OM5: Michele Mere | Take The Risks or Get A Job

Meet Today’s Guest: Michele Mere Michele Mere is a decisive, driven and committed entrepreneur who helps successful business owners expand, duplicate or sell their companies and make big profits using her business valuation and consulting skills. Michele’s business expertise has been highlighted during her speeches at Harvard and on NBC, CBS, Fox, Entrepreneur.com and Forbes.com. She is a Stevie Award winning business consultant, best-selling author and the Founder of Decisive Minds. She is a serial entrepreneur who knows how it feels to fail miserably at business, at one time the bank called demanding their $1.5 million and knows how it feels to sign the contract to sell her company for $9 million. Business building tips- DecisiveMinds.com Can you share your incredible journey with the audience today? Life has been and is still and probably will be till the day I die, about business, about entrepreneurship, about creating your own life and your own existence. So I was born into a family who had kids to guarantee they had employees. We had a grocery store, a mobile home park. My dad started the trucking company. We had a laundromat. I mean, if we thought we could make a dime, we did it. The school bus dropped me off at the grocery store in the afternoon because I went to work after school. I thought everybody did that and I found out later they didn't. And I think that really is what began my love, and of business and entrepreneurs. Learning at the at the knees of my father and my grandfather and watching them negotiate and sell and treat people the way people should be treated. In 2007 we had the opportunity to sell our trucking company and our grocery store that year. We retired, my entire family, everyone retired when we sold those two companies. I found myself on the couch every day asking, who is Michele, at this point? What am I going to do? I did a couple of things. I started a company flipping houses, that was a lot of fun. And then the credit stuff happened in 2009. And that fell apart. I was surfing the internet one day. I don't know how I ended up on this site. And I end up on this thing that's talking about how to build businesses and the online world and all this kind of stuff. And I go to a marketing seminar in California about building businesses. It's just one little tweak. I had never done it online. I had no clue what to do there. I started Decisive Minds in January of 2010. And I really just thought I was going to build this online business. I was never going to speak. I wasn't going to network. I wasn't going to leave my house. Because I'm an extreme introvert. What I found out at the end of 2010 was that that doesn't necessarily work. I spent a bunch of money and made none. In January 2011, I had to sit at my father's table, this man, this entrepreneur who helped me to understand who I am, and telling him that I didn't quite make any money with all this time I spent in this business. And I'll never forget this. He said, I don't think that's a viable company. I think you should stop doing that. We need to look for something else for you. I like turned on a dime. And within the next 18 months, I was doing six figures. That was the thing that lit my fire. And that's really why I started this business, I started Decisive Minds, because everything I have been through in my life and you know, we had the failures. I'll never forget the day the bank called and said, hey, we want our $1.5 million back. So I've been through the trenches in all the businesses that we've had, and including Decisive Minds, and come out the other side on many of them. I've done it all when it comes to business. I think I bring a unique perspective to the business consulting world, because of my experience in the past. Can you share some of your tips with our audience today and share a little bit about what you think 2021 is going to look...