Joe & Laura Darkangelo left corporate America in 2005 and haven’t looked back. Most of their days consisted of reaching someone else’s goals and dreams, and they found little time for each other or for their children. With Joe in the sales department for a large distributor and Laura in the airline industry AND owning their own pizza franchises at the same time, they were spent. With exhaustion and an unfulfilling life, they started their entrepreneurial journey. Today, they’re entrepreneurial giants leading teams in Bonvera. 

In this episode, they recount their personal journey to entrepreneurship, and they hash out the dreams, the struggles, and the victories.

Key Learnings: 

• Stress is one thing; entrepreneurial stress is another. 

• We justify a job rather than taking a leap to entrepreneurship. 

• I noticed a lot of people in entrepreneurship, and they had better marriages, were always learning, and had good relationships. 

• I learned more in entrepreneurship more than I ever did in college.

• Negative motivation doesn’t work. Positive reinforcement works best by lifting others up and encouraging them. 

• Education saves us from becoming who we don’t want to be. 

• I’m different from everyone else, so I can’t be like this author or that. But I can use their teachings and apply them to myself.

• It’s your time that matters and what you do with it that’s important.

• Live your priorities. 

Links:

• Dream Big by Bob Goff

• Love Does by Bob Goff 

• Forgiving What You Can’t Forget by Lysa Terkeurst 

• Live in Love by Lauren Akins 

• Phyzix MD 

• Bonvera’s Global Impact Initiative

• Hard Easy by Arthur Coombs III  

To learn more about Bob’s two books, find them on Amazon here: The Leap and Love Your Work.