Episode’s description

This episode marks the start of a series of episodes to talk about entrepreneurial journey conditioning. Throughout this series, I’ll share with you my entrepreneurial journey, learned lessons, and some interesting stories that you can carry with you to think deeply about your journey as an entrepreneur.

Today’s episode is about

  • Why I decided to start that series
  • Why entrepreneurship is one of the most challenging journeys 
  • The common mistakes that entrepreneurs make while preparing for the entrepreneurial journey
  • The emotional journey of building anything great 
  • What is the entrepreneurial conditioning

Here is a link to the entrepreneurial readiness assessment I mentioned towards the end of the episode. To make the best use of the upcoming episodes, please fill out that assessment and look at the generated analysis.

https://www.mohamedfahmed.com/workshop-ers

Until the next episode, keep looking ahead!

Intro

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  • Welcome to looking ahead podcast. I’m your host Mo and today marks the start of a series to talk about entrepreneurial journey conditioning. 
  • Throughout this series, I’ll share with you my entrepreneurial journey, learned lessons, and some interesting stories that you can carry with you to think deeply about your journey as an entrepreneur. 
  • Before starting my journey 4.5 years ago as a full time entrepreneur I read a lot of books and talked to many people. However, I made almost all the mistakes that these books advised me not to do. 
  • Half-way through my journey, I asked myself what the hell Am I doing all those mistakes? I realized that I was out of my balance and that I had a wrong perspective about the whole journey. A lot of things changed after I changed my point of view I started to grow significantly from that point. 
  • So, We will together through the emotional journey of building anything great. 
  • We will also go through the five necessary success factors that you should prepare and nurture for your journey.
  • I’ll share also practical steps and advice to continuously build your strength and keep growing throughout the journey with the least pain.
  • Whether you are a full-time entrepreneur or just getting started, I highly recommend listening to the whole series.

Chapter 1 – Why this series

  • I’m an entrepreneur who decided just to do after long professional life as an engineer, product manager, and being in leadership positions. I studied a lot about entrepreneurship to prepare myself for this journey. Yet, I made all the mistakes that books and courses I took told me not to do. The reason was I was out of balance most of the time. I learned a lot about myself and the journey the hard way.
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  • In numbers, during my 4.5 years as a full-time entrepreneur
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    • I was about to shut down three times. One of them was 1 week away from running out of money. 
    • I pivoted the company and product twice
    • I lost my co-founder 
    • I rebuilt the team with my new co-founder twice
    • I changed the business model twice
    • I lost my father 
    • I had to deal with two challenging teenagers 
    • I talked to 100s of VCs
  • I was lucky and just made a recent exit. I’m far from being done, but I thought that what I learned so far is worth sharing because I don’t want you to go through the same amount of pain I went through.(cheerful sfx) It is a tough journey no matter what. But you don’t want to lose your balance(balancing sfx) /short pause/ or even worse /short pause/ lose yourself on this journey. (disappointed Crowd ‘aww’ sfx / classic lightning with rain sfx)

This series is about how to condition yourself as an entrepreneur for such an exciting and at the same time challenging journey. (small crowd “yeah!” sfx)

Chapter 2 – A trivia about startups and the impact of media. 

Chapter 3 – Why entrepreneurship is one of the hardest journeys 

Chapter 4 – Common mistakes preparing for the entrepreneurial journey

Chapter 5 – The emotional journey of building anything great 

Chapter 6 – What is the entrepreneurial conditioning

Outro

  • Next time we will talk about the five elements that will impact your readiness to the entrepreneurial journey. I will share a tool with you to get a hint about where you stand currently. 
  • We will also dig into the first element and provide some insights