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Monique Alvarez is a Wife, Mom & World Traveler. She is also an accomplished business owner where new media marketing and public relations are her forte. This interview begins when Monique was just 19 years old and moves from Colorado to Burma. The US State Department refers to Burma (otherwise known as Myanmar) as one place on the planet where Americans risk being at risk. Monique brings the same determination she displayed helping those that could not help themselves in Myanmar, Albania and Kenya to helping her clients accomplish more. This is a short listen but the beginning of a series of conversations with Monique, so stay tuned for more.

This episode talks about the importance of knowing the key performance indicators to watch and nurture in your marketing and sales efforts.

This is the first episode in a four part series where we explore how to stop working IN your business and get organized so you're working On your business.

When you decide you're going to accomplish something great your experience is akin to a rocketship leaving earth and heading into space. You are going to struggle, before you attain your goal! In order to reach our space bound destination we must first struggle to leave the pull of earth's gravity. leaving earth is hard, The noise and racket created as those thundering rockets push against the earth bound in the struggle to break free and launch into the weightlessness of space. We all want success to be fought and won in space, without having to struggle against the pull of gravity. We want to magically begin floating effortlessly in the international space station, looking back at the home planet with a sense of awe. The truth is to experience the awe of space we must experience struggle. The process of leaving earth's gravity and traveling atop an exploding fire belching rocket is hard. Whenever humans attain amazing success that person is likely to have experienced struggle. They are very likely to have embraced the struggle because they knew without that struggle, without that painful process there would be no amazing success. Kudos to all those in love with the fight and understand that struggle precedes victory. That's the way life works.