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Disruptors

10 Main Fears of Being an Entrepreneur

Disruptors

Rob Moore

Careers, How To, Business, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Marketing, Investing, Education, Entrepreneurship

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Rob has been a business owner and entrepreneur for quite some time, some things have stayed the same and many things have changed but he still remembers the difficulties he found at the beginning. He likes to remind himself of the struggles new entrepreneurs are facing now and more importantly wants to help. Listen in to this episode to hear the 10 main fears he has found new entrepreneurs have and how to combat them. KEY TAKEAWAYS  Imposter Syndrome – There is no such thing, most of the time it’s just lack of experience or confidence. Sharing Your Plans Being Taken Seriously – Focus on the task at hand and put any judgements from others aside. Failure – This holds you back, try not to think about other people’s opinions and just do it. The only thing that is stopping you, is you. Finding the Right People Confidence About Progress Previous Baggage Security Financing Overwhelm/Procrastination BEST MOMENTS   “If time is infinite it doesn’t exist, we have labelled time and we have done the same with imposter syndrome” “It’s not hard, it’s just new” “I tell you what freedom is, freedom is letting go of the fear and pain of judgement from others” [Business, mindset, entrepreneur, disruptors] VALUABLE RESOURCES https://robmoore.com/ bit.ly/Robsupporter   https://robmoore.com/podbooks  rob.team ABOUT THE HOST Rob Moore is an author of 9 business books, 5 UK bestsellers, holds 3 world records for public speaking, entrepreneur, property investor, and property educator. Author of the global bestseller “Life Leverage” Host of UK’s No.1 business podcast “Disruptors” “If you don't risk anything, you risk everything” CONTACT METHOD Rob’s official website: https://robmoore.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/robmooreprogressive/?ref=br_rs LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/robmoore1979 disruptive, disruptors, entreprenuer, business, social media, marketing, money, growth, scale, scale up, risk, property: http://www.robmoore.com

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0:00.0

There is only one way to avoid criticism.

0:04.2

Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

0:10.0

There are probably ten main fears, I would say, of being an entrepreneur.

0:17.0

I've been doing a lot of research on this because sometimes you only know yourself, the fear you're facing.

0:25.0

Or you can't remember the fears that you transcended years ago because they're gone.

0:33.0

So I love to stay connected with my communities.

0:37.0

I've helped hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and I'm very active.

0:41.0

You'll see me replying to loads of my comments on my Facebook videos and I engage with people on my lives and in Clubhouse.

0:50.0

One because it's fun because I don't have any real friends, so it's nice to have some online friends.

0:57.0

But it's also very educational for me to keep me grounded in terms of what people are dealing with because I started my business 15 years ago.

1:08.0

So you could actually argue, Rob, do you even remember what it's like to start a business?

1:12.0

Well, I do because I start loads of businesses.

1:15.0

But my first one when I had my real fears like rejection and vulnerability and imposter syndrome and yada yada.

1:21.0

You know, these were years ago.

1:23.0

So I've been actually compiling some of these fears from my community members and doing asking questions and doing polls.

1:31.0

And so far I've collated about ten main fears.

1:35.0

I'm going to share them with you now.

1:37.0

I don't know if you can relate to any of them.

1:40.0

I'll probably do deeper dive content on these as and when people give me feedback on which one they're really struggling with.

1:47.0

But what I found is number one, imposter syndrome will self-doubt.

1:52.0

This is a really common fear for entrepreneurs starting or scaling.

1:56.0

Number two is sharing your plans and letting the world know what you do and you know the vulnerability challenges that that can bring.

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