Utkarsh NarangFounder, IgnitedNeurons · Your best doers become your worst managers as you scale. I turn them into leaders so your best people don’t leave.

I Didn’t Get Lucky. I Thought Ahead. (This Is the Difference)

22 Jan 2026 · 2 min

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After losing his leg, the speaker partnered with his prosthetist Scott to provide peer support and marketing for the practice. He describes negotiating a contract where he'd help patients through the prosthetic process and promote the clinic through videos, framing it as a broader principle: asking whether any life event, good or bad, can become a business opportunity.

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If I hadn't thought about it before, I wouldn't have been ready when the opportunity came. So you have to think, you have to monetize your mindset, and you have to think about things. And so I thought about it. Then I'm sitting there, we're working on my leg in the prosthetist's office, and I said, Scott, your competition, they have a guy. I talked to him. He helped me through what I went through. You don't have a guy. I'm your guy. And from there we negotiated a price and I contracted with him. I said, Scott, I don't want a job. I don't want to come into the office every day. I don't want to— I want to help people go through what I'm going to have, what they're going to have to go through because I went through it pretty well. And then I do some marketing stuff for him because I can sell him better than he can sell himself. We do videos together and I'm like, Scott, you are changing people's lives. Get excited. You're helping give their life back. And so I can sell him better than he does. And so I do marketing for them. I didn't want this to happen. I would prefer to have a leg, and I would advise your audience, don't go chopping off body parts to start a side hustle. But if it's going to happen, think about how can I monetize it? And so anything that goes past my life, good, bad, or ugly, I always ask, can I monetize it? I don't monetize everything, but I always ask it. You've heard the, the saying, when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Well, if you're making lemonade, you might as well build a lemonade stand and sell the stuff. And that's just kind of the way I— good, bad, or ugly— I'm thinking about, can I monetize it?