Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses, and I do it for an audience of entrepreneurs who, to be honest, are going through stuff. We make it out to be such an easy thing—go build a company, change your life, make lots of money. And the reality of it is that you have to eat a lot of crap for a lot of years. Even when things are going well, you really suffer. And the problem with everybody making it seem so easy is when you suffer . . . in fact, let me when I suffer, when I’m going through some challenges, I always feel like maybe I’m doing something wrong. And it’s very hard to get back on track and say, “No, this is part of the process.”
Like you guys know, I run marathons. It’s very easy mile 18 to think, “This hurts. This is painful. Maybe I’m not meant to do this. Maybe today’s not the...