Diane Carroll
Meet Diane Carroll, also known as MaverickDiane, Grandmother Diane, or Nana Diane.
I was born in 1956 and embrace my role as a "wisdom grandmother," a term from indigenous traditions. This means I think about the impact of my advice on future generations before I respond. I specialize in helping people navigate Unlock your potential with our state-of-the-art software solution designed to streamline your workflow and enhance productivity. Whether you’re managing a team, tracking projects, or analyzing data, our platform offers intuitive features that adapt to your needs.
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My background and accomplishments include:
Education:
• Bachelor’s Degree: Business Administration. Concentration: Management
• Taught by/trained under some of the finest, most genuine visionaries, entrepreneurs, and mentors.
• Self-taught
• Visionary
• Entrepreneur (since 1985)
• Founded three companies: a mergers & acquisitions service, a small business bookkeeping service and a transitions & independence development center.
• Mergers & Acquisitions CBI (from IBBA)
• Death Doula education (2019)
My Business History:
• Visionary trainer/educator
• Major transitions expert/educator
• Business start-up (aligned to self) coach
• Mom-preneur trainer
• Trained maverick ways to work and live since 1999
• Independence trainer
• Home-based living/working
• Working-while-raising-a-family education/programs
• Bookkeeping for entrepreneurs
• Mindset training
• Bootstrapping (safer ways to grow a young business)
• Business and personal paths unique to females
• How to Raise and Entrepreneur/Visionary/Independent (and training for legacies)
• Major (and safer) life and work transitions support and guide
• Transitions into entrepreneurship
• How to prepare for multiple careers/businesses/ways of making a living
• Balancing the major categories of a life for overall success (when it’s not JUST about the scorecard called money)
• Best-use-of-a-lifetime consulting
• How to live-on-the-planet after you have been spiritually activated
• How to stay on the spiritual path
• How to balance spiritual path and live well on the planet
• Self-ownership guide
• Educator: Preparing kids/grandkids to ‘own’ themselves.
• Educator: Preparing kids/grandkids to use all five make-a-living models to make a future living (models are: work for others, work for self, non-profit, visionary, and follow-your-own-path).
• Lifestyle entrepreneurship (business-wraps-around-me)
• Best-use-of-a-lifetime planning and support
• Expert in youth independence development
• Expert in unique models for females dealing with the raising a family while making a difference and running a business
Awards, Titles, and Designations:
• Recognition for being a leader in the Home-based business movement
• Co-authored a bestselling book with Brian Tracy, Mark Victor Hansen and many other gurus entitles, “Create the Business Breakthrough You Want: Secrets and Strategies from the World’s Greatest Mentors (10/2004)
• Published and quotes in the Austin Business Journal, the Austin American Statesman, HOMEBusiness Journal
• Keynote speaker for Remarkable Woman’s Conference
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A sample of past talks, speeches, classes, interviews:
Diane’s speeches are original, motivational, and stirring. She believes that when people take the podium they should be prepared to use that time to generate profound thought, personal growth, and action … or they should get off the stage.
*Tips for Exceptional -Entrepreneurs
*Balancing Multiple Priorities
*How to Raise Your Child to Think Like an Independent
*The Top 10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make (And How You Can Avoid Them)
*Independence: Preparing a New Generation to Be Entrepreneurs
*How to Wrap Your Work or Business Around Your Changing Lifestyle
*You've got the Dream. Now how will you get there?
*What Every Female Entrepreneur Should Know
*The New School of Business: Dramatic Changes in the Way we Work and Live
*Building YOU; Self-careering at U University
*Youth independence development: The strategic new game
*Preparing your High School Junior or Senior for an independent life
*Carve out and design original future paths
To book a talk, keynote, speech, or interview email Diane: Diane@MaverickCenter.com.
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Other Business and Life Experience:
• Closed a perfectly good business because I was bored
• Learned entrepreneurial mindset and shortcuts from entrepreneurs while doing bookkeeping for small businesses
• Trained visionary and make-your-own-path to middle and high school students starting in 1999.
• Co-founded E! Club in 2002 as a public service with Gary Hoover (Founder of Bookstop, TravelFest, and Hoover’s Online). E! Club, an interactive environment where entrepreneurs educate younger mavericks thought exercises, in-depth conversations, expert speakers, and serious entrepreneurial mink-work.
• Moved to another state without a job.
• Taught long term marriage success to engage couples (2 years).
• Was a life coaching before it was ‘field’.
• Caregiver for an elder 2005-2020.
• Jumped out of an airplane (twice).
• Bankruptcy survivor (parent's) so I studied the faults, mistakes, and downside or entrepreneurship in my early days.
• Began to study the power of positive mindset when my mom got cancer and went into ‘death mode’ back in the days that everyone believed that... If you got cancer you would be dead within a year.
Personal experience with Spiritual awakening, dark night of the soul, and walking the righted path.
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When you want to make your life count, I can help you with inner alignment and making the necessary transitions.
I have vast experience to help you achieve the best-use-of-a-lifetime, make your difference, best yourself and leave behind strongly built living legacies!
Diane lives in the North Carolina on spirited land called Maverado. She hails Austin, Southern California, and Illinois as places she has lived and loved. She is married (since 1979) with two children, three granddaughters and two grandsons.
What exactly IS a transitions/Death Doula?
A companion/mentor/confidant/guide who assists you as you finish up on earth and go through the transition process called death.
Online talk, 2018.