Scott EmpringhamAI Marketing Strategist | Helping CEOs Scale with AI

DAY 94/100 – THE GUARANTEE YOU DON’T WANT

28 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Scott Empringham delivers a first-person monologue recounting a financial crisis—receiving an accelerated repayment demand on a line of credit before the 4th of July—and reflecting on choices about perseverance, failure, and how he wants his children to remember him. The clip focuses on the emotional impact of the bank call and a friend’s reframing question that prompts reconsideration of immediate overwhelm.

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How do you want your kids to feel about you? Do you want them to see you quit or wouldn't you rather you try and fail? Or do you? What do you want them to say? Yeah, the bank called me right before 4th of July and said, sorry to hear everything. We need our first payment in about 90 days. We're accelerating the line of credit payback because you got no asset underneath it unless you sell your house. And so now, like, the walls just felt like they were coming in and I was really in a bad spot. My foreign mate came over and he said after a long conversation, he put it to me this way and it made a lot of sense. He goes, right now you're looking at all the shit you have to do. And I get that you got to climb out of this mountain. He goes, but I want you to just consider something else. He goes, let me ask you something.