{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Grit Factor Podcast w/ Karl Jacobi","title":"Episode 006: The Prison She Built. $5M in Sales and Still Trapped w/ Cris Beam","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4146,"description":"She Built a Prison Instead of a Business. Here's What She's Doing About It.Episode SummaryWhat happens when you escape the corporate grind only to build yourself a different kind of cage?Cris Beam is a one-woman e-commerce powerhouse. North of $5 million in sales. Over a decade in the game. No team. No safety net. Just her. On paper, she is the success story. But behind the numbers? 3 AM wake-ups. A failed private label investment that will take years to recover from. Crypto losses. A business that runs on pure grit because discipline has never been her thing.In this raw conversation, Cris drops the highlight reel and goes straight to the basement. She talks about trading corporate stress for a different kind of weight. One that never clocks out. She opens up about being the ultimate control freak who built a business that can't exist without her. And she shares the moment a book called \"Buy Back Your Time\" hit her like a ton of bricks and forced her to start making changes.If you have ever felt stuck inside a business you built with your own hands, this one is for you.In This Episode, You'll Discover:The real difference between corporate stress and entrepreneur stress, and why trading one for the other still comes with painHow Cris went from $0 to $38,000 in her third month on Amazon by being obsessively impulsiveWhy a failed private label investment and crypto losses nearly buried her in a six-month financial spiralThe prison she built by keeping everything in her head and refusing to trust anyone elseWhy self-confidence is not arrogance, and how Cris refuses to give herself any option other than successHow \"Buy Back Your Time\" cracked her open and got her to finally hire help after years of doing it soloWhy shiny object syndrome has tanked more businesses than bad products ever willThe power of treating life like a video game. Beat the level. Beat the game. Keep going.Key Takeaways:Every Problem Is Your Problem: When you own the business, there is no CFO to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/gNw9v9uoz_x3O-ngDs21_G9zKGvHmk8OzrCthvwHN-M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9hZTVk/MGMyOGM3NTU5NDYw/MTJmM2NmYmMyNDY4/NDc4Ni5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}