We recently connected with Brooke Rash and have shared our conversation below.
Brooke, thank you so much for making time for us. We’ve always admired your ability to take risks and so maybe we can kick things off with a discussion around how you developed your ability to take and bear risk?
Risk taking has always been somewhat easy for me, because I knew that not taking risks would keep me where I was. So I guess having a strong inner sense of what you want and not being willing to compromise for a mediocre life is what helped me develop that muscle of taking risks.
Let’s take a small detour – maybe you can share a bit about yourself before we dive back into some of the other questions we had for you?
As simple as it sounds, my brand has always been about sharing value with others by sharing my life experiences.
I took what I learned from marketing myself and my businesses over the years and began teaching others how to do the same thing.
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Always be working on personal and business development. The times in my life when I stopped listening to books, taking courses and just overall working on improvement is when I stopped growing. You will never get to a place where you have reached the mountain top and need to stop learning. Don’t make that mistake.
Grit isn’t just something people eat for breakfast, it’s essential to have it if you want to survive the game of entrepreneurship. Things will get hard. You will have to pivot. And you will need to be able to pick yourself up and keep going when you get smacked in the face with adversity. That’s the biggest theme I see in people is that they give up and can’t hang when the pressure is on and things aren’t going in the right direction. The ability to shift gears and keep going, even if it’s in a completely different direction, is vital to your success.
Some people may see coming from nothing and having to work for everything as a negative, but I chose to embrace that. It has prevented me from developing a sense of entitlement. I know that I am entitled to everything that I am willing to work for. My dreams and goals push me to keep going because I never want to be in a place where I can’t take care of my family ever again. I think sometimes when people have parents that always gave them everything, it works against them. This is why even after achieving financial success, my husband and I have made sure that our kids still work and learn the value of trading time for money. They have everything they need and we’ve provided them with opportunities we never had, however we aren’t raising entitled kids that are incapable to taking care of themselves in the real world.
As we end our chat, is there a book you can leave people with that’s been meaningful to you and your development?
The book I always recommend to everyone who is building a business or even thinking about starting something new, is The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks. He helps you to understand what it means to hit an upper limit, which is inevitable in everyone’s entrepreneurial journey.
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