How do leaders lean into funding the vision?
They have, they might have a vision, but it's not crystal clear.
Like you said, entrepreneurship, 96% fail.
I believe a lot of that is because they don't have the holistic vision of what that means.
So what I mean by that is-
100%.
I open a vape shop tomorrow, but only because everybody's doing it?
Right.
Yeah.
I'm going to do this and I'm going to get money or they want to provide for their family,
but they want to be with their family.
So there's a lot of conflict with entrepreneurs.
Well, when you have conflict that slows you down, think of it like, you know, friction.
So they have this vision and I'm speaking from experience.
You have this vision, you want this, but then something happens that conflict and it like
slows you down.
Okay.
Well, money is like the biggest friction for people because that is probably one of the
most emotionally touchy touch points for people is money.
Like if you want to bring up an awkward conversation with somebody, talk about money.
And a lot of people have very strong opinions.
And I always tell people your opinions are fine and they're valid for your head, but
unless you have wisdom behind it, it's just your opinion.
And so for me, I had a lot of opinions because of other people's opinions and it was never
from wisdom.
And so I think that taking that, like even the word funding, it's so funny that you use
this word because yesterday I was trying to challenge myself and I am not as well versed
in like funding for like hedge funds or stocks or things like that.
Cause we've just always done real estate.
And this year I've really pushed myself for like tax strategy and using insurance policies
and me being like involved in the money part of it.
Cause that's always been my husband.
And I'm like, no, I'm not going to hide behind them.
I'm going to learn these things because if I'm teaching people I want, and I'm transparent
about it, like I still look up term, like definitions.
I'm like, Alexa, what's this word mean?
You know?
And so like, I still look up stuff, but I'm trying to turn it next year.
Yeah.
So yesterday a thing came up like a join this master class or whatever.
And it was for funding, like creating fun, like being a fund manager for people.
And I'm like, that is way out of my comfort zone.
And so I clicked on it and I'm learning about fund management.
Now am I going to go be a fund manager?
I don't know.
But the fact that you're using funding in this shows me that God wanted me to have just
a little bit of that knowledge to understand.
So what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do is they think I either have to bootstrap it,
like do it all myself, which is me, like me and my husband, we've always bootstrapped it.
There's a sense of pride and identity in that.
And I had to strip myself of that.
And that made me very vulnerable.
And I had to ask for help, which a lot of entrepreneurs have a hard time doing because
their business is their baby or their business is something that's taking away from their
babies.
So it's very emotionally driven for them.