Entrepreneur's Mindset , How to Build a Strong Brand, Turn Anxiety into Fuel with Swish Goswami |E13

22/02/2023 1h 6min

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Episode Overview: How do you organize your time to get all more done. How to delegate the important decisions. How do you let go on control and trust your team. Practice over theory.  Being a good founder vs being a good manager.  How to create at thriving company culture ? The not-so-sexy reality of entrepreneurship . Fighting loneliness . Common Mistakes in starting a company . How to gauge, if an employee is a good fit?  Is anyone born to be an entrepreneur? Antidote to imposter syndrome. Swish’s first stint at entrepreneurship. Which 20% of things you do that bring you 80% of your success?  Moment that changed your life forever.  The Power of Switching off.  Origins of your company- How did TRUFAN become Surf?  Future challenges for companies in data collection or the death of cookies.  Swish’s purpose. Taking the pressure off from needing to have it all figured out. From severe speech impediment to a 4x Ted speaker.  Your speaking style . Authenticity as a super power for a public speaker.  Crafting your story, creating your brand.  Importance of community. Tips to grow your online community.  The best platform to build your following on and how to do it.  Biggest mistakes you made and what did you learn from them. Importance of having a hobby and small wins everyday . Putting yourself out of comfort zone.  Learning to live with and using your anxiety as a strength instead of trying to eradicate it. Importance of having honest conversations about your anxieties.  Swish’s most important life lessons . How to grow your network . Lex Friedman, The Dune, Harry Potter, and setting attainable goals and keeping yourself accountable. Swish’s recipe for happiness.   
About Guest: Swish Goswami, 25, is the CEO of Surf, a tech company providing brands a better way to engage and understand consumers while compensating consumers for their data. Surf’s revolutionary browser extension passively rewards people for their everyday browsing and helps them save when shopping with their favourite brands. Surf’s brand division provides zero party data and commerce enablement opportunities to some of the world’s biggest brands like Netflix, NBA, Sony Music, L’Oreal, Electronic Arts, etc. Surf’s vision is to build an equitable data economy and the company has made two acquisitions and raised over $6M to date (from several NBA players, unicorn founders and venture firms).   Swish has given four TEDx talks and is the bestselling author of “The Young Entrepreneur”, a book encouraging and teaching students to build a business while in school. Through his angel fund AGEX, Swish is an investor/advisor in popular companies like FaZe Clan, Wombo, Othership and the League of Innovators. Swish enjoys speaking about entrepreneurship, data ownership and mental health around the world under North America’s prestigious bureau Speakers Spotlight. For his entrepreneurial and philanthropic achievements, Swish was inducted into Plan Canada's Top 20 under 20 and Bay Street Bull’s 30 under 30, recognized as LinkedIn’s Top Voice and Startup Canada's Young Entrepreneur of the Year and awarded the United Nation’s Outstanding Youth Leadership award.   
Find Swish on https://ca.linkedin.com/in/swishgoswami 
https://www.instagram.com/goswish 
https://www.joinsurf.com/
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