Create Your Life Series

CYLS 126: Insight to Mastering the Hard Things and Running a Sustainable Business

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Episode Summary

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind for Kevin! He shares what’s new from giving an empowering speech to middle schoolers to planning for a professional development training he will be leading for a corporation. Kevin fields questions from our listeners including describing the best day of his life, what he is most excited about for his trip to Africa, and what happens after he finishes recording an episode of CYLS. Todd Wahnish of Clever Era joins Kevin to dissect the path to becoming an entrepreneur.

 

Kevin Y. Brown

Kevin Y. Brown is a National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) Center For Public Trust (CPT) “Being A Difference” award recipient, international speaker, entrepreneur, and author.  The former MTV Networks host and NYC fashion marketer has created an international following as a speaker on personal excellence, effective communication, and leadership. Kevin has been featured by Black Enterprise magazine as a “Modern Man of Distinction” and highlighted in various publications for his self-help speaking work and helping students graduate college debt-free.  Recognized for his commitment to empowering foster care youth and as a foster care system alumnus, he has also delivered the keynote address at the International Foster Care Organizations Conference in Sydney, Australia and Osaka, Japan.  Kevin is currently the creator/host of Sirius XM’s “Create Your Life” series, a fellow in the New York Chapter of the Startup Leadership Program, and an active member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. 

 

Insights From the Episode

  • Secrets to shaping your goals from the two essential definitions of entrepreneurship.
  • The four must know tools needed to create your life.
  • The key mindset all entrepreneurs must have to become successful.
  • Secrets to keynote speech preparation.
  • Strategies for discovering a viable business idea.

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    Quotes From the Show

    • “I’m excited to see who I’m going to be, the person that I’m going to be on the other end of this. And that really has me excited and thirsty for knowledge. But most of all, knowledge of life, because I feel like you can learn so much from people and their ways of being.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Create Your Life Series, #126
    • “Because at the end of the day, you know, doing a presentation is really, it’s a performance, especially if it’s a keynote. And you need to perform well, but the only way for you to perform well is to actually engage your audience. And, in order for you to engage your audience, then you really, really have to have them involved and make sure that your presentation is about them.” – Kevin Y. Brown, Create Your Life Series, #126
    • “It’s only by confronting those hard things and then attacking them head on that we can actually move ourselves to the next level and get our, you know, and really create our lives in the way that we want to create them.” - Todd Wahnish, Create Your Life Series, #126
    • “An entrepreneur is somebody that takes personal responsibility for somebody else’s problem. And what that means is that it’s not about you. It’s about your customer, it’s about your client. It’s about everybody else. Not you.” - Todd Wahlish, Create Your Life Series, #126
    • “Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won’t, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can’t.” - Anonymous, quoted by Kevin Y. Brown, Create Your Life Series, #126
    • “Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.” - Rene Auberjonois, quoted by Kevin Y. Brown, Create Your Life Series, #126

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      Resources Mentioned

      • 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself: Change Your Life Forever - Steve Chandler

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