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Donna Maria tells her small town business story

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A Positive View of Rural
A Positive View of Rural
Donna Maria tells her small town business story
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Donna Maria Johnson makes a return visit to our podcast, to share her story. She connects independent businesses like soap makers, cosmetics makers, etc., with each other. Her Indie Biz Network offers benefits like access to product liability insurance, training, and mentoring.
Donna Maria lives in a smallish city and grew up spending summers on the farm with her sharecropper grandparents. Her strong work ethic and no excuses approach are part of her heritage. She tells us what wealth means to her, and how that’s different in a rural area than when she lived in an urban area.
To kick off our second season of A Positive View of Rural, Donna Maria tells her story with a healthy dose of pragmatic sense.

 

Highlights:

  • Authenticity and being exactly who you are.
  • Making the move from a big city to a small town and taking a business with you.
  • The value of resourceful rural grandparents
  • The bedrock principles that Donna Maria learned from days with no electricity and no running water
  • What makes her go “Wow!”

Classic books that Donna Marie recommends include:

  • The Success Principles by Jack Canfield
  • The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy
  • Tribes by Seth Godin

Find Donna Maria at:

  • Indie Business Network
  • DonnaMaria.com

To hear her previous visit, where we ranted a bit on “no one is going to save you; you have to do it yourself,” check out this episode: Donna Maria and I get mean about rural solutions.

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You can view all the Positive View of Rural Podcast episodes here.

May 20, 2015

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