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Asking for Advice Is Not Embarrassing
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Alex Edelman leaned on mentors twice his age for advice on partnerships, banks, and construction — and says it made all the difference. #BuildingABusiness #Entrepreneurship #MiddleClassPodcast
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To be diligent in the business, you have
to work hard. There's no question about
it. You have to work hard, you have to
work with common sense. And if you don't
know something, go out and get some
advice before you do something that
doesn't cost you a lot of money.
>> Right.
>> So,
asking advice from people is not an
embarrassment. I've done that many a
times.
>> a good point. What would you say like
you had mentors and
>> I had certain people as mentors in the
in the health care industry that I went
to and asked the question and I asked
them to follow up on me. I asked for
recommendations
for for partnerships. I asked
recommendations
in certain in certain types of banks we
would deal with and construction
companies. I've gotten a lot of
information, a lot of help from other
people in the industry.
>> [snorts]
>> I was more or less the the youngest guy
going into the industry those days.
Everybody was twice my age.
>> Wow. [snorts]
>> You know? So, they looked upon me as a
as the new kid on the block, so to
speak. So, I got some help from some of
these people and it helped me a lot, a
great deal, obviously.