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Mary Wilson-Burkett, Coaching Associates


Name: Mary Wilson-Burkett

Hometown: Rowland Heights, California

Current Residence (City, State): St. George. UT

Education: B.S. in Mass Communications (public relations emphasis)

Professional Background (brief, please): First ½ of career was spent in shopping center marketing, enjoyable half has been spent in Business & Personal Development Coaching

What you wanted to be when you grew up: An attorney just like Perry Mason, win all my cases. I still think about going to law school.

What you are: Equal parts tender and tough wife, mother, grandmother, sister, friend, business owner

Brief Summary of your Start Up: Business and Personal Development Coaching

Company Website: www.personalbusinesslifecoach.com

What inspired you: Hmmmm … tired to working for someone else who had no idea what coaching was really all about. My vision of how a business could be run to benefit employees as well as clients still inspires me.

How long have you been in business: 3 years in March, 2007

How did you fund it: $2700 in savings

Do you have a Fairy Godmother (or Mentor): Nope.

Do you belong to any Business Organization or Networking Groups: St. George Chamber of Commerce

Current Business Challenge: 1. Keeping cash flow steady 2. Marketing to take the company in a new direction

What are you doing about it: 1. Praying 2. Reorganizing how we get out invoices and what we expect when it comes to payment 3. Networking (which I don’t like doing)

Favorite motivational quote: Teddy Roosevelt:

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the
strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face
is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs
and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without
error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great
devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best,
knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the
worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his
place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither
victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt

Family? Husband, children and grandchildren

If so, how do you balance family and business? Family is always first. The rest falls into place.

Favorite book? Several: Bible, Book of Mormon, Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl and Diary of Anne Frank by Anne Frank, Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

What do you do to relax? Listen to music, read, write fiction, travel

What do you want to change most about your world?
Infuse more integrity into the business world in general, know that a person’s word in their bond.

What are you most proud of? My family relationships. In spite of difficulties over the years, we love and respect each other and enjoy time together. We are constantly finding ways to spend time together.

What advice would you like to offer other Start Up Princesses? Don’t allow emotion to cloud your judgement.

Favorite Magic Wand (tool/resource)? My husband. His support is unwavering.

If you could design a tiara, what precious stones would you use? Diamonds! Lots and lots of diamonds!

Would you be interested in being a Fairy Godmother to another woman entrepreneur? (I am working on a secure system to do this, any ideas?) Sure.

What business subjects would you feel comfortable mentoring in? From scratch design, getting ideas onto paper and making them more real.

Would you be interested in going to lunch with other women entrepreneurs for a “networking tea party”? Oh yeah!

If you are out of Utah County, would you be willing to be a facilitator of such an event? Sure!

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