0:00 Intro
0:40 Judy Glik didn’t like Howard’s glasses and he is open to feedback
2:17 Touching on the political environment
3:15 Touching on the markets and risk
4:00 Starting something new in your vocation or work? Yes, it is
4:40 Reflecting on past businesses John Pa started
5:00 What does it look like to start something new
5:28 Howard Lerner reframes the question into problem solving
6:10 “Problems present opportunities”
6:28 “Not all problems make money” How to make money solving problems
7:05 Find the pain points and relieve them (e.g. childcare)
8:22 Pursuing your passion or finding your passion and still stay in your job
9:45 “Be brutally honest with yourself when you starting a business”
10:30 You need to have plan and your passion isn’t a plan
11:55 How you plan and pursue something new
13:00 When Howard and Suzanne started Kaldi’s Coffee and how they planned
14:40 Cutting costs or personal expenses and what it means in midlife
15:50 John’s thoughts on how to make a life pivot: “It’s a stroll”
16:20 Try things
16:25 John didn’t have a plan
16:38 “John you’re super lucky”
16:55 “The journey is iterative”
18:20 Take stock of what you’re interested in
19:00 Find that interest and find ways to solve problems
19:12 John’s online cookie business with his wife, Clean Cookie Company
20:10 You can use Etsy and sell your crafts
20:14 Babysteps and the mindset of going outside of your comfort zone
21:14 “Imagine yourself free”
22:18 “I’m completely unqualified” -John Pa
23:35 “Times of problems create times of opportunity” -Howard Learner
23:56 Nathaniel Reid
25:00 Ted Ibur, a retired teacher, created online writing classes, called Gifted Writers
27:00 Howard Lerner and Rob Grimm helped Ted create the online courses
27:25 The internet helped Ted create passive income and scaled his business
28:30 Tech has helped us create infinite reach (Grain’s newsletter)
30:00 Creating community
31:30 Where are the opportunities?
31:50 Childcare
33:00 Real estate and the process of selling it
34:00 Smaller things to try…like writing on Medium. A website started by Evan Williams
34:45 The Medium Partner Program will pay you for your writing if people read your writing
36:45 Designers can work with Fiverr or 99Designs
37:05 John Pa shares how he’s made money on Medium; it’s amazing!
38:00 How long it took John to write the post; started with his blog
38:20 Submitting your work to a publication on Medium and a little bit how this works
39:00 John, how did you get yourself to start the engine of creating or writing?
40:10 Write every single day
40:20 Post even when it’s embarrassing
41:00 John planned out his life by decades
41:45 Commit to creating and it gets easier
42:30 Eventually, “it becomes natural”
42:55 John’s blog evolved into this podcast
43:40 How has it been starting this podcast for Howard?
44:00 “I grow when I’m challenged” -Howard Lerner
44:30 Using skills garnered to start the podcast
45:50 How did you get over the challenge to publish the podcast and put yourself out there?
47:00 Howard feels alive from podcasting
47:40 Finding a partner and partnership
49:00 If you want to find a possible partner reach out to us, and we will try to match you
49:20 IRS has issued 500,000 new EINs
50:10 Stripe has $1 billion in new sales since the pandemic
51:00 House cleaning: Subscribe to the podcast, sign up for the newsletter
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