You're listening to the Creating a Brand podcast success story segment.

I am your host, Alex San Felipe.

In this short segment of the show, I bring on friends of the podcast to share a motivational,

inspiring, and sometimes even challenging story from their entrepreneurial journey,

along with a

practical takeaway for us to implement.

The point is for each of us to be able to learn and grow from the experiences of others.

With that said, please enjoy today's success story episode.

Hi, I'm Dr. Janice Presser. I invented a few cool technology-enabled solutions to the relationship

problems that plague businesses and our personal lives. My latest is called Know Me. You can learn more

about it and contact me on the web at Dr. Janicepresser.com.

Now, I want to share a business failure story with you because we all fail, and I think

the best thing we can do is use that failure to grow. And I'd like to help you avoid that particular fail.

One of the problems all entrepreneurs face is when to delegate and when to do it yourself.

For me, it's always been easier to do it myself than to have to manage someone. But that works only up to a point.

So a while back in one of my entrepreneurial ventures, I brought on someone who I thought

would manage the things that weren't interesting to me. On paper, he was qualified to run the

business side of a business, but eventually I realized

that he wanted to do my work more than his. In fact, he wanted to take the final products

and just talk about them. He couldn't invent them. He couldn't write about them.

He didn't even talk about them that well, and he just couldn't sell.

The fact was he wanted to do what I did, but he had no idea of what that actually involved.

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