A Little About the Host
Reading bios is boring. At least, I typically think they’re boring.
They often share a business-person’s successes, the crazy money made, and often they’ll throw in a few examples of how far the entrepreneur has come; I used to live in my car! I had $1.23 in the bank, I survived on cheese from rat traps, etc.
Well that’s nice. I don’t know about you, but I’ve read enough bios of people trying to sell themselves to make me go blind. I won’t do that. Well, I probably will do that, but at least I’ll be honest about it.
My biggest claim to fame is simple: I’m a crash-test dummy when it comes to business.
I’ve slammed my face against walls more often than I’d like to admit. I’ve had failures financially, with partners, with businesses, with investing, and I’ve bought into a bad idea more than a few times.
At this point, I call my former propensity for acceleration and then demolition the entrepreneur learning curve.
Yeah, I’ve failed. But I’ve also learned a lot. I’ve learned the hard lessons and paid the price. Most entrepreneurs I know have. They fall on their face, pick themselves up, and then fall on their face again. Hopefully, with each “failure” they are learning, growing, adapting, maturing, and ultimately overcoming.
Here are just a few of my more notable failures.
Borrowed money from family (lost it, sorry Dad)
Had partnership issues that broke up a viable business (what could ever go wrong?)
Spearheaded a project that invested hundreds of thousands and made NOTHING (LOL)
Messed up employment taxes and had MAJOR fines (oops)
Created online businesses with no viability
Undercapitalized a potentially great business
But, for all of my failures. I’ve been refined by fire. I can proudly wear my failures because they have made me who I am today. In fact, I can smell someone’s “bad idea” or when an entrepreneur is “green” from a mile away. It becomes a sixth sense to start knowing what is going wrong, and right, with businesses.
It’s this knowledge (from experience) that I bring to the table. I’ve been the guy that sits in the shower in complete shock of my utter failure. And I’ve had victories that made me grin from ear-to-ear for weeks.
My hope now isn’t to build another widget (although I probably will), it is to assist business consultants in ushering in emotional health for businesses.
Here is what I have found: 80% of issues in businesses are emotional and relational (NOT LOGISTICAL!).
When we only bring our logistical and cerebral solutions to businesses we can reduce drag, and potentially create more clarity, but we leave them with their underlying cultural baggage. This baggage will inevitably rear its head and slow down or even crush a business.
In fact, I’ve never seen a business where the business owner didn’t know more about their business than I did. They are the experts of their own business. What they need help with is understanding their emotional, relational, and cultural blindspots.
When you have have some business know-how, but also understand the emotional aspects of business, you can offer businesses wisdom!
It is this niche that is the most underserved part of the business world: true emotional health.
I’m not endorsing the “let’s say affirmations in the mirror” and “let’s define our vision statement” crap. I’m talking about uncovering real, deep, and substantive aspects of company dynamics, culture, and relational patterns.
If you are interested, like me, in ushering in emotional health and relational clarity to businesses, you’ve come to the right place. Business Consulting Course equips people like you with foundational business know-how, but also with the tools necessary to right the ship for companies, and specifically the people who make up those companies.