The Mindset Of Building A Business with Jackie Hermes

<p><strong>HIGHLIGHTS</strong></p><ul><li>Be open to constantly refine and redefine your values </li><li>How to get away with bootstrapping </li><li>Get in touch with your emotions and understand your reactions </li><li>Set realistic and workable goals and work hard </li><li>Tips for building your personal brand on LinkedIn</li><li>Manage your personal finances well to make space for your side hustle </li><li>Parenting and teaching your kids how to spend money responsibly</li><li>Always show up for yourself first</li><li>High-performance habits for high-performing people</li><li>Take good care of your team</li></ul><p><strong>QUOTES</strong></p><p><strong>Jackie</strong>: "It sucks. I mean, it's very hard. It's very, very difficult to grow a bootstrap company because you don't have any money, right? Like you have to sell and use that money to fund your growth. And then sometimes if you take a risk and it doesn't pan out, then you don't have any money to pay for it, or you can't pay payroll. And so you have to be really ready to make those hard decisions." </p><p><strong>Jackie</strong>: "You just get over it. You know, it's like the cycle of recovering from this stuff and it gets faster and faster. The more you learn and the better able you are able to deal with it." </p><p><strong>Jackie</strong>: "You have to test and you have to figure out what works for you and you have to be consistent. I think a lot of people will post their text post or whatever it is three days a week. They'll do it for a month and they're like this isn't working. This sucks. And I've been doing it for three years." </p><p><strong>Jackie</strong>: "You have to go out and you have to leave thoughtful comments on people's content. You have to connect with them. You have to support them. I would do a lot of that before you ever start posting anything, because it's just like when you're marketing from a company, when no one knows who you are yet, you haven't given them a reason to care." </p><p><strong>Jackie</strong>: "I think the number one