[00:00:02] Speaker A: Ramping up your business. The time is near. You've given it hard, now get it in gear. It's Passage to Profit with Richard and Elizabeth Gearhart. I'm Richard Gearhart, founder of Gearhart Law, a full service intellectual property law firm specializing in patents, trademarks and copyrights.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: And I'm Elizabeth Gearhart, not an attorney, but I do marketing for Gearhart Law and I have my own startups and podcasts.
[00:00:26] Speaker A: Welcome to Passage to Profit, the Road to Entrepreneurship, where we talk with celebrities and entrepreneurs about their stories and their business ventures.
[00:00:35] Speaker B: Now it is time for Secrets of the entrepreneurial Mind. We are going to ask each of our guests to tell us a secret to their success. We'll start with you, Naga.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: I would say certainly the people, because I'm in a service industry, people who are serving and then we have to, in a business world, we have to be serving them to give the right. And the second thing is the business. When we're talking about, there will be always ups and downs and, you know, market dynamics and things are changing. So you should be persistent, have a clear vision and break down into different missions to do it. I would say one of the formula that I would say is the tag line that I have put in front of my desk, it says success is a journey. You just have to, like there's a comma, but not a full stop. You just have to go through it. You just have to reach a goal and then be persistent and go better to engage. So that's what.
[00:01:34] Speaker B: That's great.
[00:01:34] Speaker A: As twisted as it sounds, a little bit, the ups and the downs are what make it fun and interesting. Right? So you don't like the downs. Elizabeth especially doesn't like when I'm down.
She gets it. But I mean, it does give you a reason to want to go up.
[00:01:49] Speaker B: So, Pete Ferrari, what's your secret?
[00:01:52] Speaker D: For me, it's pretty simple. Read, read and read. You know, all of the challenges that an entrepreneur is going to face, all of the hardship, somebody has already gone through that in this world. Lee Iacocca, Jack Welch, Reed, Robert Greene, mastery, the 48 laws of power, the 50th law, Ryan Holiday, the Stoics, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca. The answers are there. And so I think General Mattis said if you're not reading every day, you're functionally illiterate. I actually love that quote because you can mitigate and obviate. You may not be able to eliminate your problems, but you can certainly obviate a lot of the problems that you'll face during the entrepreneurial journey. If you read what the best have done before you and so big advocate of reading everything you get your hands on from the great thinkers.
[00:02:38] Speaker B: That's great advice. Yes. Sonia Satra what's your I love both.
[00:02:43] Speaker E: Of those and and that was a piece of what I had thought I would say. So now I'll have to change it.
So I will change it just to add another dimension. And that goes back to probably what I was talking about, but clarity of vision because I think there's so many pathways to get to a certain place and a lot of times you have to pivot and you have to like solve the ups and the downs and the problems and whatnot. But if you kind of have a North Star are that will help you through it.
[00:03:08] Speaker A: Good. Richard Gearhart Mine is going to be never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
Is that Ben Franklin or somebody? Yeah, I think so. But anyway, I think the places I've had the most challenges in my life has been when I procrastinated on things that I really knew needed to get done right. And so fortunately, as I've matured, I've gotten much better at just taking care of things when they need to be done. But it took me a long time to get to the point where I was really consistent on that. And I'm still not perfect. Right. But things go a lot better when you get stuff done on time.
[00:03:46] Speaker B: I think mine is sometimes people that you're working with or that you've partnered with done something could be very negative for not a really good reason even. You just can't take it personally. And you just kind of have to say it's them, not, not me. Blow it off.
I think Sonya knows what I'm talking about.
[00:04:03] Speaker A: So do I.
Well, that's it for us. Passage to Profit is a nationally syndicated radio show appearing in 38 markets across the United States. In addition, Passage to Profit has also been recently selected by Feedspot Podcasters Database as a top 10 entrepreneur interview podcast. Thank you to the P2P team, our producer, Noah Fleishman and our program coordinator, Alicia Morrissey, and our studio assistant, Marissa Kat Bussari. Look for our podcast tomorrow anywhere you get your podcasts. Our podcast is ranked in the top 3% globally. You can also find us on Facebook, Instagram X and on our YouTube channel. And remember, while the information on this program is believed to be correct, never take a legal step without checking with your legal professional first. Gearhart Law is here for your patent, trademark and copyright needs. You can find
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