Podcast Welcome: A Toast to Truths is where I share the mental, financial and emotional frustrations of being an entrepreneur. This is Season 9 Episode 4, "Overcoming Business Attacks."

Q: How do you overcome something you take personal?

Part I

• How Chante Prince and I met
• Listen to these past episodes: S1E3, S2E5, S3E3, S6E7, S7E3
• Chante has never taken anything personal in business because she separates business from her due to her systems.
• Whatever the owner does, flows down.
• Knowing how to separate yourself from not allowing the team to get on your nerves.
• The difference when working with a professional team and an unprofessional team.
• Lack of mutual respect, misunderstanding, poor communication breeds business attacks.
• Making executive decisions
• When someone is pretending to be associated with your brand.
• The difference between CEO, Small Business Owner, Entrepreneur, Freelance
• Recapping S9E1
• When people find out who's behind the brand.
• When your visibility becomes something people want.

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Part II

• Navigating the space now that people know who the person behind the brand is.
• How to handle different people in different situations.
• What you guarantee with your business.
• What value does your business offer and why would people buy that value?
• Attacks come from lack of knowledge
• Obedience provokes others when they aren't doing what they're supposed to do.
• Sometimes visions are given to us. That vision can provoke other people. Obedience blesses and opens doors to your actual purpose.
• Pain to Profit blog series.
• Fulfilling a vision you didn't dream about is training ground for your purpose.
• Being the customer helps you understand the process of doing the business you want to do.
• Chante went through a business attack was a process that prepared her to help future clients.
• Putting parameters in place to protect yourself.
• My business attack helped me to stretch myself professionally
• Business attacks can be a wake-up call
• Do you go back at those who attack you?
• When someone attacks someone you're doing business with, what you should do.
• Research people before doing business with them.

Final Toast:

• Chante - No matter what you're doing there's always some type of challenge. Your goal is to stay focused, determined, true to what you're called to do.
• Vernetta – Your obedience to bringing a vision to life provokes someone else. And that can lead to a purposeful attack. Sometimes you are positioned because it's training ground for what your purpose is.

This has been A toast to truths with me, Vernetta R. Freeney. This is season and the consequences I've encountered.

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