#267 - Stop comparing your business expenses to personal expenses
Built by Business: Amazon FBA, E-Commerce, Brand Building
Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder
4.9 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
When you're beginning your entrepreneurial journey, I want you to avoid comparing your business expenses to personal expenses. Running your finances for your business is a different game and your have to draw a hard line in the sand.
In this episode, I talk about how you can have a better mindset when it comes to your expenses.
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| 0:00.0 | There's a lot more on the mental side of this than just creating product listings and running ads. |
| 0:06.5 | So one of those mindsets that I think affects a lot of people early on, you need to stop comparing |
| 0:14.2 | your business expenses to your personal expenses. This is a very, very dangerous mindset that a lot of people have when they're |
| 0:24.1 | beginning their entrepreneurial journey. |
| 0:30.6 | What's up guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam. |
| 0:38.4 | Stop comparing your business expenses to your personal expenses. This is more of a mindset episode. |
| 0:47.2 | I know a lot of you guys have loved the mindset episodes. In fact, it seems kind of crazy, but |
| 0:51.9 | I feel like I get far more DMs over on Instagram about |
| 0:55.9 | mindset episodes than I do about actual Amazon strategic episodes. And I know I've hinted at this |
| 1:03.9 | in the past about, gosh, should I start my own, a separate podcast just to, you know, kind of keep |
| 1:09.5 | things a little bit separate or maybe more for the people who are not super into selling on Amazon, but just a podcast, |
| 1:14.3 | just talking about like mindset and being an entrepreneur, being a full-time entrepreneur, |
| 1:19.3 | being a father, being a husband, balancing all that, balancing time, being a, you know, |
| 1:24.6 | dealing with the ups and the downs. I don't know. Just like, I know there's a lot of shows |
| 1:28.4 | out there. Maybe that's why I'm so hesitant to start that type of show as well and, you know, |
| 1:33.7 | put out maybe a weekly episode in that type of space. Because I feel like there's so, that is a super |
| 1:39.0 | saturated podcast market of like business, mindset, entrepreneurship. But I don't know. I just love it. I just love |
| 1:45.6 | talking about it. If you know me personally or, you know, for those of you that listen to me long |
| 1:50.0 | enough in your ear, you know how much I just love the game. I love this game. And I'm not talking |
| 1:55.3 | about Amazon. I love the game of business. I love the game of entrepreneurship. That's why if you go search me up |
| 2:02.7 | on YouTube, you'll find Andy Isam 2017 pre-Amazon talking business, talking software tools, talking |
| 2:11.5 | gosh, what was I talking about back in those days? I was talking about blogging on like Google blogger. |
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