Jessica HickmanThought Leader | TEDx Speaker | 2 x Author | Leadership

How to focus on growth during Covid 19

Name: How to focus on growth during Covid 19
Uploaded: 2020-04-07T03:43:43+00:00
Duration: 1 min 32 s
Channel: Jessica Hickman
Description: In this video, Jessica Hickman shares her personal experience as a business owner whose revenue traditionally came from face‑to‑face workshops and…

7 Apr 2020 · 2 min

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In this video, Jessica Hickman shares her personal experience as a business owner whose revenue traditionally came from face‑to‑face workshops and keynote speaking. The COVID‑19 pandemic abruptly halted her event pipeline, forcing her to confront a near‑standstill in cash flow. She frames this disruption as a "forced pivot," an opportunity to rewrite her professional story and transition to an online model. Jessica describes how she rebranded herself as an online keynote speaker and webinar host, invested in an online academy, and began helping others move their content online. She emphasizes rapid skill acquisition in technology, becoming adept at virtual delivery, and expresses gratitude for the new capabilities she’s gaining. To cement growth, she instituted a daily practice of writing down five new things she learned and five challenges she overcame, noting significant personal development over a twelve‑day period. The overarching message is that each day presents a choice: view circumstances negatively or extract positive lessons, using adversity as a mechanism for personal and business growth.

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from personal experience as a business owner that has a cash flow and an income from face-to-face workshops and keynote speaking gigs, it has been a really challenging time for anyone that has gone through kind of going from a thriving pipeline of events to nearly nothing. But what I am enjoying about the current is the forced pivot, and I love this word, a forced pivot, because we have the opportunity in everything to see the positives and reassess. So I have to write myself a new story, that I'm now an online keynote speaker webinar, and really tell myself that this is actually good for me. I'm learning new skills, I'm becoming adapt— adept at technology, and just really grateful that I've invested in my online academy, and I'm now actually working with a a few people on this call as well to help support to get their content online. So this forced pivot has been interesting and something that when I come out the other side, I'm looking to January 2021. Each day I'm writing down 5 things new I've learned that day and 5 challenges I've overcome. And as an individual in the last 12 days, I've grown so much and overcome many challenges and adversity. So we have an option in, in every day to choose how we show up, whether we see it as a negative or whether we can pull the positives out of the negative and use this as a growth mechanism.