Ep. 114: Turning Tragedy into Triumph – An Inspirational Path to Thriving with Nancy Leeds Gribble

I think when you start your business if you don’t take the time to really figure out why you’re starting it. If it was ‘This sounds like it will be fun” and then you find out it’s not so fun all the time, you won’t sustain it. So you really want to sit down and figure out why are you starting this business? Like, what is your driving force, aside from, we need to make money, we have to make money. But what are the other deeper reasons that this is so important to you? And that’s going to help you when you hit that wall, and you will hit a wall and think it’s very few people that they just start a business and off they go, and they’re coasting and everything is great. You’re going to hit the wall, whether it’s because something didn’t work, whether it’s life, like God the world like COVID when it hit everybody, and you’re going to have to either say, at that moment, I’m out, or no, this was important. And I’m going to figure this out, and I’m going to pivot And I’m going to adjust and, and you keep doing that you keep doing that until you hit the spot.

–Nancy Leeds Gribble

Show notes:

[00:42] Turning tragedy into triumph and successful business.

[02:40] Growing up with the premise she needs to be skinny: going vegan due to ethical reasons.

[04:10] Family tragedy and bankruptcy: one more tragedy and Nancy’s realization about getting more healthy is the key.

[10:32] Nancy started focusing her business on healthy weight loss: most women are undernourished. 

[14:49] Getting first clients: face-plant forward is failing in front of people. 

[18:55] How to differentiate yourself on the market: worrying about clients you don’t have.

[23:05] Realizing that in a new, starting business, entrepreneurs need to be humble.

[28:34] Figuring out the deeper reasons for starting a business.