Jasmine Star
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Jun
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And I think that, you know, I won the genetic lottery by being born in this country. But having a father who was drilled into us like everything. We are so incredibly fortunate to live in a country where you don't have barriers to do the thing that you want. It is on the back end of people who are having the hotspot and the audacity to do something that they are unqualified to do.
And so having that growing up, but then also realizing you're owed nothing. Getting into the country, congrats. Being born into this country, congrats, you're old jack squat. Everything that you have is on the back of your willingness to do the damn work. And so what it made me gritty knowing I'm owed nothing. I don't, just because I start a business doesn't mean my business should be successful.
Just because I start a business and it's successful doesn't mean I'm gonna be the top 1%. If I go in and my, my perspective, just like Simon Sinek says that this is an infinite game. There's no such thing as winning in business. You can win your own game, but many of us don't even define what the game we're playing is.
And so all of a sudden we play a game in our own mind where we move the goalpost. And so it's just like all this year, you know, it's like, I'm going to do my 10 million. And the minute we get to 9.5, it's like, No, no, no. I see what I need. What I really meant was 11. And then we beat ourselves up at the end of the year because we didn't do the thing that we wanted to do.
What game are you actually playing? Because the minute that we define our rubric of success, because sometimes money isn't always the goal. Sometimes the goal is, do I have more time to do the things I want to do with the people I want to do it?
with it's like what is the point of having an 11 million dollar a year if on the back of it you missed the people and the things that were the most important to you you didn't win you lost you just didn't know what game you were playing so for us to actually have a conversation of like what makes you gritty well first and foremost let's talk about what we're owed nothing let's talk about how we win setting some goals and then working like hell to get them but not at the cost of compromising the thing that's the most important to you so what makes me gritty the fact that i have simply chosen
This is the game I want to play. And every time I get punched in the gut, because we always do, that's the sport. We're literally playing emotional rugby all day, every day. We play rugby in our sleep. I don't know about you. I play rugby in my sleep. I wake up and I'm like, oh my God. Oh my God. This is the game we're voluntarily playing. We signed up for it.
We can't complain about the thing that we want to do to get us to where we want to go. So I just think what a privilege. What a privilege that I get to wake up, go on a walk in Newport Beach, have breakfast with my daughter, have a conversation with somebody I find intellectually stimulating where we get to help and empower other people.
And then I get to go in and do coaching on the inside of Social Curator. And then I get to create content. I get to do podcasts. What an honor and what a luxury. So if I want both sides of it, the lifestyle, the luxury, I better be able to wake up after my teeth have been knocked out and say, okay, this is the game I'm playing. I've chosen this. What an honor and what a privilege.
I better show up that way.
And I wanna be very clear. I don't wanna pretend like I haven't struggled with that or I'm above that. There are times, for instance, I look at business a lot, very similar to parallel lines of working out and going to the gym. There are just some human composition that no matter what I do, I can work equally as hard as somebody else.
I might not have the body type, the metabolism, I might not have the genes to ever look or be like somebody else, right? But we're doing the same work. And so it's natural. It is human condition to say, I'm doing that level of work. Why am I not getting the same results? But the minute you dwell in the land of unknowns, like you ask a dead end question, right? Like, why is my business not working?
That's not really a question that we're really going to quantify right now. But if you ask yourself, how might I get 1% better in this? Now we have a clear path to getting a result. Regardless if it's a result that you want, at least you can take the next step. And so I don't know if it's as much as an entitlement, as in like, I deserve to be successful.
As much as I see a lot more in the entrepreneurial realm is I'm doing the work, but I'm not getting the results. But the problem with that, and it is a problem, the pandemic of emotions that we go through is we don't know what's going on behind the scenes. We have no idea. So when we say I'm doing the same work as that person, you know jack squat about that other person's business.
Like, let's just take down all the curtains that people use to hide behind. Because I see a lot of people being like, oh, I just did a million dollar launch. And that's amazing. I clap it up. But what a lot of people don't know is you ran $750,000 in ads to get that number. Yeah. So it's like, oh, I did 10 million in business. Great.
And a lot of your business, the majority of it is done on affiliates and JVs. So your revenue is not what you're posing as. We don't know. We have no idea if somebody's business was inherited. We have no idea how much debt somebody has. We have no idea. The byline of the revenue on their profit and loss statement is taking up 82% of what they're bringing in.
We know nothing about other people's businesses. So again- Instead of saying, why don't I have, if I'm doing the same, I want you to come back and say, I don't know how they got there.
I applaud the work they've done because they're proving that it is possible to get there, but I'm gonna continue to run my own race because even if at the end of the day, my business is smaller than somebody else's, but my profitability is higher and my working cash, my operating revenue is right where I need it to be, I've won.
But the only reason why I could say I've won is because I've already defined it as my personal win. So I get to play my own damn game. I get to find some deep satisfaction. What is it I'm doing? But then also put some benchmarks on myself and the team being, how are we going to get to the next level? That's the game for us. We clearly define it. We know we're owed nothing.
We don't compare ourselves to somebody else because we don't know what's going on behind the scenes. And we show up and we do the damn work.
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