The Most Valuable Pocket Change I've Ever Made
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As I record this episode, I am in San Diego taking a little break from the big island to visit a few clients and many friends. I have been reflecting on my own entrepreneurial journey since I have been here. One of the colleagues I have that I collaborate a lot with let me know that I need to update my branding, particularly on this podcast.
My business, who I serve, and the problem that I solve have shifted many times over the years. A page or some branding that I did back in 2018 is not as relevant as it is now. This is a natural thing for entrepreneurs to have as we grow, improve, and find there are parts of our brand that start to get a little bit outdated. It is really a good problem to have. At the same time, I have learned a lot, grown a lot, and evolved a lot as an entrepreneur and I really have come a long way and I really want to share how far I have come by telling you about some of the first entrepreneurial money I ever made. This twenty-seven cents was the most valuable pocket change I ever made.
We discuss:
- [01:16] My business, who I serve, and the problem that I solve have shifted many times over the years.
- [01:31] This is a natural thing for entrepreneurs to have as we grow, improve, and find there are parts of our brand that start to get a little bit outdated.
- [02:14] For a long time I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur. I thought entrepreneurship is a world reserved for MBAs who knew about business.
- [03:24] It never occurred to me that I could make a living from this creative drive online or that I would be even capable of figuring that out.
- [03:52] All of this started to change as I was doing some exchanges and traveling and really wanted to figure out how I could travel and live around the world.
- [04:39] I was hoping for some sort of business idea to appear so that I could have permission and freedom to start creating it and to travel at the same time.
- [05:59] After a year or two of listening to podcasts and just waiting around for this amazing idea it was time for me to start taking action.
- [08:40] Kyle shares about his first entrepreneurial experience with websites.
- [10:07] Once the sites were up he would anxiously check Google AdSense for any results. Then it happened one visited one of his sites, clicked on an ad, and he made twenty-seven cents.
- [10:29] With these twenty-seven cents, I had proven to myself that it was possible for me to make a living with my own efforts.
- [11:00] I had proven to myself that a different path was possible. With those few cents, I had taken the first steps to reverse the programming in my head that told me I couldn’t be an entrepreneur.
- [11:30] Entrepreneurs go through a lot of these cycles of trying out different things.
- [12:24] Getting the money was great but the real reward was that I had learned how to build websites, create content, and hire writers. I put together a set of skills that would later land me an apprenticeship for a start-up that would become the foundation for this podcast and my book.
- [13:20] You have got to show up every day, lean into that unknown, make something new that is stretching your limits, and continue to grow and learn.
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