Living the Entrepreneurial Dream
12/31/24 • 32 min
Are you an entrepreneur feeling trapped by your business, working endless hours with little time for life? Join Ral West's inspiring journey from running a Hawaiian holiday travel business to becoming a multi-industry success story. Discover how she transformed her company from a struggling start-up to a thriving enterprise sold to Alaska Airlines, and then pivoted through cruise ships and real estate investments.
Ral reveals her six critical business principles: systems, leverage, team-building, customer service, performance tracking, and passionate purpose. Her key message? Work on your business, not in it. By creating robust systems and a strong team, entrepreneurs can build businesses that support their lifestyle dreams, not constrain them.
Learn how calculated risks, homework, and unwavering belief can turn entrepreneurial challenges into remarkable opportunities for growth and personal fulfilment.
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Are you an entrepreneur feeling trapped by your business, working endless hours with little time for life? Join Ral West's inspiring journey from running a Hawaiian holiday travel business to becoming a multi-industry success story. Discover how she transformed her company from a struggling start-up to a thriving enterprise sold to Alaska Airlines, and then pivoted through cruise ships and real estate investments.
Ral reveals her six critical business principles: systems, leverage, team-building, customer service, performance tracking, and passionate purpose. Her key message? Work on your business, not in it. By creating robust systems and a strong team, entrepreneurs can build businesses that support their lifestyle dreams, not constrain them.
Learn how calculated risks, homework, and unwavering belief can turn entrepreneurial challenges into remarkable opportunities for growth and personal fulfilment.
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The UnNoticed Entrepreneur - Living the Entrepreneurial Dream
Transcript
Jim James (00:00)
We are going to a place called Sitka, which is in Alaska, just outside Seattle. And we're going to talk about living the dream. My guest today has been an entrepreneur for over 40 years. She is a very successful entrepreneur, also a mother of two amazing children. And she has also managed to rebuild and reinvent herself after she's exited a business where she charted over 30,000 seats
from Alaska to Hawaii every year. Who knew so many people went from Hawaii to Alaska e
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