The Secrets Behind Moving from Just DREAMING About Being an Entrepreneur to Actually Becoming One with Steven Clayton
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2022
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Steven Clayton is an serial entrepreneur who has started 5 successful businesses in the last 15 years (all still running and profitable). These businesses generated over $17 million in the last 12 months. In addition, within the last 4 years alone, Steven (and his partners) have trained over 10,000 new entrepreneurs.
Top 3 Value Bombs:
1. Hope is not a good strategy.
2. Figure out what you love to do and do more of that. Figure out what you don't enjoy doing and do as little of that as possible.
3. There is a direct correlation between most successful entrepreneurs and those who are in touch with their happiness recipe.
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| 0:00.0 | Boom! |
| 0:01.0 | Shake the room, Fire Nation! |
| 0:05.0 | JLD here and welcome to Entrepreneurs on Fire Brought to you by the HubSpot Podcast |
| 0:10.1 | Network with great shows like the Salesman Podcast. |
| 0:13.8 | Today we're pulling a timeless EO Fire classic episode from the Archives and we'll be |
| 0:17.8 | breaking down the secrets behind moving from just dreaming about being an entrepreneur |
| 0:21.7 | to actually becoming one. |
| 0:23.5 | To drop these value bombs, I have brought Stephen Clayton into EO Fire Studios. |
| 0:27.9 | Stephen is a serial entrepreneur who has started five successful businesses in the last 15 |
| 0:32.5 | years, all still running and profitable. |
| 0:35.0 | These businesses generated over $17 million in the last 12 months. |
| 0:38.7 | In addition, within the last four years alone, Stephen and his partners have trained over |
| 0:42.0 | 10,000 entrepreneurs. |
| 0:43.5 | And today, Fire Nation, we'll talk about why hope is not a good strategy. |
| 0:47.5 | We'll talk about figuring out what you love to do and then doing more of that. |
| 0:51.9 | And then a direct correlation between successful entrepreneurs and those who are in touch with |
| 0:56.1 | their happiness recipe and so much more when we get back from thinking hours, sponsors. |
| 1:02.2 | The Gold Digger Podcast, hosted by Jenna Koocher, helps you discover your dream career with |
| 1:06.6 | productivity tips, social strategies, business hacks and inspirational stories. |
| 1:10.8 | A recent episode shares her best advice for multi-passionate business owners. |
| 1:15.1 | Listen to the Gold Digger Podcast wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:19.9 | Stephen, say what's up to Fire Nation and share something interesting about yourself that |
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