
A podcast about the good, the bad and the ugly of launching and growing a business. Each week, Alex Gertsburg gets into it with CEOs and founders about the experiences that transformed them as leaders and the business “do-overs” they wish they could have and why. Listen and learn about the many issues unique to the CEO experience—all the disasters and the delights—from the founders who lived it. Alex Gertsburg is the co-managing partner of Gertsburg Licata, a Cleveland-based business law and strategic advisory firm.
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Friday Oct 08, 2021
Resilience Training - Traci Miller - CEO Confidential - Episode #019
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
When a personal life event negatively affects your business you can choose to let it defeat you or bounce back stronger than ever before. Traci Miller, a woman of resilience and empathy, shares a story of loss and how it affected both her personal life and professional career. We discuss new life mantras, the importance of your mental health, and how a sense of community can change your life.
Takeaways
- Create a community of people or “tribe” to use as a sounding board, community, and support system.
- Entrepreneurs have their own language, they tend to understand each other. Having that support, even if it's the lack of judgment.
- Keep track of your victories. Journaling is a great way to remind yourself of your highs as well as your lows.
- Questions to live by: “Am I going to regret those words tomorrow?”, “Did I have a positive impact on those around me?”, and “Will they think of me in a way that they were better for having been part of my life?”
- Imagine that every conversation could be the last words you would share with someone.
- The criteria for a good leader is to have empathy and consideration for the other people there.
- “It's about the people. It's about their experience.”
Shout Outs
- Simon Sinek - https://simonsinek.com
- Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Book by Simon Sinek - https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447/ref=asc_df_1591846447/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312106851030&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13388274615813059912&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9002277&hvtargid=pla-394932354867&psc=1
Links
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tracimiller/
- Company Website: https://www.color3.com
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