Chris Koerner

There was no hope.

And so it didn't like make me a pessimist.

I'm an optimist.

It made me grateful for America.

And so to answer your question about how do you go from, you know, selling golf balls as a 10-year-old to 80 businesses, I came home with like...

No fear of failure, no fear of rejection.

And that entrepreneurial gene that was, you know, implanted in me at age 10 was reawakened.

And I came home just like ready to take on the world.

How long did it take you to get over the fear of knocking on someone's door?

This might surprise some people, but for the entire two years of my mission, every time I knocked on a door, I would kind of silently hope they didn't answer.

I never got over it.

Like, it was hard the entire time.

Right?

Now, when they rejected me, I said, no, that got a lot easier.

I didn't take it personally after a week, maybe.

But I never, like, I never wanted them to answer the door.

But then when they did, I would go all in.

You know what I'm saying?

It's kind of like, you don't want to go to the gym, but you go anyway, and you're glad you did when you're done.

But.