Monetize What You Know: Side Hustle Lessons from Serial Entrepreneur Bart Merrell (part 1)

Monetizing what you already know is the fastest path to financial security, and serial entrepreneur Bart Merrell has been proving that since he was 15 years old.

Bart grew up in a small farming town in southern New Mexico, watching his father build income streams across multiple agricultural businesses without ever sitting Bart down for a formal lesson. What he learned instead came from watching, doing, and being pushed toward a goal and told to figure it out. That foundation built a man who, decades later, runs nine businesses across industries ranging from real estate to international vehicle imports, and who asks the same question every time life hands him something unexpected: how can I monetize it?

In Part 1, Bart joins Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass to share the stories behind his entrepreneurial mindset. He talks about his failed FBI dream, the eye surgery that disqualified him from his chosen career path, and how that detour landed him in Japan translating for a bungee jump company and eventually importing Ford and Dodge pickups with a friend he made at the gym. A partnership that started in 1997 and is still running today.

He breaks down what he learned selling oranges and magazine subscriptions as a teenager in FFA, why he rented out every home he ever lived in, and what most people get wrong about turning an idea into income. This is not a conversation about luck. Bart quotes Seneca directly: luck is when opportunity and preparedness meet, but you have to take action.

In This Episode:

• Why financial security does not require a business plan, but it does require action before you have all the answers
• How Bart's father modeled entrepreneurship through example, not instruction, and what that taught him about goal setting and selling
• The moment Bart realized his FBI dream was over and what he did next rather than giving up
• Why saying yes to things you do not know how to do yet is the foundation of every income stream Bart has built
• How inaction and indecision cost people more than failure ever will

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:06

All of us reach a point in time where we are depleted and need to somehow find a way to reignite the fire within. But how do we spark that flame? Welcome to Reignite Resilience, where we will venture into the heart of the human spirit. We'll discuss the art of reigniting our passion and strategies to stoke our enthusiasm. And now here are your hosts, Natalie Davis and Pamela Cass.

SPEAKER_03 0:46

Welcome back to another episode of the Reignite Resilience Podcast. I am your co-host, Natalie Davis, and I'm so excited to be back with all of you. And joining me, of course, is your co-host, Pam Cass. Hello, Pam. How are you today?

SPEAKER_06 1:00

I am fabulous now because it is finally Friday. Um I've been looking forward to Friday since Monday and a really long, very, very long week. When you work on the weekend, you just want it to be the weekend again. And I've got to work this weekend. So it's it just like it's gonna be perpetually.

SPEAKER_03 1:18

You have been yeah, you're you're caught in a loop. That's like that's not a good thing that it's Friday because you're still gonna work.

SPEAKER_06 1:31

So if you guys have not checked it out, it is on Amazon, meaningful success. I'm so excited about that book.

SPEAKER_03 1:38

So yes. And we will have a, I believe, if I'm not mistaken, by the time this airs, everyone should have listened to the promo um edition of the podcast where we talk about the book. We dive into the six principles that are covered in that book. I'm really excited. Um, some fabulous additional resources and tools that are uh being created to support the book and your journey and your work. You, your is the listener, whoever is listening to this. So um, yeah, that was a that was a huge thing. I still get a little nervous when people are like, just ordered it, or I'm reading the ebook and then I get sweaty and think, great.

SPEAKER_06 2:16

You'll get over that. You'll get literally, you'll get over it. And it'll be like, whatever.

SPEAKER_03 2:21

Yeah, I'm not there yet. I'm definitely gonna do it. Make yourself a cocktail, it'll be fine. Exactly. Exactly, which could lead to a whole different thing. Like every time somebody reaches out and I just like, I need a poor drink. Hold on, give me a minute.

SPEAKER_06 2:35

That could get dangerous. That could get real dangerous real, real quick.

SPEAKER_03 2:39

So exactly. Well, I am super excited because we have a fabulous guest that is joining us today. So I'm gonna let you tell our listeners who's joining us.

SPEAKER_06 2:48

Absolutely. So today we have a serial entrepreneur. His name is Bart, and he has been turning opportunities into successful ventures since before he could legally drive. I cannot wait to hear about that. His mission is simple. He wants to help you create financial security by monetizing what you already know. Life's curveballs are inevitable, but when you've built a solid financial foundation, you'll be ready to handle them. That is so true. Well, welcome, Bart. We are so excited to have you with us today. And so I wanna I wanna dive right into what you did before you even could drive. And tell me you didn't start driving when you were 30. Like this was like like before you were 16, I'm assuming.

SPEAKER_01 3:34

No, I wrecked my first car at age eight.

SPEAKER_03 3:37

Oh, oh, okay. I feel that we should start with that before we get to the entrepreneurial piece.

SPEAKER_01 3:46

So I grew up in a small town in southern New Mexico, it's a farming town. Okay, and at age eight, my dad was sitting me on his lap and I was taking over the steering wheel. Yeah. Didn't touch the pedals, anything like that. And one day I played hooky from school. I don't know if you guys have done that, but I said, Mom, I don't feel good. And mom and dad had to go to town, and I stayed home. And the keys to the car were hanging right on the refrigerator. And I thought, you know, this would be a great time to practice with the pedals. Mom or dad is gonna be so proud. Of course he will. I grabbed the keys, I went out to the garage, and there it was. The blue beast. It was a 1974 Ford L T D four-door. The hood went on forever, especially for a little kid. Exactly. And I set myself on the end of that seat with the steering wheel. I could touch the pedals, and I started to back out of the carport.

SPEAKER_06 4:50

Okay, wait, wait, wait. You knew how to put it in reverse.

SPEAKER_01 4:53

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 4:54

Oh, yeah. Okay, that's impressive.

SPEAKER_01 4:56

I'm a smart kid. Or at least I was. I don't know if I am now, but I was when I was a kid. And so I put it in reverse and I started to back out, and I got out and was the street ran right by and when I say a street, the highway, I mean it's not much of a street. The highway ran right by the house, and a car went by, and I go, Oh no, I'm gonna get in trouble. They just saw me. So I got scared, and so I I decided to go park the car back in the carport. And I'm cruising in the carport with my foot on the brake, and it started to go a little faster than I liked, and I picked my foot up and I put it down on the gas pedal.

SPEAKER_03 5:35

Oh no.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

And that car went boom right into the end of the garage. Now, this car was a beast, it didn't do anything to the car. And so I was excited. I I looked and okay, foof. And then I turned around. Oh, dear. And the cupboards at the end of the carport were destroyed. Oh. Well, maybe they won't notice. I know, right? That's exactly what I thought.

SPEAKER_05 5:58

I don't know what happened. Weird.

SPEAKER_01 6:01

And so anytime they got home and they didn't notice because they parked the truck in the front of the house instead of in the carport. And they came in and mom was cooking and doing whatever is, and man, I was a helpful little boy. Anytime she needed something out of the garage, I was there to go get it. And then it was found, and my dad put me in interrogation. Hey, what happened? Yeah. I said, it wasn't me. I must have been Carolyn, my sister. Must have been Carolyn when she came home from the dance the other night. It was late. She didn't realize what she did. And I did good for about a day, and then dad broke me. And I gave in and I told him, okay, yeah, it was me. And so that summer, well, number one, I was grounded for a month from TV and anything. And that summer I had to work in the fields hoeing weeds for 50 cents an hour until I paid for the cupboards. Oh. I mean, talk about child labor laws being broken there. Now, here's the rest of the story. My dad gets older, and in his old age, he was pulling the car into the carport. He missed the brake and hit the gas and destroyed the cupboards that I worked all summer to fix. Oh, well. And he didn't have to work all summer in the field hoeing weeds to fix it. Not at all.

SPEAKER_02 7:40

That just is not fair. That's terrible.

SPEAKER_03 7:45

That is amazing. That's as you're telling the story, like from the parrot side, I'm trying to think. Would I have been more upset that the car was wrecked or that the house is wrecked, right? Like or the cupboards, right? And so I don't know which one would have made me more upset. But you know what? One summer and a month of being grounded, I don't think that's bad at all.

SPEAKER_01 8:04

They were more upset about me lying and trying to blame my sister. That was the real punishment. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:12

Yeah. I was I was just happy. I I think as a parent, I'd be like, oh my gosh, thank goodness you didn't go out into the highway.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Yes. I was just gonna go around the house a few times. But anyway, I didn't make it. I didn't even make it one time. And I was like, okay, I better park the car.

SPEAKER_05 8:28

That's it.

SPEAKER_06 8:28

Let's park it.

SPEAKER_05 8:30

Wow.

SPEAKER_06 8:31

Okay. Well, you've just taken charge since the age of eight, where you've like kind of get in the way, no fear, no nothing, just gonna go forward.

SPEAKER_01 8:40

That's kind of the way my life went, I think.

SPEAKER_06 8:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:44

Oh my god. And so let's let's fast forward to the business side of things.

unknown 8:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 8:48

I I bought my first stereo at age 11. I worked all we all summer. This is after I paid for the cupboards, by the way. I worked all summer to earn money to buy my first stereo. I loved music, I loved listening to music. Little did I know I just purchased a liability. Because every time we'd go to town, I'd have to buy the new tunes. And back then, it will you had to buy the whole album or the whole cassette or the whole D C D. You had to buy the all the crap for the two songs you wanted.

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 9:23

And so it was just expensive for an 11-year-old kid. When I turned 15 and got my driver's license, that's when I started my first business, and it was a mobile disco business. Now I'm living in Podunk, New Mexico. No one was hiring 15-year-old DJs.

SPEAKER_05 9:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:43

And so I created my own opportunity. After the football game or the basketball game on the weekends, I would rent the community center, hire an off-duty cop for security. Mom and dad took money at the door, I spun records, everybody danced, had a good time. What could you I would make five to seven hundred dollars a night as a 15-year-old kid? Which is huge.

unknown 10:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:07

And so I did that all through the rest of my high school career and then throughout college and just made my extra spending money and I enjoyed it. It was something I loved. And so I monetized having fun.

SPEAKER_03 10:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 10:21

I love that.

SPEAKER_03 10:21

Yeah. I love that. Bart, did you have like examples of entrepreneurs in your life that you looked to, like other business owners that you said, if I'm going to create the opportunity? Uh or what sparked that for you?

SPEAKER_01 10:37

So my dad, I said he was a farmer. He was a pig farmer, but he had his hands in many different things. All in the agricultural industry. We lived in southern New Mexico. He was part owner in a dairy in Idaho, part owner in a mushroom warehouse in in Utah, then a produce warehouse in Arizona. That produce warehouse is where Diamondback Stadium now stands.

SPEAKER_02 11:00

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_01 11:01

So when they wanted that property, let's just say there was a lot of money exchanged hands. Oh yeah. And and so he he never set me down and taught me the birds and the bees of business. He showed me by example. And then when I wanted to do things, he encouraged me and helped me along the way. I mean, him and mom were taking money at the door till 11, 12 o'clock at night, you know. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 11:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:25

So he was, and then even beyond business, if I so I was in FFA, I don't know if you know guys, if you guys know what FFA is, Future Farmers of America. And they would do fundraisers. And anytime they had a fundraiser, I would set a goal, and my dad would be okay, this is your goal, you better go for it. You need to go get on the phone right now, we'll go collect money later. And so he would encourage me and help me make the phone calls. And so quick couple of examples. One year it was oranges. And if you sold five hundred dollars worth of oranges, you got a pair of Justin Ropers, which was the boot of that time.

SPEAKER_05 12:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:08

And I said, okay, if I if I sell over a thousand dollars, do I get two boots? Because I wanted a pair of boots for my girlfriend. Oh, yeah, of course. I sold eleven hundred dollars in this small town in New Mexico.

unknown 12:21

Wow.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

I got my two boots. By the time they came in, my girlfriend had broken up with me, and I had a pair of boots that I I actually gave them to her. She wanted nothing to do with it, gave them to her married sister-in-law, so I bought boots for a married lady. Or I won boots for a married lady. What a waste.

SPEAKER_03 12:41

I was gonna say so many lessons learned there, right? Lessons learned.

SPEAKER_01 12:47

And then the next year, I think we were it was magazine subscriptions. Ah and so I had a goal. This is gonna blow your mind, but I had a goal to buy a a rifle, a hunting rifle that I that was in this catalog. We would earn points, you use the points to get these things, and there was a hunting rifle in there, and that was my goal.

SPEAKER_05 13:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 13:07

And I got my goal, and I had extra points that I gave away to my friends so they could get what they wanted. Awesome. And and so, and it's all from my dad saying, Okay, you have this goal, now go for it.

SPEAKER_02 13:20

Do it, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:21

And you in order to do that, this is a small town, you got tons, you got, you know, 10, 12 kids going after the same clients, you need to be fast.

SPEAKER_02 13:28

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:30

You know, indecision or in inaction is gonna lose you. You're not gonna make it, so you need to do it now.

SPEAKER_06 13:36

Well, and I love that you had the courage to make the phone calls. I don't know that I had the courage. I just had the goal.

SPEAKER_03 13:44

Yeah, he had the goal I was focused on. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 13:47

More important than the the fear of picking up the phone.

SPEAKER_01 13:51

Yeah, and so well, yeah, anyway, but there's other stories about that picking up the phone. I can remember, you know, we had those touch tone phones, you know, that you had to push the buttons. And I wasn't fear, I wasn't afraid of calling people for business or anything like that, but calling the girl, you know, for a date. Uh and you would get to that last number and you're like, one, two, three, okay.

SPEAKER_03 14:16

And then just hope, don't pick up, don't pick up.

SPEAKER_06 14:20

Yes, yes, all the call waiting. Just let it go to voicemail. Or no, they didn't have voicemail. No, it's just a recorder.

SPEAKER_03 14:27

Yes.

SPEAKER_06 14:28

Oh my god, some of our listeners right now are like, what are they talking about?

SPEAKER_03 14:32

Yes. Yeah. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 14:34

Like the music is all on one thing, and you have to buy it. And yep. Yep.

SPEAKER_03 14:40

Yes. There were a lot of things on on cassette, including the voice messages.

SPEAKER_01 14:44

So that first stereo, that first stereo had a cassette deck on one side, yeah, the tuner in the middle. Yep. What was right here?

SPEAKER_06 14:56

Oh, the speaker?

unknown 14:58

No.

SPEAKER_01 14:58

No, the the there's another, there was another where you rewound it?

SPEAKER_06 15:02

Was that where you no, no? Oh.

SPEAKER_01 15:04

Oh, I didn't. Eight track players. Oh my okay. Oh wow. We and then the record on top.

SPEAKER_03 15:12

Oh my oh wow. Okay. That was actually snazzy. I mean, to have a little yes.

SPEAKER_01 15:18

That's what we had back then. It was all in one systems.

SPEAKER_03 15:22

That was snazzy.

SPEAKER_06 15:23

So my grandfather's car that he gave to my dad when we were growing up had the eight-track. And I just remember the trunk had these giant boxes that had all the eight-tracks because it was so big.

SPEAKER_01 15:39

So my first my first car had an eight-track player in it, and I had one eight-track. That's I didn't obviously buy any more. You gotta tell me it was it was sweet. Sweet. The band's name was sweet, and their hit on that album was called Love is Like Oxygen.

SPEAKER_02 15:57

Okay. Okay. Okay. Sweet. Love is like oxygen. I love that you still remember that.

SPEAKER_06 16:05

Well, you have to. If you had one, you had one A-track. You're listening to it all time until it puts it. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 16:12

Well, and and I put in another stereo. I I built it up yet. But anyway.

SPEAKER_03 16:18

Oh, that's so good. I love that. Well, Bart, like I think it just at a young age, just having that one direction, one simple instruction that you received from your dad, like, here's your goal, go get it. But you learned so many skills, both like sales skills and soft skills that come along the way. Because there's a huge amount of like immediate emotional intelligence that you have to understand when you're basically competing against every other youth and selling this small town oranges or magazine subscription or whatever it is, fill in the product or service. Um you gain so much expertise, um, probably unbeknownst to you, um, as at a younger. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 16:58

Yeah. And I didn't I didn't even fall back on it until uh after. So I I went to college. My dream job from about 16 on, I wanted to get in the FBI and chase serial killers. Oh. That was my dream. And we had an FBI agent that was a friend, and then and he said the easiest way in was through accounting. Because most accountants don't want to be in the FBI. But yet they need accountants in the FBI. And he said, once you get in, you don't have to stay in the white collar crime. You apply to the positions that are open, and if you're good enough, you get them. So my idea was to get in through accounting and then go somewhere else.

SPEAKER_05 17:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 17:42

I'm studying accounting. I found out something very quick. I didn't like it, and I wasn't very good at it. But it was a means to an end. We're gonna do this. This is gonna get me where I want to go. Yeah. I took a break right before my last quarter up at college. I went home and helped out on the pig farm to improve my Spanish and have more Spanish speaking opportunities. While I was down there, I had custom agent friends and Border Patrol and just regular cops getting this RK surgery done on their eyes to correct their vision. This was before LASIK.

unknown 18:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:21

And it was at the time it was fresh out, so it was kind of still considered experimental. And it was quite expensive, but I'm down in small town USA making money with no place to spend it.

SPEAKER_05 18:34

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:34

And so it was burning holes in my pocket, and I was like, okay, I'm gonna do it.

unknown 18:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:39

I went and got it done. It was 2020 in one eye, 2025 in the other eye. Clear up until like 52, 53 before I had to get glasses again.

unknown 18:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 18:48

But I got back up to school, I started the application process to the FBI and found out that that surgery automatically disqualified me.

SPEAKER_05 18:58

Why?

SPEAKER_01 18:59

I was devastated. Because remember, I don't like accounting and I'm not good at it. You'll add one left. I don't want to be counting other people's money. I hire an accountant, I pay an accountant quite well to take care of my taxes.

SPEAKER_04 19:17

Yeah. Yep.

SPEAKER_01 19:19

And I just so I'm like, I finished my degree, I got my degree, but I just didn't want to do it. And that's when I kind of fell back on what I had learned from my dad just by being there. You know, a buddy of mine, I'm I'm up at my school, I'm doing my part-time job landscaping, which I enjoyed, but it didn't pay me very well. And a buddy of mine worked for a bungee jump company, and he's like, Bart, do you want to go back to Japan? I'd spent a couple of years in Japan. I spoke Japanese fairly fluently. They had just sold a tower in Japan. They needed somebody for translating and all that stuff. And I he didn't know it, but I am an adrenaline junkie. I mean, I I love that stuff. And so I thought about it for a quick second, and I unjokingly said, yeah, I think I do. Let's do it. Three months later, I was in Japan pushing little Japanese people off the top of a bungee tower. I shouldn't say push, assisting.

SPEAKER_03 20:23

Assisting. Prompting them to take their own leave. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 20:32

With a little tug.

SPEAKER_06 20:33

Exactly. Well, we we knew you were an agenoline junkie when you were decided to take that car on a daily ride out of the garage. Exactly.

SPEAKER_03 20:43

There were signs. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Yeah, and and so that's where I just anything that crosses my path, good, bad, or ugly, I always ask, how can I monetize it? And that was the first thing. That was the first thing.

SPEAKER_05 21:01

Love it.

SPEAKER_01 21:01

Well, I don't know if you would count my music thing because I guess I did that first. But I was going down the regular get a job path, yeah, and things didn't work out, and then everything I just some people look back and say I was lucky. And I say, Well, Seneca says luck is when opportunity and preparedness meet. Yeah, but but you can't just meet, you gotta take action.

SPEAKER_02 21:26

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:26

And there's hard. And so I add I took action.

SPEAKER_02 21:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 21:30

Yeah. And that's how it all started. And then I mean, there's other stories we can get into as as we go along the way, but that's what I've done.

SPEAKER_05 21:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Like looking at monetizing everything that you do or ha trying to find an opportunity to monetize the things that you do and the things that you enjoy. Is that something that you discovered like it from a reflection point? Like you realize that after years of reflection today? Or did you recognize that like after graduating and finding yourself in Japan? And and and the things that continue to occur after that, but I'm going to create a way to one do the things that I enjoy and make money at the things that I enjoy.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

I think I recognize it afterwards.

SPEAKER_03 22:12

After. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 22:13

So I'm in Japan. I'm working at the bungee jump. I had and and I'm contracted with the Japanese company and not with the American company. And I had nothing to do at night, so because I didn't have any friends, so I'd go to the gym. And I and I'm 6'4, 220 at that time, so fairly good sized. And you know, as white as white can be, I the green go in Japan, you know, and they're like, Oh, I don't want to go talk to him. They don't know if I speak Japanese or not. So probably two, three weeks went by, nobody talked to me but the staff.

SPEAKER_05 22:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 22:48

And then finally this one guy, he comes up to me and he goes, hero. And I said, Hello, with the best English I could come up with. And then I started speaking Japanese to him.

SPEAKER_03 23:02

He's like, And he's like, thank goodness. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 23:05

I'm glad you speak Japanese because I was done at heroes.

SPEAKER_02 23:09

That's all I have. That's all I have.

SPEAKER_01 23:12

We became friends. He was a big rig driver in Japan. Okay. And about a year, year and a half later, he decided he wanted to stop driving big rig and he wanted to start importing camping trailers and Ford and Dodge diesel pickups from America. And he asked me if I would help him. I thought he knew how to do it, and I said yes. Found out he did not know how to do it, so we learned how to do it together. That was back in 97. We're still doing it to this day.

SPEAKER_02 23:41

Oh, I love that.

SPEAKER_01 23:43

And that came because someone asked me to do something and I said yes.

unknown 23:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:48

Richard Branson puts it amazing. You know, it says if someone comes to you with an amazing opportunity and you don't know how to do it, say yes and then figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 23:56

And then figure it out.

SPEAKER_01 23:57

Yeah. Yeah. And that's what we did.

unknown 23:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 23:59

And it's been, I mean, it's very side hustle time, but very good income. I mean, it's kind of like this.

SPEAKER_03 24:09

I was gonna say starts a side hustle side hustle time, but it becomes main hustle, right? Like it's in terms of like the income that it's generating or the resources that it's the time is a few calls a day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

And if some some days there's no calls if I don't have anything to look for.

SPEAKER_02 24:24

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 24:25

And and so it's one of those things that that's where anything, like I said, anything that crosses my path, good, bad, or ugly, yes, I say, how can I monetize it? So I don't know how much research you did on me, but I lost my lower left leg in 2024.

SPEAKER_03 24:45

Yes, I think so. No, it's like a cliffhanger. It is, I know. And if it is a cliffhanger, I'm like, what are we getting? I don't know if we're gonna grab a tool or something. Exactly. There, I feel like there's something that is we're there just to record having a moment of technical difficulties. We're gonna see what happens. Because right at the moment, unless this is intentional.

SPEAKER_06 25:06

We're maybe just frozen intentionally. Yeah, maybe it's intention.

SPEAKER_03 25:12

Like Yes, yes. I I am I am curious about it. But I I do love the um the fact that he is like serial entrepreneur, like that was the piece that uh really piqued my interest because it is oh that it is something that um that we definitely share. Like we are just these serial entrepreneurs, we just keep creating it. What do you want to do? We don't know, we'll create it, keep making it.

SPEAKER_06 25:36

And very much the um we don't know how to do it yet, but we we're like we will figure it out exactly.

SPEAKER_05 25:44

Exactly.

SPEAKER_06 25:45

That is the piece that I think stops a lot of entrepreneurs because they think, okay, well, I've got an idea, but I gotta figure out all the how before I do anything. And sometimes I gotta take the leap and then figure it out.

SPEAKER_03 25:58

And then it all falls into place. Absolutely. I think, and that's and I I definitely want to chat with Bart about that because I think every person processes it a little bit differently, right? Like it's like, oh my gosh, I can't believe I just said yes to doing whatever it is, and then you've got to figure it out. Um and I think giving yourself permission to say, you know what, I tried to figure it out and it didn't work. And it's like, okay, on to the next thing. What now what? Now or what did I learn from it?

SPEAKER_06 26:25

Yeah. And um, I love that too. Cause I like, yeah, I mean, my son's kind of in that perpetual thing where he like thinks of an idea, goes, goes, goes, goes, goes, and then he's like, all right, this isn't gonna work, pivot and does something else. And I but I think it's just the entrepreneurial mind. It's not, it's never a I'm afraid, I'm not gonna do it because I'm afraid of failure. It's uh I'm gonna do this. If it fails, that's fine. I'll something else.

SPEAKER_03 26:48

Exactly. Exactly. Then we'll do the next thing. Yeah, we'll figure out the next thing.

SPEAKER_06 26:52

Next thing.

SPEAKER_03 26:52

And it is not for everybody. Exactly. Exactly. All right, let's see. I'm going to let me stop this. Hold on.

SPEAKER_00 27:10

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