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

When Family Is Against You

8 Oct 2026 · 1 min

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In this short interview, Omar Zenhom emphasizes that securing early wins is crucial when launching a business, especially if you’re starting it alongside a full‑time job. He advises entrepreneurs to generate traction and sales on the side, then celebrate those wins publicly so that skeptical family members and peers can see tangible progress. The co‑speaker adds that channeling energy into "dirty fuel"—the drive to prove the business works—can be a powerful catalyst for momentum and self‑validation in the early stages, even though it isn’t a sustainable long‑term growth strategy.

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I think that wins cures all. You have to get some wins. Okay. So if you want to start a business and you start on the side in your job, that's going to allow you to get some traction, get some sales, and you got to celebrate those wins with the people around you so that they could see that, hey, this thing is working.
Yeah, that's where you should be spending the majority of your energy, right? It's almost like that dirty fuel of like, I'll show you, I'll prove it to you. Like, sometimes that dirty fuel Can go a long way because it's what you need to, A, to build momentum to get that success, and also at the same time to prove a point. It's not how you want to sustain, obviously, long-term growth, but I think in the early days, the more of your energy that goes towards proving a point, proving yourself, I don't think that's wasted energy.