132. The Behind-the-Scenes Life of an Entrepreneur

The Suzanne Venker Show

Suzanne Venker

Society & Culture

4.9 • 650 Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Suzanne and her assistant Kelsey discuss the life of the entrepreneur.

IN THIS EPISODE:

2:50 Suzanne’s assistant, Kelsey, discusses her background

8:20 You don’t have set hours when you have your own business. You basically work all of the time

9:10 The pros: No boss, make your own hours, license to be creative

9:35 The cons: you work for a long time with very little payoff, can be financially straining

12:30 Building a business and having young kids. Is it logistically possible?

13;10 Failure is part of being an entrepreneur

13:40 Social media makes it look easy

15:00 A strong passion is necessary to sustain you through ups and downs

15:45 It usually takes about three years to see any revenue

16:10 You can’t please everyone. Suzanne discusses her experience with dealing with others’ expectations

18:35 You have to be able to deal with delayed gratification

20:00 You have to be disciplined with your time

23:35 You can’t let your business bleed into your personal life

28:40 Entrepreneurship is pushed to women without explaining the caveats of this lifestyle

33:00 Jobs are underrated

36:45 Suzanne dreams of being a waitress!!!!!

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1:05.5	Join us here every week when we challenge the culture's hugely flawed narratives about men, women, sex, and love. From coast to
1:12.1	coast and from around the world, thank you for joining us. So today I'm going to talk about
1:19.5	the behind the scenes life of an entrepreneur, which is very different from what I normally
1:25.7	talk about. Obviously, I thought it would be fun to just do a little sidebar here.
1:30.0	And I thought I'd let you guys in on what not just my life looks like behind the scenes,
1:36.6	but really any entrepreneur's life,
1:39.9	anybody who works for themselves and does their own thing
1:42.1	and has their hands in a bunch of different things in the creation of some sort of business-like endeavor.
1:49.1	I get a lot of questions about it and just thought I'd take a podcast episode to do that.
1:55.6	So I can't do it without inviting my podcast producer slash assistant extraordinaire Kelsey Roa,
2:05.6	who is on the line because she too is an entrepreneur and she was before I ever came into her life.
2:12.0	So we're not necessarily going to talk just about being a podcast person or a coach,
2:17.0	but just entrepreneurship in
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