S1E36 - Sumbul's rant on the hype about following your passion and how it relates to your career (or not)!

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Restless to Joyful with Toks Adebiyi - Part 2

Today’s guest

This interview on the Start Anew Show is recorded at a beautiful theatre in North London, UK at the book launch of Joyful – A Truthful Guide to Finding Peace and Living a Fulfilling Life by my friend Toks Adebiyi. This is part 2 of our conversation when we unpack the golden nuggets from Tok’s book such as Believing instead of Worrying, Pursuit of Dreams and much more.

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Toks Adebiyi is an author, entrepreneur, business consultant and a Godly man. He is the founder of two restaurants, a real estate company, a business consultancy, and an Internet marketing company. Toks is blessed with a beautiful wife and daughter who live with him in Barnet, London.

Click here for part 1 of this interview when we talk about how Toks goes from feeling lost to finding himself and how he starts anew with joy and purpose.

You will learn

• Why the title ‘Joyful’

• Who this book is written for and why

• Lesson on believing instead of worrying

• Lesson on why most people feel unfulfilled even when they achieve their goals

• Lesson on the pursuit of dreams

Your resources:

• Toks on Goodreads

• Joyful on Amazon US

• Joyful on Amazon UK

• Toks & Sumbul at the book launch in London

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Restless to Joyful with Toks Adebiyi - Part 1

Today’s Guest

This interview on the Start Anew Show is recorded at a beautiful theatre in North London, UK at the book launch of Joyful – A Truthful Guide to Finding Peace and Living a Fulfilling Life by my friend Toks Adebiyi. We talk about how Toks goes from feeling lost to finding himself and how he starts anew a joyful and purposeful man.

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Toks Adebiyi is an author, entrepreneur, business consultant and a Godly man. He is the founder of two restaurants, a real estate company, a business consultancy, and an Internet marketing company. Toks is blessed with a beautiful wife and daughter who live with him in Barnet, London.

We talk about:

• The social pressures growing up in Nigeria and their impact on young Toks

• The fateful encounter on Bond Street, London that left Toks jobless and joyless

• Creating wealth and success in the property market in London

• The shift from living for the future to living in the present

• The transformation from feeling unfulfilled to joyful and peaceful

• The 60s version of how Toks found himself

I felt like a man on a plane to NY when my intended destination was BK

Click here for part 2 of this interview when we unpack the golden nuggets from Tok’s book such as Believing instead of Worrying, Pursuit of Dreams and much more.

Your Resources:

• Toks on Goodreads

• Joyful on Amazon US

• Joyful on Amazon UK

• Toks & Sumbul at the book launch in London

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Finding Freedom from Oppression with Fizz Shah – Part 2

Today’s guest

In this interview on the Start Anew Show with Fizz Shah, we talk about the practicalities of starting anew in a foreign country, with an infant and nothing but a bag of clothes and a gold bracelet. Fizz also shares her strategies for leveraging her time and connections to create multiple streams of income from her online platform – ‘I Have a Dream Show’.

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Fizz Shah is an online entrepreneur and a fellow Londoner. She enjoys a life of freedom that our friends in America fondly refer to as the ‘laptop lifestyle’. She is the host of ‘I Have a Dream Show’ that you can find on YouTube and iTunes.

Click here for part 1 of this interview when Fizz Shah shares her incredible story of how she escaped oppression, arrange marriage and sexism in the Middle East.

We talk about

• Why she only lasted 2 weeks in her first & only job!

• How she started and scaled her first business

• Mother’s guilt and its effect on her health & business

• Why she shut down her marketing agency without a plan b

• Clarity on her priorities and values

• How she started making money online working only 3-4 hours a day, around her daughter’s schedule

• How and where the idea for ‘I have a dream show’ was born

You’ll learn

• How she leverages her time and connections to create multiple streams of income from a single online platform

• Serving, problem solving & entrepreneurship

• Why she puts herself in the shoes of her target customer

• Sneak-peak to her upcoming book – ‘9 to Shine’.

‘’If you focus on serving others, then you’re looked after.’’ – Fizz Shah

Your resources:

• Website

• Podcast

• Facebook

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Finding Freedom from Oppression with Fizz Shah – Part 1

Today’s Guest

In this interview on the Start Anew Show with Fizz Shah, we unfold her incredible journey of finding freedom. We are not talking about freedom to work from home or from the beach but freedom to be herself, to speak her mind and follow her dreams. This is the story of a young woman who spends the first 23 years of her life behind a veil, oppressed by her family and the society. She shares with us her story of how she breaks away from the shackles and finds freedom in a foreign land.

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Fizz Shah is an online entrepreneur and a fellow Londoner. She enjoys a life of freedom that our friends in America fondly refer to as the ‘laptop lifestyle’. She is the host of ‘I Have a Dream Show’ that you can find on YouTube and iTunes.

We talk about:

• Being the daughter of a prominent royal family in the middle east

• Being trained and groomed to be a wife

“Women are considered temporary visitors of a home.'' – Fizz Shah

• Being punished for giving birth to a daughter

• Arranged marriage & polygamy

• How motherhood awakened the courage of a lioness

“Giving life gave me life!'' – Fizz Shah

• The perception that everything a woman says or does reflects on the men of her family

• How women are controlled in different ways in the East and the West

Click here for part 2 of this interview when Fizz Shah talks about the challenges and practicalities of starting anew in a foreign country, with an infant in her arms and nothing but a bag of clothes and a gold bracelet.

“You don’t have to accept your current reality as your ultimate reality. '' – Fizz Shah

Your Resources:

• Website

• Podcast

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Theatre to Corporate to Consulting with Ron Carucci – Part 2

Today’s Guest:

In this interview on the Start Anew Show, Ron Carucci puts his leadership consultant hat on and coaches entrepreneurs and start-up founders on how to lead your StartUp to GrowUp phase.

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Ron Carucci has spent the last several years exploring his new passion of ushering in the next generation of leaders, helping organizations connect multi-generational workplaces.

Click here for part 1 of this interview when Ron unfolds his various career transitions and how he found his sweet spot, making money doing what he loves and making an impact with it.

You’ll Learn:

• How baby startups go through some mitosis just like an infant in the womb

• Knowing the difference between opportunism and impulsivity

• Why most founding entrepreneurs can’t let go & how it hurts the business

• Going from StartUp to GrowUp

• Why the best contribution of a founder or leader is at the strategic level

• Why it’s essential to build capacity for coordinating and operational activities

• Stepping back from working IN the business to working ON it

Your Resources:

• Website

• LinkedIn

• Ron at Forbes

• Ron’s latest article in Harvard Business Review

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Theatre to Corporate to Consulting with Ron Carucci – Part 1

Today’s Guest:

In this interview on the Start Anew Show, we unfold Ron Carucci’s journey of multiple career transformations from performing arts to corporate world and how he finally found his sweet spot with business consultancy. Ron was introduced to me by Dorie Clark. Dorie suggested that he would a good fit for the Start Anew Show and I can’t agree more. There is an art and science to starting anew successfully and Ron has mastered it and you can model him.

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Ron Carucci is the founder of a boutique consultancy called Navalent. He has spent the last several years exploring his new passion of ushering in the next generation of leaders, helping organizations connect multi-generational workplaces. He has spoken around the world on numerous topics pertaining to developing leaders of tomorrow.

He is a co-author of 8 books and contributes regularly to Forbes and HBR. He has been featured in Fortune, Business Insider, CNBC, Thought Leaders, Business Week, and Bloomberg.

You’ll Learn:

• How Ron felt about performing the same show 8 times a week

• One incident in Munich, opened Ron’s eyes to what ignited his passion

• The shift from using content to entertain to using content to engage with leaders

• Why he was collecting severance packages in his corporate career

• What he means by ‘It’s very difficult to be a prophet in your own land.’

• Why he left big corporate to start his own consultancy business

• How & why he transforms corporate leadership from the outside rather than the inside

• Why he has his company logo tattooed on his leg

“I realised that presenting content from a stage was far less meaningful to me than engaging people in conversations about that content.'' – Ron C

Click here for part 2 of this interview when Ron puts his coaching hat on and teaches leadership in small business.

Your Resources:

• Website

• LinkedIn

• Ron at Forbes

• Ron’s latest article in Harvard Business Review

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Jeremy Ryan Slate shares his journey of how he created his own life, on his own terms, honoring his values and living his passions.

This is the story of a young man who refuses to settle for a mediocre life. He refuses to accept the drudgery of a job he isn't passionate about. He is a dreamer, starter and a creator. You can also find him in the Starters Community. Over the last few years, he has been hustling hard, modelling some of the most iconic and successful online entrepreneurs in the USA including Gary Vee, Pat Flynn, Hal Elrod and John Lee Dumas.

Highlights:

How plan A and B didn't pan out

How he tried a bunch of things in the short space of a few years to discover his passions

How he took a stand to create his own life

Jeremy Ryan Slate is the founder of 'Create Your Own Life Podcast' which helps entrepreneurs live the lives they know they were meant to. He has a degree from Oxford and a diverse work experience in teaching, network marketing, digital marketing, entrepreneurship and podcasting. By day, he is a digital marketer and by night he is a podcast ninja. His podcast hit#1 in iTunes New and Noteworthy and attracted 10K downloads just in the first few weeks! If you want to learn some tried & tested podcast growth strategies from Jeremy, shoot me an email for an introduction.

So what is it like for Jeremy to create his own life, I ask:

“It’s been an amazing experience to really be able to live life on my terms.'' – Jeremy Ryan Slate

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Jeremy of The Create Your Own Life Podcast talks about his early podcasting journey, his communication strategy and goes deep with how to find your purpose in life.

Jeremy Slate is the founder of Create Your Own Life Podcast which helps entrepreneurs live the lives they know they were meant to. Jeremy believes that Dreaming big is his biggest asset.

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This is part 2 of my interview with my dear friend and an unstoppable-force-of-nature-of-a-man – Tanner Gers, a Paralympian, motivational speaker, author, entrepreneur and an all-round high performer in sports & life. He is the founder of The Athlete Summit and host of the Creative Success Show.

In this segment of our conversation, Tanner talks about:

• How serving and giving back to others is his big WHY, that drives everything he does and has not only brought him success but also deep fulfilment.

• His daily rituals of stepping into his greatness (so you can model it!)

• The inspiration behind his podcast Creative Success Show.

‘’Achieving success regardless of circumstance can happen when you are creative.’’ – Tanner Gers

We dig deeper into his daily rituals, how he starts his day with gratitude and forgiveness followed by restating and affirming his goals. Then he gets on with the day to take action and progress towards his goals.

Tanner also reflects on his journey and draws on powerful lessons that can transform your life, such as:

• How to attack your day with an unrelenting mindset that leads to achieving your goals.

• How to manage your fear and move forward with activities that will lead you to success and fulfilment

• The power of creative thinking to create your own success

Tanner’s parting words of profound wisdom:

‘’Time’s gonna pass anyway, so what are you gonna do about it?’’ – Tanner Gers

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21-year-old Tanner (2004) had big dreams! He was getting ready to go into the military to serve his country but this dream crashed as he was impaled by a tree through the head in an auto accident which rendered him legally blind.

The next phase of Tanner’s life was filled with multiple brain surgeries, reconstructive surgeries and psych evaluations.

But the biggest tragedy in Tanner’s life, wasn’t losing his sight - it was NOT living life, and NOT taking every day by the horns.

As you can imagine, he was in a lot of pain, angry and severely depressed.

‘’I felt like my life was pretty much over’’ – Tanner Gers

The big shift - Wise words from dad ‘it could always be worse’ shifted his perspective gave him a positive outlook on his life and planted the seeds of appreciation and gratitude.

Discovering baseball for the blind brought joy back in his life and enabled him to express himself physically on a level plain field. This super motivated him and sparked a desire to be as fit as possible and sent him on the path to more competitive sports and Paralympics.

Since that fateful accident in 2004 Tanner has reinvented himself into a pro-athlete and an all-round high performer. He has graduated from college and has won several sporting laurels including 2011 Para Pan American gold, 2012 US Paralympic trials gold medal and National Beep Baseball Association World Series Offensive MVP.

He has also ignited his entrepreneurial passions and founded a sports performance membership site called The Athlete Summit.

I know this man outside of this interview and I can vouch that he is an all-round high performer and an unstoppable force for good. When he is not training for the Paralympics in Rio 2016, he is lifting others (metaphorically speaking) with his motivational speaking and free podcast - The Creative Success Show.

Key lessons from Tanner’s story:

• Learn how self-pity and complaining is the recipe for hitting rock bottom

• Learn the power of perspective and positive outlook to create success

• Learn to use of mindset to break through obstacles

Click here for part 2 of this interview, when Tanner shares his daily habits that keep him progressing towards his goals and shares the lessons from his experience of overcoming adversity and thriving from it.

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