Living DRASTIC with Toni Harris Taylor
02/01/21 • 45 min
#033: How do you move forward in a crisis? How do you master the tenacity to keep walking past the dark cloud? Sometimes you have to take some drastic baby steps because we all have adversities, and it is how you handle yours that differentiates you.
In this episode of Beyond the Culture with Dr. David M. Walker, we have Toni Harris Taylor, an international speaker/trainer. She is also a certified sales and marketing coach and a certified networker also known as ‘the networking queen’. Her brand is about taking drastic steps like networking and speaking to be successful.
Listen in to learn how to dig deep and find what’s within you to come out of adversity a winner. You will also learn the power of being drastic to build and scale your business.
“Embrace the change because you can’t change the change.”- Toni [7:38]
What you will learn in this episode:
· [2:21] Toni talks about her TV show Drastic Results with Toni Harris Taylor which was inspired by entrepreneurship.
· [4:31] She narrates her diverse childhood and her personal life and entrepreneurial experiences.
· [12:27] Teaching entrepreneurs how to use relationships building skills like speaking and effective following-up to grow their business.
· [15:52] The power of being drastic in your sales and marketing to grow and sustain your business.
· [17:37] She explains in detail what Drastic Results training and coaching is about.
· [21:45] The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people, listening to positive people, and digging from within to overcome when going through adversity.
· [27:54] Toni describes her mom as her motivator and entrepreneurial inspiration as a 40-year entrepreneur.
· [30:29] Why divorcing her first husband is her biggest personal regret and failing to start business earlier as her professional regret.
· [36:10] Her networking organization for bringing entrepreneurs together to build relationships and bring each other referrals.
· [39:02] Toni advises people to keep moving through the cloud without getting stuck.
Relevant Links:
· Website:
· https://www.drasticresultswithtoniharristaylor.com/
· https://www.drasticresultstraining.com/
· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toniharristaylor/
Books Mentioned:
· The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs by Hal Elrod
· Strategic Entrepreneurship by Toni Harris Taylor
#033: How do you move forward in a crisis? How do you master the tenacity to keep walking past the dark cloud? Sometimes you have to take some drastic baby steps because we all have adversities, and it is how you handle yours that differentiates you.
In this episode of Beyond the Culture with Dr. David M. Walker, we have Toni Harris Taylor, an international speaker/trainer. She is also a certified sales and marketing coach and a certified networker also known as ‘the networking queen’. Her brand is about taking drastic steps like networking and speaking to be successful.
Listen in to learn how to dig deep and find what’s within you to come out of adversity a winner. You will also learn the power of being drastic to build and scale your business.
“Embrace the change because you can’t change the change.”- Toni [7:38]
What you will learn in this episode:
· [2:21] Toni talks about her TV show Drastic Results with Toni Harris Taylor which was inspired by entrepreneurship.
· [4:31] She narrates her diverse childhood and her personal life and entrepreneurial experiences.
· [12:27] Teaching entrepreneurs how to use relationships building skills like speaking and effective following-up to grow their business.
· [15:52] The power of being drastic in your sales and marketing to grow and sustain your business.
· [17:37] She explains in detail what Drastic Results training and coaching is about.
· [21:45] The importance of surrounding yourself with the right people, listening to positive people, and digging from within to overcome when going through adversity.
· [27:54] Toni describes her mom as her motivator and entrepreneurial inspiration as a 40-year entrepreneur.
· [30:29] Why divorcing her first husband is her biggest personal regret and failing to start business earlier as her professional regret.
· [36:10] Her networking organization for bringing entrepreneurs together to build relationships and bring each other referrals.
· [39:02] Toni advises people to keep moving through the cloud without getting stuck.
Relevant Links:
· Website:
· https://www.drasticresultswithtoniharristaylor.com/
· https://www.drasticresultstraining.com/
· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toniharristaylor/
Books Mentioned:
· The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs by Hal Elrod
· Strategic Entrepreneurship by Toni Harris Taylor
Previous Episode
"We Have A Failure to Communicate": The Power of Using Your Voice with Star Bobatoon
#032: How many times do you use your voice to tell your story? Your story is who you are and can only be heard when you learn to effectively communicate. Life is about who you are and every moment is important and should be told with pride, not pieces that make others happy.
In this episode of Beyond the Culture with Dr. David M. Walker, we have Star Bobatoon, Esq., an award-winning international speaker, a presentation coach, and a trainer. She has over a decade of experience in performing on stage, television, and the big screen. She has another decade of experience as an employment attorney. Star is a trained speaker and trained with the world-renowned motivation speaker Les Brown and is also an author of three books.
Star shares her life story, which is filled with many moments of adversity, and how each time she took control and became an even better person. Listen in to learn the importance of faith when things don’t seem to work even if it means using other’s beliefs until you get yours.
“In every situation, we have the ability to choose which way we are going to go.”- Star [25:36]
What you will learn in this episode:
· [1:46] Star explains when and how she became a child star and why she decided to hide her gift for many years to make peace with her family.
· [8:30] The racial disparities that existed when Star was younger and in the TV world which she became more aware of as she grew older.
· [13:11] How learning her son had Duchenne muscular dystrophy- an incurable deadly disease- changed her.
· [18:40] Why she wrote her first book ‘I hate muscular dystrophy’ to help parents deal with children with life-altering diseases.
· [21:03] The power of belief when you do not have a reason to believe.
· [28:23] Star explains when she decided to do public speaking under the mentorship of Les Brown.
· [34:36] The importance of communication- seeing, hearing, and validating everyone’s story to be understood.
· [40:10] She talks about her book ‘STARPoints’. What it entails, and how it came about.
· [44:40] Star talks about the choices she would regret but has instead become part of her life.
· [46:46] Learn to use this unprecedented time to set the precedent yourself.
Relevant Links:
· Website: https://www.starbobatoon.com/
· LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/starbobatoon/
· Email: [email protected]
Star’s Books:
· I Hate Muscular Dystrophy: Loving A Child with A Life-Altering Disease
· STARPoints: 31 Strategies to Illuminate Your Life Vols. I & II
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