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And so I think grit was part of my upbringing and I'm actually really grateful for that because I think as an entrepreneur probably the most important attribute is not quitting and getting through just rejection after rejection.

Hey everybody welcome to impact theory today's episode is a re-release of one of our first guests that we were lucky enough to cross paths with

Laila Jana Laila lost her battle to a rare form of cancer earlier this year leaving behind a legacy of long lasting impact Laila dedicated her life's work to not only advancing her own unlimited potential but inciting others to do the same for the nearly one year commemoration of her untimely passing we want to take this time now to honor Laila Jana.

It's awesome to be a guest on this show thank you so much for having me.

Oh man absolutely my pleasure man going into your world you're really a vanguard for something really new that's happening in entrepreneurship which I've felt like I've been sort of that transitional generation where I wasn't as like clicked into things as you were right from the jump I went through the chasing money phase and all of that to find how sort of desperate and horrific that ended up being emotionally

before I found something that was more about like what's the ultimate impact but walk us through so I know that things didn't start out necessarily easy for you walk us through the dark times that you had in your 20s and how you ended up creating a social movement that's also financially powerful.

Sure well my parents are immigrants they came here in 1978 with two suitcases I literally feel like I lived the American dream my brother and I went to public schools we had jobs I started working when I was 12 I started babysitting in the neighborhood and I always had to hustle and I watched my parents do it as soon as they got here my mom had a degree in English literature from India nobody would recognize it so her first job here was chopping onions at the local Wendy's and they had to struggle and so I think grit was pretty good.

And so I think grit was part of my upbringing and I'm actually really grateful for that because I think as an entrepreneur probably the most important attribute is not quitting and getting through just rejection after rejection and most of the really successful entrepreneurs I know will tell me just how many people rejected them along the way so if you can have a thick skin around that it's actually a huge asset for me it was it was tough as a as a child I was always kind of an outcast we never had enough money to shop at normal.

You know clothing stores we didn't have TV at home so it's kind of a weirdo on the playground I was a big nerd I read books all the time and did science fair competitions and I really found my refuge in academics and was really passionate about school and so got lucky enough to get into Harvard but didn't really have the money to attend so I would I would cobble together different jobs I did in fact clean toilets for our campus we call it dorm crew but it's like a janitorial service run by students.

So it's funny to imagine that at one point I was literally like scrubbing the shit off of the rich kids toilets.

However I do think that a lot of that kind that kind of work is truly character building I remember that summer I would literally calculate the value of everything I purchased according to how many toilets it would take me you know to clean to purchase that and I and I think it gave me this frugality and discipline which I then brought into my entrepreneurial career.

It's really interesting because my dad used to make me take like hard labor jobs and either as the family so before I could work legally we used to go on these like wood chopping expeditions we would literally drive up into the mountains growing up into coma like I don't know if you could do this or you just did it but we would go and find fallen trees and you cut them up and stack wood and you spend all day doing that and you do that several times to the summer and then when I was 12 I'd work in a door factory.

And so and you you can't imagine the rage that filled me with I was so angry with my parents and I used to have to carry lacquer trim and I was getting arm hair by that point and it would stick in your arm and there's like no way to get it out so you I would be so angry like pulling it out my dad kept saying this is going to build character this is going to build character and how do you and I totally agree with you and that has served me immeasurably in my entrepreneurial journey.

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