- Do you have what it takes to be a entrepreneur?
Let me share with you the skillsets and experiences
that you need in order to actually succeed.
So if you wanna find out what it is,
stay tuned and watch through this video.
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So hi everybody.
It's Linh Podetti here.
If you're new to this channel, I'm a mother of three.
This is one here.
And an entrepreneur and I'm here
to help you achieve time and financial freedom.
Now if you're new here, please don't forget to subscribe
to support my channel and I promise you
to make you videos every single week.
Okay, so first up, why do you wanna be an entrepreneur?
See, my reason for being an entrepreneur
is just being able to have the freedom to be able
to take care of my kids if I wanted to,
have that choice and freedom to do whatever
I want to do in my day, and because I had a kid young,
I really felt the struggle to try to, you know,
work the nine to five strict, you know, work code.
As a mum, you need flexibility in order
to be really happy in life.
And the other best thing about an entrepreneur
is you can set your own rules.
So I'm making this video now, I'm my own boss,
I can work from home, I can do a video
with my kid in there and no one's there to judge me.
I don't have to act all professional
and do whatever others expect of a business owner.
I'm just here to be my own business owner.
So there's no doubt that you have a clear reason
why you wanna be an entrepreneur.
You want that freedom, that time freedom
and the financial freedom.
That's why you're on this channel as well.
So let me share with you what you need to have,
in terms of skillset and experience
in order to actually succeed.
Okay, so today's my video day.
I scheduled for that and although I have him
I thought I'm just gonna push through.
So you know, forgive me if this boy is distracting,
but I really wanted to get in that momentum
of doing videos when I said I was gonna do.
'Cause it's really about keeping that momentum
when it comes to video content.
It's like if you just skip one week, you're gonna get lazy.
So, let me get straight into the skillset.
So the reason why I wanted to this video as well,
is because I had someone contacted me on LinkedIn
and said, "Hey Linh, I love your advice.
I, you know, have, am skilled in accounting.
I'm really good at sales," and he went on about
the things that he was proud of
in terms of his career achievement.
And he asked me, "Do you think I will succeed
in a side business?"
And this is what I said to him and this is why
I wanted to share this video, to share it with you as well.
So what do you actually really need?
I really didn't even care that he had accounting background,
sales background, anything that he mentioned,
what I mentioned to him back is
that you don't need any of that.
What you really need is your determination
and commitment to being an entrepreneur.
Because it's really about your soft skills
and your ability to take on the challenges
and hit in life is what's gonna make you successful.
Because it's not really the skillset
that you need, because you can always find someone else
that's better than you at the things
that you're not good at.
It's not really the experience, because like I said,
you can work with partners and other people
in business that already have the experience.
But you can just partner with them.
So it's not really any of that.
It really comes down to the way
that we think, it's the mindset of success.
And so I think that's exactly what,
why I succeeded in business, because first of all
I had no idea about business,
I have no marketing skills, no sales skills.
I just had this passion for wanting
to start my own business.
So yes, it was a very hard journey having
to figure things out, having to learn everything as I go.
But that's really what you really need
in order to really succeed because if you have
all those skillsets and experience,
but you don't have that determination and grit
and never give up kind of attitude,
you gonna quit, you're gonna give up on your business goals.
So that's the skillset and stuff,
like I said, it's not important.
So let's list down the five key soft skills
that I think you really need.
So number one, is commitment, like decide and commit,
like going all in, like this is it, this is my life,
I know my why, I know why I want to start a business
and I'm going all in.
No matter how long it's going to take,
I'm gonna be committed to this journey.
And the second thing is stay curious.
I was a very curious person.
I was always trying to ask questions,
ask for information, ask for contacts,
ask for connections.
And I continuously stayed curious
and I was learning, I learn as much now
as much as I learned before.
And when you stay curious,
you're always wondering how to solve things.
Like okay, I don't have this but how do I do that?
I'm missing this, but how do I do that?
And so it's that staying curiosity mindset
that is gonna get you the right books to read,
the right people to ask questions to
and just curious, you know, and there's a lot
of times that I get asked to go to a meeting
and I don't know what, how it's going to be like.
But I just turn up, because I'm curious on how
that was going to be a great meeting.
Or if I don't know anything about events and things
I was offering to crew at events so that I was curious
to see how these speakers were earning money,
how do they present?
Even though I wasn't planning to do any presentations,
I just wanted to learn, just in case I need
that skillset for my business.
And number three is work hard.
I'm talking about having to wake up a lot earlier
than you normally do, stay up as late as you can
because when it comes to entrepreneurship,
in order to really succeed, you just need to put
a lot of time in.
And so when I first started my business,
I worked really hard.
I woke up really early and did a lot of studying
because when it came to the work hours,
I was working on client projects.
And then at night time, after I have, you know,
spent some time with my son, I then did some more work
before I went to sleep.
So at the beginning, you're gonna work
a lot harder than later on.
Like nowadays I have a lot more flexibility
and freedom, but when you're starting out,
and to succeed in business, to get to the stage
where you feel like you succeeded,
this little boy, you would have to work really hard.
And the fourth one is you have to be courageous.
There's gonna be a lot of moments where you're fearful,
you're scared to do public speaking, you're scared
to do sales, you're scared that you don't know how
to handle this client, you just have to be brave, you know?
Because when you're new, you don't have the experience
and skills, but you just have to be brave
to like step up to try it out.
To you know, talk to that client
that you normally wouldn't be able to talk to.
Try to stand in front of an audience
to do public speaking because that's what's gonna take
you to the next level in your business.
You gotta do whatever it takes and be courageous in business
because later on when you have a team,
you also need to be courageous
in hiring people, keeping people.
No matter how hard your business is, you be brave,
so that you continue to like, you know, lead the team
with that courage.
Because you don't want to be this scaredy-cat leader
that makes everyone else feel scared,
they don't know what's gonna happen to my future.
You need to be this confident, courageous person
and making your team, later or when you have a team,
to feel like, you know, no matter what I've got your,
you know, your back and you know, we're gonna do this.
Because no one wants a leader or an entrepreneur
that is like, "Oh my God, I'm scared."
So courage is definitely number four.
And finally, never ever, ever give up.
So there have been moments when I wanted to give up
at the beginning.
Even two years in I wanted to give up
because there's always challenges that you feel like
you know what, it's just easier to find a job
and just to have that predictability and you know,
like you just want to feel safe.
But I just didn't give up, you know,
I felt like giving up and I think about giving up
but I just don't give up because I just sleep it through.
The next day, try it again, just keep trying.
You know, it's not really about how many times you fall,
it's really about how you get up.
And if you don't give up, like if you don't stay down,
you never really failed.
I may have tried different businesses
and moved on to different businesses,
but I don't feel like I failed because I set out
to start a business or to succeed in business.
So I've just tried different ideas, different businesses,
and I'm still in business though.
So I've succeeded in business, right?
When it comes to even my health and fitness,
I might, you know, being on and off the wagon all the time,
yo-yoing with my diet, but I've never given up,
I'm still exercising to this day, I'm still healthy,
I'm still eating well.
I've never failed in my health and fitness.
So you have to understand
that you just can't give up.
You might have a bad moment, a bad day,
even a bad week, but get back on.
What's the next step am I gonna take
to achieve my ultimate?
So that's it guys, and this is a new sort
of type style video with the little kid here.
He's actually waiting for me to get off
so he could do a video.
Thank you so much for watching my video
and if you've enjoyed it, please don't forget to subscribe.
And you know, I'm learning as I'm doing this video too,
trying to be more entertaining for you.
I think I'm feeling even more confident
in videos and so like I said, I just never gave up.
And you shouldn't give up either
and you should start that business
that you've always wanted to do.
And so the whole thing that I wanna say
is that you don't need any skills and any major things
to succeed in business, you just need all these--
- Mom, can you just get off?
- Okay, I better get off now,
so thank you so much and I will see you next time.
- Can you?
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