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Ilana

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
5243 total appearances

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Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

I think some of us like to be loved or like to be liked. And even if I know it's them, it's their emotional thing. It's not related to me. They're putting on me something that is irrelevant to me. They might not even know me. They've just seen an ad, right? And they already hate me. But the question is, how do you create a little bit of a thicker skin? I think we see it a lot in leadership.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

I think some of us like to be loved or like to be liked. And even if I know it's them, it's their emotional thing. It's not related to me. They're putting on me something that is irrelevant to me. They might not even know me. They've just seen an ad, right? And they already hate me. But the question is, how do you create a little bit of a thicker skin? I think we see it a lot in leadership.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Our listeners will face it in different things that they do in their life. And I think for some of them, this is almost like a barrier to success. Like they're afraid to be out there to not get bashed or to not get hate. How do you create a little bit of a thicker skin, you think? Just go through enough?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Our listeners will face it in different things that they do in their life. And I think for some of them, this is almost like a barrier to success. Like they're afraid to be out there to not get bashed or to not get hate. How do you create a little bit of a thicker skin, you think? Just go through enough?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

That was so strong. Thank you, Brandon. I think our listeners need to hear this. And speaking of trust, one of the things that when I engaged with you guys, I think I just got to know you last year. Actually, I think it's our one year birthday three days ago, Brandon. There you go. Congratulations to me. I just met you guys. I didn't know much. But first of all, I was very impressed.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

That was so strong. Thank you, Brandon. I think our listeners need to hear this. And speaking of trust, one of the things that when I engaged with you guys, I think I just got to know you last year. Actually, I think it's our one year birthday three days ago, Brandon. There you go. Congratulations to me. I just met you guys. I didn't know much. But first of all, I was very impressed.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Again, I'm an engineer. I need to engineer the heck out of your story, Grant's story. I needed all the pieces. I needed to understand the data. And the data was actually fascinating. I'll show it here for the people on YouTube. So if you're listening in to our podcast, check out the video. But one of the things that you talk about is your breakpoints.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Again, I'm an engineer. I need to engineer the heck out of your story, Grant's story. I needed all the pieces. I needed to understand the data. And the data was actually fascinating. I'll show it here for the people on YouTube. So if you're listening in to our podcast, check out the video. But one of the things that you talk about is your breakpoints.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

And the breakpoints basically show exactly where are you in your business and what are some of the challenges that you're going to run into. Now, the interesting thing is, Brandon, and this is probably something you didn't know, I was in charge of bringing Israeli startups into the U.S., And I can tell you, each startup, where it was in the breakpoint and how it did.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

And the breakpoints basically show exactly where are you in your business and what are some of the challenges that you're going to run into. Now, the interesting thing is, Brandon, and this is probably something you didn't know, I was in charge of bringing Israeli startups into the U.S., And I can tell you, each startup, where it was in the breakpoint and how it did.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

It was just incredible to watch. So as I was listening to this, and again, one of them, you know, exited for $350 million, one of them, you know, IPO-ed, etc. So some of them have seen amazing success, some of them not so much, but I can see like to the T where they were when I was trying to work with them in the US. And that was incredible to watch. And then I could see it with my own startups.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

It was just incredible to watch. So as I was listening to this, and again, one of them, you know, exited for $350 million, one of them, you know, IPO-ed, etc. So some of them have seen amazing success, some of them not so much, but I can see like to the T where they were when I was trying to work with them in the US. And that was incredible to watch. And then I could see it with my own startups.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

And I was like, okay, these guys know what they're doing. And the one thing that you said, Brandon, to me is like, do you trust yourself? And I think this was such a profound question because when I decided to go all in and invest basically for you guys to help me

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

And I was like, okay, these guys know what they're doing. And the one thing that you said, Brandon, to me is like, do you trust yourself? And I think this was such a profound question because when I decided to go all in and invest basically for you guys to help me

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Oh, I don't know, about half a million, right?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Oh, I don't know, about half a million, right?

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Yeah, we basically doubled the business. So, I mean, it becomes a no-brainer.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Yeah, we basically doubled the business. So, I mean, it becomes a no-brainer.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Oh, we make half a million less than a month. So yes, of course. I think it's way beyond that, Brandon, because you guys and I have like a full you did a whole review on our and again, I'm showing it in video. There's a full review here on our business. And we can literally see how we are on track to 100 million, you know, which is a billion dollar company.

Leap Academy with Ilana Golan
How I Lost My Company and Built a $500M Business Instead | Brandon Dawson | E79

Oh, we make half a million less than a month. So yes, of course. I think it's way beyond that, Brandon, because you guys and I have like a full you did a whole review on our and again, I'm showing it in video. There's a full review here on our business. And we can literally see how we are on track to 100 million, you know, which is a billion dollar company.