Franziska: Hi there and welcome back! Today, I quickly wanted to discuss the topic about not bad-mouthing anyone. Whether that is a competitor or anyone really, a team member, a supplier, anyone. The reason why is because you do sometimes hear people talk negatively about someone and especially often about competitors. There are 3 reason why it‘s not a good idea to do that.

The first one is the most important one. Whenever you are talking bad about someone it makes you look not amazing. It never makes you look amazing, actually.

The second one also, it‘s just bad energy. When you talk bad about someone, it‘s just not amazing energy.

The third one is that there‘s no point. I have this policy that I would never talk bad about anyone because there‘s no point and it just doesn‘t make you look amazing.

Now what do you do if somebody talks bad about you? So sometimes, of course, it happens that you might have someone, maybe someone who is a little bit jealous about your results or even a competitor or someone on social media that is maybe bad-mouthing you. So what do you need to do?

I‘d love to give you 3 things.

The first one is don‘t bite back. So if someone is saying something nasty about you, don‘t bite back. Just take a minute. I know it can be frustrating, or even upsetting or disappointing, but there‘s no point in biting back. Just let it go past you.

Secondly, you have to know that this has most likely got nothing to do with you. People are bad-mouthing about others because they feel an insecurity in themselves. It‘s often got nothing to do with you. So really, I wouldn‘t even engage in that.

Thirdly, what I would also do is focus mainly on the good things. Focus on who you can collaborate with because it is all about collaboration, and the future of entrepreneurship and how you can grow your company is also through collaboration. So rather than engaging in someone who is saying bad things about you, and rather than taking it personally, focus on the connections that you have that are fruitful, that are helping you to collaborate and grow companies together.

I wanted to share this with you because it‘s something that I have been noticing really for a while. It‘s just when people are talking negative about someone else, I often lose a little bit of respect for that person and I don‘t want you to be that person.

As always, if you know someone who would benefit from this tip, please share it with them, please help us create ripple effects because that‘s what we are all about here at Basic Bananas. The one thing that we really care about is making or creating ripple effects all around the globe. If you could help us do that, that would be amazing. Thank you so much!