Chasing Financial Freedom
Chasing Financial Freedom
Unlock 4 Real-Life Lessons to Strengthen Your Entrepreneurial Faith | Ep 325
When everything feels like it’s falling apart, what do you lean on—hope or faith?
In this raw and real episode of the Chasing Financial Freedom Podcast, we dive headfirst into the emotional rollercoaster of entrepreneurship. From battling relentless setbacks to navigating high-stakes deadlines, I’m sharing the exact challenges I’ve been facing while trying to get a key project across the finish line.
But this episode isn’t just about struggle—it’s about growth, mindset, and learning how to lead through chaos with unshakable faith.
You’ll learn 4 real-life lessons I’ve gained from this experience—insights that have shifted how I lead my team, how I manage failure, and how I show up in business and life. Whether you're building a business, juggling multiple priorities, or feeling like you're sprinting through roadblocks, this conversation will speak to your soul.
What You’ll Take Away:
- 🔑 How to use faith over hope to shift from “wishing” to “believing”
- 🧠 Why embracing setbacks can help you build stronger systems and smarter strategies
- 🔧 The power of process, pivoting, and perseverance in your daily grind
- 💡 A mindset shift that turns roadblocks into learning opportunities
This isn’t about being perfect. It’s about learning, leading, and leveling up—even when the pressure is high and the odds feel stacked.
If you're struggling to bring projects to the finish line or you're feeling overwhelmed by constant curveballs, this episode is your permission slip to take a breath, refocus, and keep the faith.
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Last week on the podcast guys, we talked about staying hyper-focused on one task and bringing it to the finish line. This week I want to give you an update because I've been focusing on that one task this week to get the second house sold, taken care of, wrapping it all up and, can I say, being hyper-focused that one topic and it's been tough. It just it has, because there's so many other things that are going on that I don't want to say I don't know what to do. Very taxing on your brain when you've got multiple deadlines hitting you at the same time. I know this is part of life, this is part of being an entrepreneur. I'm sharing with you guys what's going on in my world, in my head. I'm really walking through this, what actually happened and transpired during the week, and it's just been headache after headache, problem after problem. I don't know what you want to say, just obstacles, roadblocks, speed bumps, whatever but the weather hasn't been helping us because there's been some stuff on the outside of the house that we need to have done and in the last probably four or five days they've gotten between four to six inches of rain, if not more, and they'd already had a ton of rain to begin with. So it's been work, but I want to talk about just how I've been working on my faith during this time.
Speaker 1:We spoke about hope versus faith, and hope is I hope I can go get pizza with my friends or I hope that I can watch that show tonight. Faith is like you believe it's going to get done. You have faith that you're going to be able to bring this project to the finish line. You have faith that you're going to live a debt free life. You have faith that you're going to have a lovely family and a lovely life. And I know you're saying what does this have to do with entrepreneurship? Faith, if you have faith and guys, faith doesn't always have to be about God. It doesn't have to be about religion. Faith is you've got a conviction in your gut, in your head, in your wherever you've got that conviction at. God does play a role in faith. But don't look at it that way. Whether you're religious or not, I shouldn't say religious. If you believe in God or not, that's up to you. But I know when I hope for something, it's not that big of a deal for me. If I'm hoping I get this to the finish line, that means it's not a big deal to me. If I have faith that we're going to be able to get it to the finish line with a team, close it out and be done, then I know that everything is going to turn out. Is there going to be speed bumps and roadblocks and redirects? Yeah, that's all this project has been, but what can I do? X yeah, that's all this project has been, but what can I do? I'm learning a lot.
Speaker 1:Really, the best way to describe it is we're putting additional stop measures in to where we understand if we hit this and this, then why needs to happen? Just more systematic items. To where it just becomes routine, to where I don't have to think about it. It happens and we know that everything's taken care of. Is that painful, very painful? Is it something that we should have done sooner? Yes, but guess what? It's life. We're learning from it. It's one of the best tools I know of getting better is lessons. I'm your mistakes, the old adage, but then make sure that you put something in place so that mistake doesn't happen again. And then the follow-up question that I'm at right now is okay.
Speaker 1:If we solve that step or that problem, what other items could come up. Is there anything out that can pop up out of this process that would have an issue or create an issue? I don't know if that's too far forward in thinking about that, but I do know that it will definitely help in processing anything I do in life. It doesn't just have to be, it just doesn't have to be real estate. It could be lending, it could be another business, I don't know. It's just. There's just so many things that you can apply it to in every aspect of your life. We have all of the punch list items taken care of and we can pass the energy rating test, pass the city test. There's just so much riding on this.
Speaker 1:But at the same time, I'm very thankful for the team that's in place that's able to execute and deal with the speed bumps that come along the way, because there's been quite a few. To be able to adjust and make those changes is huge. Pivoting is huge and being able to find ways to overcome these obstacles has been a challenge. I'm not just talking about real estate. I'm talking about life, business, real estate, lending, entrepreneurship, just being open to pivot and to change, and I know change is not something most of us deal with very well, me included.
Speaker 1:Change does not always go well with me, so I know from my standpoint I have to get better at one handling change making sure that if a roadblock comes up, a speed bump, whatever the case is, that there's time to figure it out, fix it and then put a total fix in place in the end and make it part of our procedure going forward so we don't have that situation again. Are we going to be able to capture all of them? No, we're human, we're imperfect. It's going to be a process, but if you can eliminate 90% of the problems that come up, or more, I would say you're in pretty solid company. I'm saying that 10% error rate. Would like to be down to five, yeah, but I think from where we're at to where I want to go and then see if we can get to 95, that would be. That's a huge win. But it's going to take time and effort and persistence. But the other thing is having faith that we can do it better every single time and improve ourselves, learn from those trials and tribulations and move forward.
Speaker 1:So, guys, that's it for this week. I hope you guys have a great week. You guys stay safe, stay healthy. A little bit shorter this week. I just wanted to do a little bit of a brain dump, share what's going on. It's real life, real world, but I hope this is helping you guys. I'm just being transparent, being raw, and I hope you guys have a good one. Talk to you later and make sure you keep the faith.
