Daron Pacheco and a speaker discuss the first attempt at anything being like a badly shaped first pancake: inevitably imperfect. After six and a half years building a business, the speaker learned that perseverance through early failures and uncertainty, paired with faith, leads to growth.
My, uh, business coach, he used to always say the first pancake is always shit. You know, when you're, when you're baking your first one, it's never gonna be that beautiful IHOP circular round. Like there's no symmetry. It's just like a blob, you know? You keep practicing, you get better. It seems pretty rudimentary, but I kind of fall in the same way. I was like, why can't this work? Yeah. You know, why can't we be risk averse? It doesn't have to be perfect.
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But we'll find a way. And I think there's some ignorance to that too. Yeah. Like if you don't know what you don't know. And if I went back and could look the last 6 and a half years of entrepreneurship, I don't know if I would do it. Just like PT school, knowing how hard it was, I don't know if I'd go back, but I'm so thankful I did, and I'm so thankful I did this. And I think, again, that's the Lord's protection over us. It's not, they— we're just going to keep beating you down in the storm. But yeah, yeah, it, it's done well for you, right? I feel like—
I mean, it has I'm always like, oh, it could be better, could be better. But at the same time, I have to be content with where I'm at and not force anything either. 'Cause I'm like a visionary guy. Like I wanna know what we're doing, like where we're going a year out, 5 years out. And then things happen along the way that are unexpected and it completely changes everything.