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Life on Your Terms: The Power of Entrepreneurship

August 24, 2011 by

[HTML1] This episode takes a practical look at how people can transition from a traditional job to achieve their creative vision and become an entrepreneur.  After 18 years in corporate life, Shann Vander Leek made such a transition into becoming an entrepreneur and helping others to do the same.  Shann founded True Balance Life Coaching and co-founded Seize True Success Coaching.  She is a Coach Training Alliance certified coach.

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Shann’s book, Life on Your Terms, and the accompanying “accelerator series” workbooks, focus on empowering people to explore their passions and ultimately build their vision into a successful business.  It’s a book for people who are dreaming of reinventing their life and leaving the job that is killing their soul.

Life on Your Terms compiles interviews with 40 successful entrepreneurs, including Tony Hsie, CEO of Zappos, Mike Michalowicz, author of the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, Scott Stratten, an online marketing guru and Founder of “Unmarketing,” as well as numerous successful entrepreneurs in charge of their lives.  Shann uncovers several common threads including passion, trust and having the courage to build your vision despite the adversities that life and others can set in the way.  She discusses overcoming fears and neutralizing the “energy vampires” who sustain negativity and “suck” our energy slowing us and undermining our strengths.

By balancing and supporting your own energy, by making that investment in yourself, doing the work internally along with the daily tasks, you avoid the “bumping around” in a rut and find the the strength to address the daily issues and maintain alignment.  Shann shares day-to-day steps to address these negative influences.

Just as we say on Socially Conscious Investing, small steps make progress.  Improving your own energy only increases your own ability to make a difference for others and contribute to a better world.

Visit Shann’s Facebook page to learn more about Life on Your Terms, and also visit our Facebook discussion page to meet others and share about this episode.  Most of all, invite your friends to listen to Socially Conscious Investing.

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About Robin Eschler

Robin L. Eschler, the founder of Social Impact Marketing, started her career in developing foundational marketing strategies for companies of all sizes, from Fortune 500 to individual entrepreneurs and local businesses. She has developed and implemented international campaigns to launch high tech products and services and guided new business owners to successfully navigate the difficulties of growing a business.

Her life-long passion for helping others led her into nonprofit work for over a decade. Early on, she recognized the need for nonprofits to adapt to a rapidly changing world in which technology dominates and for-profit business practices are central to success. Her determination to help social causes in a sustainable way led to her creation of the Women's Radio show Socially Conscious Investing.

Impact investing in for-profits with a mission of social change such as the fight against extreme poverty is a blossoming business sector around the world. With the economic decline, it's clear that Wall Street requires change. Social impact investing addresses that need in a way that provides financial and social ROI.

As the Host of Socially Conscious Investing on WomensRadio, Robin's goal is to educate people about the growth of social impact investing and social venture. Interviews are conducted with socially conscious business experts including foundations and nonprofits, social venture investment firms, micro-loan organizations, investors, educators, authors and social entrepreneurs.

This show's mission is to help change the world through sustainable business practices that contribute to the economy, combat poverty, end hunger and provide better lives to all.

Twice, Robin has been recognized and received the highest honorary award that Rotary International gives, the Paul Harris Award, for service above self. Her community work has included developing local programs for disadvantaged populations such as foster children, troubled teens, and people with disabilities.

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