BIO: Izabela Lundberg is a people champion who transforms organizations, their teams, and their talents and turns them into high performers.

STORY: In 2019, Izabela invested her money and time into film production. She was sure this would be the project that would allow her to retire early. Unfortunately, the pandemic hit in 2020 and shut down everything. Izabela’s investment went down the drain.

LEARNING: Difficult moments are temporary. You can survive any trauma.

“You’re going to be okay. You’re much stronger and more capable than you give yourself credit.”

Izabela Lundberg

Guest profile

Izabela Lundberg is a people champion who transforms organizations, their teams, and their talents and turns them into high performers.

Izabela established Legacy Leaders Institute, a premier platform developed for Executive and Organizational Advisory, Consulting, and Training through a ‘High-Performance Impact Method’ framework comprised of extensive research, data, and analytics of human dynamics and behaviors in business and sports.

She has a dynamic worldview after living in six countries, speaking six languages, and traveling to over 50 countries while working with diverse teams from over 120 countries. Izabela is a recognized catalyst of sustainable solutions for global leaders and their most pressing challenges.

Listen to her Legacy Leaders Show, a top-rated global business and entrepreneurship podcast offering real and raw business, sport, and life lessons with practical advice for current and upcoming leaders.

Worst investment ever

In 2019, Izabela converted full-time attention to becoming an executive producer and producer. She invested in film and film production and started working on a film. According to her projections, this was going to be a moneymaker project.

Come 2020, the pandemic shut off the entire world. Izabela’s project came to a halt. All the finance, profit margin, and risk projections went down the drain in a split second. What was supposed to be the opportunity to enable her to retire early became her worst investment ever.

Lessons learned

When going through moments of devastation, it’s essential to take those moments one day at a time and stay calm and grounded so that you don’t make haste decisions or overreact.
Even when things look so bleak, and you feel like you have no point of return, know that it will all change with time. Your situation will start getting smaller and smaller, and eventually, you’ll put it behind you.

Andrew’s takeaways

You can survive any trauma. Just tap into your inner strength to pull yourself back.
Timing is crucial in business.

Actionable advice

Face what happened with honesty, examine it from different angles, and learn from it. Ask yourself what you can do differently. Did you do the best you could with what you knew or made a hasty decision?

No.1 goal for the next 12 months

Izabela’s goal for the next 12 months is to continue serving and give her talents and skills back into her documentary and film production journey.

Parting words

“Consider every failure or loss as a stepping stone to your success. Failure and loss will help you build the tremendous human being you’re meant to be.”

Izabela Lundberg

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