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312: Making A Difference for Diabetes, Bomb Pops, and The A’s to Your Q’s
Hey Solopreneurs! We’re back with another one of our weekly Q&A shows, one of my favorite episodes to bring you.
If you’re new here first of all welcome! And second most Fridays we do a Q&A show where I ask you for questions on Thursday and then I answer them on the following day’s show.
Today is no exception – you had questions and I’ve got your answers. Let’s hear what you wanted to know on episode 312 of The Solopreneur Hour.
More About Solopreneur Coaching
We do this question and answer thing on the regular so if you’d like to have your question answered on our next Q&A show join us on the Proudly Unemployable group and look for my question-requesting post, then drop yours in. Without further delay let’s get to some answers and some solopreneur coaching!
Kevin BigHappy Smith
Q: Long-winded question. I’m not a youngster but I am far from old. I am a 54 year old man who recently retired from over 30 years of government service. After a 6 year stint in the Coast Guard I served 24 years as an Air Traffic Controller.
From all of this I have learned that my super power (so it be) is to remain in a state of absolute calm no matter how bad or deep the shiz around you is.
The problem is this doesn’t really subject itself to a whole lot of income opportunities in the real world. I’m not an entrepreneur, don’t have the drive for it.
However, I don’t mind taking the path that has already been carved by someone else. The only rules I have are I won’t be someone’s boss and I won’t have a boss. You talk about network marketing, explain what this takes from someone to get into. Can you do it half way? I don’t need a 6 figure monthly income, just something in the very low 5 figures. What else is there similar to network marketing that is out there?
I don’t mind working hard, just want to do it for myself, not anyone else. Love the Friday shows. Thanks for doing them.
A: Part one: Your ability to stay calm in a crisis is something you can market, I think. It’s how an ER doctor, a trained first responder has to think: they have to be a calm in a storm. There’s a real way to spin that into the real world; if you can think of a way to quantify that and then you’ve got something to work with.
Part two: yes you can do it a few hours a day. Align with a company that you resonate with, pick one you like and then do the 8 steps of being a successful solopreneur. And then give it time, it takes real study and real work.
Kevin BigHappy Smith
Q: Shorter question. I spend a good deal of time raising my 10 and 7 year old children as well as my 2 year old puppy. I work on teaching my kids to have the tools on how to be happy as well as a good amount of time of raising a responsible dog. Ideally I’d like to create a program that teaches children about happiness (and I’d like to include my dog somehow). Riff on some ideas about this if you’d like.
A: I love it, I think that’s a great idea. It’d be cool to have a bootcamp for a week: teach kids life lessons on responsibility, and you could do it with a dog theme. Kanine Kids or something like that could be a name for the business. Practice on your kids and some of the neighborhood kids. Then do a bootcamp going, get it rocking and turn it into a video series which you create passive income from.
Niel Reichl
Q: Hi Michael, I’m sure you have heard this billions of times where your loyal followers like me take the opportunity to ask for your help.. but I still am taking my chances.
The company I am working for as a drug rep for the last 5months informed me yesterday that t...
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Hey Solopreneurs! We’re back with another one of our weekly Q&A shows, one of my favorite episodes to bring you.
If you’re new here first of all welcome! And second most Fridays we do a Q&A show where I ask you for questions on Thursday and then I answer them on the following day’s show.
Today is no exception – you had questions and I’ve got your answers. Let’s hear what you wanted to know on episode 312 of The Solopreneur Hour.
More About Solopreneur Coaching
We do this question and answer thing on the regular so if you’d like to have your question answered on our next Q&A show join us on the Proudly Unemployable group and look for my question-requesting post, then drop yours in. Without further delay let’s get to some answers and some solopreneur coaching!
Kevin BigHappy Smith
Q: Long-winded question. I’m not a youngster but I am far from old. I am a 54 year old man who recently retired from over 30 years of government service. After a 6 year stint in the Coast Guard I served 24 years as an Air Traffic Controller.
From all of this I have learned that my super power (so it be) is to remain in a state of absolute calm no matter how bad or deep the shiz around you is.
The problem is this doesn’t really subject itself to a whole lot of income opportunities in the real world. I’m not an entrepreneur, don’t have the drive for it.
However, I don’t mind taking the path that has already been carved by someone else. The only rules I have are I won’t be someone’s boss and I won’t have a boss. You talk about network marketing, explain what this takes from someone to get into. Can you do it half way? I don’t need a 6 figure monthly income, just something in the very low 5 figures. What else is there similar to network marketing that is out there?
I don’t mind working hard, just want to do it for myself, not anyone else. Love the Friday shows. Thanks for doing them.
A: Part one: Your ability to stay calm in a crisis is something you can market, I think. It’s how an ER doctor, a trained first responder has to think: they have to be a calm in a storm. There’s a real way to spin that into the real world; if you can think of a way to quantify that and then you’ve got something to work with.
Part two: yes you can do it a few hours a day. Align with a company that you resonate with, pick one you like and then do the 8 steps of being a successful solopreneur. And then give it time, it takes real study and real work.
Kevin BigHappy Smith
Q: Shorter question. I spend a good deal of time raising my 10 and 7 year old children as well as my 2 year old puppy. I work on teaching my kids to have the tools on how to be happy as well as a good amount of time of raising a responsible dog. Ideally I’d like to create a program that teaches children about happiness (and I’d like to include my dog somehow). Riff on some ideas about this if you’d like.
A: I love it, I think that’s a great idea. It’d be cool to have a bootcamp for a week: teach kids life lessons on responsibility, and you could do it with a dog theme. Kanine Kids or something like that could be a name for the business. Practice on your kids and some of the neighborhood kids. Then do a bootcamp going, get it rocking and turn it into a video series which you create passive income from.
Niel Reichl
Q: Hi Michael, I’m sure you have heard this billions of times where your loyal followers like me take the opportunity to ask for your help.. but I still am taking my chances.
The company I am working for as a drug rep for the last 5months informed me yesterday that t...