Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Sheep Get Sheered podcast.
I'm your host, Austin Karina, my friends.
We need to talk today about the struggles of a young entrepreneurial man, the man being,
of course, me.
But also, we also need to talk about what it's like being a young person in America
today.
And by young, I mean, oh, I don't know, 18 to 30.
We'll go 18 to 30.
I'll be generous.
18 to 30.
Do you have any idea how hard it is being out here, trying to not just be a nine to five?
Anybody who's not a nine to five, even if you're into nine to five, the wages are usually
no good.
Inflations through the roof.
You're living on minimalistic lifestyle, especially when you're a younger person.
My friends, I understand the struggle.
You better believe I understand the struggle.
I'm out here throwing thousands of dollars into my entrepreneurial ideas every single
day, working 10 to 12 hours a day, grinding my goddamn ass off.
And you know what?
I can't stand my friends.
I can't stand it when people love to talk crap.
Anybody have any of those people in your life who you got to cut them off or you got to
lose contact with them?
Because no matter what they say, it's always their doubt casting.
They're trying to tell you, oh, well, I don't know if it's going to work out or, oh, I don't
like the way you're going about doing this.
Does anybody else have that experience?
Me?
And I know I'm not alone on this.
I know that right now, if we were sitting together, grabbing coffee or a drink at the
pub, you would tell me, hey, Austin, no one, I identify with that, man.
I'm going through it, whether it's at my job, I'm getting overlooked.
If I'm in a nine to five-ish type job, you're probably getting overlooked.
You're probably not getting the PTO you want.
You're probably not getting the opportunities you should be getting if you're really putting
in work, trying to set yourself apart and not just do the bare minimum.
You're probably not getting appreciated.
You're probably not getting the promotion.
You're probably not out there getting what you think you should be getting.
And conversely, if you're more on the entrepreneurial side like myself and you're out here trying
to build a name for yourself, build a brand for yourself, you got your hand multiple different
irons in the fire, and every which way you can, you're not seeing results.
You're not out here really seeing anywhere near the effort being returned the way that
you're putting in.
Whether you're nine to five-er or you're an entrepreneur, I can guarantee you either you
have gone through that or you are going through it at this very moment like me.
And we need to discuss this because so many of us can get distraught.
We can get discouraged.
We can lose our focus on the vision.
We can lose our ambition.
And I want to encourage you, as I've had to encourage myself, do not, I repeat, do not
act.
Let it get to you.
Do not let the stress.
Do not let the anxiety.
Do not let these things get to you.
Stay the course.
Do not put the sales down.
You'll catch the wind.
It's impossible for you not to.
And I'm not just going to sit up here and sound like another one of those stupid YouTube
videos where they're like, close your eyes and picture your dreams.
And once soon as you get one, everything's going to work out for you.
I'm not, I don't deal in hope.
I'm I don't like drugs in general.
I don't deal in hope.
I'm I think it's a disgusting toxin.
Do I think hope is good?
Yes.
Do I think hope is a strategy?
Hell no.
It is not a strategy.
It is a light, the lighthouse in the distance.
It is not your sailboat.
It is not the sail in your boat.
It is the lighthouse that is keeping you from hitting the rocks because you know you will
succeed, but you have to make sacrifices and you have to keep staying in the course.
You got to keep on going.
My friends, I'm here to tell you I'm not the guy who's sitting in a penthouse office
recording this right now.
I'm in my car trying to get a truck for my job.
I deal in contracting.
I'm in my car.
I'm trying to get a truck.
I'm trying to make sure I can take care of my girlfriend.
I'm trying to do all these things at the all at the same time, but my friends, let me tell
you something.
It's a grind.
It sucks.
It's hard.
And guess what?
If you try to do it what I'm doing, you're going to go through it too.
You try to go through a similar situation.
You're going to go through it.
But all of us, our parents, our grandparents, we've all had to go through this.
It's just a matter of how much are you willing to stomach?
Are you able to be like Atlas and hold up the world on your shoulders or you're going
to drop in and let it fall?
I'm asking you this because I'm asking myself every day, what can I do more?
How can I do things better?
What is it I'm doing wrong that I can maybe use my time better?
My boss, he's a hard-ass man.
He really sticks my nose to the fire even more than it already is.
And I'm here to tell you, you need someone like that who's going to hold you accountable.
You need someone who's going to hold you.
Don't hold your hand to make you feel better, but grab your hand, put it back on the fire
and say, hey, don't let that iron get cold.
Don't let yourself lose focus on the vision.
Do not allow yourself to lose the focus on the goals that you have.
Do not allow yourself to be distracted.
Do not let yourself be troubled by the menial things.
Stay focused.
Stay in the course.
You need that in your life because if you don't have that, it's so easy to lose sight.
It's so easy to say, you know what, man, I need a break.
I got to step back for a second.
I got to stop doing what I'm doing.
I can't take it no more.
No, many times I've said I can't take it anymore.
I've said it probably five times today, but you know what I'm doing?
I'm still on the road, still answering my phone, still making those emails.
I'm still knocking those doors.
I'm still out here doing these things because I refuse to give up.
I refuse to lose.
And my friends, you have to refuse to lose because if you don't, it is so easy because
everybody around you is going to question you.
You're questioning your methods, questioning what you're doing.
There are going to be haters all around you.
The more you try to do, the more people are going to try to tear you down, question everything
that you're doing.
And my friends, I don't want you to end up in that position.
I want you to win.
I want you to actualize the goals you have.
You know, it's a trick you told my friends.
I'm not doing the job I love at the current moment.
I wouldn't want nothing more than to produce this show, write books, and really put out
ideas and create in the world.
But right now, I don't have the capital to do that.
So what am I doing?
I'm finding a way for me to gain new skills and gain a new source of revenue.
That's what I'm trying to do.
My friends, if you have goals in your life, it's one thing to have a goal.
It's another to find a way to achieve it.
And that, my friends, takes skill and sacrifice and pain and suffering.
And the only person who can do that is you.
Do not depend on other people.
You're not dependent on a woman.
Do not depend on other men.
You're not dependent on anybody but yourself to get that done.
Now, you're going to have people who are going to support you if you do, maybe.
And make sure you reward those people for investing in you.
But at the same time, do not count on that.
Because that will disappoint you and will let you down.
Nobody owes you anything.
You've got to remember that.
Nobody owes you anything.
My parents don't owe me anything.
God doesn't owe me anything.
The government doesn't owe me anything.
My friends don't owe me anything.
It's all on me to get it done.
Would it be helpful if they help me?
Oh, 100%.
I'll take it.
But it's not something that we can count on.
Because the more we count on others, the more we lose control of our guiding, our vision,
the choppy waters that we face every day.
My friends, normally I don't do motivational type content.
Not because I don't think it's helpful.
But in general, it's one of those things that I don't like listening to these people on
social media who all they do is give you some hack, motivational bull crap of like, oh, just
believe and it's all going to work.
I don't like that type of stuff.
It's like a drug.
People like to watch that and then do nothing with it.
They like to sit there and make themselves feel good.
Like they're moving towards the goal by listening.
But then after they turn the video off, they turn the podcast off, they don't proceed to
do anything with the information.
Not only because the information was really meant to make them feel good, number one.
And number two, that's like giving somebody a really heavy machine gun and they don't
know how to shoot a BB gun.
They don't know how to shoot a Glock.
They don't know how to do anything with what they have.
That's what I'm trying to figure out phase one, not phase three, not phase four.
It's important for us to focus on what we can control, for us to master what we currently
have in front of us, that will keep us motivated because we will develop confidence in what
we're doing.
We will see us working extremely hard and have that full arc of the beginning, middle,
and end and then that will produce confidence.
My friends, if you're going through it, I don't care if you work at 7-Eleven or you work a
9-5 job like that or you work an entrepreneurial job or you're grinding your ass off to create
content or to create a business.
Well, I don't know what you're doing, but if you are feeling like you can't take it
anymore and you just need to keep pushing forward and you need some motivation, well,
guess what?
I'm in it with you.
I'm right there in the fires with you on the front lines and you and I are in the same
bunker, but we're going to win because I refuse to lose.
Do you?
Let me know because this is important and you're never alone.
You will win as I will win.
Do not give up.
I'm out.
I stopped.