When you don't know how or where to start in creating that thing, the most important thing you can do is to just start where you are with what you have. Start small, start light, and keep it fun. Though simply starting is not enough to create sustained success, starting does give you options and fresh experiences that are worth the journey. I've started so many businesses that I never finished, which on one hand saddens me, but on the other, has allowed me to test several things quickly. Insights that I get to pass on to you. In this episode, I share with you how to adopt the mantra that everything is learnable, why starting small matters, and an important tip to make sure you get things done starting today.

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When life gives you rain, find the rainbows. The storm's gonna come anyway, but if we survive it, that pot of gold on the other side of all that thunder and lightning may be awaiting us. We cannot succeed without first failing many times, for there are things we must learn during the process before we are deemed worthy of success. In this episode, I share why I now embrace failure on the daily, some thoughts on how to "dance in the rain", and uncover what the pot of gold signifies. Failure is life's great teacher, equalizer, and judiciary. Accepting it as a natural precursor to success changes everything.

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We're all salesmen and saleswomen, no matter which industry we're in. Even when we're not pitching our products and services, every day on a personal level, we're selling our ideas and beliefs whenever we share our thoughts with people; trying to get them to see from our vantage point. Thing is, so few of us get to know those we're selling to before we go in for the sale. What if instead, we lead with conscious branding: the business of earning trust? Journey with your boy as I offer insights on how to come from a place of passion over profits. I also share why we must become stronger listeners of the stories we're surrounded with daily and center our businesses around the many issues of our audience. Because when we connect, that thing we're doing sells itself - no upselling required.

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You don't get the hustle without first overcoming the struggle. If life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react, then maybe life is 10% struggle and 90% hustle. The kicker is that none of us are ever exempt from those "life happens" moments. The difference is in our Comeback Game; our resolve. In this episode, I share with you some of the things I still struggle with daily, a few ways you can view your own obstacles, and 3 bulletproof points on how to frame our struggles going forward. 

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In the final part of this 3-part "You Don't Know Me" series, I distill big moments from my life from 2008 through today. Naturally, there isn't enough time to share every single seminal moment or memory I carry around, but hopefully this along with Part I & Part II help paint a solid portrait of my past. Things such as areas of my marriage, the businesses I owned equity within, and moves between homes*. There are many people I failed to acknowledge in this series who helped shape me into the man I am today, but just know that they still live through me. Other stories are for other days. Plus my memories continue to fade - thank goodness for my journal! 

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*At about the 9:52-minute marker, I accidentally say the year "2005" when I meant to say the year "2015". Sorry, y'all!

Can you believe you've had me in your ears once a week for 6 months already? Well, I can't, but to mark the occasion, I've done a semi-annual review containing (most of) what you all have taught me since I started this podcast. Coaching goes both ways and as a student of life, I'm happy to constantly challenge and evolve my past and current beliefs. Join me in this special homage to each of my listeners where I share the good and inconvenient truths I've learned directly from you all. Thank you so much for allowing me to share stories with you all. You make me better!

With love,

Darnell

*The voice message at the beginning of this episode was left by Dr. Krista Gerau of The Ascendant Path, make sure you check out her podcast.

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Creating a brand or a business is never just about the creators. It's also about who we do this for, which becomes a part of our why. When we are crystal clear who that person or thing is, everything we touch becomes more intentional and purposeful. We create connections, loyalty, and bonds. Whether you know it or not, somebody out there cares about what you're up to and they won't do what they should be doing until they see you do it first. Journey with me as I paint a picture featuring that one kid out there who needs you to show and prove, along with some of the people I'm in entrepreneurship for, plus bulletproof points on how to do it for them - since it's much bigger than you or me.

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In Part II of this 3-part "You Don't Know Me" series, I share with you impactful moments and choices from my life after 9/11 through the end of my first business venture in 2008. There's a lot of good here, along with some decisions I'm not too fond of. I've since learned that the good in life is usually flanked by the bad and the ugly as well. One of the toughest pills I've swallowed is that I lost relationships with my best friends and their families because of my entrepreneurial ambitions and selfishness. In other words, I chose business (and a domesticated life) over maintaining most of my older friendships. I hope my closet is now a little cleaner, and that the people of my past have since lived better lives without me in them, as I did not deserve their love. Listeners, I invite you to get to know the all of me. Especially the unpleasant parts (though again, there is some good here!).

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Each and every one of us was born with glorious purpose, but we don't always recognize it due to the thickened, callused layers of expectations and opinions of those who surround us. This episode serves as an all-important reminder of the greatness residing within you. Join me as I share examples of those I look to when things suck for me while demystifying any competitive advantages you think I have over you. As usual, this episode ends with three (3) bulletproof points to rip away those layers covering up the gold within you, so that you may thrive in life and in business.

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All advice is not created equal. And most of us end up taking business advice from those better suited to provide life advice only. Sometimes those closest to us have not achieved their dreams because they were either too comfortable in their complacency - or because they failed once and didn't get back in the ring. Join me as we break down the things our peers, family, and friends tell us, when they really know nothing - along with ways we can become better equipped to absorb the advice we need to further our journeys in business and entrepreneurship.

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