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Join Up Dots -  Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

Should I Really Become An ENTREPRENEUR?

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Business, Education

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2026

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Should I Really Become An ENTREPRENEUR? In this episode of Join Up Dots, we respond to a listener standing at the crossroads between job security and earning their own income. Stripping away the online hype, we explore the real truth about entrepreneurship – the freedom and the fear, the pride and the pressure, the growth and the loneliness. This is an honest, from-the-heart look at what it really costs emotionally and mentally to build something of your own, and why responsibility always comes before freedom. If you've ever felt the pull to work for yourself but worried about the uncertainty, this episode will help you see the full picture before you leap. If this resonates, share it with someone who needs to hear it today. #JoinUpDots #EntrepreneurLife #RealBusiness #EarnYourOwnIncome #StartupReality #MindsetMatters #BusinessTruths Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast and leave a review. Your feedback helps us reach more people and continue bringing you valuable content. See you in the next episode!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Life shouldn't be hard. Life should be a fun-filled adventure every day. So now start joining up dots.

0:07.0

Tap into your talents, your skills, your God-given gifts, and tell your boss, you don't deserve me.

0:14.0

I'm outta here. It's time for you to smash that alarm clock.

0:19.0

And start getting the dream business and life you will of course

0:24.6

are dreaming of let's join your host david ralph from the back of his garden in the uk or wherever he

0:32.0

might be today with another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast, Join Up Dot.

0:39.1

Yeah, good morning to you. Good morning to you. Welcome to the Join Up Dot podcast, where we give

0:44.2

you the good, the bad, the ugly of building your own income, living your own life and creating

0:50.6

sort of time, location, freedom. And in today's show, we're going to be talking about the real truth about earning your own

0:58.2

income, because when people talk about entrepreneurship, what they are usually wanting

1:04.8

and what they want to talk about is freedom.

1:08.4

They want to have freedom from the life that they're living, the job that they're

1:12.6

doing. They talk about, you know, laptops on beaches and time control and passion and only doing

1:19.4

what you love and all that kind of stuff. But what I don't actually really talk about,

1:23.1

especially in a lot of these sort of influences on Instagram and stuff. I don't go over there

1:27.7

very often, but when I do, I look at it and I think, no, no, no, that's, that's not real.

1:33.4

That's not real. It might be real at the end, but you're missing out a big part. You're missing

1:39.1

out the dots that joined up. What they don't talk about is what it feels like at three in the morning when you're

1:46.6

wide awake, you're sort of staring at the ceiling, wondering if you've made a massive mistake

1:52.8

and should you contact your boss and sort of go back and towel between your legs and

1:59.0

try to get your old job back. And that's what this episode is all

2:03.1

about today. It's about the good, the bad of entrepreneurship. And it's been created because we

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