Sanjay Parikh
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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Habits and Hustle · Episode 400: Bonus: When defeat becomes a blessing in disguise · 22 Nov 2024
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Yeah. So you gave that feedback in this interview at the end of the interview, like before they left. So before they were. Honestly, I think that is fantastic because I think we've all been in that place. I actually had something similar happen to me when I was doing my first startup and I was raising money. There was one particular group that we were pitching to raise money.
And at the end, they went around the table and told us what they liked, what they didn't. And walking out of that room, it wasn't a... Us looking at each other like, I think it went well.
Instead, we were like, this is what they thought. So we know exactly where we stood. And so later on when they made a decision and it came back to us, we're like, okay, yeah, we understand. Because we had the feedback already. And that is fantastic. I don't know that enough people do that.
And I think doing that would be just so much better for people to understand kind of why they're succeeding or failing in terms of the things that they want to do.
Yeah. I think this is a fantastic area to kind of discuss with you. I love this, the things that you're doing. Personally, what I do is whenever I'm doing things and people tell me, oh, I love what you're doing. I actually ask for negative feedback. I ask them, what are all the things that I did wrong? When I do a speech or a talk somewhere and invariably people, oh, I love what you had to say.
I actually don't care about that so much. I only care about what I did and said that was wrong and bad. Because obviously I tried my best. And so if you can tell me all the ways that it didn't connect with you and you thought it was a miss, then maybe I can make that better the next time. Right. Glows and grows, I think, is now a part of my vocabulary. I'm going to be using that.
I really love that. let's shift a little bit and talk about owning and managing the business kind of originally as a side hustle. Now it's a full-time gig. How did you manage the stress of dealing with all of that? Cause there's a lot of stress and, and I mean, just that first summer having to work and do half days and run back and forth.
Like how did you manage the stress and how did that work for you?
Yeah. But by the way, it's only a math teacher that would talk about their reach and say circumference of their reach. I think you really have hit on your brand there by using that kind of phrasing. I don't think I've ever heard anybody else say the circumference of their reach other than you.
I love it. I love it. It's totally on brand for you. Okay. So talking about this and balancing the business, how do you balance your business with family life and personal commitments and friends and talk about setting boundaries for yourself? Because as founders, what we do can bleed into everything that we do. It could eat 24 hours a day up if we wanted to.
How do you think about those things and how do you set those boundaries and think about time with The people that matter to you.
What were you before it was an S-Corp?
Right.
Yeah. Your clarity breaks. When did you start instituting those? And you view those, that's not vacation, obviously. Do you do it in the same place or do you go somewhere else?
That's great. That's great. Okay. Let me ask you this now. You've had kind of the opportunity of time. You've been working on this for a few years. The first couple of years were tough. the summer things, and then you kind of went all in. If you're looking back at it now, is there something that you would do differently knowing what you know now?
Yeah. It's interesting. I often have the phrase and I tell founders, there's two types of founders, the ones that have never had to worry about, the ones that have had to worry about payroll and the ones that have not yet had to worry about payroll. Right. I think it comes for everybody at some point.
And I think when you cross over that, that chasm and have had to deal with those issues that you understand so much more about yourself, about your business and about other founders. Yeah. that are going through struggles. So I'm so glad that you were able to make it through that challenge. Okay, you've now, you've been through the whole cycle. You've done the side hustle thing.
You've turned it into a full-time business. What would you tell somebody else that was thinking about taking the leap and starting a side hustle or taking their side hustle and making it a full-time business?
Yeah. Yeah. That's great advice. Jalila, this has been fantastic conversation. Where can our listeners find and connect with you online?
Awesome. Thanks for coming on today.
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