Mick Hunt

It sounds weird to say it, but I made myself into the person that I needed to be to fulfill the promises that I made.

It was all of the emotions.

And you know, as an entrepreneur, right, you have them all and you have them all sometimes in two minutes of each other.

The idea, the excitement of the vision that I can do it, that I can solve a problem that exists.

The excitement of, wow, if I do it really, really well, I can make a ton of money.

And then the fear of, holy crap, I have to do it.

And for me, that fear was never about me personally.

The fear was...

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.