Beyond The Stethoscope

Dr. Jill Lopez is here with me today to discuss unique career paths, career transition, and work-life balance.

Dr. Jill Lopez is the Director of Marketing for Essentials PetCare. She is an award-winning veterinary marketing professional that has worked with Fortune 500 companies, not for profit humane organizations, and global pet product manufacturers. She is a West Virginia native that now calls New Jersey her home. She is most passionate about educating pet owners about how to keep their pets healthy.

I can't wait to hear a little about how you manage all of these dynamics as a busy professional!

Topics

1:30 Unique career path: "It was completely opposite of the plans I made"

3:50 Career transitions

8:00 "Say yes to opportunities"

8:52 "Have a side hustle"

9:45 Free Resource: Go to Library events to network and learn new skills (The Benefits of Skill Stacking)

11:30 Work-Life Integration

11:54 "Work-Life Harmony is critical, work for a company that has a mission you respect."

14:45 5 Questions Segment

Q1: What's your morning routine? Meditate for 10 minutes first thing in the morning

16:45 Q2: What's your definition of success? "It's not having the newest car or most expensive house. Success is beyond money, it's a peace of mind where you can go right to sleep at night with no worries, just inner peace."

Q3: What's your definition of happiness? "Feeling when I'm enjoying time with my family."

18:30 Q4: What do you know now that you wish you would have known 10 years ago?

"Don't change a thing. You are going to experience failure and disappointment but it's what makes you who you are today."

19:37 Q5: What do you think is the biggest challenge that busy professionals face in their daily lives? Time Management to accomplish everything. I make lists.

21:25 Dr. Lopez relates to the movie, The Godfather!

Resources

Pet Vet Magazine

Check out the Pet Vet 10 article! https://www.petvetmagazine.com/petvet-top-10-3/

Essentials PetCare: www.essentialspetcare.com

Connect with Dr. Jill Lopez on Linked In

https://www.linkedin.com/in/drjilllopez/

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Link to NPR Article about how writing with pen and paper improves comprehension (study published in Psychological Science)

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We are here today with Kelly Roach, she is the host of the top-rated podcast Unstoppable Success Radio, an International best-selling author, and the CEO of Kelly Roach Coaching.

As a former NFL Cheerleader and Fortune 500 Executive where she was promoted 7 times in 8 years, Kelly brings a powerful combination of proven and profitable business growth strategies coupled with the mindset, wellness and productivity practices required to help entrepreneurs build a profitable business around a life they absolutely love.

Kelly's passion and purpose is in helping entrepreneurs around the world achieve exponential profit, sales and income growth.

Kelly is on a mission to help 1 million people become financially free through her RESULTS focused coaching and also founded Campaign For Humanity, a charity initiative to support our global family with things such as clean drinking water, help for veterans, and food for those in need.

Kelly runs business coaching programs, mastermind groups, online courses and does private consulting with individuals and organizations.

3:05 How do you suggest that busy professionals get started? The first thing to think about is what do you have as the vision for your life and what are you passionate about?

Starting your own business is 85-90% sales and marketing and operations and management and not doing that thing that you love.

4:44 What if we really love our full-time job and just want to turn our hobby into a side business?

"I advise everyone to start their business as a side hustle."

"In my book, I talk about how every family should have a $100,000 side business as the protection for their family and as a shield from employers that shut down."

6:00 How do you get started in a side business? "Just start doing it, reserve an hour in the morning or your lunch hour every day or an hour at night."

"One of the biggest things that is really make or break to turn a dream into a reality is having a set schedule."

7:40 Overwhelm creeps in and can keep you stuck. It happens to everyone at some point. Overwhelm stems from disorganization. Organization is at the root of making progress. Have a set schedule so you are planning out your work and working your plan and sticking to your plan then you will make progress.

9:15 How do you know it's time to make the leap and turn the business into a full-time venture?

"I always lean on the side of taking longer, saving more, getting your debt paid off, and getting help and getting all of your ducks in a row before you make the big leap."

12:10 It depends on how far you want to go with the business and how much you want to grow it.

"It's really important not to compare and to only assess the life you want to create and the hours you want to work and how much income is required to support that so you are truly making the right decision for you. Because no two people are going to have the same wants and needs that are actually going to make them happy."

13:22 "It is as easy as knowing your focus but know it's the hardest thing ever. We want to do a thousand different things and we want to do them all now and a lot of the stuff that are fun and sexy to work on are not the stuff that are going to make us money in our business."

"On an index card write down the 10 things that you are going to consistently do to grow your business and carry it around with you."

15:15 '5 Questions segment.'

15:25 Morning routine. Starts the night before with 8 hours of sleep, the next morning meditation first, lots of water, exercise, personal development and then I jump right in!

16:50 Definitions of Success and Happiness

"Success is really having your heart of hearts on the inside be reflected on how you are living your life on the outside, being in alignment." "Don't compare or compete."

"Happiness is putting my family first and building a business where I can make a meaningful difference in the world."

18:10 What do you know that I wish I knew 10 years ago.

"I wish I would have started my business sooner and to be patient and be kind. I'm very hard on myself and have high expectations of. I would tell myself to slow down, take a deep breath it's all going to be ok. It all comes together in perfect harmony exactly how it's supposed to."

19:36 Dilution is the biggest challenge of entrepreneurs today, they are trying to do too much and are spread too thin. Keep simplifying your focus so you can do really well mastering a couple of key things to help in getting you where you are to where you want to be.

Check out Unstoppable Success Radio on iTunes to learn more from Kelly Roach.

Kelly referenced her book, "Unstoppable, 9 principles for unlimited success in business and in life." You can get a copy from Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BPH9N0E/

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I recently received a question from a veterinarian who was 5-10 years out from graduation and had worked in many different settings as a private practitioner and was trying to decide if a career transition into industry or government might provide a better lifestyle or make them happier.

I've been there and what I can share is that the grass isn't greener, it's just a different shade of green.

I advise anyone who is feeling unhappy, unsatisfied or overworked to go back to basics and start with "why." You may have heard about Simon Sinek's book 'Start with why' that walks us through what that means.