The Career Builder's Podcast
Accidental Entrepreneurship with Lezlie Garr
Episode Summary
Will you become an Accidental Entrepreneur? Career transition coach and professional resume write Lezlie Garr shares her story of becoming an entrepreneur and why you might become one too.
Episode Notes
Topics Covered
- Lezlie Garr - Career Transition Coach & "Accidental Entrepreneur"
- How Lezlie went from Band Director to Career Coach
- What is accidental entrepreneurship?
- How role models and mentors play a role in building a business
- Mindset blocks that entrepreneurs overcome
- How to learn what you don't know
- Entrepreneurship is much more accessible now
- The skills that make a successful accidental entrepreneur
- How to stay motivated at the beginning of entrepreneurship
- How to overcome challenges
- "failure gets you closer to success"
- What a typical "day-in-the-life" looks like
- The non-glitzy side of entrepreneurship
- Being in action vs being in motion
- Skill set vs passion in business
- The value in thinking like an entrepreneur at any stage of your career