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The Journey Out
The Journey Out Podcast is a podcast designed to be the helping hand for everyday people who are on their Exodus Journey!
You were designed for a purpose and many times, just like Moses, we need a burning bush or sign from God that it is time to leave, or journey out, from what we are used to, to be propelled to where we are called to be.
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The Journey Out
The Hidden Power of Failure in Your Business Journey
Failure isn't the enemy of entrepreneurship—it's the secret ingredient for success. Join us as we transform the conversation around business setbacks from sources of fear into powerful catalysts for growth.
The fear of failure traps countless would-be entrepreneurs before they ever truly begin. Our candid conversation peels back the layers of common entrepreneurial anxieties—financial loss, public embarrassment, disappointing loved ones, and the persistent shadow of imposter syndrome that makes us question our qualifications and capabilities.
When we examine sobering statistics (20% of businesses fail within their first year, 50% within five years, and 65% within a decade), we could easily become discouraged. Instead, we share compelling stories of business legends like Oprah Winfrey and Steve Jobs whose greatest innovations emerged directly from their most painful failures. These narratives reveal an essential truth: failure is not the end but merely feedback guiding you toward your proper path.
The journey requires fundamental mindset shifts—seeing challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles, embracing adaptability, committing to continuous learning, and celebrating authenticity over conformity. We explore practical strategies for managing entrepreneurial risks: starting small, testing ideas systematically, building financial safety nets, surrounding yourself with mentors and coaches, and establishing measurable goals that build confidence with each achievement.
Whether you're contemplating your first business venture or working to scale an existing enterprise, this conversation offers both the encouragement and practical wisdom to transform your relationship with failure. Remember: your destiny surpasses temporary setbacks, and the obstacles you overcome today become the foundation of tomorrow's success. The question isn't whether you'll face failure—it's how you'll use it to fuel your journey forward.
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Hello everyone and welcome back to the Journey Out podcast. Today, we will be talking about overcoming fears as an entrepreneur, so let's get right into it. What is home care? How do I navigate health care?
Speaker 2:What do I do when I feel down and depressed? I'm stressed. Am I enough?
Speaker 1:What can I do? What is this going to cost? So let's get into a little bit about talking about how to overcome fears as an entrepreneur and we're entrepreneurs. So we have been there, We've done that. But I kind of want you to kind of go over for me why does fear of failure hold so many people back?
Speaker 2:Wow, that's a good question. I think nobody wants to fail right. Fear is really coming from the unknown. You step out there, you start a business, but you don't have the steps, you really don't have the blueprint to make your business succeed. So the fear of failure is just hey, I don't know what's going to happen. I don't know what that's to happen, right, I don't know what that's going to look like. I don't know if I'm going to rebound. But failure builds character for you to succeed in the future.
Speaker 1:Right, right and honestly, you want to view as an entrepreneur, you want to view failure as a stepping stone for success, because if you don't fail, you will likely just stay the course, like you would just continue to do every day what you thought worked every day. And if you didn't find out that it didn't work or it didn't help people or it didn't essentially do what your mission is said to do, then you will just keep doing what's not important and it's not, it's not valuing anybody in business or in life.
Speaker 2:Right, obstacles going to come right through your journey. Obstacles going to come, but those obstacles or those failures or those situations are learning lessons, right, right, and that makes you better as a person, right, if you learn from.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Right, so now? Hey, now I know how to navigate through this situation. Right, this situation come up again, or something similar. I'm going to do something different because I've learned from the last.
Speaker 1:Right, and so let's talk about some common fears that most entrepreneurs have.
Speaker 2:Well, let me ask you this Okay, go ahead. How can entrepreneurs use failure as a stepping stone?
Speaker 1:Well, I would say, essentially just being able to redirect. I think it's super important for entrepreneurs not to be kind of stagnant or wanting to stay in one place or wanting to stay in your comfort zone. What failure tends to do is push you in a completely opposite direction, but without that direction you can't grow. You're kind of just stuck at this plateau and you you know, with failure it comes success, comes redirection, which leads to different opportunities for you to grow as an entrepreneur.
Speaker 2:So I would say that OK, so do me a favor right now. Define failure in the entrepreneur journey in the entrepreneur journey.
Speaker 1:Okay, so there's quite a few. Obviously, one of the big ones is financial loss. Everybody knows that if you're an entrepreneur, you're going into it with the mindset of I have to make my own money, right. And so one of the big things that you're going to think about is can I sustain this? Am I going to be able to make profit? What if something happens and there's another coronavirus or something you know pandemic and all these things that pop up? Can I sustain through that? What happens if I lose money?
Speaker 1:Uh, another one is like public embarrassment. Um, so many people go through different things. I mean, there's we've seen a lot of, um, entrepreneurs that are now put on blast for, you know, doing things illegally or just doing just weird things, and so, uh, public embarrassment is always going to be one of those things of of, if people don't agree with me. You know, council culture is so real these days. If people don't agree with what I'm saying, if people don't agree with what I'm doing, there is a potential for us to be, you know, publicly for for making decisions.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that you think is good for the business, but also so what about you also have let down family and friends? Right because those people look up to you first of all, right, and those people are the reason why you'll get in the business or do. Your journey is to support your family right, and so you can feel a little let down in doing that.
Speaker 1:I mean, and you think about it, if you think about first-time entrepreneurs like ourselves, we're the first ones really in our family to say, hey, let's do something, let's start something for others because we went through something. We're the real first entrepreneurs that can help hold a lot of weight for some people. And so a lot of people do look at you like, hey, you got to hold us up because you decided you wanted to do this and it's going great now, but can you sustain, right?
Speaker 2:and yeah, and then that. Then that brings in self-doubt and imposter syndrome. So one big thing for me right, we're the biggest critics of ourselves, right, we give ourselves the hard time we criticize ourselves harder than probably anybody, which creates self-doubt in our abilities to do things. So then you add the imposter syndrome to it. So now me, that means, hey, I'm coming into a area of business. I really have no experience then, right, but I'm trying to imposter or do what other people are doing yeah, yeah, yeah and that to me wasn't working it's.
Speaker 1:It's just one of those things like we, like you, say we're our biggest critics, we don't feel like we're ever prepared enough for where we are and where we're going. Like we don't we don't ever feel like we're prepared enough. When we, when you started pc, it was because granny was going through what she was going through and you was like, hey, I need to be a resource for other families who went through this. Okay, well, there's a, there's more to business than just when, like, I want to help people, so, so so listen, so listen.
Speaker 2:Even with that, what happened was okay. Yes, I want to help people, yeah so the only thing I knew is I want to. I knew the adl part of it right. I knew I wanted to assist people with bathing, grooming the easiest. We know that but once I started looking into it and going through the state, oh man, I have to have agreements I have to have this policy. I'm like I didn't sign up for this like it's.
Speaker 1:It's such a different thing. And then also too, I don't know about like for you, but as far as far as me, in school I didn't learn about entrepreneurship or business, and then I didn't go to college for that. I went and got a trade. I became a medical assistant. They weren't teaching us any business or anything like that, so it's all a learning curve so, yes, so eventually.
Speaker 2:For us and our demographics, usually sometime the college or the schooling is the hard knock life of jumping in right, first right, and I'm gonna go back to this imposter syndrome right I like to wear a good suit, I like to dress up, you know I like to look good and smooth. But jumping into a networking environment or a business environment, that wasn't me that yeah I was. I like jogging pants and J's. And once I said hey, let me take my identity back. Some people like it, some people don't, but it worked for me.
Speaker 1:And I think that's the beauty of entrepreneurship, because it's not a one-size-fits-all. Again, with the imposter syndrome, you can't please everybody and you're not going to be able to make everybody happy, you're not going to fit into every crowd. It's not going to be that way. I think, at the end of the day, as an entrepreneur, what you have to wake up and do and say hey one, I'm putting my faith first. First, if you believe I'm serving others.
Speaker 2:Second, and then the next thing I'm going to do is make sure that I'm being myself wholeheartedly in every situation, because once you become yourself, or you find yourself. Like I always say uh, failures, build character right for you succeed. And, honestly, uh, as you go through your journey on whatever that is, guess what that character is going to peel back the layers right that you didn't even know you had exactly to make you be that person that you were called to be.
Speaker 1:I mean, if every, if there's a bunch of breeze out there, it. The reason for entrepreneurship is for you to be the antoine. You know it's. You have to be different, you have to be yourself. You can't, you can't just give it to people cookie cutter and it's not going to always work that way. People like, like authenticity, and when you bring that, that sets sets the tone. But kind of share some statistics for me or some research about just failure and entrepreneurship and kind of how they really do go hand in hand okay.
Speaker 2:so according to the us bureau of labor statistics, around 20 of new businesses fell within the first year. That's crazy, okay. 50% fail within five years.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:And then 65% fail within 10 years. I thought that the longer that you have your business, the greater it is to succeed Right, which in some cases and it can be- yeah but they say 65 percent of businesses fail within the first 10 years. Not only you got to get back past the first year, that's 20 percent of business failure, 50 percent failing within five years and then 65 percent in 10 years.
Speaker 1:That's, that's so wow, that's a uh, just an alarming statistic and, like you said, you don't think about that because you're thinking, oh, if there's longevity, you're obviously doing okay.
Speaker 1:But sometimes that's not always the case, because the one thing about being an entrepreneur and about the longevity of businesses they change. That's why failure comes into play. Things change, things happen, things evolve and sometimes you can evolve in a direction that is not good for growth, not good for business, not good for you know keeping people on board with you. And then sometimes you can grow and have that longevity and you're moving in a direction that is positive, you know for, for, for the trajectory of your business. So it just really all depends.
Speaker 2:um, yeah, oh, okay, so let's go here. Okay, so let's go, let's reframe, let's reframing. Excuse me, failure as learning tool okay reframing failure as learning tool.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Tell me something.
Speaker 1:So I think we have to shift our perspective on failure. Of course, failure is not something that you know we want to happen, but it is, it's just bound to, it's just one of those things. So we have to uh shift our perspective and understand that failure is not, uh, the end, but it is feedback for growth. Again, like we were talking about talking about earlier. It does redirect you and get you to a certain level that you weren't at previously. If everything was all good, you would change nothing right.
Speaker 2:So you know so. So a failure is a lesson to learn, so some people say you know, I think it's a win-win exactly. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:So let me give you some examples of that. So let's talk about oprah, right, okay, okay, so oprah encountered some pushback back in 2011 after launching her own uh television network. She launched her own you know, owned owen oprah winfrey network. She launched on and in 2011, she received some pushback from it. She did not have high ratings at all, and this is oprah winfrey.
Speaker 1:She didn't have high ratings at all, but she decided, hey, I'm going to persevere. I'm going to continue, regardless of what everybody else says. I'm going to. I'm going to persevere. I'm going to continue, regardless of what everybody else says. I'm going to. I'm going to do what I said set out to do. Okay, she revamped the entire company and grew her ratings like revamped every everything. So the failure that she was was reaching, which was low television ratings, which means you don't need it. You don't need a network because people aren't wanting to watch you. She said, okay, that is a failure, don't get me wrong. That is is not a good thing, but maybe there's something that I'm doing internally that is not boosting my ratings and she revamped everything, so that means she's went back she.
Speaker 2:She did more research and she implemented some things that maybe her audience was liking and also to draw a new audience.
Speaker 1:Exactly. And so she didn't. She didn't view the low ratings as something that was going to end her career or in something that she wanted to do. No, she thought about it as hey, let me redirect, let me figure out what they actually want to see and let me put something out that they will be proud of and that I'm proud of. And so one of the quotes that she is quoted saying is there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just trying to move us in another direction. And essentially that's what happened. She was in point A, realized point A was not working out, she pivoted to point B and look at where she is now. Another someone else who is going to be important To kind of Shift in that perspective is going to be Steve Jobs. Everybody knows Steve Jobs. He invented Apple, right, but guess what? His own company Fired him. He was fired from his own company.
Speaker 1:That he created back in 1985. He got back on board In 1997 right. Then he came back with new innovative ideas. He created the iPod, which went crazy. Then, of course, later on invented the iPhone that we most people use today right. And so he is quoted by saying sometimes, when you innovate, you can make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly and get on with improving your other innovations, and that is what's important as an entrepreneur. You're an entrepreneur because you set out to make a change or a difference in something that you've seen. For us, we got the diagnosis of dementia and it was like, OK, go figure it out. We were like, OK, why we got to figure out?
Speaker 2:somebody supposed to help us figure this stuff out. We had to figure it out.
Speaker 1:We had to figure it out.
Speaker 2:And then some people, some people destiny and success is in their what's the word. What's the word?
Speaker 1:Determination.
Speaker 2:No, in their pain.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:Or in their life obstacle.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:So don't overlook. Yeah, those hard times, those lessons, those obstacles that come up in your life, because your pain that come from it can be your destiny.
Speaker 1:Exactly, and that is how that's my preacher. You preach it, but that's how we got here today. That's that's exactly what I'm trying to say. Like you're, you're in the business of fixing someone's pain point. That's why you have your business, so you can't just decide when it gets hard. I'm not going to do this because guess what? There's so many people depending on you to keep this going, the people that you set out to help in the beginning. But now you probably employed some people. They need you. You probably have clients.
Speaker 2:They for sure need you and somebody needs to hear your story.
Speaker 1:Exactly. You have to kind of like, be the springboard for the next entrepreneur. You have to set the tone so we can continue to evolve as an economy. Wow, you know, okay, I like that. Adaptability and continuous learning. Like you can't go into a situation thinking, oh, I know what I'm doing, I know how I'm doing this and expect for it to always be right. There's no way.
Speaker 2:You have to go on into the next thing. Yeah, change your mindset.
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Speaker 2:All right, the mindset is very important. Your mindset, if you're not willing to change it and look at it from outside of your own bubble.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Can keep you locked in.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:So your mindset can cause that fear, can cause those doubts, can make you think you're not good enough, can also make you think you don't have the right product.
Speaker 1:Right, right.
Speaker 2:Right, or whatever that is you may be doing. Changing your mindset is crucial, understanding that it's going to be ups and downs, it's going to be storms right, it's going to be some wins. It's going to be things that's going to make you feel like, hey, why am I doing this?
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Why do I need to get up and take this? I can be doing something, but having a strong mindset, a strong belief in what you're doing, who you're serving, all your product that you are selling, is a big key.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the big word that you said there was change. You have to be willing. You have to be willing to change, change your mindset, change your situation, be resilient, adapt to whatever circumstances come to you. You have to be willing to listen. You talked about continuous learning. So we've been in business eight years now. Right, we just left a conference last week where we were learning how to continue to grow our business but also to continue to give that same quality of care. And so we decided, hey, anytime we come back from these and we've been to about what four now and so it's a continuous thing we're like we're not good enough. We're never good enough, we always can be better.
Speaker 1:And this time we decided, hey, hey, let's bring the staff right so the staff for eight years have heard us say xyz, we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this we come back from the, from the on fire hey yes, that's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 2:Let's do this and they looking at us like what are you, what you doing?
Speaker 1:on right, you know we took them to the conference, right? We now come back from the conference and they're like I understand.
Speaker 2:They on fire.
Speaker 1:The pieces of the puzzle are all here. Everything's connected. It's just a different level of. It's just a different level of let's do this, Like let's, let's change the world, Like that's. That's, that's how we're thinking, but that's because they're also. We also have people around us who can change mindset, adapt, continue to learn and want to grow and want to be the best versions of themselves.
Speaker 2:Continue to learn so you can teach.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Your testimony will help you preach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:Let me stop.
Speaker 1:No, I mean, keep going, because you I mean you hit it on the head Like, really, as entrepreneurs, we have to start seeing challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles, like I think that was one of the big things that you helped me see. Mind you, I'm like 20 plus years younger than you, right, right, and so you're, my father, owning a business, and when we came in, I'm looking at things one note I'm like no, we can't do this. We can't do this. This does not make sense. I don't have the manpower for this I can't listen.
Speaker 2:At that time we probably had no business. I would have let her because it was I was.
Speaker 1:One note he literally sat me down with a whiteboard. Again, you're talking about the leader of the company, his own daughter, sitting me down and being like hey, think about it. Like this. He wrote it and it's bringing tears to my eyes because it really talks to the level of being able to adapt and you're teaching me and you're learning as we go too.
Speaker 2:You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And so he's like hey, look at it like this, got the whiteboard out, start putting stuff together. You're so right, this does not have to be a challenge for me, I just have to think about it differently. And so because we solve problems we're problem solvers, that's, that's essentially our job as entrepreneurs to solve problems and to make it an easy transition. I don't need no tissues, I'm OK. I'm OK, but it's just. It's just to the testament of like who you are and what we do. Right, we're talking about that now.
Speaker 2:So I just love it. Well, thank you you're welcome. You're welcome good night, all right okay, okay, so let's go so we talked about mindset shifts. Fix your mindset right right let's talk about preparation and risk management. Tell me a little bit about that okay.
Speaker 1:So when we're going into talking about preparation and risk management, essentially as an, you have to prepare for different situations, but also you do have to think about the risk that you're going to be taking as an entrepreneur, like you have to manage those risks in a kind of consolidated situation. So you know, okay, this is probably where Phil, you can enter, but I am consolidating in this package. That looks pretty and I know what the outcome could essentially be.
Speaker 2:Yes, I think some people, when they start their business and they do whatever type of risk management that they do, I think once they start to analyze the risk and see and learn where the future pitfalls can be, I think that's enough to make them say hold on.
Speaker 1:But this is why preparation is key, because you have to prepare for that. So the first thing you want to do is start small. You have to start testing ideas before you just go all into a situation, especially if you haven't started the business yet and you're thinking about it and you're like, hey, I kind of really want to do this. Start small, test different ideas first. You want to I don't know start a doggy daycare, that's cool.
Speaker 1:Well, because my sister-in-law, if you're hearing this, this is specifically for you. Okay, if you want to start a doggy daycare, okay. The first thing you you want to think about is I need somewhere to house them. I can't go and just be like come all the dogs, bring all the dogs to me. I have nowhere to house the dogs for the daycare right you know.
Speaker 1:So you have to start small. Let's's start looking at commercial properties. Let's start figuring out you know what are my work hours, what are those timeframes. You want to start small in that way to try to make sure that I am testing everything to make sure it's, you know, can work effectively and efficiently.
Speaker 2:And also with that you want to build a financial safety net.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Whether that's understanding what you're doing saving money for that some people get a loan yeah some people do, uh, other things. We will go more deep into that part at on a later podcast, because we're going to break down this information for y'all right.
Speaker 1:Also having a support system right a mentor coach, listen community listen, I listen.
Speaker 2:Quick story I had. It was on a friday. I was going to see, uh, my boy, uh uh, mark drake, and that saturday I was going to say, hey, listen, I had another meeting, but I was going to hit the floor running. Yeah, I had my flies printed and everything. Hey, this is what I'm gonna do. Mark, speaking with him, he gave me some advice, right, and I didn't know nothing about that advice. He gave me a little, some tidbits of how you, how your business form and this, and that. Yeah, I'm like, okay, cool, that's cool. All right, I'm gonna look into that. But I told him that Friday night I was like, listen, I'm gonna speak to somebody else Saturday morning and if he didn't say something that I want to hear or what I need to hear, I'm going to put flies.
Speaker 1:You going all in? I was going all in, okay.
Speaker 2:So Saturday morning came and shout out to Monty he's a business consultant, he's a great guy and he gave me the tools I needed. He mentored me. He said okay, if you're gonna do this, you need to go do, do, boom. What about the state? Do, do, do, do. And for probably a month or two, every Saturday he sat with me to make sure I was doing what I needed to do to start the business right on solid ground to move forward. So him again, shout out to Monty. I call him OG Monty. I appreciate you, sir. Him taking time out of his from his family his weekend to spend with me helped me and I appreciate that. So mentors are great. Even we went to this conference yeah.
Speaker 2:We have coaches and stuff to help us in this specific business in home care. So, man, it's a must have.
Speaker 1:It's important. It's important to learn from people who are doing it on a day to day basis and at a higher level.
Speaker 2:And at a higher level. You know I can, if they what? And at a higher level, and at a higher level.
Speaker 1:You know I can, if they what was the saying? If you're the smartest person in the room, find another room. Yes, like that. That's essentially it. You know you want to be around people who are, you know, making a difference, making a, you know, a positive difference, and people who are wanting to grow, just like you, and doing the same thing that you're doing. Because you can, you can add those same kind of uh techniques and different things that they're using to your business to help you grow as well.
Speaker 1:And then it's like a mastermind like you're. You're talking to different people, you're getting their input, but they're doing the same thing. So you're, you've either been there or you're going to be there, and that's the. That's the thing you guys can kind of piggyback off each other, um. But I also think that it's important that you build confidence as an entrepreneur. Again, you don't go into it knowing everything you need to know, uh, you don't go into it knowing all the policies and the state rules and all the qualifications. So it's important that you build confidence, and the first way you can do that is by setting realistic, um and measurable goals.
Speaker 1:I know we all heard of smart, smart goals, s-m-a-r-t goals, realistic and measurable goals. Hey, if you want to start your business and you know that I don't have the capital but I also need to secure that commercial real estate space, ok, well, maybe I need to start not 2025, january 2025, maybe January 2026. And I can put in little measurable goals that I need to hit this by quarter one and this by quarter two. You know so little things like that to help you build your confidence as an entrepreneur because once you start to see it all just unfold and lay out, you're like I know I can do this right.
Speaker 2:And once you reach those small goals right, celebrate those wins oh yeah celebrated yeah acknowledge, do something to acknowledge that, hey, I got to this point. Be thankful, be appreciative yeah and and celebrate that, hey, I reached this goal. Yeah, I put it down on paper I, I, I, I set realistic outcomes to help meet this goal and I reached it. Celebrate those small wins and shout out to leah for that one yeah, see, coach leah yes she.
Speaker 1:The one thing we don't do is celebrate wins. We just keep going and we're like great and we just keep going. But it's important to do that because, again, it does build your confidence and let you know, hey, I can do it. But also you have to learn from mistakes instead of dwelling on them. Right, like I don't know, we can be hit with a million things in a day. We're like, oh, okay, and I'm like, okay, I know what I need to do and I just got to make the correction and you just got to keep going.
Speaker 2:When things come, you have to really get into problem solving mode. All right, how do we solve this problem? And then, once you solve the problem, how do we make sure? Is it somewhere in our operations that we fail for this problem to come up?
Speaker 1:So you have to set operational goals as well, right, and once you fix that problem, learn from it and keep moving. And then I would say one of the last things you want to do is really develop a routine of reflection and then improvement One of the good things that I know you taught me. In the beginning I would be like, well, why I did, why I did why? And you were like, well, listen, it's, it's happened. So what are we going to do and how can we not make this mistake again?
Speaker 2:you know what I mean. In other words, a lot of us, even including me, we get emotional. Yeah, right, and then we try to make the decisions on emotions. So what you would want to do is to say, hey, listen, ain't no need to keep talking about it and being mad about it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Ain't no need, ain't no need to sit and dwell in it. Find out what that problem is, fix the problem and move past it and try to make sure it don't happen again.
Speaker 1:Right, that's the best right, because as long as you stay emotional or stay dwelling in it, you ain't moving. You ain't moving, you're stagnant, you're stuck and you cannot adapt and redirect yourself when there is time for change. And so I guess, just as to recap a little bit about what we talked about today, I really just want to make sure that you guys understand we have to reframe our mind from what we know about failure. We have to think, shift perspective. Failure is not the end. Failure is feedback for growth. It also means that we have to change our mindset from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. We have to think about hey, this may be where I am, but I am going to a different level and so I need to change my mindset. I also have to see challenges as opportunities, and not obstacles.
Speaker 1:I have to say, hey, this is a challenge, a roadblock in my way, but I can get past this with X, y and Z. And then now, because I went through that roadblock, let me not have that roadblock happen again and I can do X, y and Z. It's also important to prepare and do some risk management. So make sure that you start small. You test all of your ideas. First, you build like a financial safety net.
Speaker 1:You also get a support system family friends coach mentors, whomever is in your circle that can help you, has started businesses before, has been in this type of level before. Seek some help, seek some guidance, but also set realistic and measurable goals. As you go forward with your coaches and mentors they should be helping you say hey, this could be a good trajectory, this is what you could possibly do, but also you have to continue to celebrate those small wins. Make sure that you're putting yourself first as well as you continue to try to scale this business that you're doing. Um, but make sure you celebrate the small wins.
Speaker 1:Continue to just have fun with what you're doing, because if you're not having fun, then it's. It doesn't matter at the end of the day if you're not enjoying what you're doing, because if you're not having fun, then it's. It doesn't matter at the end of the day, if you're not enjoying what you're doing, you can't serve people clearly, incorrectly, uh. So that's super important. But you also have to know failure is not the end. Your destiny surpasses all of that and you have to remember that you can keep going and you can do it just like all of us today and, like you said, failure is to build character for you to succeed right.
Speaker 1:So I hope that this has encouraged you. If you have a small business that you want to start, you've been thinking about starting do it. Do it, listen to the podcast, reach out to us. Whatever you want to do, we're here to help and support. But just remember start small and failure is going to happen, but we can overcome it and then that is all for the journey of podcast today. Thank y'all so much. See y'all later. Y'all have a blessed day you.
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