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From Fear to Focus: Mindset Shifts & Strategy for Purpose-Driven Entrepreneurs
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Entrepreneurship can feel like freedom—or like nonstop self-doubt. In this episode, we talk with Muneera Qureshi about navigating the fear of failure, building a business without burning out, and how mindset tools like hypnosis and NLP can help entrepreneurs lead with clarity, confidence, and ease.
Muneera Qureshi is the founder of Prodigigrowth and Arlinear. She is passionate about helping businesses grow sustainably through digital strategy, product innovation, and smart execution. She partners with entrepreneurs and organizations to simplify technology, unlock new growth opportunities, and build lasting impact.
She believes in making complex things simple and empowering people to build with clarity, confidence, and heart.
You can connect with Muneera Qureshi at https://www.prodigigrowth.com/.
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Introduction to Possibility and Mindset Shifts
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So if you have not have that belief that you can actually build something and things are actually going to work out, it it is it becomes very hard. We create hard life o ourselves. It's just changed how I hire, how I create boundaries and how I actually, I want to build with ease and not fear.
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Welcome to the Habit of Possibility podcast, the show about turning obstacles into opportunities. I'm your host, Robby Spear-Miller. Today, Munira Qureshi, business and technology strategist, is joining me.
Mindset Traps and Entrepreneurial Strategies
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Together, we will share the mindset traps that keep entrepreneurs overwhelmed and stuck and share the strategies that help entrepreneurs thrive in business and in life.
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Now, before we begin, we have a special announcement. We've been having many requests these days for help with managing stress and navigating all the change happening around us. So we are offering free one-hour stress management workshops, both in person at our training facility in Burlington, Ontario, Canada, and online via Zoom.
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Check the link in the show description for more info and to register. Now, let's get started with the show. Hello, everybody. This is Robbie Spear-Miller. I'm the host of the Habit of Possibility
Meet Munira Qureshi: Entrepreneurial Insights
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podcast. And today we're joined by Munira Qureshi, and she is a business owner leading multiple ventures to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses through technology.
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And we're going to explore today some themes about how business owners can put a frame around their choices so that they can have that sweet spot between doing the things that really matter for their business without getting overwhelmed.
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So welcome, Manira. Thank you, Ravi. Thanks for coming. Thanks for having me. So tell me a little bit about your backstory and how did you get interested in in doing what you do now?
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um That's a very good question. So many people ask me that. But I think for me, it was never about launching a business. Actually, it was just really stepping into the role that I didn't see enough happening around me. I didn't see.
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ah people were really bridging the gap between vision and execution, especially the founders, early stage founders who are building with the heart and ambition. I've always drawn into building systems and bringing clarity as my role as a product leader.
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And for doubt deeper reasons, I really wanted to create space where others could really grow into their authentic version of leadership they want to, without having to feel really overwhelmed.
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And that's what called called it and I just didn't want to just only do the work. I wanted do partner, guide and co-create.
Role of Alignment and Decision-Making in Business
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Great. So, UACT, is it it' it kind of like a fractional role that you play where you're kind of part of their organization, but you're part of lots of different companies? Is that how it works?
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Yes, yes. You're you're really right. ah Yes, we have fractional teams. So, I have quite a few ventures. um One of my ventures is Prodigy Growth that really partner and it's a subscription.
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where um the whole fractional team actually go and become part of your brand and really work with you for couple of years so that you're standing on your own and then ready to hire your own own team so you can say yes, fractional teams.
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Definitely. Yeah. Great. So tell me more about this theme that you've been talking about, about knowing what to say yes to in your business and knowing what to say no to and and the power of that.
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I think it all really starts with alignment, right? So we have to be very intentional about what we say yes to and why. um I've always asked myself in this work or a relationship, is this in a service for a bigger vision?
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um And then then just build a rhythm and a system around it. um And i I don't really choose balance. I really create a capacity. I want to lead differently. i lead differently in each venture of mine. I have different ventures.
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But I really am very, very mindful ah where I create the time because I have i have teams that I lead. and they look up to and I really look up to. I learn more from my teams than my teams do learn from me.
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ah So I'm really, very mindful where I'm so spending my time, which I say yes to and what I say no to. And I also completely believe in that no is a complete word. Yeah.
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Yeah. or Yeah.
Balancing Flexibility with Vision
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In my experience with coaching and mentoring entrepreneurs in building their businesses, sometimes people get overwhelmed because there are just too many things that they believe they need to do.
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And if they don't if they don't have capacity to do them and they can't hand them off to somebody else properly, um choosing to put it on the shelf can be a stressful thing for people because instead of just deciding to put it on the shelf and being at peace with it, they worry that it's on the shelf and they worry that they're not doing it.
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And so my experience, both with myself and the people I help with their businesses is that it can be a very powerful thing to make a very clear decision about what you're committing to and what you're either giving away to other people or choosing to look at some other time, right? To circle back around to at some other time.
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That's also where the strategy comes in and where people very ah people get really sometimes get confused about um what to build and what not to build. um And I would say this is your vision.
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and like You can be very stubborn on your vision because I have seen the entrepreneurs are very good with their visionary. They're visionary. that's why they are in the role and they're trying to build something ah but strategies is how to get to your vision you can be very stubborn on your vision but be flexible with strategies how to get to that vision and just something is on your list to do might not be really linking now with the with what you have a vision that you have created and market keep changing so and you have especially these days you have you have to be very very mindful
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And that's why sometimes when im working when I'm working with founders, I create a three year strategy for their business and really, really focus on the first year. um Create the milestones, but not exactly what we need to do and how we need to do for three years.
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It's really about what is the next immediate step in order for and how it's going to go very close to your vision. and and then really deprioritize other things. And that's what really, really important.
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And that's why when a lot of founders that come in are also solo founders, I find it becomes very hard for them. They are one team and they don't know where to put efforts on. That's why I think bringing in the team and they take the load off because I do completely believe I don't have to be everywhere because if your team gets your vision where you're trying to go, they're really your partner in that.
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Right. Yeah. Okay, great. So your approach is to see the possibilities of the founder, and then help them so that they can bring it to life, so that they don't have to do it by themselves, they can have hope so that they have capacity.
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Yes, it's really building. It's about really building um ah capacity and consistency because I don't think that there are a few things that we have to do where we don't. ah It's not done deal. You have to be very consistent and create a discipline as an entrepreneur.
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And um that's why I just don't like to use the word balance. it's it's I don't think it exists anymore. I think it's all integration. I always
Innovation and Entrepreneurial Mindset Shifts
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joke that I left my nine to five to do 24 seven because your mind's always there, right? you Because you're a builder, you're a creator.
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And if you don't build the white space in your calendar and if you don't have a white space in your week, What time are you giving yourself to be creative? As a founder, as creative, you have to give that space. If you are the one doing every single thing, and then how are you going to give yourself space and step back?
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but is it still Is it still matching to the energy how I started this company for? When I started? Because I see people really overtired, burned out. And I know that And when I was working in corporate, I could actually really link to that feeling because you are running on others' clock, not your own clock.
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But you have an ability when you become a founder to create your and design your own life around it. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. And so when we look at this as people are designing that, some of it we can choose, some of it we can't choose because it's the way the world is functioning.
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And so we're helping people to have clarity and to have when you talk about consistency, the interesting thing to me about that is that a lot of people who are entrepreneurs love to ah be creative and have the freedom to go for and so often they tend to get bored quickly like something that's a routine or follows a lot of rules often often is not attractive to people who are entrepreneurs so it's an interesting challenge to get them to agree to the routine but the truth is that the routine is what frees people to be creative and to do the best to make their vision come to life
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so I will tell you why. Because decision decision fatigue is a big thing in a founder's life, in everyone's life, I would say. yeah If you're not disciplined and you're not consistent, you're making decision every time for the same thing.
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So let's say you have to go for a walk 30 minutes every day, let's say 5.30 a.m. m or 6 a.m. you're If you are disciplined, you're not making a decision. It's already done for you.
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So that's where I say consistency and discipline really helps because then decisions done, there's no questioning about it. And if you keep changing and there are few things that you have to be consistent around your life, like we never question when we wake up and brush our teeth.
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Why are we brushing our teeth? Because it created as a discipline and a consistency. Well, for me, at least. yeah Yeah, it's a hypnotic trance, Monira. So yes, we teach people that all the time. So we want to have certain things on on our lives in our lives on autopilot.
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And then that frees us to be creative or have vision or do other new things or accomplish something significant. Because that ah discipline makes you really, really good at what you do and makes you take it far enough that it is something substantial.
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hundred percent 100%. It's a mindset shift. Yeah. Actually. yes ah Yes, it is. It's a mindset shift. It's a discipline. It's like it's it's really a practice.
00:11:09
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It's not. it It takes time to build that. But once you do it, I think it's just really transformational for you. I agree. Yeah. So we help many people here who are entrepreneurs discover this because many people, just like you used to work at a company and you had a nine to five, as did i um when we're starting a business on our own, it that whole thing is a mindset shift.
00:11:34
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And there are often areas of growth that people need. So there's, you know, this example we have about consistency. There are other areas such as how do you connect with people in a useful way, or how do you interact with your personal life as an entrepreneur, so their or your health and wellbeing.
00:11:52
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So there are different areas, but when you get a paycheck and and you're told what to do, it's a very different structure than when you're the one who decides. And people get overwhelmed by the decisions of being the one to decide. Often they they don't want to make a mistake and they feel like it's their fault if they do make a mistake. So there's there's a lot of uncertainty or insecurity around that or overwhelm.
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Yeah. hundred I would also say that um most of the time people also ah get stuck because they're always, they're also in the condition of self-doubt.
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ah It's just like, would say that creators have created, have made us, but society has trained us. There's a lot of, when you take initiative, which is a very courageous thing to do as an entrepreneur, to really separate yourself out and and you're trying to prove something, I would say that ah the most important thing that actually shift for me, that is my own work on my own self-image.
00:12:53
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That was really, really important for me. And always thinking about this is all working out for me was really, really important. And most of the time we get stuck and overwhelmed because we are overthinking on our own decisions.
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It's like you have to really get into the practice of believing in yourself and continuously repeating that this is working out for me and it should not overwhelm when you are have created your own business it it has to have that ah passion component that keeps you up and that when you wake up and you're thinking about and you're really passionate about doing something passion only does not arrive but it really helps Yeah, so being at peace with the trial and error involved with being an entrepreneur because not everything's going to work out, not everything's going to go the way you expect.
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There's learning along the way and ups and downs. And, ah you know, many people shy away from that or once one thing doesn't go their way, they give up or get complacent or retreat.
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And so being able to stay with it and seeing it.
Experimentation and Positive Communication in Entrepreneurship
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If you ask most entrepreneurs if they're being honest, us they'll tell you that they had a lot of failures along the way to success. And sometimes they're big, dramatic failures, and sometimes they're smaller, you know, stepwise failures.
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um But we want to be really embracing the trial and error aspect of learning. And I think that the people who get stuck are avoiding that. So, and, you know, I know that you help a lot of people with their online presence. Is that right?
00:14:29
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and Yeah. Yeah. So one of the things that a lot of people struggle with is being confident about showing photos of themselves or videos of themselves or putting up a post on social media or writing a blog post. They get super hypercritical of it.
00:14:47
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And with the speed that life moves now, you need to be quick at getting that stuff done and you need to be okay with just putting it out there. So we help a lot of people to grow through that and make peace with that. and whether it's to be confident on camera or confident speaking in front of a group or being at ease with being willing to make it good enough. It doesn't have to be perfect.
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So there are a lot of situations that come up like that. so And that's where your experimentation comes in. that's This is where saying no and yes also comes in. When it comes to posting online, ah there should be, um in my belief, it's that's what experimentation comes in.
00:15:32
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ah The online world is very, very open. It's a learning playground for for like for me. Definitely, it's a learning playground. it's not It's just one part of what you're showing up.
00:15:45
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If we are all always looking at into that it has to be perfect and intelligence, we're just going to slow down and we won't let ourselves. And when it comes to failure, for me, again, it's a technology problem. a piece that I always always talk about. It's just a data point, right?
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It's just a data point and it's a sign of a progress. When things look very chaotic, everything is just, and it feels like failure and sometimes ah like Price Bridget says that in in his book, that it's just ah it's just a sign of a progress. That means someone's working.
00:16:20
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yeah That's the point where sometimes entrepreneurs do a breaking point. Then is this for me? And I would say just if you really believe in yourself, just keep going.
00:16:32
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Yeah. And use those as a learning opportunity and move on and keep building. Yeah. What I found really helps with this, Manira, is that people need to believe in the mission that they're on and the vision they have.
00:16:47
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because that gets them out of themselves, they see the importance of the mission. And so if they don't love a picture of themselves or, you know, they look at a video after they've posted it and go, oh my God, I can't believe I posted that or whatever, which happens.
00:17:01
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um if they're focused on the mission, they're going to be so quickly on to the next thing that needs to happen that they they won't even notice that. It'll be like a little fleck of dust floating through the air.
00:17:13
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But if the mission is about expressing who they are, then they tend to be more self-conscious and critical. That's been my experience. i' I don't know what you've noticed around that. ah Yes, I think, again, I would go back to, ah it really goes back to your self-image.
00:17:28
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I do really completely believe in it. ah Because as an entrepreneur, you really have to work inside that if you have a belief and you have started it and it's going to work and you have to be very optimistic about what you're building, then these these things do on a bigger, larger scheme of things, a picture or a video posted, then do not matter. So whenever I'm posting something.
00:17:51
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And I feel like, eh, I'm like, okay, next one will be better. So, and and that's where you do some experimentation. When it comes to your strategy and your vision, you're taking time because it takes time to build a brand.
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ah In order to build a brand, you have to do so many micro ah experiments that is posting a picture, a blog post, talking on a video. like But in the background, you are taking your time to build that brand.
00:18:18
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and during your building that brand and you're taking that time those experiments will happen and uh i just don't like the word perfect like there is nothing perfect in the world it should not be even part of the dictionary i i believe because things are changing so fast and um and the mem our memory and we know that how much we remember now like it's just like a scrolling right i think you have to really build authentic audience for yourself it's not about number of followers anymore for me i i I really, really, whoever is actually, for example, when I sent newsletter, like I always make sure that um I don't have thousands and thousands. I want people who are following and who are being my partners are may may not be a very big number, but they're engaged. They're really being true partners and we're learning from each other.
00:19:08
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Yeah, it's almost like having a conversation with people and being really good at focusing on guiding the conversation in a useful direction. Because some people, when they're having a conversation, they're going to go, oh, no, did I say the wrong thing?
00:19:23
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What do they think of me? And other people just know they wanna create like a really ah great mood or they wanna just be with the people and connect and be in that energy.
00:19:35
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And so the people who are about agreement will tend to move things forward no matter what happens so far. And a great example I've seen of this was when I first started learning hypnosis and NLP, which is what I teach.
00:19:49
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So my very, very first teacher, i was taking a course up in Northern Ontario in cottage country. And so this woman lived up there and we would take this course in the basement of her house.
00:20:00
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And so the first time we went there, we didn't know her, we'd never met her before. And this course was supposed to start at 9 a.m. on a Friday. And so we get there and we weren't sure, do we go to the front door? Do we go to the side door? Does it start at 9 a.m.? Does it start at 10 a.m.? m Like the instructions were not very clear. And it's weird to knock on somebody's a stranger's door at nine o'clock in the morning. right so But we did because we were like, maybe the course is starting at nine. And so we did. and And, you know, she answers the door and tells us that it's starting at 10 and we should go around the side door, not go to the front door.
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But the cool thing was she didn't skip a beat because we were a little put off by the whole thing because we felt awkward about it. And she just was like very connected with us. It was no big deal. She just guided us to what needed to happen next.
00:20:46
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And we totally moved on from that. And I think it really stood out for me because before learning what I do now, i was definitely not that kind of person. i would get hung up on the things that didn't go well.
00:21:00
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And so the skill in general as an entrepreneur and for anybody to look at life in terms of where are we going next and focus there and be connected with the people while we get there, whether it's in person or it's online, it's really a useful thing.
00:21:17
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Yeah, and also um it's again our thought patterns, right? Either we can look at things, what didn't go well, or we think it what the next opportunity is and what's the right thing happening.
00:21:28
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Because in every situation, you will always find things that didn't go well or you can always find only things that actually went well. Yeah. So it's um it's again.
00:21:39
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um ah it it's like it's It's just a habit that we have to build, as and especially as a founders. It's very, very important for us. And we have to be optimistic. ah You can just imagine how many people then we pitch and talk about and have a conversation about to ah to have a business-to-business relationship.
00:21:58
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and But it's all about conversation. And sometimes it's not the right time when we are having that conversation, but the right time comes later on. But if we start thinking about how many did not work out, we would have never been able to do the business as we are doing right now.
00:22:13
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ah anyway so and And for me also, even the sales and anything, it's all about a conversation because it happens for people, not to people. You have a business because It exists for a reason because there is a need, there is a market need for it.
00:22:29
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So as much as you need the business, they also need and they also need you as much as you need them. And that's just ah that's a mindset shift, right? That if you're not ready, and that's fine.
00:22:41
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And when you're ready, and so many times, like you will see, and everyone, ah when it comes to sales and marketing, We have to be just there is one awareness piece. But then when we are actually having the conversation, it's really about a conversation.
00:22:55
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And you'll see that every business will have their span of time. It takes me three to six months to have that relationship. And then people started to understand what we can actually do for them as a business. It depends. You're a product business or service, especially for service based businesses.
00:23:09
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I would say it takes time to build the relationship. And people really want to connect with you as a person. and ah whenever i am now shopping around i always want to connect with the person who has actually built this brand right and i would i would have that more um attached to that product that i bought with the person i know or the energy i know than someone that i just don't know so it's that's why building your brand is so so important because people care people people want to feel connected
00:23:43
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Right. and And that's what I sometimes tell people that how you want to come up front is you have to be the best advocate for yourself and for your business. Who else? If you're not able to best advocate. Yeah.
00:23:57
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Yeah, great. So I'd like to explore a little bit more with you what you mentioned about people either noticing everything that goes wrong or being super positive and only noticing what goes right, because neither of those are useful, right? The person who notices who's really positive and notices what goes right tends to get further because they're focused on what's next and they're positive in that energy and they're about creating things. So that does help.
Balancing Positivity with Reality
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but the people who are only positive and aren't willing to look at the reality or learn from what happened, they're going to make the same mistakes over and over again, and they won't improve. So we want that sweet spot of being able to like be about agreement and positive and still be safe and confident while we look at what needs to improve. And and I think a lot of people go in one direction or another. it's It's really a skill to learn how to navigate that package.
00:24:56
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You have to really follow your gut feeling, right? We are very good as human beings to overwrite our gut feeling, right? we are very So we have that feeling. We know when there's something ah not right, right? so um yeah So you have to be cautious and we have to be aware of what's happening around you.
00:25:14
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But we have to really, really work on ourselves that is it my own fear reflecting on it inside or it's actually really, really happening. a lot of time is that um ah version, a lot of entrepreneurs I have seen, at least I'm seeing that a lot of shift happening from corporate to their own.
00:25:32
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So the version of themselves, which was rooted in hustle and over-functioning and ah to move from that to ah clarity and trust and calm.
00:25:43
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So when it comes to whenever we have to make a quick decision, something has happened to us and whether we think that it's positive or negative, Regardless of what the result we got, if we are thinking about this is actually working for me, working out for me, whatever is happening, then are then it becomes very clear for us. It happens when, like because I travel lot, so things happen while you're traveling a lot. I'm like, okay.
00:26:09
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So every time if I think about, oh my gosh, because there are things that we just have no control on. So ah ah think overthinking something that you had you have no control on, that only one means one thing, that but once we have no control on, this is something but happening for me. It was supposed to happen because there's nothing drive driven from my action that it happened.
00:26:33
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um So um we can always look at both sides of the puzzle, but I would i tend to say that just keep repeating to yourself this is something is working out for me and what I've learned from the experience because one time the first time when it happened and we feel like that we could have done better the next time we have to see that what we learned from our previous experience and that's what happens with the with the failures or things not working out is the next time is not a mistake or yeah so especially in the business side of things I would say
00:27:06
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Yeah, right. So we don't want to have blinders on to the things we need to learn, but we need to be like, really see it as separate from ourselves, that it's just something to learn and we can do it better next time. And so that's really the road that a lot of people can definitely... Because um overthinking can create an internal chaos.
00:27:27
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And when when I talk about external chaos, it's a different thing. the internal chaos can actually kill the creativity. It does not give room or space for creativity, right?
00:27:38
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And if you are all the time back to back in meetings, notifications coming and you have no white space, um how are you going to, like you have no given your space, yourself no space for creativity.
00:27:53
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And as a founder, you have to have that regardless of you're running one venture or multiple ventures. yeah right You have to have that space so that and you can be creative and be with yourself. And um that is very, very important. And go out there and meet people because you have to be advocate. And I always say your network is your net worth.
00:28:16
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Yeah. Yeah. So when people are in their heads and talking and analyzing or trying to understand things or rushing from one thing to another because they think it's going to solve the problem or fix things once and for all, um they're really in fear. And when we're in fear subconsciously,
00:28:35
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our mind and our body believe we're in danger. And so our total priority is self-protection.
Manifestation, Routine, and Personal Stories
00:28:43
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it's hard to have vision when you're trying to survive.
00:28:46
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And so when we relax and we take that, have that creative space, as you call it, it's a lot easier to have that vision and that clarity and tune into our intuition better and look to see are the actions we're taking matching the vision of the direction we're going.
00:29:05
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So there's a physiological and mind state that match being able to have that perspective that helps us. And I would also say that after i started my entrepreneurship, I really started working on um manifestation.
00:29:21
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Like I really believe in that you have to have that strong vision around it. And reflection is just not a luxury for me. It's just part of the work. Yeah. Right. it it's It's really deep rooted in my why and not just the how, because how sometimes it's like we as we go, we're going to figure out the how.
00:29:42
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But why and when why is really rooted in us and we are doing continuous reflection. It's really, really important and it keeps us grounded. Yeah, yeah. So hypnotic trances are a level level of of obsession. So when we know what our why is, there's an obsession with the why and then we'll find we'll find a way to do it because we know it matters.
00:30:04
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and said there's some magic to that when so years ago when i was uh first married and i was also first learning everything that i teach with hypnosis and nlp i took a course and nlp at the same yeah up north at this woman's house that i was mentioning And one of the exercises we did was to get clear about a vision of what we wanted. what did we want in a house, a car, a career, relationship, whatever.
00:30:31
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And at the time, we weren't happy in the house we were in, and we were trying to find the house that we would be happy in. And it at the time, it seemed impossible because real estate prices kept going up and we were looking everywhere.
00:30:45
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And so, but I knew what I wanted. And we did this exercise to really get clear about what were the things that really mattered about it And so I did this exercise and a year later we had a class reunion and that day happened to be the closing date for buying our house here in Burlington.
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And the woman who did this exercise with me said to me, Hey Robbie, did you get everything you wanted in a house? And I completely forgot that I had even done that exercise, but I took out my binder and I looked at the sheet of paper and I did, I got every single thing on that list.
00:31:20
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And how I did it was that I just had a routine in my life where each week I would take my son, who was a baby at the time, to a different neighborhood that I thought we'd be at low for it. And we would go for a walk and I'd look at real estate listings and write.
00:31:33
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And eventually, just from talking to people, eventually we found where we wanted to live in our house. um So it was a combination of having that obsession and just knowing it was going to happen. So I was manifesting the house.
00:31:47
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And also taking action where wherever I went, I was looking for possibilities or opportunities in that direction. And actually what made me consider Burlington, which we had never thought of before, was I was living near Bloor West Village in Toronto at the time. And I went into a shoe store and started chatting with the owner. And he told me he had just moved to Burlington.
00:32:11
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So I said, oh, interesting. Tell me more. and so I actually started by going to see the neighborhood and the the the like the subdivision that he had bought a house in. That's not where we ended up buying our house, but that's what gave me the idea in the first place.
00:32:25
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And it's so random that that conversation happened. But if I hadn't been clear and obsessed about knowing this was going to happen, I probably wouldn't have had that conversation with him.
00:32:35
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And then I wouldn't have gotten that idea and we wouldn't have bought our house. Right. So there's so many subtle things that happen when you're clear and you know that you're going to do something.
00:32:46
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So I know i I've had a lot of examples of that, but there's there's there's power to being committed to creating something and just trusting it's going to happen.
Values-Driven Entrepreneurship
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That's that i I would say this is this is what I learned in my journey to entrepreneurship.
00:33:03
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When I decided to leave my corporate career, I was a VP of product and strategy, one of the UK companies. And when I decided to switch and not go back to corporate, It just was some sort of like a belief in my side. that site And because I build my career so much in corporate that people around me were actually more scared and I would just look around.
00:33:24
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And then I had this feeling of the perception I had created. Right. You could see, you know, it's ah people's reactions are the feedback that you receive. what the but but it hasn But it had nothing to do with me. So it I had to really train myself, ah even if it's on a very, very positive note that is coming from people. It's still someone else's vision of me and my life. Right.
00:33:49
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So if you have not have that belief that you can actually build something and things are actually going to work out, it it is it becomes very hard. We create um ah hard life ourselves. That's why designing your own life your way is so important, especially as an entrepreneur, because you have so much going on and you have to have that belief.
00:34:10
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So I so and for me, most of it is about alignment, actually, is this aligning with all that I want to build in my values, even the customers that come and join my community.
00:34:22
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um i want to make sure they're aligned with the values that um we have. And um We have a lot of learning experiences during that time. And i it's just changed how I hire, how i create boundaries and how I actually, I want to build with ease and not with ah fear.
00:34:42
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for Right? Yeah. Yes. Yeah, that's great. And it's so good to have the life experience and the people experience to be able to confidently see that, right? Because a lot of people, ah if you haven't had enough experience in it or been trained in it and we teach people how to read people so that you can look for values alignment.
00:35:04
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um Sometimes it can be a shot in the dark in terms of hiring people or you you miss the the yellow flags or the red flags along the way. So yeah it's really wonderful to have that clarity. Yeah.
00:35:17
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And also, I mean, when we are growing, there are a lot of growing pains, right? And this is how, again, the positive thinking, things working well or things not working well. Where do you want to focus on?
00:35:29
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um Because you can put a lot of pressure on yourself. You can either think about what it work or you can really think about this is working out for us and it feels like expansion rather than pressure.
00:35:44
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Right. So look you're on a path and it's going in a direction and sometimes there are little detours or speed bumps, but you're on the path and and you know you want to get to the destination.
00:35:56
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So yeah, and there are two ways to look at it. Either you look at this is too much pressure on me, or you can look at oh, I'm expanding. And this is this is all part of expansion. You can see around us whenever anything is expanding a town or anything that expanding has it's there is a lot of routes that you can look at that are being built around that.
00:36:17
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So Yeah. Yeah. Yes. So learning how to um i plug up the energy leaks. So some people get overwhelmed because they're creating drama or stress when it doesn't need to be there.
00:36:31
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Right. And sometimes there's real life things happening and to be able to roll with that. So it's an art to be able to interact with
Managing Energy and Focus
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life. Trust me, I have been there.
00:36:42
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Yeah, i mean I remember when I created energy leaks for myself. And I was reminded by it it's an energy leak, just get over it yeah Trust me, when we do the work, after that, you know, sometimes it's very hard, you will keep thinking about it when it's happened.
00:36:57
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In few seconds, you just feel relief. And you feel relieved that this actually happened. But overthinking just creates energy leaks for us in so many cases. for sure. Yeah. wow And if if we have listeners who are struggling with this, hypnosis is a great tool to help you learn how to um s plug up those energy leaks and how to focus in a direction that's useful for your business and for your life.
00:37:24
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um because it it really helps you get out of your head and be more synced up with the world around you in ah in a way that's useful. Yes, definitely. Yeah, great.
Connecting with Munira and Podcast Conclusion
00:37:35
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All right, so Munir, where can people find out more about you and your services? Yeah, so ah first of all, like I think LinkedIn is one platform that everything is just down there.
00:37:46
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ah Yes, definitely. Visiting my site, prodigygrowth.com is actually a good way. Connecting with me on LinkedIn is actually a great way to know what are different ventures that we are doing.
00:37:57
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And I'm also on Instagram. So there are many multiple ways. But I would say LinkedIn would be one where you can see all in one place. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Great. Well, thanks so much for coming on the show.
00:38:10
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Thanks for having me. It was fun. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. You can connect with Munira Qureshi at www.prodigygrowth.com. That's P-R-O-D-I-G-I growth.com.
00:38:25
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00:38:40
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00:38:51
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