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Before this interview I didn’t know Lise at all. It wasn’t even my LinkedIn post inviting entrepreneurs to contact me that allowed me to get in touch with her. In fact, I was approached by someone who wanted to discuss a service to be provided to me for the corporate accelerator. We were supposed to meet with this someone. As much as possible, when I am asked, I try to take the time to question myself on the usefulness of the services offered. Things are moving fast in digital and start-up support. Meeting people is essential. It turns out that in this case, I had to cancel the appointment unfortunately for scheduling reasons. As part of the exchanges for this cancellation, this person told me about an artist she was following closely and who would soon be having an exhibition. Very interested in the style of pastel creations, I told myself that I would probably go to the exhibition. Still with scheduling problems, I couldn’t go in the end and apologized to the artist.

How can I tell you, … there are sometimes images, sensations that never leave you…. I love her style of artistic expression and her subjects, animals, characters with piercing eyes, that touch the heart and soul.

So I asked about the artist herself. Surprise … This artist had once worked in a very large international group, and had recently founded an innovation consulting agency, Lise Bellavoine Conseil, while painting and exhibiting. So I contacted her and explained to her my project and my wish to interview her to possibly integrate it in my forthcoming book.

Lise is her first name, as far as I can remember she didn’t define herself at first as an entrepreneur compared to what she imagined my profile search to be. After some clarifications, and some exchanges of emails, we were however at the interview stage.

If this introduction was so long, it is because the probability that I would meet Lise, without having at any time sought by any action to identify such a profile, was almost non-existent!

It was a very rewarding meeting and her journey, with her permission, I will share it with you. Her profile, very touching, is one of those wonderful examples that should make us understand collectively that entrepreneurship does not mean “digital”, and that being an entrepreneur is first of all a state of mind … that reveals itself in diverse and varied circumstances.