Step out of the comfort zone with Burcu Demirörs, CEO & Co-Founder of Helico | C-Suite HotSeat E36

Episode 36 October 12, 2022 00:17:05
Step out of the comfort zone with Burcu Demirörs, CEO & Co-Founder of Helico | C-Suite HotSeat E36
C-Suite HotSeat
Step out of the comfort zone with Burcu Demirörs, CEO & Co-Founder of Helico | C-Suite HotSeat E36

Oct 12 2022 | 00:17:05

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Show Notes

Burcu Demirörs is a co-founder and CEO at HeliCo Translation. After translating millions of words and simultaneously interpreting for ten thousand hours, she built a translation and interpretation company that now serves hundreds of clients worldwide with a full-time team of 14. She is a hard-working and determined individual with a motivated mindset to help her start each day positively and do whatever it takes to reach her goals in life. Burcu is also one of the best women paragliding pilots in Turkey as well as she drives a Harley Davidson bike. She believes that one should always have a second passion apart from business, and only by this can one stay motivated for growth.

Hosts:

Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade

Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers.

Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting-edge market research and consulting in the language industry.

Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news in the language industry.

This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights.

Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer

Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual

Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights

Nika Allahverdi - Product

Antonella Tiezzi - Design

 

00:00 Burcu Demirörs 00:40 What does your company do? 00:58 What was your dream career as a child? 02:12 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:17 Do you like traveling? 04:48 Best advice you've ever been given? 06:00 What inspired you to start your company? 09:31 First breakthrough moment 10:45 3 things that you spend the most time on 11:41 Your biggest failure 12:27 What does success mean to you? 13:44 What is the most innovative thing you have done? 15:02 Advice for entrepreneurs

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