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James McKinney, Episode 100
Category: Business
Duration: 00:17:22
Publish Date: 2020-11-24 09:30:00
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About this episode

In this episode, we’re reflecting on the key entrepreneurial learnings across our 100 founder interviews. To be honest, when I first started The Startup Story, I had no intention of it becoming a full-time venture. I simply wanted to fill a personal void created by a previous employer. However, it is now two years and 100 episodes later and I am all in.

Soon after I decided to be intentional about making The Startup Story my full-time endeavor, COVID hit. When this happened, everything got flipped on its head. I’ve had to lean into the learnings from the entrepreneurs I’ve interviewed over the past two years. I know these learnings have impacted all of you, as well. Tune into this episode to hear and reflect on these key truths that have sustained many of us through 2020.

In this episode, you'll hear.

  • How The Startup Story came to be.
  • How failure drove me to seek to understand what successful entrepreneurs were doing.
  • The worst thing you can do in the midst of challenge or disruption.
  • The upside of COVID for business owners.
  • Why entrepreneurship is supposed to be hard and how remembering that truth helped me thrive during COVID.
  • How entrepreneurship more resembles a journey than a title or role.
  • Why even hard chapters in our lives aren’t wasted.

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