In this episode of the 5 Leadership Questions podcast, Daniel Im and Eric Geiger are joined by Christy Wright, founder of Business Boutique and author of Business Boutique. During their conversation, they discuss discerning how to approach failures and challenges and discussing work commitments with your spouse.

BEST QUOTES

"What was true about business 30 years ago is definitely not true today."

"Get to the root of the issue. What are you actually facing? What is really going on? Look at it as factually and practically as you can. That can help you discern whether or not that's something you should push through or something you should pivot."

"If I let that one failure define me, I would have missed out on almost a decade of professional speaking and making an impact to those audiences."

"You know what, we are going to fail 99 times and we are still going to try the hundredth time, because on the hundredth time we are going to get it."

"I've definitely become a bottleneck for our brand, so we are trying to figure out how to scale that."

"In leadership, it can become very easy to become so tactical, so problem-solving driven, deadline driven, bottom-line driven, that you forget to connect with people. That's really a major red flag for leadership failure in the future if you lose your connection with people on the front lines, if you lose your connection with your audience."

"It's in our inclination to come up with the answer, to solve the problem, to know it all. Even if we don't know it all, we feel the pressure to know it all."

"Sometimes it's OK to ask more questions, to listen. That demonstrates humility."

"There are two things you need to know about people if you want to influence them. You need to know what frustrates them and what motivates them."

"It's really important when you bring up a subject to your spouse that you let them know where you stand."

"When you are fresh out of college, everything needs to happen today. I need to meet my husband today. I need to have my dream job today. I need to have granite countertops and three kids today. And you don't. This is a marathon."

"The work you are doing is so important. If you need help, if you need rest, if you need a break, take it. Because we need you."

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