Often you think that you need a lot of resources, whether it's expertise or pedigree or lots of people on your team or a manufacturing facility or a lot of money.

And in my experience, and I hope in my students, the opposite is true, that those things can often get in your way.

They make you conservative.

They make you want to protect those resources.

They make you committed to one way of doing things.

Hey guys, you're listening to the Big Conversations podcast. I'm your host, Haley Hoffman

Smith. I'm an entrepreneur, a bestselling author, and a Forbes most influential speaker. You're in

the right place if you're ready to step into the bigger life that you were destined for,

because we're about to get real on how to do so. So let's get started with today's big conversation.

Hey, my friends, welcome back to big conversations.

Okay, I wanted to come in and add in a little audio, a little introduction to who I'm talking

to today because I've talked about him in some of my past episodes,

but I really wanted to provide some greater contacts just so you understand like truly just how

special this moment is for me. So you guys know that I was crushed when I didn't get into

Stanford. I talked about this in my episode on how rejection is redirection and how some

things are just meant to be. And when I got into Brown

and decided to go to Brown, I realized very quickly why I was supposed to be at Brown. It was just a

completely different experience than Stanford could have offered me. It felt like home in so many

ways. And honestly, one of the biggest proponents of that, I guess other than my Italian class,

because I took Italian at Brown and that was another huge thing for me and obviously the friends I met,

was this class that I took called Ingenten 10, the entrepreneurial process with Danny Warshay.

Now, I talk about this a little bit as I'm introducing Danny and we're talking through the class,

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