![]() ![]() What generation are you in if you don’t want to say how old you are? He’s such a failure.” It’s funny because the opposite thing happened and they were like, “You’re so inspirational.” I was like, “Really? I just talked about how much my life sucked.” Maybe I should tell my story about all these different things that I tried doing that didn’t work so other people won’t have to make the same mistakes.” At first I thought people would be like, “This guy, Leonard, he’s such a loser. I’ve tried different ventures, tried to get back with my ex-girlfriend, tried to do all these different things that none of them worked. You can always serve as a bad example.” Right before I even started writing, I was like, “Bad example? That’s me. Someone once told me, “Leonard, no one’s absolutely useless. I was writing about anything and everything mostly about my life. I saw you wrote a thousand plus articles in 2015 so maybe that’s a good start. I started writing and within six months of writing, it was pretty crazy because I picked up about two million reads on my content. That didn’t make something work out too quickly either. I went back to school but school is a long-term plan and I needed help immediately. I didn’t get a raise and I was like, “How long do I want to live this way?” At that time, I made a decision to go out there and make a change. I was like, “Now what do I do? I can’t have lunch anymore.” I can’t give out the entertainment or else I’ll go crazy. What happened was my taxes raised about $80 a month and that’s what I was using to buy my $1.63 quesadilla at the cafeteria at work. I have about $100 a month that I could spend on entertainment, which in Los Angeles isn’t that much. I was earning a little more than the minimum wage but I had to take the bus to work and take the bus home. How bad was it and what turned you into wanting to make a change?īack in 2013, when I was sick and tired of being sick and tired, the reason for that is because I was working at American Honda. You said you were sick and tired of being sick and tired. I read a Forbes article on you and a few other things that were really fascinating. He’s one of the most prolific voices of his generation. He’s a managing partner of Influence Tree, a personal branding accelerator based in Southern California. He helps people learn how to turn their careers based on what he learned from his experience. Now, he has over 10 million readers, over 250,000 social followers and he’s featured in leading media publications. He had to work his way up from the bottom. He used to be at the bottom and almost went homeless. I am with Leonard Kim who is a firm believer that where you are today is exactly where you’re supposed to be based on the decisions you’ve made. Listen to the podcast here: A Heart Based Business: Humanizing Entrepreneurs with Leonard Kim and Terri Levine We’re going to see what she does to help people. We’re also going to talk to Terri Levine. You’ve probably seen him on Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, the list goes on and on. Leonard Kim is known for turning his life around. ![]() Terri Levine shares the steps of putting heart into your business. When you give value and knowledge to your clients, the next decision they make is to work with you. But this makes connections feel mechanical in a sense, which is not bad, but there is always that choice to be a heart based business. Business owners and entrepreneurs can reach clients at the click of a button. The technology of the internet is really amazing in ways of making people connect to each other. Leonard Kim helps these people set their career on all sides possible to elevate their brand and make them look human instead of looking perfect so that they can connect and build working relationships. Once these people are seen as thought leaders in their industry, they start to get attention and recognition. Behind high level companies are faces and names of people who built it who wouldn’t be recognized with proper personal and corporate branding.
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