We had the good fortune of connecting with Hisham Beydoun and we’ve shared our conversation below.
Hi Hisham, what matters most to you?
Top contributor to my personal, professional, spiritual, and entrepreneurial success stems around the principal that, no matter what, every opportunity has a gift. I am on a quest to love failures just as much as I love successes. If I can do this, the sense of success and failures dissipates. In addition, the worry that ‘I will be a success or I will be a failure’ also dissipates. With this gone, resilience goes up, risk-taking goes up, pace of moving goes up. Most importantly perhaps, it leaves room for you to relax, be yourself and have fun while also moving forward.
In the beginning especially, with a little momentum, the failures felt large and my sense of failing felt equally large – there was a lot of regret.
This principle alone provided great resilience on the road was steep, long, scary and unclear.
This continues to be the case now.
Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
The wild answer is that I got to where I was, largely, because of the support of people around me.
Not to discredit my personal ambition, spiritual work, resilience.
However, these qualities that allow me to move through difficulty were learned by the incredible people around me. And those people are still showing me them, clients included!
The lessons I’ve learned is that everything is workable, no matter how bad it may seem.
Let’s say your best friend was visiting the area and you wanted to show them the best time ever. Where would you take them? Give us a little itinerary – say it was a week long trip, where would you eat, drink, visit, hang out, etc.
Surf at san O’nofre Climb mission George
Tacos at the nameless blue taco stand outside Target in South Park
Go get lost in Baja and forget your name
Snorkel the kelp forests, they look like Mars
Watch sunset everyday
The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
I would like to give a shoutout to my parents. Without their model of unconditional love, I would have been lost.
Because of them, I can become more fully myself and spread my mission to allows others to be themselves, no matter what
Website: hishobeydoun.com
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hisham-beydoun-pcc-mba-430975a9/