CYLS 094: The Rewards Of Following Your Passion with Raphael Benavidas
Create Your Life Series
English - December 15, 2017 17:00 - 54 minutes - 75.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 116 ratingsHealth & Fitness Education How To business entrepreneur entrepreneurship marketing finance leadership health success interview fitness Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
About our Guest:
Raphael is the owner of ricardos steak house, corner social, mintons playhouse and the cecil steak house as well as an executie chef, who uses his culinary mastery to incite creativity and fun with food. He is also the exectuive producer for east harlem presents which is a performing-arts venue with a multi-use art gallery space & independent programming. He is also the owner and artistic director of the Poet's Den Theater & Gallery and founder of the east harlem international film festival.
Episode Summary
Raphael talks about his journey immigrating to the United states, going into the family business. He breaks down his goal setting process, secrets to his decision making when taking on a new project and his secrets to creating a great team.
Insight from this episode:
Why trusting your gut and taking risks is important even against a great opportunity Why Raphael turned down his internship opportunity on the first day to follow his intuition The 4 step process to making a decision before taking on
a new project including opening a restaurant How to play to your strength
Business tips for selling art Why money is not in the top 3 of opening a business Secrets to aligning great partnerships Raphaels rejuvenating rituals Money is not what is going to make the business
Quotes:
“Dont ever do anything for monetary reasons, money is always the by product of what you do” - Raphael Benevidas episode #94
Anyone can paint art, but it takes a genius to sell it” - Raphael Benevidas episode #94
Resources Mentioned:
Cell phone
Favorite Book: Brains on fire
Favorite Quote: “If you never try, youll never know if it could have been”?
3 keys to Create Your Best Life:
Be passionate about whatever you do Nurture your personal relationships Dont ever do anything for monetary reasons
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www.eastharlempresents.org
https://twitter.com/poetsdentheater
https://www.facebook.com/raphael.baccus
Email: [email protected]
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