Meet Liz Seligman

We were lucky to catch up with Liz Seligman recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Liz, appreciate you sitting with us today to share your wisdom with our readers. So, let’s start with resilience – where do you get your resilience from?

I got my resilience from a few different sources. My main source is that I have a passion for my work. I have created a successful business doing what I love and am blessed to have had the ability to have done it. I work very hard and always remeber what my father taught me “if you want something, you have to work your ass off to make it happen!”

Appreciate the insights and wisdom. Before we dig deeper and ask you about the skills that matter and more, maybe you can tell our readers about yourself?

I own Island Life Events, an wedding & event planning company. Our goal is to curate an event for our clients that represent them, through the design, the cuisine, all the details.

I have a background in events as a Banquet Captain for hotels and private companies. I decided late in life, at 50 years old, that I wanted to start a wedding and event planning company, hence, Island Life Events was born! I started the company in the Florida Keys and it eventually grew into Miami and beyond! I never thought we would be where we are today but with a lot of hard work, tenacity and never giving up as much as I wanted to sometimes, here we are a thriving business.

There is so much advice out there about all the different skills and qualities folks need to develop in order to succeed in today’s highly competitive environment and often it can feel overwhelming. So, if we had to break it down to just the three that matter most, which three skills or qualities would you focus on?

I think the three skills or qualities were the following:
1.) Experience, I had worked behind the scenes for years and was a sponge.
2.) Surround yourself with people that motivate you and are in the industry you are interested in.
3.) Do something you love and know that sometimes you may hate it but you really do love it, I guess tenacity!

Do you think it’s better to go all in on our strengths or to try to be more well-rounded by investing effort on improving areas you aren’t as strong in?

Knowledge is everything. I thought when I started the concept of my business that I knew a lot. I was wrong, I realized that even though I had a good amount of knowledge it was not enough. Take a deep dive into your competitors, ask questions, always be open minded and open to change, new ideas.

Contact Info:

• Website: https://islandlifeevents.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/islandlifeevents/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabeth-seligman-b3b4bb94/

Image Credits

Evan Rich Photography