Episode Spotlight

It’s the middle of the day; you’re sitting in your cubicle and you’re dreaming of breaking free and escaping from your corporate job.  You return to reality swiftly when your dreams are shattered by your fears of leaving behind the familiar. You stay in your comfort zone, but feel unsatisfied.  Products, services, your pay check, and your boss serve as daily reminders of the life you could be living…and you realize: the opportunity to live your dream life is yours to claim!

Exiting your comfort zone can be quite intimidating, especially if you are not financially prepared to make this leap into the world of entrepreneurship.  Our guest, Pam Slim, a former corporate manager and entrepreneur for nearly a decade, deeply understands the questions and concerns faced by first-time entrepreneurs. Her expertise in personal and business transformation was developed through many years of consulting inside corporations such as Cisco Systems, Hewlett-Packard and Charles Schwab, where she coached thousands of executives, managers and employees.  

On this edition of StartupNation Radio, Pam outlines some of the ways you can prepare yourself financially for this transition, “Entrepreneurship, at its heart, is aligning your purpose for being on earth with a business idea so compelling that you simply must do it, despite the fears that hold you back.”

Selected Q&A transcripts from callers to StartupNation Radio

Q&A -Finding patent information

Q&A - Ideas for manufacturing and marketing a product

Q&A - Dealing with a conflicting patent

About Pam Slim

Pam Slim is a StartupNation contributing writer and an entrepreneur coach who helps frustrated creatives in corporate jobs break out and start their own businesses through Ganas Consulting and her Escape From Cubicle Nation blog. Pam has trained with “the best-known life coach in America,” New York Times bestseller and O Magazine columnist Martha Beck.