For many solopreneurs, the trajectory of your business is grounded in leveraging life experiences and exploiting opportunities to find success in business. Whether taking advantage of them or creating them, these pathways become the hallmark of your success as an entrepreneur. Today, our Guest Rudi Page, is the truest example of a solopreneur who knew early in his career that working for others was not his calling. As all great entrepreneurs do, he coupled his years working for others with a passion for creating his own way forward to design a consulting business rooted in strategic global partnerships. Today's Guest: A Bit About Rudi Page. Rudi Page has pioneered the mastery of implementation for over 30 years through experiential learning and reflection across the private, public, community, faith, and Diaspora sectors. He is an award-winning consultant from the United Kingdom who developed the Diaspora Delivery System and is the co-founder of Caribbean Diaspora Health System. He co-ordinates "Circle of Knowledge," a unique network that connects people with poly skills and is a serial entrepreneur collaborating on projects with strategic partners across multiple industries. Brief Background of Host of The Solopreneur Journey Podcast, Ex-pat Entrepreneur Jewel Daniels [0:27 – 0:58] Jewel Daniels is the head of Daniels Communications Global, a leadership development firm that specializes in executive coaching, cultural competency, and develop leaders. She is also the author of four books, with her latest becoming a bestseller, https://jeweldaniels.net/new-book-profile (Three Sides of Every Crisi)https://jeweldaniels.net/new-book-profile (s: Strategies to Sustain Business, Manage Your Career and Take Care of You). This book talks about how to find opportunities in the midst of a crisis by learning to adjust your perspective so you can pivot, strategize and take action to #kickthecrisis. About The Solopreneur Journey Podcast The Solopreneur Journey Podcast reaches out solo entrepreneurs, single-shingle, one-person enterprises who are just starting their business or killin’ it in business. The show is ripe with information for those transitioning from careers to become entrepreneurs and growing to becoming business owners of larger companies. You will glean lessons everyday solopreneurs and those who have scaled their business featured as guests who pay it forward to share leadership lessons, the power of collaboration, how to price your goods and services, negotiation, marketing and practicing excellent EQ (emotional intelligence). One of the shows strongest offerings is its ability to cover a wide spectrum of industries with people around the globe in a way the appeals to its audience by meeting people where they are along their solopreneur journey. Surviving the Windrush Generation [00:04:25] "To will the ends is to will the means," is how Rudi describes the determination to succeed born out of parents linked by their Caribbean heritage and being a part of the harsh Windrush generation who were rejected by UK society. Facing legal abject discrimination planted the seed for his entrepreneurial journey because "in a society like that it either defines you or reduces you."  Entrepreneurial Mindset Means Pushing Past the Unknown [00:05:08] Rudi discusses his thoughts on building business alliances in Ghana, Singapore, the Caribbean, and beyond as looking beyond the distance, different cultures, and language to remain determined "to reach the goals set for me." Growing from the Black, Caribbean Market to South Africa [00:12:56] Rudi shares how he leveraged his international development experience as a consultant and years in South African to bolster opportunities that pulled on his transferrable skills to cultivate new business opportunities Technology and Partnerships that Grow Business  [00:16:21] For Rudi, technology was his greatest challenge as a solopreneur. But he realizes...