This week’s reflection
Pretty chill week this week. Ordered or wish listed a couple new clothing items to get soon so I can take a few new pictures and reset the Hinge account.
Dates
No dates this week. Had a few leads from Feel’d but they are all out of town 60 or 90 minutes away so was not able to have them come into the city. One lead isn’t available till next week.
Dates Next Week
Thursday
Going on Andy’s Podcast
Awesome podcast interview with KillYourInnerLoser yesterday. Went for 3.5hrs! Longest podcast interview I have done so my throats a bit sore.
Thank you to everyone who asked questions. We did get through them all, but if there was some nuance or further depth to your question you wanted answered, leave it here after listening to the interview and I’ll try to answer it.
Hard2Focus said:
What's one (or more) things you wish you did earlier in your self development journey?
We answered this on the podcast, but I want to reiterate here.
My answer is to have more self-compassion along the journey. I hold pretty high standards for myself. When I fall short of those standards, historically I have been a harsh critic. I only bring this up here because reflecting on the interview, I would have liked my answers to be more clear and succinct. I strive to have clear, impactful communication. So during the interview I could have done better. So now I recognize this is just a practice and make a mental note of what to do better. And I stop… rather than continuing to beat up on myself. This is what I mean by self-compassion. Recognizing I did well, and there are still areas for improvement.
Manly Cockfellow said:
how you developed the proper mindset, skills, connections and courage to start a business, as well as essential lessons you've learned since starting one.
Given Andy’s audience, I focused my answers more towards the beginning of my journey when I was freelancing as a web designer, photographer, and marketer. During that time I also dabbled in ecommerce. These are all what are sometimes labeled as “lifestyle” businesses.
The business I have now is a higher education startup which combines a student’s passions with global challenges (climate change, healthcare, poverty, ect) and helps them learn the skills to solve those problems. The only significant difference between a lifestyle business and startup is the scale you are trying to reach and consequently the amount of leverage required to reach that scale in capital, people, code, and media.
I’m not sure what type of business you’re trying to start. In the interview I focused on the former, but if you are trying to do the latter, my answer would change slightly. Open to chatting or elaborating if this is the case.
Also, I did not mention the name of my current business or go in depth about during the interview only because I did not want it widely marketed on YouTube in association with the rest of material I was discussing. (Higher education and BDSM don’t quite mix well).
However, for the others that asked about entrepreneurship and may be unclear about what it is that you want to do, one of the
courses I created for the startup is called “How to Find Your Purpose”. The course will lead you through figuring out what you actually care about, learning skills to pursue that thing, and applying those skills in either a job or as an entrepreneur to actually help others. All the courses for the startup are free, so check it out if you’re in the position of not knowing what the hell you want to do with your life.
MakingAComeback said:
I always want to be married, man. Talk to me about how you'd go about that. I wanna hear.
We spoke a lot about this throughout the interview. I know you will put in the work and heed advice, so if you want to hop on a call to ask more direct questions or flesh out what this looks like for you, I’m happy to give my time to you.
Finally, I would gladly welcome any feedback about the interview once it comes out. Just trying to be 1% better than yesterday.