SPI 934: 18 Years Since Being Let Go

Today is the 18th anniversary, not for my wife and I, but for Let Go Day. That's right, today is Let Go Day, the day that I was laid off for my architecture job back in 2008. It is now 2026, 18 years later. And boy has a lot happened since then. Of course, many of you know that I started to work on my own thing, and that thing led to another thing and it led to another thing and it led to another thing and here we are, which is crazy.

But I wanted to go over those things a little bit and some of those lessons learned right here in episode 934. Because 18 years is a long time. In fact, a lot of the OG entrepreneurs have moved on to other things and I'm still here and I've been doing this for now 18 years. I've learned a lot, have changed my mindset about a lot of things.

And I want to start with a mindset shift that happened as soon as I turned 40. This is not just related to business, and most of what I'm going to talk about might be related to both business and personal and just growing up. But this first one has been absolutely key for a number of reasons. It's key because I was stuck in a mindset for a very long time, one that pushed me away from new things potentially, one that held me back from achieving newer goals, one that I am forever past.

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