Omar Zenhom built his drive by watching what he didn't want: his parents' unhappy careers pushed him to create a business that didn't need him there every day. Ten years chasing professional soccer taught him to sacrifice everything for one goal, a focus he carried into entrepreneurship.
Sometimes our best role models are negative role models. Both of my parents were negative role models. And I say that in the nicest way possible. I learned a lot about entrepreneurship from my dad, and I was like, I never want to have that. I want to have a business that works for me, that I don't have to be there 24, 7, and I want to help a lot of people. Seeing what my mom went through was a blessing because I'm like, I would never want to work in a cubicle, never work at that kind of company. And so that was a really big blessing for me growing up. And then, like, during that journey, my big passion from a young age was to play pro soccer. So from the age of 10 until 19, that's all I did. Turn down jobs, turned down all sorts of stuff. Family trips. Those are the sacrifices that, you know, you make when you want to pursue stuff. I was very driven as a young kid, very, like, laser focused on achieving that objective. And I was able to do that for a number of years in my early 20s. And I've taken that same kind of focus and drive into a lot of other aspects of my life. I remember.
