If you type the word “solopreneur” in the search box at Dictionary.com, it comes back with this (rather amusing) response: Did you mean slippery? At Merriam-Webster.com the answer is: The word you’ve entered isn’t in the dictionary. The message here is obvious. The term solopreneur is a slippery one, and it’s hard to define. (Or the typical dictionary is woefully…
Finding FIMO (Financials, Marketing and Operations)
As entrepreneurs, no matter how our journeys started, it’s crucially important that we are aware of our overall journey, what our future roadmap looks like in terms of achieving our dreams and goals in order for us to actually reach those dreams and goals without getting (too) stuck on the way there. We need to keep the bigger picture in…
Differentiating Awareness from Self-Awareness
In all the recent media, we hear the word “awareness” being used more and more to describe the key to success in modern entrepreneurship, but do we as a society truly understand what it means to be aware? Four years ago when we introduced the idea of awareness in the form of Third Circle Theory, a book that provides a clear roadmap to finding your…
Dual Entrepreneur Households
Selecting the right person definitely impacts how much easier or how much more difficult your path will be as an entrepreneur. This took a little more time to write because I wanted to reflect back to how my life was before I decided to be an Entrepreneur compared to being an Entrepreneur now.
How a 17 Year Old Made $40,000 Per Month Before College
Since we introduced the Secret Academy three years ago, we’ve had the awesome privilege of witnessing many amazing students take an idea and turn it into a profitable business, with no prior experience as an entrepreneur. One such member goes by the name of Kiran Ravindra.
Secret Academy Episode – Larry Kosilla
At the age of 4 or 5 years old, Larry Kosilla asked his mother for a bucket and some soap. She gave him what he asked for and followed him outside where he proceeded to wash his toy cars and trucks. Little did anyone know, Larry included, that this would be a precursor to his future career. Larry went to school to learn commodities training, because he was brought up to think that a successful career was to work in the corporate world getting steady paychecks every month. However, like many entrepreneurs, he soon learned that this was not what he wanted to do. Larry moved back to his hometown and started doing research on something he had always had a passion for: washing/detailing cars. He ended up buying one of the local car wash businesses he visited and later expanded to mobile services. Today, Larry runs AMMO NYC, a successful business selling detailing products and offering detailing services for high end vehicles.
Self-Trust – A Greater Awareness of What You Can Be
It’s been said that if you can’t love yourself you can’t love another. Same holds true with trust. Our habits, thoughts and choices all reflect the way in which we trust ourselves. The more we trust ourselves to act with clarity and purpose, the easier it is to make decisions on the fly. The less trust we have in ourselves, the…