Ideal Millenial Entrepreneur Podcast
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Ideal Millenial Entrepreneur Podcast
129: You Can Either Live Your Dreams or Live Your Fears
Fear is the silent dream-killer that prevents most millennial entrepreneurs from reaching their potential. What would your business look like if you could overcome the psychological barriers holding you back?
The Ideal Millennial Entrepreneur Podcast tackles this critical question head-on by featuring wisdom from motivational legend Les Brown, who reminds us we can "either live our dreams or live our fears." This episode dives deep into the entrepreneurial mindset needed to weather the inevitable financial storms—those months when you make great money followed by periods when you make absolutely nothing.
Through powerful storytelling, Les Brown shares his famous "bulldog with no teeth" parable, demonstrating how most entrepreneurs run from challenges that appear more threatening than they actually are. These false fears (or as Brown puts it, "False Evidence Appearing Real") create self-imposed limitations that keep talented millennials from building the businesses they deserve.
The episode provides actionable strategies for confronting entrepreneurial anxiety: acknowledging your fears rather than denying them, embracing rather than resisting what scares you, visualizing yourself successfully handling frightening situations, and accepting fear as a normal fact rather than a controlling force. Each technique builds upon the central truth that entrepreneurship will never be easy—but the discomfort of facing your fears is always preferable to the regret of abandoning your dreams.
Whether you're just starting your entrepreneurial journey or hitting obstacles along the way, this mindset-focused episode delivers the psychological tools needed to persist when others quit. Subscribe to the Ideal Millennial Entrepreneur Podcast for weekly financial tips, income strategies, and mindset development to help you thrive as a millennial business owner.
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Bienvenidos a Ideal Millennial Entrepreneur Podcast, the podcast for millennial entrepreneurs, where each week, I share financial tips on how to improve your finance, increase your income and your mindset as a millennial entrepreneur. Thanks for joining me in today's episode, empecemos. Welcome to the Ideal Millennial Entrepreneur Podcast. I am your host, amir Estimo. Thank you for tuning in to today's podcast episode, because you could be doing anything in this world, but the fact that you are listening to this podcast episode it is much appreciated. Thank you for joining me and hopefully, if you enjoy this content, please like and share the podcast with whoever that you may think this is useful for, and also rate and review the podcast. Now we are going through a change in the podcast because all of you guys know, this podcast used to be called Think Generational Wealth, but now we're calling it the Ideal Millennial Entrepreneur Podcast. So if you, we're still working on the website, but if you want to check out some of the content, let's say you don't have some of the content. Let's say you don't have who doesn't have a phone these days? But let's say you want to go. Whatever you can check out on podcasts, you can check it out on Apple. You can check it out on Amazon. You can check this podcast out on YouTube also. So if you check look for Ideal Millennial Entrepreneur, you will also find this podcast too. You can subscribe to the YouTube content.
Speaker 1:But today's podcast is a continuation of basically a mindset and motivation. As we know, if you are trying to be an entrepreneur and also or a entrepreneur, there's going to be peaks and valleys. Everything may look good Money, you may make great money one month. The next month you make absolutely nothing. So that's one of the things that if you cross over into this entrepreneurship, you have to have the right mindset to do so. So I'm sharing for this month, april. So on Wednesdays and Thursdays for this month, every day, on Wednesday, 6 pm, central Standard Time, but on Thursdays you will see the podcast. The second podcast will drop Thursdays, 3 pm Central Standard Time. So you will get two back to back motivational content podcasts for this whole month and it's going to be really talking about.
Speaker 1:We're going to hone in so much about mindset, having the right mindset, and these are from world-class speakers, from Les Brown, eric Thomas, jim Rome, zig Ziglar, et cetera and I think to get into this entrepreneurship and stay in this entrepreneurship. It is not easy, it's not for the paint, and I can tell you for myself and experience what I endured last year, even this year. So again, if you enjoy this content, you can check out the podcast on wwwthankgenwealthcom. For now, we're eventually going to change the website to match, of course, the podcast, but it is called wwwthinkgenwealthcom. If you want to check out more information regarding the podcast, you can leave a review rating. It is much appreciated. So this is not the entirety of the speech by Les Brown. This is just probably about 10 minutes of it you'll get, but I will put it on. I will link it in the show notes. You can go check it out whenever you get a chance. You can check out the full recording itself, but this is just a snippet of it for now. See you next week. Much appreciative, peace.
Speaker 2:I think all of us can identify with. You can either live your dreams or live your fears, and I think the majority of people actually are not living their dreams, but are living their fears. So I want to ask you a question what are your fears? What are you afraid of? What are you afraid of? What are you scared of? Because we all have fears, don't we? We all have something that's blocking us, that's holding us back, and as we begin to look at life, what we realize is that the reason that most people are not living out their true potential and not doing all of the things that they would really like to do is because of fear.
Speaker 2:Some people call fear false evidence or expectations appearing real. I'm reminded of the story of a guy that was living in an area where he had some new neighbors, and these neighbors had a bulldog, and when he came home every day, this bulldog used to chase him about a half a block from his house. Every day he would have to streak home. I mean, he would just run, this bulldog would be right on his heels. He would have to streak home. I mean, he would just run, this bulldog would be right on his heels, and so he just got tired of that because he would go home about a half a block away from home. He would look around for this bulldog and he would see him and he would go walking casually along and this bulldog would come out of nowhere and start chasing him and he'd run home. So this one day he just got tired and so when the bulldog was running after him he started running. He saw a rock and he stopped to pick it up to throw at the bulldog. And when the bulldog got up on him he started barking. He realized the bulldog didn't have any teeth in his mouth. Then he started chasing the bulldog. If you don't get out of the way for me, because the most the bulldog could have done is gum, you know, and so you know what Most people go through life running scared, running scared from things that have no teeth in them because their false expectations appearing real.
Speaker 2:Let's see, we're brilliant enough to scare ourselves to death. Do you realize that there are some people actually who get a kick out of scaring themselves to death? I remember the last frightening movie I saw. It was the Exorcist. I will never forget I was so frightened. When I came home, I'll never forget I drove in the driveway and I had already called my former wife and said listen, turn the lights on. I was coming in the driveway and I was getting out of the car and all of a sudden I couldn't get out. I stopped blowing my horn. I said Madeline, they got me, they got me. She came to the kitchen with it and said take your seatbelt loose fool. I said oh, okay, okay, okay. I was frightened out of my wits. But there are a lot of people who they get off on that they love it.
Speaker 2:I'm a person. My brother is a paratrooper, my twin brother he's in the military, a career man. I would love to jump out of an airplane to parachute. I'm scared, though. I mean I really admire my brother for that. I would really love to be a macho man like that. What I mean? I really admire my brother for that. I would really love to be macho man like that.
Speaker 2:What are the things that you fear that's been keeping you from living your dream, that's been keeping you from doing some things that you would like to do? Just think about those things and how do we begin to handle that? Abraham Maslow said that life is about growth, and he said you can either go back to your comfort zone, and there you won't find any growth, or you must be willing to go forward and face your fears again and again and again, because you're never going to have a fear-free existence. I mean, some fear is acceptable and legitimate. There are some things that you really should be afraid of Now. You shouldn't allow it to immobilize you. You acknowledge it, you take it into account and you carry yourself accordingly. There are times that we should proceed with caution, but it's the difference between being stopped by fear. It's the difference between having a fear and the fear having you. So what do we do? One acknowledge it and knowing that, it's okay, don't condemn yourself for being afraid, it's perfectly fine to have some fears. You acknowledge your fears, you embrace those fears and then you move on, you act on whatever it is that you fear, because once you embrace it, see, what you resist will persist. What you resist will persist. So one of the most important things is to begin to embrace your fear, the fear of bodily harm. That's legitimate.
Speaker 2:When I was a disc jockey in Columbus Ohio, you know, I was young, about 22, 23. I thought I was tough and I was on the air and Al Green, who was a great performer at that time and still is now now singing gospel music, had a record. His first hit record was Backup Train. So a guy came in the town and was impersonating Al Green. I happened to know Al Green because I'd already booked him, and so when I found out this guy was impersonating Al Green, I came on the air and did an editorial about him and I exposed him. He was a rather big fellow and so he had the word out that when I see this guy less from the disc jockey. I'm going to knock him in the mouth for having a big mouth.
Speaker 2:So I was driving down Main Street in Columbus, ohio, had my son in the car and I always had this little saying hey, if anybody will put a threat on me, I'm going to make them honor it. So I saw this guy on the street, so I pull around, I say excuse me, I'll be right back. Got out of the car I say, hey, man, I heard you said that you were looking for me. I'm Les Brown. He said you are. I said yeah. I said what is it?
Speaker 2:I'm the one that said to hurt your feelings I want you to acknowledge your fears, carry yourself accordingly and do what makes sense for you. Well, one major fear I've always had is a fear of the dentist, and this fear had me. I didn't have that fear and what really in for reinforced it, you got to watch things that can feed your fear. I saw a movie that most people would not remember. This movie was starring Dustin Hoffman's, called the marathon man, with Lawrence Olivier. He's trying to get a confession out of here and he took this drill out. Let me tell you something when he went in Dustin Hoffman's mouth with that drill, I had a dollar worth of popcorn. That popcorn went everywhere. Do you know?
Speaker 2:I could not go to the dentist for five years. I had left broadcasting, went to the Ohio legislature, had an impacted wisdom tooth. Now that hurts and I would call and as soon as the people would answer the phone I would hang up. That's how frightening it was. Dr Hamler's office Boom, I'd hang up. Then I got to the point where I could just ask for an appointment. Hello, and I wouldn't give my real name because I knew I wasn't going to keep it. I'd give anybody's name Joe, jiggly, jim, it didn't matter. But pretty soon I got to the point where I could give my name. It was about four years after that, you know. So my name is Les Brown. Then I would call back and say look here, due to to my legislative agenda, I won't be able to make it.
Speaker 2:So the lady finally said on phone said you're scared, aren't you? I said no, I'm not. She said then why don't you come in? I says none of your business. She said you're not coming in because you're scared. I wish you just would not waste our time. And she hung up. I said you have no right to do that to people like me, you know.
Speaker 2:So, finally, to make it long and short, I was hurting so bad. I said wait a minute, I've got to do something. And I said what am I afraid of? Go there and handle it. I said man. I said Dr Hamill, I just can't hear this drill, no-transcript it. And we did not die. They didn't come, take us and put us in a box somewhere, am I right? So what we've got to begin to do, how do we handle that? What's the process, because it's all up in here. One, I think, is imagine the worst-case scenario. I just imagine that he went in my mouth and with this drill and that I just croaked out, then I imagine that's the worst case scenario. Then I had another technique I used Visualize yourself being more than able and capable of handling it.
Speaker 2:I used to have a tremendous inferiority complex about speaking before people that I felt who had more going for them than I did, because I'm not college trained. I used to feel that college people were the most intelligent people on the planet and there was nothing I had to say for them than I did. Because I'm not college trained. I used to feel that college people were the most intelligent people on the planet and there was nothing I had to say for them. And what would I? What will they listen to me for? That's the way I felt, and so I had to to visualize myself speaking before them, speaking before various audiences that had more going for them than I did, and realize and appreciate my own value and that I was a worthwhile person, even though I didn't have all going for me. I didn't have the money, I didn't have the education that they had.
Speaker 2:So part of the process is seeing yourself being worthy, being capable, having what you need to make you a worthwhile person, and that you're more than able and that you deserve to be listened to or you deserve to have that dream and that passion and whatever it is that you see and envision there. You've got to see it in your mind's eye and know that you've got what it takes. Repeat after me, please. I must see in my mind's eye, see myself confronting my fears, handling my fears. I'm more than able Shake somebody's hand on your right and left and say you got the right stuff. So deciding as you look at your life, as you look into the future, and say what fears am I holding on to? What fears that I'm allowing to imprison me? That's keeping me from breaking out, that's keeping me from living up to my true potential. That's keeping me from really being happy, that's keeping me from having a sense of adventure and excitement in my life. What's keeping me from controlling my destiny? What fears that I'm giving that permission? To Notice what I said, that we must give our permission to fear to immobilize us, because whatever discomfort you experience, whatever challenges or difficulty that it is, you got to handle it, got to go up in there and wrestle with it. Will it be easy? No. Will it be challenging? Yes.
Speaker 2:A friend of mine who's going into recovery. He's been addicted to crack cocaine for years and alcohol. He was talking about how challenging it was and why he was dreading going on going into cold turkey. I said what do you want me to tell you? That it's going to be a picnic? No, it's not. It's going to kick your butt yes, it is.
Speaker 2:Are you going to want to die? Yes, yes, that's a part of it. But that's just what you must go through in order to get where you want to go. And guess what? You are strong enough to do it. You're strong enough and your life is worth. Whatever you have to go through to get past this addiction, whatever you have to do. This dream you got. Whatever you want to do. Will it be easy to just run out there and do it? No. Will it happen overnight? No. Will it be a struggle? Yes. Will there be times when you can't make ends meet? Yes, that's a part of it. Will there be times you won can't make ends meet? Yes, that's a part of it. Will there be times you won't know what to do? Yes, that's a part of it. Will you have some opposition? Will things go wrong? Sometimes you will have many visits from Murphy.
Speaker 2:Now, if you say well, who's Murphy? Don't worry, somebody must have told us someplace along the line. I don't know where, but somebody must have told people oh, life is going to be real easy. No, if they told you that I've got a special announcement, they lied. I'll never forget.
Speaker 2:I had a special piece of legislation I wanted to get passed and I said to a guy I said look here, can I count on your vote? He said yes, and look here, if I can't count on it, let me know. There's another guy that owes me a chip and I can call on that and I won't need your vote, but I do need it. If you say you're going to do it, do? He said you can count on it. Legislation came up. He voted against my bill, my bill passed. I went back to him and said hey, I told you I needed the vote, but if you couldn't give it up, let me know I would get somebody else. I said why didn't you tell me? He said I lied. I was in shock.
Speaker 2:How many of you that life just wore you out that you didn't expect that. You thought you'd go to school, get good grades, get a job, and you came out here and you'd be able to get a job and live happily ever after. And you say they lied. Yes, they did. They never told me. You know that song that says Mama told me there'd be days like this. They didn't even tell us that. Isn't that something about? Life is challenging. I mean, it's some stuff you get out here. You didn't read it in a book. Nowhere didn't nobody warn you that it was gonna come down on you like this. That's called life. There are kind of challenges like that.
Speaker 2:So what's the next piece is that you accept yourself. Then you accept the fear as a fact and not a force. See, when you accept yourself and you accept fear as a fact, that means that it's something that happens, it's something that you're going to experience, but it is not a force to hold you back. It doesn't have any special power other than that that you give it. So you accept the fact that you are afraid and then you move on anyhow. You move on, pass it and you do whatever you've got to do.
Speaker 2:I was in a big motivational rally for a gentleman by the name of Dexter Yeager down in the Carolinas. I was standing backstage and I had to go out. I was the last speaker on the program. At the first time I'd been in a stadium of this size over 10,000 people. You couldn't see the people because the lights are just blaring in your eyes called free enterprise day. I was afraid my heart was beating fast. I was just pacing back and forth and Dexter said are you all right? I said yeah, yeah, I'm all right. So I said wait a minute, just calm down, calm yourself, hold me, hold me, it's all right, les.