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Anne McGinty
Welcome to How I Built My Small business. I'm Anne McGinty, host of the show. While full length guest episodes are on hold for the holidays, I've prepared a collection of short, impactful episodes to keep you inspired until season two. Let's dive in.
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Don't doubt your passions and interests.
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I used to be really intimidated by, like, oh, this guy has 20 years of experience, or this company has a hundred really smart people working for it. Like, how can you possibly compete against that? And so, like, I think that held me back from having the confidence to do something on my own just because I felt like everyone else was like, so much smarter and more experienced than me. And I think to some degree, every company that's growing fast is flying by the seat of their pants a little bit. And people generally don't probably know as much as maybe you give them credit for, including us. And that if you really care, like, most things you can actually figure out, even if it seems like insurmountable, most things you can figure out if you just keep trying and keep focusing on it.
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It's business that you need to know. You know, the creative gets layered on top of that. And so I've really learned just from trial and error over the last 12 years of business on how to run a business. But I think I would have benefited greatly from learning more of the basics of just like general business had I been more exposed to it earlier on.
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Unknown Speaker 1
I didn't do a very linear journey through my career. Don't get frustrated by being a jack of all trades, which made it hard to find a job at certain points because it's like I could kind of do everything pretty well, but I didn't excel at one thing. And all those different things I did in different companies and jobs that all paid off.
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Put more money into investments earlier. Yeah, like when I was 12.
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Really be more mindful of the caliber of the person you're working for than what the role is. Show up, work your butt off, check your ego. Try to help, even if it has nothing to do with the job description. Like, just try to be someone that the person you're working for doesn't want you to leave. You know, hardworking, thoughtful team players and just open to learning.
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Everyone has some level of drama, whether it's in their family or with their friends. I would just say that you need to have armor on at all times because you cannot take stuff personally that aren't about you. You're just standing in the middle of when that emotion is being felt. And everything that Comes on, bounces off, that's not about you. And just have compassion that it probably has something to do with something else. Try and not take it personally.
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If I was to do something, I would do it as long as it was enjoyable. And then I would probably reach a point at which it was no longer enjoyable. And then I would, I would change.
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Whatever you want to go do in your life, go for it. You're going to get a lot of people that are going to resist you. They're going to tell you you're never going to accomplish it. Why are you even wasting your time? Take those people and make them push you even more.
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We're not our careers. Those are things that we do. And so it's okay to try new things. And those things don't define you. And the most important thing is to.
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Try, like if you can set your own bar of success, if you don't let others define it, but you get to define it, you take care of yourself along the way, I think you'll be much happier. I wish I had learned that much earlier in life that as soon as I started defining my own happiness, my own success, not through the bar of anybody else, that I could control it.
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Unknown Speaker 3
I came out of undergrad school in the mid-90s when the Internet was just getting launched and a lot of the conversation then was, hey, do you need a webpage? Like, does anyone think that the Internet is really going to affect our professional lives or will it affect business? Like, is this important? We're kind of having that conversation now with Gen AI and if you look back at that, it is fundamentally everything about the way we do business. And then the mobile revolution came along. I believe this Gen AI wave will be bigger than either of those.
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Unknown Speaker 7
Entrepreneurial mindset is just foundational to being successful. Building resilience and finding ways to kind of create a bounce back. Muscle was never in the cards. And I realized honestly, it's been maybe one of the most important things because the reality is stuff's going to go wrong.
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Anne McGinty
Thanks for listening to this bite sized episode of How I Built My Small Business. If you enjoyed it, share it with someone who might find it helpful. And don't forget to subscribe so you're ready when season two drops. As always have have a great day.