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Adii Pienaar of www.adii.me is a serial entrepreneur in every sense of the term. He is a former founder of WooThemes, sold reportedly for over 30 million dollars and more recently sold his latest startup for more millions of dollars.
He's also a family man, dad and writer.
In his most recent book, Life Profitability, he says he almost lost everything while chasing his entrepreneurial success.
Which is part of the reason he wrote the book… to provide a new perspective for becoming self-aware, recognising your values and understanding your impact.
He says it's possible to have a business that supports your lifestyle, not only a life to support your business.
When setting up this interview, I asked if he feels what he has to share would be relevant to photographers who mostly have small businesses and will never make a million dollars but do what they do for the love of being creative and using photography to support a lifestyle?
The answer was a resounding YES; my book is perfect for photographers in business.
Here's some more of what we cover in the interview:
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The most meaningful experiences that we can have as individuals is very, very likely with people outside the business and doing things that aren't work. – Adii Pienaar
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What is your big takeaway?
Following this interview, I’d love to know if you're taking anything away from what Adii shared. Is there something you heard that excited or motivated you to the point where you thought, yeah, I'm going to do that! If so, let me know by leaving your thoughts in the comments below, let me know what your takeaways were, what you plan to implement in your business as a result of what you heard in today's episode.
I would want to get to a point in my life where money itself was not the only determining factor in whether I could or could not do something. – Adii Pienaar
If you have any questions that I missed, a specific question you’d like to ask Adii or if you just want to say thanks for coming on the show, feel free to add them in the comments area below.
iTunes Reviews and Shout-outs
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Secondly, iTunes is the biggest search engine when it comes to podcasts and it's your reviews and ratings that help other photographers find PhotoBizX. More listeners mean more interviews and ultimately a better show.
Meditating for me was developing that muscle that is mindfulness. – Adii Pienaar
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Links to people, places and things mentioned in this episode:
Life Profitability by Adii Pienaar
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Thank you!
Thanks again for listening and thanks to Adii for coming on to share his thoughts, ideas and experience on what it's like to go from having an all-consuming business to the detriment of everything else in life to completely turning things around to the point where he has a business to supports a lifestyle.
If you are able to nurture and invest in all those other places in your life (apart from work), you are likely a better entrepreneur, business owner, practitioner. – Adii Pienaar
If you have any suggestions, comments or questions about this episode, please be sure to leave them below in the comment section of this post, and if you liked the episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post!
That’s it for me this week, hope everything is going well for you in life and business!
Thanks and speak soon
Andrew
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