The Crazy Entrepreneur

Introductory To The Crazy

James Season 1 Episode 1

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Well, I'm gonna sit there and say that in retrospect, the start of this is gonna be great. Um the start of my podcast is gonna be based on the fact of being that I need to do an actual real movement towards what entrepreneurial ship is. Knowing that there are struggles, failures, successes all together in one. Without failure, you can't get to where you need to be. Things are not that simple. You can't just expect it to be what you want it to be in the very beginning. You have to learn how to adapt. You have to learn how to be an actual movement and actually learn how to sit there and actually I don't put market yourself, um, create value for yourself in lots of ways, create staples in your business or niches, as we call them, or niches, or what do you want to say. Um I will say this. Um, I've learned one really major thing. I've learned what corporate talk is, I've learned what actual wording of ways they put things actually equals because I've been on both sides of the spectrum. I have been on both sides where I've I've done my own payroll, done my own thing, had 25 employees under me. I had a three-year business that I had running as a baker and a bakery, and I never baked before in my life at all. I mean, when I first started the whole thing, I didn't even do that. I don't even really want to touch it that much. I'm just gonna say this was a failure. It did not succeed. It's hard, it's a horrible business, it's a hard business to be into. The food industry is very hard to stay into because the fluctuation of people wanting something from you and learning how to actually make it be great where everybody wants it all the dang all the time. I mean, all the dang time. Um, I should say damn, I guess. Um is all the damn time they need that. You have to have really thick skin to be in the food industry because there's always gonna be somebody out there that doesn't like what you're making. It doesn't matter if you're making the greatest product in the world, there's always gonna be somebody out there that does not like what you're doing. Um I have progressed into different things because of that business, though. I learned that one thing about it is that graphic art, digital graphics for your business, for your look of your building, making sure things look professional, look the part, show your name, shows your design, shows your logo, shows your hours of business, shows all those things that you need in it. And I'll say this one guy told me when I was out there doing these things, we talked about it, he sat there and said, you know, I've had 30 failures before I found that one. That really that really resonated with me and made me think about it like it doesn't matter if you fail, it's about getting back up and doing it and trying again. Because honestly, people are gonna fail and just fall back into their old loop and go back into doing whatever they do to make a living in this world instead of actually accommodating yourself and actually realizing that hey, I really have this want or this spirit or this need to not be under somebody else. And really, I feel like I have what it takes to do this, even through the failures. You need to feel like you have what it takes. Because you do. If you've adapted to your situation of what you're wanting to do, you figure out your areas of what that is and what you want it to be. It is amazing how that works out. I mean, we all have things that we keep on doing, and people sit there and say one thing. There's one thing I'll sit there and always say about everybody that deals with entrepreneurial ship failures, they have to be fighters. You have to fight through it and figure out what works and what doesn't, and just go through it and realize that you know what, hey, that's great and all that you did all that, and you failed at it, so what? Because honestly, that failure leads to one thing, it leads to you knowing what happened last time where you failed, and maybe it makes you, you know, how do I put it? Like put a background of yourself, or what do you call it? I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm writing I'm I'm I am I'm blinking my I I guess I'm basically doing a writer's block on this one, or just like having a problem figuring out what I'm trying to say. It's on the tip of my tongue what I'm trying to say about that. And I would sit there and say maybe you need to meditate on that, or just really honestly gain perspective off of it and realize what you could do differently. Use it as a building block to what you want to do. Know where your failures were, know where your successes were, know where there's things that you could have done differently, but you did things to a certain point. You got to a certain point where things were working fine. In honesty, in all honesty, don't blame others for your failures. They're yours. Push through it, maintain it, and gain perspective. Perspective, that's what I was looking for. Perspective. There we go. I'm sorry. I actually gave I'm proud of myself for actually coming back to it. Um honestly, there are things out there that are people are gonna sit there and tell you that you have no idea about. But in a lot of retrospect or reality check for themselves, is they really don't know your situation, they're not in it. They never dealt with what you dealt with because they're not doing it, and a lot of people are always afraid of pushing forward through it. If there's something that's going on that makes you fail, okay. Well, we can't and redo what you're doing and move forward with it. Okay, I think we went over that a little bit too much. I think we're over that area now. Um, I would love to take interviews with people that are entrepreneurs and do those things too, and I'd like to reach out and start doing that and give out some perspective on that from them. And we can have all ideas together. I might be calling some people I know that I know that are in business that I would love to have their opinion put out here and do an interview. Um, I got one guy that I know that has is is wanting to push and start something, hasn't done it yet, but he's gonna do it. I know he is because he's determined. He's not like some people not like me, anyways, as far as I can see. There's no holding back, which I don't hold back either, but we all have aspects that we do differently. This is an idea that I had about doing a podcast, about making an entrepreneurial setup for business and talking about failures and talking about successes, talking about things that are in general general generalization of what you want to do. That's what this is about. And I'm doing this introduction about my bus about this business entrepreneurial um podcast and trying to figure out how that goes.