Today on Millennial Playbook Podcast we are joined by millennial entrepreneur, Katlyn Grasso. She is the owner of GenHeration and travels A LOT! She works with Gen Z young woman who want to take over the world and hosts One Minute Mentor, an original web series.
You can download this episode from Stitcher or iTunes or listen below to hear all of Katlyn’s spot-on advice.
Entrepreneurial Challenges To Overcome
- Build your Audience
- Find some type of # or user engagement
- Focus on 1 metric to help guide the story
Utilize your connections
- She used to attend Penn, she still reaches out to people on Alumni lists
- Believes in cold leads and emails
- Anyone, anywhere can be a connection
- Will strike up conversations in airports and it can lead to her next investor
Always utilize your strengths
- Find people who can complement them to help build something bigger
The Importance of Girls In sports
- Builds leadership
- She was a pitcher and believes it builds resilience, helps her go with the flow – Can’t be worrying about everything
If you want it you must work hard to get it
- If you love what you do, you won’t feel like you are working
- Open all the time, coming up with ideas
Travel Tips
- Window seat helps her sleep
- Pack lots of wrap dress they don’t need to be iron
Business Tips
- If something does not work, that is fine, just make sure you move on quickly and not dwell on the issue that does not work
- Can’t stay married to an idea for too long
- Always embrace change
- Pivot if necessary
- Energy and persistence conquer all thing – Ben Franklin
- Key to being successful is to Never give up
- Must work through the Challenges, there are going to be hard days but you must push through it
- Book – Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
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Workplace Communication Speaker and Trainer at Everything's Not OK and That's OK
Alissa Carpenter is the Owner of Everything’s Not Ok and That’s Ok, author of How to Listen and How to Be Heard: Inclusive Conversations at Work, TEDx speaker, and host of Humanize Your Workplace.She works directly with organizations to bridge communication gaps across generations, job functions, and geography and has worked with non-profits to multi-billion-dollar enterprises.She has an MEd in Social and Comparative Analysis in Education, is a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach and is certified in the Strong Interest Inventory and Myers Briggs Type Indicator.Alissa has been featured on ABC, CBS, NPR, FOX, Forbes, and quoted in multiple media outlets including CNN Money and Fast Company.
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