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Touches on my beginning and where I am now let’s make our dreams !!
  
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Ten seconds in, started right now. Trying to do the introduction that I want to say about this whole thing. I wanna do from the beginning to now with you. I wanna show you and tell you where I've been and where I've made it to. It's it's kind of a long story, so it's gonna be this is gonna be a little bit more of a bigger version of this. I'm gonna say probably probably an hour, maybe a little bit more. We'll see what happens. I'm gonna edit it and see what happens with it. First off, I want to sit there and give in to the fact that we need to sit there and go from the very beginning of this. I in 2006, some first off, my name is Crazy Lane. That's why it's called Crazy Entrepreneur. Entrepreneur. Literally, I called it this reasonable reason because I have kind of been really crazy about entrepreneurship. I haven't I've been sporadic about it. I've I've been really honestly thinking that it's a thing that I could have dove into probably earlier in life than what I did. I didn't dive into it until later on in life, and I probably should have done it, dove into it a long time ago, and I just never did. I knew that I had an entrepreneurial spirit entrepreneurial spirit. I knew that I have that. I know that I have that desire to do so. So really, in most every single thing I could in most everything I could think of, or everything I can even imagine, I never thought I would be doing entrepreneurial ship. I thought I was happy with what I had chosen my life, and I was going forward with that. I started in 2000, I graduated in 2001, 2002, well, 2001 is when I graduated. Literally, I went into IT and I started doing some things with that, tried to go to college, did all that. Then I worked at Temp Jones for a long time. IT work wasn't available during that time. It was a I mean the 2000 crates kind of hit everything with a kind of a crash with it, and then after that, things were starting to like buckle down around everything. There's a lot of things that happened where things weren't hiring at certain points with IT. And I literally kind of left it at that. So in work odds and ends, whatever I could find for a job. Worked as a factory worker, worked as a Walmart employee at one point. I've worked in several different companies for that whole time. I worked two and a half years at a village market, which doesn't even exist anymore. They've they closed down. They've already they've already been they only kept one of their stores, and the rest of them all been shut down. It's crazy how things go like that, I guess, as far as that goes. I worked there until I'm gonna say 2005, almost 2006. I worked at multiple factories for a while, and I finally, you know, I got tired of waiting around and looking around for work. I got tired of always trying to sit there and figure it out what I was gonna do next or a job. So I went into a business that I thought would always need people. So I became I got my CDL, Slash A CDL, became a truck driver in 2006. It's not 2026. I still have that on my back bar if I need it. If I ever need it for anything else, I do. I do use it from time to time to keep on going whenever I have issues with whatever I'm doing, or if there's something that arises where I need to go ahead and do it. I use it for that reason. It's a backup plan for a lot of things. Maybe I need to get rid of the crutch. Because it kind of is a crutch. I crutch out on it sometimes and I shouldn't be doing that. I would say that's a downfall. But any anyway, as I say I'll have to say this. I in 2019, what 2000 2019, 2020, I went to school and was still a truck driver, and I went to school for I IT completely. I got my bachelor's in computer science, did that, worked at multiple different companies, worked at Kellogg, worked at local pool, worked at science aerochemical, worked at Stryker Medical, I've worked at all different places with IT background that needed an IT background to do the job that we're doing. And I worked for uh Kellogg Corporation building for a while too. Did all that. Um I worked for CompuCom for quite a while, a little bit longer than everybody else. I worked there as a full-time employee for them for almost two and a half years, and I would be a travel tech. I would run and do runs for them or do things they need me to keep in that amidst of that. And then I also sit there and kept on truck driving in between it. So that way I would never lose my CDL or lose my criteria of what I've gained off that. In 2022, I figured out that I was married and me and my other half wanted to sit there and go into business together and do something together that maybe even have her dream completed and what she wanted. We did the bakery thing. We did a bakery for three years. It didn't succeed. It had a lot of issues with it. There's a lot of downfall in that, about knowing what not to do and what to do. In any industry, you figure out your nicks and knacks about things. You try to figure out the way to make it make it profitable. It's hard to do that when you shortcut things. I'm not saying that for anybody else. I'm saying that for myself, and honestly, shortcut shortcutt only kills your business. It doesn't help you. And that's even for people that do it still. The big companies, the big numb the big names all do this. They all shortcut everything, and they just keep on adding more to their profitability by adding franchises or adding other buildings. That's where quality takes a hit because you just can't you don't have the time to make the quality you used to make, or the quality items you made when you first began. So it's a thing that you just don't do. I would sit there and say that a lot of our issue was issues internally about itself and want and wanting to run it a certain way, and it never never was agreed upon by anybody. And I say that to saying that I failed. I've made a failure. A three-year failure, even. Even when things were good, things were good. But things got bad really quickly. Now, to present, I drive a semi, also on top of what I'm doing now. I also own my own business that I'm working on doing. I have three other businesses I'm working on making them into a profitable situation or making them into a lucrative thing. I've done all this while everybody else sits there and said, Don't do it, you're being foolish, you're being this, you're being that. The reality of people thinking that you're foolish because they wouldn't do it, that really doesn't matter. It only matters what you really think about your situation and what you're gonna make yourself become. From the beginning to the new beginnings. Learning that you have a way of not being afraid, you have to pursue, you have to fight, you have to run through things, you have to figure out what you did wrong the last time. And that's why I mentioned Aday about the one thing, because honestly, that's the extent of what I'm saying about that. It's not nothing more about it, there's no more excuses about it. It had just as much weight on me to be in a failure as it did for everybody else that was involved. We all failed. I hope that everybody from that experience figured out what they didn't want to do again, and I hope they're all out there trying again. I hope everybody tries. And the words that are in your in your credo or in your life story or in your things that you have together with it all. Make sure they're 100% true. Don't don't change them, don't fault them, don't don't shortcut them. Give people the give people your all. Don't give people half of you. Half of you gets you nowhere. All of you can get you where you want to go. And you might even surprise yourself about how far you can go with just you being 100% at. Gotta be 100% at. There's a lot of things about setting this up in the beginning and going from that point to that point. We all have things that we're afraid of. I ask you, what is the point of being afraid? I ask you that. Challenge yourself one day and think about it like this. What good is your fear in this? Is it helping you stay transparent and stay grounded in what you're doing? Or is it making you stuck in what you're doing? The entrepreneurial spirit feels stuck. The one that doesn't have the entrepreneurial spirit will feel like they're they're being rounded and they're being understandable, they're they're being understanding about how it affects their family or their friends, all the things that ripple around them, and they do it all that way. And their excuses is that they always will always do it that way. We all have things that we have to work on. Working on things day by day makes it easier. Doing one step at a time, getting get step five goals a day, and work towards towards those goals every day. Those five goals, get those done in the one week if you have to. Or get them done in the same day if you can. I I loved getting things done quicker. I did not like dragging behind. I I'm the type of person that's very, very motivated on what I'm doing. And then looking at other people that are not motivated around, I mean, it's like I it almost annoys me because I really honestly am very, very analytical in that I want I'm my biggest critic. I'm my biggest critic. I really am. I think of it as an issue of myself that I have to perfect what I want to be. Without that, there's no perfection in what I want to do. So, in a lot of aspects, I push towards those things. So I gave you guys a little bit of an initial about my beginning and what I've done through my life. Not a single person thought I could do any of the things I have done. No one's ever really figured it out that, hey, this guy can do a lot of stuff if he puts his mind to it. A lot of people can do that. There's a lot of people out there that don't even know that they have a knack for something, and they're hindering themselves on what their knack is because they think, oh, there's no way I can do this and make money at it. There's no way I could do that and make money at it. There's no way I could sell this or that and make money at it. Give me five reasons why you can't, and give me five why you want to. And make those five reasons why you want to your main drive. The five reasons why you can't is only holding you back. Let go of the why you can't and start doing what you want to achieve. Push forward. Don't redact or fall back on it. I mean, honestly, I know people that I know people that sit there and say, Man, the time wasn't right. The timing was right, wasn't right, the timing wasn't right. Well, the real secret is the timing will never be right. In a perfect world it'll be right, but in a perfect world that we don't live in. We live in a world that has no certainty of anything. So without getting too far into that right now, today, anyways, I would sit there and say this to you push forward, move through your doubts and get over your doubts and start producing yourself into an LLC corporation, whatever you want to do. Make your decision, do your homework on that, and what you want to do with your system and your business that you want to do the way you want to do it. If you don't want to do it on your own with creating your own LLC and doing your own thing and being your own agent, then go to busy or go to Taylor Brands or whatever, I care. The other one I'm I'm falling short on my mind about what it is, and I probably shouldn't be doing that, but I don't remember what it is. I I think it's a little bit more expensive. That's why I'm kind of thinking that it's not the same as the other two, because they're kind of they're doing promos on things and they don't they do it for almost basically $100 to $150. Taylor Brands is a little bit more expensive, but Busy is actually the chiefest one I found out of all this. They set you up in a bank account, they give you an email address, they give you website availability if you want to. You can even have a digital address if you want to set up in there. I mean, it's crazy how you can do all that. That's awesome. Crazy, crazy. Don't mind the part. Let's say life has been fun and very full. Not a single person in my life has ever thought that I would accomplish anything I've done. But they all thought I'd fail, and which I have made my failures, but like I said, I haven't. Everybody has made their failures. But I'm still here kicking and I'm still here fighting. I'm still working towards those things. I started this podcast to sit there and do that and start this with you guys and try to go on a journey of reflection and actually work towards something greater. So I'm I say that. I want you guys to know that I'm here. If anybody wants to sit there and talk to me, my you can reach me at my email attached to here. I take fan mail here. Also, I that's on BuzzCrowd. BuzzCrowd is where you can get me by email. I'm gonna create an email that has my name on it, not my real name, but my other name. Maybe oh, you know what? Honestly, there's no point in writing this that way. Just go ahead and contact me. You can contact me at james.blair at crazycreations.org. Again, james.blair at crazycreations.org. And let me know what you want to talk about. We can have interviews. I will do interviews of anybody that wants to sit there and talk and have a conversation about what they're struggling with and what they need help with or what they need the what what what insight do you have on this that I could help you with? I have a lot of insight in some things because I've I've done this a lot more. Well, a lot, not a lot more, but I know people that have done it a lot more than I have. I'm still in my beginning, basically. Well, I mean, five years in, I mean, that's not it's not in the beginning, but it's not definitely not new. But mistakes are still being made and things are still still being worked through. Like, I told I think I said this in I think that I said this in the beginning of my intro. One man told me, sat there, and said, I figured out one thing out of thirty that I've tried, and it's worked. Some people get lucky on the first first shot. That's their passion, they're gonna strive for it and they're gonna work for it. I mean, honestly, I I would love to have had that be that way with some things, but don't follow others' dreams to your success. Follow your own. Because honestly, if you don't have the passion that they share on something, you're not gonna stay doing that. You're just not because it doesn't interest you to stay in it, to stay in it at all. So I think I'm done with that rant about that, or my conversation about that. Like I said, you can get a hold of me at JamesGlair at CrazyCreations. Reach out and talk to me. We'll talk about this and we'll figure out some more stuff. I'm gonna start sending emails to businesses that I know and start working on that tomorrow. I got one that I might even do that's kind of kind of funny because there might be a thing where actually I do talk to somebody that maybe might be an interesting interview because where we where I was open as a business at before, they are now working the business there, and they now have a bakery in the same place where we where I started or where partially I started with my with my partner at that point in time. I don't have a partner anymore in business. I don't I don't really do that. I I want to stri I want to strive to make my own way, not somebody else's dream. Like I said, I want to dream for myself, not dream for others. I want to dream for others too, but I also want to dream for myself. So please join me in this journey of of my dream and your dream, and let's make it a reality. Let's make dreams into realities. Because honestly, that's what it is. You have a dream of ownership, you have a dream of owning your own business and working your own business and learning what you have to do and the ins and outs of it, the way you're gonna cultivate it, the way you're gonna start market it, the way you're gonna sit there and talk to your businesses around your area. Get out there, talk to them. Ask people what would really be cool when you get a business. When you get a business idea, ask people what they think of that business idea. Don't be afraid to ask. It might shock you what they say. Is that something you could see this community needing? Is this something that you'd want to have? A lot of people will always sit there and tell you, oh, that that's a little harsh of a business to get into. Okay, well, even the people that are in business try to discourage you from having your own business. Don't give in to that. Just be in your own dream and work towards your dream. Passionately work towards your dream. Not somebody else's. In closing today, I'm gonna sit there and say thank you all for coming into my live and thank you for not my live my coming into my for my podcast and seeing what we're doing here and working from there. I know this has been a little bit longer, it's 23 minutes, probably gonna short it with some editing. Alright, have a good day. You guys all have a good day. And I guarantee one thing, people will push towards something greater if they want to. If they don't, they don't. But if they do, let's push together. Let's go ahead and push this all the way through and get through some barriers that we have of our own, of our own disbelief, and start working towards a greater purpose of ourselves and what we're doing. Or morning, afternoon, whatever whatever time it is where you're at. You guys have a good day. Or night. Or morning.