Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits

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Chris Guillebeau – The $100 Startup. Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future.

Chris Guillebeau – The $100 Startup. Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future.Chris Guillebeau – The $100 Startup. Reinvent the Way You Make a Living, Do What You Love, and Create a New Future.

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In this episode of the Moonshots Podcast, hosts Mike Parsons and Mark Pearson Freeland explore the inspiring and practical lessons from Chris Guillebeau’s bestselling book, The $100 Startup.

Chris is a renowned entrepreneur, traveler, and author who has built a life around creative self-employment and financial freedom. His book is a blueprint for launching a profitable business with minimal investment, proving that you don’t need venture capital, an MBA, or a perfect plan to succeed.

🎯 What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

🔥 Introduction to The $100 Startup – Chris explains the power of creative self-employment and why success is a personal definition. (4m42s)

💡 Chris's Secret to Success is that passion and business sense are essential. Learn how to find the sweet spot between what you love and what the market values. (1m30s)

🤝 You're Not Alone in Entrepreneurship – Struggling as an entrepreneur? So is everyone else! Chris reminds us that setbacks and challenges are part of the journey. (1m41s)

🌍 Business Breeds Connection – The ultimate goal isn’t just financial freedom—it’s creating shared values and meaningful relationships through your work. (1m31s)

🚀 Key Takeaways from The $100 Startup

✔️ Success is self-defined – You can decide what financial freedom and fulfillment mean.
✔️ Passion + Business Sense = Winning Formula – The best businesses combine what you love with what people will pay for.
✔️ Every entrepreneur struggles. Don’t be discouraged by challenges; learn from them.
✔️ Community matters – The best businesses build strong customer relationships based on trust and shared values.

Chris’s approach is practical, accessible, and proven, making this episode a must-listen for aspiring entrepreneurs, freelancers, and side hustlers. If you’ve ever dreamed of quitting your job and building something on your own terms, this episode will inspire you to take action today!

📚 Resources & Links

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What is Moonshots Podcast: Superstar mindsets and success habits ?

The Moonshots Podcast goes behind the scenes of the world's greatest superstars, thinkers and entrepreneurs to discover the secrets to their success. We deconstruct their success from mindset to daily habits so that we can apply it to our lives. Join us as we 'learn out loud' from Elon Musk, Brene Brown to emerging talents like David Goggins.

hello and welcome to the moonshots

podcast it's episode

274 I'm your co-host Mike Parsons and as

always I'm joined by the man himself Mr

Mark pisson Fillin good morning Mark hey

good morning Mike good morning moonshots

listeners good morning moonshot

subscribers and welcome to episode 200

and 74 mik you know what that starts to

make me feel a little bit long in the

tooth nowadays when we're announcing the

the numbers of episodes but you know

what gets me back into the spritely

spirit it's the individuals that we

cover on the moonshot show and today

we're revisiting again in the third

episode of our series on an author Chris

Gilbo today listeners we're getting into

his seminar work the $10000

startup and boy it's um it's a great

book because I think it sets you up if

you've got all these excuses mark on why

you haven't done a side hustle or a

startup but the secret is you're really

dreaming about this all the time

wouldn't it be nice wouldn't it be fun

wouldn't it be cool to start this to

build this so all of us at some point

can be caught procrastinating all of us

have dreams of doing things but

sometimes we don't get across the line

and do them what Chris Gilbo does in

this $100 startup book perhaps his most

popular book uh so far is he really

gives us and I'm totally steal stealing

your idea Mark he gives us all the

reasons to start and there's no more

reasons not to start your own side

hustle or company so if you are

contemplating starting something or if

you need a bit of a boost or a nudge or

a bump to keep going with your startup

then this show listeners viewers and

members is for you Bingo and Mike what I

thoroughly have enjoyed about Chris is

this um lowering the barriers approach

that he's had across each of those

episodes that we've already done on his

work and I think as we come into this

third book with the $100 startup I'm

reminded of some of those insights that

we've learned from the art of non

Conformity and I think as our listeners

who have been listening throughout this

author series revisiting some of those

key insights observations I think is

what we're probably going to run into

here as well so even though it wasn't

necessarily his most recent book as you

say it is one of the more popular ones

but I think the ordering and figuring

out of the foundations that we lay in

the previous work this is now our

jumping off point to really figure out

okay well what is holding us back what

could success look like and I think this

is the ultimate expression of a life of

non-conformity is when you build your

own company right yeah um big

responsibility huge challenge but who

boy um but it's all good if you embrace

the challenge so what is our first step

Mark as we go to embrace this step and

this challenge with our listeners I want

to get us into the head space I want

Chris to do us Justice by introducing

his book I want him to help us

understand what success might look like

what is a what is a $100 startup you

know where do you draw the line with

success versus flirting with business

let's understand a little bit more from

Chris with regards to that but we're

also going to hear from Chris with a

particular Insight that I really like

which is the idea of creative

self-employment so why don't we kick off

today Mike with understanding all about

that from

Chris uh whenever you undertake a big

project whether in business or anything

else uh I always think it's good to

Define your own success I always think

it's good to decide for yourself what

success is going to look like um as

opposed to someone else deciding for you

and uh in the case of writing a book

it's really good

to understand to whom you're writing to

understand you know who is the audience

for this message uh and it takes a lot

of work to write a book book so who who

do you really hope to reach with that

and there's a long tradition in

publishing of uh authors complaining

about their Publishers but unfortunately

I had a very good relationship uh

working with crown on this book and so

uh it's not so good for drama but it is

good for the editorial content of the

book because in the beginning of the

research process I got some really good

advice from my editor and my editor said

you know Chris you use this word

entrepreneur a lot on your blog and in

your writing and uh maybe in some of the

circles that you travel in you know

maybe online with your blog uh maybe

elsewhere some people understand what

you're talking about but for a lot of

mainstream America they have their own

conception of what entrepreneurship is

and a lot of people are actually

intimidated um by the idea of

Entrepreneurship and not everyone's

necessarily interested in

entrepreneurship and for a lot of people

uh when they think about

entrepreneurship they tend to think of

the Silicon Valley model and they think

of kind of you know moving and kind of

banding together to form a real company

and pursuing Angel Investing or venture

capital and that's you know one model of

startups but that's not really what the

$100 startup is about at all um and then

sometimes when people think about

business quote unquote um they think

about things like wearing a suit every

day or playing golf or voting Republican

or all these different things that you

might associate with traditional you

know larger business um and that's not

what the $100 startup is about either uh

so essentially um you know this book and

a lot of what I do with the art of

non-conformity it is for those who are

seeking freedom and it's for those who

are hoping to have more freedom and

Independence in their lives uh whether

it's people who are dissatisfied in

their work um people who have jobs they

don't like um obviously no one at Google

but you know other companies elsewhere

um people are dissatisfied and they want

to make a change but they don't

necessarily know how to make that change

uh and they don't necessarily know what

the next step is and so there's a lot of

resources that are kind of General uh

motivational encouraging people to go

for it and I think that's great um but

when you're ready to go for it the next

question is where are you going and how

do you get there uh and so my hope with

the $100 startup was to provide 300

pages of next steps and a very specific

model of of checklists and case studies

a very data driven approach um based on

this extensive study um that would tell

people exactly you know what to do and

how to do it um to establish you know

their own uh small business and the

second group of people that I'm writing

for in the book uh are those people who

are just now entering the job market uh

either just right out of college or

those who are unsuccessfully trying to

compete uh in a difficult job market uh

people of all ages uh and you know right

now we have a situation where a lot of

people uh in many cases are competing

for few jobs and uh I don't know

entirely what the situation is here I

don't think it's quite as bad in in the

Bay Area but uh where I live in Portland

Oregon uh It's Not Unusual at all to go

to the coffee shop and your Barista who

makes your coffee has a master's degree

or sometimes higher you know and so it's

not unusual at all to find all kinds of

people who have you know this higher

education but they're not able to find

work in the field in which they've

trained and it used to be uh used to be

when we meet people like this uh we

might think that they fallen on Hard

Times uh or we might even think

something's wrong with them they're not

trying hard enough they should just work

harder they should you know get on

LinkedIn polish their resume whatever um

but I would suggest when we have

situations like uh last year in Portland

there was a a a job announcement for an

entry-level receptionist position it

paid $14 an hour with no benefits and

300 applicants showed up you know to

apply for that job in interview and many

of them had college degrees so

essentially everyone is qual ified or

very overqualified you know for that

kind of job and I would suggest when we

have situations like that um you know

the answer isn't just try harder you

know for those people I would say that

the answer for many of them uh

is so interesting stuff there m because

what he's really uh pointing at is it's

a choice if you want to go into the job

market and work for someone else and

start as a receptionist and be one of

300 people applying for the job and

gradually work your way up that's

totally okay he's presenting us with

this idea that there are other options

right and uh what's really interesting

can you just call up one of the clips

with the cover on it because actually I

think this is really important at the

heart of this book what's really

interesting is he's talking about how

these are all options for you fire your

boss do what you love and work better to

live more you could almost argue like

where's the MVP generative of AI

prototype wireframe AWS hosting

thing like the point that I'm trying to

make here is there's a much bigger idea

than just do a startup and he also

challenges us a bit it's not just like

what you imagine in Silicon Valley it's

about the choice that is available to us

in order to go do that so I just wanted

to call up that cover just to it really

came to me as he was talking so Mark I

think he's presenting a different path

so I think the big question is why do

you think when we go out in life that

sometimes we get in like a zombie mode

and just like do what everybody else is

doing and fail to ask

ourselves what should I do like why is

it that we often just conform and follow

the tradition path yeah I think I as

he's calling out these these lessons and

case studies that he's looked into for

me it really reminded me of people who

are limiting themselves by not going out

and exploring side hustles as he pointed

out in that book or going out and being

a non-conformist in the art of

nonconformity for me I think what limits

people is the fear of the unknown you

know I think we all are if we're lucky

maybe not living in by the sounds of it

but if we're lucky and we get into a job

sometimes it's very very uh easy to stay

in it because you don't know what else

is out there or you don't know what else

is going to be the situation when you

work with somebody else another team

another boss you know obviously as we

just saw saw in the book cover you could

fire your boss and do what you love but

I think for some people it isn't

necessarily as black and white as saying

I hate my job or I'm love my job instead

there's that middle portion of people

who are okay with their job they're

willing to settle with it they're

willing to sit there and maybe spend

five 10 years maybe longer in that role

and what I think Chris touches upon

throughout all of his books and his work

and we've seen it a few times with other

moonshots as well is you only really

realize that you compromised too late oh

that's that great build

yeah like and so okay okay so how do we

then avoid that regret and I and and I

want to take you to the moment that I

think many of us have when we

see or

read people doing things whether

directly or indirectly we think ooh that

looks cool for example I see some of the

things entrepreneurs do and I I'm in awe

of what they're they're doing it's what

their vocation is is not really of my

interest I just marvel at the initiative

self-direction Independence taking full

responsibility going after it like I

love all of that sort of stuff so we see

and and hear about that kind of stuff

and I will admit sometimes you go oh wow

I would love to have done that and you

think wouldn't that be cool to do that

so what do we do then do you think to

say then okay how do I come back to that

moment how do I actually address that

because I think what we do is we just

let it slide past us right we don't grab

it right like we don't grab it and then

say okay

well well could I do something on the

weekend to get started on that like so

let's keep going on this thought why

don't we grab these moments where we

dream and and it's almost like our

subconscious reveals to us here's your

path yeah and we're like and we just

straight past yeah yeah exactly you know

you notice the sign posts later don't

you you know some of us love to look for

signs you know and I mean kind of

emotional signs you know oh it was meant

to be I think the reason why we don't

grab them at the time is uh uh worried

about what other people might think so I

don't mean ego in the sense of striving

for Success necessarily I don't mean ego

in the sense of looking for a new job

title you know and attainment I mean ego

more so around what are people going to

think of me if I change roles am I being

a bit Reckless yes and those signposts

that maybe you're looking for throughout

your adult life wondering oh maybe I

should go this way that way you drive

past them because you've got those

blinkers on because you're worried about

others maybe you're worried about your

income or worried about sending your

children to school all those overheads

that you know takes up a lot of our

waking hours yes and instead as you've

just said one easy approach could be

don't boil the ocean simplify it yeah

prioritize just a little bit of time

maybe it's an hour a week to maybe not

start the business but maybe to think

about the business okay so take that

idea and then what I would then do is

and something that I I try and use is

when I have these kinds of thoughts is

to explore them in my journal yes yeah

cuz I think I think if you grab if you

grab onto it enough if you if something

Dawns on you good bad or

otherwise and you just do a couple of

sessions writing about it I think that

builds something inside of you that

means okay I am going to address that

now

right um P pattern recognition yeah

that's how I like to look at it yeah

yeah so if you if you kind

of do your ice breaker and grab the

thought then journal on it a couple of

times I think that's going to Fester it

up you're going to start talking to

other people hey how do you think I

might do that or have you seen this what

are your thoughts did you see that that

looked really cool and I think this is

where you get the awareness I think like

we're in zombie mode so much and yet our

subconscious is screaming at us that go

that way go that way Mark go go go and

you're like oh I see that thing on the

right but I'm just GNA keep going left

and just make it to the

weekend I think it's much like a reason

that people probably put off getting

into let's say a marathon you know we'll

use the moon shot's favorite yeah we

have a good Marathon you know if we are

afraid of tying up the shoelaces and

going out because we're worried about

being SL

hey at the end of the day that doesn't

matter you know going out and and having

a crack at it and seeing whether you

enjoy it that's the the fun bit and I

think what Chris tries to do if we come

back to you know the $100 startup is

help us understand hey you can do things

one at a time you can explore and see

whether it is fun and I think the reason

why some people don't do businesses is

because it's hard it's hard work right

you know from

okay so you're saying like one of the

reasons that we don't grab it it's a bit

like what we get trained in the kitchen

we know that pan is going to be quite

hot if we try and pick it up yeah I

think so you know we we we we hear these

great stories of entrepreneurs we

understand from a lot of the authors on

the moonshot show that it takes

discipline resilience a growth mindset

hey sometimes that sounds pretty

hard yeah okay yeah I see like people

are not getting excited um for the most

part about their first marathon they're

just like oh my gosh will I live yeah

exactly and same with the startup well

the great news Mark is that this book

really does present us with the option

to go and you know actually do this in a

lower risk fashion much like he did with

side hustle and in fact he opens up all

different ways to be the best version of

yourself and that's exactly Mark what

our famous members our trumpet announced

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of our members and they must be uh

tuning in and looking for the secret uh

to success and the great news that Chris

Gilbo author of the $100 startup well

Mark I think he's got the secret to

success don't you look I think this next

clip Mike is going to uh speak very much

to our sensibilities with regards to

setting up businesses and having a go at

things in life it's a very growth

mindset uh orientated clip so let's hear

a little bit more around this this great

word that I know our members are really

going to enjoy

passion passion plus good business sense

is the magic formula the missing piece

is that you usually don't get paid for

your hobby itself you get paid for

helping other people pursue the hobby or

for something indirectly related to

it the secret to all success is simple

really capitalize on your passions but

do so with good business sense by

looking into how you can turn your

skills or passion into a workable and

successful product or service aim to

strike what Chris calls convergence a

state where your skills or passions are

valuable in the sense that they

intersect with the things stroke

elements other people find useful if you

can strike this convergence and from it

package your passion stroke skills into

a service or product a specific audience

would find invaluably useful in that it

serves a purpose such as helping solve a

problem you will create a successful

business because passion or skill plus

usefulness equals success or passion

plus skill problem plus marketing equals

opportunity Mark I feel like we just got

Chris gilo's own unique flavor and

recipe of um iy guy yes that's the

exactly the same notes I took yeah

so the big lesson that we're seeing here

is that if you can find an intersection

between

skills interests or passions that you

you have you then just need to figure

out well what does the world need around

that what can you get paid for and what

are you in particular good at so the

care to take here is just because you're

good at something that you have a skill

let's say you're a great uh artist of

watercolor paintings you also need to

ask yourself are

you ready willing and able to be a

teacher of that skill because not every

player becomes a good

coach right so there is definitely a

process there I would

say um one of the themes to kind of know

what we should ask ourselves is actually

let me put it that way one of the things

we need to do is like how do we figure

this out like what are the things that

we're naturally good at and I think you

know there are a whole bunch of things

you can ask people um hey what do you

think I'm good at um if you prompt

enough in chat GPT he can ask chat

GPT I've done that its thoughts but I

think the other thing here

is um to pick up on one of the most

iconic authors that we've covered Mii

chick Mii the author of

flow it's the work in which we lose

ourselves the practices and the crafts

in which we lose ourselves if you're

a artist who loves to draw and you can

lose yourself for hours if you're a

musician who loses yourself if you have

a hobby and you can spend the whole

Sunday just lost in your hobby this is

like a great signal so for me it's

like activities that are

challenging but so immersive that you

lose track of time they can't be too

easy just cuz some easy that's your

competency there right that's just like

I'm very competent at it but if you

really want to like find The Sweet Spot

I'm not only competent I can take on

stretch goals and challenges in that

domain so I'm not rot learning or just

doing the same thing all the time but I

can push into it and totally lose myself

because it's when there's a bit of a

stretch that's what brings you in right

when it's a bit complex and new and you

got to figure it out you have to bring

your whole self in you become very

present in the work and that's when you

just immerse yourself you become one

with the work right yeah that's it those

are the moments where I think if we want

to capitalize on our skills and our

passion I think that is the moment so

what would you say to a friend of yours

Mark who's trying to figure

out if they're going to do a startup

walk walk me through a little bit like

how you would help them what's some of

the questions you'd ask them about

finding their skills and passion well

well first of all I want to steal a line

from Mark Manson who our members and

listeners will know wrote the book The

subtle art of not giving

up uh and a blog post that I read it was

probably a couple of months ago now and

he basically pooed the idea of this word

of passion yes people as does as does

Cal Newport as well exactly he has the

Craftsman mindset you like you do the

work and the passion comes later and I

think think this is what I would advise

my friends or myself or whomever might

be interested in going down the route of

of Chris gilo's work and creating a

startup or a side

hustle maybe be more flexible with the

idea of passion I think people have this

golden egg idea of passion being my

calling you know I'm I can't wait as

soon as I start that passion every day

will I I'll be in flow I'll feel great

from the moment I wake up to the moment

go to sleep and I'll dream of it all

night long the passion is what I was put

on this Earth to do right I think

instead the passion is what topics you

enjoy reading about the things that

maybe you'll find yourself watching on

YouTube or podcast or Spotify uh

elements or episodes that you're

researching and you're quite happy to

learn from chat gbt or whatever it might

be that your your learning from likewise

what are people asking your help for are

they asking your help to move stuff is

it uh advice on technical setups is it

advice on what books to read or is it

projects that they need you help with

you know something physical maybe or

maybe advice on marketing strategies all

of that I think helps the individual

start to understand hey what currently

stands out for me but there's one other

thing that I would suggest to them and I

think Mike you're going to agree with

this as well it's to try new things it's

to go out and just give it a

often passion I think comes from

experience you know I've been um

particularly since probably turning

mid-30s so the last few years I've tried

to embrace new experiences go out and

give something a go and maybe it works

maybe I enjoy it maybe I don't but the

benefit of

trying it Narrows the the the walkway so

to speak you know the Target that once

felt way too big suddenly if you're

trying to find your passion or what

interest to you it gets a little bit

narrower because you start to appreciate

hey yeah I like being outside or I like

getting on the back of a boat or

whatever it might be find things I think

is a pathway to finding your passion

well that's that's exactly where design

your life um by Bill and Dave my two

friends um this book that we studied

talks a lot about you don't have to see

it as this massive jump between where

you are today and doing a sideous or a

startup you can do things on the weekend

you can volunteer you can interview

people who already do it there are all

these proxies that give you a little

sense and a taste of it so it doesn't

have to be such a a big deal and I think

those practices like if you want to like

figure out maybe could this skill work

as a side hustle or a

starter then there are a ton of

intermediate steps in which you can take

that don't mean like risking the the the

college fund of the kids or the mortgage

and going all in and and renting an

office there's a lot of things that can

happen before that um one of the things

I want to do Mark is I do want to share

at my

screen uh once again if you are

interested in the themes and topics that

we're discussing here what you can see

is a course that we've made specifically

about this book $100 startups so you get

like a PDF summary audio summary what's

very cool is you get a quiz and homework

activities so it means that if you are

interested in this theme that Chris

Gilbo has you can get access to the

ideas you can get a link to the book but

most importantly you can do the

activities and get instant feedback and

this could really set you on your way to

building your own startup to doing your

own side hustle so this is all available

at Apollos skills.com it's all free so

check it out uh we got hundreds and

hundreds of students now it's great um

and any of the books that you hear us

cover on the show you'll find a free

course over at Apollos skills.com I

really enjoyed this uh apoll skills

course actually for this book because

the homework assignments as much uh as

it maybe pains me to say the homework

assignment got me excited uh it actually

does because it challenges you to go out

and create a presentation to really

think about uh documenting the work that

you've learned putting it into almost

like a business plan and then trying to

present it to your your colleagues or or

family so I think there's real richness

within that course so I highly suggest

everybody else goes to check it out as

well now I think it's important too Mark

that we

um also point out that this is not an

easy path right there are challenges

there so I think what's really good is

that Chris also acknowledges that it's

not just like a big side hustle hype up

um there's also a big dose of reality so

so walk us through this next clip Mark

yeah I I think you're right Mike that

was a perfect little supon introduction

I think uh because as you say it is

going to be a challenge and maybe it's

not going to appeal to everyone but for

those who do want to go out and do it

you know such as ourselves such as our

moonshots members Chris has a little bit

of advice for us to help us remember

when the going gets tough we're not

always

alone entrepreneurship is all about

creativity because there are so many

possibilities there are so many

opportunities uh these days in

particular we don't have to wait a year

we don't have to write a business plan

that's 80 pages long that no one will

ever read uh we don't have to rely on

banks or institutions uh to grant us

Capital to start um we can start within

30 days we can start sooner than that um

so there's a lot of freedom in that um

there is a lot of creativity there's a

lot of Art in that we looked at more

than 1500 businesses um all over the

world North America and Beyond who would

all started businesses for less than

$1,000 often less than $100 uh without

going to Business School uh without

writing this 80-page business plan you

know they created all kinds of

businesses and they all had to make at

least $50,000 a year to be in the study

a lot of them were six figure businesses

some of them were even more than that um

but we're not talking about like very

small businesses we're talking about a

lifestyle that can support someone or

even support a family um so it is

possible so the central message of my

work with the art of non-conforming

is you don't have to live your life the

way other people expect and you can do

good things for yourself and for others

at the same time it's not a false choice

and there's all kinds of people all over

the world doing that in different ways a

lot of them are entrepreneurs a lot of

them are artists some are students some

are retired folks who are embracing a

new career um and my message to all of

them is you're not alone and we can do

big things together uh so come and be a

part of something you know whether it's

an event like here in Canada whether

it's somewhere else um you know whatever

it is I want to affirm the value of

unconventional living I want to help

other people do that um just as many

people in the

community so really good stuff here

because where we're going here Mark

is the you're not alone in thinking that

there is

something else other than working in a

job for someone else you can start your

own thing but also one of the greatest

complaints of entrepreneurs is how

lonely entrepreneurship can be right

particularly in the early days and I

think it's a very powerful message that

you're not alone other people are going

through it so you know you're not the

only crazy one so that's good but two

there are a lot of people who are

choosing and look just think about life

postco a lot of people have

reconsidered how they are conforming to

the things in life that are have been

the traditional path and as speaking to

someone who only did seven weeks at

College um I really relate to this

because you know in my own clumsy way

I've had to go and find make the art of

Conformity work for myself and raise a

family and and have a house and all of

that sort of stuff so I really relate to

this and I think that inside of this

more than anything is other PE you're

not alone because other people have done

it and

succeeded yeah so if and this is a big

if if this path is for you you're not

alone I'm and I think this is a

brilliant message M yeah and I think

this is a message that entrepreneurs

really do lose track of because you get

so caught uh in the business you know

you are talking about and trying to fire

or hire the right people you're got one

eye on you know your your pnls the

stress of you know uh putting your

family through you know tumultuous

emotions whatever it might be and I

think that is lonely for people and

really what we've uncovered with Chris

for example is that it can be something

that is joyous as well and I think that

work that you know we've referenced in a

previous show for example Elizabeth

Gilbert with big magic is an empowering

message it is one that we want to adhere

to um we want to go out and explore and

find things that really do get us

excited and one of the ways of doing

that is by going out and and having a

challenge you know going out and maybe

have a little bit of a feeling of

discomfort maybe go out and try

something new without the reassurance of

of a boss yes or other people and you

know when you do go through the the

Wilderness alone and come out the other

side it just teaches you how strong you

are and that's why you want to go and

take on that challenge but I don't think

we can leave our audience sort of

dwelling in this valley of darkness mark

have you got have you got a clip to kind

of liftt us out here and connect us to

the world yeah you're right we we need

to cave out of all of this we're not

saying don't out and do it what we're

saying is go out and do it and embrace

the challenge and this final message

that we've got from Chris which is our

outro for today's show but also the

Chris Gilbo series is really one that

helps us remember that businesses your

hopes your dreams your passions whatever

you want to call it the work that you're

doing day in day out it cre creates

shared emotions shared experiences

shared values and ultimately what

business really does is it breeds

connections so let's hear from Chris one

more time with regards to how business

really can make life pretty

exciting inspiration combined with

action I hope that people will read the

book and and say not only it was a good

book but I hope they read it and say you

know I read this and then I went and

then took action on it and I I started

my own little micro business um or I

improved the one I had or I helped

someone else with their um I really hope

that uh that inspiration will be

combined with action because I talk a

lot about freedom and uh the question I

would have to all of us or to anyone

who's watching is uh do you have enough

freedom in your life and are you doing

most of what you love most of the time

uh all of us have things that we have to

do from time to time and that's okay um

but most of the time you know are you

doing something that you find meaningful

that's challenging and rewarding and

then because uh freedom and

responsibility are correlated uh are you

making the world a better place you know

are you giving enough um do you feel

like you know you're doing enough for

yourself and for others um the second

thing that I hope for is uh education

for all those people who want to start

something but don't know what those next

steps are um the book has lots of

examples and checklists and case studies

and you know one-page business plans and

promotion plans um again just kind of

helping people take those next steps and

then the third and final thing that I

hope will come out of the book uh is I

hope it will create a sense of urgency

uh among those who read it um because we

do live in this remarkable beautiful age

where we're all connected and you know

we can come together today but we can

also go and reach you know tens of

thousands of people all over the world

um based on shared ideals and and that

has to be the the big thesis doesn't it

Mark like you can put your little

Shopify uh store up online you can put

your little blog up there build your own

channel on a platform and really talk to

people on all four corners of the planet

it it's such a remarkable moment isn't

it yeah it it can be you know and I

think there's a lot of opportunity that

we are invited to take part in if we

want to go out and Chase it with regards

to setting up a side hustle a business a

$100 startup um because you can go out

and have a lot of fun and create

meaningful experiences for other people

you know for example if your idea is to

create a

um a particular way of teaching somebody

a musical instrument if you really enjoy

it and it's you know it's a

non-conformist approach perhaps to use

Chris's words go out and give it a go

because you might find that a handful of

other people really dig what it is that

you're trying to sell and I think not

getting it out there not giving it to

the world is a bit of a waste you know

it's a wasted opportunity for others to

really enjoy what it is that you have to

share I would agree I would agree and um

it's just I think it's so awesome when

you can take something that you're

deeply interested in build a business

around it and by business you're

effectively going out the world and

creating value because you don't have a

business if you don't create value and

then the whole trick is can you create

that value for others while capturing

some of the value for you so you know

you can do well by doing well with

others this is like such a powerful idea

I think this is really why I think

entrepreneurship is such a noble thing

not only is it hard that the

actual prerequisite for a successful

entrepreneurship is helping others

because if you help people with your

product or service they pay you for it

because it's of such value and so in a

funny way it keeps you very honest and

helps you create value for others um

very very U powerful kind of frame to

look at doing your $100 startup we've

had lots of ideas mark on how to do a

$100

startup of all of the ideas and and

maybe you're working on a your own

startup side hustle idea of marriage

celebrant I don't know that's right but

which which of these resonated for you

in that situation well well actually as

I think about setting up my own business

uh looking at policies procedures all

the work that we've studied on the

moonot show is in invaluable to getting

over the initial humps and you know

speed bumps that are in place I think

the thing that I'm really taking away

from Chris today is actually that last

clip that we heard and the reason being

that we get stuck and maybe I'm talking

for myself you get stuck thinking oh is

this going to work for me am I going to

have value am I going to enjoy it but

actually what we were just saying there

is it something worth for the world are

others going to enjoy it I think is as

much of a motivation as putting you know

an extra 400 bucks in my pocket or

whatever you might be chasing with a

side hustle yeah so actually one of our

members uh was emailing uh just two days

ago and um was raving about um uh Feel

the fear and do it anyway by Susan

Jeffers and another book that we had

covered on the show and it was such a

priv privilege to have that shared

interest and this individual lives in

the nordics right and I'm in Sydney

Australia and we're both just

celebrating two books that have been

huge in our lives that that to me is a

classic example so we're we've both got

we're both voting for for clip four

today Mark so great work in fact mark

thank you so much for pulling together

all of these clips uh for show

274 and thank you to you our listeners

our viewers and our members for a study

and a conversation on the $100 startup

by Chris Gilbo boy did we cover some

ground we talked about you get the

chance to decide what success looks like

when you think and work alongside the

$100 startup and it really means that

you can go and dig and look for a

passion and a skill that can create a

great business now after all of that

excitement you'll invariably face the

valley of darkness but you're not alone

there are many others that have been

through this journey and have got

through to the other side of the

challenge and in doing so they've

connected with people not only in their

local community but far and Far Beyond

and it's that connection and that

creation and that exchange of value

which really does connect people and

actually brings out the very best

version of themselves and that is

everything that we're about here on the

moonz podcast that's a wrap