#71 Karen Buitrago - Avoiding excuses and developing discipline in all areas of your life

In this episode I'm joined by Karen Buitrago, a sales professional for Endress and Hauser. 

Karen shares her journey from South America to Australia and her transition from internal sales to external sales engineer. She explains the nature of her role, which involves selling instrumentation and automation products to industries such as mining, oil and gas, chemical, food and beverage, and wastewater. 

Karen emphasizes the importance of technical knowledge and understanding customer requirements in her role. She also discusses the challenges she faced in starting her career in a new country and the importance of setting goals and being disciplined to achieve success.

In this episode expect to learn :

• The key takeaways from transitioning from internal sales to external sales engineer at Endress and Hauser
• How important technical knowledge and understanding customer requirements are in her role.
• The challenges in starting her career in a new country but believes in the importance of setting goals and being disciplined to achieve success.
• Her advice to anyone looking to relocate to a new country
• How she has developed a level of discipline to everything she does.
• How Karen defines success

Really inspiring chat with Karen after effectively starting her career again in a new country. Loads to take away from this conversation with Karen and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Check her out below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/karen-lorena-buitrago-galindo-32678057/

Chapters

00:00 Introduction
00:27 Karen's Role and Journey
04:24 Technical Conversations with Customers
09:06 Successes and Challenges in the Role
15:18 Relocating to Australia
22:42 Developing Discipline
28:54 Defining Success
31:09 Importance of Meditation
33:08 Conclusion