Short YouTube video (shorts) in which Ryan Daniel Moran recounts selling a company in 2017 for $15 million and describes the unexpected emotional impact: feelings of inadequacy from comparing his exit to larger ones, the resulting “failure loop,” and how reframing the exit can serve as evidence for future success.
2017
$15 million
I sold a company in 2017 for $15 million. You would think that that would be like a feather in the cap of why I'm so successful but actually because of things that happened in my life and things I hadn't gotten clear on, I thought, well other people sold it for 50 million. Other people that I mentor sold their businesses for $25 million. That guy, this is a true story. That guy that found my podcast and started with no money, that I started mentoring when he had like us a low seven figure business now just sold for 20 some million dollars. Oh no, I'm losing my edge. There's the failure loop starting again. Because if you have that record of failures and you believe yourself to be a failure, you will find more evidence for it which will prevent you from taking the action that builds the seven figure business. But now that I'm good with that, I see my exit as evidence for my next success.
