685. How Can You Be Entrepreneurial in Everything You Do? The Mindset That Changes Your Life

[Brittany]
Hi, Rachel.

[Rachel]
Hey, Brittany.

[Brittany]
So when I say the word entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, what do you think of?

Like what comes to mind?

[Rachel]
Oh, somebody really brave who starts a business and takes risk and innovates for the good of the economy and the future.

[Brittany]
So it's you think of market things or you think of the business world, right? You think of...

[Rachel]
Yeah.



[Brittany]
People who like Elon Musk, people who started businesses or Apple and all that thing that that's what most people think of. But I want to...

[Rachel]
Or lemonade stand.



[Brittany]
Or lemonade stands. Yes, that's very good. But I want to take entrepreneurship even further because I think entrepreneurship is one of the most amazing, incredible things that makes our world go round that honestly helps our country become what it is today, even during the founding.

The founders used to... They called it moonlighting, which was essentially smuggling because tariffs and everything played a big part in the founding and a lot of why they smuggled was because they would get their goods not from Britain, right? They'd go and they'd trade with the Netherlands or Spain or France and then sneak it back in and that's how they were able to be successful merchants and business owners.

So I mean, entrepreneurship is just woven throughout the fiber of our being as a society. But it's not just commerce. It's not just starting a business.

You can be entrepreneurial in every aspect of your life and you should be entrepreneurial in every aspect of your life. So I want to talk about what that means. One thing that I talk about when I work, every day when I go to work, I try to be entrepreneurial and I don't work in startups.

I don't work for... I work for... I do communications.

So what that means, what I think it means, is to constantly be looking for opportunities to innovate or to make something better. To not just go along to get along, as they say, right? Not just be like, these are my duties, this is what I'm supposed to do.

This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to do no more, no less, right? Or I'm only going to do...

Like if I get an assignment, I'm only going to do the letter of what is asked, right? But that's boring, first of all, and that's not going to help you get ahead in life. You should be entrepreneurial.

You should be always looking for ways to come up with new ideas, to pitch new ideas, to make a process better at work. Maybe there's something that people do and you're like, this doesn't make any sense. It could be done easier.

Now that's not always going to work out in your favor. That doesn't mean everyone's going to be like... Yeah, it could backfire or it just might not go anywhere, right?

There's a way to introduce it. You don't want to go into a new job and be like, I think you're all doing this horribly and I'm glad you hired me because I'm perfect and I'm going to tell you how to do it. That's not going to go over well.

We'll have another episode on humility and delivery. But there's nothing wrong with saying, hey, you know, maybe messaging your manager or whatever and being like, hey, I have this great idea. I was just wondering if I could run it by you.

And if they say no, you know, wait your turn, wait till the moment is right. But you might fail just like a regular entrepreneurship. You might pitch this idea and they might be like, no, we don't like that.

Or they might try it and it might not work. So that doesn't mean it's always going to work. You have to fail.

You have to learn your lessons, but people will appreciate it. Workplaces will appreciate it, especially if you do it the right way, go about it the right way. When you bring something to the table, when you're not just keeping your head down and doing what just what you've been told to do.

You want to innovate. You want to bring something to your job that is entrepreneurial. That's also this is not just for work, your personal life.

You want to do something. You should be innovating your life all the time. You know, I talk and I'm like a broken record because I talk about my routines all the time because I am a slave to my routines.

But that's me innovating my life. And you know what? Sometimes I put routines in that do not work for me and I fail at them and I feel really bad about it for a couple of days and I'm like, oh, you couldn't do this.

And then I restructure the routines and I say, OK, I know that I'm not good at getting up at 5 a.m. I know that's not good. I know my flaws. I know that's not going to work.

Let's change it. Let's innovate. Let's let's come up with something new.

Or even I wanted to learn how to make bread. And so I did. And every time I make bread, I keep notes and I'm innovating, hey, this, you know, adding this much water didn't work.

I'm going to try a different amount of water next time. Let's do this. There's all this innovation, all this entrepreneurial things that are happening.

And one keyword I like to always think of when I think of entrepreneurship, whether that be in the market or in our personal lives or at work, is permissionless innovation. Permissionless means without permission, right? Innovators don't wait for someone to give them permission to come up with something great.

They do it. It's permissionless innovation. They just go for it.

And that's again at work. There are ways to do that correctly. But that's how the best ideas come.

And so we should be entrepreneurial in every single thing we do. It's not just starting a business. It can be anything.

Rachel, what do you think? What are your thoughts on this?

[Rachel]
I love this. I kind of work this way, kind of by nature. And I kind of have to watch myself because I am the person that comes into a place is like, OK, do it this way, this way.

And I'm like, you know, hold back, Rachel. Let's like get the lay of the land first. But yeah, it can go really, really well.

And you could have a big win and like bring some new way of doing things. Or maybe it's just put on the back burner and not so much where, you know, are we going to do that? And that's OK.

But taking the risk is it takes courage, but you can make yourself absolutely invaluable. You can make yourself like a very needed person on a team. And they, you know, bringing your unique gifts and ideas and voice is unique to you.

And they can't replace that with somebody else. So be irreplaceable to get ahead in life. It's good advice.

[Brittany]
It's great advice. And another thing, when I say permissionless, too, I want to touch on is also just being like a self starter. There's nothing I think any job could say there's there's nothing, you know, a manager, somebody who likes more than somebody who doesn't have to wait to get started, like isn't being like, oh, can I start on this project now?

Can I do this now? Somebody that doesn't need to be micromanaged. Right.

It's that entrepreneurship is to me almost like the beacon of individualism. Right. Because you're this innovator who's willing to take these risks and self-start and do it.

And I think that's a really important part about being entrepreneurial in your regular life outside of the market and commerce is being able to just self-start and not need micromanagement. Micromanagement is when somebody is like breathing over your shoulder, making sure you do everything like you have. You can't do anything until you ask.

It's kind of like bureaucracy in a lot of ways, actually.

[Rachel]
Yeah. I mean, some some managers like to micromanage some. They like control.

[Brittany]
Some people like being micromanaged, too.

[Rachel]
Yeah. It's not so much fun for for a lot of people. But yeah, the the ability to work on your own and get things done without somebody looking over your shoulder.

I mean, I'm trying not to bring up my son who's homeschooled right now.

[Brittany]
I was going to say education is another.

[Rachel]
But are you saying he's being entrepreneurial or he's not? He he still needs a little bit of micromanagement, unfortunately, but we're working on that. We are getting better about that.

But yeah, I will tell him an assignment and, you know, it won't get done until I check back in and sit on him, you know, but, you know, we're working on that. He's he he's still young and that's part of maturing. And I and I keep telling him that's part of growing up is is figuring out how to manage yourself so that you don't have to be micromanaged and sat on all the time.

[Brittany]
So and, you know, it's hard as a kid, I think, especially when you're doing schooling with like curriculum, because as kids, when we do, you know, unschooling, that kind of stuff is different. But if you're doing a homeschool curriculum, that still is things you have to do. Right.

And sometimes that's seems tedious because it's not what what you would do. But I think it's it's important to learn those lessons. But it's also fun because when you become an adult, you can also look for all these entrepreneurial ways to educate yourself on things that you're not being forced to learn.

I don't like to say forced because, you know, it's important, but like learning a new skill, you can go on like you can learn anything today. I have been I took French in school, but I've been relearning it and I've been using all these programs online. One of them I do pay for, but the rest I don't.

Chat GPT will has conversations with me in French so I can do that. Like I found all these ways to be very proactive with these things I want to learn. I'm being entrepreneurial in my knowledge accumulation.

And yeah, so it's it's hard to put into words, but there's just when we think of entrepreneurship, I want to make sure that we're thinking about it in more than just start a business, you know, be willing to fail, take these risks, because all those apply to our regular life. We should be looking for innovation and we should be taking the lessons from entrepreneurs and using them in our daily lives all the time. And speaking of which.

Yeah, there's some people who inspire you.

[Rachel]
Yeah. Here's the title Twins Teen Guide. This is part of the Teen Guide combo pack, Inspiring Entrepreneurs.

It goes it goes to the stories of several very inspiring entrepreneurs. And you should pick that up. Title Twins dot com.

And another one for younger kids is this one, the title Twins and the spectacular show business. And this is about how they start their own business. It's a it's a theater business and just their experience.

So that's great, too.

[Brittany]
Yeah. And you actually reminded me of something else. And that is that when I'm looking for ways to innovate my own personal life, one thing I love to do is listen to podcasts or read life stories of entrepreneurs who have been successful, because to be successful in the market, you have to have your life or at least like your routines and all this stuff.

You have to have some semblance of discipline and self-control and these routines to really do all the things you do. And so I love reading biographies or reading interviews by these people because they can give you some really good ideas on how to be innovative in all these other areas of your life. So, yeah, the takeaway from this is use these principles, apply them everywhere.

Permissionless innovation, taking risks, do it the right way. Like we said, if you're doing it at work or even at home, dare I say, maybe there's something maybe you want to you want to institute something in your family or propose an idea to your parents of something that could be fun or something, you know, ways you could do certain things differently. I don't know if you guys do family meetings or family game nights or whatever it is you do in your families.

But yeah, I just think it's being entrepreneurial is important for everything, not just in the market, but also start a business. Do it all. Do it all.

I like that. We will wrap it up there. As always, don't forget to like and subscribe to the podcast.

And until next time, we'll talk to you later.

[Rachel]
Bye bye.