In the exclusive first episode of The Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast, former corporate CEO turned entrepreneur Jeannette Linfoot takes you through her journey on how she worked hard from the bottom up to reach CEO of large businesses in the corporate world and to now becoming the owner of multiple successful businesses. Join Jeannette as she talks you through her upbringing in Manchester, surrounded by people who instilled her with a hard work ethic and a belief that anything is possible, enabling her to become the first person in her family to go to university. Also learn how she found the perfect working environments enabling her to flourish in her career. She also talks about how working internationally, in culturally diverse environments, taught her how to navigate her way through different business and personal relationships.
Jeannette’s nearly 30 years in business all comes together with the launch of the Brave, Bold, Brilliant podcast. Jeannette is a passionate believer that we all have greatness within us and that we can achieve anything in life, as long as we are brave, bold and brilliant. Grabbing opportunities, dealing with challenges and taking risks but being the ‘true’ you are core to Jeannette’s values.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
It is a good skill to learn the value of working hard, and that people don’t just give you anything for nothing in this life. Learning this will stay with you throughout your time and your career. Being brought up by parents who instill a hard work ethic into you will help you in life and allow you to take ownership and responsibility.
Finding the right culture and environment where you can really flourish, be challenged but accepted for who you are is critical to success. If anybody is thinking about where they are right now, if it doesn’t feel right or you don’t share the same values as those around you then think about whether that is what you want and where you want to be now and in the future.
You may come across situations in your life where you feel very uncomfortable and out of your comfort zone.Think to yourself ‘I’ll give it a go, how bad can it be?’. Don’t be afraid to fail. You can’t always win but don’t be afraid to fail. Just put yourself out there and then great things can happen.
Working in a culturally diverse environment will teach you how to navigate your way through different relationships in a sensitive and respectful way and how to adapt your style accordingly in order to get the right results.
It is important to have clarity and purpose and knowing what you want to achieve in life, because once you know that you can take steps to achieve your potential. Many people never fulfil their dreams, we don’t want to be one of those people, we want to push on and achieve everything we can in life.
When you’re making a big change in your career, it is always worth considering: ‘where are your strengths?’ ‘where have you already got experience, that you’re confident in?’ and therefore when you do start out on a new venture, it is not so scary because you’re pulling on all of that experience and hard-earned knowledge.
BEST MOMENTS
“Exploring how by being brave, bold and brilliant we can really do fabulous things in our careers, in our business lives and in our personal lives.”
“You need to be able to do what you need to do to survive”
“Being culturally aware, taught me a lot. Not only how to do business in different business environments with different cultural dimensions, but it taught me a lesson in life..”
“It was time for me to be more entrepreneurial, it was time for me to have my own businesses, to invest my own money and to have the variety of a portfolio rather than being a CEO of a large corporate business.”
ABOUT THE HOST:
Jeannette is an experienced and highly regarded senior executive, property investor and board advisor with over 25 years global professional experience across the travel, leisure, hospitality and property sectors. Jeannette’s passion for diversity and inclusion in the workplace has been with her throughout her career and as a strong advocate for personal development and transformation Jeannette now supports other businesses and individuals to achieve their full potential. Having diversified her career by stepping into property investing with partner Chris, their combined knowledge and drive has seen their businesses flourish and plans to expand their portfolio are opening up opportunities for others to invest with them.
VALUABLE RESOURCES:
https://www.jeannettelinfootassociates.com
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtsU57ZGoPhm55_X0qF16_Q
CONTACT INFO:
https://uk.linkedin.com/in/jeannettelinfoot
https://www.facebook.com/jeannette.linfoot
https://www.instagram.com/jeannette.linfoot
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