Show Notes
The voices telling you it won't work usually belong to people who never tried. Nobody gives you permission to take a chance. You just do it.
Chris built a 50K MRR business without a formal education, a tech background, or a plan. As an actor, a car dealership paid him $400 to be in a commercial and he thought, "If I can pretend to do this, what happens if I just actually do it?"
From there it was taking on teaching himself APIs, webhooks integrations, and enough failures to make most people quit. He's now responsible for 40% of some dealerships' bottom lines, working remotely from Ottawa, heading to Costa Rica.
We talked about why people don't take that first step. Chris's take is it's mostly the room you're in. When you move somewhere nobody knows you, the risk calculus changes. The voices telling you you're going to look stupid usually belong to people who never left.
We also got into social media, the throttled notification drip sequences designed to keep you coming back, the rage bait economy, the positive reinforcement loop that rewards the most outrageous behavior. His advice was simple: put your phone down and tackle your life goals head on.
Chris also hosts Bad Hombres TV [https://www.youtube.com/@BADHOMBRESTV] on YouTube.
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The voices telling you it won't work usually belong to people who never tried. Nobody gives you permission to take a chance. You just do it.