Podcast 242: Joan Sotkin: It's Better Being Different Than The Same When Creating Career Success

Todays guest is a lady who has been on a journey of success, failure, struggles and self discovery For years, she suffered from a long list of physical, emotional, and financial problems. After giving away all her possessions, an extended spiritual journey connected her to the deeper parts of herself that led her to everything she needed to find health, well-being, and peace of mind. In the 1980s, she thought she was on the way to financial security as she rapidly built a wholesale, retail, and mail order business to the point where she was grossing over $30,000 a month. Sounds good doesn't it, but her lack of business and financial skills led to her downfall—and bankruptcy. But although a dark period of her life, she knew that she lacked the knowledge to prevent this happening, so studied everything she could to ensure it would happen again She set out on the path of learning everything she could about business and financial management. This knowledge allowed her to flourish as an entrepreneur while sharing what she had learned with others. But there is so much more to her story, than we can cover in a short introduction like this. So how did she create this online success, when quite openly admitting that she didn't have the knowledge to be a business success? And where does she see the common issues that others encounter as they start there entrepreneurial leaps? Well let's find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Joan Sotkin.