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How Forgiveness Is

The Key To Freedom

And Success

by Brian K Wright

I had the honor of interviewing Terri Levine recently, and we talked about a lot of great topics including how

to attract brilliant people to work with, being a Heartpreneur, how forgiveness relates to the level of success

we attain, learning to love ourselves, and much more!

Brian: Welcome, Terri! Before you on the way you do business as a Who would be fun, easy, eff ortless,
became an entrepreneur, what Heartpreneur.” And I said, “As a and joyful to work with, and who’s
was life like for you? heart-re what?” And he said, “You not right for me?”
bring heart to entrepreneurship.”

Terri: I started out as an So, you’ll attract a pond of people

entrepreneur and then after On my way back home from New and then you’ll sort through the

owning four different businesses, York, I thought about it and realized pond and pick the fish, so to speak,

I decided to sell. I sold all my it resonated with me so much that you really find delicious.
businesses to be a CEO of a that two days later I rebranded

national healthcare company and my company. I trademarked Brian: What would you say has

that life was horrible. It was five Heartpreneur. I literally decided been your rock bottom moment

years of feeling chained, unfree, that my whole purpose in business and how did you get out of it?
and unempowered. Then about was going to be to teach the Terri: That’s a great question.

25 years ago, I said, “You know Heartpreneur concept. I wrote two About 15 years ago, I suddenly
what, I’m not made to work for books about it, and did a magazine, got a neurological disease called
somebody else’s company” and radio show, and TV show. And this Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy.

went out on my own again. has been my mission for the last And it’s the most painful disease
six years. on the McGill pain scale by far.
Brian: What exactly is a And I tried everything to deal with
Heartpreneur and how did that Brian: How do you att ract brilliant it.
come about? people who you want to work
with? For 18 months, I wasn’t able to
Terri: Years ago, I was sitting work. I was in bed, I couldn’t walk.

down with my publisher in New Terri: The fi rst thing is to have People couldn’t come into the
York and I was working on a new people apply to work with you, room. But my business conti nued
book for him. It was all about and I think this is very important. to prosper because I had set up

increasing revenues and profits. Because then, you can sort, sift , a lot of passive income streams.
Part way through this, he decided and separate, then choose by However, it was my lowest

he wanted a completely different asking yourself, “Who can I help? moment of being a super positi ve
book. He said, “I really want a book Who can I guarantee results for? person my whole life.

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