Natasha Miller isn’t your average CEO. She sits at the helm of Entire Productions, which has been an Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America for three years in a row! 

Natasha is the author of the soon-to-be-released book, Relentless: Homeless Teen to Achieving The Entrepreneur Dream. She also has an excellent background in music as a violinist. 

Natasha studied entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School and MIT. She now resides in San Francisco, where she is a member and is on the regional board of EO (Entrepreneurs’ Organization). In this episode, we get to pull right from her expertise on building trust as a leader.

Dive right in, grab this wisdom, and let’s learn what happens when you give your trust to your team and receive trust in return!

On this episode:

• Learn how learning music saved Natasha’s life and how playing the violin at a young age shaped Natasha into the leader she is today. 
• Natasha gives an analogy of how leading an orchestra is like leading an organization. How being a concertmaster solidified Natasha’s leadership skills.
• Natasha shares how her role model, a female conductor, stood out because she presented herself and how she believed and inspired her students.
• Big organizations tend to suffer from forgetting about their own people. Natasha talks about how people are the most critical piece of your organization.
• Leaders need to be changing and understanding what’s happening around them. The future is here now. 
• Natasha shares how you need to hire people that you trust implicitly. When you trust them, they trust you.

Key Takeaways:

• Leadership can come with a lot of pressure and push back
• Leaders sometimes have to make uncomfortable decisions
• How you present yourself can make a difference to how you’re received
• The people in your organization are like gems that need to be protected 
• The future is now, not tomorrow 
• When you trust your people, the reward is trust in you

Tweetable Quotes:

“The people in your organization are the most precious gems to protect and develop.” - Natasha Miller

“I think bigger success happens when you’re able to let go of that mask and that ego.” - Natasha Miller

Connect with Natasha on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Scale, grow and optimize your business by going to https://www.officialnatashamiller.com/. 

Resources:

• Relentless
• Ask Denis: Take Both Masks Off

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