In my last blog post (creating a business you love pt1) I was talking about the desire or fire that leads many of us to do our own thing and become our own boss. and some things to think about if that is a journey that you’re starting on or progressing along. One of the things that I really like is when I meet those who do run a business / who are their own boss and they actually do what they love for a living and that they run their business in a way that sits well with their vision, values and what’s true to them in life.With that in mind I thought I’d post the above interview that I recorded a month or so ago with entrepreneur and business mentor Michael Jacobsen. I featured an interview here on this blog a few weeks back on his book The Business of Creativity.
Australian born, Michael was born into a creative family and became interested in business, enterprise, investing etc at a very early age. Over time he became in business opportunities with his family and enjoyed huge success when he took the opportunity to buy the rights to take the film Dirty Dancing to the stage in theatres around the world. The show became a huge success. But m0re importantly perhaps Michael built a business by bringing all the things he loved together including business and creativity. Today Michael has moved on from that to new horizons as a speaker and business mentor in the UK – where he is especially passionate about helping creative people in business and bringing business and creativity together, which is something that resonates very much with me.
I’ve always felt that magic happens when you are true to yourself, your talents and your calling. Success, as I often say, will be dependent on all sorts of factors within and beyond your control: you, your skills/abilities, your drive, how hard you work, the resources you have, how resourceful you are, how good your product or service is, your environment, the people you surround yourself with, how versatile and flexible you are to needs / change, industry factors, political factors, technology and trends and many more things. Fulfilment on the other hand is dependent on just on just one thing: you embracing yourself and life itself.
When I wrote Soul Trader – Putting the Heart Back into Your Business, I was interested in what happens when you follow your heart, your skills and talents and you flow with it. On meeting Michael it was music to my ears to meet someone who was genuinely passionate about what they did and who did business with a raised consciousness of good heart and who is authentically a Soul Trader and who helps those people on their journey.
Michael’s thoughts and advice in the 30 minute interview above – along with his own journey which is touched on – is well worth a listen if you’re a pre start, start up, a budding entrepreneur or indeed if you’ve been your own boss or run your own business for some time.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru is a leading life coach, speaker and business / corporate coach. He is author of Soul Trader – Putting the Heart Back into Your Business and is life & business coach partner to the British Library Business & IP Centre where he runs the inspiring Soul Trader workshop each month.
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