Sean: What would be your best advice for entrepreneurs who are still in that rut, where they're just trying to think if they're going to throw in the towel and finally give up?

J Haleem: Don't give up. Shift. You got to shift. You have to shift. I heard this years ago that the smartest people in business know when to let something go, and not hold on to something. So they always say the new normal, you know, certain things that we have before the pandemic is never going to be in there, you know, and you have to be that person.

Don't be a blockbuster. Don't be a Kodak. There'll be these people, you know a series of robots. Don't be these people that don't shift in business with the time. Get some training, get that certification right now. Some people are offering it for free now. And learn something else, learn a new skill, get to meet some new people when you go to a new city.

You know, some, every city is not shutting. Now I know it's here, you know, Atlanta, Georgia, it never shut down. This whole state of Florida never shut down, if you want to work in the states, go to Georgia, go to Florida, Texas, that's another state that barely ever shut down. So, you know, Elon Musk must've moved his whole company to Texas.

So, you know, you have to be willing to shift. The people who didn't shift as the ones who - because it was so much opportunity as entrepreneurs. I always told people, I said this all through the pandemic. The pandemic is and was horrible for health. But in business, the pandemic can be anything. You know, you think about the people with Uber, you know, taxi cab drivers, Uber were there in pandemic at some, at one point, you know.

The pandemic can be you getting sick. Or without COVID-19, you still have other things, so you have, we had a thousand-year flood in 2015 here. That's a pandemic. You have businesses underwater here. That's, for a business that was just like the pandemic. What did they do? They rebuild, they went and got another space.

They got government assistance. And when it head-on and did something different. You can't just keep trying to fit a square peg into a round hole. Like if that's gone, if you had skills enough to build one thing, you can build something else. Now we get too sentimental about certain things and I get it, maybe you raised your kids in that business.

Maybe you raise your kids with the revenue from that business. I get it. But you gotta shift, you have to shift and you have to pivot. Everybody saying that word during the whole pandemic in the height of it, pivoting. Nobody likes to hear it now, but it's a fact, it's a paradigm shift now. Things are different and it's okay for you to go ahead and learn a new skill, but you got to continue to get better. You have to continue to learn things.

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