Create Your Life Series

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The Create Your Life Series is for Self-starters looking to live life on their own terms. Join award winning entrepreneur, author and speaker Kevin Y. Brown as he shares the Strategies Behind the Successes of today’s Trailblazers by uncovering experiences, daily habits and defining moments of high achievers from around the world. Learn more at cylseries.com

Episodes

Friday Dec 15, 2017

CYLS 094: The Rewards Of Following Your Passion with Raphael Benavidas

Friday Dec 15, 2017

About our Guest:

Raphael is the owner of ricardos steak house, corner social, mintons playhouse and the cecil steak house as well as an executie chef, who uses his culinary mastery to incite creativity and fun with food. He is also the exectuive producer for east harlem presents which is a performing-arts venue with a multi-use art gallery space & independent programming. He is also the owner and artistic director of the Poet's Den Theater & Gallery and founder of the east harlem international film festival.

Episode Summary

Raphael talks about his journey immigrating to the United states, going into the family business. He breaks down his goal setting process, secrets to his decision making when taking on a new project and his secrets to creating a great team.

Insight from this episode:

Why trusting your gut and taking risks is important even against a great opportunity Why Raphael turned down his internship opportunity on the first day to follow his intuition
The 4 step process to making a decision before taking on

a new project including opening a restaurant How to play to your strength