January 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Welcome to How I Built My Small Business: Bite-Sized! I’m Anne McGinty, host of the show. While full-length guest episodes are on hold for the holidays, I’ve prepared a collection of short, impactful episodes to keep you inspired until Season 2.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to how I Built my Small Business.
I'm Anne McGinty, host of theshow.
While full-length guestepisodes are on hold for the
holidays, I've prepared acollection of short, impactful
episodes to keep you inspireduntil Season 2.
Let's dive in.
Let's dive in.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Don't necessarily squeeze yourself as a square peg
into a round hole.
It's really about finding whatyou love and also not pressuring
yourself.
I didn't start this photographybusiness till I was 36 years
old.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You have to know who you are.
You have to believe in yourself, because if you don't believe
in your own message, then howwill the people that you would
like to visit you schedule withyou?
How would they believe you too?
How would they see what you'redoing as worthwhile?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Go for it and be confident and everything will
work out, because I feel like alot of my holding back on things
was a result of just likehaving fear or anxiety.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Whatever fear you have about your worthiness in a
room, no one else is concernedabout you.
Actually, no one else is intheir minds going she's not
enough or she's not worthy.
Really, people are too busy.
It's not that they don't careabout you, it's just that all
the voices in your head that arenegative self-talk just know
(01:33):
that nobody else is thinking inthat way about you, in the
capacity that you are, to theextent that you are, that this
is mostly all you, if not allyou.
So you need to again turninward and quiet the sound and
go in there and show up and dothe work, and I just wish I had
(01:53):
had more of an understanding ofactually how people think.
And the truth is most peopledon't care as much about
whatever's going on in your headas you are, so just deal with
it.
It's not something that can beresolved externally.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I was and you said it , it was.
You're right.
I was so lucky that I did getcancer Like I.
That journey for me justchanged everything.
Like I was about to go work forBillabong, a surf company.
Try and climb the corporateladder, move to Auckland in the
middle of a city that doesn'tyou know, because that's what
everybody did when they retired.
They went into the surfindustry and then I had that
(02:32):
journey with cancer and myhealth and I just realized like
no, that's not what I want,that's not what I'm passionate
about.
So don't conform, don't feellike you have to do what
everybody else is doing andstart something you're
passionate about.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Yeah, it's actually not coming from outside that
matters, it's not what comesfrom, it's not the praise that's
going to come from the worldthat's going to matter.
And you're going to chase itfor a while and think that's
what's going to matter, but whenyou get it, you're going to
realize that it's empty and haveto go find it all over again on
the inside.
So if you could circumnavigatethat and just start right now
(03:06):
loving yourself and justaccepting yourself as you are
imperfect and all, and you haveto rewire that.
What is success?
What does it look like?
Who am I proving anything to?
No, no, no.
Over and over, I have to goback.
Nope, this is about you andthis is about your purpose and
what brings you joy.
This really doesn't aboutanyone else.
Over and over again, what we dois we hide and we hide and we
(03:28):
hide it until we like realize noone is listening.
Why is no one listening?
Because you're not telling thetrue story, you're not telling
what's true, and so I would havethem practice that
vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'd never really understood how to understand who
I was in relation to who Ithought I should be.
It's okay to not always be sostrong you can.
You can be weak and vulnerable,and that's beautiful too.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think the most important thing is learn, learn,
learn and keep taking actions.
Practice doesn't make thingsperfect.
It's perfect practice.
And imagine you're in thewilderness and you have a river
running.
You're on this side of theriver and then on the other side
(04:13):
of the river is your life goals.
Okay, how do you get to theother side?
You got to build a bridge,right, so knowledge is going to
be that bridge where you cancross over and get to your goals
.
So if you try to startsomething without knowledge, it
would be like you walking intothe river and then you're just
(04:33):
going to get carried away withthe river.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Just believe in yourself.
I didn't think that I wascapable of having my own
business when I decided that Iwanted to stay in coffee.
I figured that I would be an Aplus employee.
You know, I'll do whatever youwant.
I'll be the cheerleader for thecompany wherever I go and
whatever it was with Amy and Iand whatever she saw in me.
(05:00):
Like I'm so grateful for that,because sometimes you can't
recognize it in yourself.
But now that I'm older, Ireally see it in so many young
people, so many people who workfor me, who are so talented and
want to pursue other things and,like I just want them to
believe in themselves andbelieve that they're capable.
(05:21):
You can go out there and do it.
You can start the business.
You can fail at it, and that'sokay too.
Like just go out there and tryit and do it.
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I think when you're young you do not have to know
what you want to do.
I think it is better to just dostuff and at the very least
start checking out things youdon't want to do.
You're like I did sales, didn'twant to do it, flirted with law
school, didn't do it.
So I didn't really find thepath and that can feel kind of
unnerving for people.
So I always just tell peoplelike look for three things a big
(05:53):
brand, valuable skill building,like sales and great mentorship
.
If you can get two of the three, that's a good opportunity.
And if you can't figure outexactly what you want to do,
just try something and then, ifyou don't want to do it, move on
and check that off when we makea mistake, and it doesn't
matter who is the cause of themistake.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
When a mistake happens, we're dealing with it
as a team.
We're thinking about solutionsand how to overcome it as a team
, because everybody is going tomake a mistake along their job
sometime, somewhere, right.
And it doesn't help when youjust keep pointing, oh why
didn't you do this, why didn'tyou do that?
It doesn't help.
I've made my plenty share ofmistakes, but it's that feeling
(06:35):
of hey, if I make that mistake,I know my team has my back, I
know we're going to overcomethis together.
So then, that way, when we'rein the front line, we're trying
to grow the business, we'retrying to try different methods.
We're not always going to feellike, oh no, I'm going to have
bullets in my head if I make asmall mistake.
Who wants to go out there andtry?
Speaker 11 (06:55):
I knew I have always wanted to do something on my
own.
When I got an accident, therewere a lot of things that I was
hurt on, that I didn't know howwere going to play, affect my
life and if I was going toreally survive or live or how
it's going to be, but for sure,in that moment it really gave me
the vision to see how's thisgoing to end up and if this was
(07:21):
the end.
This is all I did.
So, yes, I think it's one ofthe biggest things you know.
You never know when things cango and you want to feel good
when they do.
You want to feel what youaccomplished and how you
accomplished and where thingsend up yeah, like it's better
better to try and fail than notyeah, exactly, and if anything,
(07:42):
the failures create good storiestake more risks earlier on.
Speaker 12 (07:47):
Career wise, you should do the risky stuff and
the travel when you're young,without the ties to hold you
back.
Because the travel when you'reyoung without the ties to hold
you back, because that's whenyou can enjoy it the most and by
saying yes to things youdevelop your confidence, your
contacts, your network,everything.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's okay to fail.
What do you learn?
Fail forward, fail fast.
What's the learning experiencein the failure?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I wish that I would have focused some energy on
understanding finance and to putaway you know money to start my
own retirement fund, becausethat information isn't really
something that's talked about,at least in the creative small
business field.
Everybody's talking aboutmarketing and how to do
(08:28):
Instagram and how to do this andall of that, but truly pay
attention to your money andrespect it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Thanks for listening to this bite sized episode of
how I built my small business.
If you enjoyed it, share itwith someone who might find it
helpful, and don't forget tosubscribe so you're ready when
season two drops.
As always, have a great day.
Welcome to how I Built my Small Business.
I'm Anne McGinty, host of theshow.
While full-length guestepisodes are on hold for the
holidays, I've prepared acollection of short, impactful
episodes to keep you inspireduntil Season 2.
Let's dive in.
Let's dive in.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Don't necessarily squeeze yourself as a square peg
into a round hole.
It's really about finding whatyou love and also not pressuring
yourself.
I didn't start this photographybusiness till I was 36 years
old.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
You have to know who you are.
You have to believe in yourself, because if you don't believe
in your own message, then howwill the people that you would
like to visit you schedule withyou?
How would they believe you too?
How would they see what you'redoing as worthwhile?
Speaker 4 (00:58):
Go for it and be confident and everything will
work out, because I feel like alot of my holding back on things
was a result of just likehaving fear or anxiety.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
Whatever fear you have about your worthiness in a
room, no one else is concernedabout you.
Actually, no one else is intheir minds going she's not
enough or she's not worthy.
Really, people are too busy.
It's not that they don't careabout you, it's just that all
the voices in your head that arenegative self-talk just know
(01:33):
that nobody else is thinking inthat way about you, in the
capacity that you are, to theextent that you are, that this
is mostly all you, if not allyou.
So you need to again turninward and quiet the sound and
go in there and show up and dothe work, and I just wish I had
(01:53):
had more of an understanding ofactually how people think.
And the truth is most peopledon't care as much about
whatever's going on in your headas you are, so just deal with
it.
It's not something that can beresolved externally.
Speaker 6 (02:10):
I was and you said it , it was.
You're right.
I was so lucky that I did getcancer Like I.
That journey for me justchanged everything.
Like I was about to go work forBillabong, a surf company.
Try and climb the corporateladder, move to Auckland in the
middle of a city that doesn'tyou know, because that's what
everybody did when they retired.
They went into the surfindustry and then I had that
(02:32):
journey with cancer and myhealth and I just realized like
no, that's not what I want,that's not what I'm passionate
about.
So don't conform, don't feellike you have to do what
everybody else is doing andstart something you're
passionate about.
Speaker 7 (02:44):
Yeah, it's actually not coming from outside that
matters, it's not what comesfrom, it's not the praise that's
going to come from the worldthat's going to matter.
And you're going to chase itfor a while and think that's
what's going to matter, but whenyou get it, you're going to
realize that it's empty and haveto go find it all over again on
the inside.
So if you could circumnavigatethat and just start right now
(03:06):
loving yourself and justaccepting yourself as you are
imperfect and all, and you haveto rewire that.
What is success?
What does it look like?
Who am I proving anything to?
No, no, no.
Over and over, I have to goback.
Nope, this is about you andthis is about your purpose and
what brings you joy.
This really doesn't aboutanyone else.
Over and over again, what we dois we hide and we hide and we
(03:28):
hide it until we like realize noone is listening.
Why is no one listening?
Because you're not telling thetrue story, you're not telling
what's true, and so I would havethem practice that
vulnerability.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
I'd never really understood how to understand who
I was in relation to who Ithought I should be.
It's okay to not always be sostrong you can.
You can be weak and vulnerable,and that's beautiful too.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
I think the most important thing is learn, learn,
learn and keep taking actions.
Practice doesn't make thingsperfect.
It's perfect practice.
And imagine you're in thewilderness and you have a river
running.
You're on this side of theriver and then on the other side
(04:13):
of the river is your life goals.
Okay, how do you get to theother side?
You got to build a bridge,right, so knowledge is going to
be that bridge where you cancross over and get to your goals
.
So if you try to startsomething without knowledge, it
would be like you walking intothe river and then you're just
(04:33):
going to get carried away withthe river.
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Just believe in yourself.
I didn't think that I wascapable of having my own
business when I decided that Iwanted to stay in coffee.
I figured that I would be an Aplus employee.
You know, I'll do whatever youwant.
I'll be the cheerleader for thecompany wherever I go and
whatever it was with Amy and Iand whatever she saw in me.
(05:00):
Like I'm so grateful for that,because sometimes you can't
recognize it in yourself.
But now that I'm older, Ireally see it in so many young
people, so many people who workfor me, who are so talented and
want to pursue other things and,like I just want them to
believe in themselves andbelieve that they're capable.
(05:21):
You can go out there and do it.
You can start the business.
You can fail at it, and that'sokay too.
Like just go out there and tryit and do it.
Speaker 9 (05:32):
I think when you're young you do not have to know
what you want to do.
I think it is better to just dostuff and at the very least
start checking out things youdon't want to do.
You're like I did sales, didn'twant to do it, flirted with law
school, didn't do it.
So I didn't really find thepath and that can feel kind of
unnerving for people.
So I always just tell peoplelike look for three things a big
(05:53):
brand, valuable skill building,like sales and great mentorship
.
If you can get two of the three, that's a good opportunity.
And if you can't figure outexactly what you want to do,
just try something and then, ifyou don't want to do it, move on
and check that off when we makea mistake, and it doesn't
matter who is the cause of themistake.
Speaker 10 (06:13):
When a mistake happens, we're dealing with it
as a team.
We're thinking about solutionsand how to overcome it as a team
, because everybody is going tomake a mistake along their job
sometime, somewhere, right.
And it doesn't help when youjust keep pointing, oh why
didn't you do this, why didn'tyou do that?
It doesn't help.
I've made my plenty share ofmistakes, but it's that feeling
(06:35):
of hey, if I make that mistake,I know my team has my back, I
know we're going to overcomethis together.
So then, that way, when we'rein the front line, we're trying
to grow the business, we'retrying to try different methods.
We're not always going to feellike, oh no, I'm going to have
bullets in my head if I make asmall mistake.
Who wants to go out there andtry?
Speaker 11 (06:55):
I knew I have always wanted to do something on my
own.
When I got an accident, therewere a lot of things that I was
hurt on, that I didn't know howwere going to play, affect my
life and if I was going toreally survive or live or how
it's going to be, but for sure,in that moment it really gave me
the vision to see how's thisgoing to end up and if this was
(07:21):
the end.
This is all I did.
So, yes, I think it's one ofthe biggest things you know.
You never know when things cango and you want to feel good
when they do.
You want to feel what youaccomplished and how you
accomplished and where thingsend up yeah, like it's better
better to try and fail than notyeah, exactly, and if anything,
(07:42):
the failures create good storiestake more risks earlier on.
Speaker 12 (07:47):
Career wise, you should do the risky stuff and
the travel when you're young,without the ties to hold you
back.
Because the travel when you'reyoung without the ties to hold
you back, because that's whenyou can enjoy it the most and by
saying yes to things youdevelop your confidence, your
contacts, your network,everything.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
It's okay to fail.
What do you learn?
Fail forward, fail fast.
What's the learning experiencein the failure?
Speaker 4 (08:06):
I wish that I would have focused some energy on
understanding finance and to putaway you know money to start my
own retirement fund, becausethat information isn't really
something that's talked about,at least in the creative small
business field.
Everybody's talking aboutmarketing and how to do
(08:28):
Instagram and how to do this andall of that, but truly pay
attention to your money andrespect it.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Thanks for listening to this bite sized episode of
how I built my small business.
If you enjoyed it, share itwith someone who might find it
helpful, and don't forget tosubscribe so you're ready when
season two drops.
As always, have a great day.
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