Ed WeeksFounder & M&A Advisor, Weeks Consulting Group · Founder & M&A Advisor | Lower Middle Market at Weeks Consulting Group

The Scarcity Disease Killing Hudson Valley Entrepreneurship #shorts

4 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this impassioned YouTube short, the speaker denounces a pervasive "scarcity mindset" among entrepreneurs in the Hudson Valley, describing it as a disease that breeds backstabbing and limited thinking. He recounts the personal turmoil of the past nine months, including the launch of an agency in September of the previous year, the highs and lows of that venture, and the betrayal he feels from people he once considered friends. The speaker also references his work on local newsletters that teach audience monetization, positioning himself as knowledgeable and eager to collaborate, only to encounter resistance and negativity. The overall tone is frustrated, angry, and urgent, aiming to call out the toxic culture and rally others to recognize and overcome it.

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Like it's disgusting. Today I want to talk to you about something that plagues a whole bunch of people in this beautiful Hudson Valley that I live in and have always lived in. What plagues them? Scarcity mindset, limited mindset, backstabbing. Like it's disgusting, disgusting. I'm fired up this morning. Disgusting what happens here. I am just going to dive right into it. Whether you know my story or you don't, let's just say the last 9 months have been very challenging. You know, put an agency under, uh, a year ago to, you know, right around here, September last year. Uh, you know, tough things have happened. I'm not crying, I'm just saying, you know, you, you ride the highs, the lows can be rough too. You confide in some people, you talk to some people. I've helped a lot of people through a lot of crap in my time, confided in some people that I thought were friends, talked to them about some of the great things that I was doing. Locally, newsletter, uh, a few of my newsletters, how you could monetize audiences, all these great pieces. And I thought, you know, most people would look at this and say, okay, this guy knows what he's doing, let's figure out how we can work together and let's go build this. That's from a meeting that I left that I figured, what the hell, this is— this, this would be cool. Somebody I've known 45 years.