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This week will be a bit different.

I’m getting personal and reflecting on the similarities between a Dad and an Entrepreneur.

Let’s dive in.

Today’s Topic - A few thoughts on being an Entrepreneur and a Dad

A few thoughts about being a Dad and an Entrepreneur.

First off... I do NOT have it all figured out and far from it. But I'm navigating being a Dad and running a business and taking the time to be reflective of this helps me so I thought I'd share this more broadly.

I'd have a zero percent chance of success without a wife who is the leader of our family. She keeps things going smoothly every day and is always doing whatever she can to make my life easier as a founder by operating everything at home. It's really, really hard what she does with a full-time job and being a Mom, but she handles it with ease.

Being an entrepreneur and being a dad is like riding two rollercoasters at the same time. The highs and lows of starting a business are no joke. I'll leave 4 client meetings in a row incredibly excited about what is about to happen and the next day we'll get two clients say they no longer have the funding to continue working with us. The best advice on this I always come back to is from a former baseball coach who said "you're never as good as you think you are at your highest moment or as bad as you think you are at your lowest moment." That is so unbelievably true in business.

Being a dad is a similar rollercoaster. Of course I'm incredibly grateful I am so lucky to even have the highs and the lows but they are real. One day my toddler is an angel all day and the next night he screams at us at dinner for 60 minutes straight. One day my baby is rolling around laughing and the next day she's getting into everything dangerous into my house and I'm constantly nervous about her hurting herself. You never know what you are getting when you sit down for a meal with a baby and a toddler, something that used to be relaxing. Again, incredibly grateful, but it gets to me.

However, somewhere along the way, my definition of “winning” changed. Before kids, a great day was closing a deal or landing a big client. And don't get me wrong, I still love that. But at the end of the day, if you have your health, the health of the people that you love, and you have people that love you, there's really nothing more important.

So even after a bad day at work, watching my son get excited about seeing the moon for the 89th night in a row, or watching my daughter say her name for the first time is the best feeling in the world. It's a weird and impossible level of joy to explain.

Being an entrepreneur and being a dad both force you to "grow up" more than anything else I've ever experienced. Previously in my life I could "wait for the grown up to show up" but when you run your own business and when you parent a child, you have to figure that out really quickly.

Grateful for all that both of these are teaching me on a consistent basis, and I still have so much to learn.

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