#20 Turning Big Ideas Into A Business
29m | Feb 24, 2021About Jenna
Jenna Smith is a business strategist, coach and serial entrepreneur who helps people with BIG ideas tap into their inner genius and create big, profitable businesses. For over 10 years, Jenna cut her teeth in the corporate world as a strategist and change agent.
It was there that she began helping organizations navigate major organizational change, while reinforcing the need for innovation, strategy and execution. It was also there that she realized that she needed to build her own dream, and corporate ceilings and side-gigs just wouldn’t cut it.
Now, she’s the owner of two businesses that started as big ideas themselves. DreamLife is an international personal development company helping people to stop tolerating the life they have and start living the life they desire. And ThinkFree is her business consulting firm that helps normal people take big ideas and make them into profitable companies and products.
Jenna is happily married with a 1-year old son, and is helping people all over the world to build and live their dream life and business. She can truly say she is living her dream.
How did you get where you are now?
- Who I am today is thanks to my childhood.
- Both sides of her family were entrepreneurs.
- Both of her parents died by the time she was twelve, and she learned to take her life into her own hands.
- She now owns two businesses.
After you have an idea, how do you know if it’s a good idea and what are the first steps you should take to make it a reality?
- We were all born as creators.
- If you’ve had an idea, believe that you are capable of making it happen.
- Not all ideas are for others. Some ideas are for you. Sometimes you’ll pursue an idea and it may not be successful, but they’ll develop you personally.
- Sometimes your idea can seem so big, but you can do it. You can make an idea that’s bigger than you.
- You don’t have to have all of the answers, but know that you can do it.
- Done is better than perfect. Take action!
Who should you share your ideas with?
- Not everyone is on the same wavelength as you.
- Be intentional and sensitive about who you share your idea with.
- Share it with inquisitive people that will ask questions.
- Share your idea with some who can see and understand the potential within you.
- When looking for a mentor, look at the fruit. Do they have successful businesses? Have they mentored or coached anyone else successfully?
- You need the head, heart, and mind.
- Focus on strategy instead of tactics.
- As strategy is a direction or approach to your business.
- Tactics only work after you have a strategy.
What encouragement or advice would you have to help combat overwhelm?
- There is a growth cycle when you're being stretched. This is a good thing.
- Again, done is better than perfect.
- Start before you feel ready.
- Overthinking and overwhelm are optional. You choose how you feel in your situation.
- Find the minimum viable solution.
- Write down the problem, then write down solutions.
- Creation is a messy process, but it’s all about learning.
- How much time and money have you wasted worrying about things?
- Enjoy the process and the journey. Don’t focus so much on the results.
Tell me more about how you help others in their businesses.
- Jenna is a business strategist.
- She helps businesses owners create strategies and learn how to do the things we’ve talked about in this interview.
Links:
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http://jennasmith.me/ideas-to-income-call
website: jennasmith.me
dreamlife.global
instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smithjenna_/
linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennasmith1
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