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Bobbi Brown on managing fear in your career

From the course: Career Advice from Some of the Biggest Names in Business

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Bobbi Brown on managing fear in your career

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- You must have entrepreneurs who are constantly asking you for how to either break into the beauty space or just how to be a good entrepreneur. What kind of advice do you give? - I am all about telling them, "that's great, "I'm glad you want to do it, "but you have to know what you want to do. "And when you do it, make sure it's feasible, "it's profitable, and people actually like it, "and that's your research." But for other entrepreneurs, and I have a bunch that I mentor, I'm constantly listening to them freak out and worry and anxious, and things aren't working, things aren't working. And I always do the same thing. Stop. Let's just, for a second, pat yourself on the back that we're actually having this conversation, that you have this business, and just push yourself back sometimes and look at everything and then just try one thing. That's not working anymore. Okay, try something else. Instead of, there's a lot of angst that goes into being an entrepreneur, so you have to learn how to manage it. I learned because I have a husband that is the one that says, "okay, calm down. "Let's just talk about it and look at it." So now that I'm experienced, I could tell that to the young people that I mentor. - Great. And then, any career advice that you give people, let's say, that don't want to be an entrepreneur, but just trying to make it in the working world today. What do you tell people? - Honestly, guys, you have to be on time, you have to be honest, and you can't be afraid, meaning you can't be afraid to say, "I don't know how to do something," or "I'm having trouble doing this. "I could use your advice on this." You have to be able to be more confident and not be so afraid to ask the questions. It's the people that pretend they know what they're doing and don't that is a bigger liability than the people that are actually saying, "I'm not sure." - I'm sorry, did you say be on time? Was that the first part of that? - Be on time. Yes, yes, be on time, wherever you're going to go, be on time, and you know what? Be a little bit early. Be a little bit early. Like all those things, don't be running in the second a meeting is starting. Be on time.

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