm using the platform also to grow my personal brand and some awareness around the business. I'm also learning languages, so the two languages I'm learning is Italian and also Korean is actually also an Astro geography practise where If you can't get to a certain line on your Astro chart, you can actually call in the energies of the country by cooking the food, learning the language, what in the TV, listening to the music, you can do all of that through energy. That's why it is so so powerful to know that we can create our own realities this way. You know, when all of this began, Mike and I sat down and decided that our business would not only survive through this season but thrive. We decided to do this by helping as many new entrepreneurs as we can. Ah, lot of that definitely drove into the launches that we've planned now over the next couple of months. It definitely has fed into our pricing strategy. It's fed into our funnel strategy. It's fed into the way that I message and how often I'm showing up. All of it comes back to. We know our business is goingto absolutely thrive because it comes from a place that is here to serve. And if it comes from a place of service, we will always be rewarded because this time is so great for reflection. I want you to think about what has brought you to becoming thie entrepreneur that you are today thinking back to the first time that you earned money on your own terms. This takes me back to 1991 and my next door neighbour was also my very best friend in the whole world. Every weekend we'd knock on each other's doors and we'd be like, What? You want to do what you want to do? And she had this awesome costumes box with, like an angel costume, a clown costume. I put on the angel costume she put on the clown costume and I said, Let's go back to my house and get my cassette player and play Mariah Carey and go stand out the front of our house and see if anybody gives us change, like for our dancing and for our singing. And she's like, What? I'm not going to do that. I'm like, Come on now is so much fun. Think about all the candy and the lolly lolly is that we can buy from the local milk bar, which is also like a general store. And so I finally convinced her, and we played dream lover on we're just sang Allah hot out. And guess what we would get like, 10 cents here. 20 cents. 50 cents a dollar. It was magical. So what happened was every weekend, we had made 10 to $15. That was so much money. Back in 1991 we were so so little. But we had so much fun doing it. And, of course, so much fun Eating all the sweet things and buying it with our own money. I remember my parents and her parents actually going. Where did you actually get the money from? We're like, No, seriously, we were just busking. That was such a cool memory. So that was the first time I earned money on my own terms. I It wasn't pocket money from my parents. It wasn't helping out my parents friends, and they felt obligated to give me some money. It was purely on my own terms with our own idea, with our own initiatives. So I thought that was super super cool, Teo, remember? So the next prompt is Think back to a time that you gave back to society on your own terms. Think back to a time that you gave back to society on your own terms. I remember when I was in Grade six and Grade seven, I was so shocked to hear from my friends that their older brothers and sisters were working at this bread company making bread like it was a bakery and they would have sacks and sacks of bread that didn't self that day. And a lot of that bread would either go out to the birds, go out in garbage bags because you can't sell stale bread at a bakery. And this is after the fact that they had taken so much home to their friends and their family. And I remember hearing that saying to my dad, That's not right. I don't think that's right. I think we need to do something with that bread. And so I went to the bakery and I asked them if I could collect all the bread that they did not use and that they were planning to put out into the Dumpsters and I said I was going to deliver them tio the age care centres around the area. I knew that there were a lot of elderly people in the area, and I'm sure that they would have appreciated it. It began thiss sort of bread run bread delivery part of my life where the manager, the bakery manager, was actually like, really shocked by my suggestion. And they were so happy to give us the bread and yeah, May and my dad every Thursday night, we would do it only do it once a week because I was still so young and I would beg my dad. Actually, he was really, really happy to do it too. I think it made him feel really good. Teo give back to society and we'd go to all the age care centres and drop off like bags of bread that was bait that day. And I don't know, like we got really well known in the area and they were so grateful. It was just such a beautiful time. And unfortunately, we had to stop doing that, which really sucked because the food laws had changed in Australia and they no longer allowed us to pick up the bread. But that was the very first time I really thought about giving back with the time and the resource is that we had it made me really recognise that we have so much within our own power to do this. And it's such a quality of being an entrepreneur, giving back on your own terms, being generous with the time and the energy that we have, finding ways to meet people's needs and knowing that we have so much more to give, always, like what we are able to give is so, so, so unlimited. Think back to the time you exercised discipline and routine such a huge quality as entrepreneurs, right the way that we live our lives. Every day I wake up, I have a routine. Even though I'm not a routine driven person, it's just become such an innate part of me that I don't even think about it anymore. Like I don't need tohave to do lists and a huge calendar, and remind is telling me to do certain things. It's just a part of my like Sergei t circadian rhythm, if you like. So I was very, very sporty. Growing up, I ran track. I played a lot of tennis every weekend. Whenever my tennis team would play a rotational around Robin in our district, we'd have to be at the courthouse by like five or six AM, especially if I played Clay and I had to bag the courts. So we had to like water the courts, where to grab the mats and bag it and to make sure like it was beautifully. Even so, we were ready to start playing and first serve happened at seven AM for round robin, which went until 10 30 AM every Saturday morning. So this was the discipline that came with it and I became the tennis captain of our club and it was like me and six other girls that would play round Robin so I would do like the rosters I would do who would be playing together in a doubles team who would be taking on singles that week. And if anyone was injured, I would have to bring someone off the bench and call around and see if the girls were available to play comp with us. So there was a lot of discipline and a lot of routine and obviously a lot of leadership skills there as well. I would have been about 13 or 14 years old, so for a 13 year old to wake up at five am every Saturday morning, get the other girls there on time and get like a minivan organised, which luckily, one of our friends had because they had a big family. All of it, really. If I cast back to that time has really helped me today, lead teams all throughout my career help me stay really true to my words. They really disciplined on top of my day. And it's just a really nice memory tohave because it really helped me go. OK, like I'm I'm actually responsible. I have a responsibility tohave to my clubhouse, to my team, Tio my other players and, of course, to the district because they were so like, excited for us like wind pendants every year and to take out championships and whatnot. So that in itself has really helped ground me as an entrepreneur and definitely the business owner that I am today. Okay, second last prompt is Think back, Teo, The first time you were so determined to beat your own personal best record. So thinking about this from an entrepreneurial point of view, we always want to better ourselves, right? We always want oh, better. The last month that we did financially. We always want to better our statistics and our growth. From a social media point of view, we always want to get bigger, get better, like write better, speak better. All of that. And so when was the first time you realised that you had this drive within you? Teo, just really Go, Go, go, go, go! And it wasn't competition with others. It was a competition with your own personal goals. So my example is fundraising. I was somehow just crazy competitive with my last year's goal. Every time it came to a fundraising type of activity, I loved rating. Growing up, I was like a bookworm. There was this one particular fundraiser called the M S Read a thon, and it raised money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society in Australia. And it was a one month read a thon and oh my God. I remember one year I was so determined to beat my first year record of six books in a month that I blew it out of the water and I read 15 books in 30 days. So the idea is that with every book that you read, you make a you get someone to pledge how much they're going to donate based on the books that you read, and it's definitely a trust system. But you log the book and then you, you know, like you sign off that you've read the book and whatnot. And so I would say to my friends and family and uncles and aunties like For every book I read, you're going to donate $5 they were like, what, $5 for every book? And they sort of like, you know, no pun intended. But they judge a book by the cover and be like, I'm not sure how many books you can read in a month. So sure, anyway, can you imagine? Can you imagine when I said that I read 15 books, so I don't know. I can't quite remember if, like negotiation was struck at that point because my mom would have been mortified like You can't take that much money and I'm like, Yes, I can. It's for charity. So it was this whole thing, but I was determined to do all I could to raise as much as I could, so that was really, really cool and thinking back to your own instances. What was the first time you recognised? You were so determined to meet your own goals and to surpass them. My last prompt is Think back to the first time you felt rejected and levelled up your resilience. I don't know if I've ever told you guys this storey, but one of my first ever jobs that I took was daughter door sales and it was also to raise money for the Kidney Foundation. So my mom is in the kidney field. I felt very connected to this particular charity and I wanted to do my best, so it kind of goes back to the fundraising and the giving back. But this whole sense of daughter door was brand new to me, and I think I entered into it with a lot of nei Vitti and not really thinking that people would act the way that they did, given that I was knocking on their door for a charity. Very naive, as I said. And this is during the time of, like, energy providers and utilities knocking on doors to make sales and all of that. So I didn't realise I was going to fall into the contingent of people that got there, doors like doors slammed in their faces and people yelling abuse and people threatening to get their dogs out to get me off their lawn. And at one time I had someone throw their lunch at me. I could see people hiding inside like not wanting to open the front door. That was a really big eye opener for me, especially because I had never, ever had a sales job and I would be walking the streets through rain, hail or shine. So I remember some days it was so bloody hot. It was like 40 degrees and I nearly just about passed out some other days when I would be caught out in the rain and I didn't have an umbrella because hashtag Melbourne life, it could be like really hot one hour and then the next hour, just like the clouds roll in and you are just being rained on. So that was a really big moment for me, where I realised, you know what? Rejection is just part of the reward. Not to say I invite that storey into my life always, but knowing that if rejection comes, it makes us stronger. If a time comes when we're asked to step up to the plate and be more resilient. Were just asked to be stronger. We're just putting on more AAMA. We're levelling up. There's always going to be a challenge that we defeat, and we get to like, you know, defeat that big boss, whether it's the voice inside of your head or whether it's other people who are physically wanting to take you down, you know that we can always rise up where such resilient beings. So with all of this being said, I hope this has helped you really discover the entrepreneur in you that you never knew you had. This has been such a wonderful exercise that I have personally gone through, and hence why I wanted to share it with all of you listening in learning how Teo ground back to the entrepreneurial roots always, always had, and with all of your experiences, you might have experienced it when you were super young, when you were like five or six, or ride up through to where you are now. It could have happened last week, so don't ever feel that you do not have entrepreneurial qualities or that you're not good enough or that you have this self doubt. Going back to those storeys is actually such a great way to also tell your Storey Storey Tell it with the world document that with the world show people You know the resilience that you've gone through the moments that you've gone through where you've been so determined to get back up, to beat that last goal, to be so generous, so giving so focused and seeing that now in terms of your own life, Storey is powerful. So go and do that Have a beautiful rest of the week. I've got an interview coming up which I know you are all going to absolutely love. Keep that energy up however you can and I just want to send you all the love. I also want to remind you all if you haven't seen it, I'm hosting a live seven day online coaching campfire which is starting from April the 20th. So if you haven't registered for that yet, I'm going to leave the link in my buyer so that you don't miss a bait with when the live calls are going to be. You are absolutely going Tio want to be on these calls because it's going to help you really set up your coaching practise. So if you are an aspiring coach or you are a coach wanting to take your practise online, this is the seven day free Siri's to be joining. I'll catch you real soon and remember, you can absolutely own your hustle. Love you.