You are listening to the 10 Minute Entrepreneur podcast with host, Sean Castrina.

I'm excited about today's podcast. I have an entrepreneur, a venture capitalist, best

selling author, and he just wrote a new book. I have Chris Merroth with me today. And

the new book is the empathy revolution. Chris, it's great to have you on the podcast.

Thanks for having me.

All right. Now we're going to get into some of this woo-woo stuff because anything would

have titled the empathy revolution, you're going to make me feel like Satan at the end

of this podcast.

But with that being said, you know, you're an entrepreneur. You've done well. You started

companies. I always like to kind of get it going with when did you know you were an entrepreneur?

Gosh, probably when I was in my early 20s, my parents hired me and a time I literally

had no idea what I wanted to do the rest of my life. And they left 20-year careers to

start a business. And so when I got hired on by them, I was just in awe that they would

walk away from good, well-paying jobs to take this leap of faith in this new business

venture. And I just fell in love with it right from the start.

I'll tell you what, that'll either kill a marriage or build one.

No, I was just thinking about that.

Yeah, yeah. I know my wife and I would probably string each other up, but they worked really

well together and it really kind of gave me a blueprint. Really from that point on as

the kind of, I want to do my own thing. I wanted to be an entrepreneur.

That's commendable because that doesn't work for everybody. It just doesn't. And let alone

to kind of push all your chips in it, you know, towards midlife and walk away.

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