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D 5 · C 5 · P 5 · Cm 5 5.00
Q track your personal growth so you can meet the ever increasing demands of the company or companies you are passionately building. Time waits for no one, so let's get started now. Welcome back to another episode of the We Love To Build podcast. I'm here today with Ray. So why don't you tell everyone a little bit about what you do right now and how you got to this point?
A The short of it is I work at home in my Superman pajamas and I have been doing so for 15 years. The long answer to it is I bootstrap seven-figure online businesses. Um, we own a website called LiveLingua.com, which is the third largest online language school in the world. My wife and I bootstrap that. I run a software company called PodcastHawk.com. Um, we have some pretty well-known people in the podcast space who are involved, like Pat Fling. I was an advisor and a shareholder in that company. For those of you who listen to a lot of entrepreneur podcasts and I've owned a chocolate factory in Asia for a while. I had a marketing agency for a few years. I'm a software developer by training. I quit my job, my six figure almost software engineer job to work for the Peace Corps for a 150 dollars a month. So I've done quite a few little things, but yeah, generally I'm at home in my Superman pajamas.
AI assessment note: “The long answer to it is I bootstrap seven-figure online businesses.”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q What was it that you felt you didn't get value? Like what, was there something that they did or was it something that they didn't do?
A I think the, the issue was the size of my business as being, you know, seven figures, what you do with seven figures and what you do in eight figure businesses is different. Right. And this person was focused on like micro changes in the business while we needed bigger, you know, more sweeping changes across the business. And I just don't think he was the right per like, obviously knows what he's doing. Very successful business person. I just don't think he was the right person for the right time in my business. Right. Maybe if we got date figures, His advice would be more, you know, would have been easier to apply. And some of the stuff that he gave me was, he's like, okay, we need to start doing this three times a day. And I'm like, look, I don't have staff to do this. Like, I mean, you know, I don't have staff to be just full-time dedicated to doing like what you're asking to do. We're a small team, you know, we're 1212, 15 people and they're all busy. They're not sitting there waiting for me to give them all these little tasks that we talk every week and like, okay, now we're doing this. Now we're doing this. In a big company, you probably have extra people to do that, right? Where you can just go boom, boom, boom. This whole team dedicated to experimenting. I don't have that. And so that, that was kind of, I think part of why it didn't work out.
AI assessment note: “this person was focused on like micro changes in the business while we needed bigger”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q Sounds good. So of the businesses you have, which one makes you the most excited?
A Well, I have, I have ADHD and of course the newest always is the one that makes me most excited, right? The shiny object syndrome. Uh, right now I would say podcast Hawk. I've been running live Lingua now for 15 years. So, you know, shiny object, not quite so much. Um, but podcast Hawk is my shiny object. I'm a computer engineer by training, but for some reason this was my first SAS. Um, and we'll talk, I'm sure a little bit about it on this one, but I'm a computer programmer. And so I thought, Hey, I'm going to hire some programmers to write this for me because I'm a computer programmer. I should be able to manage programmers, right?
AI assessment note: “right now I would say podcast Hawk”
Answered raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q So then how do you protect yourself from realizing that fear?
A Okay. So this is, yeah, this is very, the timing for this interview is great because we actually in live link, well, we had one of the biggest down slumps ever we've had in 15 years, about 60 days ago. Right. So I've had to lay some people off recently to kind of keep us on survival level in order to kind of recover. Um, And I consider myself a pretty calm person, but stress is part of being an entrepreneur. Uh, and I will admit, and I'll admit it locally here because a lot of entrepreneurs were supposed, you know, when you see us on stage, when I speak on stage, you just hear about the successes, not necessarily the failures or the downturns. I went through two weeks where I was so stressed out and had so much anxiety. It gave me anxiety induced insomnia. And I only slept two hours a night for 14 days straight. Uh, don't recommend it. It's not a lot of fun. And it took a lot for me to get out of it. You guys, you know, you're catching me actually kind of only one or two weeks out of it. And the getting out of it involved having the support of my family and friends, um, talking to other business people, As an entrepreneur, we kind of tend to focus, especially when you only sleep two hours a night, you trust me, you're only focusing on the problem, not on the solution. And that is not a good place to be at. Don't be afraid to ask for help, was what I've learned out of this entir…
AI assessment note: “getting out of it involved having the support of my family and friends”
