The Danny Miranda Podcast
#298: Justin Welsh – You Don't Need Scale To Be Happy
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Quick takeaways
- Finding content intersection for impactful creation is key.
- Long-term growth mindset crucial for sustained audience engagement.
- Creating space through targeted decisions enhances revenue streams while maintaining personal fulfillment.
Deep dives
Transition from Corporate Success to Online Entrepreneurship
Transitioning from working for others to becoming an online writer and course creator, Justin Welsh shares insights gained from his journey of burnout in 2018. Building a significant audience on Twitter and LinkedIn, Welsh emphasizes the importance of finding the intersection between audience preferences and personal interests for impactful content creation.
Balancing Short-Term Engagement with Long-Term Goals
Welsh discusses the challenge of maintaining audience engagement while pivoting content direction. By focusing on long-term growth, he emphasizes the significance of understanding audience preferences and being confident in adapting content direction. Over time, Welsh's mindset shifted to a decades-long perspective, prioritizing sustained audience growth and content alignment.
Anti-Goals and Creating Space for Meaningful Pursuits
Implementing anti-goals as a way to avoid burnout and align with personal values, Welsh explains how he eliminated non-healthcare consulting and adjusted his pricing strategies. By creating space through targeted decisions, such as discontinuing services that deviated from his core interests, Welsh discovered opportunities like a successful subscription email newsletter, enhancing revenue streams while maintaining a balanced focus on personal fulfillment.
Empowering Underdeveloped Nations Through Creator Space
The speaker foresees the potential for underdeveloped countries like India and African nations to leverage the internet for economic empowerment akin to the opportunities in developed countries. By observing the impact of the creator economy in more advanced regions, there is a belief that similar strategies could be applied in underdeveloped areas. This vision involves sharing knowledge and resources to enable individuals in these countries to generate income and transform their lives through online platforms.
Empowering High-Performing Individuals for Future Entrepreneurship
The podcast addresses the impending shift towards one-person internet businesses as a viable alternative to traditional employment, emphasizing flexibility, high income potential, full ownership, and increased family presence. Anticipated challenges include a surge in burnout among high performers post-pandemic and the difficulty companies may face in retaining elite talent. The speaker predicts a transformation where high-performing individuals turn towards internet entrepreneurship for increased autonomy and lifestyle benefits.
Justin Welsh is an entrepreneur and writer. Over the last decade, Justin helped build two $50M+ ARR companies, teams of 150+ people, and raise over $300M in venture capital. Then, in late 2018, he burned out.
Now, Justin is the creator who makes the bulk of his income from online courses teaching others how to systemize their content and grow online. Over the past three years, he’s built an audience of 290,000 on Twitter and 342,000 on LinkedIn.
(0:00) Intro
(3:15) Changing Niches
(8:04) Long-Term Mindset
(10:40) Core Skills
(13:01) Panic Attack In 2018
(17:02) Leaving Massive Tips & Kindness
(22:18) Customer Service
(25:45) Anti-Goals
(29:12) Cutting What’s “Working”
(32:55) Creating More Space
(35:35) Shiny Outcome Syndrome
(41:30) Building In Difficulty
(43:02) Writing Book
(45:15) Democratizing Access To Success
(50:34) Course Tactics
(56:33) Best Conditions For Writing
(59:12) Improving Craft
(1:04:50 Harry Mack
(1:08:03) Solopreneur On The Rise?
(1:11:48) Challenge
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Justin's Links
Website: https://www.justinwelsh.me
Twitter: https://twitter.com/thejustinwelsh
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justinwelsh
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