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Read the book before judging the cover ;)

   When you climb this crazy hill that we call entrepreneurship people tend to look at the fruits before they look at all the hard work it took to get you there.  That is troubling to me because I find that you need to know the backstory in order to appreciate the current situation of that person's success.  A back story can be more attractive and inspiring than the product itself, at least I think so.  I am always intrigued as to how people took their creative ambition and made it into a reality.           When that is understood then it's easier for that person to understand what it took for someone to get there and inspire them to implement that ambition in their own project...but it's not always pretty.  There is a lot of sacrifice to achieve a dream...a sacrifice that might consist of not be able to attend events, shut out some negative noise, and maybe even form new circles.  These of course are hard choices, must sometimes hard choices need to be made in order to

Never Give Up On Your Idea

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My Son George, Areti, myself and New York time Best Selling Author Chris Guillebeau The one thing that has always been said is that “hard work pays off” and when you are recognized for your hard work it is truly very cool and humbling. Two years ago we had done an interview for New York Best Selling Author Chris Guillebeau’s popular podcast Side Hustle School.. Where we talked about the humble beginnings of Cashunt and where we are now 20 years later. It was a very nice interview and with that said we were very appreciative of the opportunity to talk about it and then we moved on. Little did we know what was happening next. A year later after that interview we received an email from Chris’s people that out of 800+ side hustles that chris had interviewed we were selected to be one of the top 100 in the country and Chris wanted us to be included in his new upcoming book! This was really eye-opening and again very humbling. But it didn’t really sink until this truly beautiful book