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Are you thinking about quitting?
You’re not alone. In 2024, business closures were at an all-time high, and we need to acknowledge that it’s been an incredibly tough year for entrepreneurs. But I’m here to tell you that you can still win. You can still thrive even when things get hard, and many entrepreneurs do.Â
That’s why today, I will convince you NOT to quit.Â
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Let’s go!Â
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Key Takeaways:Â
- 00:00 IntroÂ
- 04:22 Reason #1Â
- 07:29 Reason #2Â
- 10:00 Reason #3Â
- 13:10 Reason #4Â
- 13:53 Reason #5Â
- 15:28 Reason #6Â
- 21:23 Reason #7Â
- 25:21 Final thoughtsÂ
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do not quit.
Don't quit.
You have a business.
It is beyond you.
It's about the impact thatyou're going to have in the
lives of the people you'recalled to serve.
It's about the financialfreedom that you're going to
create for you and for yourfamily.
It's about the time freedom soyou're finally free to live life
on your terms.
Yes, it's going to be hard, yes, it's going to take a little
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longer, but, my goodness, don'tquit.
Look at the people who've goneahead of you.
Look at the challenges thatthey face, and they survived it
and they're here, and I'mchallenging you to do the same.
Hi docs, welcome to the EntreMDpodcast, where it's all about
helping amazing physicians justlike you embrace
entrepreneurship so you can havethe freedom to live life and
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practice medicine on your terms.
I'm your host, dr Imna.
In 2024, business closures havebeen at an all-time high.
I want to read some statisticsfor you here.
It shows that for the retailersso CVS, walgreens, all of those
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they have shut down more than6,000 stores in 2024 alone, and
I looked at the bankruptcyfilings for and I promise this
is going to get better.
Okay, this is going to leaveyou motivated and energized, but
I need to get something out ofthe way right.
Number of businesses that havefiled for bankruptcy, not just
the ones that shut down.
These are the ones that filedfor bankruptcy 22,000.
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And in 2023, it was 15,000.
So they've reported a 16.2%rise in bankruptcy filings.
And so why am I telling you this?
Because I am coming on to tellyou seven reasons why you don't
want to quit on your business.
I want you to acknowledge thefact that it's been a
challenging year forentrepreneurs.
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You can still thrive, you canstill win.
Many people are.
Many of my clients are.
We've had a great year.
So I'm not saying you can't,but I'm acknowledging that maybe
you're coming up against moreresistance than you're used to,
and I just want to normalizethat.
Let you know nothing is wrongwith you.
Like you know, it may be alittle harder, but I'm here to
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challenge you and let you knowthat you can still win.
Okay, so seven reasons not toquit.
And when I talk about quitting,I'm really talking about
quitting because things are hard.
Maybe it's harder to get thenumber of clients or patients
you're used to having.
It's harder, you know, to fillup your schedule.
It's harder to find the teammembers that you want.
Maybe it's just life, lifeshowing up and it's just like,
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right, I can do all of this lifeand do this business as well.
Right, and when I say quitting,I don't just mean shutting down
your business.
For you it may not be shuttingdown your business, it may just
be that you quiet quit and sothe dreams that you had for your
business, you quietly gave upon that and you're like let's
just go in cruise control.
The problem with the way theeconomic space is now is, if you
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are in cruise control, you'reprobably growing in reverse,
you're probably pulling youbackwards, right, so you're
listening.
Or maybe you know, like.
You're like I'm going to buildthis team and I'm going to take
this to the next level andyou're just like it's hard, I
don't want to deal with this,right.
So on the outside it looksreally great, things are working
, maybe you're even growing, butyou know that you're holding
back so much, so much, and it'snot a strategic decision to quit
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.
It's just like this is hard, Idon't want to do it.
Now.
There is strategic quitting.
I've done that.
For instance, my privatepractice.
There was a time we opened up asecond location and we had it
for a few years, maybe two years, and I decided I didn't want to
do that.
And it wasn't because it washard.
Entrepreneurship is hard,period right, like so.
We become tougher.
We don't expect it not to behard, but I was like the culture
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that I'm trying to build here Ihave a number of projects that
I prioritize above trying toreplicate that culture in
multiple locations with multiplemanagers and all.
I was just like that's not whatI see.
That was not in line with thevision that I had, and so I had
no problem strategicallydeciding to shut it down.
But in the meantime, it waswinning right, it was winning,
it was profitable and all ofthat stuff but I was just like I
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don't want to do it.
So, of course, you canstrategically quit on things.
Well, what I'm referring to hereis quitting because it's just
like this is hard, I don't wantto do it.
Or you had a setback and you'relike I don't want to deal with
it, or life is lifing and youjust have this pressure to go
like I just can't deal.
Okay, I want to show you sevenreasons not to quit.
So let's go.
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The first reason is it becomesa habit.
Every time you do something, itbecomes easier to do that thing
.
Okay, so every time youovercome a challenge and come
out on the other side, youbecome stronger.
You're able to handle morechallenges.
You just have this habit andwhen things come up, you're like
challenges, we eat that forbreakfast.
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We are champions.
That's what we do.
When you quit because things arehard, you quit to relieve the
pressure.
You're just like I can't takeit anymore.
You quit to relieve thepressure.
What it does is it sets you upLike the next time you come in
contact with pressure, yourresponse to that is to quit.
And it's not going to be justin your business, it's going to
be in every aspect of your life.
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And so when you have theopportunity to quit and it's not
a strategic quit, it's a quitlike I can't handle the pressure
I want to challenge you to leanin deeper.
Lean in deeper.
You have the strength, you havethe community, you probably
have the mentors.
You have the resources to gothrough that and I want to
challenge you to do that.
Okay, I want to stop here.
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I've done this publicly beforeand I want to stop here and
really give a big shout out toDr Carolina Sualdo and if you
don't know her.
Look for her on Instagram andfollow her.
She's a fertility doctor inFlorida and she started her
practice a little over a yearago and she is somebody that I
watched go through challengeafter challenge.
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It was hard to start herpractice and get it off the
ground and all the things thatshe had to do and all the
learning curves and all of that,and she's somebody that I
literally started praying for.
I was like, okay, lord, you gotto help her.
You cannot let her quit,because I know that on the other
side of this is a magicalpractice.
She just needs to stay in itlong enough.
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And I always tell her everytime she, you know, shares a win
in the she's a student of theentrepreneur business school
Anytime she shares a win, I'mlike big shout out to you,
because she went through thatand, on top of all the
challenges in her business, shehad some life that was lifing
and what she stood, and todayshe has a great practice, she
has a great team, you know.
She's profitable, she's payingherself and it's just a
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beautiful thing and she'sserving people at the highest
level.
I love following her Instagramand because they're always, you
know, gifts that her patientssaid you know flowers or
whatever they send to her, oryou know the reviews that they
leave her, and all of that isjust beautiful, the work that
she does.
But it was hard.
It's hard in the beginning, butI'm so proud of her for not
quitting because then, whenother challenges show up now she
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has become this person who,when challenges show up, she's
like, okay, how can I handlethis?
Who do I need to talk to?
She raises her hand in thegroup to ask a question.
She cold calls other people inthe Entree and the Business
School.
How do I do this?
Because I think and she'll tellme maybe after she listens to
this episode that in her mindthere's just this thing of of
course, there's a solutionsomewhere, right, like it
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becomes a habit.
Okay, it becomes a habit.
So that's the first thing notquitting for pressure sake,
because it becomes a habit andit shows up everywhere, okay,
which is not something that wewant.
The second reason not to quit isbecause in quitting, you give
up an opportunity to developmental toughness.
Now, it is very cool tomeditate.
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I meditate.
It's very cool to you know, sayyou know, like affirmations or
your power words and stuff likethat.
I do that.
It's really cool.
It's really cool to visualizewhat life can look like on the
other side.
It's amazing.
I do that too.
But your mental toughness isbuilt when tough times show up,
when the challenges show up.
Think about challenges,problems like weights in the gym
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, right, and so you go, you liftthe weight.
It hurts, but that's how yougrow, that's how you get the
muscle.
You do not build muscle andcomfort Like that's just not the
way it works.
And so the mental toughnessthat you're going to need for
the next version of yourbusiness and all of that, you
build it with the challenges oftoday.
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So does that mean I go aroundgoing like, oh, I wish I have a
challenge?
No, life will throw enough atyou, but every time it comes you
want to hold it and lift itlike a weight, like navigate it
and get through it and hold yourown and not have a tantrum.
You can have a tantrum, butthen stop right, you know.
But do all of that so you canbuild the mental toughness,
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because this is the deal.
If you're building a businessand on your way to a million,
you're facing challenges.
I promise you that those arebaby challenges compared to what
you're going to face on yourway to 10 million, which are
baby challenges compared to whatyou're going to face if you're
on your way to multiple eightfigures or nine figures.
Do you see what I'm saying?
And so the challenges of todayare practiced so you can win the
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challenges of tomorrow, right,and so you can have that mental
toughness and all that.
So when you give up, you quiton the gym.
There's no muscle to be had,and if you can't handle the
pressure for level one, thenyou're not going to level two,
right.
And so I just want you to thinkabout it.
And I'm not saying thatchallenges are pleasant, that's
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not what I'm trying to say butwe're all going to go through
them, and so while you're inthem, just go like okay, this is
making me stronger.
If I can go through this, I'mgoing to have the mental
toughness is going to take forthe next phase.
Because this is the deal beingan entrepreneur is all about
solving problems.
It's all about problem solving.
It is all about problem solving.
It is all about problem solving.
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You solve problems for theclients.
You solve problems with yoursystems.
You solve problems with yourteam.
You're a problem solver.
A CEO is a problem solver.
A founder is a problem solver.
Okay, so you engage with theprocess of solving problems.
The third reason is that yougive up on an opportunity for
personal development.
Right, because every problem,like some of it, may be
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something we did that createdthe problem, or something we
didn't do that created theproblem, or it was just what it
was, or whatever.
But the thing is you have tothink about it.
There is somebody who is goingthrough a challenge that's three
times the size of mine, 10times the size of mine, and the
person is cool as a cucumber.
And the first time I noticedthis, this was many years ago.
I had 10 people on my teamActually a little less than 10,
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but let's say 10.
It's a nice even number and Ifelt like I can't take it
anymore.
My team is driving me nuts andall of these things.
And this is the deal.
I got on TV one day and I waswatching a Dallas Maverick game
and the owner at the time ourmajority owner at the time was
Mark Cuban, and so he was at thegame, completely chill,
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enjoying the game, really intoit, and all of that.
And I remember sitting andthinking like this is odd.
So here I am with 10 employeesin one company.
Here's this guy who has 150companies.
At the time he had 150companies.
He had 150 companies was worth3 billion, okay, and I said he
has more than 15 times thenumber of companies as I have
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employees and he's chill and I'mnot.
So the problem is not my team.
The problem is not that well,we can't find great people.
The problem is Maybe I don'tknow how to hire the right
people.
I don't know how to build theright company culture.
I have not learned to regulatemy emotions, so every little
thing doesn't trip me up, andit's not a them problem, it's a
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me problem.
And so if I can grow and becomebetter at hiring the right
people, if I can grow and getbetter at even accepting that I
am worthy of a high capacity,high value team, if I can grow
my building company culture, ifI can learn to delegate better,
if I can onboard them better,then I'll have a better team and
I'll be as chill as a cucumberat a basketball game, right?
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And so it's not really thechallenge and I really want to
encourage you when challengesshow up, don't be so quick to
look on the outside, like, lookinwards, and not from a blaming
standpoint like, oh I suck, I'mthe reason for this, but more
from a standpoint of what isthis challenge trying to tell me
that I need to learn?
What skill is this challengepointing to that I need to learn
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, right, like I need to acquire.
Because when we look at that,when we put ourselves in a place
where problems and challengesmake us better, right, and I
will tell you, I'm not a pro proat building a team, but my
goodness, do I have an amazingteam?
Like not even an amazing team.
I have multiple amazing teamslike amazing human beings that I
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get to work with and they blowmy mind all the time.
They come up with things Inever could have come up with.
They amplify the works of eachother and just make our
companies amazing.
But it came from a challenge, aproblem, a team driving me nuts
right, so you give up on anopportunity for personal
development because thischallenge that you quit on could
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have taught you lessons thathave made your business so much
better.
Number four is don't quitbecause it doesn't even help,
right, like when we quit becauseof challenges, like I want to
relieve the pressure, right.
And so I've seen people like,oh my private practice, oh my
goodness, and they shut it down.
But the thing is okay.
But you still got a revenueproblem.
You still need to createrevenue, you still need to
create income, right.
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And you're like, oh my goodness, like I can't.
You know, I can't stand my teamand you decide I'm not going to
train them, maybe I'm not evengoing to hire any more team
members and all that.
Okay, cool, but you still needthe help, you still need to
figure it out.
You see what I'm saying.
So it's not that it helps, itfeels like it helps in the
immediate term, but when youthink about it, you still got a
problem to solve, you still gotto do stuff, and so if you do,
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then you might as well just do,okay, okay.
Number five is related to numberfour, and the fifth reason not
to quit is because every path isfilled with challenges, filled
with problems, every single path.
And so if you quit on one path,okay, well, I don't want to.
I don't want to build this, youknow, practice or whatever.
I'm just going to go work a joband let someone deal with the
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headache.
Well, you're going to have todeal with the headache of being
an employee, because there's aheadache there too, right?
And you're like, oh man, youknow, I don't want to think
about building, you know, thisteam and all this stuff.
I'm going to do the work myself.
Well, there's also challengeswith doing the work yourself,
right?
Because then there's burnout,there's all these other things.
Whichever path you choose, thegrass always looks so much
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greener on the other side.
But it's green on the otherside because somebody is
fertilizing it, somebody iswatering it, someone is trimming
it, someone is getting itmanicured and doing all those
things.
It doesn't magically becomegreen.
So if you go on to the otherside because it looks greener on
the other side, guess what iswaiting for you Work and
challenges and problems and allof that.
Think about it.
Life is like a garden.
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Okay, you can have oranges, youcan have apples, you can have
rose bushes, you can have all ofthese things, but guess what?
You're always going to have towork on Weeds.
They will always be there.
You will always have to workand get rid of them.
You don't get to quit from that, right, life is like that, okay
.
So every path is filled withchallenges.
It doesn't matter.
So what was the point ofquitting?
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You're quitting to go somewhereelse where there's challenges.
Now remember, I'm not talkingabout strategic quitting.
I'm talking about quittingbecause you just want to relieve
the pressure because of theproblems, the challenges, the
pain, the frustrations, thedelays, all of that stuff.
Okay, so that's number five.
Number six Now, number six isis so scary, and this is the
reason why I rarely considerquitting.
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I very rarely consider quitting, and that is that you abort the
path to greatness.
You abort the path.
You're just like done.
I told you about Dr Swadham andthe beautiful practice she has
and the things that has becomeobvious that she can overcome.
She'd have lost out on all ofthat if she quit, and that's why
I was praying.
I literally went, I had timesof prayer for her.
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I said, lord, please do not lether quit.
Don't let her quit becausethere's so much goodness on the
other side of this.
Okay, so let me give an examplewith myself.
When I started off, my firstbusiness was my private practice
, and when I started off, it wasnot this version of me at all.
This version of me, I mean, isnothing like the version of me
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that started a private practice.
And that version of me you'veheard me say this many times was
a super shy, socially awkward,introverted, introvert.
And that version of me wouldnot market.
That version of me would notsell.
Thought selling wasunprofessional.
I thought you know I wouldn'tneed to market because you know
I was a good clinician, I hadgreat bedside manner, my
patients loved me, and thatversion of me would break out in
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hives when I saw a profit andloss statement this is the way
accounting worked in my business.
My husband would say, okay, wehave the meeting with the.
My husband's an accountant bytraining actually.
So he's like we have themeeting with the accountant and
all of that stuff.
I was like you know what?
I see the patients and I havebabies.
You guys can take care of theaccounting, I don't care.
Right, like that.
That was it.
Like if, if I was involved atall, I just attended the meeting
but I I didn't do anything, Ididn't say anything, I didn't
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attempt to understand anything.
As far as I was concerned, theywere speaking Greek and I had
no interest in learning how tospeak Greek.
Okay, and that was that versionof me, and it was hard.
Like how are you going to getpatients if you won't market?
How are you going to getpatients if you won't sell?
How are you going to understandthis true financial state of
your business if you're notgoing to look at the numbers?
And so it came with so manychallenges.
But I could have run away and,to be honest with you, when I
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first started my practice, Irealized I had to market and
sell because I didn't know, Ithought I had the shingle and
they would my lease and all thatI would have escaped.
But you know, I had a lease,had all these utility things, I
had signed up for working withinsurance companies, I had an
EHR.
I was just like, fine, you know.
But I quite quit because I wasjust like, okay, we just got to
see what happens.
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But I'm so grateful, I'm sograteful that you know, first of
all, my husband's like untilyou get all the patients you
want, right.
And so started the process ofputting myself out there,
talking to referral sources,doing all these things, and, my
goodness, I developed mentaltoughness.
You know.
I got the personal developmentI needed.
I started learning to market, Istarted learning to sell, I
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started learning to build areferral base.
I started learning tounderstand you know numbers Like
I wouldn't even hire anybody Inmy private practice I had an
alter ego.
Her name was Ella.
I'm like thank you for callingIvy League Pediatrics this is
Ella, literally, because I couldnot imagine hiring anybody.
I was like, how am I going topay these people?
I could not even imagine payingan MA right, and now I spend
quite an impressive amount ofmoney on payroll right.
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So all this stuff the practicethat was profitable I would
never have had it.
I would have just said, oh, itdidn't work for me, how did I
know it didn't work for me, Iquit, how would I know?
And so my practice gotprofitable.
I would have missed out on that.
My practice got to the placewhere I had a team that gave me
some time freedom, so I was ableto.
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For instance, I hired anotherdoc who worked a day a week, and
so I had a long weekend everyweekend.
I started leading a team so Icould buy some of my time back.
And then I got it to the nextlevel, where my team is actually
running the practice and Ihaven't set foot in the building
in the last three years right,so they're running.
So I built that level of a teamand it freed me up so I can do
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all these things that I do withEntreeMD because I could turn
around and say, okay, things arechanging for physicians.
I do with EntreeMD because Icould turn around and say, okay,
things are changing forphysicians, let's see how we can
support, let me see how I canretool myself and then how I can
help other doctors retoolthemselves.
So, who knows, the books may nothave been written.
The EntreeMD podcast that hasalmost 500 episodes would not
have existed.
The Thousands of Lives Touch,the EntreeMD Business School,
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wouldn't have existed.
Our company being on the Inc5000 list of fastest growing
companies for two years in a rowwould not have happened.
Me homeschooling my kids, myfour kids that would not have
happened.
And I just want to brag mydaughter, who's 16, she just
graduated from high school,right, because she's
homeschooled, so she just likedto work, she worked through the
summer, and all that because shehad her little cadence going on
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, so she was able to be on aspeed track of sorts and she
just graduated and it's so cool.
But anyway, I totally digresswith that.
But none of these things wouldhave happened if I quit on my
practice because it was so toughand, believe me, in the
beginning I thought I wasdealing with the biggest problem
there must have been on planetearth.
But it's not true.
The problems I had then theydon't even register as problems
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for my team.
Talk less of a problem for me.
You don't quit because you abortthe path to greatness and I'm
still going.
I'm 45.
I have so much life left in me.
I have so many things to do.
I have so many lives to impact.
We have 100,000 physicians thatwe're trying to reach and
support.
So thank you so much forlistening to this podcast and
please share it with the doctorsin your world.
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We are on a mission, but Iwould have aborted all of that,
all the doctors' lives we havehad almost 400 doctors go
through the EntreMD BusinessSchool and all the service we
have done for them over theyears.
Over the last four and a halfyears, like none of that would
have happened if I quit.
And now your journey is not myjourney, but your journey is
phenomenal, though right.
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Your journey is as unique asyour fingerprint and it's
beautiful and it's amazing and,oh my goodness, like I would
love to see it.
That's why it hurts my heart.
When doctors quit, I'm like, ohmy goodness, I was waiting to
see that.
I will never know, right, butlean into it, because if you can
take one challenge after theother, after the other after the
other, you'll win and you'll beon the path to greatness.
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And we don't know what it willbe, but I promise you it's good.
It's good, okay.
So that's number six and thennumber seven.
I think this is a friendlyreminder.
The seventh reason not to quitis because, like, yes, you may
have challenges.
Yes, you may be going throughproblems.
Yes, it may be really hard.
Yes, sometimes you cry.
Yes, you know nobodyunderstands you.
And please, if nobodyunderstands you, I want you to
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come into the on-trending world.
We will understand you.
We get it.
Okay, okay Now, but nothing iswrong.
This is the seventh reason notto quit, because, even though
you're experiencing all that,nothing is wrong.
This is the seventh reason notto quit because, even though
you're experiencing all that,nothing is wrong.
Success takes longer than youthink.
And success, the path to it ishard, but it is so rewarding if
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you don't quit, it is so good.
So the journey takes a littlelonger than people think,
because Instagram makes us thinkthat you decide to start a
business today, you do a fewthings and then you go sip
margaritas on the beach and livehappily ever after and there's
nothing that could be furtherfrom the truth.
You know that.
You're a physician.
You know, you know, right nowam I saying it's going to be as
hard as medical school?
No, I don't know if there'sanything harder than medical
school and residency Okay, butno, it's not that kind of hard.
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But you understand what ittakes to succeed.
You understand delayedgratification.
You understand it took you adecade at least to become a
physician.
You understand this.
Right, it takes a minute.
It takes a minute and that'sokay.
Like I see people you know quitfor some people is when they
start year one, year two, yearthree they quit.
I'm like you haven't given itenough time, you haven't given
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enough time to put in the repsto do the work.
And some other people it's notthat they quit like they've been
in business for years, maybe adecade to get, but they've quit
on the path of improvement.
They've quit chasing the vision.
They've quit chasing the dreambecause maybe they tried to
build a team and they did it fora year, did it for two years
and it didn't work.
It takes a little longer, butwhen you quit, then what You're
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not going to quit and then itwill work.
That's not the way it works,right?
Like, please don't quit.
It takes a little longer, yes,it's hard, but the ROI, the
return on investment, of notquitting, is ginormous.
If you talk to people who arevery successful I love reading
autobiographies because you'llfind that they went through one
hardship after the other.
After the other you'll find out, you know what there's nothing
wrong with me or there's nothingwrong with this.
This is the way.
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But sometimes, when you're init, there's so much pressure, so
much pressure that you're justlike make it stop.
We quit because we're like makeit stop and I want to invite
you.
Okay, it takes a minute Now.
It takes a longer minute if,when you're in that season,
you're not putting in the work,you.
It takes a longer minute if,when you're in that season,
you're not putting in the work,you're not doing the work,
you're not staying focused,you're not working with proven
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strategies and you're justbeating around the bush and all
of that.
Like, when you're in the season, use the season, do the work,
put the work.
You may not see the resultsright away, but you will right,
I'm telling you it works.
We just had a coach.
We had a coach who's a part ofthe Entremet Business School and
she does such phenomenal work,you know, helping women
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physicians and all of that, andshe always wanted to start a
group program and I think shemay have launched it a number of
times.
It didn't really work, or shetried to, she was getting ready
to launch it and she's just like, yeah, she wasn't going to do
it or whatever.
And I watched her make adecision, a quality decision.
This was during the On-TermDe-Business School Vision
Retreat.
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Some of her classmates held heraccountable and she owned it
and she said she was going tolaunch it.
And she launched it and she hadher first successful launch.
She has a number of women inthere number that she wanted.
I think she exceeded the numbershe wanted and the doctors are
already recording wins.
They're already having theirlives transformed and their
lives maybe wouldn't have beentransformed it would have taken
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so much longer if she didn't sayyes, if she didn't choose not
to quit, but she didn't quit andthey're going to have such a
magical experience because shedidn't quit.
So this is my challenge to youDo not quit.
Don't quit.
You have a business.
It is beyond you.
It's about the impact thatyou're going to have in the
lives of the people you'recalled to serve.
It's about the financialfreedom that you're going to
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create for you and for yourfamily.
It's about the time freedom soyou're finally free to live life
on your terms.
Yes, it's going to be hard.
Yes, it's going to take alittle longer, but, my goodness,
don't quit.
Look at the people who've goneahead of you.
Look at the challenges thatthey face and they survived it
and they're here, and I'mchallenging you to do the same.
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Listen to me.
If you're here and you're aphysician entrepreneur, you have
access to the EntreeMD podcast.
You have access to the bookswe've written.
You have access, if you want,to the EntreeMD business school.
You have access to stuff onsocial media.
The people who startedbusinesses before you a decade
before, two decades before,there was such a stigma with
being a physician entrepreneur.
They didn't have people to goto like you do.
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They didn't have Facebookgroups to go into.
There was nothing like theEntremdi Business School.
There are very few podcasts ifthere were any that were
specifically for physicians whowanted to get in
entrepreneurship.
No matter how hard you think itis, it is so much easier than
it used to be back in the day,and so you make those people
proud and you don't quit on yourbusiness.
You make it work.
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I'm here waiting to celebrateyou, because on the other side
of the delay and on the otherside of the pressure is a
business that gives you avehicle to impact so many lives
and to create financial freedomand to create time freedom, and
it will absolutely rock yourworld.
So I'm rooting for you.
Don't quit.
If you need our support, we'rehere.
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If the podcast is what you want, it's here, and I'm committed
to bringing you episodes thatwill rock your world.
If the books are what you wantto read, go to Amazon.
We have books for you.
There's no fluff.
They're really designed to takeyour life and your business
forward.
And if you're like I reallywant to do it, like I mean, I
want to put myself in acommunity where I'll be
supported, where I'll getmentorship on a daily, weekly
basis and all of that, come joinus in the EntreMD Business
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School.
You have so much support.
Any way you want it, so you goin and I'm waiting to celebrate.
Do not quit.
Don't quit.
You have a business.
It is beyond you.
It's about the impact thatyou're going to have in the
lives of the people you'recalled to serve.
It's about the financialfreedom that you're going to
create for you and for yourfamily.
It's about the time freedom soyou're finally free to live life
on your terms.
Yes, it's going to be hard, yes, it's going to take a little
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longer, but, my goodness, don'tquit.
Look at the people who've goneahead of you.
Look at the challenges thatthey face, and they survived it
and they're here, and I'mchallenging you to do the same.
Hi docs, welcome to the EntreMDpodcast, where it's all about
helping amazing physicians justlike you embrace
entrepreneurship so you can havethe freedom to live life and
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practice medicine on your terms.
I'm your host, dr Imna.
In 2024, business closures havebeen at an all-time high.
I want to read some statisticsfor you here.
It shows that for the retailersso CVS, walgreens, all of those
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they have shut down more than6,000 stores in 2024 alone, and
I looked at the bankruptcyfilings for and I promise this
is going to get better.
Okay, this is going to leaveyou motivated and energized, but
I need to get something out ofthe way right.
Number of businesses that havefiled for bankruptcy, not just
the ones that shut down.
These are the ones that filedfor bankruptcy 22,000.
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And in 2023, it was 15,000.
So they've reported a 16.2%rise in bankruptcy filings.
And so why am I telling you this?
Because I am coming on to tellyou seven reasons why you don't
want to quit on your business.
I want you to acknowledge thefact that it's been a
challenging year forentrepreneurs.
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You can still thrive, you canstill win.
Many people are.
Many of my clients are.
We've had a great year.
So I'm not saying you can't,but I'm acknowledging that maybe
you're coming up against moreresistance than you're used to,
and I just want to normalizethat.
Let you know nothing is wrongwith you.
Like you know, it may be alittle harder, but I'm here to
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challenge you and let you knowthat you can still win.
Okay, so seven reasons not toquit.
And when I talk about quitting,I'm really talking about
quitting because things are hard.
Maybe it's harder to get thenumber of clients or patients
you're used to having.
It's harder, you know, to fillup your schedule.
It's harder to find the teammembers that you want.
Maybe it's just life, lifeshowing up and it's just like,
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right, I can do all of this lifeand do this business as well.
Right, and when I say quitting,I don't just mean shutting down
your business.
For you it may not be shuttingdown your business, it may just
be that you quiet quit and sothe dreams that you had for your
business, you quietly gave upon that and you're like let's
just go in cruise control.
The problem with the way theeconomic space is now is, if you
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are in cruise control, you'reprobably growing in reverse,
you're probably pulling youbackwards, right, so you're
listening.
Or maybe you know, like.
You're like I'm going to buildthis team and I'm going to take
this to the next level andyou're just like it's hard, I
don't want to deal with this,right.
So on the outside it looksreally great, things are working
, maybe you're even growing, butyou know that you're holding
back so much, so much, and it'snot a strategic decision to quit
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.
It's just like this is hard, Idon't want to do it.
Now.
There is strategic quitting.
I've done that.
For instance, my privatepractice.
There was a time we opened up asecond location and we had it
for a few years, maybe two years, and I decided I didn't want to
do that.
And it wasn't because it washard.
Entrepreneurship is hard,period right, like so.
We become tougher.
We don't expect it not to behard, but I was like the culture
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that I'm trying to build here Ihave a number of projects that
I prioritize above trying toreplicate that culture in
multiple locations with multiplemanagers and all.
I was just like that's not whatI see.
That was not in line with thevision that I had, and so I had
no problem strategicallydeciding to shut it down.
But in the meantime, it waswinning right, it was winning,
it was profitable and all ofthat stuff but I was just like I
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don't want to do it.
So, of course, you canstrategically quit on things.
Well, what I'm referring to hereis quitting because it's just
like this is hard, I don't wantto do it.
Or you had a setback and you'relike I don't want to deal with
it, or life is lifing and youjust have this pressure to go
like I just can't deal.
Okay, I want to show you sevenreasons not to quit.
So let's go.
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The first reason is it becomesa habit.
Every time you do something, itbecomes easier to do that thing
.
Okay, so every time youovercome a challenge and come
out on the other side, youbecome stronger.
You're able to handle morechallenges.
You just have this habit andwhen things come up, you're like
challenges, we eat that forbreakfast.
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We are champions.
That's what we do.
When you quit because things arehard, you quit to relieve the
pressure.
You're just like I can't takeit anymore.
You quit to relieve thepressure.
What it does is it sets you upLike the next time you come in
contact with pressure, yourresponse to that is to quit.
And it's not going to be justin your business, it's going to
be in every aspect of your life.
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And so when you have theopportunity to quit and it's not
a strategic quit, it's a quitlike I can't handle the pressure
I want to challenge you to leanin deeper.
Lean in deeper.
You have the strength, you havethe community, you probably
have the mentors.
You have the resources to gothrough that and I want to
challenge you to do that.
Okay, I want to stop here.
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I've done this publicly beforeand I want to stop here and
really give a big shout out toDr Carolina Sualdo and if you
don't know her.
Look for her on Instagram andfollow her.
She's a fertility doctor inFlorida and she started her
practice a little over a yearago and she is somebody that I
watched go through challengeafter challenge.
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It was hard to start herpractice and get it off the
ground and all the things thatshe had to do and all the
learning curves and all of that,and she's somebody that I
literally started praying for.
I was like, okay, lord, you gotto help her.
You cannot let her quit,because I know that on the other
side of this is a magicalpractice.
She just needs to stay in itlong enough.
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And I always tell her everytime she, you know, shares a win
in the she's a student of theentrepreneur business school
Anytime she shares a win, I'mlike big shout out to you,
because she went through thatand, on top of all the
challenges in her business, shehad some life that was lifing
and what she stood, and todayshe has a great practice, she
has a great team, you know.
She's profitable, she's payingherself and it's just a
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beautiful thing and she'sserving people at the highest
level.
I love following her Instagramand because they're always, you
know, gifts that her patientssaid you know flowers or
whatever they send to her, oryou know the reviews that they
leave her, and all of that isjust beautiful, the work that
she does.
But it was hard.
It's hard in the beginning, butI'm so proud of her for not
quitting because then, whenother challenges show up now she
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has become this person who,when challenges show up, she's
like, okay, how can I handlethis?
Who do I need to talk to?
She raises her hand in thegroup to ask a question.
She cold calls other people inthe Entree and the Business
School.
How do I do this?
Because I think and she'll tellme maybe after she listens to
this episode that in her mindthere's just this thing of of
course, there's a solutionsomewhere, right, like it
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becomes a habit.
Okay, it becomes a habit.
So that's the first thing notquitting for pressure sake,
because it becomes a habit andit shows up everywhere, okay,
which is not something that wewant.
The second reason not to quit isbecause in quitting, you give
up an opportunity to developmental toughness.
Now, it is very cool tomeditate.
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I meditate.
It's very cool to you know, sayyou know, like affirmations or
your power words and stuff likethat.
I do that.
It's really cool.
It's really cool to visualizewhat life can look like on the
other side.
It's amazing.
I do that too.
But your mental toughness isbuilt when tough times show up,
when the challenges show up.
Think about challenges,problems like weights in the gym
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, right, and so you go, you liftthe weight.
It hurts, but that's how yougrow, that's how you get the
muscle.
You do not build muscle andcomfort Like that's just not the
way it works.
And so the mental toughnessthat you're going to need for
the next version of yourbusiness and all of that, you
build it with the challenges oftoday.
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So does that mean I go aroundgoing like, oh, I wish I have a
challenge?
No, life will throw enough atyou, but every time it comes you
want to hold it and lift itlike a weight, like navigate it
and get through it and hold yourown and not have a tantrum.
You can have a tantrum, butthen stop right, you know.
But do all of that so you canbuild the mental toughness,
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because this is the deal.
If you're building a businessand on your way to a million,
you're facing challenges.
I promise you that those arebaby challenges compared to what
you're going to face on yourway to 10 million, which are
baby challenges compared to whatyou're going to face if you're
on your way to multiple eightfigures or nine figures.
Do you see what I'm saying?
And so the challenges of todayare practiced so you can win the
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challenges of tomorrow, right,and so you can have that mental
toughness and all that.
So when you give up, you quiton the gym.
There's no muscle to be had,and if you can't handle the
pressure for level one, thenyou're not going to level two,
right.
And so I just want you to thinkabout it.
And I'm not saying thatchallenges are pleasant, that's
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not what I'm trying to say butwe're all going to go through
them, and so while you're inthem, just go like okay, this is
making me stronger.
If I can go through this, I'mgoing to have the mental
toughness is going to take forthe next phase.
Because this is the deal beingan entrepreneur is all about
solving problems.
It's all about problem solving.
It is all about problem solving.
It is all about problem solving.
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You solve problems for theclients.
You solve problems with yoursystems.
You solve problems with yourteam.
You're a problem solver.
A CEO is a problem solver.
A founder is a problem solver.
Okay, so you engage with theprocess of solving problems.
The third reason is that yougive up on an opportunity for
personal development.
Right, because every problem,like some of it, may be
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something we did that createdthe problem, or something we
didn't do that created theproblem, or it was just what it
was, or whatever.
But the thing is you have tothink about it.
There is somebody who is goingthrough a challenge that's three
times the size of mine, 10times the size of mine, and the
person is cool as a cucumber.
And the first time I noticedthis, this was many years ago.
I had 10 people on my teamActually a little less than 10,
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but let's say 10.
It's a nice even number and Ifelt like I can't take it
anymore.
My team is driving me nuts andall of these things.
And this is the deal.
I got on TV one day and I waswatching a Dallas Maverick game
and the owner at the time ourmajority owner at the time was
Mark Cuban, and so he was at thegame, completely chill,
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enjoying the game, really intoit, and all of that.
And I remember sitting andthinking like this is odd.
So here I am with 10 employeesin one company.
Here's this guy who has 150companies.
At the time he had 150companies.
He had 150 companies was worth3 billion, okay, and I said he
has more than 15 times thenumber of companies as I have
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employees and he's chill and I'mnot.
So the problem is not my team.
The problem is not that well,we can't find great people.
The problem is Maybe I don'tknow how to hire the right
people.
I don't know how to build theright company culture.
I have not learned to regulatemy emotions, so every little
thing doesn't trip me up, andit's not a them problem, it's a
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me problem.
And so if I can grow and becomebetter at hiring the right
people, if I can grow and getbetter at even accepting that I
am worthy of a high capacity,high value team, if I can grow
my building company culture, ifI can learn to delegate better,
if I can onboard them better,then I'll have a better team and
I'll be as chill as a cucumberat a basketball game, right?
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And so it's not really thechallenge and I really want to
encourage you when challengesshow up, don't be so quick to
look on the outside, like, lookinwards, and not from a blaming
standpoint like, oh I suck, I'mthe reason for this, but more
from a standpoint of what isthis challenge trying to tell me
that I need to learn?
What skill is this challengepointing to that I need to learn
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, right, like I need to acquire.
Because when we look at that,when we put ourselves in a place
where problems and challengesmake us better, right, and I
will tell you, I'm not a pro proat building a team, but my
goodness, do I have an amazingteam?
Like not even an amazing team.
I have multiple amazing teamslike amazing human beings that I
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get to work with and they blowmy mind all the time.
They come up with things Inever could have come up with.
They amplify the works of eachother and just make our
companies amazing.
But it came from a challenge, aproblem, a team driving me nuts
right, so you give up on anopportunity for personal
development because thischallenge that you quit on could
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have taught you lessons thathave made your business so much
better.
Number four is don't quitbecause it doesn't even help,
right, like when we quit becauseof challenges, like I want to
relieve the pressure, right.
And so I've seen people like,oh my private practice, oh my
goodness, and they shut it down.
But the thing is okay.
But you still got a revenueproblem.
You still need to createrevenue, you still need to
create income, right.
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And you're like, oh my goodness, like I can't.
You know, I can't stand my teamand you decide I'm not going to
train them, maybe I'm not evengoing to hire any more team
members and all that.
Okay, cool, but you still needthe help, you still need to
figure it out.
You see what I'm saying.
So it's not that it helps, itfeels like it helps in the
immediate term, but when youthink about it, you still got a
problem to solve, you still gotto do stuff, and so if you do,
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then you might as well just do,okay, okay.
Number five is related to numberfour, and the fifth reason not
to quit is because every path isfilled with challenges, filled
with problems, every single path.
And so if you quit on one path,okay, well, I don't want to.
I don't want to build this, youknow, practice or whatever.
I'm just going to go work a joband let someone deal with the
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headache.
Well, you're going to have todeal with the headache of being
an employee, because there's aheadache there too, right?
And you're like, oh man, youknow, I don't want to think
about building, you know, thisteam and all this stuff.
I'm going to do the work myself.
Well, there's also challengeswith doing the work yourself,
right?
Because then there's burnout,there's all these other things.
Whichever path you choose, thegrass always looks so much
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greener on the other side.
But it's green on the otherside because somebody is
fertilizing it, somebody iswatering it, someone is trimming
it, someone is getting itmanicured and doing all those
things.
It doesn't magically becomegreen.
So if you go on to the otherside because it looks greener on
the other side, guess what iswaiting for you Work and
challenges and problems and allof that.
Think about it.
Life is like a garden.
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Okay, you can have oranges, youcan have apples, you can have
rose bushes, you can have all ofthese things, but guess what?
You're always going to have towork on Weeds.
They will always be there.
You will always have to workand get rid of them.
You don't get to quit from that, right, life is like that, okay
.
So every path is filled withchallenges.
It doesn't matter.
So what was the point ofquitting?
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You're quitting to go somewhereelse where there's challenges.
Now remember, I'm not talkingabout strategic quitting.
I'm talking about quittingbecause you just want to relieve
the pressure because of theproblems, the challenges, the
pain, the frustrations, thedelays, all of that stuff.
Okay, so that's number five.
Number six Now, number six isis so scary, and this is the
reason why I rarely considerquitting.
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I very rarely consider quitting, and that is that you abort the
path to greatness.
You abort the path.
You're just like done.
I told you about Dr Swadham andthe beautiful practice she has
and the things that has becomeobvious that she can overcome.
She'd have lost out on all ofthat if she quit, and that's why
I was praying.
I literally went, I had timesof prayer for her.
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I said, lord, please do not lether quit.
Don't let her quit becausethere's so much goodness on the
other side of this.
Okay, so let me give an examplewith myself.
When I started off, my firstbusiness was my private practice
, and when I started off, it wasnot this version of me at all.
This version of me, I mean, isnothing like the version of me
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that started a private practice.
And that version of me you'veheard me say this many times was
a super shy, socially awkward,introverted, introvert.
And that version of me wouldnot market.
That version of me would notsell.
Thought selling wasunprofessional.
I thought you know I wouldn'tneed to market because you know
I was a good clinician, I hadgreat bedside manner, my
patients loved me, and thatversion of me would break out in
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hives when I saw a profit andloss statement this is the way
accounting worked in my business.
My husband would say, okay, wehave the meeting with the.
My husband's an accountant bytraining actually.
So he's like we have themeeting with the accountant and
all of that stuff.
I was like you know what?
I see the patients and I havebabies.
You guys can take care of theaccounting, I don't care.
Right, like that.
That was it.
Like if, if I was involved atall, I just attended the meeting
but I I didn't do anything, Ididn't say anything, I didn't
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attempt to understand anything.
As far as I was concerned, theywere speaking Greek and I had
no interest in learning how tospeak Greek.
Okay, and that was that versionof me, and it was hard.
Like how are you going to getpatients if you won't market?
How are you going to getpatients if you won't sell?
How are you going to understandthis true financial state of
your business if you're notgoing to look at the numbers?
And so it came with so manychallenges.
But I could have run away and,to be honest with you, when I
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first started my practice, Irealized I had to market and
sell because I didn't know, Ithought I had the shingle and
they would my lease and all thatI would have escaped.
But you know, I had a lease,had all these utility things, I
had signed up for working withinsurance companies, I had an
EHR.
I was just like, fine, you know.
But I quite quit because I wasjust like, okay, we just got to
see what happens.
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But I'm so grateful, I'm sograteful that you know, first of
all, my husband's like untilyou get all the patients you
want, right.
And so started the process ofputting myself out there,
talking to referral sources,doing all these things, and, my
goodness, I developed mentaltoughness.
You know.
I got the personal developmentI needed.
I started learning to market, Istarted learning to sell, I
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started learning to build areferral base.
I started learning tounderstand you know numbers Like
I wouldn't even hire anybody Inmy private practice I had an
alter ego.
Her name was Ella.
I'm like thank you for callingIvy League Pediatrics this is
Ella, literally, because I couldnot imagine hiring anybody.
I was like, how am I going topay these people?
I could not even imagine payingan MA right, and now I spend
quite an impressive amount ofmoney on payroll right.
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So all this stuff the practicethat was profitable I would
never have had it.
I would have just said, oh, itdidn't work for me, how did I
know it didn't work for me, Iquit, how would I know?
And so my practice gotprofitable.
I would have missed out on that.
My practice got to the placewhere I had a team that gave me
some time freedom, so I was ableto.
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For instance, I hired anotherdoc who worked a day a week, and
so I had a long weekend everyweekend.
I started leading a team so Icould buy some of my time back.
And then I got it to the nextlevel, where my team is actually
running the practice and Ihaven't set foot in the building
in the last three years right,so they're running.
So I built that level of a teamand it freed me up so I can do
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all these things that I do withEntreeMD because I could turn
around and say, okay, things arechanging for physicians.
I do with EntreeMD because Icould turn around and say, okay,
things are changing forphysicians, let's see how we can
support, let me see how I canretool myself and then how I can
help other doctors retoolthemselves.
So, who knows, the books may nothave been written.
The EntreeMD podcast that hasalmost 500 episodes would not
have existed.
The Thousands of Lives Touch,the EntreeMD Business School,
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wouldn't have existed.
Our company being on the Inc5000 list of fastest growing
companies for two years in a rowwould not have happened.
Me homeschooling my kids, myfour kids that would not have
happened.
And I just want to brag mydaughter, who's 16, she just
graduated from high school,right, because she's
homeschooled, so she just likedto work, she worked through the
summer, and all that because shehad her little cadence going on
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, so she was able to be on aspeed track of sorts and she
just graduated and it's so cool.
But anyway, I totally digresswith that.
But none of these things wouldhave happened if I quit on my
practice because it was so toughand, believe me, in the
beginning I thought I wasdealing with the biggest problem
there must have been on planetearth.
But it's not true.
The problems I had then theydon't even register as problems
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for my team.
Talk less of a problem for me.
You don't quit because you abortthe path to greatness and I'm
still going.
I'm 45.
I have so much life left in me.
I have so many things to do.
I have so many lives to impact.
We have 100,000 physicians thatwe're trying to reach and
support.
So thank you so much forlistening to this podcast and
please share it with the doctorsin your world.
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We are on a mission, but Iwould have aborted all of that,
all the doctors' lives we havehad almost 400 doctors go
through the EntreMD BusinessSchool and all the service we
have done for them over theyears.
Over the last four and a halfyears, like none of that would
have happened if I quit.
And now your journey is not myjourney, but your journey is
phenomenal, though right.
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Your journey is as unique asyour fingerprint and it's
beautiful and it's amazing and,oh my goodness, like I would
love to see it.
That's why it hurts my heart.
When doctors quit, I'm like, ohmy goodness, I was waiting to
see that.
I will never know, right, butlean into it, because if you can
take one challenge after theother, after the other after the
other, you'll win and you'll beon the path to greatness.
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And we don't know what it willbe, but I promise you it's good.
It's good, okay.
So that's number six and thennumber seven.
I think this is a friendlyreminder.
The seventh reason not to quitis because, like, yes, you may
have challenges.
Yes, you may be going throughproblems.
Yes, it may be really hard.
Yes, sometimes you cry.
Yes, you know nobodyunderstands you.
And please, if nobodyunderstands you, I want you to
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come into the on-trending world.
We will understand you.
We get it.
Okay, okay Now, but nothing iswrong.
This is the seventh reason notto quit, because, even though
you're experiencing all that,nothing is wrong.
This is the seventh reason notto quit because, even though
you're experiencing all that,nothing is wrong.
Success takes longer than youthink.
And success, the path to it ishard, but it is so rewarding if
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you don't quit, it is so good.
So the journey takes a littlelonger than people think,
because Instagram makes us thinkthat you decide to start a
business today, you do a fewthings and then you go sip
margaritas on the beach and livehappily ever after and there's
nothing that could be furtherfrom the truth.
You know that.
You're a physician.
You know, you know, right nowam I saying it's going to be as
hard as medical school?
No, I don't know if there'sanything harder than medical
school and residency Okay, butno, it's not that kind of hard.
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But you understand what ittakes to succeed.
You understand delayedgratification.
You understand it took you adecade at least to become a
physician.
You understand this.
Right, it takes a minute.
It takes a minute and that'sokay.
Like I see people you know quitfor some people is when they
start year one, year two, yearthree they quit.
I'm like you haven't given itenough time, you haven't given
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enough time to put in the repsto do the work.
And some other people it's notthat they quit like they've been
in business for years, maybe adecade to get, but they've quit
on the path of improvement.
They've quit chasing the vision.
They've quit chasing the dreambecause maybe they tried to
build a team and they did it fora year, did it for two years
and it didn't work.
It takes a little longer, butwhen you quit, then what You're
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not going to quit and then itwill work.
That's not the way it works,right?
Like, please don't quit.
It takes a little longer, yes,it's hard, but the ROI, the
return on investment, of notquitting, is ginormous.
If you talk to people who arevery successful I love reading
autobiographies because you'llfind that they went through one
hardship after the other.
After the other you'll find out, you know what there's nothing
wrong with me or there's nothingwrong with this.
This is the way.
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But sometimes, when you're init, there's so much pressure, so
much pressure that you're justlike make it stop.
We quit because we're like makeit stop and I want to invite
you.
Okay, it takes a minute Now.
It takes a longer minute if,when you're in that season,
you're not putting in the work,you.
It takes a longer minute if,when you're in that season,
you're not putting in the work,you're not doing the work,
you're not staying focused,you're not working with proven
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strategies and you're justbeating around the bush and all
of that.
Like, when you're in the season, use the season, do the work,
put the work.
You may not see the resultsright away, but you will right,
I'm telling you it works.
We just had a coach.
We had a coach who's a part ofthe Entremet Business School and
she does such phenomenal work,you know, helping women
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physicians and all of that, andshe always wanted to start a
group program and I think shemay have launched it a number of
times.
It didn't really work, or shetried to, she was getting ready
to launch it and she's just like, yeah, she wasn't going to do
it or whatever.
And I watched her make adecision, a quality decision.
This was during the On-TermDe-Business School Vision
Retreat.
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Some of her classmates held heraccountable and she owned it
and she said she was going tolaunch it.
And she launched it and she hadher first successful launch.
She has a number of women inthere number that she wanted.
I think she exceeded the numbershe wanted and the doctors are
already recording wins.
They're already having theirlives transformed and their
lives maybe wouldn't have beentransformed it would have taken
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so much longer if she didn't sayyes, if she didn't choose not
to quit, but she didn't quit andthey're going to have such a
magical experience because shedidn't quit.
So this is my challenge to youDo not quit.
Don't quit.
You have a business.
It is beyond you.
It's about the impact thatyou're going to have in the
lives of the people you'recalled to serve.
It's about the financialfreedom that you're going to
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create for you and for yourfamily.
It's about the time freedom soyou're finally free to live life
on your terms.
Yes, it's going to be hard.
Yes, it's going to take alittle longer, but, my goodness,
don't quit.
Look at the people who've goneahead of you.
Look at the challenges thatthey face and they survived it
and they're here, and I'mchallenging you to do the same.
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Listen to me.
If you're here and you're aphysician entrepreneur, you have
access to the EntreeMD podcast.
You have access to the bookswe've written.
You have access, if you want,to the EntreeMD business school.
You have access to stuff onsocial media.
The people who startedbusinesses before you a decade
before, two decades before,there was such a stigma with
being a physician entrepreneur.
They didn't have people to goto like you do.
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They didn't have Facebookgroups to go into.
There was nothing like theEntremdi Business School.
There are very few podcasts ifthere were any that were
specifically for physicians whowanted to get in
entrepreneurship.
No matter how hard you think itis, it is so much easier than
it used to be back in the day,and so you make those people
proud and you don't quit on yourbusiness.
You make it work.
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I'm here waiting to celebrateyou, because on the other side
of the delay and on the otherside of the pressure is a
business that gives you avehicle to impact so many lives
and to create financial freedomand to create time freedom, and
it will absolutely rock yourworld.
So I'm rooting for you.
Don't quit.
If you need our support, we'rehere.
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If the podcast is what you want, it's here, and I'm committed
to bringing you episodes thatwill rock your world.
If the books are what you wantto read, go to Amazon.
We have books for you.
There's no fluff.
They're really designed to takeyour life and your business
forward.
And if you're like I reallywant to do it, like I mean, I
want to put myself in acommunity where I'll be
supported, where I'll getmentorship on a daily, weekly
basis and all of that, come joinus in the EntreMD Business
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School.
You have so much support.
Any way you want it, so you goin and I'm waiting to celebrate.
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