Episode 145: “When I started my first business. I lost my wife, and it was worth it.” (FS145)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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    <p>Christopher Lin is a Fizzler who opened a recent forum post with this story: “I went to the University of Utah, and majored in Entrepreneurship. At the orientation, there were 2 speakers, and the first one opened in front of the entire business school: **‘When I started my first business. I lost my wife, and it was worth it.’** Imagine a group of young starry eyed college kids&nbsp;listening to this&nbsp;opening message.&nbsp; He continued, ** ‘I wish 10 years of horrible failures upon all of you, so you can truly become great entrepreneurs.’** *Another slap in the face. Are we in the right room?* I'm now hitting&nbsp;just about 10 years after my first business, and barely hitting minimum viable income. It's been a rocky road of squirrel chasing and lack of focus, but I am optimistic that I've laid the foundation to build&nbsp;something great now.” Wow. In those two bolded statements above is some inflammatory, scandalous, polarizing stuff! But there’s more in there than just sludge for debate. There is a question about what it means to fail, what’s at stake if your idea doesn’t work, what the “real world” requires from you and what you require from yourself. More than anything, the conversation you’re about to listen to is about whether you give yourself permission to fail. “Permission to fail” can feel buzz-wordy and insubstantial, but what you’ll find in this episode at large —&nbsp;and in Barrett’s story at the very least —&nbsp;is this could be the very reason why you can’t find the clarity or the courage for the next step. <a href="http://fizzleshow.co/145">http://fizzleshow.co/145</a></p>

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to The Fizzle Show.
0:07.0	Woo!
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0:15.0	Hey, this is the Fizzle Show, a podcast to help freelancers, creatives, and entrepreneurs figure out how to build a small business that actually works.
0:26.4	Every Friday, we publish another conversation about the art and science of supporting yourself doing something that you care about.
0:33.2	Your hosts are Barrett Brooks, Steph Crowder, Corbett Barr, and me, Chase Reeves.
0:39.3	We run Fizzle.co, where we are committed to make the world's best training for freelancers, creatives, and entrepreneurs.
0:46.6	Membership costs about a dollar a day, but actually this January, today, January 15th, is the last day to get this big discount at Fizzle.
0:55.0	You can find out more at Fizzle.co.
0:56.5	We're going to tell you about it a little bit.
0:57.9	So in this episode, in a recent forum post from Fizzler, Christopher Lynn, he shared something he heard an entrepreneur say on stage about 10 years ago.
1:08.7	It goes like this.
1:10.6	When I started my first business,
1:13.3	I lost my wife and it was worth it. The speaker continued, I wish 10 years of horrible failures upon
1:23.5	all of you so you can truly become great entrepreneurs. Wow. In those two statements,
1:31.0	is some inflammatory, scandalous, polarizing stuff, but there's actually more to it than just
1:36.9	sludge for debate. There's a question about what it means to fail. What's at stake if your
1:43.1	idea doesn't work.
1:45.0	And maybe more than anything, the conversation you're about to listen to is about whether you give yourself permission to fail.
1:53.5	Permission to fail can feel buzzwordy, but what you'll find in this episode at large and in Barrett's story at the very least, is this might be much more important
2:01.8	than you currently think. So enjoy. Follow along at home at fizzleshow.co slash 145. I'll be back
2:09.2	after this conversation to fill in any gaps. And we're back. This episode brought to you La Crom,
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