270: Natasha Miller - You Trust Them, They Trust You
Natasha Miller isn\u2019t your average CEO. She sits at the helm of Entire Productions, which has been an Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America for three years in a row!
Natasha is the author of the soon-to-be-released book, Relentless: Homeless Teen to Achieving The Entrepreneur Dream. She also has an excellent background in music as a violinist.
Natasha studied entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School and MIT. She now resides in San Francisco, where she is a member and is on the regional board of EO (Entrepreneurs\u2019 Organization). In this episode, we get to pull right from her expertise on building trust as a leader.
Dive right in, grab this wisdom, and let\u2019s learn what happens when you give your trust to your team and receive trust in return!
On this episode:
- Learn how learning music saved Natasha\u2019s life and how playing the violin at a young age shaped Natasha into the leader she is today.
- Natasha gives an analogy of how leading an orchestra is like leading an organization. How being a concertmaster solidified Natasha\u2019s leadership skills.
- Natasha shares how her role model, a female conductor, stood out because she presented herself and how she believed and inspired her students.
- Big organizations tend to suffer from forgetting about their own people. Natasha talks about how people are the most critical piece of your organization.
- Leaders need to be changing and understanding what\u2019s happening around them. The future is here now.
- Natasha shares how you need to hire people that you trust implicitly. When you trust them, they trust you.
Key Takeaways:
- Leadership can come with a lot of pressure and push back
- Leaders sometimes have to make uncomfortable decisions
- How you present yourself can make a difference to how you\u2019re received
- The people in your organization are like gems that need to be protected
- The future is now, not tomorrow
- When you trust your people, the reward is trust in you
Tweetable Quotes:
\u201cThe people in your organization are the most precious gems to protect and develop.\u201d - Natasha Miller
\u201cI think bigger success happens when you\u2019re able to let go of that mask and that ego.\u201d - Natasha Miller
Connect with Natasha on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Scale, grow and optimize your business by going to https://www.officialnatashamiller.com/.
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