Become the Entrepreneurial Fire

In a world that is strewn with obstacles of every imaginable kind, is it possible to achieve your goals and aspirations? As the daughter of a Puerto Rican mother and Yugoslavian immigrant father, Elisa Schmitz knows what it means to be an “outsider” learning to use her “differentness” to make a difference and succeed on her own terms as an Entrepreneur. Elisa believes you can do the same. She says, “Become the (Entrepreneurial) Fire” and not allow yourself to be in the fire, and get burned, but instead use the fire to ignite your motivation, passion, and grit. It means leveraging what you do have and can do. Remember, pure gold comes out of fire. In this CareerCast, Elisa shows how to transform obstacles that can block the progress of each of us into the unstoppable fuel of fulfillment and success.