From Passion Projects to Global Adventures with Laura Berg

Who Ready to rock today, Fire Nation, JLD here, and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire, brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals with great shows like DTC Pod. Today we'll be breaking down passion projects and global adventures. To drop these value bombs, I brought to Laura Berg and the EO Fire Studios. Laura founded My Smart Hands, a baby sign language company, and authored two books, The Baby Signing Bible and Thriving Life. She's also a professor in the Professional Writing and Communications program at Humber College. In today's AHA moments, we'll talk about passion and projects. We'll talk about finding balance in your entrepreneurial life and oh so much more. And a big thank you for sponsoring today's episode goes to Laura and our sponsors. The next wave, your chief AI officer, hosted by Matt Wolf and Nathan Lands, is brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast Network, the audio destination for business professionals. Matt and Nathan are leading AI creators in your guiding light in the AI and technology frontier. AI technology is transforming the way we do business and the media landscape is fragmented. The next wave

Strives to be the leading podcast on AI technology and how you can apply it to growing your business. Listen to the next wave, wherever you get your podcasts. Laura, say what's up to Fire Nation, and share something that you believe about becoming successful that most people disagree with. What's up, everybody? So I think the one thing I would say that I would disagree most people would disagree with is To become an entrepreneur you have to You know, sweat.

Twenty four seven. Work, work, work, nose to the grindstone, but that's a choice that you make. So you don't necessarily have to do that in order to be successful because you need to figure out what your definition of success is. What is your definition of success, Fire Nation? Think about that, know that, live that, breathe that. And we're talking about passion projects. We're talking about global adventures. And I want to start with your aha moment, Laura. Talk us about the moment you had the idea to found my smart hands. It was sort of a means to an end. I had my daughter and as soon as I had her, I wanted to stay at home. I didn't want to go back to work, but I live in a big city and we have to have two incomes. So I was trying to figure out a way to

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