Why Entrepreneurs Matter Now More Than Ever

The Double Win

Michael Hyatt

Management, Intentionality, Selfdevelopment, Education, Teamleadership, Personaldevelopment, Productivity, Self-improvement, Business, Achievement, Influence, Selfleadership, Leadership

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🗓️ 13 October 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The initial shock has faded and the dust has begun to settle. As you look at your business and the economy, you find yourself wondering how to move forward. How can we rebuild? And what’s your part to play? The answer might surprise you. We need more entrepreneurs. In this episode, Megan and Michael talk about the importance and lessons of entrepreneurs. They unpack three reasons entrepreneurs really will save the world, and how you can alter your thinking to follow their lead. You’ll move from feeling discouraged and disoriented to excited about emerging possibilities. You’ll start noticing problems that need solving and believing that the best is yet to come. In this episode, you’ll discover— What makes someone an entrepreneur How entrepreneurs contribute to the public good Why the solution to big problems isn’t more resources How to start becoming more entrepreneurial Why we can be hopeful about the “new normal” we’re headed toward For more, visit leadto.win/entrepreneurs. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	This episode of Lead to Win is brought to you by Michael Hyatt's new book,
0:04.0	Entrepreneurs will save the world.
0:07.0	Discover how anyone can build the resilient mindset of an entrepreneur.
0:11.0	Learn more at lead to dot win slash entrepreneurs.
0:15.0	Hi I'm Michael Hyatt and I'm Megan Hyatt Miller and this is lead to win our
0:22.0	weekly podcast where we talk about how to win at work and succeed at life. And today we're going to be talking about entrepreneurialism. And Megan, this is kind of fun because I've got a brand new book called
0:33.6	Entrepreneurs Will Save the World, but I want to talk about entrepreneurship and
0:38.5	why it matters at this particular moment in history.
0:43.0	Well, I'm super excited to talk about this.
0:49.0	This is a passion of both of ours and, you know, in the early days of COVID, of
0:54.0	both of ours and you know in the early days of COVID which is funny to be able to talk about it like it's in the past you know in that way in the beginning part anyway
1:00.3	We really started to see the economic disruption and we were talking to all of our friends and all of our business accelerator coaching clients who are entrepreneurs and business owners.
1:10.0	And we realized pretty quickly that the economic recovery was going to be dependent on these folks.
1:15.9	You know, that if we were going to get out of this, it really wasn't going to be because of the initiatives of the government,
1:20.4	although that, you know, it's arguably been helpful but not without
1:24.3	consequences but it was really going to be on individuals to figure out how to get us
1:28.5	out of this mess one business at a time and in that message I think is really timely and really
1:33.9	empowering right now. Yeah and I'm reminded of the movie Dunkirk in fact I end the
1:38.7	book with this story but in the movie Dunkirk there's the story of the British Army basically being stuck
1:47.1	on the, in Western Europe, not able to get off the continent, get back to Europe.
1:51.6	They're surrounded by the Nazi forces. And so they can't get these big
1:56.3	British destroyers and other ships in there to rescue them because the water's too shallow. And so Churchill makes this plea
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