SPI 871: If You're Grinding Alone But Want to Win, Listen to This

When you hear the word solopreneur, what does that mean to you? For me, I thought that was a sense of pride of not just being your own boss, but doing something on your own, being able to figure it out yourself without any other help. That's what I thought solopreneur used to meant. So I really took pride when I started my own business that I was doing everything myself. I was doing the

website building myself, I was doing the podcast editing myself, I was doing the graphic design myself, and I was doing everything I could to fill in the gaps and learn more for the skills that I was falling short for. But I soon found out, about a year and a half later, that that was going about it the wrong way. If you are doing this alone, but you want to win, you must listen to this episode because, hey, spoiler alert, you will not be able to do it alone. Now there's a lot of reasons why a lot of people want to do something on their own and don't welcome outside help. For me,

In particular, it was, again, that sense of pride that came with starting something on my own. I had just gotten laid off. I was kind of upset at other people who were doing work with me, of course my boss who let me go, and just the industries that I was in in general. So in this new space and entrepreneurship and building my own business in the architecture world, helping people pass an exam, I was like, you know what? Just let me take control because if I fail, it's gonna be just my fault.

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