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Ep 319: Competing For Big Clients As A Small Boutique With A Focus On Task Management With Jim Niedzinski

Financial Advisor Success

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How Did You Go From Being a Team Leader to Founder?

Michael: How did you end out in the i'm a business owner founder scenario? Michael: I would much rather deal with big problems i created then small problems other people created for me. "I found that whatever challenges we face if i'm doing that are much smaller emotionally than when i'm dealing with challenges based on someone else's motives or approach," he says."It was about saying oh that hurts less those kinds of pains problems hurt less and um but ii'm a people person Michael so at the end of the day i like teams  but yeah i think i wanted to be the one solving the problems and making the decisions."

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help me understand like i just how did you go from i was always part of teams and never thought i would end up owning a firm too and and then i launched my own firm like how did you how did you end out in the i'm a business owner founder scenario
Speaker 1
i think i discovered about myself that i would much rather deal with big problems i created then small problems other people created for me um
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so
Speaker 1
guy i don't i i um i realized i'm much happier um in the entrepreneurial oh my gosh this is hard what are we gonna do is this gonna work let's figure it out and do it and less so um being stuck without options or having to deal with politics or other people's priorities it was a large part of the reason we named it motive was we wanted to completely align what we did on a daily basis with our drivers our our values and i found that whatever challenges we face if i'm doing that are much smaller emotionally then when i'm dealing with challenges based on someone else's motives or approach uh or priorities or focus whatever so it was it was about saying oh that hurts less those kinds of pains problems hurt less and um but i i'm a people person Michael so at the end of the day i like teams i like people i like engagement but yeah i think i wanted to be the one solving the problems and making the decisions i'm where to go
Speaker 2
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