Please, Paul, tell me about your vision.
Oh, thanks so much.
So I have been working in developing my main website, Powells.com for over 25
years, and through that I've learned some, I've learned a lot through the changes
and all the stuff that's going on with social media and Google and all of that.
And so now I just want to help other business owners figure out how to
navigate some of this, especially with building community, using email marketing
to really build an audience and followers and people who really want to engage with
your content.
Email has been so important for my business.
So I'm loving it.
I'm really enjoying helping other, you know, solo entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs
that just feel overwhelmed with all the tools and options out there to see
success in their business.
Wow.
I love that.
Just trying to help out the little man, huh?
Yeah.
Well, I was gonna say, when I started you 20 something years ago, I mean, there
wasn't podcasts and YouTube videos and all this.
So, I mean, it was very overwhelming.
And, uh, just because you didn't know nowadays, I think there's so much noise
out there and these things are changing so quick.
I want to be that person that gives people really actionable things that
they can do to make a difference.
Absolutely, man.
So where did your vision come from?
Like whenever, is it just whenever you were starting up, there wasn't all of
these podcasts, like you said, or was there something else behind the
origination of it?
So, I mean, I was very hesitant to get into, you know, the, the business
coaching and building courses and those kinds of things and doing this one-on-one
mentoring, that is not something I ever saw myself doing.
It was probably five years ago or so when I started working with a business
coach myself, and he kept saying, you know, Paul, you, you have some value to
give people, um, I spoke at a couple of conferences and again, he's in my ear
saying, people like what you're saying.
You're helping people.
It's time to make some offerings and get yourself out there.
So I was reluctant to do it and still I feel the imposter syndrome sometimes.
Um, but it, I love it.
I love seeing, making people's light bulbs go off and helping them make
connections and figuring out, you know, ways that they can use these tools or
whatever out there to really help their businesses.
All right.
So let me see, what's the next one.
I have a whole list of questions and I'm like, cool.
He's answering them before I even ask them.
You're fucking phenomenal at this.
Pardon my French.
I swear I curse a handful, but I try to dial it back whenever I'm podcasting.
Uh, so what's your goal with this vision?
Where are you trying to go?
What's your, what's your end goal?
You know, I would love for this to be, um, something that I can kind of move into more.
Um, I've been working on my main business, like I said, for more than 20 years.
And I don't plan on leaving that anytime soon, but I would love for, maybe if I do
retire from powwows.com eventually, or maybe I can, you know, give more
responsibilities away, this is kind of something maybe I could do in the second
half here as I look to, I retired from a full-time job, but as I kind of step back
and we want to do more traveling and things like that, maybe this is a way
that I can do that, um, for me though, I try not to do that, but I do want to
do more of that, but I do want to do more of that, but it's a good way to do it.
I think it's a good way to do it.
So, yeah, I'm excited about that.
I think it's a good way to do it.
I think that's the, the big thing though.
I try not to set too many business goals.
We're we set more lifestyle goals and we then we figure out business wise, how we
get ourselves to those lifetime goals.
So right now our big lifestyle goal is we, uh, we want to move to Florida and our
daughter's living down there now, so we want to be closer to her and kind of
start over down there and, uh, experience what Florida has to offer.
More and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
We'll invite people to participate in the show and thank you for giving us
your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision and becoming a vision for yourself.