Natalia Wiechowski and Picking Yourself Back Up

What do you do when life hits a wall?

As the world is trying to pick itself back up, female entrepreneurs and business owners are trying hard to stabilize their businesses, remain optimistic, and move forward. 

But, it’s not easy. 

Which is why we need incredible role models to lift us up and give us the strength to keep on going. 

And today’s guest, Dr. Natalia Wiechowski, is the role model we all need right now. 

As the founder of Think Natalia, she helps other entrepreneurs perfect their personal branding to carve out a niche in competitive markets.

She knows that helping other people shine brings her joy and was able to mold her career out of doing something she loved. 

But, 29-year old Natalia was very different. 

With a PhD in Philosophy, Natalia was confused about what direction she wanted to take her career in, which led her to working many different jobs in her 20s.

After living her life in reactionary mode, she had a spiritual awakening (or an ‘early life crisis’ as she puts it) which prompted her to quit her corporate job, take a sabbatical, and really figure out what she wanted to do with her life and career. 

While challenging and scary, that chapter in her life ended beautifully with the founding of Think Natalia. But she, like many of us, had to face an entirely different set of challenges with the advent of COVID-19. 

Apart from her business, Natalia is also a keynote speaker who travels the globe and had some gigs lined up in different parts of the world that she was very excited about. 

Of course, those couldn’t go forward. 

And Natalia found herself having to pivot to cover those costs. 

However, her mindset towards challenges is simple (something she credits to six years of constant meditation) - when life throws obstacles at you, give yourself some time to feel upset and overwhelmed.

And then get back up and take action. 

In today’s episode, Natalia takes us through how she pivoted in COVID (and experienced one of her biggest sales months yet), her simple mindset to life’s challenges, and all her exciting future plans. 

Natalia’s views on life and motivation are exactly what you might need to dust yourself off and find courage to keep going in these trying times!

Here’s a peek at what else you can expect:

Why Natalia moved to Dubai The growth of LinkedIn as a personal branding platform Natalia’s view on the pressures of having to be present in every social media platform How she’s pivoted during COVID-19 How she helps clients build their personal brand How her ‘early life crisis’ at 29 pushed her to her true calling RESOURCES

Think Natalia

Think Natalia Instagram

Natalia Wiechowski LinkedIn

Personal Branding with LinkedIn: The Think Natalia Method

 

This Week’s Joy:

Natalia’s joy right now is sitting in her balcony, cup of tea in hand, and listening to a podcast or reading a book. 

 

This Week’s Hustle:

As someone who’s team members are scattered across the globe, Natalia relies on Calendly to keep track of her team’s schedules without having to send a million emails back and forth!

Know Your Numbers

In our business, we're big fans of financial literacy and accountability. Knowing your numbers is an essential aspect of building a successful business and inherent responsibility for any entrepreneur. 

What you focus on grows, so pay attention to your money.

We use Bench for our bookkeeping. It's simple, elegant and saves us so many hours that would otherwise be spent neck-deep in receipts on the other side of a spreadsheet.

Each month our transactions are automatically imported into Bench and we get on-demand financial reports. We even enjoy opening up our profit and loss statement to review each month. When tax time comes around, we are up to date and ready to go. And this is what Financial Empowerment feels like.

Use this link to save 20% off your Bench Accounting plan for the first six months