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 for Parents
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 2. Let's dive in. Let's dive in.
Speaker 2:Every year, people are so worried about college admissions, people are so worried about grades and test scores and that that hyper-focus on that causes us to lose sight on the things that we all know as older adults is really important. Whether we start a business, whether we're working with our family, you know, whatever our goals are for ourselves, it isn't the grades, the test scores and the college admissions. That is the long-term driver of our own health and well-being and our happiness.
Speaker 3:I think that there's a real need for critical thinking because there's going to be so much information coming at you and the people that will really succeed will be able to decipher information, be able to synthesize information, be able to ask the right questions. So I think curiosity is an absolute must. So I think critical thinking and curiosity are two of the biggest going forward.
Speaker 4:Almost all aspects of our society are really struggling right now in terms of the lack of creativity and connection. Dr Vivek Murthy, the US Surgeon General, put out this huge report stating that loneliness and disconnection is the biggest epidemic of our time. And what are we going to do about it?
Speaker 2:If we focus on executive functioning skills connection, we know that loneliness is an epidemic. 70% of Gen Zers and millennials say that they feel lonely. That's an issue. We know the social affects the academic. What happens for kids is that they get stressed out and then that leads into a shame spiral and that leads to task paralysis. The reality of kids today is they have such an information overload. There's so many inputs coming at them and the thing that we can do as adults is reduce those inputs, whether that's if they're a teenager with a phone to take off the notifications right or to turn off their phone for a certain number of hours every day and every week so that they're truly offline. And then the other piece around it is coming from a place without feeling judged. Once you have that sense of safety, you're more willing to expand.
Speaker 3:If you look at some of the data computer science, which has been a great major to get employed and to do everything else it's maybe going to be less in demand because Gen AI is going to write code. It does write code and so for everybody who's been training on how to write code, maybe you're not going to need that skill set right, because maybe you're just going to need to be able to ask the right questions and have Gen AI build code. So this argues in some ways for a more liberal arts education. We're kind of the pendulum may be swinging back again towards critical thinking.
Speaker 5:There's some pretty incredible research that's been coming out about the impact of phones and screens and sort of digital interactions as being really hard to process and manage when you're at that age and kind of the addictive nature of a lot of sort of the way that these tools, services have been set up can have a really profound impact on the mindset of a child or a teen.
Speaker 2:How can we help you become the best version of you that you want to be? Kids come out how they come out. They have personalities, they have gifts, they have strengths, they have opportunities for growth, A thing that you can do at home with your kids if they're in middle school or high school, even younger kids. But I always have them self-evaluate, like on a scale of one to five or one to 10, tell me where you are in terms of organizing, planning, prioritizing, starting and completing tasks and being adaptable when something doesn't go as planned.
Speaker 6:I tell my son he's like oh, this is the worst, or I'm the worst, I'm so dumb when he can't get a homework right. And I'll be like if that's what you think, then that's what you are. I said he's probably getting tired of me saying this. But then I caught him in the act the other day. His sister was going through a spiral of like oh, I can't get this, I'm so stupid. And he goes if that's what you think, that's what you are. And I said you listened, he goes that's what mom says. I was like oh my God hallelujah, my work is done.
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.
