The Entrepreneur’s Dark Secret

About this episode

Igor Kheifets shares his personal experience of contemplating quitting entrepreneurship and the lessons learned from that moment.

Every successful entrepreneur has been there. The moment where they seriously considered walking away and never looking back. Igor did too. He quit for two months. Got a day job. And came back with more fire than he had before. In this episode, Igor shares the pay stub moment that broke him, why the desire to quit never goes away even after you make money, and the shocking statistic about successful students he has tracked over the years that nobody in this industry talks about.

People in this episode

Host: Igor Kheifets

Topics covered

• entrepreneurship
• motivation
• overcoming challenges
• success
• personal growth

Keywords

• entrepreneur
• quit
• pay stub
• success
• motivation
• statistics
• business

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