“You could be in dire straights, I’ve been there, but you can pick yourself up. Make it happen for you.”
Hard times are an unfortunate part of life that most everyone goes through. These difficult situations look different for everyone and leave different effects on our lives. No one enjoys dealing with the tough stuff and sometimes it even feels like there’s nothing you even can do but accept the hand that has been dealt to you. The good news is that there’s always hope and a light at the end of the tunnel. You CAN make changes to your life and environment and go on to find success despite these hurdles. After overcoming a bad situation, today’s guest turned her negative experience into a passion and motivation to help others in similar positions.
If HR were to be a little rock-n-roll, a little therapy, a little attorney-ish, heart driven and folded in with honesty, high-quality work and laughter that would be our guest today LeiLani Quiray. She does HR for small to medium sized businesses who don’t know what they don’t know, who don’t want to find out the hard way what they don’t know, and who want someone who isn’t going to wag their HR-finger at them for the not-knowing. Some fully outsource the entire function to LeiLani, others call when they have questions, and others have her jump in on projects like Employee Handbooks, Performance Management strategies, HR CheckUps (aka the company’s HR health), Investigations or any HR issue/problem/complaint/mystery they have. And ya know what? She freakin’ loves it. She loves HR. On top of all that she has built a social enterprise that gives back to charity. She donates 10% of her profits to charity. She donates her time to various nonprofits to help those out of work get the confidence and skills to get back on their feet. Doing her part to change the world.
Check out this great episode to find out how to make the shift from having “just enough” money, learn about making changes and how to inspire others with your past, and understand the balance of using your emotional strength on others while still rejuvenating yourself. Find the video below!
In This Episode, You’ll Learn About:
- [5:30] LeiLani’s Money Story of Always Having Just Enough
- [8:45] Visualization and the Holistic Approach of Overcoming
- [13:40] The Marriage Between HR and Philanthropy
- [19:30] Inspiring Others and Volunteering with Working Wardrobes
- [23:20] Ending the Look of Disbelief
- [29:20] Recovering from a Downward Spiral
- [31:55] Change is Instant
- [36:00] How LinkedIn Reconnected LeiLani to Someone She’d Helped in the Past
- [41:20] Using Up Your Emotional Strength as an Entrepreneur
- [43:45] Humility, Honesty, and Rejuvenation
- [47:00] LeiLani’s Business and How She Can Help You
- [59:15] How to Make the Shift
Watch the episode here:
Quotes:
“Be the change you want to see in the world.”
“Such a dark place, but that wasn’t the end. I got out.”
“Be the change now.”
“Through meditation, through building the business, through my volunteer work…in that process it came to me, you’re here to inspire people to do better, to be better, to achieve their goals, to go for it.”
“I walked away from that like ‘that’s what I do that for.’ You teach these people and then off they go and you just hope they do what they want to do and they make a good life for themselves, whatever that looks like. That was an amazing, inspiring piece.”
“You built this just by building relationships and caring about other people.”
“I’m achieving things that are important to me, and I turn back to [my past self] and say ‘pick your chin up.”
Links and Resources:
The 6 Figure Academy YouTube Channel
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