Smithy Sodine

There's always a way to do it.

For me, it was that.

I learned how to do.

I know I can definitely say that I know my business from inside out.

I knew from how to manage the website.

I take all my photos online.

And the learning curve was really huge because then I had to learn Photoshop, Canva, and tons of other programs.

But I also knew that, again, I could learn it.

I never doubted myself that I couldn't learn things.

So you just break it down in small chunks and you learn a little bit every day.

So at the end of the month, it's like all of a sudden I know how to use Photoshop.

And I know like your audience generally are really young entrepreneurs, but I think I was thinking, well, what kind of value can I add to your podcast?

And I think the value would be in people who are maybe in their 50s and don't want to retire or want to have a different kind of career who really had a passion that they didn't have an opportunity to follow.

And for me, that's what I did.

Well, immigrants don't feel like they have a lot to lose.

So if—and I would consider myself to be a first-generation immigrant, but my parents really were the first-generation immigrants.

But they came here when they were already in their 40s, so it was too late for them.

So they sacrificed a lot so that we could do well.

So if you've traveled this far, you actually—

You've left your homeland and you travel to a foreign land to make a new life.