Herpreneur Show

At age 18 she bought a tiny business for $1000, today it’s known as an Australian iconic food brand CARMEN’S.

Today you’ll hear the story of how Carolyn Creswell uses to park her little Daewoo car alongside the big semi-trailers at the supermarket loading docks to delivery her product to the largest supermarket chains in Australia.…(not any more though!)

We hear about Carolyn’s biggest challenge in her 28yr of business plus she also shares her very sound advice for other businesswomen.

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About Carolyn Creswell

Carman’s founder Carolyn Creswell is an inspirational leader whose success proves that you can run a multinational business, love what you do and have a genuine work-life balance.

As an 18 year old university student, Carolyn Creswell founded Carman’s in 1992. She bought the tiny business for $1,000.

This December 2020 Carman’s proudly celebrated its 28th birthday and is Australia’s number one selling muesli brand along with being a leader of deliciously good for you bars and nutritional snacks.

From humble beginnings where Carolyn used to park her tiny Daewoo alongside semitrailers in supermarket loading docks, Carolyn’s determination and focus on producing quality products using whole foods, has seen Carman’s build a strong following in more than 30 countries around the world.

Carolyn’s passion for healthy food made from real ingredients has cemented Carman’s reputation as a food brand that customers around the world can trust to be natural, healthy and delicious.

As a proud mother of four children aged 16 and under, Carolyn understands the importance of producing nourishing foods for herself and her family and applies this to every Carman’s recipe.

Calling the Carman’s staff her “second family”, Carolyn put them at forefront of her mind when designing the new office that the business moved into in 2018. Now one of the most enviable working spaces in Australia, Carman’s HQ offers its employees access to a gym, yoga studio, sauna and massage room, free barista-made coffee and on site chef. Carolyn has also loved extending the space to the public, via the Carman’s Kitchen Store, and other businesses, with conference facilities and meeting rooms for hire.

Carolyn’s business acumen has led to a number of accolades including the winner of 2007 Ernst & Young’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award and being named the 2012 Telstra Australian Business Woman of the Year. She is also a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Carolyn is an Ambassador for the Asylum Seekers Resource Centre and is also Patron of the St Kilda Gatehouse. Carolyn is a former Board Member of the Human Rights Law Centre.

As Carolyn looks to the future “I’m amazed at the achievements of Carman’s thanks to our loyal consumers. The growth we’ve experienced is thanks to hard work, a talented team and a range of products that we’re really proud of and that people love to eat. I’m looking forward to seeing what we can achieve in the next twenty-eight years!”

I’m going to share a perfect example of how NOT to close a sale. Do this and you will lose your chances of gaining a new client.

Firstly let me ask…how much is a sale worth to you? …meaning if you sold one of your biggest ticket products?

Eg like a coaching program, a consultancy fee, a membership etc.

If you are selling a service/product that has a ‘Big Price Tag’ then listen to this as this is a fatal mistake most people making and has then lost most of their sales.

Today I share with you a perfect example of a poor sales process that has been presented to me as a customer that  I’m going to share exactly what went wrong so you don’t do this in your business.

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Her voice is heard on over a billion devices globally and known to many as ‘the GPS girl’ and the original voice of Siri. But what you may not know about Karen Jacobson is that she is one incredibly talented women who has music in every inch of her mind, body and soul.

At the age of seven in small-town Australia, Karen Jacobsen saw Olivia Newton-John on television and knew what she wanted to do with her life. She wanted to become a professional singer and move to America.

Following her dream, Karen moved to New York City with one suitcase and

Unexpectedly, it was her speaking voice that has brought a unique pop culture

Karen Jacobsen is heard in over a billion GPS and smartphone devices around the world.

Today Karen Jacobson is also an Author of two books; The GPS Girl’s Road Map for Your Future, and Recalculate – Directions for Driving Performance Success.

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Directions for Recalculating

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About Karen Jacobsen – the GPS girl

At the age of seven in small-town Australia, Karen Jacobsen saw Olivia Newton-John on television and knew what she wanted to do with her life. She wanted to become a professional singer and move to America.

Following her dream, Karen moved to New York City with one suitcase and became an award-winning Singer and Songwriter. Musical career highlights include: sharing the stage with Norah Jones, Neil Sedaka and Christopher Cross, singing the national anthem at major sporting events (Madison Square Garden, Fenway Park, Dodger Stadium, for 80, 000 at Giants Stadium for a New York Jets game, Queensland’s Suncorp Stadium for an Australia vs South Africa TriNations International Rugby Game for 52, 000) and licensing her songs to network television.

Unexpectedly, it was her speaking voice that has brought a unique pop culture status. Karen Jacobsen is heard in over a billion GPS and smartphone devices around the world.

An International Speaker and Concert Performer, TEDx speaker and Global Artist in Residence at High Point University, Karen has also enjoyed wide international media coverage, including the NBC Today Show, ABC World News Tonight, the CBS Early Show, NY Daily News, Glamour magazine and was named one of People Magazine’s Most

Intriguing People. She was told she had made it when named as a clue in The New York Times crossword puzzle, but particularly enjoyed Harry Connick Jr calling her “hypnotic” on his national US talk show.

Karen speaks and sings internationally, opening and closing conferences and events, can be found in the studio as a Voice-Over artist recording customized voice systems and advertising campaigns, and is a prolific songwriter and Recording Artist, currently working on her 10th studio album, and as Composer for musical theatre productions of “Perfectly Imperfect”, “Before Time”, and her one-woman musical memoir “Mackay to Manhattan.”

An Author, she has written two books; The GPS Girl’s Road Map for Your Future, and Recalculate – Directions for Driving Performance Success. Along with her creative projects, her husband, young son, business and global travel schedule, she knows exactly what it is like to Recalculate daily.

If you’re ready for up-levelling, then this is the lady for you!

Rhiannon Rees is renowned as one of the most refined multi-spectrum, self-development experts in the world.

An expert who trumps in the gymnastics of “brain neuroplasticity”, able to crack self-limiting beliefs and install better more productive, successful beliefs and practices which then extend into Business Profitability/Sports Success etc.

At 27 she began business for the Largest Global Publishing House “Thomsons”. With no product knowledge, no clients and no expertise in the area of these products/services she was able to create a multi-million dollar business in less than 12 months with nearly 1000 clients.

Today we hear Rhiannon’s story about the ground from homeless to a millionaire; quantum physics and the power of your mind vast perception.

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About Rhiannon

Rhiannon Rees

(B.Bus, D.C.H, H.M.C, R.S. Hom)

Business Coach. Ranked 1st​ ​ Best Business Coach in the World2010

Best selling Author/ ICF Certified Coaching Program (2013)

Apprentice Coaching Program/International Client base. (2015)

Change Your Mindset, Change Your Life!

Rhiannon Rees is renowned as one of the most refined multi-spectrum, self-development experts in the world.

An expert who trumps in the gymnastics of “brain neuroplasticity”, able to crack self-limiting beliefs and install better more productive, successful beliefs and practices which then extend into Business Profitability/Sports Success etc.

Combining this with Ancient and trusted Eastern Practices

(Meditation, Pranayama) and also Quantum physics enables

Rhiannon to produce mind-blowing results.

Like taking a business from a -$6 mill debt to a $15 mill profitable business in under 3 years.

Helping a Single mum with 3 children ( 2 of which are on the spectrum), to build and grow a successful home-based business.

Speaking events and Retreats are held globally to cater to her growing client base.

At age 24 she managed $50 million dollars worth of accounts for a multi National (Pacific Dunlop), across 3 different types of manufacture.

At 27 she began business for the Largest Global Publishing House “Thomsons”. With no product knowledge, no clients and no expertise in the are of these products/services she was able to create a multi-million dollar business in less than 12 months with nearly 1000 clients. She used the very same skills that she teaches today – observation, communication and connection.

After living in a tent, and losing everything, she then went on to become the #1 coach in Action coach in 2010.

From there, she branched off to create her own Coaching Empire.

By harnessing her unusual and “Out of the box” thinking, she is sought after as unique in her field.

By Creating Champions the sky is the limit in the results that she creates.

As the author of the best-selling book, “How to Climb Mount Everest in Sandals – The Courage to Live an Ordinary Life”, followed by 2015’s “Life is a Choice and the Choice is Yours’, Rhiannon’s international reputation is one of servicing the survival needs of the most vulnerable as vigorously as sophisticating the success of the elite.

Whilst her client base spans X-Files, Grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice cast members, the Spice Girls, NRL Roosters as well as the 2014 winners of ABC’s – “The Conscious Farmer”, Rhiannon’s drive is to draw out the full potential in all​ people. With a 30% gratuitous client base, Rhiannon focuses on single parents that could never afford coaching, with Rhiannon’s own past remaining a driving passion in getting clients off the street, into jobs, accommodation and reuniting many with children that had previously been in external care.

Being voted on the Global Guru list for the last 5 years (ranked 8th

– 23rd in these years) as well as being

nominated for Telstra’s Business Woman of the Year, a finalist in the Asia Pacific Coach of the Year 2011 and winner of the Global

“Action Man” award in Barcelona 2010.

Rhiannon was a nominee for Entrepreneur of the Year in 2010 and Runner-up in NSW “Franchise Woman of the Year”.  Rhiannon’s ethos of financial success entwined with ethical contribution has seen her featured in countless interviews for TV, Radio and print in

Australia and the US. Most recently she began the very first Apprenticeship programme for Coaches through www.limitlesscoaching.life called “The Conscious Coaching Collective”. Whilst Rhiannon is in the business of growing champions, her training base starts with her own team, extends out to clients, customers and other corporations and entities interested in combining business success with conscious self-development and ethical action.

Currently working on the build of a school and hospital in Gabon – one of the poorest countries in West Africa – Rhiannon is not just about putting runs on her own financial scoreboard, she is about giving as good as she gets and coaching others to this same mindset of multi-spectrum success.

“I lost my innocence through child sexual abuse, lost contact with my mother for most of my childhood, lost my brother to suicide, lost 5 babies to miscarriage, lost all my money, lost my husband to his other identity as a woman, and even lost the roof over my head with my baby in my arms. Each of these losses carved deeply into my soul and I thought I would not survive. But I decided not just to survive, I decided to soar.”

In the same way that she did herself, Rhiannon supports others to question everything they believe beyond their control.  With her trademark laugh – and if necessary her trademark kick in the tail – Rhiannon uplifts and empowers people the world over to dive unashamedly into their own muck and see their potential to turn villages into conscious empires.

Today I answer a question from a listener who has been banned from being able to use specific Facebook features. If you have been banned personally or through business pages this will give you some insights.

Hi Annette,

I’ve been blocked from Facebook but I don’t know why. How do I find out when all they tell you is that you’ve been temporarily blocked from some features on Facebook. How do I know to prevent it from happening.

Thanks

Jodee

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