#74: How to Find Your Purpose and Sell Yourself: An in-Depth Interview with Chris on the Solarpreneur Pod

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Chris Lee

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Chris is interviewed by Solar expert, Taylor Armstrong. He shares his journey from building solar companies to his current day podcast & mastermind success.Chris opens up about the highs and lows of entrepreneurship, the art of selling, and the power of building a personal brand. Tune in for a conversation on entrepreneurship, personal growth, and the power of persistence.

Highlights:

"The hardest thing about sales is most people are not willing to get to a decision because they're scared of rejection."

"I tried the whole retirement thing for about six weeks. And it's not all it's cracked up to be; actually, one of the most depressing moments of my life."

"Building a personal brand is all about consistency. Being the same guy or gal, owning who you are, getting your message out to the world."

Timestamps:

00:00 - Introduction and Background
01:27 - Chris Sells Solgen
03:22 - Impact of Podcasting
05:30 - Finding Purpose Post-Retirement
07:10 - Decision to Sell the Business
10:21 - Building a Network
15:57 - Personal Branding
22:39 - Recruiting Philosophy
26:26 - Four Principles of Closing Sales
44:10 - Future Plans and Networking Tips

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey guys so a couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at door to door
0:05.1	con down in Utah and at the same time I was interviewed by the solopreneur
0:10.5	podcast Taylor Armstrong he's built this awesome platform in which he teaches
0:15.8	sales reps how to go and sell solar I think he's got something like 350 podcast but I wanted
0:22.4	to share my interview with you because something like
0:25.0	some of the principles and some of the principles and and uh... in actual ways that I have sold and so we actually in this in this interview we play we do a little
0:36.4	role play we do some sales and the interesting thing is like sales applies to every single entrepreneur every single business person
0:45.2	ultimately if you have a product or a service you have to sell it to somebody
0:49.0	whether you're selling yourself in an interview or whatnot so you're going to love this podcast dive into this
0:55.8	guy you're gonna love it.
0:57.3	All right what's going on we are here with the one the only cubio life not for not one but this is the second time actually coming on the podcast
1:07.1	so we'll introduce them here a little bit more in a second but I thanks for joining us
1:11.8	two times now Chris excited to be here thanks for joining us two times now Chris.
1:13.2	Excited to be here.
1:14.2	Thanks for having me.
1:15.2	Yeah, it's been it's been a fun.
1:17.0	We're actually here at Door to Orcon.
1:19.2	But Chris he was actually I, one of the first guests
1:22.6	that we ever had on the podcast.
1:24.2	I believe so.
1:24.9	It was a handful of years ago.
1:26.9	Yeah, probably three, at least three years ago now, I think.
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