An un-bae-lievable journey: featuring Amardeep Parmar, podcast host and Co-founder of The Bae HQ
Dec 21, 2023
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The podcast features the journey of Amardeep Parmar from tech consultant to full-time creator. They discuss the pressures of being a creator, tips on content creation, angel investing advice, and the importance of treating people as equals. Topics also include navigating investor interactions, challenges of podcasting, prioritizing tasks, and embracing vulnerability in entrepreneurship.
Embrace vulnerability to create a supportive entrepreneurial community.
Seize unexpected career shifts for growth and opportunity.
Prioritize genuine connections over transactional investor relationships.
Deep dives
Challenging the Notion of Traditional Entrepreneurial Success
Many founders hide their struggles behind a facade of strength, but Amadeep Palmer's openness about his challenges attracted fellow entrepreneurs seeking support and guidance. By sharing his vulnerabilities, Amadeep created a safe space where others felt comfortable discussing their own struggles, highlighting the human side of entrepreneurship.
Navigating Unexpected Entrepreneurial Paths
Amadeep's journey from a tech consultant to a successful creator and angel investor underscores the unpredictable nature of entrepreneurship. Starting with writing articles online as a creative outlet, he transitioned into a full-time creator, showcasing the importance of seizing opportunities and embracing career shifts.
Insights into Building Relationships in Entrepreneurship
Amadeep emphasizes the significance of genuine interactions over transactional approaches in investor-founder relationships. He stresses social intelligence and the value of personalized communication, advising founders to focus on building meaningful connections rather than resorting to pressure tactics. Additionally, he encourages founders to engage with communities, seek mentorship, and actively participate in industry events to expand their knowledge and network.
Start Before Overthinking
The podcast emphasizes the importance of taking action rather than overthinking. It suggests that many founders spend too much time planning and designing without actually creating content. The advice given is to start small, record episodes, and avoid over-complicating the process with unnecessary details. By taking the first step and recording content, founders can gain clarity on what works and what doesn't.
Embrace Vulnerability and Just Do It
The episode highlights the significance of vulnerability and taking action in one's career. It discusses the impact of personal experiences, such as dealing with loss, on professional endeavors. The advice centers around pushing past self-imposed limitations and simply getting started, emphasizing that failures are not heavily remembered by others. Encouraging a mindset of 'just do it' and embracing vulnerability as a strength in navigating challenges and growth.
In this episode we’re joined by Amardeep Parmar, Co-founder of The Bae HQ which is the number one community for British Asian Entrepreneurs; curator of the Tedx Chigwell programme, and host of the Entrepreneurs Handbook.
As if that wasn't enough, having written and edited hundreds of Articles around the subject of entrepreneurship, Amar is also an Angel Investor.
Before lockdown, Amar was a technology consultant, having graduated with an economics degree. However, when covid hit, Amar decided to invest his time into more creative interests and began writing articles online. He became the second-fastest growing writer on medium.com, second to Barack Obama. This paved the way for a new career whereby he was able to become a fulltime creator in 2021.
In this episode we discuss:
The pressures of being and calling yourself a “creator” in the entrepreneurial world
The importance of making and putting out content in order to learn
Treating people like people, not putting them on pedestals