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Dr. Abraham George

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793 total appearances

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Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And my biggest concern was whether it was going to take off or not. I'll never forget opening day in 2010. I had spent my marketing budget and I had no idea if 30 people were going to walk through the gate or 300 or 3000 or 10,000. I had no idea. And so I'm just sitting there sweating bullets and the cannon goes off and 3000 people walked in. I was like, okay, this is going to be all right.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And my biggest concern was whether it was going to take off or not. I'll never forget opening day in 2010. I had spent my marketing budget and I had no idea if 30 people were going to walk through the gate or 300 or 3000 or 10,000. I had no idea. And so I'm just sitting there sweating bullets and the cannon goes off and 3000 people walked in. I was like, okay, this is going to be all right.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And my biggest concern was whether it was going to take off or not. I'll never forget opening day in 2010. I had spent my marketing budget and I had no idea if 30 people were going to walk through the gate or 300 or 3000 or 10,000. I had no idea. And so I'm just sitting there sweating bullets and the cannon goes off and 3000 people walked in. I was like, okay, this is going to be all right.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

So one was I spent a solid marketing budget for year one. But then what I did, and I think it's a good idea, is I stayed in the real world at big corporate jobs for the first several years of building my passion business. So I was building my theme park and I was a booze and company partner at the same time.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

So one was I spent a solid marketing budget for year one. But then what I did, and I think it's a good idea, is I stayed in the real world at big corporate jobs for the first several years of building my passion business. So I was building my theme park and I was a booze and company partner at the same time.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

So one was I spent a solid marketing budget for year one. But then what I did, and I think it's a good idea, is I stayed in the real world at big corporate jobs for the first several years of building my passion business. So I was building my theme park and I was a booze and company partner at the same time.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And then I was the CEO of a billion dollar cell phone distribution company at the same time. And what that enabled me to do is to write checks to get my passion business to scale. And so I did that for the first four years and we've been in it forever. for 15 years now, but to scale the business. And then that worked.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And then I was the CEO of a billion dollar cell phone distribution company at the same time. And what that enabled me to do is to write checks to get my passion business to scale. And so I did that for the first four years and we've been in it forever. for 15 years now, but to scale the business. And then that worked.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And then I was the CEO of a billion dollar cell phone distribution company at the same time. And what that enabled me to do is to write checks to get my passion business to scale. And so I did that for the first four years and we've been in it forever. for 15 years now, but to scale the business. And then that worked.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And now the business is at scale and it's really successful and doesn't need anything for me.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And now the business is at scale and it's really successful and doesn't need anything for me.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And now the business is at scale and it's really successful and doesn't need anything for me.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

That's the exact topic of my book. The whole book is about how to deal with that kind of thing. I can step back and describe my framework where I can talk about that individual person. Which way do you want me to go?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

That's the exact topic of my book. The whole book is about how to deal with that kind of thing. I can step back and describe my framework where I can talk about that individual person. Which way do you want me to go?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

That's the exact topic of my book. The whole book is about how to deal with that kind of thing. I can step back and describe my framework where I can talk about that individual person. Which way do you want me to go?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

Yeah, so you're 25 years old, you have a business degree, you're in a job that's okay, but you're not passionate about it, and you want to be a writer. I think one of the very important things this person needs to answer is, what is their need for financial security? And you can really think that through.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

Yeah, so you're 25 years old, you have a business degree, you're in a job that's okay, but you're not passionate about it, and you want to be a writer. I think one of the very important things this person needs to answer is, what is their need for financial security? And you can really think that through.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

Yeah, so you're 25 years old, you have a business degree, you're in a job that's okay, but you're not passionate about it, and you want to be a writer. I think one of the very important things this person needs to answer is, what is their need for financial security? And you can really think that through.

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And in the book, there's a little tool that helps you think through that because it's things like, do you need to live in an expensive city or are you okay in a less expensive city? How many kids do you want to have? Do you expect to pay for their college? Do you have expensive taste? Do you need a new car in a few years? Do you expect to have health problems?

Passion Struck with John R. Miles
George Appling on How to Make Intentional Career Choices | EP 545

And in the book, there's a little tool that helps you think through that because it's things like, do you need to live in an expensive city or are you okay in a less expensive city? How many kids do you want to have? Do you expect to pay for their college? Do you have expensive taste? Do you need a new car in a few years? Do you expect to have health problems?