Luis Congdon Network with Your Heroes

Before Luis Congdon Network with Your Heroes discovered his passion for podcasting, he worked for a large research group teaching and educating married couples at or below the poverty line with children. He focused on what makes a marriage successful using prior research from the University of Washington. Luis looked at how that education affected the parents and how it trickled down to impoverished children. Luis loved the job and all of the families he worked with. After 2.5 years his dream job ended. He struggled to find something as fulfilling and avoid the 9 to 5 grind.

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He decided to take the crazy leap into entrepreneurship with no background in business. His only prior business experience was selling products through a magazine for points to purchase things like video games.

Luis Congdon decided to sell relationship coaching. He was not very successful and he was just getting by in Seattle. He had a conversation with a woman and she said to start a podcast and interview celebrities in his niche.  Luis admits he didn’t know the first thing about podcasting but a light had gone off. He went home and started contacting renowned therapists and doctors that had been on Oprah and Dr. Phil. These were all the big names in his niche.

His email campaign was not successful so Luis did what he always does and looked for what he was missing or not doing. It’s Luis’s belief that if what you want is not happening it’s because your mindset is off or you’re not doing something right. Two things you can change and change the result.

Luis looked at his email letter closer to see what was missing. he crafted a new letter to Dr.’s Hendrix that had been on Oprah 5 times. In that letter and subsequent ones, he changed his message to reflect how those he was contacting had affected him and what it meant to him. Luis received overwhelming yes responses.

Funny thing here, Luis did not have a podcast or website or social media yet! He didn’t even know what a podcast was. He quickly googled how to record a Skype call and recorded his first show. Luis went through the process from editing to the final product and now podcasting is his full-time occupation.

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In western culture we interpret that to mean what goes around comes back around. In Buddhism it means a footprint. Luis was born in Medellin, Colombia in the dark times. His mom was a drug addict and his dad left when he was born. His mother was murdered when he was 5 and he was homeless for several years until being adopted into the US. His US parents would divorce but they were still amazing parents. Through his work with couples, Luis realizes that sometimes divorce is the right thing to do and he thinks it was for his parents. He has had a lot of demons to work through from the footprints of his childhood.

Number One Entrepreneurial Tip

If you are getting asked something repeatedly:

* It means people think you are an expert in it;

* it means there is a market for it, and;

* You don’t always have to answer the question, you can create a product to serve more people and solve their problem.

If you want to learn more about or connect with Luis Congdon Network with Your Heroes, check out his links below and remember he welcomes all questions, comments and inquiries! Don’t forget to mention you heard about Luis on Stop Riding the Pine:-)

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