How Helping Others Can Lead to BIG Success in Business

Hi, I'm Evan Carmichael. Welcome to another edition of Ask Evan. In today's episode, I'm going to answer a question from one of my Facebook readers, Mitchell, who wrote in asking about why do I love entrepreneurship. So he wrote in saying— where's the question here? Evan, what is the main driving reason that you want to help entrepreneurs? What makes you tick, or what is that fire in your belly that makes you want to continue day after day? This is a great question. Thank you for the question, Mitchell. I think it's really important for any entrepreneur that you really tap into your passion and do what you're really excited about. And for me, when I was in the software business, I was a young entrepreneur, I was 19. After a couple years, we built up the company, sold it, and I was invited to speak at a whole bunch of different events as a young entrepreneur success story. At the time, you know, I wasn't doing any speaking, I was just running my software business and had a lot of fun doing it and kind of knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur. And kind of stumbled into helping other entrepreneurs. So as a result of selling the business, I was invited to represent Canada at an APEC youth conference in Mexico, and then I went to Brunei to help their young entrepreneurs at an annual event. And I really got a big high from it. I found out that young entrepreneurs were able to learn from my story, and I could give them some advice based on what I was going through with my company. And when you can see that you're helping people in whatever field you're in, that's a huge high. And I could see that my advice was the spark for a lot of people to either start a business or to keep going or to give them the motivation to, you know, get up off the couch and believe in themselves and want to start their own business. And knowing that people are going to take action based on what you say and that you're able to genuinely help people is such a huge high and such a— one of the biggest benefits that I see from being an entrepreneur is that you're able to have an impact on people. And I think with all of our lives, who are looking for a way to impact others, and starting a business and being able to really help people, at least for me, that was such a huge high. So I came back from those two events and thought, you know, there's a lot more entrepreneurs that are local that I can help as well. It doesn't just have to be people who are in international conferences in Mexico and Brunei. And I started off doing a little seminar series in my hometown of Toronto, just having people come, and once a month I'd share some new stories and modeling success. The things that I found useful and helpful, and those, you know, continued to grow and grow and grow, and I eventually turned it into a video series called Ask Evan instead of doing the seminars, and just trying to help more people and reach out to more people. And so I kind of stumbled onto it. I think if you're looking at starting a business, you want to tap into what you are really passionate about, what you really are excited about, where you feel you can really help people. And I don't think there's any greater feeling in the world than to know that you've you've had a positive impact on someone's life, a significant positive impact. And I see the comments coming in on the videos and the posts that I write, and that's the fuel that gets me going every day. You know, every day I wake up and I see new comments come in and new thumbs up on the YouTube videos, and people write in saying how I've changed their lives and now they're able to believe in themselves. And that's awesome, right? That makes me want to do it more and more and more and more. And I'm glad to be able to have that impact on you guys, and I thank you for watching all these videos and being a part of this community that we've built. So that's what gets me going, and there wasn't a big plan at the beginning to get into it. I just kind of kept going after it and finding new ways to follow my passion. And so I encourage you guys to do the same thing. It may be helping entrepreneurs, it could be helping some other group. With your business, the success that you'll have is something around what you are really super excited about and passionate about. I'd do this even if I wasn't getting paid to do it, and for most of these videos, I don't get paid to do it, right? I'm answering these videos because I like doing it and hopefully I can help you guys. And when I see entrepreneurs, you know, having an impact and improving their companies and I had a small role in that, it gives me the high and makes my life more meaningful. So that's why I do it, and hopefully you guys can find something that you're equally passionate about and can commit your life to doing, and you'll find the same joy that I found in doing what I do. So thanks for the question. If you guys like the video, please give it a thumbs up below. Gets me excited, as you've already heard, and it makes me wanna do more of these videos for you guys. And if you have a comment or if you have a question, I'd love to hear from you if you wanna leave it underneath this video in the comment section. So thank you, and we'll see you on the next episode.