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I am your host, Alex San Felipe. Welcome to the first ever solo episode of the Creating a Brand podcast. In this episode, I'm

to share with you 10 things I've learned about quitting your day job. Everything that I share

is from my own journey, things I learned along the way toward becoming a full-time entrepreneur

myself. To give you a little bit of background, it was actually January 1st, 2016. I was doing

some self-reflecting that day, as many of us do at the turn of the year and i made

the decision then that i wanted to quit my day job so it began right away i kind of hit the ground running

with this and i had a failed startup along during that time i had a failed side hustle many failed

side hustles in fact and projects it seemed to just be failed attempt after failed attempt

and it was it was for five years that went through that.

It wasn't until finally on January 7th, 2020, that had my last day at the job that I'd spent over 15 years in.

And I'd finally become a successful startup entrepreneur. Now, when I look back at that, why did it take me five years to do that? It seems like a lot of time. It can be very disheartening.

And for me, it was.

There were some days where I really struggled with it.

I'm at least thankful to say that I enjoyed all 15 years I had at that job.

I can't imagine if I really wouldn't have enjoyed it along the way.

But what held me back?

What kept me from being able for quitting your day job. I'm going to go and dive right into these,

starting with step one, which is to get the right mindset about why you are leaving. Get the right mindset about why you are leaving. This is something

that really got wrong, especially initially going back to January 1st, 2016, that first entire

year, as a matter of fact, I really wasn't getting this right. I had a wrong mindset about why I was

leaving. So I actually want to give you some of those wrong mindsets that I hear commonly. I said a lot of these and I hear people almost every day that I talk to about

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