LUYC 118: Strengthening Local Entrepreneurship with Pamela Slim

What’s up everyone! In this episode, I am joined by Pamela Slim, speaker, business coach and award-winning author of Escape from Cubicle Nation and Body of Work. Pamela joins me to share her story and how her brick and mortar learning lab empowers diverse entrepreneurs. The core of everything is that we all need each other and we work together from our diverse ecosystems. For over 20 years, Pamela has worked with thousands of entrepreneurs to support them in launching and growing their businesses. Even with the evolution of online courses, many business owners are still stuck with the same problems Pam has been helping them solve for years. In 2016, she started the K’é Main Street Learning Lab in Mesa, Arizona, which is a community-based leadership development lab that supports and strengthens local small businesses. Since launching the Learning Lab, Pam has hosted over 200 events led by 38 community leaders for her more than 4,000 community members. Listen as Pamela shares her insights about building a community, being physically present with your members, and small business solutions. Episode Quotes "Never trust short term success and never assume that short term failure lasts forever." "There is huge power in physically being present." "Our problems as business owners are large and varied and they require a lot of solutions." "The core of everything is we realize that we all need each other and we work together from all different sectors of our communities. " Listen to Learn 00:56 - Getting to know Pamela Slim, Rapid 5 Questions 05:31 - Pamela's entrepreneurial journey 12:23 - Impetus of creating The Main Street Learning Lab 17:27 - Physical space vs. online courses 28:49 - The power of interdependent ecosystems over empire culture 35:36 - Practical tips for course creators 46:34 - Awesome things coming up from Pamela Connect with Pam PamelaSlim.com The Main Street Learning Lab Learn more about Pam’s books Follow Pam on Twitter! Looking for the Transcript? Episode 118

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LUYC 118: Strengthening Local Entrepreneurship with Pamela Slim is an episode from Level Up Your Course Podcast with Janelle Allen: Create Online Courses that Change Lives by Janelle Allen.

This episode is 00:53:08 long.

This episode was published on Dec 11, 2019.

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