Hey there, welcome back to Why People Do Stuff! In this episode, we're diving into the crazy, exciting, and sometimes scary journey of leaving a stable job to start your own business... including dealing with people who JUST DON'T THINK THE WAY YOU DO. Like, perhaps, your family.

You'll learn how to explain your hair-brained risky ideas to your family in a way that they might understand... and how to be more understanding of what's causing their (sometimes negative) reactions to your plans.

Key Points:

1. The Big Decision: Remembering the emotional and mental hurdles involved in leaving comfort and certainty of a comfy job for the wild ride of starting a business.
2. Family Reactions: Navigating the mixed bag of family and friends' reactions when you announce you're ditching stability for the entrepreneurial dream.
3. The Entrepreneurial Mindset: Why entrepreneurs think a little differently, love a good challenge, and sometimes aren't afraid to take risks (compared to the just-as-normal, certainty-driven, risk-averse people in your family).
4. Overcoming Challenges: The traits that keep entrepreneurs going through thick and thin... including traits that others see as very very strange.
5. Finding Your Tribe: The magic of finding a supportive community who gets you and your wild ideas.
6. Risk and Reward: Balancing the excitement of new ventures with the reality of risks and how to prepare for them... and how to use your "unsupportive" friends and family's advice to your advantage.
7. Personality Traits: How your personality (and those around you) can impact your entrepreneurial journey. AND how to understand the fears, concerns, discouragement and doubts that are thrown at you by well-meaning people in your life.
8. Continual Growth: Why you need to keep learning, growing, and shaking things up to avoid getting bored or burned out.

Episode Highlights:

1. Flashback to that key moment in a pizza joint deciding to start a business. Yes, garlic balls were a thing... back when we used to eat bread.
2. The ups and downs of leaving a predictable job for the wild ride of entrepreneurship... and why on earth anyone would ever do such a thing (including YOU).
3. Balancing a corporate job while building a business on the side, and the moment it was time to choose.
4. Insights into the psychological traits that make entrepreneurs tick and keep them pushing forward.

Join the Conversation:

Ever faced a similar crossroad in your career? Share your story...

Watch on YouTube - drop a comment about which part of our chat hit home for you.

Tune in to this episode for some laughs, some aha moments, and a whole lot of real talk about taking the leap into entrepreneurship. Whether you're just dreaming about starting a business or already in the thick of it, we've got some tips, stories, and encouragement for you. Let's do this!

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WHO ARE THESE PEOPLE anyway?

Serial entrepreneurs, quick-starters, researchers, nerds and goofballs. This show is for business owners who love interesting conversations about how minds work.

After many years of running several high-profit multi-6-figures/year businesses (with very little team and a super tiny audience), Molly & Jason are the brains behind WhyPeopleDoStuff.com - a place for entrepreneurs to learn more about how their audience's mind works... what people want, why they buy, how they think, and how to work out your OFFERS and sales skills around those core key psychological quirks and rules.

Molly is a self-proclaimed people nerd. Mildly extroverted, bubbly, empathetic and a "genius" according to her friends and kids. She collects coffee mugs and introverts.

Jason is a critical thinking analyzer... picking apart puzzles and proudly carrying an "Extreme Introvert" label.

Their kids (Kyle, Julia and Casey) are homeschooled, taken all over the world (thanks to the online business lifestyle!) and spend an inordinate amount of time talking about psychology. Occasionally the kids will make appearances on the show as well... talking about things that they themselves have become early experts in.

The show will also have other guests on, helping all of us entrepreneurs love & understand the wonderful world of... why people do stuff.

Interested in being a guest or having us on your show? Email us at [email protected].

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