How I Built My Small Business
Welcome to 'How I Built My Small Business,' where we dive deep into conversations with guests who've carved out their own path to success. But, we're not only about the creation of businesses. Alongside entrepreneurs, I also chat with experts offering perspectives that'll benefit anyone striving to lead, learn, or improve.
This podcast is both a creative outlet and a platform to share knowledge from incredible people. My guests open up about the raw, heartwarming details of their journeys, offering expertise, simplifying business know-how, sharing money-making ideas, and imparting life wisdom—all through the power of storytelling.
By listening to these interviews and stories, my hope is that you find even one little takeaway that sparks or inspires your path.
While most of my guests make $1 million to $20 million net profit a year, some make more and some make less, but there is a lesson worth learning in each one. I also bring in special guests from brokering and mergers, mindset and meditation, entertainment and marketing, among others. So, the line-up is diverse in niche, experience and perspective - and so, so fun.
Special episodes include:
No College, No Problem
Big business founders with a focus on helpful small business topics
Expertise in hyper-niche fields
The connecting piece is that every one of my guests has started their own business at some point in their journey.
Thank you for listening.
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How I Built My Small Business
Bite-Sized Life Wisdom: 1 of 4
Welcome to How I Built My Small Business: Bite-Sized!
I’m Anne McGinty, your host. While we take a break from full-length guest episodes for the holidays, I’ve curated a series of short, impactful episodes to keep you inspired.
Each bite-sized episode features a collection of powerful snippets from interviews, organized by topic for easy listening.
Stay tuned for quick insights to fuel your business and personal growth!
Season 2 drops the week of January 25, 2025.
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Welcome to how I Built my Small Business. I'm Anne McGinty, host of the show. While full-length guest episodes are on hold for the holidays, I've prepared a collection of short, impactful episodes to keep you inspired until season two. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2:Let's dive in, leave where you're from, leave what you should do, leave what is given to you so you can get perspective, so that you can choose the life you want. Take those early 20 years to question everything, experience everything and then start to make your choices. But you can't. If you're too close to where you're from, you can't see it. All of us have something that we are good at, that no one else in the world has, and we can use that to make a difference.
Speaker 3:The best lesson that I learned was to not compare myself to others.
Speaker 3:I think that in a lot of life not just business, but life in general comparison is the surest path to misery. All you're looking for is personal growth right, is your own expansion of your own skills, it's determination and it's confidence right? I think a lot of it is believing in yourself. Don't pressure yourself into the belief that the first job that you get out of college, or out of high school even, is going to be, or has to be, your lifelong profession and explore a lot of different things and then, hopefully, you will find the one or two things that really speak to you and that you do well, that you can share with others. People definitely set these timelines on themselves and expectations, and letting go of those expectations, I think, is the first step, because no one follows the same exact path. Stay active and continue to surf and do sports and, to my best ability to not just be a workaholic, even though I was so determined and I knew it had to succeed. But I wish I wouldn't have given up that lifestyle for my own personal health.
Speaker 5:Trust yourself For entrepreneurs. There's a fire inside. That's there and that flame took a lot of iterations until I found what it would end up being with my business. But trust yourself and know that something inside of you is leading you on the right path. And the path won't always be easy, but if you stick to it then you'll learn on that path and the instinct is leading you in the right direction.
Speaker 6:I had a lot of self-doubt and a lot of criticism towards myself and I don't know if I fully believed in myself, even though I got a lot of external validation. I think it was just my internal world was. It's wild how it can be transformative, event and then it can just immediately drop into self-doubt and it's just like the roller coaster of emotions is very real and having a strong practice and even people who are around me who believe in me kind of helps me remind me who I am. And keep going man, keep evolving. Believe in yourself because it's worthwhile.
Speaker 7:No regrets. You're exactly where you need to be, and any difficulty or discomfort you're going through now is a stepping stone to something better than you can imagine. Don't be afraid to be you and show up as you. You are a unique being with unique gifts and your perspective matters. So if you can believe in yourself and trust in yourself, you can learn how to start a business, but you can also innovate. It's like the more love you give, the more love you have. A balanced approach to it is compassion with self-compassion. There is enough for everyone.
Speaker 4:Get over fear of what other people think of you, and nothing is that scary or hard. Always continue to take risks, because that is the real key to everything in life. It's like you're taking risks, especially when you're young and have less to lose. That's the other thing. You don't have anything to lose when you're young, and I always was so scared of the small things that I had. Now I have something to lose, but back then I didn't just go for it. Don't be scared. Don't let people's judgment whether it's a partner or family friends derail you. And also, people are filled with fear, and I spent a lot of time listening to my friends that were so filled with fear that I didn't trust my own instincts to just do what I wanted.
Speaker 1:Thanks for listening to this bite-sized episode of how I Built my Small Business. If you enjoyed it, share it with someone who might find it helpful, and don't forget to subscribe so you're ready when season two drops. As always, have a great day.
