Building a Multimillion Dollar Business…By Yourself

Founder's Journal

Morning Brew

Entrepreneurship, Careers, Business

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🗓️ 27 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Episode 13: Today, hosts Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista), Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso), and Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) are talking solo-preneurship—aka running a business of one. What are the pros and cons of being a solo-preneur? And what types of businesses is solo-preneurship best suited for? Then, the team gets radically honest about how they spend their time each week—from self-care to deep work, Jesse, Alex, and Sophia break down how many hours per week they dedicate to work and play, and how they organize their schedules. And finally, the team wraps the last episode of the year with a brainstorm of how we can improve on the show. We’d love to hear your feedback too! Email us at thecrazyones@morningbrew.com. #TheCrazyOnes #Startups #Entrepreneur Listen to The Crazy Ones here: https://link.chtbl.com/OV4W93_W Subscribe to Morning Brew! Sign up for free today: https://bit.ly/morningbrewyt Follow The Brew! Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/morningbrew/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/MorningBrew Tik Tok - https://www.tiktok.com/@morningbrew Follow Our Hosts! Alex Lieberman (@businessbarista) Sophia Amoruso (@sophiaamoruso) Jesse Pujji (@jspujji) (00:34) - Intro (00:58) - The Rundown (02:35) - Why Jesse would hate running a business of one (05:07) - Sophia’s point of view on running a business of one (07:01) - When running a business of one can become challenging (08:25) - The actual popularity of solo-preneurship (10:04) - The story of Pieter Levels attempting to start 12 startups in 12 months (17:29) - Start of the conversation about how the team spends their time (18:23) - How Sophia organizes her week (22:48) - How Sophia organizes her time to allow for the context-switching she has to do every week (24:09) - How Jesse approaches organizing his time (28:32) - The scheduling mistake Jesse sees early founders making (29:23) - How Jesse carves out time for deep work during the week (33:00) - How Alex spends his time (36:59) - The team brainstorm about how to improve the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I've learned to become much more gentle with myself over time.
0:03.6	I think a year or five years ago, or seven years ago, I was like,
0:06.0	ah, you didn't even have a bad day, Jesse.
0:08.8	You look at the mirror and slap himself and then go back to that.
0:12.4	A version of that.
0:13.4	And I think over time, I'm like, yeah, you know what?
0:15.5	And it's something I try to coach everyone I work with,
0:17.4	especially the young entrepreneurs.
0:18.4	I'm like, hey, you know, you got a bunch done this week.
0:20.8	Like did the ball move forward?
0:23.3	Did it go, did it not go backwards?
0:25.6	You know, and I love the pushing a boulder up a hill in algae.
0:28.2	I'm like, you know what, if you're pushing a boulder up a hill,
0:30.4	you keep it in the same place or get it forward a little bit.
0:32.7	That's progress.
0:34.3	What's up, everyone?
0:35.2	I'm Alex Lieberman.
0:36.5	And I'm Sophia Emmeruso.
0:38.4	Yo, this is Jesse Pugi.
0:40.8	And this is The Crazy Wands.
0:45.2	What is up, misfits.
0:46.4	Welcome back to The Crazy Wands.
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