EP267: Julia Pimsleur - Creating the Right Mindset for Success

Ad Read: And that's a lot harder than it sounds, right? That sounds so easy. Okay, stay positive over— well, overcome any obstacle might not sound so easy and reach your goals. But in fact, people spend their entire lives, you know, struggling, not getting what they want, in jobs they don't like, making amounts of money they don't want, in relationships that don't make them happy, partly because they have not stopped to work on mindset, which is the foundation for everything we do. You're listening to The Successful Bookkeeper with your host, Michael Palmer. Listen each week as inspiring guests share their secrets of success to help you increase your confidence, work smarter, and build a business you love. This episode of The Successful Bookkeeper is brought to you by purebookkeeping.com. The proven system to grow your bookkeeping business. Welcome back to the Successful Bookkeeper Podcast. I'm your host, Michael Palmer, and today's show is going to be exhilarating. Our guest is an entrepreneur and author of Go Big Now, Julia Pimsleur, welcome to the show. Great to be with you, Michael. Well, it's great to have you. And I said exhilarating because we talked before we started recording about go-big mindset. And I was like exhilarated because I was excited about the conversation that we're about to have. Awesome. So before we do that, tell us about yourself and your career journey leading up to this point.

Yeah, well, you don't wind up writing a book about the go-big mindset unless you struggled with that a little bit yourself. So I'll share what happened with me is I started a business some, oh, 15 years ago when my first son was born. I had grown up bilingual in French and English and always thought that was just the best thing my parents ever did for me. It opened up doors for scholarships and living and working abroad. And so when my first son was born, I wanted to teach him French and thought I would just, you know, find a great program to teach him and go back to my job. But it turns out there was nothing on the market to teach little kids a foreign language, even though that's the age when they learn best, is 0 to 6. So after sort of complaining for about 3 months and saying, someone should really create this, this is a big missed opportunity, I finally realized that someone was me. And I launched the company called Little PIM, P-I-M. That was my language teaching company for kids while I kept my full-time job and started creating multimedia via