Entrepreneur: The tools and lessons you need to build a successful small business, Rushion McDonald.
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald.
A Special Episode… ” Whatever you decide to call it, Rushion McDonald hosts and stars in this exceptional episode of the Money Making Conversations Master Class Podcast.
Truly emphasizing the namesake of his show, Rushion shares stories of how his various failures in running a small business have taught him important lessons that he continues to keep with him to this day. From the importance of budgeting your business correctly to the dangers of hiring unqualified family members to ensure you fully understand the person you are going into business with, Rushion McDonald weaves a cautionary tale outlining the dangers of ignorance and the importance of proper planning. This way, regardless of what entrepreneurial endeavor you wish to go into, you can do what Rushion always encourages his listeners to do and “Keep Winning.”
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| 0:00.0 | If you're about to make a change in your life and you feel uncomfortable, that's the best feeling you can have. |
| 0:07.0 | Because for the first time in your life, you're making a decision that's going to be best for you and not what somebody told you to do. |
| 0:16.0 | And that's when all bets are off. |
| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Money Making Conversations. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm your host with Sean McDonald. |
| 0:22.2 | Our theme is there's no perfect time to start |
| 0:24.3 | following your dreams. I recognize that we all have different definitions of |
| 0:28.0 | success for you and maybe the size of your paycheck. It's time to stop reading |
| 0:32.0 | other people's success stories to start living your own. |
| 0:34.7 | Keep winning. |
| 0:38.7 | I am going to be talking about how to be a successful business owner. |
| 0:45.0 | Well guess what? I have failed. I have done so many mistakes and I'm going to share some of those mistakes. |
| 0:53.2 | Let's get started here. I'm going to ask some questions about it. |
| 0:56.2 | Has anybody ever thought about you can raise your hand, you can raise your hand |
| 1:00.3 | in your car driving, you know just raise your eyebrow thought about starting a business |
| 1:04.4 | why didn't you do it have you ever thought about hiring people for your business and |
| 1:10.0 | you've hired the wrong people have Have you ever thought about hiring relatives? |
| 1:14.0 | And guess what, you hired those relatives? |
| 1:16.0 | Have you ever hired people that you were getting a good deal on them? |
| 1:21.0 | Oh, they got got oh they cheap oh that salary fits right into my |
| 1:26.9 | budget but they don't have the experience am I am I am I tapping into the right |
| 1:32.2 | lanes with some of y'all out there? |
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