Starting a business will never be easy, but having your family’s support as you do can help you develop more courage and confidence in what you’re doing. I was blessed with that kind of support and honestly, I believe it is why everything worked out too.
Watch this video to learn more about the challenges of starting a new business and how it was like for us!
Key Talking Points of the Episode
[00:00] Introduction
[00:38] How did my family react when I took a leap of faith?
[01:08] What is the impact of having your family’s support on your success?
[02:15] What was it like when we were starting out?
[03:03] How did we have an office in the beginning?
Quotables
“I think having that support for you back in the day and everyone all in on your corner, it’s amazing.”
“I’m a very blessed guy to have that kind of support. It’s incredible and it is only because of that, I think, that it worked because it was scary for me.”
“A lot of people don’t realize that when we started this, nobody had any money. It was me and two other people, Angela and Brandon, and Angela was working for free because we didn’t have any money to pay her.”
“We were literally broke. We did our first event on Marriott points, I got the room on Marriott points.”
“It was kind of a creative real estate deal. We just did it to start a business.”
“I didn’t even have a credit card because I didn’t need one, there was no reason for me to have one, then all of my money vanished overnight.”
“We had a tiny little one-room office we all were in.”