Alright – so today we’ve got the honor of introducing you to Sarah Patterson. We think you’ll enjoy our conversation, we’ve shared it below.
Hi Sarah, thanks for sharing your insights with our community today. Part of your success, no doubt, is due to your work ethic and so we’d love if you could open up about where you got your work ethic from?
I think in this time it was my community from the start. I was raised well but I danced, played lacrosse, soccer, other sports, and Rock ‘n’ Roll Revival, a community theatre act. I was raised well and the community at hand contributed tremendously to the cause of work ethic in the workplace. My family instilled in me the nature and it activated in the community I was raised in, Olney, Maryland where a superstar soccer player, Oguchi Onewyu put it on the map. I’d like to some day as well. It’s a small town filled with good nature people, genuine and good at raising family style, safe order and neighborhood alike in nature to childhood play outside without fear of criminal activity. One of the safest places I’ve been to in awhile.
Thanks for sharing that. So, before we get any further into our conversation, can you tell our readers a bit about yourself and what you’re working on?
I provide clients with project management and currently helping a business in real estate rehab a house, a really messed up in nature to living, almost considered a dump to demolish but we took it on as a family to rehab it together with years of experience privy to success in engineering background and a little bit of consulting around startup and small 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?
Resilience, Progressive, and Innovative are the three key areas that were most impactful to me and most invigorating to my life’s walk. I consider life a walk not a run. Yes, sometimes we sprint but overall it’s a walk when we get it right and all. You see when I sprint sometimes the injury in life occurs so I believe a walk is best, for me at least. I like to go slow in nature. I believe in breakthroughs and that’s where resilience comes from. I believe progressive and innovation go hand and hand for me as in the nature to the technology I was involved in, in my professional life. See I live by principle rock solid yet progressive in tech for the most part and innovation comes with that, and so does strategic in-take and application in innovative ways to operate and get things done, which is what birthed my consulting. Some skills acquired and necessary for my story to develop and come into fruition are attention to detail, management, and influence as well as being extremely goal-oriented. I had to know and be proficient on how to get things done so whatever knowledge was required I had to know or know who knew it which being resourceful was key to success for me personally. Know the knowledge and the wisdom to apply it effectively and know how to be resourceful to get it done. If you don’t know, then know who does and be a friend in its most authentic and genuine manner.
Who has been most helpful in helping you overcome challenges or build and develop the essential skills, qualities or knowledge you needed to be successful?
I would say my family was the bread and butter of its foundation and also at times my demise. Family can hurt and it can also be your success foundation. Our family is made up of a lot of overachievers and constantly thriving in the best of their profession. It also hurts when entrepreneurship fails so I know the best of family and the worst of it in nature. I’ve pursued startups that failed as part of my consulting so I know the challenge of business there, with respect to business and workforce. Had a lot of success, reputable and all but also faced the challenge of failure and when you live in a family of successful business owners, entrepreneurs, corporate America successes, and military well-renowned background in it, it can be hard to pick yourself up and carry on. I would say the way I overcome failure and challenge in the face of family successes that I live by, and who I’m accountable to, is always preserving in helping those in need. I help the homeless whenever the opportunity arises. I love helping those in need because it makes me appreciate and I believe in helping thy neighbor just like it says in the Bible. I started helping the homeless and giving back seriously when I was on top in NYC working on Wall Street and it became a huge help in picking myself back up when entrepreneurship failed, lightly and heavily. Being Christian has always been hard too when there’s so much conflict in the universe about religion and how it plays in society, business and family dynamics since we are not all Christian in the family. I feel we are always growing and prospering and loving the challenges and obstacles that come with that territory. We have had our setbacks but are always innovating and enterprenuer-ing to do more and have fun while doing it. I’m being vulnerable to say this, family and faith is my foundation and principle. I live by the flow of God ordering my steps as the Holy Spirit directs but it’s my skill, qualities and knowledge that best describe my upbringing and who I can tell about today. I can tell you this, I say this matter of factly, it hasn’t always been cookie cutter at all in the face of dangerous times. But the end is a beautiful story worth telling in hopes to help someone else in their journey for a better ride. We always want to improve for the next generations and the problems they face and overcome.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://valueintegrators.com/
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahdpatterson/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/valueintegrate
