Action Over Perfection: Breaking Paralysis and Accelerating Success with Lamar Tyler

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🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Lamar Tyler’s entrepreneurial journey is a powerful testament to the transformative power of persistence, adaptability, and community-driven leadership. With a background in information technology, Lamar’s ambitions extended well beyond his corporate environment. He was motivated by a dream to become an entrepreneur, and when his innovative ideas were consistently dismissed by his employer, he resolved to build something impactful with his wife, anchoring their efforts in values that mattered to them. This led to the genesis of a blog focused on positive representations of African American marriage and family—a proactive response to the pervasive negativity in mainstream media depictions.

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0:00.0	The reason you just can't like do what we say do, right?
0:03.5	Like, hey, how do I do this?
0:04.7	Okay, do step one, two, three.
0:05.9	They can't do it because they are obsessed with knowing what the end looks like. Like, how do I get to the finish line? Like, show me all the steps. I mean, you show me all the steps, I'll get started. But what I tell them is that entrepreneurship and they're like driving in the fall. and when you drive in the fog,
0:19.3	you may only be able to see five to ten feet in front of you.
0:21.9	But if you want to see what the next 10 feet looks like, you have to go to
0:25.9	the first 10 feet. Then once you go that 10 feet, you'll see I need to make a right. You go another 10
0:31.1	feet. I need to make a left. I go another 10 feet. Go straight. And then eventually you get to the
0:35.0	finish line. Step into the world of success with your brand amplified, the ultimate podcast designed to
0:42.6	unravel the intricacies of thriving businesses.
0:45.6	I'm your host, Onica Jackson, and I'm on a mission to uncover the stories, strategies,
0:50.4	and secrets that have propelled entrepreneurs and business leaders to success.
0:58.2	I'm thrilled to have somebody who has a landmark celebration 10 years in business.
1:06.7	Lamar Tyler, CEO founder of Traffic, Sales, and Profit.
1:11.0	Congratulations. That is not easy to do in this day and age.
1:14.4	Thank you. I greatly appreciate it. And yes, you know, one of the things I tell people all the time is that you have to celebrate yourself.
1:21.9	Because if you don't, right, who else can you expect to celebrate you? So we just had a big conference celebration. We did our first
1:29.6	ever Black Tie gala to top it off. We had entertainment, had dance, had music, had awards. So thank you.
1:35.8	But I feel like it's been a great ride. But I still feel like we're still in the early stages.
1:40.2	I don't know if you'll feel like that. Like I feel like, been doing stuff a while, but I still
1:43.6	feel like we still in startup mode. So still a lot of place to go, but we definitely laid the
1:47.7	foundation. Well, take us back to that moment when you decided to start this company. Yeah,
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