EP333: Carice Anderson - How To Build Relationships For A Sustainable Bookkeeping Business

“You need to surround yourself from an inclusion
standpoint, with people who fill in the gaps and complement the
skills you don’t have so that you don’t have those blind
spots.”
-Carice Anderson
 
Building a business is never easy, and yet we often make it so
much harder for ourselves by believing we can’t be truly
successful unless we are the ones doing everything. This kind of
thinking only leaves us with skill and knowledge gaps we didn’t
even know we had.
 
Being intelligent alone isn't enough. There will always be things
we are drawn to and things we don’t like doing. What matters is
the ability to recognize when we have gaps and fill them with
people who complement the skills we lack.
 
Carice Anderson, a workplace diversity and inclusion expert and
author, is this episode’s featured guest. She has spent her
career working to understand why even after achieving so much
academically, there were still so many gaps that could only be
filled by the experiences of others.
 
She speaks powerfully about the need to build connections between
people. To work on your relationships with others, not just in
them. To think in the long term about people, not just in the
short term to meet a deadline or push a product.
 
If you are trying to go it alone and finding that maybe you don’t
even know what questions you should be asking, this is the
episode to get you thinking about how a mindset shift might open
up a world of possibility.
 
During this interview, you'll learn...



The value of taking ownership of your client’s
problems


How to work on your relationships, not just in
them


The importance of creating a support network for
success



To find out more about Carice,
click here.
 
Connect with her on LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram
and Facebook
 
You can buy Carice’s book here.
 
Time Stamps
     
01:42 - Carice talks about her career journey
03:52 - Learning to adapt when things don’t go your way
08:10 - Overcoming personal obstacles
11:13 - Carice talks about her book
15:28 - Working on your relationships, not in them
18:55 - Tips for building healthy relationships
25:40 - Introversion vs extraversion; creating connections in a
different way
28:20 - Ownership, taking responsibility & initiative
33:35 - No one becomes a success alone, it takes a
community
36:40 - Learning more about Carice