Omar ZenhomAward Winning Entrepreneur. Founder of The $100 MBA & WebinarNinja.

The Years of Eating Glass

15 Aug 2026 · 1 min

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In this motivational monologue, Omar Zenhom describes the early phase of entrepreneurship as "the years of eating glass," a painful metaphor for the steep learning curve new founders face. He outlines the core challenges—discovering a personal voice, acquiring customers, mastering sales, and executing marketing—and emphasizes that most people quit before achieving any wins. Zenhom urges listeners to endure these uncomfortable days, persisting through the hardship to eventually reach success.

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You're eating glass and you're chewing glass and it's painful and you're swallowing it. And it just, nothing feels great. It all feels uncomfortable. That learning curve, those years where you are learning how to become an entrepreneur, you're learning how to find your voice, find your customers, how to sell, how to market, all those things. I call those years the years of eating glass, because that's what it's like. And the thing is that most people quit before they even get any wins. So you have to be willing to endure those tough days.