Daily Inspire
Get weekday encouragement and weekend inspiration with Tanya Moushi, a six-figure solopreneur with over a decade of experience in the digital world. She is the author of Love is the Business Plan, an advisor for 6-cities in the USA, and a big-time advocate for Good Business. Through her writing, Tanya shares her own journey of building a portfolio of business as a mid-thirties woman, and provides emotional support and encouragement to entrepreneurs with the mission of inspiring them to create more values-driven business.
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Grab a cup of coffee. This is the Weekend Edition. *** What Makes a "Good Business"?Today marks 10 years since my business was born. It's been the way I've sustained myself, met extraordinary people, traveled, provided employment and experiences to others, paid for families' hard times, helped out friends, and earned the privilege of helping so many others start their own business. All the while, it's been extraordinary fun. Even the struggles, which is how I know it's right. To me, business is busy-ness––what keeps you busy. And I've been very conscious not just about what keeps me busy but how it does. What do I want to be doing? I always wanted to be learning and building, and this next phase I want to be learning and leveraging. That means reflecting on what I've done and pulling out the most helpful bits like this: In 2015, I gave a talk called The Human Side of Web about the 5 virtues I use to design a Good Business: Gratitude, Empathy, Care, Kindness, and Optimism. For short, we called this the GECKO model and I've used it to help hundreds of startups big and small. Like raising people, you can build values into a business––which is exactly what the GECKO model does. But when it comes to choosing what to do or what kind of business to start, with so many options in the world (a good problem), it's difficult to know where to start. So to keep things easy, I tell people to look at the 3Ps of Designing Good Business, the sort of prequel to the GECKO model:
All three of these––in that order––are required. 📈 Behind the Business: The 100X MethodMy friend Josh Spector shared a method for deciding what business to start and I've heard something similar from other top creators. It's called the 100x method. Check it out in the video above and if you're so inclined to subscribe, it would help me out so much. I just started a Youtube Challenge with a bunch of tech bros and I want to show them what women in tech can do. The TL;DR of the video is this: be willing to fall 100 times, make 100 stupid videos, and write 100 bad short stories because 100 times is the minimum it takes. May you fail fast, friends. Cheers! Love this ❤️❤️❤️
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Tanya Moushi ("moo-shee"),
Moushi & Co. | Daily Inspire
Designing Good Business
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Daily Inspire
Get weekday encouragement and weekend inspiration with Tanya Moushi, a six-figure solopreneur with over a decade of experience in the digital world. She is the author of Love is the Business Plan, an advisor for 6-cities in the USA, and a big-time advocate for Good Business. Through her writing, Tanya shares her own journey of building a portfolio of business as a mid-thirties woman, and provides emotional support and encouragement to entrepreneurs with the mission of inspiring them to create more values-driven business.