How to deal with setbacks

Todd Palmer, Extraordinary Advisors

I love when entrepreneurs talk about their biggest failures. To be an entrepreneur you have to be an optimist and I love learning how optimist deal with setbacks.

Today’s guest faced several setbacks and we’re going to find out how he recovered.

Todd Palmer is the founder of Extraordinary Advisors which helps leaders and entrepreneurs.

Todd Palmer is the founder of Extraordinary Advisors which helps leaders and entrepreneurs.

Andrew: They’re freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. And yeah. Um, I know that is not what and why people listen to my interviews, but I love when entrepreneurs talk about their biggest freak and failures.

I love it. And I’ll tell you why. I think that I was born with this idea that I was going to make it. I, I believe that God thought that I was going to make it from an early age. And the problem with that, it’s a benefit I wish everybody had because there’s a sense of invincibility and possibilities that you’re born with, that you grow up with.

I have to this day, every moment of my life, the challenge with that is when there is a big negative setback. It just like this doesn’t compute, what did I get everything wrong? Going back to my old childhood perception of myself, or is this is something going on the lawn here?...

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