Your World Within Podcast by Eddie Pinero - Your Pain Becomes Your Purpose | Evan Carmichael | Powerful Motivational Speech

Episode Date: May 15, 2021

This is an excerpt from a conversation I had with Evan Carmichael at Your World Within Live. Listen to understand why our purpose comes from our pain...

The question that I would love to start with, this totally, when we were having lunch today, blew my mind. So you're talking about your channel and how much time you put into it, how much energy you put into it. It's your life. If it wasn't making a dollar, you said, you would still put the same amount of energy, effort, and time in every single day. And I think that's such an important thing because there's so many people here that are embarking on new projects. and just to be able to explain the importance of loving

and being immersed in what you do would be really cool. Your purpose comes from your pain, right? Like, how do you find your purpose? Everybody says, find your purpose. Great, how do you do it? And for those of you don't maybe know a little bit about me, I have a YouTube channel, we've got 2 million subscribers, 300 million views,

and I do profiles of tons of successful different entrepreneurs what you can learn from their success and break it down. So I've studied more successful entrepreneurs than most people. It's how to break down the rules and give it to you guys. And the thing that comes up over and over and over and over again is the question of how do you find your passion? So how do you do it?

What's the process? Your purpose comes from your pain. Whatever you struggle the most with is the thing that you want to help other people with. And typically, as entrepreneurs, we can be optimistic and positive and forward thinking, and we don't want to think about the pain and what we went through.

And the point isn't to live in that, but the point is to get out of it and then make the world a better place. You had all these struggles and you find a mentor, you go off and do all these crazy things, and then you're celebrated at the end. But the piece that I would add at the very end of that is great, you're celebrated, and now you give back. And now you teach other people how to do it. So I struggled so much as an entrepreneur. My first business, I was 19, I was making $300 a month, I was, you know, I was broke, I had no money,

I was trying to figure out how to make this thing a go. and I quit on my business partner. It was the worst day of my life. I said, I can't keep doing it this way. Like, I felt worthless as a human to hear me say, I quit on something I cared about. And so I said, I got to figure out another way to stand. And so I asked myself, who else has built a software company?

I looked at Bill Gates, studied his story, and applied those lessons and started making money in my business. And so because I struggled so much as an entrepreneur, now I want to help out other entrepreneurs for life. Like, that never gets old. So whatever you struggled the most with is who you will want to help for the rest of your life. And then how did you get out of the hole? Is something that isn't just unique to you?

It's teachable. You can help other people through the same path that you took. So I struggled as an entrepreneur. The thing that saved me was modeling Bill Gates' success. How did he build Microsoft to zero to one? I don't care how he makes an extra million now, right? Zero to one. That's what I wanted to do.

Studied that. Applied it to myself. started getting success and for the past 20 years all I've been doing is teaching other people how to model success My purpose comes from my pain and then the how of how I got out of it is something that now I can teach other people and it's the greatest gift and so I was telling Eddie over lunch that I would I would keep doing it for me. I need my channel for myself as fulfilling and if it never made a dollar then I would have to find another way to support myself but I would keep doing this and that becomes the asset test. If you're ever showing up on Monday,

you're like, oh, you've got to leave. And too often, and if that's a job, you can relate to it, probably like, oh, my gosh, you've got to go on Monday. And I'm not seeing you have to quit right away because you have to still pay the bills and rent and internet and all that stuff. It's important.

But if that's ever your business where you show up on Monday, you're not pumped to go do the thing that you're supposed to do, then you have to switch. And too many entrepreneurs, For those who've been in the game for a while, you end up buying yourself a job.

It was exciting before, but now it's five years in, and you still do the same thing for a creative type. It's a death sentence. So I think you have to pay attention to your energy. If Monday morning you're showing up and you have low energy, you have to find something else. I still love making videos. But the day that I've done, I started on YouTube April 2009,

so over 10 years ago, we've done five, six thousand videos across multiple, channels I still like making videos but the day that I stopped liking videos I'm gonna do something else I started videos as an experiment I think we need to taste more test more right like how do you know the thing that you're supposed to do well you won't know by just even sitting here you gotta go off an experiment like at the start expect to suck nobody's gonna show up and you're not gonna be very good at it like why do you expect to be great the first time you try something things this is the

big problem. I think we need to have a conversation around it. You expect to make a video and crush it the first time out. Right? Like you should expect to suck at the beginning. If you don't suck, then you should have started five years ago. Like if you make a video, if his first IG Live isn't totally embarrassing for the first 15 minutes, I'm actually pissed. Because like you should have started that three years ago. Right? Like you're supposed to suck at the beginning. So he's going to go off and do his first IG live. And I said, you know what? This is the step. Like, if you went and did this every week, you'll be on stage here next year.

But that's how it happens. That's how it happens for people who are ambitious to create something and are taking in all the knowledge. But without momentum, you stay where you are. And you don't know what the first step is. Maybe that is not the path, right? Maybe it's better. I suggested he'd have somebody drive.

next to him. So he drives in the truck and there's some kid next to him takes a six-hour drive and he coaches them and films it. There could be a thousand iterations of that, but the key is just to go and test. Like how do you know until you do it? And you don't pay attention to the results, you pay attention to, did I enjoy the process? Did I love it? I sucked at it, but did I love it? Because if you love it and you keep doing it, you'll get better at it. So I just, I love doing small tests. So I just started on YouTube. I just made a video.

I never, when I started in April 2009, YouTube was a different beast. There was no Eddie Panero. There was no motivational content. There was no education. It was old man slips downstairs, right? Like cat vomits on the couch, right? These were the short, that was YouTube. This was early days of YouTube.

So I never had ambitions to go and have 2 million subscribers and 300 million views. It was just, I like, I like, I'm visual. I'd much rather see something, so I want to see it. So I wanted to create something visual for visual learners like me. So for all the podcasts and the hype, and I love all the, I can't, I listen to zero podcast. Because I'm, auditory is the worst. If I couldn't see you or see Eddie, I'd be like really focused here trying to listen to what you're saying, because I don't learn auditory very well. And then people are asking me questions, so I made a video response. And I thought, a video, I'll send it to that one person, and maybe they'll like it.

and maybe it inspires another 100 people who might be watching. That was it. That was the start. Just try. If you got any, listen to all these amazing speakers here today, you've written a whole bunch of ideas down in your notebook. The worst thing you can do is go home and just have an ideas notebook. Like pick something and just start on it and expect to suck and go.

Right? Like the idea with the baseball flying, great, go home and do some kind of Easter egg. Right? And expect it to suck. Awesome. Post, next, do the next one. And it may be the greatest gift of all time or that idea may suck for you. Awesome, how are you going to know?

You won't know by thinking through it, you know by doing it.