Discover how a 27 year old woman went from waitress to millionaire in 2 years
Date: December 13, 2015
Name: Discover how a 27 year old woman went from waitress to millionaire in 2 years
Presenter: Carey Ren
Many successful entrepreneurs have the key skills of building mindset, identifying market and attracting business partners. However, many entrepreneurs do not realize the path to get there. Vancouver Social Entrepreneurs Meetup invites Carey Ren, the Director of Jeuneese, to share her life journey in the business world. In this presentation, entrepreneurs will discover their inner path that drives their passion into business. In addition, Carey Ren will reveal her methods to transform her dream into career and how she impacts the people she loves.
Carey Ren is the Director of a leading network marketing corporation called Jeuneese. Ren has established a well recognition in Canada and mainland China. Her path inspires many young leaders to gain their financial confidence. She lives in a life of financially independence, and she gives speeches around the world to educate people who are looking for system beyond the traditional ways. Moreover, her passion in supporting charity influences her in a positive way.
Carey Ren always had a dream of becoming an entrepreneur when she was little; however, she was taught to believe the traditional education system will provide her financial sustainability. She established her first software company with other 3 partners. However, the result was not pleased. Ren shares her main downfall was over confident. She underestimated the marketing component and the company went apart. She was broke and she started to work in pub as waitress to survive. She remembered in the New Year’s Eve, everyone will be celebrating and she will be working for double pay.
The dream of becoming an entrepreneur was still in her mind. Eventually, she took the opportunity to improve the POV system in local restaurants and began her journey once again. She managed to be a part of a well network marketing company that turned her life around.
Ren believes the drive that forces her to go for that extra mile is desperation. When she was broke, she was desperate to make her life better. When people are in desperation mode, they will not care about anything beside their goals to survive. Entrepreneurs need to be bold and clear of what they really want.
Ren emphasizes a similar trait from all entrepreneurs is that they like to go out and connect with people. It is important to develop deep relationship with successful people. Entrepreneurship is like a continue learning course; entrepreneurs will learn as they go and they will never stop learning.
Ren realizes as a successful entrepreneur, it is important to know how to empty the tight schedule. When situation is critical, Ren will focus on spiritual route. Nevertheless, when situation is less critical, Ren will improve her business negotiation skills. Therefore, there is always consistent learning every single day. In Ren’s point of view, the fastest way for entrepreneurs to build that habit is to push themselves and go out there to test their stress.
Many successful entrepreneurs are able to identify the market trend and take advantage from the market. Ren will connect and follow other successful people who are at the top. Ren mentions she follows Dr. Paul Zane Pizer. His book, “Wellness Evolution”, helped her understand the future trend of Information Technology, which helped her achieving her success today. Ren recommends entrepreneurs to look at “Future Timeline” website to identify possible future trends. Picking the right trend is important. The growth of any business is depended on the generation needs. By looking at the analysis, what people want in life is basically the centre of successful business.
The key of financial success for entrepreneurs is to be at the right place at the right time. This means entrepreneurs need to leverage the wave and take advantage of existing opportunities. Many entrepreneurs will follow experts in trends; however, successful entrepreneurs will think outside of the box and get into a trend before it is out in the market.
Ren shares 5 major trends that will impact in 2016.
- Consumers are shifting to customization
- The domination of online business over retail business
- Partnership with entrepreneurs
- Eliminating the inventory method
- Utilize online platforms
Ren is currently using network marketing to add value to consumers. This method is transitional from other traditional industries and it can be creative. Many young and hungry entrepreneurs are utilizing network marketing because this platform has been revolutionized.
Ren was mentored by many different people in different countries. The key is to ask many questions. Aside from financial gain, Ren discovers she is able to meet many giants with open minded. Mentorship can be a way to execute new talents.
Questions and Answers
There are 5 important skills every entrepreneur needs to master.
- Learn how to hustle
- Learn how to sell
- Learn how to communicate
- Learn how to believe
- Learn how to be open-minded
Entrepreneurs need a desire to push them out of procrastination. Entrepreneurs need to solve people’s problems. Moreover, entrepreneurs need to choose the right communication tools to connect the right people. They need to believe themselves even though they cannot see the future. Moreover, they cannot stop and always moving into new markets.
Many entrepreneurs do not like to talk about their challenges because they understand challenges are a part of their journey. Ren shares that she felt life was compressed. There were many sleepless nights and there were many rejection and self-doubt. The difficult part was to convince others about her vision. Many friends and family members did not support her. However, Ren wants entrepreneurs to keep pursing their dreams because at the end, friends and family will come back and support them.
In the future, Ren will expand into new markets in developing countries, push her team to new level, learn the skills she lost, and involve charity work by giving back to the communities.
When people are criticizing, she will handle it by proving them wrong. Ren always believe it is good to say “No”. To develop her team culture, she tends to have 15 minute of think tank activity every day with the team to improve their states. The priority for Ren is to find the right people and lead them to the right resource.
“Focus on now, seize the moments, act, and just do it”