Interested in starting your own entrepreneurial journey but unsure what to expect? Then read up on our interview with Revaz Mekvabishvili, CEO of Alternative Thinking, located in Toronto, ON, Canada.
What's your business, and who are your customers?
Empowering your wellness with thoughtfully sourced offerings to cultivate health, nutrition, wisdom, beauty, and spirit. A one-stop-shop for alternative thinkers, healers, creatives, and evolutionaries. Key product categories include books, health food, crystals, and a range of lifestyle items. Alter8ing the art of exchange with a holistic retail experience and product line to promote alternative thinking, healing, and global evolution.
Tell us about yourself
The desire for self-exploration and growth was the catalyst for me surrounding myself with books and knowledge of alternative models and theories.
What's your biggest accomplishment as a business owner?
Cultivating an environment that is uplifting and transcendental in nature and that all of the community can benefit from, including myself.
What's one of the hardest things that comes with being a business owner?
Not being able to offer attractive salaries from the start for dedicated employees as innovative endeavors require patience and gradual growth, and commitment from the team before having healthy returns that can provide good wages.
What are the top tips you'd give to anyone looking to start, run and grow a business today?
- Fall in love with what you do and have the business be an extension of that growth through gratitude.
- Build methods that inspire and generate excitement for you and those that share the experience.
- Develop a long-term vision that will serve the community and your own deepest desire.
Where can people find you and your business?
Website: https://www.alter8.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/revazm/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rezo.n8/
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