Find Your Passion, Find Your Prosperity
“I didn’t know how to do my hair. So I put up a beauty parlor.”
Ella Sanchez is what you call a Serial Entrepreneur. That means she just loves putting up businesses and will do so at a drop of a hat.
For 15 years, she ran a beauty parlor right beside her travel agency.
She also ran a suit shop in the hotel—because she needed suits to wear in her meetings.
She loved to garden, so she supplied the hotel with plants.
And because her office was in the hotel, she also ran a car rental company with 30 cars and 60 tour guides.
But the travel agency was her first business.
I invited her for lunch one day. She was happy to meet me at a lovely restaurant. But when she learned that I wanted to interview her, she was aghast. Still, she obliged. She had no choice.
Ella Sanchez isn’t a relative. (Too many Sanchezes around in the Philippines.) But she is such a wonderful person, I wish she were my sister. And in my heart, she really is.
And now, the interview she didn’t like to have… (continued below)
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Bo: Hi Ella. Can I interview you?
Ella: No!
Bo: Please?
Ella: My gosh.
Bo: What’s your philosophy in business?
Ella: When you like what you’re doing, your heart will be in it.
Bo: Are the smaller businesses still there?
Ella: Nope. I closed the beauty parlor, the suit shop, and the plants business because the headaches were more than the money I earned. And during the Gulf War, tourists weren’t coming so the car rental company began losing millions. So I moved on.
Bo: We should never be attached to our businesses.
Ella: That’s right.
Bo: And you’ve moved on to bigger things. Like you’re in the Airline business, representing Garuda and American Airlines. Failure can be a message from God to move onto bigger things. Tell me about your first business…
Ella: In 1976, I was an employee. I was a copywriter in an Advertising agency. I was probably doing a good job because my boss invited me to be his partner in a travel agency. After 5 years, when he went to the US, I bought him out.
Bo: Another lesson. Whatever you’re doing, do a good job. Who knows who’s going to invite you to partner in a business? By the way, was it through your work in the travel agency that you met Jesus in a personal way?
Ella: Yes, I had a spiritual conversion when I went to a pilgrimage to Medjugorje. My life has never been the same since. And my business changed as well. We focused on spiritual pilgrimages. So far, I’ve sent thousands of people to the Israel and other holy sites. Sometimes, I lose money because some groups can’t reach the minimum number to make it financially feasible. But because I’m doing this for God, I’m happy.
Bo: Let me plug here that ever since I began leading pilgrimages, Ella and Executive Resources have been my travel agency. Because they do such a great job.
Ella: Thank you!
Bo: I’m leading another Pilgrimage to the Holy Land this April 20.
Ella: Yes, and we’re gathering pilgrims now for that trip. (Editor’s note: For more information, email beaconlightevents@gmail.com or call Beckie at 7229562 from 9am-6pm.)
Bo: What made you a Serial Entrepreneur?
Ella: My mother was an entrepreneur. We lived in the province and had a small farm. She loved her workers. She took care of their needs. She’d take care of them when they needed medicines or a hospital. Because they didn’t have the means to go to town, she paid the workers in kind—such as rice and groceries, etc. But doing so also made her a little profit. We had land but I never appreciated it before. Because we never had money. To enroll me to school, Mom had to sell our pigs. To buy me a dress, she had to sell a sack of rice. I envied my friends who had cars! And they had so much money. But it’s sad that today, they’re not successful in life. Because they weren’t trained for success.
Bo: I agree.
Ella: Many young people today don’t have passion. I don’t know why. They have no hunger to be better.
Bo: As opposed to a serial entrepreneur who never stops growing, always wanting to be better everyday. Thank you for this interview, Ella!
Ella: I was going to pay for lunch. But since you interviewed me without even warning me, you’ll have to pay for it!
Bo: Gee, you’re acting like my sister already.
May your dreams come true,
Bo
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Garuda? That’s my country’s!
Hi mr…errr Bro bo? Nice blog. Really appreciate it. I am researching regarding on how i might be able to put up a business someday. I know i dont have the means right now and the capital but an interview like these really inspires me to make more effort on doing my plans. Thank you for inspiring me Bro. Bo. And also thank you Ms. Ella Sanchez for sharing you’re ideas and experiences. God Bless and take care! (n_n)
Hi Bro Bo,
I always find your blogs inspirational. I’ve been lurking for quite a while now. You’ve inspired me. You’ve inspired others. Keep it up.
God bless you and your family more.
Cheers!
Dear Bo,
Thanks for inspiring us.
May our dreams come true.
Smile !
What Ella Sanchez said is right, no passion. but that is also the question, including myself “what is my passion ?” maybe we have it, but just can’t define it. please write article about it Bro.Bo. May the Lord inspire you to help us more.
bro, continue touching & inspiring the lives of people……..god bless
hi Bo,
fantastic blog! thank you for inspiring me again =)
Dear Bro. Bo,
I am based here in Darwin, North Australia and I wonder if you may have some business ideas or plans to make a talk night here one day.
Perhaps we can venture into something worthwhile.
Please tell me, if you’re interested to have a project here. I’d gladly open my mind into it.
Looking forward hearing from you soon.
Have a good day full of blessings!
Cheers,
Lis MANUEL
lismanuel@aol.com
I love this interview! INSPIRING.
Wow, So inspiring, motivating, captivating, soul-enhancing, mind-boggling, mind-searching, and everything, Thank you for this. Straight from the heart! Thank Bo and Ella Sanchez!!
you gotta love what you’re doing! im not sure though what my passion is… how can you find that out?
thanks for the inspiration. i’m always blessed every time i read your blog. God bless
right now we are starting a business, sideline, aside from my full time job.
this is my passion. during highschool, we wrote a series of books entitled six of the sixth street, but that series of books was never published of course, but was widely read by our batchmates..
and now we are starting a clothing line business named after that, with the concepts similar to the story, sort of sweet valley high story. please pray for the success of our business. and i’m hoping to launch the story via internet so that more people could relate to our business. of course, that plan is kinda huge, but success should always start with huge dreams right? dreams will be useless if they do not frighten us, right?
may all of our dreams come true.
Bo: What’s your philosophy in business?
Ella: When you like what you’re doing, your heart will be in it.
–> I agree with this! Because if one really likes what s/he’s doing, it would no longer be work but playtime all the way. And no matter what happens, one will never give up if s/he likes whats/he’s doing!
Bo: We should never be attached to our businesses.
Ella: That’s right.
–> I find this very difficult because for me a business is like an extension of one’s self. But I have been enlightened now that it’s important to still put a boundary between myself and the business entity.
Thank you so much for sharing!
Bro. Bo,
Thank you very much for this inspiring interview… again I learned valuable lessons:
1.) Failure can be a message from God to move onto bigger things.
2.) Do what you love and success will follow
3.) Don’t just wish… act!
4.) Never be attached to your businesses
5.) If you have a business, give love and care for your people (employees)
6.) In whatever you’re doing, do a good job
7.) Be passionate in improving yourself
God Bless…
Truly inspiring …
a perfect message and a wake up call for someone like me…
i always dream to be successful in business
although i dont have one yet
I just dream… but never did i have a passion to make it real… maybe that’s why i can’t even start one….
thanks for reminding me that i need to love what I do…
I always love reading your aticle Bro.Bo, I almost have your books…love subscribing your kerygma magazine…I don’t want to miss every little Sunday at Valle Verde(indeed,a place of blessings and miracles)…I’m not tired of bringing my friends there….not tired of worshipping God…Thanks Bro.Bo, I’m really superblessed with this new blog of yours:! “Find your passion,Find y!!!
I always love reading your aticle Bro.Bo, I almost have your books…love subscribing your kerygma magazine…I don’t want to miss every single Sunday at Valle Verde(indeed,a place of blessings and miracles)…I’m not tired of bringing my friends there….not tired of worshipping God…
Thanks Bro.Bo, I’m really superblessed with this new blog of yours:! “Find your passion,Find your Prosperity!!!
By the way,am a Fulltime worker of Gawad Kalinga…your preachings and blogs really rock my world…you always reaffirmed me; my passion for nation building, restoring the dignity of our less fortunate Brethren and believing in their capacities to be productive and prosperous!
Very inspiring.. An enlightenment for me since I’m planning to start a small business relating to my passion. It’s just a small plan though. Thanks for sharing Sis Ella! I love this phrase..When you like what you’re doing, your heart will be in it.
God bless!
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I agree about the young generation lacking desire for better like and that probably sets me apart from like. Unlike Ella, we didn’t have lands nor pigs but I had many needs that we met because we trusted God that He will provide and I am constantly striving to make life better for me and my mom, then eventually my relatives. I know that God will bless me because I know His plans are to prosper me and not to harm me.
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