#162: What paradigm shift do you need to go from a chemical engineer to a business owner?
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Today we hear from one of our international coaches. He's gone from a prestigious university teaching career to a comfortable 9-5 at a coal mine company to owning a successful business. Discover from Matt Rosinski what mindset changes are needed to transition from working for others to owning your own business. With a relatively new Amazon presence in his country of Australia Matt explains how creativity coupled with opportunity isn't as scary of a risk when you're rooted in a community of like minded entrepreneurs. Jim and Matt talk about outside of the box money making opportunities linked to our community of forward thinkers and how utilizing the tools suggested in this episode will keep you sharp in your entrepreneurship journey. Get the show notes at SilentJim.com/podcast
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, welcome back to Silent Sales Machine Radio. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm your host, Jim Cochrom. |
| 0:06.6 | And I've got a great guest with us today who I'll introduce to you in just a moment. |
| 0:10.2 | We're going to be talking today about the mental attitude that's required to take the leap from being in the professional world or maybe the educational world or, you know, maybe a highly achieved corporate position to being your own business owner. |
| 0:26.3 | There's a transition that happens there. |
| 0:27.9 | There's a mindset shift that happens there. |
| 0:30.5 | We've got someone who's done that very recently. |
| 0:32.0 | They can fill us in. |
| 0:32.8 | It's been 16 years ago since I did that. |
| 0:34.7 | So sometimes it's hard for me to remember what it was even like to have a real job and a real boss and a real schedule. So we're going to talk a little bit about |
| 0:42.8 | that today with a gentleman who happens to be one of our coaches. He lives in Brisbane, Australia, |
| 0:48.9 | with his wife, Sam, and three great kids. We had a chance to get caught up a little bit today |
| 0:53.3 | before I hit record. |
| 0:54.8 | Just a beautiful family, a beautiful background. Quite a story. This guy has a PhD in chemical |
| 0:59.9 | engineering. He's been, I'm reading from my notes here, he was at Harvard. He's been a professor |
| 1:06.1 | at the University of Wyoming. This guy's got a professional pedigree and educational pedigree, |
| 1:12.5 | but he's interested in the internet business now, |
| 1:14.9 | and he's actually come on board. |
| 1:16.4 | It's one of the latest coaches on our team, |
| 1:18.3 | and he's doing some incredible things. |
| 1:20.2 | So a couple of the other things we're going to talk about today. |
| 1:21.9 | Before I bring on Matt, besides mindset, |
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