Mick Hunt

I have employees that depend on me.

Every decision that I make, every final sign-off that I do affects home life for other people.

And so the first business I started, I was 27.

And every business I've ever started, I've always brought on at least one employee.

Moment one, like a W-2 employee, like at least one.

My other companies, I started with 10 or 20 or 100, right?

But because I need that accountability.

I need to make sure that everything that I do, someone else can survive and thrive.

Because when it's just yourself, when you're a solopreneur, I can go two months of sacrificing.

I can go a year into savings.

But when you have employees, it's not like that.

It's not like that.

So when I mentor people that are entrepreneurs or they want to start businesses, I always say, tell me what your team is going to look like.

And you need to start with a few team members because that's real accountability right there.

And if you can't do that, then you're not ready.

My first business insurance agency, my second hire was my sister-in-law.

And it got to a point where I was a salesperson.

She and another person were more like the account managers.

And I had a couple of months of low sales.

And we were literally two payroll periods away.