Meet Anne C Bishop

We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Anne C Bishop a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Anne C , so great to have you with us and we want to jump right into a really important question. In recent years, it’s become so clear that we’re living through a time where so many folks are lacking self-confidence and self-esteem. So, we’d love to hear about your journey and how you developed your self-confidence and self-esteem.

I developed my confidence and self-esteem first through others believing I could do hard things.

I always knew I was smart enough, and I really needed some early intervention that supported me. This first came in HS with a biology teacher. Seeing beyond my blond hair (yes, dumb blond) was something that was said to me many times as a young person. This educator, I think just saw that I was easily distractable but I was not dumb and she invited me into her AP Biology class. Honestly, that changed everything.

Mrs Vreeburg was a very demanding teacher. At first, I was really intimidated by the weekly quizzes. But over time I learned how to study and learned I could excel at biology. I remember waking up before school starts at 7:30am so I would wake up around 5am in the morning and study in the low light of my kitchen. My father would wake up and make coffee and I would sit and study. Later that Friday morning I would take the weekly quiz and ace it. It was such a good feeling.

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?

I am a biology-based business coach. Biology makes me feel safe, makes me feel heard, and allows me to support others. The great strength of biology is that it is objective. It isn’t right or left; it is a neutral observer, reactor, and creator of your life.

Biology impacts everyone, rich or poor, young or old. So I always love to connect what I am doing back to biology.

If you are an entrepreneur, that experience shapes your biology. For example, if your business is attracting demanding and stressful clients, that will impact your physiology. And likely be deleterious to your health.

And your biology impacts your ability to perform and be an entrepreneur. If you suffer from chronic health conditions, you must design and shape your entrepreneurial ventures around supporting your health.

What I find is that most entrepreneurs put their wellbeing on the back burner and undercharge for their services. This is why I developed Profit for Wellbeing. A 12-week consultancy container that shows you step by step how to create recurring revenue in your business.

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?

I would say to become more confident in yourself, it’s important to do hard things, even if you fail.

I would advise people to aim high and be alright if they fail. If you do fail, have people around you to cheer you on. And when you do the hard thing and you DO NOT fail, I believe is when you are able to most successfully gain the confidence and self-esteem.

Before we go, maybe you can tell us a bit about your parents and what you feel was the most impactful thing they did for you?

The most impactful things my parents did for me was to teach me these schools.
When I was very young, my mother instilled a love of learning and reading in me.
When I was a young adult, my father always said the only constant thing in life is change, so don’t be surprised or startled by change and be flexible with what comes next.

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