Podcasts about tiny devotions

Diana is an authenticity driven entrepreneur who is constantly seeking, creating, developing, growing and learning. She is passionate about business, personal development, wellness, travel, spirituality, productivity and maximizing her time and life to live exceptionally across all facets: faith, relationships, business and health. Her sensitivity coupled with her entrepreneurial mindset allows her to see opportunities through a unique lense leading to an overflow of ideas, reiterations and progress led execution. Being very unsure of her career path in her youth, she became even more unclear after completing law school. Pushed to find her passions she started her first company Tiny Devotions Inc. after taking a sabbatical in Bali post-graduating. Being keen to identify niches – Diana literally started an industry with her company selling mala beads and intentional accessories. Now with hundreds of competitors, Tiny Devotions founded in 2009 is still the innovative leader in the space. After dabbling with many other small ventures including angel investing and business coaching, Diana started Cole + Parker with her now Husband Jeff House. Cole + Parker is a social enterprise and luxury sock company that creates bold, colourful socks for leaders, legends and entrepreneurs. Jeff and Diana have recently sold the company. After marrying Jeff their union also led Diana to be involved in many facets of real estate including multiple development projects, an asset management portfolio as well as assisting with complex real estate transactions. Her real estate experience coupled with her entrepreneurial success led her to seek out private financing lending deals which is now one of her current focuses. Last but not least, Diana is extremely passionate about startups and entrepreneurial ventures of all sorts. She has been part of the Canadian Tech Accelerator for Cole + Parker and is always actively seeking out unique and high potential angel investing deals. Having come from a very entrepreneurial family, the buzz of business, startups and deals is part of her DNA and a constant adventure no matter where she is in the world on her extensive travels with her husband. Diana has also been honoured locally as a top 20 under 40 recipient, as well as nationally as part of the W100, one of the top female entrepreneurs in Canada.

Ange has spent the majority of her life learning about the body in terms of Fitness, Nutrition & Wellness. She tries to approach every aspect of life in a healthy way. Ange is the founder of the HOL:FIT Wellness community, a Holistic Personal Trainer + Nutritionist, an Online Holistic Health Teacher, Podcaster of The Holistic Health Diary, and Essential Oil Guru and an Ambassador for Lululemon and Tiny Devotions. She is passionate about helping people to access their most Optimal Health and Power. She has created a variety of online classes & programs to lead people through that journey.

Diana House is a lawyer turned serial entrepreneur who is obsessed with empowering entrepreneurs around their business finances. She has been featured as one of the top female entrepreneurs in Canada by the w100 and also recognized as a top 20 under 40 entrepreneur by Business London. Diana has built a highly profitable 7 figure company, been on Dragon's Den (the Canadian version of Shark Tank), done a successful crowdsourcing campaign and sold two businesses in the e-commerce space. She now works with her fellow entrepreneur husband on Fast Forward Ventures a company focussed on private financing and commercial real estate investing. Diana currently consults 1-on-1 with entrepreneurs on their business’ finances and is writing "the" book and course on entrepreneur finance "by an entrepreneur." What do you think has contributed to your success? Diana would like to say it was talent but admits it was grind. She is not one of those people that think you need to grind your whole life and work 60-80 hours a week. But she got to where she is today through hard work and determination. When her companies were in start-up mode she worked her butt off. There are certain seasons where you need to have laser focus and, determination and do whatever it takes. So let’s talk about your first business and the grind there. What did that really look like when you were first starting out? After applying for creative roles and not getting a single interview Diana was struggling. This was her time to get out there and start adding value to the world, but no-one wanted her. One day she went to a job fair and instead of applying for a job, she ended up applying for a business grant. She received a $3000 to start a new company. The day she launched her e-commerce website she paid for the site in a single day and did over $10K in sales. This company was Tiny Devotions which sold mala beads and yoga inspired jewelry. This was the first company to make a product in this niche in North America. After you decided not to become a layer you started making mala beads. How did that come about? After law school, knew she didn’t want to be a lawyer but didn’t have a better plan. So she sold all her belongings and fled to Bali where she signed up for a yoga teacher training. In Bali, she started to look for a business idea. She came up with 3 ideas, import art from Bali, do yoga teaching and retreats or create yoga jewelry. She had followed the rise of Lululemon and could see that yoga was growing in popularity and an industry was springing up around it. Where did money fit into her mindset? Diana knew she was going back to Canada from Australia in 2 months and that that was when reality was to set in. She felt going to Bali was her last opportunity to do something crazy before going back to Canada and she even went into debt in order to go. When she went back to Canada she did a legal placement while living with her parents. After a talk from her father, she realized she needed to minimize her discretionary spending and pay off her debt. After that experience, she decided to learn to manage her money and never be in debt again. How did you find customers when you launched? What worked 10 years ago would not work now. She used social media and influencer marketer – before influencer marketing was a thing. She did this by sending products to influential yoga teachers. With her current company, which she started 3 months ago, she is not yet doing paid marketing. Although she has the money for it, at this stage in the company she is leveraging relationships she has built over the years to get access to audiences. What has been your experience with exits? The second company she created was actually sold first. This was an e-commerce sock company that was also a social enterprise company. It loaned profits from the socks to entrepreneurs in Cuba. Tiny Devotions became successful very quickly, but Diana struggled to feel in alignment with the business for many years. It took 2 years to sell the business and she had 20 deals fall apart before she was able to sell the company. Now looking back, she realizes she should have started the process of selling the company as soon as she started to fall out of alignment with it. What advice would you give to someone who wants to make a transition because they are out of alignment? Having awareness is really important and coaches can really help with that. Diana worked with career transition coach Rikke Hansen for a year when she decided to sell Tiny Devotions. She also points out that it is important to take baby steps and that trial runs can be extremely helpful. I’d love to hear about your current business. What are you offering? Diana has a private lending company that gives loans to people who banks won’t finance. She is also a commercial real state developer and investor. These are things she runs concurrently with her entrepreneurial ventures. Since she had experience in the finance space she decided to start providing financial consulting to entrepreneurs. She is currently started working 1 on 1 with entrepreneurs in her network, taking them through the framework she has developed over the past 10 years. In the spring she will be launching the Profit Accelerator which will be a group-based program for entrepreneurs. What do you do to maintain your level of ability to perform?  She is finding that being in startup mode, she currently has an unstoppable mindset. As a Christian, she puts her faith first, with a prayer practice and regularly going to church. She finds journaling important to be reflective and self-aware. She also likes to have a community of strong women around her to call her on her bullshit. Although she loves the grind, it can be crazy and she tries to make sure that she is able to dial it back when she needs to. What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given? The best advice she’s been given was from her neighbor, who was a very successful entrepreneur. He told her that ‘what is more important than what you do with your life, is who you spend it with’. What’s an action step that you want to offer someone listening to this podcast? She has an opt-in on her website www.dianahouse.com that has her framework – 10 profitability essentials for entrepreneurs. Outside her own stuff, if you’ve never had a coach, hire a coach. Hire a great coach and do the work to enable you to grow as fast and as big as you can. How can we get in-touch with you? WWW.DIANAHOUSE.COM Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dianapowerhouse/ Other Links: Early Exits: Exit Strategies for Entrepreneurs and Angel Investors by Basil Peters https://www.amazon.com/Early-Exits-Strategies-Entrepreneurs-Capitalists/dp/0981185517/ Samantha Wills https://www.samanthawills.com/ Lisa Messenger https://collectivehub.com/about-lisa-messenger/ Rikke Hansen rikke.me

The story of Tiny Devotions is a cautionary tale about the importance of getting out while you’re ahead.

About Diana Diana House is an entrepreneur focusing in both the e-commerce and real estate spaces. She is the founder of Tiny Devotions (www.tinydevotions.com), co-founder of Cole + Parker (www.coleandparker.co) acquired in 2016 and currently building Church (www.churchjewelry.com)  – a disruptive modern take on Christian jewelry. Diana is also a managing partner at ADJ Holdings – a real estate company primarily focused on the private lending space and is active in real estate investing.  Diana started her entrepreneurial journey after completing her law degree at Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia. She also holds a Certificate in Private Wealth Management from Chicago Booth and has completed the Ivey Executive Leadership Program. She has been honoured in the W100 as one of Canada’s top female entrepreneurs as well as Top 20 under 40 in Business London magazine.  Diana lives between London, Toronto and her various travels with her husband Jeff and their dog Coconut. Some of her career highlights have been scaling an e-commerce company to 7 figures, “doing a deal” on Dragon’s Den and hanging out with and pranking Richard Branson on Necker island.  Special Offer Use the code soulful10 to receive a 10% discount off your order. No purchase required. INSTAGRAM : https://www.instagram.com/tinydevotions/?hl=en                      :https://www.instagram.com/churchjewelry/?hl=en WEBSITES:  www.dianahouse.com                   :www.tinydevotions.om                   :www.churchjewelry.com Continue The Conversation Join us in the Sexy Soulful Success Revolution Facebook Group at www.facebook.com/groups/sexysoulfulsuccess

Title: From start to finish be a badass goddess About Heather: Heather Waxman is an Amazon best-selling author, spiritual practice coach, meditation guide, and singer-songwriter. Her work has been featured in major media outlets like Fitness Magazine, Tone It Up, The Numinous, and Tiny Devotions. Heather’s superpower is helping women clear the emotional and behavioral patterns that are blocking them from rising up into the full creative expression of themselves. She guides women through transformative spiritual practices, song, and meditation. It is Heather’s heartfelt belief that when we can clean up our thoughts and our energy bodies of negative subconscious memories and patterns, we can live truly rhythmic, aligned, and prosperous lives.  Highlights Why being anger is part of being a badass goddess Why it is essential to heal yourself first Easy things to get your morning rocking like a goddess Show notes: Heatherwaxman.com Sacred Disruptor Music Her fav’s Women, Earth and Spirit by Helen Luke Essential Oils

On today’s episode, we are joined by founder of Tiny Devotions, Diana House. Diana recently returned from a trip to Necker Island with Richard Branson. She will speak to use about her journey as an entrepreneur along with her key insights, wisdom and business mindfulness.

Diana is an authenticity driven entrepreneur who is constantly seeking, creating, developing, growing and learning. She is passionate about business, personal development, wellness, travel, spirituality, productivity and maximizing her time and life to live exceptionally across all facets: faith, relationships, business and health. Being very unsure of her career path in her youth, she became even more unclear after completing law school. Pushed to find her passions she started her first company Tiny Devotions Inc. after taking a sabbatical in Bali post-graduating. Being keen to identify niches – Diana literally started an industry with her company selling mala beads and intentional accessories. Now with hundreds of competitors, Tiny Devotions founded in 2009 is still the innovative leader in the space. Having come from a very entrepreneurial family, the buzz of business, startups and deals is part of her DNA and a constant adventure no matter where she is in the world on her extensive travels with her husband. Hear our journey and the lessons she's learned along the way. Show Links: http://www.tinydevotions.com/ http://www.dianahouse.com/ https://twitter.com/dianahouse_ PS: I want to send you a sample chapter of Ecommerce Bootcamp, absolutely free. Get it at http://ecommerce-bootcamp.com/