IAM2382 – Business Breakthrough and Behavioral Specialist Helps Entrepreneurs Switch to Wilde Success

Carmen Wilde is a top-rated, Business Breakthrough and Behavioral Specialist who helps entrepreneurs make the switch from sporadic growth to wild success.

Carmen highlights the importance of seeing others succeed as a motivator, as it can show that anyone can achieve similar outcomes with persistence.

She provides quick answers for pressing business challenges, offering an on-demand service for entrepreneurs, especially those who need support late at night.

Carmen uses simple but powerful tools to solve complex business problems, boosting confidence in her clients.

Carmen's extensive experience as a successful corporate executive and entrepreneur in multiple countries allows her to empathize with clients.

Carmen shares her “live more to profit more” philosophy, emphasizing the importance of taking time away from work to refresh and recharge.

Website: Wilde Success

LinkedIn: Carmen Wilde

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Carmen Wilde Teaser 00:00

What I provide is tailored business coaching services to entrepreneurs and executives. And like I said, I help them become unstoppable and wildly successful in business.

So I've been doing this for the last 12 years now, and my coaching services range from an email coaching subscription for quick answers to those pressing challenges.

Intro 00:22

Are you ready to hear business stories and learn effective ways to build relationships, generate sales, and level up your business from awesome CEOs, entrepreneurs, and founders without listening to a long, long, long interview?

If so, you've come to the right place. Gresh values your time and is ready to share with you the valuable info you're in search of. This is the I AM CEO Podcast.

Gresham Harkless 00:49

Hello, hello, hello. This is Gresh from the I AM CEO Podcast and I have a very special guest on the show today. I have Carmen Wilde of Wild Success. Carmen, it's awesome to have you on the show.

Carmen Wilde 00:57

Hey, thank you, Gresh. It's really awesome to be here.

Gresham Harkless 01:00

Yeah, super excited to have you on. And what I want to do is just a little bit more about Carmen so you can hear about all the awesome things that she's doing.

And Carmen Wilde is a top rated business breakthrough and behavioral specialist who helps entrepreneurs make the switch from sporadic growth to wild success.

By age 30, Carmen was an international division head for a billion dollar organization and a self made millionaire.

She's a successful multinational entrepreneur who has over 20 years of commercial experience and has helped hundreds of business leaders unleash hidden potential and achieve breakthrough results from doubling growth and building seven figure businesses in less than a year.

Shifting from setback to success track and building magnetic confidence. She lives on the tropical island of Mauritius.

The realization of a teenage dream and testimony to her model. You can have anything, anything you want. Just decide. Carmen, are you ready to speak to the I AM CEO community?

Carmen Wilde 01:53

I certainly am. Thanks, Gresh.

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Gresham Harkless 01:55

No problem. Thank you. And the first question I had was to hear a little bit more about what I call your CEO story and what led you start your business.

Carmen Wilde 02:02

Great, thank you. So Gresham, it's all started for me at the age of 13. So I stepped into my friend's grand entrance hall and this mansion of a home and I just in that moment became aware of how the other half live.

And something made me ask her, Candace, was your dad's dad rich? And it was like, oh no, Carmen. He's always telling me how poor they were and how he built everything from scratch.

And it was in that moment that the switch actually was made. From a history of financial struggle in my family to success and the switch was made simply because I knew that if he could do it, so could I had no idea how.

But that didn't matter in the moment. What it did for me at this tender age of 13 is it created this restlessness. It was like, I need to find answers.

Well, how do people become a success? And more importantly, how do people like me who don't have success, role models who have this family history of struggle, how do we break through this ceiling? And so my quest for success started that day and it just changed my life forever.

So from a young age, I wanted to own my own business. And after varsity, I tried it, but hell, it was a disaster. It was premature. I had no clue what I was doing.

And I decided that, okay, if I want to be good at this, are best, learn from the best. So I entered the blue chip corporate arena and I was exposed to some incredible business minds, really amazing business leaders.

The last function and job role I had, I was exposed to some of the best high performance companies in the world.

So at the height of my career, I decided it was finally time to follow my entrepreneurial dream. And because I believe that you accelerate success by surrounding yourself with successful people, instead of going it alone, I decided to partner Gary Wilde, a successful turnaround specialist.

And I created a business coaching practice under our brand, Wild Success. And my mission and my driving force was and still is to this day, to help as many driven entrepreneurs as possible unlock their success potential, no matter what they passed or current circumstances or challenges.

So that they can become unstoppable and wildly successful in business. And I'm hugely passionate about working with entrepreneurs because I believe that they have the potential and the power to make our world a profoundly better place. So that's how it all started, Gresh.

Gresham Harkless 04:35

Nice. Well, I absolutely love that story because I think a lot of times when you hear success stories, you always hear, that it starts from the day before that person becomes quote, unquote successful.

But a lot of it is built over years and years and years. And I think a lot of times sometimes we become a product of our environment as you kind of touched on.

And we don't necessarily realize that this is possible until we see somebody doing it and say, hey, they put their pants on just like I do. One foot at a time. They can do it, so I can do it.

And that kind of propelled you towards doing all the awesome things that you're doing. So I think that's pretty awesome to hear.

Carmen Wilde 05:06

Thank you.

Gresham Harkless 05:07

You're welcome. And I know you touched on it a little bit, but I wanted to hear a little bit more about how you're serving the clients that you work with. Could you tell us a little bit more about that?

Carmen Wilde 05:14

Yeah, sure. So what I provide is tailored business coaching services to entrepreneurs and executives.

And like I said, I help them become unstoppable and wildly successful in business. So I've been doing this for the last 12 years now and my coaching services range from an email coaching subscription for quick answers to those pressing challenges.

It's lonely as an entrepreneur or a business leader and sometimes you just need that answer outside of your team and outside of yourself.

That's relevant to you right now. And so it's basically a coaching on demand service via email. Then I have an online group coaching program to accelerate business success.

And also a tailored one to one business coaching service that's online and it's for individual clients all over the world and that is to help them just knock the ball out of the park.

Gresham Harkless 06:07

Awesome, awesome, awesome. Well, I love all those aspects because I guess. And you can definitely let me know if you experience this or at different levels with different needs.

So you have different kind of services that you provide to them that can help them out depending on how best they probably learn and how they need that kind of kick in the butt sometimes and things like that.

Carmen Wilde 06:23

Absolutely. And of course there's different budgets and different needs. Some people need much more intense one to one coaching.

Some people want the group interaction and then other people just need that. Just need to know that, wow, I've got someone on call when I need them, whether it be midnight or whatever it is, I can just quickly pop a mail to someone. So yes, it's different needs that are serviced.

Gresham Harkless 06:49

Yeah, that's awesome. And I have not heard, at least to my knowledge, of a lot of people that have done the quick popping of the email as you mentioned as well too.

I think that's a really good opportunity because a lot of times, sometimes especially night owls like myself, sometimes we're working so late to actually call on a person that late is not great for anybody.

So you'll be able to shoot an email and get a response is definitely great.

Carmen Wilde 07:10

Absolutely.

Gresham Harkless 07:10

And you might have touched on this a little bit, but I wanted to ask you for what I call your secret sauce.

And this is kind of what you feel kind of sets you or your organization apart and makes you kind of unique.

Carmen Wilde 07:19

There isn't really one thing. I have six key things that my clients, through Feedback that my clients have said, this is what they believe makes me stand out in the coaching world.

At the end of the day, it all boils down to results, results and results. So which is my first key thing, I help my clients get real results.

And for me, it's the value that they receive absolutely must 100% far exceed the cost. And I have a track record to prove that.

Then secondly, I want my clients to see growth and results every single week. So every single client interaction, coaching hour, that's what we do. There is, it's real, there's quick.

Every single week. I want them to see momentum every single week. So they feel that every hour is well worth the time that they've invested in it.

Then number three is I have this superpower where I'm able to create very simple tools and models and I give my clients these simple, powerful, but proven models to solve very complex problems rapidly.

And what this does is all of a sudden they, the toolkit is boosted, their confidence is boosted, and it them feel great about business to solve things in a simple way, but it's complex stuff that they're solving.

Number four, because I'm a cognitive behavioral specialist, it enables me to help my clients understand the behavioral drivers of success and that's just life changing for them.

Five is I have a very unique outlook on challenges that I share with my clients and this gets them unstuck and building momentum very fast.

And then six, I'm able to empathize with my clients because I've been there as a successful corporate executive and entrepreneur with business businesses in four countries.

And then beyond those six differentiators, because my services are all online, it's very convenient for business leaders and entrepreneurs.

Gresham Harkless 09:17

Yeah, absolutely. To be able to have access to all those things 24/7 is definitely huge because like I mentioned, people work at different times, people have peak times at different times of the day as well too.

And definitely, as you mentioned, having clients and being able to, create businesses in different parts of the world, we're also on different time zones as well. So to be able to kind of tap into that 24/7 is definitely a huge thing.

Carmen Wilde 09:39

Absolutely.

Gresham Harkless 09:40

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And now I wanted to switch gears a little bit and ask you for what I call a CEO hack.

And this might be an Apple book or habit that you have, but it's something that makes you more effective and efficient.

Carmen Wilde 09:49

So I think there's so many things that we do, but it's like what really Made a difference for me.

And so I kind of termed it live more to profit more, which I think was my life and business hack that I want to speak to. And I learned this the very hard way.

After hitting burnout too many times in my life from working 18 hours a day and every single weekend for an extended period of time, I realized that I was just building inefficiency into my business.

And what dawned on me was that when you start to live beyond your business, you actually build a better business.

And this led me to become more focused every single day. It forced me to prioritize, to say no, and not to lose time to drama or minutiae.

So I became so much more present and creative and effective. And one big thing I did is I started scheduling downtime into my daily schedule, which just made the world of difference to me.

And then I gave myself every single weekend off, which was huge. And the irony is I found that the harder I played, the better I became at work, which was a really cool thing to find out.

So, very often, and I'm quite surprised, even though it happens so often, I'm still surprised by it that my most creative thoughts and ideas actually come to me when I'm not at my computer.

So, yeah, live more to profit more is huge. And don't wait to hit burnout to find that out.

Gresham Harkless 11:20

Yeah, I absolutely love that. Live more to profit more. And I'm definitely going to, echo that over and over again and say that to myself as well too.

Because it's funny because I think a lot of my best ideas and things that I've come up with have been either while I'm on vacation, which is crazy because when you're away, away from the desk, away from the grind, that you start to really think at things differently.

And it sounds definitely counter-intuitive because you think that it's going to happen when you're grinding, doing 18 hour day, working on a 20 or 48 hour binge or whatever.

But a lot of times it's when you step away, when you rest, you not only make better decisions because you're well rested and you have a different perspective.

But it also allows you to kind of, be more efficient and effective in that time that you have now. I wanted to ask you another one of my favorite questions, which is a CEO nugget.

And this is a word wisdom or piece of advice. Or if you can hop into a time machine, what would you tell your younger self.

Carmen Wilde 12:10

I would say success isn't hindered by the challenges that we face. It's hindered by how we choose to face those challenges.

So for me, business success has much, much, much less to do with the external factors that we can't control, which is, interestingly, the things that we worry and struggle with the most.

But it actually has so much more to do with the internal factors that we actually have total control over.

And it's those internal factors like how we think about ourselves, our business, the environment, how we think about people, our past, present and our future.

So in a nutshell, then, if you want to change the outcomes in your business, you need to change the way you think, how you solve problems, how you make decisions, and definitely how you act.

And, I've written extensively about this and I've got a business program as well. So if you want to read more about this nugget.

I've got a free report and I'm happy to put it out to you, Gresh. It's called four Accelerators of Business Success and it speaks to this principle.

Gresham Harkless 13:15

Nice. Yeah, we definitely, love to have that and we can add that to the show notes as well too, because I think it's absolutely huge where sometimes you're just again, so unwrapped in your business and doing so many different things that you sometimes lose focus and perspective on those outside things and how they can make effect.

And sometimes you become a product of your environment when in realizing that if you do some inner work, you look at your mindset, maybe look at how making a decision, whatever that might be like.

As you mentioned in those I'm sure that report definitely drills down on you can make a lot more of an impact and allows you to control what you can control.

Carmen Wilde 13:47

Absolutely. The way in which we see the world around us impacts everything. And it's an energy that we're putting out to the world.

And as business leaders, we have to be in our power all the time, so we can't afford to be anything but at our best.

And that comes from really, it starts with the way we think, which then translates into decisions, which is ultimately what creates good business.

So, yeah, it's again, success isn't hindered by those challenges we face. It's how we choose to face them.

Gresham Harkless 14:19

I absolutely love that. And now I wanted to ask you my absolute favorite question, which is the definition of what it means to be a CEO.

We're hoping to have different quote-unquote CEOs on the show. So, Carmen, I wanted to ask you, what does being a CEO means?

Carmen Wilde 14:30

What a lovely question. Thanks, Gresham. For me, it's the opportunity to add value. I want to just, it's this opportunity to make a meaningful difference in people's businesses and in their personal lives.

And that enables me then to leave this indelible mark beyond my lifetime. And then it means freedom to live life by my design, doing the things that I just absolutely love doing.

Gresham Harkless 14:55

I absolutely love that value and freedom because a lot of times, you want to be able to, like you said, leave your legacy and be able to do things that amount to so much more and beyond, our time on this world, so to speak.

So being able to do that and then have the freedom to be able to decide how you can do that and what ways you're going to do that is definitely important.

So I love that definition, I love that perspective. And Carmen, I truly appreciate you for taking some time out and all the value that you provided to us today.

What I want to do is pass you the mic just to see if there's anything additional. You want to let our readers and our listeners know how they get a copy of the report, find out about all the awesome things that you're doing, and then also how they can get in touch with you as well.

Carmen Wilde 15:32

Awesome. So how they can get in touch with me is on my, my website. It's www.wildesuccess.com and the wild has an E on the end.

So it's wildesuccess.com the free report that I think will make the link available on your show notes.

But for those who would like to download it straight away, it's wildesuccess.com/fouracceleratorsofbusinesssuccess. And the four is the number four, the four accelerators of business success.

And you can get, there's a contact page on my website and you're very welcome to email me direct through the contact page as well.

Gresham Harkless 16:11

Awesome, awesome, awesome. And we'll make sure to have those links in the show notes for the report for your website and your contact information as well.

So I truly appreciate you again, Carmen, for all the awesome things that you're doing and all the wild success that you've had. And I hope you have a phenomenal rest of the day.

Carmen Wilde 16:24

Thank you so much, Gresh.

Outro 16:25

Thank you for listening to the I AM CEO Podcast powered by CB Nation and Blue16 Media. Tune in next time and visit us at iamceo.co. I AM CEO is not just a phrase. It's a community. Want to level up your business even more? Read blogs, listen to podcasts and watch videos at CBNation.co.

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