The Emotional Rollercoaster of Entrepreneurship with John Meese

"Your business should fuel your life. Your life shouldn't just fuel your business."

Air Date

May 2, 2022

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The journey of entrepreneurship is an emotionally challenging one, including a unique mix of fear, excitement, disappointment, and purpose. How we navigate those challenges is what equips us to lead a thriving business and team. In today’s episode, Neal is talking with his good friend John Meese, a business expert, passionate entrepreneur, and author of Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One). Whether you are currently an entrepreneur or not, this conversation holds so much wisdom about navigating change, healing from loss, and living with intentionality. Listen in!

Guest Bio

John Meese is the CEO of Cowork Inc, co-founder of Notable, and the author of the #1 bestseller Survive and Thrive: How to Build a Profitable Business in Any Economy (Including This One). As an entrepreneur, John is on a mission to eradicate generational poverty by equipping entrepreneurs with the tools and training they need to build thriving businesses from scratch. He has worked closely with multiple clients who have repeatedly hit the Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing privately-owned businesses in America.

Key Takeaways

Starting in 2020, we had a health crisis, but also a mental health crisis and an economic crisis. Entrepreneurs are a key part of solving that economic hardship.
Entrepreneurship comes with mental health challenges. That journey is an emotional one.
How you lead yourself is the biggest key to being able to lead others.
“Your business should fuel your life. Your life shouldn’t just fuel your business.”
“We’re all time travelers moving in the same direction. We move forward one day at a time.”
The emotions of joy and grief aren’t always disconnected.
It’s okay and wise to adjust your expectations for yourself when the circumstances of life change.