Sheila Patel wears many hats. She is an advocate, attorney, real estate broker, creative entrepreneur, and connecter. We sat down to talk about what collaboration looks like in 2020 and the importance of pivoting and connecting.

You can find out more about the work Sheila does at:

thelifebags.com

Melissa Joy, creative entrepreneur and small shop coach, sat down with us and shared an abundance of quality information you don't get from traditional education platforms.

We sat down just before much of the world was locked down due to Covid-19 and told to shelter in place. So much of this information can help you navigate taking your business to the next level and retraining yourself to work from home and make the most of the time you have. Melissa also has an online course that you can join to learn more and dig deeper.

melissajoycreative.com

Sensory illusionist Jeanette Andrews, sits down and share how she turned her childhood dream of becoming a magician into a profitable business. She is sharing tips on how to create your own curriculum when your field of study may not exist yet in traditional education.

Find out more about Jeanette and her work at jeanette-andrews.com.

Kristina Plummer, founder of Kompas, an app created to change the way we connect to plant-based dining options across the globe, sits down and shares her story of trial an error. As she chased her passion she found her purpose and is on a mission to make the world a better place one plant-based meal option at a time.

Find out more about Kristina and Kompas at yourkompas.com.

Similar to earning your first paycheck, success means so much more when it has cost you everything to get there. There is a reason a majority of people choose to play it safe and work for pre-established working organizations.

These doors that I follow, I never know what lies ahead and yet I go through. Each one is different and yet somehow connected, so why don’t I trust that the “backwards” doors aren't evil, they purify. They are where major work and transformation happen. They are good. They are were we have our break throughs and where we make major strides towards where we need to be. We can’t get stuck in the moving backwards, because that alone is the only thing that holds you back. But when you move forwards and backwards with ease and flow, that is where beauty is created.

There are doors everywhere. Literally open doors all around you, opportunity waiting at every turn and plot twist to your life. And being open and ready to follow them is so easy. It is almost so easy it is hard. All you have to do is ask and wait actively.

Failure leads to opportunity. Opportunity leads to failure… And so the road to greatness is paved.

One of the first ways we lose our dreams, is by allowing what those around us say and believe, to deter us from our dreams. Comment by comment, judgement by judgment, failure by failure, we must be careful not to follow the disbelievers down their dark and gloomy road. Their road is dark and gloomy because of their thoughts. They have created the world they live in, don’t let their world become yours. Instead of giving up, as most others do when met with failure again and again, we must embrace failure like a familiar friend whose presence we rather quite enjoy. We must fall in love with failure.