OH2: Gracefully Transitioning Your Mindset from Employee to Entrepreneur

Written By Rhodes Perry

On this week’s episode, we offer another edition of the Office Hours Series designed to support those of us thinking about, starting, or growing our businesses. Today we discuss how to gracefully transition from an employee to entrepreneur mindset. During the episode, Allon and I offer strategies on how to shift from an employee mindset to one of a CEO. Please note the Office Hours Series differs from our normal weekly episodes – on the regular show, I continue to interview business owners sharing their wisdom and guidance with me. If you love these interviews, please know they will continue on this platform every other Tuesday.

This Episode is Sponsored By

·      Rhodes Perry Consulting, let’s cultivate a workplace culture of belonging

·      Get a Copy of Rhodes’ new book, Belonging at Work

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Questions Answered in this Episode

·      How do you shift your mindset from employee to entrepreneur?

·      How did Allon and Rhodes bust out of the employee mindset?

·      How do you reintroduce yourself to your professional networks as an entrepreneur?

·      What does it mean to think like a business owner?

·      Why should you expect to do all aspects of the business by yourself in the beginning?

·      How can you bank on you lived experience to help shift your mindset?

Resources Shared in this Episode

·     Strategy + Business, How to Think Like a CEO, D.A. Benton

·     Martha Pellegrino, Leaving Gracefully

·      The Board Forum, Learn to Think Like a CEO

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Rhodes Perry

Rhodes Perry, MPA is an award-winning social entrepreneur, best-selling author, and keynote speaker. He helps leaders build belonging at work to achieve industry breakthroughs. His firm offers transformative leadership development, change management, and capacity building solutions for senior executives focused on advancing their organizations’ diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) commitments. Nationally recognized as a LGBTQ+ thought leader, he has two decades of government and nonprofit experience having worked at the White House, PFLAG National, and the City of New York. Media outlets like Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press have featured his powerful work as a (DEI) influencer.

http://www.rhodesperry.com
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