Guest Author Jonathan Aymin is a Startup Drugz community member, an entrepreneur, and the host of the Aymin Audio Experience podcast.
In today's podcast, I interview author, investor, and serial entrepreneur Chris J. Snook, owner of Startup Drugz and Launch Haus. He talks entrepreneurship, being pragmatic, the road to nowhere, and sheds a lot of light on the mindset behind being a business owner and living a life of fulfillment that very few on the planet will ever unlock. This episode will not only inspire you, but it will calm you down, speed you up, and leave you asking and answering some important questions that will make your journey more meaningful, more fulfilling, and more impactful.
This weekend we celebrate, salute, and honor the most courageous of us all who have made the ultimate sacrifice to allow the rest of us the opportunity to pursue our goals and dreams freely.
We all want and need more courage at times in our life or business and many may struggle from time to time with how to unlock more of it. This 2-minute clip below is from a recent interview I gave to a group of wealth managers and entrepreneurs in Steve Musielski's network.
Entrepreneurship is the ultimate proving ground for your mental toughness, your professional skill, personal development, and physical endurance and ability to resiliently handle abnormal quantities of stress, rejection, and being misunderstood.
Successful entrepreneurs ultimately relish in the daily challenge this provides them (even if they simultaneously feel like they hate it). Like all elite athletes or professional sports what makes the game of building your business so much fun is the fact that at times, it feels like everyone or everything is trying to stop you from getting your goal. It is similar to why many people love to watch or play team sports.
To all the seniors in High School, College, or Graduate School who are graduating this month, I sincerely congratulate you on this milestone. Most of you are between the ages of 18-24 and are both excited, hopefully optimistic, and a little bit stressed about what to do next. The 11 questions below and the included 'recommended reading list', will give you massive momentum in business, life, and whatever is next for you.
I distinctly remember some of the questions that were at the top of my mind the week leading up to when I was graduating undergraduate school. They seem so funny now, but I remember calling my Dad a bit stressed and asking "When do I have to pay my taxes again now that I am in the real world?" also, "What is a mortgage? I know I need one to buy a house, but I don't know what it is or even how to get it. Why didn't they teach me that here, I had 4 years?"
Entrepreneurs are unique breeds of the human species. They are innately driven to achieve. They are inspired to best the current status quo. They aspire to be the 'best' in their field. They hustle, grind, study, and work their faces off. They set goals to achieve material goods, respected accolades, a lifestyle, and leave a legacy. Yet the one thing, even entrepreneurs can't escape, and maybe even face more than the average Joe is a feeling of emptiness from time to time.
In the race to have it all, we can often struggle with our very definition of what having it all even means. As we mature through our journey of building businesses, getting older (and hopefully wiser), we often can ponder if the best we can hope for is to have it all but just not all at the same time.
Real talk with real entrepreneurs on their real tactics, struggles, stories, and lessons learned. Peer-to-Peer, naked conversations and no-hype. This podcast will take your day-in-day-out results up a level with each episode and have you addicted to your own new levels of potential being made into reality! Hosted by Chris J Snook.
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"You've gotta hustle and you must be willing to grind, but it all begins with taking care of your mind. Thanks for keeping our minds right @startupdrugz!"