Monetizing your Talents & Sharing your Entrepreneurship Story (Season 2 Ep. 9)
We chat with Natasha Miller, author of Relentless, from homeless teen to achieving the entrepreneur dream. She's also the founder and Chief Experience Designer at Entire Productions, an event and production company that works with clients like Google and Salesforce. Natasha is a trained classical violinist and accomplished jazz vocalist with seven records at the time of recording this episode. She also studied entrepreneurship at both Harvard and MIT. In this episode, we touch on Natasha’s beginnings, what inspired her to write her memoir and about her early days of entrepreneurship, which informally started at the age of 15. We talk a lot about creating efficiencies and processes that are critical to growth for any business. Ultimately, we touch on what it was like for her to shed her skin and recalibrate her self worth in her relationship to performing and doing, which is something a lot of women can relate to. We are so excited to share this conversation with you. Get ready to be inspired!
What can you expect from this episode:
[2:33-9:27] Natasha shares her experience growing up in the middle of the country and how back then the word “entrepreneur” was not used as a positive term. She dives into when she started playing the violin in the 4th grade and how it shaped her life ever since. She describes how music inspired her and the start of her entrepreneurial journey at the age of 15.
[9:38 -17:06] We get to hear about how it was for Natasha to leave home in order to build a better life for herself. She describes how her trauma has influenced her ability to be successful. Natasha dives into the power of choice and what she went through mentally to get to where is now.
[17:41-19:45] Natasha shares her experience as a thriving classically trained violinist. She gets into what happend after she started her venture at a young age and how it went from a performance built business into an event entertainment production company. She shares the sticky mechanisms that helped her in the early stages of her business and the success signs she saw through the process.
[23:51- 27:53] Mari brings up the importance of having a minimum viable product and highlights how Natasha knew she had product market fit all along. Natasha describes her learning lessons and the specific tactics and systems that made a big difference early on in her business. Listen in to learn how her company did 777 events in one year with just a 2-person operation!
[28:57- 34:08] Jess, Mari and Natasha talk about the value of auditing your resources and the discovery of learning better systems in order to be efficient in your business. They fast forward in Natasha’s story to what got her into pursuing larger events for big brands like Google and Salesforce. She also talks about what happened to her business during COVID and the latest news about her company.
[34:09-41:30] Lastly, Natasha shares her advice to founders who want to create an event or summit on their entrepreneurial journey. Natasha highlights what made her decide to write her memoir, how she brought it to market and what’s next for herself and her ventures.