I talk a lot about risk and uncertainty, but one of the most counterintuitive lessons I learned from my time in finance, entrepreneurship, and design is that there is an upside to uncertainty.
Sometimes chance encounters we never would have expected break our path and launch us in a better direction. These are our happy accidents.
Dennis Geelen is an accidental solopreneur.
After being laid off from his corporate job in 2018, he decided to bet on himself and launched a business consulting company, Zero In. Through Zero In, Dennis helped companies ‘solve indifference’ by implementing strategies to build a more customer-centric and innovative organization.
Author of the best-selling book ‘The Zero In Formula’, Mr. Geelen has worked with companies in several industries, spoken at countless events, conferences, workshops, and webinars, with dozens of guest appearances on international podcasts.
And now? Dennis also helps other solopreneurs get started. His latest book, ‘The Accidental Solopreneur’, and online course ‘The Solopreneur Playbook’ provide strategies and tactics for success.
Dennis is also the author of the Happy Accidents weekly newsletter and co-founder of the Solo Creator Summit. The Solo Creator Summit will take place September 20-21.
IN THIS EPISODE YOU'LL LEARN:
- What are happy accidents?
- How happy accidents lead to success
- How Dennis started thinking about happy accidents
- Dennis' story and his accidental break
- How Dennis found a mentor and how his mentor helped him on his solopreneur journey
- The other happy accidents that Dennis experienced
- How to recognize and be open to happy accidents
- How to differentiate between an unexpected opportunity and something that is just fleeting
- 5 things that happy accident success stories have in common
- The Solo Creator Summit - September 20-21
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BOOKS AND RESOURCES
- Mastering Uncertainty - book that Dennis recommends
- Check out Dennis' latest book The Accidental Solopreneur
- Learn proven strategies and tactics from world class speakers to start and scale your solo creator business at the Solo Creator Summit - September 20-21
- Connect with Dennis on Twitter, LinkedIn, and his website.
