Most entrepreneurs aren’t stuck because they’re not working hard they’re stuck because they’re focused on the wrong things.
Why do entrepreneurs stay stuck even when they’re putting in the work? In this episode, we break down why most entrepreneurs stay stuck, what’s really holding you back, and how to fix it.
In this episode of the We Legit 16: Stories & Hustle Podcast, we dive into entrepreneurship, mindset, discipline, and business growth and what it actually takes to start seeing real progress.
If you’ve been working hard but not getting results, this episode is for you.
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Now let's get into today's episode.
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Today's episode is why entrepreneurs stay stuck.
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This right here. I suffer in the beginning stages
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and it happens quite often that a lot of people really don't
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speak about. Then number one I'm gonna get
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into is lack of discipline. A lot of people love the idea of
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entrepreneurship, but they struggle with the daily
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discipline it takes to build something.
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Entrepreneurship is repetitive. What I mean by repetitive
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posting content consistently, building a system, reinvesting
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money, learning new skills, posting content consistently.
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Depending on the business that you're in and the market, most
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people post constantly on social media.
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Facebook X Twitter. My bad.
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Twitter known as X Instagram, Tiktok, Facebook and etcetera.
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And to be noticed and seen. Word of mouth is cool but to
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reach a broader audience you have to go to social media.
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And one thing I can say when I took this break, I can see a dip
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in views a little bit but not too much.
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But posting content consistently keeps people in tune.
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You have them wondering what's he going to drop next, what's he
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going to post, what's going on, how's he doing?
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You know, it's kind of part of a family, extended family, if that
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makes sense. Because people don't got used to
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your scheduling and when you go off the schedule it kind of
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throws them off. So when your normal program
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business wise when it comes to posting content on a consistent
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basis, you got to make sure that you keep it in a structured
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manner. So people know kind of like your
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routine when it comes to you doing what you're doing online
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wise. So when you get out of that
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structure, it kind of confuses them, but they still be looking
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because they have to understand that every day is not going to
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be the same. I have days where I might not
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necessarily forget to post but sometimes the phone be acting up
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or say I can't post at this time or I gotta wait depending if I
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have signal depending on the location that I'm at.
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So it kind of messed up my consistency on certain days.
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But eventually I get to posting the the normal usual.
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But a lot of people that I talk to that want to get into
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business, they usually lack in this aspect of posting contact
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consistently because usually a lot of them work, which I do
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too. But it comes with you gotta
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learn how to manage your time outside of work when it comes to
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entrepreneurship. Posting is a big portion of it
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because a lot of people will comment, look like share,
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reshare added to favorites and all kind of stuff.
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So this right here will get you looked at more so than word of
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mouth. Word of mouth will get you
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looked at on a local tip. The social media gets you looked
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at worldwide and globally when it come to building systems.
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Building systems is like I have a company which I started off
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selling clothes and T-shirts. I went from that to podcasting.
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Now podcasting, I can mention the merch and mention a lot of
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different things that I'm doing. As far as another company, I'm
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getting ready to expand within the LLC.
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Let's come in the next couple of months.
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So it's like I'm building a system of I have clothing, I
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have the podcast, and I have another company coming in.
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So it keeps me motivated, It keeps me moving and not stopping
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because now it's starting to become fun.
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May of this year, Mark that I've been selling for three years,
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been in business since August of 2021.
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So to get the status that I feel like that I don't reach it May
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it took about three years going on three years.
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So it's really good and building system is basically like
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previously posting content, making sure you go online,
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interacting with people even out in public or online, make sure
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that you're interacting. If people comment on your merch
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or whatever it is you're doing, you know, just give good
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feedback on the way back to them so they can know how genuine and
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a good person that you are. That's what you call building
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systems and connections. And it's all part of become an
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entrepreneurship and it's all part of being disciplined.
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And the next thing we go get into is reinvesting money.
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When you get paid, most people spend their paychecks on
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whatever it is they feel like they need at that particular
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time. Me, I pay the bills, have fun
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here and there, but then I reinvest in my company as in
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like I'll get a just a couple of items for the, for the company
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and get some more merch or whatever and or get something
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that a customer requests, you know, a lot of different things.
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But reinvesting into the company, it helps build the
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company up. And it's all about growth, and
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reinvesting is a real big thing. If you don't reinvest in your
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company, then you're going to be stuck in the stage of lack of
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discipline. Then when you lack discipline,
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you're just going to be stuck in no motion learning new skills.
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You got to be able to be teachable when you get into
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becoming an entrepreneur. But if you're not teachable,
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you're going to be stuck in your ways, as a lot of people would
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say. And being stuck in your ways and
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having a business, you're never going to grow because the world
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is changing every day. Not one day is the same.
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So if you're not willing to learn new skills, pick up new
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things or learn something different from your norm and
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being stubborn, they're not going to last long.
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You're going to be wondering why you're going to be part of that
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statistic of many people quit because they expect fast results
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instead of long term execution. And everybody wants the results
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of entrepreneurship, but not everybody wants the routine that
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recreate, that creates those results.
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And now we're going to get into fear of failure.
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Many entrepreneurs stay stuck because they are afraid to
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launch products, post their content, ask for support, invest
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in themselves, launch products. I mean, I launched plenty of
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products, shirts, T-shirt designs, all kind of things in
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the beginning. It didn't pan out the way I
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thought. So a lot of doubt was in the mix
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because I didn't get the, I didn't get the support I thought
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I was going to get in the beginning.
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So, and I think when people be so happy that they started a
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business or what, or a company or whatever it is that they're
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starting, the high is really good because it's like, hey, I'm
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happy, I'm excited. No, I can't wait to get this
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going. But when you launch it and you
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feeling like you're not getting what you're supposed to get,
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that doubt and fear will most definitely hinder you because
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you got to prepare that a lot of people, it's just not going to
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support and it's not a bad thing or it's not a good thing.
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It's just it is what it is type of thing.
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So launching things and they don't go the way that you
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thought. Don't get discouraged because
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when you fail, there's nothing wrong with failing.
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Everybody fails in life. So even though you fail, it's
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all about getting back up and doing it all over again.
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Maybe the time it wasn't right, maybe the season wasn't right,
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it it just might have been that particular time to launch, but
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you got it done. So by you already knowing how to
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launch, now you know how to do it better the second and third
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time going around. So even though it didn't work
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out the first time, it's never, it's not bad to try again to
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make sure to get it right. So launching products is pretty
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much a part of the process and becoming an entrepreneur and
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there's something that you just got to get used to.
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Everything is not going to hit. So it's best to learn as you go
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and don't repeat the same mistakes.
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And also, you got to get used to posting your content.
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Posting your content is going to get you discovered in notice.
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And people might not recognize it right now, but eventually
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it's going to. It's going to generate like,
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now, like I said, this may have been selling for three years.
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So now a lot of people are starting to catch up on the old
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stuff I had posted. A lot of people say, oh, man, I
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think I was like, man, I did that a long time ago.
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They said, for real. I was like, yeah, so it's kind
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of old, but I appreciate you looking at it and liking what
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you have seen. So just because that content
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might not hit when it first launched, but when it reappears
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and people see it as oh, wow. OK, so don't ever get
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discouraged about what it is that you're doing because fear
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is part of the process. My fear was I didn't really have
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any fear actually, because when I came into it, I kind of got a
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picture of what to expect, but I didn't expect for it to grow.
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That was the only thing I didn't know.
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And and handling the growth as time goes on, it's just one of
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them things I didn't really, really thought about because as
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I said, per usual in the last season that I thought a couple
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people were just going to wear it and it just gave me something
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to do. Now it's like it's just growing.
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I don't even know what to say. We globally know now.
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I started in my idea and when I was in Tennessee, I got it going
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in Dallas, came back to Tennessee and it blossom.
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I'm being looked at in all kind of different ways.
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Another fear of failure is asking for support.
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Me, I had a tough time with that because I don't, I don't know
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how to ask nobody for anything. So I do a lot of stuff on my own
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and it works really well for me. But per usual, I have been
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getting out that mode of asking for support because now I put
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public service announcement if anybody want to be interviewed
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or post or anything of that nature just to help other
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companies like myself because I didn't have it coming in.
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So I would like to help others. The only way that I didn't get
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it. So that what came about with me
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interviewing the people in the past on the podcast and from
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their point of view, a lot of people are happy.
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A lot of people like their episode.
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They gain notoriety outside of their local area and it's been
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good. So I can't really complain on
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ask for support because it goes a long way.
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And if for the best advice I can give people, not so many people
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that know you support you. There's a lot of strangers that
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support you and you reach further grounds when you're
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dealing with a lot of strangers. Last but not least, investing in
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yourself. When you invest in yourself, you
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feel good about it. Invest in yourself as I'm
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talking about business wise, but people do it all the time.
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People invest in yourself in getting clothes, shoes, outfits,
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vacations, being seen out of town.
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That's what you call investing in yourself.
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People do it, everybody does it, but everybody doing their own
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way. Me, I invested myself company
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wise as in getting merch. This is one of our custom
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football jerseys and got the number 88.
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They say we legit on it and this is the Raider style anniversary
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jersey. And if you would like one just
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get in the DMS of any social media.
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The links will be in description or you can send me an e-mail
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like I said previously earlier in the podcast at
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welegitllc16@gmail.com. And also another thing of fear
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of failure. People overthink everything and
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never move. That doubt will always be there.
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But just remember, doubt is part of the process.
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Failure is part of entrepreneurship.
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Now, if you are in doubt and of everything that you're going to
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do, you better off not trying to get into the business world
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because it's not going to go your way or your favor and you
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gotta be mentally strong and sharp.
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So if you can't handle failure, that's just not the line of the
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own work that you should be getting into because every
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successful business owner has long had failed launches.
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I'm 1. I had spoke on that too.
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Lot of good launches, product shirts wise, design wise, I felt
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like was good. Like my black love edition
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didn't do anything, RAM edition didn't do too much anything but
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as time went on it became a purchase.
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Bad investments. I had a couple I tried to do a
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radio station then pan out the way I did because I followed the
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instructions on how to get it going.
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Just didn't work out. Couple of people tried to get me
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to purchase from overseas. Haven't done it yet.
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I get DM's from them every day. There another bad investment
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that I try to do. I think it was just a radio
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station and a couple subscriptions but it didn't
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really pan out or anything like that.
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So I haven't been scammed but I have wasted some money on
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certain things I thought was gonna be beneficial but it
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didn't really work. And also slow seasons.
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Every business have a slow season.
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Even though your season is slow, still put content out, still
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launch your business and still show what it is that you do
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'cause I always remember somebody's watching and
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someone's always on that phone and surfing.
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And another thing to know that the people who win in business
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aren't the ones who never fail. They are the ones who kept
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moving after the failure. The next segment we're going to
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get into is trying to do everything alone.
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I right here is a victim of that.
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A lot of entrepreneurs try to wear every hat.
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Marketing, branding, sales, accounting, content creation.
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Me, I love marketing because I love putting stuff together.
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I like taking the pictures, like doing a video recording.
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I like to do all that stuff and I like the marketing because I
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like to see what the other people see and it gives me a
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good idea of if I'm doing this correctly or not.
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Branding, I love it because I have a lot of ideas and stuff I
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want to do. So it gives me a lot of
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creative, a lot of creativity to showcase what I can do because
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you know, I'm coming on three years of selling and people are
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starting to recognize it and see it.
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So it put a smile on my face to see that this hard work that
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I've been doing is finally get to pay off and it's looking
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good. Sales.
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I always get a lot of sales. Sales is up and down, but each
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time a person get a purchase, I get a review, I get AADM of
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good. I mean, I like I like the merch
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and everything that you're doing, man, I love the good
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praise. Check my website out.
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You can see my own reviews and if you're curious, you can go to
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Google map, type in We Legit LLC and you'll see what I'm talking
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about. Accounting, I always keep tabs
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on everything. There's a lot of stuff that you
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got to pay as entrepreneur. You have to pay your own sale
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tax dues every three months to see how much money you made, and
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depending on what state you're in, it kind of dictate what you
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got to pay at the end of the year.
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Also, you got to pay a franchise tax, so you really got to stay
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on top of your accounting. Content creation, for me, it's
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pretty easy and first it was hard because I know what to know
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what I was doing. Last time went on, I grew, so it
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got better. So for me, content creation and
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marketing kind of running hand in hand.
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So it's kind of like I'm doing the same thing.
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So it's not necessarily work for me.
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It's just something I love doing and eventually doing all that
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stuff. Some days I get really burnt out
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where I don't want to do nothing or interact with people and it
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kind of hurts because it don't really hurt.
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But say, if I got a good momentum going on and I've been
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doing so much by myself to where it's like it takes a toll on
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you. There's some people like damn,
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like how come he went live or he's posting but I ain't seen
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what he's doing or anything like that.
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And I never really thought about what others was thinking or
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anything like that until I had stopped going live on Tiktok.
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And then when I went back live on Tiktok a lot of people was
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like damn, where you been at? And you know, it kind of let me
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know like that. I need to be consistent on this
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because I know a lot of people was looking and searching and
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see how I'm doing. They say they love the vibe and
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all they do is be vibing and chilling.
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And you know, it's just you got 2 good days, you got 2 bad days,
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but you got to learn how to manage your time and manage on
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who you have around in your circle.
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But also remember this real growth happens when you start
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collaborating, outsourcing, building a network.
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Right now I'm collaborating always outsourcing and I'm
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building a network. I have a small group of people
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that I met online Tiktok wise on the lives and everything is all
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coming about good. No bad press or anything, just
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we all trying to find our way and learning and doing it the
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best way we can. Some of us are known locally and
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some are known outside of their own local area.
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So business is business. It's all good and we all trying
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to get that same status and goal of financial freedom and it's
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never easy. It's everyday working.
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It's hard. It's hard every day because
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every day is not the same. The next thing we're going to
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get into is lack of systems. Many entrepreneurs stay stuck
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because they rely on motivation instead of systems.
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I am a victim of this. Motivation can come and go.
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System creates consistency. Once I got into my system and
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kept it on consistent, now I got content, schedules, weekly
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business goals, budgeting and reinvesting profit.
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So when people meet me don't know me from a can of paint,
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they think I'm weird because I'm social.
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But I don't let a lot of people in because I have so much to do.
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So it might seem like I'm sitting around not doing much,
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but in real time I'm really doing a whole lot.
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I do. I work out the phone, so they
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always want to work out my cell phone.
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And now that I'm actually doing it, it's pretty fun.
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It keeps me on my P's and Q's and it's just a lot of fun.
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But once I got a system together and being consistent, a lot of
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stuff has now become easy. And now it's not considered
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work. It's just like something I just
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love doing. But and, but in the beginning,
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motivation starts business, but system scales business.
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In the beginning it was all about motivation.
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Motivation got me through a lot. Motivation kept me going.
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Once I was kept going, then I became consistent.
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Consistent kept going, consistent kept going.
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And now I'm that consistency turned into a system.
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Year three now I got a full system, a full everything and it
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led me to podcasting outside of selling merch.
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And now, now I'm creating a system and there's a good
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balance and everything. It's just flowing and I really
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cannot complain. Y'all.
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It's just everyday thing that's just growing it.
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It put a smile on my face, see people viewing it, liking it,
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give me good praise. You know, you never know who's
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watching. But when people give you good
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criticism and good feedback on what you're doing and most
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definitely put a smile on your face, even if it's bad, I look
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at bad is like this is something I got to work on.
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And like I said, when it comes to entrepreneurship, you got to
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be teachable because if you're not teachable, you're just going
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to be stuck and not growing and then you're going to create a
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lot of debt and you might have to file bankruptcy and all kinds
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of stuff. So you got to be teachable in
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this line of work. Doesn't matter what you in, But
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when you're working for yourself, you got to realize
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that, like I said on my last episode of last season, you
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know, you're going to be the boss.
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They're going to come to you to everything.
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So if you're just being stuck in your ways and not trying to work
00:23:56
with people because you got new generations coming in with new
00:23:59
thought process and you know, you got to learn how to manage
00:24:02
all that stuff. So you being stuck in your way
00:24:05
somewhere on the boss, on the boss putting the results being
00:24:07
produced, nobody want to work with you.
00:24:10
So you it's a lot of things that you got to work on yourself
00:24:14
before you get into entrepreneurship.
00:24:15
If you are serious about what it is that you want to do, Next
00:24:19
thing we're gonna get into is comparison and social media
00:24:21
pressure. Social media.
00:24:23
Social media makes entrepreneurship looks fast and
00:24:26
easy. People see viral success, big
00:24:29
money, overnight growth, but they don't see the years of work
00:24:34
behind it. Like I said earlier, this is
00:24:38
year three. I stake assistant get this
00:24:42
strict program and scheduling on my content.
00:24:46
I never looked for viral success, I never looked for big
00:24:48
money, and I never looked for overnight growth.
00:24:51
All I was looking for is giving this thing, giving me something
00:24:54
to do, which it did. I went from pressing T-shirts
00:24:59
and hoodies and sweatshirts to doing jerseys, hats, beanies.
00:25:05
My mom made bags now, so there's two custom bags that she made.
00:25:11
I will put the link that is the link in the description and one
00:25:16
of my episodes I post the bags of she have done.
00:25:21
She does custom beanies and she do hand tags.
00:25:26
So it's expanding to a lot of different things.
00:25:31
And when you don't look for viral success or big money and
00:25:38
overnight growth, your company is gonna grow slow, steady, slow
00:25:43
and steady always win the race. When you look for viral success
00:25:46
and big money overnight growth that will keep you stuck because
00:25:51
you're not looking for longevity, you just looking for
00:25:54
a short and fast money and sensation just to be seen.
00:25:58
It's just saying hey, you know that's what I did and blah blah.
00:26:02
That viral moment only lasts for a hot 2nd.
00:26:05
But when you slow and steady win the race, you're grind and
00:26:10
you're attention span is going to spread a whole lot further
00:26:13
because not only are you putting in work, but you are seeing the
00:26:19
growth while you're in it. And for me, that's what I had a
00:26:23
tough time. That's what I'm dealing with
00:26:24
right now is actually seeing the growth.
00:26:27
I'm not seeing what other people seeing it because I'm in it.
00:26:31
But some days when I be sitting back and thinking, I was like,
00:26:34
well, I really came a long way from starting this and now it's
00:26:41
like to be known globally. It's just, it's crazy.
00:26:47
The podcasts have reached to global standings along with the
00:26:51
merch and I, I don't have any words for it.
00:26:55
It's just something I never thought about.
00:26:57
And it's just when when you make sure that you're fully mentally
00:27:06
ready to get into being an entrepreneur and you understand
00:27:12
that everything is not going to happen so fast and quick.
00:27:15
If you just understand the process of it, it's going to be
00:27:18
very beautiful and wonderful. And you it's going to be a lot
00:27:21
of people that are going to be proud of you on the quiet.
00:27:24
It comes with a lot of hate. It comes with a lot of he said,
00:27:28
she said that people that don't like you.
00:27:30
But as we all know, you can't satisfy everybody.
00:27:36
And with that being said, when entrepreneurs compare their
00:27:40
chapters to someone else's Chapter 15, they lose
00:27:45
confidence. When I started out, I didn't
00:27:49
really look at other people about, oh, man, they made it,
00:27:54
man. Look how they looking.
00:27:56
Yeah, I need to get on that level.
00:27:58
But I still kept being consistent on what it is that I
00:28:00
was doing. I never count other people eggs.
00:28:04
I only count my own eggs. And then you never know how long
00:28:08
that person been in business to get where they're at.
00:28:11
So when you're getting into something, never look at a
00:28:17
person that's been doing it for years and you compare yourself
00:28:22
to that person because you don't know what that person went
00:28:25
through to get where they're at. So you gotta stop comparing to
00:28:31
what you're doing to what somebody else is doing and just
00:28:34
stay in your lane and just drive and just cruise.
00:28:38
Because I always remember like neighborhood Nipa city, the
00:28:41
marathon continues. Next segment is going to be not
00:28:48
investing back into the business.
00:28:50
Some entrepreneurs want to profit too early, which is true.
00:28:57
Me, I had a job to fall back on, so I never looked at the profit
00:29:01
too early because I know that if I quit this job that I had and I
00:29:08
go all into my business, what if I ain't make any money?
00:29:11
What if I ain't do this? And what if I ain't do that?
00:29:14
Things pile up and add pretty quick, so I gotta have something
00:29:17
to fall back on. So I didn't want to be in a
00:29:21
situation to where I just quit just to start a business.
00:29:25
But what if the business don't pick up?
00:29:26
What if it don't grow? So it's just a lot of discipline
00:29:32
and what it is that you're trying to do.
00:29:34
So and as usual, in the early stages, business required
00:29:38
reinvestment, marketing, branding, equipment and
00:29:44
education. Reinvesting.
00:29:47
You always got to reinvest. You got to have money in your
00:29:50
business account because you never know what might pop up.
00:29:53
Marketing everyday thing on social media, going live,
00:29:57
marketing, content creation, taking pictures and videos,
00:30:01
marketing, going outside with the merch or you cooking on a
00:30:05
grill or doing whatever it is that you're doing on the street
00:30:07
corner outside or anything of that nature.
00:30:10
Marketing. So I'm recording content
00:30:12
creation some by interviewing while they're getting a meal or
00:30:15
sending you. So make earrings, doing all
00:30:19
kinds of stuff. Marketing, content creation,
00:30:22
branding at the same time, because you're a brand doing
00:30:25
what you're doing, their brand or content creator, because
00:30:29
they're interviewing you, they're looking at you.
00:30:31
So a lot of stuff is going on in that small span of time while
00:30:37
Magic is being worked. A lot of people don't look at it
00:30:40
that way because you got to look at when you start a business,
00:30:45
this is a company and has potentially be a 500, what's the
00:30:50
word, a 500 Fortune company, even though you might not look
00:30:56
at it in the beginning, but things change as time goes on.
00:30:59
So just another thing to look at too.
00:31:02
Also equipment. Me, I started off with a heat
00:31:06
press, a cricket machine and that was it.
00:31:10
As time went on, I eventually got a ring light, I got a stand
00:31:14
to put my clothes and stuff on while I go live to people's to
00:31:18
see. Got a hat press, got stickers,
00:31:23
clear baggage bags, a sign, say humble and hustle that be on my
00:31:29
TikTok lines and keep me motivated.
00:31:31
A lot of different things. So equipment always going to be
00:31:35
in the mix. You always got to upgrade and
00:31:36
update because they always making something new.
00:31:39
It's time to go on and you don't want to be stuck to being in the
00:31:42
same old same old. Some equipment is good to keep.
00:31:46
Some equipment is good to get as time goes on.
00:31:48
Just depend on the field and the work that you're in.
00:31:51
Education that's everyday, you can learn from people that have
00:31:55
been in the business for years back in the day before
00:31:58
technology or you can learn from technology right now.
00:32:02
A lot of people's use an AI which is cool, but groundwork
00:32:07
will always keep you grounded in discipline.
00:32:09
AI is a good source for education wise and learning wise
00:32:13
and getting advice wise, but to depend on it every single day,
00:32:16
you're not going to get too far even though they give good
00:32:19
advice, but at the end of the day, you got to make your mind
00:32:23
work. So use AI as an educational
00:32:26
tool, not on everything. And if you never reinvest the
00:32:31
business, stop growing. All that is part of the process.
00:32:36
Reinvesting, reinvesting, reinvesting.
00:32:40
It's a good thing to say. Reinvesting as in like when I
00:32:44
started off, I didn't think about sports jerseys.
00:32:46
I've seen sports jerseys 'cause I wanted one.
00:32:48
BAM sports jersey jewelry never thought about it end up let me
00:32:54
see if fish holes yeah let's the Pete littlest piece Long Beach
00:32:58
finest chain. So there's a lot of things I
00:33:03
didn't think about that just happened as time went on and I
00:33:08
started liking it so you I can't complain on the process of how
00:33:14
things are going. It's just growing growing
00:33:16
growing Last but not least lack of clear vision.
00:33:20
Some people start business but don't know who their audience
00:33:24
is, what problem they had they solve, what their long term goal
00:33:29
is. For me, get into the business
00:33:32
world. When I started the the T-shirts,
00:33:35
I didn't know what my audience was neither.
00:33:38
I just wanted to sell it to anybody that was willing to buy,
00:33:41
but I didn't know that I had to build a connection.
00:33:46
The other things I had to learn on the fly.
00:33:49
Now my audience is from the range of 25 and up, mainly males
00:33:54
and male and female. So I have a big variety, but
00:33:59
everybody can can relate to what I display and they can relate to
00:34:05
what I sell. So and then when I went to
00:34:09
podcasting, it got me looked at a whole lot more in a different
00:34:12
aspect. And so a lot of people are very
00:34:15
comfortable with me and going live on Tiktok became very
00:34:20
lucrative for the long term. So now I'm looked at in a lot of
00:34:24
different cities and States and a lot of I spoke to a lot of
00:34:29
people I don't even know. So it's good for me because not
00:34:34
only is business wise, but I'm just being genuine because you
00:34:38
never know who you run into and you never know who's watching.
00:34:42
So it's just business and networking at the end of the day
00:34:47
and what problem they solve. I will say before I start going
00:34:53
live, it was kind of rough because I'm posting, posting,
00:34:57
posting. The only people that I know are,
00:35:01
you know, looking at it. But once I went live, I, it got
00:35:05
me to expand and come out of a shell to interact with a lot of
00:35:10
different people that I don't know.
00:35:12
So it was good and I wouldn't know, I would suggest if you're
00:35:19
having a business or any type of entrepreneurship that you're
00:35:24
doing, I would say go to Tiktok and go live and showcase your
00:35:28
own talent because you never know who's watching.
00:35:31
And a lot of people are intrigued and you know, they
00:35:34
want to communicate and just talk.
00:35:37
You never know where it might go, the long term goal.
00:35:41
A lot of people, like I said in the beginning, when they first
00:35:44
start out, they think it's short term.
00:35:45
They're not thinking long term. If you're building and building
00:35:49
and building, then long term goals come into play.
00:35:52
Me, I was doing the clothes, clothing thing.
00:35:56
I never thought of my long term thing.
00:35:58
I didn't have one, but I was seeing how a lot of people was
00:36:02
interacting with the brand. So that's when I got into
00:36:07
podcasting and look, and now I just, it just grew.
00:36:13
I don't really have any words. It wasn't like all the stuff was
00:36:16
playing. I just did it.
00:36:18
Now, if I did these podcast episodes and you know, and
00:36:23
nobody was digging it, I could say at least I tried.
00:36:26
But now that a lot of people is liking what I'm doing, you know,
00:36:31
it's just so it got me excited and keeping me going.
00:36:36
I come up with concepts and titles and want to talk about
00:36:40
and I put it in motion. It's all about hustle and
00:36:44
stories. And I didn't write a book on any
00:36:47
of these things. It's just something I learned on
00:36:50
the way. So now I can.
00:36:55
I'm about to let y'all go, but I have a couple of things to say
00:37:01
to close out this episode. And always, I always remember,
00:37:08
most entrepreneurs don't fail because they lack talent.
00:37:14
They fail because they lack discipline, patience and
00:37:19
structure. Building something real.
00:37:23
It takes time, but you gotta stay focused, you gotta stay
00:37:29
consistent and you gotta stay disciplined because the ones who
00:37:34
keep building, eventually they break breakthrough and I'm gonna
00:37:40
leave that right there. And before I close this out,
00:37:45
just remember, inspiration means nothing without action.
00:37:49
Apply what you heard, move with discipline, build with
00:37:54
intentions in this episode. If this episode added value,
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00:38:15
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00:38:32
I bought all the equipment off Amazon and it's all like Donkey
00:38:36
Kong since then. So always remember, remember
00:38:40
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00:38:43
This is we legit 16 and we don't just talk hustle, we execute.
00:38:49
I'll see you next episode y'all enjoy your night.