Welcome to the How of Business with your host, Henry Lopez, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business.

And now, here is your host.

Welcome to the How With Business Podcast. This is Henry Lopez.

And on this episode, I'm going to share with you my Small Business Startup Checklist.

I'm going to explain the primary steps involved

with starting your first small business. I suggest listening to this episode to get an overview of what's

involved, and then I encourage you to download the free checklist and learn more about each step in the

process. It doesn't include every single step, but it will give you at a high level the primary

steps involved with starting your

first business. To receive more information about the Hawa business, including links to the show

notes page for this episode and the free small business startup checklist, please visit the howabusiness.com.

Let's start with the question, are you ready? I've done several episodes, a whole series of episodes in fact on this topic because I think

it's so critical that you start with assessing for yourself at this point in time, how ready

are you in fact to start your first business?

And if you're not, then what do you need to do to get ready to realize your dreams of

becoming a business owner?

And I break this question down, are you ready into three parts?

Are you ready, willing, and able?

Let me share a bit more about what I mean by ready, willing, and able.

Ready is about determining if you are mentally and emotionally ready to start a small business.

What I find is often what holds people back from

starting their business is one or a combination of two things. The first one is a mindset issue to a

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