Self-Awareness, Systems & Support with Loic Alix-Brown

by news@moniquelindner.com | Jul 23, 2020 | Business, Time Management

Self-Awareness, Systems & Support with Loic Alix-Brown

Loic is one of the CEOs and Co-Founders at Flick, a SAAS solution to help entrepreneurs, content creators, and small businesses find the best hashtags to reach their target audience on Instagram. In today’s episode, Loic and Monique are talking about how being efficient with money and a small team helped him turn his agency from being in debt to a highly successful software company in only 18 months.

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HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:33] – Monique introduces her guest, Loic Alix-Brown.

[1:58] – Introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about who you are, where you are located, what you do?

My name is Loic Alix-Brown.
I’m half French, half English.
I am the head of the product of flick.tech.

[2:59] – Where did you grow up?

I was actually born in London.
I did go to a French school.
My whole education was French.

[3:44] – What was your childhood experience growing up in London?

I was very lucky to have a sort of very close parent to me who did take very good care of me.
I have quite a sheltered childhood.

[5:29] – Loic talks about why he decided to start working by the age of 16.

[7:44] – Where do you think does this mindset come from?

Part of it was school and just a general dynamic between myself and my friends.
We always push each other quite hard in a nice way.

[10:26] – How did you get started in building a drone?

Did some research from youtube videos.
A detailed blog post about how to build a drone.

[13:57] – Loic talks about the very start of his digital marketing journey.

[17:55] – What has been enabling you with your mindset to go faster and further with this company?

There’s a lot of hard work that goes into it.
I’ve been very lucky with the people I’ve met. My business partners are absolutely amazing.

[30:27] – Loic talks about how he managed to organize his time between school and a building a business.

[39:03] – What does efficiency mean to you?

Efficiency is just making the most of the time you have.

[39:28] – Which of the three things would you do over and over again, to get back to success?

Finding my current co-founders somehow.
Optimizing my organizational skills a lot earlier.
I’m cultivating this idea of accountability.

AWESOME RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

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The Lean Startup | Book by Eric Ries

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Amplitude | Product Analytics for Web & Mobile

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INSPIRED | Book by Marty Cagan

IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

Planning is the biggest thing. It just gives you freedom

Monique Lindner

Efficiency is just making the most of the time you have.

Loic Alix-Brown

Once you know what you do when you do it, and you just do it, it’s gonna be so much more efficient, and it gives you so much time back.

Monique Lindner

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Expectations, Empowerment & Ethnic Minorities with Sheng Herr

by news@moniquelindner.com | Apr 22, 2020 | Impactful Leadership, Mindset Mastery

Expectations, Empowerment & Ethnic Minorities with Sheng Herr

A business strategist and founder of the minority girl boss society - empowers minority service-based and creative girl bosses to build their dream business, market it online, and create a life that they love.Raised in the Hmong culture, which has many limiting rules and expectations of women, Sheng has boldly stepped out of the boundaries of her culture!In today’s episode, Sheng and Monique are talking about the big & important mission to empower minority women entrepreneurs to have it all!

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HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:34] – Monique introduces her guest, Sheng Herr.

[1:57] – Tell everyone who you are. What you’re doing? Where are you from?

My name is Sheng.
I am a business, diversity and inclusivity strategist.

[3:19] – Tell me a little bit more about how you got to work in the space of minorities.

I keep having this hunger.
It was like a calling for me.

[5:46] – Tell everyone a little bit about where you were born and what’s your ethnicity.

I was born in Thailand, and then I came to America around three years old.
I grew up within the Hmong culture, and I was bouncing this American culture.

[7:19] – Can you explain a little bit about what is the Hmong community?

The Hmong community originated in China.
There are many different types of Hmong and then a lot of us, some of us migrated to America.

[13:05] – Sheng talks about how blessed she is for having a business partner and husband at the same time.

[15:20] – How you felt like having this supportive community and having friends from different cultures?

I just went and look for those communities who supported me.

[18:36] – How do you go about seeking them out and what would be the first steps to approach them?

Google, Facebook.
I just asked the people I would meet daily.

[22:02] – Have you had a lot of cultural experiences within relationships?

No, not at all.
I was very strategic with my relationships.

[34:38] – Tell me a little bit about how you’re raising your boys and how you’re making sure you are preserving your culture while being the rebellious beautiful woman that you are.

The way I’m raising my boys completely different is that in our culture, we don’t say I love you.
So the way I preserve my culture with them is that my husband I decided to homeschool them.

[52:04] – What does efficiency mean to you?