When the speaker went self-employed, friends from old jobs kept pushing them back to steady paychecks because they'd never run their own business. You need people around you who actually get entrepreneurship, not just cheerleaders. That support network is the number-one factor for success.
The biggest thing is that no matter what, I always had people who had my back and who understood me and who never said, "You should get a job." And what I find is that, like me, when I first started doing my own thing, my friends were my old friends, my friends from my job, my friends who thought that the nirvana is having a paycheck for the rest of your life and working for a company. That can tell you to do whatever they want you to do whenever they want you to do it. And they don't, they don't get it. It's not that they don't love you. It's simply they don't understand the thinking it takes to be an entrepreneur, to be on your own, to be responsible for your own income. Because they've never been there. Right. A lot of times anyway. So surrounding yourself with like-minded and more importantly, like spirited people is the number one suggestion I have for people.
