If you love business and capitalism, you've got to hear the "How I Built This" podcasts from NPR.
30 minute interviews with entrepreneurs that have achieved amazing feats of "business harmony"...
Things are always so obvious in arrears... and I realize almost nothing in life excites me and inspires me more than creating and expanding a valuable and relevant business idea.
Everyday, or many days, I start my day by listening to a new story about wild success.
It's like a shark tank meditation ;-)
This morning getting off a red eye, I put on the story of the Warby Parker brand. By the time I reached my connecting flight, my 1 hour sleep felt like more than enough time to change the world.
Warby Parker, like WeWork, are both companies that were launched in the past decade (less time than I have spent at EMG). Both companies starting from nothing and with essentially no capital are each worth Billions of dollars today.
The business world is so brutally competitive, and yet there are these amazing stories of wild success all around us.
I am proud of our $50 million dollar growth at EMG in the past 4 years... and it feels small... The opportunity at EMG is much larger than that... The problem that we are solving is much bigger than that...
We so quickly get lost in the small problems of our life and our business that we fail to define and solve the big ones.
I don't just want to achieve growth... I want to experience MOMENTUM. And, to do so, I need to be solving a BIG problem in a compelling and unique way...
TRUTH: The bigger the problem you choose to work on... THE BIGGER the solution you conceive.
so often, we can make small problems irrelevant by simply solving the BIGGER problem that engulfs it...
FIND & COMMIT YOURSELF TO THE BIGGEST PROBLEM YOU CAN GET YOUR ARMS AROUND!
It surprises me how listening to stories like Warby Parker fills me with energy.
It reminds me that inspiration is simply the belief / feeling that better IS possible.
Whether it's Kendra Scott, 5 Hour Energy, Toms Shoes, Power Rangers, Crate & Barrell, Lyft... or so many countless stories and interviews I've heard on "How I Built This"...
BETTER IS INDEED POSSIBLE
And finding a way to be reminded of that with frequency is so very important...
Life is short...
Use your minutes wisely...
Live INSPIRED!
Our ability to change the world is one idea and one heck of a lot of sweat beads away...
If you love business... or life...
and want to love the possibility even more... listen to a few episodes.
BETTER IS POSSIBLE
Stand back world, I'm dreaming BIG today...
And my flight and day is taking off, again...
in harmony,
Nestor