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Welcome to the first episode of the Do What Is Necessary podcast with your host Andrew Moon. As the Founder and CEO of Orange Nomad, Andrew has bootstrapped multiple companies with no partners and zero funding. Are you building your company? Are you trying to climb in your career? Andrew is doing the exact same thing right now. If you want to go on this journey with someone right there with you, you’re in the right place. Throughout these 10 min podcast episodes, you will get candid advice on what it takes to grow a company. Are you ready to do the work? Then let’s go!
Let's be honest: building a company from nothing is incredibly hard. It has been for me. I started my entrepreneurial journey at age 8. Yep, you read that right....8! Since then, I've started, run and sold multiple businesses with no partners and no funding. All my life I've had to build something from nothing, and that's what I've gotten really great at - tenacious, creative and extremely smart strategy coupled with hard work. Welcome to The Do What Is Necessary podcast—I’m your host, Andrew Moon.
Listen in as I share all the mistakes I’ve made and, more importantly, what I’ve learned from them, with no fluff, and no rose-colored glasses. The Do What Is Necessary Podcast is a show where we cut through the toxic hustle and grind mindset and dig into what it actually takes to start and grow a “calm business”. Calm is family first. Calm is more independence. Calm is sustainable practices for the long term. Calm is joyful. Running a calm company is a choice.
I’ll be giving unfiltered advice every week, 10 minutes per episode each. I want you to walk away from this podcast with the mindset and tools you need to be successful.
This podcast is for entrepreneurs, side hustlers, and busy professionals with a short attention span (like me)—you’ll get quick-hitting, actionable information in every single episode. If you give me your time, I promise it won't be wasted. Now let's get to work!
Welcome to the very first episode
of the Do What Is Necessary podcast.
Again, my name is Andrew Moon.
Thanks for sharing your
earbuds with me today.
We're going to be learning as we go.
This is going to be trial and
error as we start this podcast.
And.
Hopefully your be along the ride with me.
I've been contemplating this
decision for a while now.
I've been doing live streaming
for about a year and a half.
And have wanted to start a podcast, but.
I'm a perfectionist and I'll be honest.
That's really what has stopped me
from getting this going is wanting
everything to be perfect, wanting
to have everything in place.
And that's really held me up
from actually getting started.
And if you're in the similar place where
you're, I'm a recovering perfectionist.
And I say recovering, because.
That's one of the mindsets that I'm
really trying to get out of still is
having to have everything be perfect.
And.
That really holds you up
from getting stuff started.
My mantra now has become, and I
started this with my last business.
Done is better than perfect.
That's the mantra that I try to
adopt with business with life.
Because I find that if we wait too long,
if we get inside of our heads too much.
We just don't get things done.
And for me, I want to start this
podcast to really talk about doing
what is absolutely necessary.
And I bought into the whole hustle,
mania mindset for a long time.
And it really.
I thought it was serving me while
until you start writing checks
your body can't cash, and then.
Your kids grow up.
A lot of things, culminated almost
seven about seven years ago now.
But I really wanted to start this
podcast to, to get personal about
mistakes that I've made things
that I've learned in life, things
that I've learned in business.
Starting running and
selling multiple businesses.
There is so much education, so many
things that I've learned in that process.
And I want to share specifically a
lot of the things that I did wrong.
I made tons of mistakes.
I still make mistakes, but.
My past life, younger life.
I really didn't have the humility
to admit that I really didn't
know what I was talking about.
And that a lot of times as
entrepreneurs we're winging it.
And that's okay.
I think, we celebrate that as
entrepreneurs that, that risk taking.
That adventurous attitude,
this, paving your own way.
That's what makes us different.
And a lot of entrepreneurs
are cut from the same cloth.
Maybe you can agree with that.
But you reach a certain point in
your life where I think we're at that
point now with COVID the pandemic with
everything starting to transition.
Everybody's trying to get back to normal.
But I don't, I honestly don't think
that normal, that we knew before
is ever going to happen again?
I think we need to embrace the
changes that have occurred.
Changes in ourselves, changes in society.
But really get comfortable with that.
And that's, I really been
doing a lot of soul searching
over the last 18, 19 months.
And really contemplating and deciphering
why and how I actually make decisions.
And a lot of the ways that I make
decisions were based upon things,
that you grow up with things
that you're taught in childhood
things, experiences that you learn.
And.
We all tend to overanalyze so many things
in our life and we don't take the time
necessary to stop and figure that out.
And that's what really.
The benefit for me out of this pandemic
has been, is figuring those things out.
And being able to share.
Being able to share with other
entrepreneurs being able to
share with business owners.
That it's okay.
I remember.
I remember vividly what it was like
going through a recession in 2008.
When a lot of things stopped, I
had a four year old kid at home.
I had a four year old business.
And it was a very lonely thing for me
to be an entrepreneur at that time.
And we, social media
hadn't really come out.
Our ability to connect with other human
beings, even digitally was not there.
And I really was on, in a search
for that in 2008, trying to find
a place to be trying to find other
people that, that really got me.
And that's what I wanted to
provide in this environment
going forward is the ability to.
Teach, what I've learned, teach the things
that I've gone through and experienced
for that next generation of entrepreneur.
And I think that, So much about
social media makes entrepreneurship
look like kittens and rainbows.
But a lot of times the reality of
entrepreneurship is glossed over.
And it's glamorized and I'll be honest.
There are some great high
points of being an entrepreneur.
But the flip side of it is there are
a lot of things that people don't see.
There's a lot of things
behind the curtains.
There's a lot of things that
we as entrepreneurs deal with.
That no one sees.
And I think that fear of sharing that.
Is what holds people back.
And that's really, what I want to do with
this podcast is talk about those things.
Talk about.
The non glamorized a view of
entrepreneurship and the real life.
Without the fluff, without the social
media curation of someone's lifestyle
of what it is to be an entrepreneur.
I hope you stay along
this journey with me.
Like I said, we're going to
figure this out as we go.
I'm still learning
podcasting and all of that.
But I just wanted to put this
out there and get started.
And I I've waited long enough and
I think the time is finally here.
And this is going to be the
first of many episodes to come.
I'm going to try to keep
these under 10 minutes.
If you're like me, I have a
very short attention span.
So I'll try not to get too
long-winded on these episodes, but.
Thank you again for
listening to this episode.
And.
Being on this journey with me.
And if you feel the way that I do.
Share that with somebody.
Let me know, tag me in social media.
But I want to start this conversation
and really get things out there
around being there for each other,
being there for us as entrepreneurs
and providing that community.
Thanks again for being on this
journey with me and sharing
your headphones with me today.
I'll see on the next episode