How do leaders lean into funding their vision?
So what's your idea and your thought process
in being able to fund this vision?
And I learned yesterday from another podcast
or funding doesn't often just mean monetarily, right?
It also means time and everything else.
So please share with me your answer to that question.
Yeah, so I'll just use my business as an example.
Everything is self-funded right now.
So that either includes money or time.
A lot of it is time.
I have structured my finances in such a way
that allows me to do this as many hours a day
as I possibly can, seven days a week.
So that looks like not spending excessive money
on stuff anymore.
It really means paying attention to your budget,
really looking at the tools that you're gonna use
to build your business.
I took it as far as we're a one vehicle household.
I don't need a car.
It's a liability.
It's a distraction.
I like to drive.
So I'll find any excuse I can to go get in that car.
So my wife and I are kind of the outliers
in this situation and getting out, we don't have kids.
We just have two dogs.
So for those people who do have kids
and do need to support their family,
I tell them, it's okay to get a job,
but understand that that job is going to fund
building your business.
And you have to keep that in mind.
So it's really up to you.
And that's why I like entrepreneur so much
because it just allows you to control
every aspect of your life.
Then you have nobody to blame for failure
or success, but yourself.
That is awesome.
That's so when you say for,
I guess that that'd be a great connection
and probably connections you've already made,
which is to, for those that you say,
if you can get a job because that'll fuel
the funding for your vision and your entrepreneurship,
have you linked with some job searching companies
or individuals that could help in that area,
that could gather that piece
and you can take care of the other piece?
So I actually, I have, I've built a pretty solid network.
There is a veteran that I have in my network
who has created a resume tool
that takes your military experience
and uses the links from job postings
to tailor a resume that will make you more competitive
in the job market.
So there's people out there that are building tools
for military people.
There are plenty of people on LinkedIn
where you can find a job as a military person.
So I don't, I'm very anti getting a job.
So for me, it's not something that I ever want to,
I guess, encourage.
I'm not against it in the sense that
if that's what you have to do to provide for your family,
then I understand that you need to do that.
But you also need to understand
that a job will make you comfortable
and it's really easy to stay comfortable.
And in order to build a business
and something that is yours,
you have to be okay getting uncomfortable.