Move The Needle

How to Bring Your Crazy Ideas to Life: Part III

Episode Summary

Greg and Jason, two serial entrepreneurs, discuss the final chapter of their respective "crazy projects." One traveling all 50 United States starting with only a $10 bill and a laptop. And, the other building a $1 million dollar online business wearing branded t-shirts.

Episode Notes

In this episode we discussed:

• How Greg found a technical co-founder and launched a personal development online learning academy.
• Greg and Jason discuss the difference between setting goals and developing positive habits.
• Why Greg stopped documenting his life online and instead focused on helping small business owners in person.
• The health scare that almost completely derailed Greg's 3-year travel project and how he was able to continue traveling and finish the project.
• Jason talks about his ambiguous transition between his "I Wear Your Shirt" project before beginning his next major project and how he got through the most difficult days.
• A discussion about why most great networking isn't who you know, but who knows you (which is mostly about you striving to do great work).
• How Jason grew his business from just him as a solopreneur to hiring his first couple of team members.
• Jason explains how much time and effort it took to get his business off the ground as it was growing rapidly.
• Jason shares stories of unintended consequences from too much business growth too fast.
• Greg's thoughts on basic business financials: What to track, what to be cautious about, and how to prepare for a downturn.
• Why Jason chose to shut down his business and how it affected his confidence, but simultaneosly opened up avenues for new ideas.

Reach Jason at Hello[at]JasonDoesStuff.com or on Twitter at @JasonDoesStuff
Reach Greg at Online[at]GregHartle.com or on Twitter at @GregHartle