Jamie Meyer is the traveling C.E.O of Nine Carat. A Global Business Agency that builds, recalibrates, and transforms Businesses into the greatest and most successful versions of themselves. Founded in Brisbane, Australia. Jamie now takes Nine Carat around the World helping People and Businesses enhance their Success. Since its official founding in February 2019, Nine Carat has worked with Businesses in many shapes and sizes. From Entrepreneurs and Small Companies to Multi-Generational Corporations.
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Here we sit down with Jamie, to know a bit more about her journey as a business coach.
Q. What inspired you to become an entrepreneur?
Jamie: I don’t think I was inspired to become an Entrepreneur. I was inspired to do more. I was inspired and frustrated by the wasted potential I could see in Companies. I didn’t think about becoming an Entrepreneur, I thought about how and where I could position myself to do more, help more, achieve more for People. That translates into being an Entrepreneur I suppose. But it was never about what I was. It was about what I could do more of.
Q. How did you get started?
Jamie: I was the upstart 14-year-old, casual employee, that you hired. Who would give people well beyond my year’s unsolicited advice on what to do to improve something? How we could make things better. As I worked through my career, it didn’t matter the position I held, I would always bring an element of this to the table.
Eventually, I become frustrated with only being able to truly impact the Company I was working for. Despite being able to see how other Companies we were integrated with could just make small tweaks to enhance everything about their Business. It was that frustration and the desire to no longer stand idly by and witness such waste that incited the idea of Freelance Contracting me as an individual and then evolved into Nine Carat.
Q. What was your biggest startup challenge? What steps did you take to overcome it? What did you learn?
Jamie: That nothing is fixed. And even I had the same level of potential to explore that those other Companies did. What simply started out as a Freelance Job for myself has evolved into so much more. For the Businesses, I work with and as a mission in life. Learning to be flexible and grow into that expanded vision has been thrilling and terrifying at the same time. I decided to become a Company that works Globally overnight and very early on in our life cycle. A decision like that is fraught with challenges and opportunities to learn something new. I certainly was not prepared for the patience one has to have when expanding into such a vast Marketplace. I stayed focused on small steps to create and understand how we would show up for Businesses in that space, connecting with people and Companies to expand our Network. It was also a very immediate lesson is understanding that if you insist on waiting until you are ready, you will never be. And it pays to take the leap. The perfect time to do anything is when it makes you the most uncomfortable. That is when you know you’ve struck gold!
Q. What is the Most Memorable Thing You’ve Done Since you Started your Business?
Jamie: Oh that ranges so significantly from the smallest of things to the largest. Our Brand Name and Logo Design is a conversation I will never forget. Seeing who the Graphic Designer and cherished neighbor envisioned me to be. Was an enlightening experience. Interviewing Ron Carson of The Carson Group and a dear friend of mine. About money, success, and mindset. While living in the Bahamas. A road trip to the southeast corner of the United States. Signing each new Client. Watching their lightbulb moments and everything come together for them like a jigsaw puzzle once they see all of the pieces. Never giving up, even on the days when it would have been so easy to.
Q. What is one book you recommend, and why?
Jamie: The Go-Giver by Bob Burg. Hands down a book that inspires Business to be better for People, People to be better for People. And a written expression of the success I believe we can achieve if we look at working within Business from a different perspective.
Q. What are your top 3 favourite online apps, tools, or resources and what do you love about them?
- Voice Memos, makes talking to myself about ideas and concepts so much easier, Laughs. Keeps a record of those things that I need without having to look for a pen and paper.
- Spotify, simply because I love music.
- YouTube, need to know something. Can’t remember something. Want to learn something. There isn’t anything you can’t find on YouTube. Travelling I use it as my Personal Trainer to keep my workouts interesting.
Q. In terms of legacy, what is the mark you’d like to leave on the world?
Jamie: That we worked to help build a world that is both more effective and sustainable. With a higher level in understanding of the potential we all have and how to capitalise on it.
To offer an alternative to Society’s collective awareness, one which is focused on Human-centric Development and how much further it can take us.
And revealing just how much we underestimate ourselves and one another. By designing platforms through Business and Education which unleash individuals potential. And highlights a choice we can make to do things differently.
Q. In one sentence, what’s the best advice you’d give to someone just starting out on their entrepreneurial journey?
Jamie: Be your own hero. Realise that everything you admire in others is something you already possess. Bring it to the surface and refine it until it’s a strength.
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