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

You’re Not Failing — You’re Just In The Middle

19 May 2025 · 1 min

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A brief YouTube transcript excerpt (conversation between SPEAKER A and SPEAKER B) reflecting on long-term entrepreneurship and career development. SPEAKER B recounts an 11-year progression from side projects to a life-changing exit and explains how skills from prior ventures (info products, e-commerce, agency work) continue to feed current projects, invoking Steve Jobs’ idea of tying disparate experiences together. SPEAKER A references a teaching background that informs sales and marketing. The passage emphasizes persistence, cumulative skill-building, and the value of varied past experiences.

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It took me 11 years from the time I started doing side projects until I had my life changing exit, you know, where I could retire. And I don't know if 11 years sounds long or short to some people. To me it sounds long compared to a lot of folks who raise venture capital and are suddenly rich. That now that I'm here though, and I have the skills that I've built, I still pull stuff from my info product days, from my e commerce website days, from my agency days, all of that into what I'm doing today. Steve Jobs talks about these three things that he did as he was growing up and it was like learning typography in junior.
College. And.
I' I don't remember that too, but it's these random things and then he ties them all together and he's like. And that's why Apple is so different, because I developed this taste over years.
It's funny how that works, you know, because for me, my history was I was a teacher for 10 years and that has helped me big time when I when it comes to sales and marketing.