
Danielle LaPorte founded www.whitehottruth.com because “self realization rocks.” Her blog is lauded as one of the “coolest places for spiritual insight on the web” and “kick-ass enlightening.” She is the lead author of the bestseller, Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design, and co-founder of the popular site, www.carrieanddanielle.com – which she left in 2008 to go solo. A former think tank executive and communications strategist, Danielle helps entrepreneurs blaze their careers with her signature Fire Starter Sessions.
Here are the top five reasons why Danielle adores entrepreneurs:
1. Entrepreneurs are self-referencing (and only the self-referencing thrive.) An entrepreneur’s most useful tool is her instinct. After you get all of the advice, the market research, the sunshine up your skirt from your best friend our an investor, and all the nay-saying warnings – it all gets down to honoring your own intuition. And every mistake a businessperson has made usually leads back to not following their instincts.
2. Entrepreneurs are tough. They eat risk for breakfast. They laugh at rejection (or at least they don’t cry for long.) They keep going no matter what. And if you’re not tough – you just haven’t been in business long enough. Being jaded and rugged is a beautiful thing.
3. Entrepreneurs are resource conservationists. Downright frugal and outright proud about it, every dollar, moment, opportunity, and inch of space is maximized. If you run out of cash, it takes the fun out of everything.
4. Entrepreneurs ASK. From bankers to best friends, customers to the universe, entrepreneurship is a marathon of making endless requests. Which requires plenty of…
5. Courage. Kahunas. Crazy will. For entrepreneurs moxy is a renewable resource.
Danielle is a speaker at our SHOP Symposium/09 events in Seattle and Vancouver this March. Click here to learn more and register.
