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FROM FAILURE IN BUSINESS TO MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR COMPANY
\nFailure In Business – Nathalie Lussier sites down with Kelsey Ramsden<\/p>\n

Have you ever thought that failure in business could be a good thing? I\u2019ve previously shared my take on failed businesses that act as skeletons in our closets\u2026<\/p>\n

And in this episode of Off The Charts, I had the pleasure of interviewing Kelsey Ramsden, who was one of our fantastic speakers at Off The Charts Live last year. She\u2019s been Canada\u2019s number one female entrepreneur for two years running.<\/p>\n

In our interview she opens up on how vulnerability has been the key to connecting in her business, how she\u2019s had many failures in business, and ultimately learned that being her own best friend helped her grow a multi-million dollar business.<\/p>\n

FAILURE IN BUSINESS MIXED WITH VULNERABILITY CAN LEAD TO A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS<\/p>\n

Visit Kelsey at KelseyRamsden.com to see what she\u2019s up to!<\/p>\n

KELSEY\u2019S TAKE ON VULNERABILITY IN BUSINESS<\/p>\n

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. The outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection.<\/p>\n

Kelsey was doing a talk for Dell computers, who brings 200 women entrepreneurs from around the world together once a year\u2026 And then they asked her to run a panel on risk which was awesome. She got to meet Brene Brown and took a selfie with her.<\/p>\n

Our capacity for vulnerability equals our ability for connection. And if you just think about that like connecting with your audience, connecting with your customers, with your suppliers or the people who work with and for you, that\u2019s a thing that has not gone away when Kelsey got terminal cancer. By the way, Kelsey is healthy now.<\/p>\n

TELL US ABOUT A TIME WHERE YOU EXPERIENCED SOME KIND OF SETBACK AND HOW YOU OVERCAME THAT:<\/p>\n

Kelsey: I\u2019ve experienced a lot of failure in business and life. I\u2019m a successful failure, that\u2019s what I like to say. For the most part, I need to feel that I\u2019m doing something beneficial or successful ongoing.<\/p>\n

I used to set these really big goals like launch my website. And then when they didn\u2019t happen \u2013 it takes a long time to get that work done so there was never really a feeling of accomplishment for myself.<\/p>\n

It took a long time for me to understand setting daily goals, and small things. Like today, if I do this, that\u2019s success. And then once I did that, I started to get the momentum of the emotional steadiness of consistently getting something done as opposed to consistently feeling like I wasn\u2019t accomplishing anything.<\/p>\n

TELL US ABOUT A TIME WHERE EVERYTHING CAME TOGETHER AND YOU HAD A BIG WIN:<\/p>\n

Kelsey: Those times come up for me, often times, there\u2019s something a little bit greater at play than myself. Usually it\u2019s something I didn\u2019t expect to happen exactly in the way that it happened.<\/p>\n

It used to get me a little off put like this wasn\u2019t my plan. I wasn\u2019t quite ready for this. But I\u2019ve realized the genius of that is when great things happen you just have to be looking up.<\/p>\n

When great things happen you just have to be looking up -Kelsey Ramsden
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\nYou have to be paying attention for the opportunity or willing to say I don\u2019t quite know that yet. But I can figure that out or I can access resources. And those situations have been when the really greatest things have happened to me.<\/p>\n

Unbeknownst to myself, the world often said, \u201cHere\u2019s where you\u2019re supposed to be, just go ahead and do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

ANYTHING ELSE YOU\u2019D LIKE TO SHARE ABOUT RUNNING A MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUSINESS?<\/p>\n

Kelsey: Yeah, lots of things. Ultimately, it comes down to no matter what business you\u2019re in, no matter what it is that you\u2019re doing, we have to be our own best friend first.<\/p>\n

I talk to myself like I were talking to my bestie because I really can be my own worst critic. I always think would I talk to my children like this? Would I talk to my best friend like this?<\/p>\n

I think the other piece is I love making lots of money but underlying that really comes down to the truth piece. And so that\u2019s when you\u2019re truthful foremost with yourself. And then secondarily with the people you work with and for, and your clients. And I don\u2019t think the genuine feeling of success, then followed by the monetary success comes, unless you start in that place.<\/p>\n

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