The Conversation Every Entrepreneur Refuses to Have - Social Proof Podcast #537
Social Proof Podcast
Social Proof Network
4.9 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 September 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
To every struggling entrepreneur… this one’s for you.
You’re calling it a business, but the truth is you might just need to get a job. That’s not failure. That’s survival. Are you chasing the dream or is it time to face reality? Comment below and let’s talk truth.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm no tech genius, but I knew if I wanted my business to crush it, I needed a website now. |
| 0:05.7 | Thankfully, Bluehost made it easy. I customized, optimized, and monetized everything exactly |
| 0:10.8 | how I wanted with AI. In minutes my site was up, I couldn't believe it. The search engine tools |
| 0:16.1 | even helped me get more site visitors. Whatever your passion project is, you can set it up with Bluehost. With their 30-day money-back guarantee, what do you got to lose? Head to bluehost.com. That's B-L-U-E-H-O-S-T dot com to start now. You're a chronic procrastinator. You're thinking about all the things that could go wrong. You can't pay your rent. You can't get around, you're barely eating, you need to get a job. |
| 0:40.3 | She asked me a question, she said, if you didn't have a business and you didn't have any money |
| 0:44.3 | and you wanted to start all over from scratch today, what would you do? |
| 0:48.3 | And my response to her was, I would go get a job? |
| 0:51.3 | If things got really rough for me, would I be stubborn and just make this thing work? |
| 0:57.8 | Or would I take this advice of going at a job? |
| 1:00.8 | And for some reason, I just don't know if my pride would let me. |
| 1:04.7 | I would almost prefer going to be a monk. |
| 1:07.6 | Going and getting a job doesn't mean that you're putting your business on the shelf. |
| 1:11.2 | Go get that job because you are prioritizing your survival. Welcome to another edition of |
| 1:18.2 | Social Proof podcast. We are here to help you in your journey of entrepreneurship. My name is |
| 1:22.6 | David Shenz, entrepreneur coach, tech startup founder. |
| 1:30.8 | Oh my gosh. Yes, you are. And I'm so proud of you can I use the both tech startup founder is too much just tech just tech just tech founder |
| 1:37.2 | tech founder you're not a tech founder you didn't found you didn't found or tech oh you're the founder of a tech startup |
| 1:48.7 | you're the founder of a tech startup give me a couple weeks I have founder of a tech startup founder of a tech |
| 1:53.9 | startup yes okay all right my my name is Donnie wiggins I am an entrepreneur and business coach and we are here today to talk to |
| 2:03.9 | y'all first of all if we're being totally transparent uh we're shooting a couple of back-to-back |
| 2:08.6 | episodes today and i'm starving so i do have this bag of cheetos because that's what that's what |
| 2:14.0 | i had available to work with okay so if you happen to see me chewing on a Cheeto, I'm hungry. |
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