{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"What Works","title":"ANNOUNCING: The Candid Confidence Project","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":257,"description":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIt doesn’t matter how long you’ve been in business…\n\n\n\nAny entrepreneur can suffer a crisis of confidence.\n\n\n\nLate last year, I felt woefully unprepared and underskilled for the task I had in front of me. I felt like I had been faced with setback after setback, with defeat after defeat.\n\n\n\nI’d spent 2 years trying to build what I saw as the answer to a huge, painful problem for small business owners. And I just couldn’t seem to get traction.\n\n\n\nI believed in the idea, the people, the systems, and the plan more than ever but I lost confidence in my ability to execute it.\n\n\n\nI was able to keep up a brave face for a long time…\n\n\n\n…but in early November, I collapsed in tears.\n\n\n\nMy faith was gone and, without it, I didn’t know how to solve the problems in front of me.\n\n\n\nIt was finally at that point that I reached out to my crew. I came clean. I got really honest. And I laid it all out for them.\n\n\n\nFor me, getting honest was the path forward.\n\n\n\nYes, my supporters comforted me, gave me new ideas, and asked tough questions. But I had to get really, really honest first.\n\n\n\nWithout getting honest about how low I was, I couldn’t have accepted their support. I couldn’t have taken different actions. I couldn’t have made the big decisions I needed to make.\n\n\n\nAs you know, honesty, transparency, and candor are very important to me.\n\n\n\nIt’s our goal here at What Works to create a safe space to get real about the ups and downs, ins and outs of small business ownership.\n\n\n\nHonesty creates a space for us to examine what’s really going on and what we can do about. Honesty helps us identify the real challenges beneath the logistical obstacles we wrestle with on a daily basis.\n\n\n\nHonesty levels the playing field.\n\n\n\nHonesty helps you see that your challenges and my challenges aren’t so different after all—even if they present in different ways.\n\n\n\nIt’s time for us all to get open and honest about confidence.\n\n\n\nWe decided that this August, we want to tackle a candid...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/AmfGeDL96-fhMaeOcqmX7TK_eWrvTLco6OJj2QpZtZI/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80NGUx/OWY5ZDg1M2E5MmU3/ZjEwOWVmNDM3MWVh/ZjZlOS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}