You are listening to the 10 minute entrepreneur podcast with host Sean Castrina.

I'm excited about today's podcast. I know what you're saying Sean you're always

excited. Well there's two ways you can start today excited or slightly depressed or

pissed off and I think my approach might work a little bit better. I have Jen Drummond with me here today. I think she's going to be a great guest because she wrote a book that I have always said, if you could have some qualities in being successful and specifically in being an entrepreneur.

She's talking about the main one.

The book is called Quit Proof, Seven Strategies to Build Resilience

and Achieve Your Goals.

Jen, it's great to have you on the podcast.

Hey, thank you so much for having me.

I've always believed that the difference between,

well, in 90% of every case,

somebody quits and somebody's still standing.

Yes, yes, agreed.

You know, and I think it's funny, I wrote the book title,

Quit Proof, before I finished the book.

And I'm pretty sure it's the only reason why I quit like I didn't quit writing the book because writing a book is a lot of work that I didn't quite understand until I got into it. I'm like, oh, I can't quit on a book titled Quit Proof.

So what, you know, the subject matter is great and if anybody who has tried to become

successful, anybody's ever played sports, if you're on this entrepreneurship journey, the amount of times you want to quit is, you know, is endless. And so resilience is one of the top three qualities I think that you have to have specifically for entrepreneurship.

So what made you write the book?

I wrote it to my younger self.

So I what like five years ago I was doing life just going through the motions

checking the boxes convincing myself that when my kids went to college then I would get

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