From Covering Floors to Covering Life Stories with Mike OKrent [Podcast] - Career Pivot

From Covering Floors to Covering Life Stories with Mike O'Krent [Podcast] - Career Pivot Scene 7 â€" Mike made an astonishing profession turn that permits him to serve ages of families in a business. In this scene, Marc interviews Mike O'Krent. Mike O'Krent, Founder of LifeStories Alive, LLC, has some expertise in making individual history recordings for families that esteem their legacy. They make family legacies in video â€" carefully aced records of biographies with individual records, photographs, and tokens of family ancestry. Marc has known Mike for around 10 years, and it has been intriguing, watching him develop his extraordinary business. Marc and Mike regularly hang out at a similar bistro, so they see each other decently much of the time. Marc and Mike examine a few themes, incorporating what Mike did in the primary portion of life, why he quit without an arrangement, the groundbreaking experience of meeting Holocaust, or Shoah, survivors, and, the poke from a business mentor that set him on the second 50% of life. Tune in to get motivation for your own profession rotate. Download Link| iTunes | Stitcher Radio|Google Podcast| Podbean | TuneIn | Overcast Key Takeaways: [2:15] In the primary portion of life, Mike was in floor covers, in his granddad's business. He began his own covering business, however sold it in '04, without a thought what to do straightaway. [3:06] In the good 'ol days, Mike and his granddad went to business sectors in Chicago and Dallas, where 200 floor covering factories competed for their business. When Mike sold his business, there were three floor covering factories left. The opposition, and the fun, had gone. [4:39] In 1995, Mike was chipping in with the Jewish Federation of San Antonio, visiting schools and educating about the Holocaust. Steven Spielberg was recording Schindler's List, in Poland, and survivors were coming up and saying they have a story they need to tell. [5:04] Spielberg began The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. He set an objective of catching 50,000 survivors' accounts, and wound up with 52,000, in 39 dialects. [5:30] The establishment solicited the Jewish Federation from San Antonio in the event that they had somebody to chip in for preparing to talk with neighborhood survivors. Mike seized the opportunity. He talked with survivors from '96 to 2000 â€" one of the most captivating times of his life. [6:14] So, Mike had the procedure, and he cherished the meetings, however then they were over in 2000. At the point when he sold his covering business, he went to Administaff and worked, until he understood the corporate world was not for him. He despite everything had no arrangement. [8:41] Through his significant other, Mike found a decent business mentor, who gave him an activity: make a rundown of all that you've done, that 1) you preferred and 2) you figured you progressed nicely. Reject exercises that don't meet the two tests. The following week Mike read it to the mentor. [9:51] The mentor got on Mike's fervor over the Holocaust meets, and got some information about it. When Mike wrapped up, the mentor asked, would you be able to make a business accomplishing something to that effect? The light went on, and Mike was on his way. [11:59] Mike got his first customer, Bill, through his better half. Bill was a bank official with a corporate foundation. Mike did his video for nothing, as a test. At the point when he saw it, Bill called his associations; stated, You have to work with Mike, and gave him the telephone! [14:54] Besides close to home biographies, Mike has done narratives for organizations and charities. These accounts pull in clients, or gifts, with their passionate intrigue. [18:43] Mike does just the meeting. Videography, sound, altering are employed out to experts, so Mike can listen exclusively to the interviewee, without any interruptions. [20:04] Marc needs solopreneurs and hopeful business visionaries to acknowledge they don't need to do everything. Let the specialists make you look great. Promoting can be re-appropriated, as well. Referenced in This Episode: Careerpivot.com Contact Marc, and pose inquiries at: Careerpivot.com/get in touch with me Email: MOKrent@LifeStoriesAlive.com Site: Life Stories Alive Telephone (512) 431-8166 Pause for a minute â€" go to iTunes. Give this webcast an audit and buy in! Marc Miller Like what you simply read? Offer it with your companions utilizing the catches above. Like What You Read? Get Career Pivot Insights! Look at the Repurpose Your Career Podcast Do You Need Help With ...