Welcome to invest in yourself, the digital entrepreneur podcast. Join the podcast mogul Phil Better as he interviews successful entrepreneurs that make their living in the digital world. Now let's join your host Phil Better and your special guest today on Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast.

Hello, and welcome back to another episode of Invest in Yourself, the Digital Entrepreneur Podcast. Pardon me. I'm your host Phil Better, the podcast mogul. And I'm so happy to introduce our guest today. Our guests for over the last 2 decades worked as the general manager of sales for a successful multimillion dollar business coaching high performing, high commission based sales teams. But then they established their own personal coaching business, Speech Perfect, in 2007, to provide the tools to empower people to possess the confident voice of self belief and establishing their personal brand authority. Let's go. As an international conference speaker, contributor to Kosha's Business Builders Magazine, host of We Are Women Podcast, an amazing podcast, I may die, and author of 2 books, Being Unstoppable and Go Good Girls Do Sell.

Our guest coaching includes online training programs, private coaching, workplace training, mastermind groups, which we all know is important, and group seminars. Having presented workshops in many countries around the world, our guest has coached international speech winners and in 20 2013 represented her country at the International Speaking Contest. A final finalist in the BX Business Excel Excellence award for 4 years. In 2023, our guest won the Logan Chamber of Commerce Business TO Business Award for Small Businesses. From Alaska to Japan and New Zealand to Hawaii and around Australia, audiences described our guests as brilliant, powerful, and informative. And now without further ado and more hoorah, let's welcome our guest, Janine Vosper to the show. Janine, thank you so much for being here. I was completely blinded.

Oh my god. I forgot such a humiliation, but it's fine. It's audio, so we're good. Janine, how are you doing?

Thanks, Phil. I'm really pleased to be here. This is the second conversation we've had, and I know how much fun it is to be on your show.

I am so excited. Our first conversation was about your podcast, We Are Women, which, was amazing. You shared a great story there, and I'll definitely have it linked in the show notes down below. But today, we're gonna be talking about your journey in entrepreneurship. So with that said, my first question, we're gonna jump right into it. Why did you become an entrepreneur? Why did you leave the high successful multibillion $1,000,000,000 company to be like, no. I'm going out it alone into myself. Why did you invest in yourself?

That's a really good question. And sometimes, I'm sure, like every entrepreneur, they might ask themselves that same question when things, you know, you're you're pushing for business all the time because really that's what you you do a lot when you are in your your own business. But that's part of it. It's it's your own, you know, the so the effort and the the results are yours, whether they're good or bad, but it's you're working for yourself. And I think that was a really big point for me. And it was something that even though I was in the GM role, I started SpeechPerfect in 2007. Now it was on the back burner. Mhmm.

It is something I suggest for everyone to do who's got a a business idea is to start things while you are working for somebody else. That way, you've got the funding to create and get everything ready so when you step into your entrepreneurial role, your job, your business, not your job, your business, a lot of the expenses are covered and you can really focus on growing the business without a lot of outlay. So I did that from 2,007, and then the plan was to to wrap it up and and leave the GM role in 2019. 19. I was very fortunate, and I think this is such an important factor for a lot of people. I had somebody come into the workplace who was a motivating factor for me to leave. Is that a really nice way to put it?

I think that is the most the poll that's nearly Canadian in politeness level. How to say someone may have been a toxic work environment individually.