Entrepreneurship Isn't for Everyone - Here's Why [Joel Wohl]

Um, I we have a tremendous audience of very young people and that's why I keep my uh podcast like PG-13. No, really, I have the hotline and I get messages of literally kids. So, I decided I'm going to go that route and I'm curious a 13, 14year-old that's wondering like, can I ever go into business? What's your opinion? Is business meant for everybody? Should they dream about a business? It's not about I don't think it's about business versus work. I think it's about passion. And some people's passion is just to make money. And those are the people that become really wealthy because they it's not about real estate. The guy's buying 13,000 units. The guy loves money. So he knows how to calculate what a gallon of paint is going to cost him because he's he's he loves money. So if you love money, you make money, right? But Elon Musk doesn't love money. No, absolutely not. He's passion driven. I'm not saying you don't make money the other way, but So there's one, right? Those are the kids that are selling candy in school. So you I was selling the cookies in. You were? I was. I was. So So either you are or you don't or or you're not. I wasn't. It wasn't. Making money was not my passion. So So if if you're 13 years old or 15 years old, you're either selling cookies or not. You're not going to become the kid that sells cookies. You're just not. Yeah. It's like either you're good with your hands and and you're and you're and you're and you're um destroying your your uh electronic I don't know I don't know what they use today. Like when I was a kid it was remote control cars, right? You know, or you're sitting and coding if you're 13 years old and your father has a computer and you're and you're figuring out how to code. That's your passion. That's who you are now. You're going to make money if you you know use it the right way, right? Um this guy, this guy figured out how to how to do uh whatever he does. We know what he does and he does it and he's very passionate about what he does and he makes sure that he delivers very well. Smelly broady broady floors. Yeah. U so what I would say though is very important. You have to lean in and by the way this is whether you're 15 or you're 40. You got to lean in to your passion and you got to figure out how to monetize it because it's great to have a hobby but if you don't if you're not making money you're you're going to be miserable, right? Um, so what was it for you, by the way? You're saying you weren't passionate about money. What what pushed you at at a younger age to enter entrepreneurship into figuring out businesses and then becoming someone that works with hundreds of businesses a year like meaning with the shows and all of that? Why couldn't you just be like everybody else, a job or a simple business? Like I was I mean I started in the show like I started in the show business. the show business, this this this conference business, right? Um full-time four years ago, actually full full-time two years ago. Wow. Right. At 42, baby. So, wow. Um so, I've done lots of different things. I think um one of the one of the problems I had because I wasn't good with my hands. I didn't like making money. I'm not a numbers guy. Um, I struggled all my life like f like what am I doing? Finding my thing. I I've did different things. Um, and then it hit me uh a bunch of years ago uh with Grant Cardone. Yeah. Really turned me on like when I was like 30, 32. He woke me up like he he lit the pilot since that day. Since day one, the first book I read or whatever it was. This is like, you know, 15 years ago, he turned me on. Wow. Like you like what? You have an obligation to be successful. It's a it's a duty. I can so relate because I'm a huge fan of Grant Cardone. And I'll tell you why. Cuz I feel like Grant Cardone, he speaks the language. Exactly. Tas. Tas. And he scares you. He scares you. You know what scares means? It's like, what will happen if you don't come to this show? What will happen if we don't do business? He is very aggressive. I feel like we need a little bit. You have to scare me. This is our mama. You'll you'll kill yourself. You'll get sick. Our army you're very successful. The cops patch the cops patch. Get to work. But that day wasn't a day obviously a day, a week, month. My whole mind shifted like yeah, what can we do with this? What can we do with that? Why can't that's why I started like thinking also very big for 10 years until I actually got somewhere I I mean I I had a ad aver Amazon advertising company dude I was dealing with Amazon with Walmart and I'm talking I'm not talking about dealing with you know we we and then when we did the shows we had their top people I was invited to them they were invited to us I I learned to aim for the top and you can get there it's not hard to to try to aim for the top. It's the same effort.