Episode 17 - Entrepreneurs on Simplifying Life and Business with Aaron Coleman

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it is Libby with Fearlessness. What is Fearlessness? It's that underlying grit that empowers us entrepreneurs to keep forging ahead. Even when hope seems distant, it's the courage to walk through those fires of hell knowing that we'll come out better and stronger on the other side. Stay tuned and learn how to get Fearlessness. I'm your host Libby DeLucien and today my guest is Erin. Erin why don't you go ahead and introduce yourself. Hi Libby thank you for having me on today.

[00:00:30] I'm really excited. My name is Erin Coleman. I own Platinum Star Cleaning Services out in Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania. Awesome and how long have you been doing it? I started the business in 2018. And so we're just celebrating our six year.

[00:00:48] Awesome. And so if you don't know about Erin or follow them on social media, I think you sold the house but you had a beautiful house. Yes. Can you sell it? Yeah. Yeah.

[00:00:59] Yeah. So we had the big house and our lifestyle just kind of changed with my husband and I so we it's first started when we had a trailer, so we wanted to go camping and we realized we went to a seasonal campsite where we put the trailer at.

[00:01:19] And we kind of realized at that time that we didn't really need a lot of space to actually live and we went back home and we had this big house and you know one summer we spent the whole summer at camp.

[00:01:33] And you know all the flower pots are dead. Things need to be cut down at the grass is a little you know the gardener didn't come that week and so we basically we were like we really need to reevaluate our life now.

[00:01:49] And so what we did, we kind of said we need the downsize and at that point, we had we were paying rent for an office and we had some horrible rains here last year.

[00:02:03] And our office flooded multiple times and it got to the last time of the rain, the rains that we had and we had to move our business back to our house which was an absolute nightmare.

[00:02:16] At that time, we had I think about 15 or 18 employees and so you know packing up a 2000 square foot office and putting stuff in storage and then debating what you need and I mean it was just insane.

[00:02:30] So that was really the push for us to really get the house listed and we started looking at different styles of living so we looked at some buildings and we said you know this might not be a bad idea.

[00:02:47] So we went into the town that we lived in and we basically we couldn't find anything that worked for us. So we looked across the river in Pennsylvania and we looked we found a building in downtown eastern which is a very up and coming city out here in Lee High Valley.

[00:03:05] My husband looked at the building first and he said listen, I want you to come look at it and I said okay final come look at it. You know, I wasn't really too sure about it and I walked in and I was in it for maybe like a minute and I said okay sell the house.

[00:03:20] It's like list the house let's get it for sale so we did and this is where I am at right now upstairs and this is going to be our living space that we're renovating.

[00:03:32] It's awesome and our office downstairs right now in your office is downstairs love that story about kind of this like life changing I think as our businesses grow.

[00:03:43] The capacity of what we want or Candie always changes and yeah most definitely yeah there's a lot of things that go ahead.

[00:03:54] Now I was going to say like you said the capacity of our life changes and it really does because we've realized that you know we are time is so important and I didn't want you know we didn't want to have to deal with the lawn care and the gardeners and the maintenance of the big house and all of those things really played a big story and to making this huge life change for us.

[00:04:19] Yep absolutely and if you think about some of our happiest moments they happen this is business aside they happen when you're on vacation in a hotel room right they happen when you are literally in a hotel room with a suitcase and nothing to do nothing to clean nothing to take care of.

[00:04:38] Nothing to maintain you can actually relax and so it goes to show you like how much do we really need is subjective to everybody i'm super minimalist like I don't have a picture in my house I don't have nothing on the walls like I ripped all the cabinets out of my kitchen.

[00:04:57] And I put floating shelves and there's still nothing on the shelves I told my husband eventually I should put something on the shelves but I threw everything out or donated at all yeah yeah there's nothing.

[00:05:10] Yeah it's funny that you said that because we designed the kitchen and we had all these cabinets in the kitchen and we the whole war was just all glass cabinets and we kept looking at it and looking at the design of the kitchen.

[00:05:26] I was like yeah let's get rid of that let's just keep that wall clean.

[00:05:33] So we're just doing the base cabinets for now we're going to kind of just feel out the space and that's kind of what we want to do is we just want to basically have you know very minimal walls we're not putting in a guest bedroom we're just going to have a very large bedroom large bathroom large.

[00:05:53] You know living space and and just keep it very minimal we were actually in the building this weekend and.

[00:06:01] We are we had a rearrange some stuff downstairs from when the contractors coming because that's where our houses essentially and we had to move some stuff and I said Tony I said we need to throw out more stuff I was like there is just way too much stuff in this room I'm like we need to chuck more out and and that's what we did we we just started.

[00:06:22] Purging and just getting rid of more and more stuff we gave a lot of our stuff way to our employees furniture and dishes and you know betting and all sorts of things so.

[00:06:36] I think as our businesses grow and we evolve when you said purge i'm going to start to segue into some business questions but I read the book live your future self now.

[00:06:48] And I understand the concept like I and the but I was in my house and I looked around I looked at my husband so there's this I have a screen saver on my phone it's I am a hundred million dollars CEO.

[00:07:04] I saw that yeah and so I was looking at my house and my house is always very minimal it's always tidied because looking I said.

[00:07:14] This is not how a hundred million dollar CEO lives and it has nothing to do with like fancy cars I don't have a car I saw my car and I'm like you know what I don't want to drive anywhere.

[00:07:26] It has nothing to do with fanciness or being pretentious it has to like how does a hundred million dollars CEO live what am I worried about what am I keeping what do I like what do I need to purge or part with because it's grounding me to this time in my life and I need to move to the next phase.

[00:07:44] And I cleaned out my entire house.

[00:07:47] We got we took everything and I am I got my kids on board I got my husband on board and we just started to purge and we put it in the driveway with what our employees then we posted in the community come get it is free.

[00:07:59] And I just said that's this is not if this is what I want to be this isn't right here where I'm living is not what that looks like.

[00:08:07] And so I need to make adjustments and also capacity in your life like the time I have and the lessons I've learned it's like.

[00:08:18] Do I need these things taking up my time do I need these things taking up the space is always a great learning lesson because I had cleaned up my diet I have cleaned like my office and Fort Myers is beautiful like we redid it.

[00:08:32] I lost weight clean up my diet like and I'm like what's left and it was my house.

[00:08:39] Yeah, it was so affecting my entrepreneur journey was that like yeah, what was my environment like.

[00:08:46] It's so true to because I write somewhere that you know life is about experiences it's not about the stuff.

[00:08:53] And it's so true because we don't need a lot of things you know everyone thinks they need the nice cars and the big house and all that stuff and you really don't it's just material.

[00:09:05] And I think when you come to that point in your life when you realize that it is just material stuff that you really don't need it and like you said you don't have a car I have a really beautiful X7 BMW I don't drive it anymore.

[00:09:20] You know we're in a city so I said to my husband I said let's just get rid of the car I don't drive it because we'll don't I said we can go down to one vehicle.

[00:09:31] I said I really I don't like to drive I said I can walk in the city I can get everything that I need I don't really need it anymore and he said okay well think about it I said but i'm still pushing them still trying to get rid of the car.

[00:09:45] So we had four cars and we got rid of all of them but one we kept one and it was like my husband's original Mazda he bought a brand new not original car he had but it was his Mazda he bought.

[00:10:00] And we said okay we'll keep it for Austin our 15 year old who's getting ready to turn 16 in like two weeks we'll keep it for him and we're going to go look for a new car for us for us.

[00:10:10] And I've gotten to the point where I'm like I'm good I don't want a car I don't want to drive everybody's like how do you get anywhere i'm like either I Uber or I call Instacart or Christus drives me in the Mazda I don't care.

[00:10:27] But I don't have to drive myself I don't have to drive myself so I'm like oh this is nice and it's funny because there is there are stages of of the car.

[00:10:40] Of of wealth they call it right it's crappy car.

[00:10:45] It was it was like crappy car normal car nice car no no car crappy car nice car no car so you go back from right it's no car crappy car nice car and then back to no car.

[00:11:01] And I'm like well just I made it.

[00:11:03] I made it.

[00:11:05] I don't want to car that's great we really don't need it especially I mean no like you're trying to travel all the time and you know it's what's.

[00:11:15] You know we don't really need it's just another expense that I just look at and i'm like I don't use it it was nice when I was able yes I can get this great big beautiful car and now I just look at it and i'm like it's just a car.

[00:11:29] Yeah and for me it was capacity i don't want to think about it I don't want to wash it I don't want to worry about maintenance.

[00:11:37] I don't care.

[00:11:39] Like i'm thinking about other things now i'm like i'd rather just uber if I need to go somewhere or I don't leave my house very much so we insta cart everything to the house.

[00:11:50] So it's just interesting how our mindsets evolve as we grow and the things that are important to us kind of shift.

[00:11:56] So that being said I want to kind of segue into some business questions you know the lessons and growth what do you think the most powerful lesson you've learned since starting your businesses.

[00:12:07] I would say right now at this point I think learning to say no is the big one i have really focused a lot on that in the past six months.

[00:12:19] Is to don't do things that I don't want to do or don't do things that don't make me happy.

[00:12:26] I used to say yes to everything and and now it's um if it doesn't bring me internal happiness then I don't i don't want to do it if I don't walk away from it saying wow i just learned this amazing thing or I spent so much time.

[00:12:45] You know learning from that experience then I just won't do it and and I think also to is is is communication communication is key with your employees with your office staff with everyone that is around you and.

[00:13:06] And systems and processes you know that's that's you really need that just not in your business, but also in your personal life as well.

[00:13:17] And that's where my focus is kind of turning right now is to back to me and the system in process of my life and growing spiritually in a very big way and changing my mindset and how I perceive things and look at things.

[00:13:36] It's awesome i love to hear that because I think our businesses reach a certain growth level and that they're going to plateau unless we grow ourselves and we start to put ourselves first.

[00:13:47] I always thought that that was selfish like oh that you have to think of you first you have to make time for you first i always thought that was selfish until I understood what it meant and is that like I can't be a great leader mom, wife person friend.

[00:14:04] If i'm not being great to myself first yeah yeah you have to you know self care is extremely important I think with people like us that are.

[00:14:17] You know the entrepreneur side of wanting to do everything and and trying to do so many different things and then we forget about ourselves at the end of the day.

[00:14:27] And I have really kind of shifted that part of myself right now where i spent the last I would say six months eight months doing a lot of self care learning myself learning how to love myself.

[00:14:44] And and I think it's extremely important because it makes you a better person and it helps you grow and people see that too they see a change.

[00:14:56] Yeah so you talked about like the entrepreneurs in the work i feel like it's not that we want to do everything we want to fix everything.

[00:15:03] Yeah but you know self care and work you know what are your what's your.

[00:15:10] Your thought process or your mindset around work life balance so now you know it's funny because.

[00:15:19] Before I used to you know you jump to something like you know the everything's falling apart you know like you know the jet it's like the jenga block of life right you take the one thing out and then all of a sudden it's kind of balancing and you take another and then sometimes it all falls.

[00:15:37] And it's really learning how to deal with each of those blocks of my life you know I kind of compare it to that and and not to.

[00:15:48] To think before I act and and that was a very big learning lesson for me I would say in the last six months was to really evaluate the situation step away evaluate the situation look at it take accountability.

[00:16:04] There's a lot of things that I take accountability for now just the other day so one of our employees was on a deep clean and the.

[00:16:15] The client complained and I said well were they trained to do deep cleans and they said no I said well that's our fault that's not the employees fault.

[00:16:24] So you know that's kind of like how I changed everything about my life like I evaluate the situations and I look at it and see what fell apart what what happened you know how do we fix it.

[00:16:39] And I think it's extremely important to do that in every aspect of your life relationships people employees your health you know.

[00:16:49] You know one of the things you know I i'm going on three years being sober and remember that wasn't yeah yeah right we talked about it and May 20th of E three years sober from drinking and you know a couple months five months before that I stopped smoking cigarettes and I smoked for like 30 years.

[00:17:09] And so that following May I believe that was when I stopped drinking but it wasn't that I went to rehab it was one of those things where I try to do this a lot now too is to listen to your intuition listen to that voice inside your head and you know that was as clear as day to me that morning on May 20th it was run a million dollar company or run with the booze.

[00:17:34] And you just can't have both and I just heard that voice and I said all right this is what I got to do and I try to listen to that voice all the time.

[00:17:46] You know inside I do it with people and relationships and you know everything you know if people don't make you feel good inside then you shouldn't have that relationship you know and I do that a lot with nowadays that I look at certain things and if I always say if you get that if you feeling inside

[00:18:09] it's your soul you know your intuition telling you something about that person so it's kind of this whole spiritual journey that I've been on as far as like listening to myself finally and I sorry I got a little emotional I haven't done that in years and ever in my whole entire life.

[00:18:32] That's amazing to hear I love you know stepping back in the listening and you know not not just reacting from emotion is very hard to do and learn I have a decision making framework.

[00:18:47] I go through it in my head before I answer anybody before I get involved before and that way I'm not acting off my emotion or how I feel that day or how bad or good that day was.

[00:19:00] And that's that's a huge thing to control yourself like keep it keep you from reacting but it saved me so many relationships bad decisions costly decisions whether they're financial or emotional I want to ask you a question about how do you feel when you stopped drinking if you don't mind me asking.

[00:19:24] Yeah.

[00:19:25] I'm an open book you can ask me any.

[00:19:28] You know my my ex was an alcoholic so I not saying you were an alcoholic and it didn't start that way we were 17 years old and he stayed 17 and I grew up.

[00:19:40] And we had a business together and so that's why I learned how to really run businesses.

[00:19:46] He was he was there he was an amazing man loved him for the day he died.

[00:19:51] But it changed the way he interacted and led people to the point where he couldn't lead people anymore and I want to know how did that transformation change you as a leader.

[00:20:05] Well it changed me in so many different ways not just being a leader but also like a husband, a friend.

[00:20:14] It made me really evaluate relationships so I think as a leader it definitely you know up backtrack a little bit it was very hard becoming sober and the reason being is you have to kind of learn.

[00:20:31] You know you're discovering yourself and that was something I never did before you know I would always go to this.

[00:20:40] And you know so you're really relearning things about yourself and I had to go backwards in my life you know my father was an alcoholic so that was a huge thing you know I'll be completely honest both my parents were drug addicts.

[00:20:58] You know we didn't have a good childhood growing up and we moved around a lot you know I stayed back in school so there was a lot of things that I had to look at and evaluate and discover why I am the way that I am.

[00:21:13] And I had to learn how to forgive myself and once I was able to start forgiving myself I became that leader and I became a better person.

[00:21:27] I get emotional but I try to express that and tell that story to all my employees that you know that every day we have opportunities.

[00:21:42] Every day is a new start of our life and it doesn't and we learn new things every single day and it's up to us whether or not we want to do it.

[00:21:52] And again it's that intuition side of you know my mind is telling me not to have another drink but I'm going to drink it anyway you know so until you know people listen to that little voice that says don't have that other drink or don't get behind the wheel or don't eat that extra piece of cake.

[00:22:12] That's that's kind of that's made me the great leader that I am now with my employees and it's it's been an amazing journey.

[00:22:23] I have become a better husband my husband and I don't pick her or fight anymore not that we've had a you know a relationship of fighting we never really did.

[00:22:34] I think alcohol helps avoidance like you know instead of talking about a situation let's go have a glass of wine.

[00:22:42] Yeah yeah and we we I'm not as on edge anymore because you don't have those highs and lows of drinking and not drinking and drinking and not drinking and feeling like crap and pushing off the things that you need to do to make things happen work better.

[00:23:01] So we we have this we have more honest and discussions with each other and I do that with everything in my whole entire life and you know unfortunately.

[00:23:15] You know I do I've lost not lost some friends but I don't put myself in those situations of where those people were the ones that had drank you know I they were my drinking buddies you know yeah so it was hard you know because you what are you having common you know do you have anything in common besides alcohol and so you really look at all those relationships and that was that is what made me I think this is.

[00:23:44] I think this this leader now to be able to speak to my employees the way that I do and share my experience with them like I am so open with them and because you know our employees have had hard lives too.

[00:23:57] You know and it gives them an opportunity to hear my success story.

[00:24:03] Yeah I think a lot of us service business owners come from not the greatest backgrounds you know on this podcast I interview a lot of service owners have friends were in Aaron or mutual friends but a lot of service business owners either come from you know maybe parents that were alcoholic or drug issues or even just extreme poverty.

[00:24:30] I interviewed somebody the other day and you know he owns a long care company and like he comes from extreme poverty where they didn't even have the money to eat.

[00:24:39] You know we come from those hard backgrounds.

[00:24:42] I think one the businesses are not easy to start but we can do it with a low startup cost but we know what it takes to work because we've kind of suffered as child.

[00:24:55] And we're not scared to put in the work.

[00:24:58] Yeah yeah there is I went to a round table a couple weeks ago and the late the women had said self determination leads to prosperity and it was such an amazing thing that she had said because it kind of just stuck out my head that you know if we

[00:25:21] know especially entrepreneurs and people from backgrounds like it's up to us like how determined are you.

[00:25:29] To have a better life you know then you did before and you know I do it every day you know every day we do it right and we say all right you know I'm determined to do this today in order for so I can have this later on.

[00:25:46] It's it's amazing I mean that the life of an entrepreneur right it's yeah and interesting like that we lead.

[00:25:55] So speaking of the life of an entrepreneur what advice would you give the young version of you that like what you've learned now what would what advice would you give yourself or anybody who's just starting out for the young version of myself I would probably tell myself that you're loved.

[00:26:15] That you're important that you can do anything that you set your mind to in this world and excuse me that's that's what I relate to my employees to young entrepreneurs I would say do everything that you imagine doing whatever it is you know and if it doesn't work out try the next thing.

[00:26:39] I tell my employees all the time never have any what ifs in your life you know do every single thing that comes to your mind and your imagination and if it doesn't work out it doesn't work out at least you did it and try the next thing and try.

[00:26:55] I'm saying I'm a yes and person like yes and I'll do that and we can do this and not I'm not a what if I'm a yes and.

[00:27:08] Yes and I like that so definitely you know so many lessons to learn but I agree I think that when we first start out the either the young version of our self or the emerging entrepreneur is it be kind to yourself it's not easy.

[00:27:29] We don't do it because it's easy we mainly do it because we want to help change other people's lives that's the common theme I hear from every entrepreneur and you know just be give yourself some grace.

[00:27:46] Yeah yeah it's kind of like yourself that you're doing a great job you know I think that we are our first critic always because we think that we can always do more and more and more and we put more stuff on our plate and we put more stuff on our plate and and you know.

[00:28:05] So it's just a matter of knowing how to manage it all and and to learn what is most important at that time and you know it's it's it's an amazing journey doing the things that you want to do that you think about and you know I've done so many things and some things have been very successful and some things have not been so successful.

[00:28:33] And it's it's not the point of whether or not it was successful or not successful it's the point of that I did it and and it was an idea that I had in my head and I'm like okay I tried it and and I got that done and it was great you know it was amazing and I have the memory of it but I'm not going to do that again.

[00:28:54] And I think for young entrepreneurs they see some really I would say not common scenarios because of let's just say social media the internet like you know someone that can build a million followers and a month and when they can't do it in a month they get discouraged or they see you know a $10 million company and you know they tried it for two years and why can't they be a $10 million company.

[00:29:23] But I don't think that social media really gives the real story of the work and the time that it took to do that or the experience we brought with us from trying and doing something else which then propelled us in the next thing that we did.

[00:29:42] And so you can't just try one or one thing you can't just fill it one thing.

[00:29:47] You know myself I felt that it doesn't things I fell every day but I take those failures and the next thing I do I am I learn from those and I take those into account so the next thing I do is more and more and more successful.

[00:30:01] Yeah, yeah absolutely and I it's funny you said that I just had this conversation with some of my employees and I tell them I'm not going to do that.

[00:30:11] I tell them we do one-on-ones now and we do a quarterly meeting and then we do one-on-ones and then now we're scheduling a monthly Zoom with the whole group as well.

[00:30:22] And I told them I said listen you know you might not want your you might not work with for us for the rest of your life.

[00:30:32] It might be six months it might be a couple years it might be 10 years it might be the rest of your life.

[00:30:37] But what I want you to know is that anything that you want to do and you came to me and said Aaron I'm going to go to school to be a hair stylist.

[00:30:46] I would support you 100% and I would say what can I do to help you?

[00:30:52] What do you need you know and you know I told this to one of my employees the other day and she said oh my god that's amazing she says

[00:31:00] you wouldn't be mad and I said why would I be mad?

[00:31:04] I said you're following your dreams of what you want to do.

[00:31:08] I said you know I said in and if you go out and you do it and it doesn't work out or you're not making the money that you thought

[00:31:15] and you want to come back and work for us you know at night time or pick up a day or two here

[00:31:21] I said you can come back and work for us and you could do that for the rest of your life.

[00:31:26] You know I said that is what I want you all to know is that you always have a place to come back to

[00:31:33] and I will always support all of your dreams and I will help you you know you can ask me how to open up your own hair salon

[00:31:40] and I can sit down with you and I can tell you exactly the steps and what you need to do to open up your own hair salon.

[00:31:46] So it's funny you say this because when I hear that some of our employees want to open their own business

[00:31:53] most people would get scared or threatened or like and I'm like oh I can help you.

[00:31:59] I'm like oh let me share with you all the things I made mistakes on so you don't make those.

[00:32:05] Exactly exactly yeah I get excited and that's part of being a great leader right because that's what leaders should do

[00:32:14] and that's a good leader because most of the time people would be like well good luck you know don't bother with us anymore.

[00:32:20] And I'm like no what do you need help with I'll help you.

[00:32:23] Absolutely so speaking on help or you know journeys what would you say the most proud moment you have or can remember in your entrepreneur journey?

[00:32:33] Can you say that last part you broke up a little bit?

[00:32:35] What's the most proud memory you have of your entrepreneur journey?

[00:32:40] I would say my sobriety definitely is one of them and learning to again love myself and to be able to forgive myself for things that I did that I wasn't proud of you know at times.

[00:32:59] And I think right now the part that I'm really proud of is realizing that there's so many things to be important.

[00:33:09] There's so many important things in life to experience and to share and that's my part of wanting to be this leader like I want to share my experience with the world.

[00:33:21] I want to tell everyone my story that I grew up poorer and with drug addict parents and you know I didn't have a good up green upbringing and that you can that anybody can do anything that they want in life.

[00:33:36] And to give people the tools that they need to understand that they can do it that they can get out of it.

[00:33:44] And I think that's my mission I think.

[00:33:49] That's awesome. One of the reasons I do some of the things I do is to help women in business because we struggle a lot with like well self doubt.

[00:34:02] You know the thought process of you know if I don't clean the house I'm less of a mom or less of a wife if I don't cook but how do I do these things and run a business.

[00:34:11] How do I have both things? How do I not let self doubt eat me from the inside out because you know for me it was a big struggle to let go of certain things that others would say would contribute to my self worth as a mom or a wife.

[00:34:29] You know giving up cleaning my house hiring an assistant hiring a house helper.

[00:34:34] You know what what my parents say.

[00:34:37] Yeah you know it was hard for me to let go of those things and those are the ones that held me down not necessarily business things it was personal because then it gave me the time and capacity to work on the business.

[00:34:48] They're so connected.

[00:34:50] Yeah and that's amazing I said to my husband the other day because I've been listening to your podcast and I said you know Libby Libby has a house helper tone.

[00:34:58] I said I think we need a house helper.

[00:35:01] I said I said we need some of the do our laundry do our meal prep.

[00:35:05] I'm like we need someone to wash the cars you know all the things that we don't want to do because when you're at the grocery store and you're going around and you're there for like an hour hour and a half.

[00:35:16] I'm going to do all the things that I could be doing and yeah so.

[00:35:21] Oh so that's funny so I want to tell you a story I was this Saturday I went to the grocery store because my husband was sick and he wanted some soup.

[00:35:29] So me and my daughter me and yeah yeah I went to the grocery store.

[00:35:33] And I'm pushing the car around and I'm like maybe I'll get something to cook for dinner.

[00:35:38] And then I'm thinking I could not even think of the ingredients that we would need to cook a dinner like there's just no more capacity left in my brain.

[00:35:49] Like I'm just like what do I need what do we have at the house oh my god I don't know and I was like I don't care so I bought like a ready meal that was like made at the grocery store.

[00:36:02] Because I told my husband I got back and I said I just don't have any we're opening another location of organize it like I just got so many things in my brain right now I said I didn't even have the capacity to think of the list of ingredients I needed to cook dinner for yeah what do I need happens.

[00:36:18] Yeah no what we do is it's great would be you and Chris would probably love it's called tovola and it's like this oven and you get like these gourmet meal prep meals and you just scan the card and you put the food.

[00:36:31] And it cooks it's like going out to dinner every night. Yeah it's really nice it's called tovola yeah and they call you pick out your meals and that's what we do because I don't have the time to cook an hour and a half or prep for 20 minutes and again like I wouldn't even know what to go get at the store to make a meal it would be more of a pro like a day process.

[00:36:54] So you know I love that you said this topic it's not that okay time so the reason I got into the house helper and so Dan Martell is big on this he's you know you need a house manager I called mine a house helper.

[00:37:08] And it's not it's the time issue so if you're working you know that four hour work week was is if the people that believe that there's a four hour work week only read the cover of the book.

[00:37:22] They did not read the book and it sold this misconception that if I want to be successful I only work for I want only on a business so I can work four hours a week.

[00:37:32] And that's not the way it works especially at the beginning you have to put in a ton of time in a ton of hours and it's like when I stop working I could cook dinner for an hour and a half or I could spend an hour and a half with my daughter in my son or my husband so it's choosing what's important to me so then yes I pay other people to do those other things because I only have so much time like me and Elon Musk have the same amount of time in a day.

[00:37:59] If he can get that done then I sure sure as hell can get the things I need done.

[00:38:05] Yeah yeah and it's like learning from those people right you know how do they do it how how what do they do I think that's also like another part of this journey that I'm on is is looking at other entrepreneurs listening to your podcast like I've learned so much I've I've written down things you know like look different things and I'm like well that's how Libby does it you know I'm like I'm going to do it.

[00:38:28] You know you try to you try to manage because you I think as you get bigger and more projects that you're working on you have to look at your life and say how can I simplify certain aspects in life and to be able to do all these great things that are up here in my head.

[00:38:48] And to be able to do all these great things that are up here in my head and it's true you have to learn from other people you know absolutely so yeah okay so before we wrap it up any big plans and we'll make sure we put in the show notes how you can get in contact with with Aaron if you have any questions or you want to check out his business.

[00:39:08] We'll put in the show notes how you can get in touch with Aaron but any last words or any big things happening in your life for the future.

[00:39:16] Sure so yeah we just filmed the first pilot the pilot for our YouTube show which is going to be following our renovation of the building so it kind of will invite everyone into our lives and in our business and to show the renovation process.

[00:39:36] You'll see we set up this couch that i'm sitting on right now it's an old set T it's like deconstructed and we just basically set it up in this room and you'll see us the whole back of us always constantly changing with construction and walls and different things so we're really excited about that.

[00:39:56] Tony was a little bit nervous in the beginning but I think it's growing on him.

[00:40:01] So yeah we're doing that we opened up another location we're looking to open up for two more locations so we're on working on that right now I just got the first locate the second location online just the i finished it a couple like about a week ago so yeah so we're trying to expand a little bit more and the YouTube show is going to be great in the construction and life of renovation.

[00:40:28] Awesome so we'll make sure we put all that information in the show notes so our listeners can get in touch with you but.

[00:40:34] And I want to thank you for being a guest on the fearlessness podcast and i want to thank our listeners if you want to find more episodes you can find them on libid.com or the fearlessness calm and that's a wrap guys on the on the journey into the heart of fearlessness remember every step we take is a move towards our own strength encourage keep walking through those fires of hell because on the other side.

[00:40:58] Liza version of ourselves it's unstoppable i'm libby reminding you to embrace fearlessness until next time stay brave stay bold and keep pushing forward.