Episode 29: The Biggest Lesson Teaching At Creighton Taught Me About Entrepreneurship

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Today, I'm sharing the biggest lesson that has helped accelerate my growth in both my business and in myself personally, and it's the biggest lesson that teaching at crate Yen has taught me about life and entrepreneurship that's all coming up here on today's episode. So stay tuned. You Music. Welcome to breaking the entrepreneur burnout cycle. Your go to resource helping service based entrepreneurs break free from burnout each week, you'll learn how to identify and eliminate subconscious habits so that you can create a thriving business with greater income, greater impact and the freedom to live life to the fullest while having your time energy and health. This is breaking the entrepreneur burnout cycle. You Hey everyone. Happy Wednesday. I hope you guys are having a great week. So far today I'm super excited because I'm going to be sharing the biggest lesson that I learned while teaching at Creighton University about entrepreneurship and life and how that lesson is what accelerated my growth in business, but also on a personal level. And I wanted to share this, because this is something like, this is a lesson that if I could, you know, go back in time and do things over. This is a lesson that I wish I had learned earlier and not just learned, but implemented and adopted earlier, because the fact is that it's the very thing that helped accelerate my growth, not just in my business, but also as a person. And many of you may or may not know, but currently, I teach at Creighton University in the physical therapy department as a part time lab assistant, helping just students to be able to foster their critical thinking skills, to foster their clinical reasoning, and develop their hands on skills that they are going to need to problem solve in the clinic as they're seeing actual patients in actual patient scenarios, and I absolutely just am so grateful that I have this opportunity because I love what I do. I love being able to teach PT students and not just teach but to essentially pull what I'm learning as an entrepreneur and as a coach, into the way that I teach, into the way that I am helping them to foster their own, you know, voice as a PT, and to teach them kind of the abilities and the skills to be able to effectively treat patients. And what I love being able to, you know about this opportunity, what I love most is being able to help them develop their own confidence in themselves as clinicians, who you know, when we were going through PT school, it really felt like we were drinking from a fire hose where it's like a ton of information, a lot of new things that we've never done before on patients out of our comfort zones, right? And it can feel very overwhelming. And you know, with that being said year after year, one of the things that I tend to see happen every year is how much each and every student tends to doubt their capabilities and tends to doubt themselves because of what we know as the big, bad imposter syndrome, right? And they have these stories like, because I'm new, I'm a newbie, you know?

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I've never learned this stuff for I've never done this before.

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I don't know what I'm doing, or I don't know anything, especially as they're comparing their journeys to, you know, the professors that they look up to.

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And I see this happen every single year, and what I tend to see it causes is because of these internal stories. It leads them to, you know, certain behaviors that you know. And when I say certain behaviors, I'm talking about like they're timid to ask questions out of fear of looking dumb, or where, even though they have an amazing idea and an answer, they're afraid to share it, and, you know, to potentially get things wrong, especially in front of people, especially not among the professors that they look up to, or sometimes they even see that it leads to them talking down to themselves, kind of being extremely critical and extremely hard on themselves about, you know. How far they are, how far they aren't, and ultimately, how those stories create this like belief, or this lens of what their self worth is and what they believe is possible for them as clinicians, mainly because they either don't feel confident or they don't feel worthy enough yet, and when I see this happening, you know, I think of all of the entrepreneurs that I help and how their stories have led to similar behaviors and similar outcomes. And I am sure that each and every one of us listening to this podcast can think of a time on their entrepreneurship journey where maybe, you know, you went to a conference or you went to a course or whatever it is, and whether virtual or in person, you really felt intimidated, because you're among, you know, some of these amazing, amazing people and entrepreneurs who are maybe, you know, a year ahead of you, or maybe light years ahead of you, where you are on the journey, like is not even close, right? And I'm willing to bet that it most likely created kind of this, like imposter syndrome feeling, which all that is, essentially, is like you don't feel like you belong in the room, where you feel intimidated, where you start to have the stories similar to what my students experience, where it's I'm a newbie, I'm not as smart or an accomplished as you know Person X, or it's like I don't know what I'm doing, and we begin to just kind of experience similar doubts and insecurities about not being worthy to have a seat in the room. And if this is hitting home for you, first, I want you to, like give yourself some grace, because we all know how much we hear the term imposter syndrome, and so it's very normal to feel this way, and it really is part of being human.

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In fact, you know, I still get moments where I step into a room, whether it's teaching students or whether it's like doing what I've been doing for the past three or four years now, and I still feel intimidated, where I'm like, Oh man, I'm the least experienced here. I'm the least accomplished person in this room, and even I get intimidated, but over the years, you know, here is what teaching students, and not just teaching students, but what coaching other entrepreneurs and also just coaching students through this phase of imposter syndrome has taught me. It has taught me that while the emotion of being intimidated and like you don't belong is totally normal, totally human, it can also be the very thing that inhibits your own growth and your own success. And I get why you might think that being intimidated and you know, letting that drive your decision to sit there and to listen and to learn quietly in the corner is not inhibiting your success.

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You know, I hear students and even entrepreneurs say all the time, yeah, but I'm still there in the room, still learning because I'm paying attention.

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And while yes, that might be true, let me ask you if all that it took to be successful was to just sit and listen and learn, then shouldn't anyone who did that be successful? Yet we know that isn't the case. I mean, there's a reason why we hear cliches all the time about you know, you can't learn by sitting on the sidelines, and that's because success isn't just about listening and retaining information. It's also about implementing that learning, and it's also about building relationships in the process with the people who are also working towards a vision that is similar to yours, that is in alignment with yours. You know, they're they're fighting for a better future, working towards similar goals and outcomes. And the reality is, you can't just do that by sitting and learning and listening on the sidelines, right? And there's a reason why, not just the cliche of you can't learn from the sidelines, but also why we hear from all of these people when they share their you know what got them to success faster? They always talk about how like what they attribute their success to is they attribute much of their success to. To this willingness to get uncomfortable and to be the dumbest person in the room, right? And I mean that in a very sincere way of like to be the least experienced, to be the youngest, to be the newbie, so to speak, in the room of people who are light years ahead of you. And it's not only that, they tap into years of knowledge by doing that, but they also tap into a lot of experience that many of these people gained from mistakes and from lessons that they had to learn the hard way, which helps you as a person to be able to bypass many of those same mistakes.

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And it's not only that right, but I think we all know what that feeling of being inspired feels like, where it just feeds your passion to learn. And people notice that, right? And they they notice when someone is hungry to learn, when someone is like humble enough to say, I, I, you know, I don't know it all, and I just want to be here to learn however I can, to soak it all in, to take every advantage that I can. And that is what usually leads to conversations, which then leads to the relationships, and then that leads to the opportunities that pop up that are like beyond your wildest dreams. And you know, it's this very lesson that led to opportunities to speak on different platforms, that led to collaborations, that led to meeting new people, which you know, created more platforms, and that is what creates the snowball effect of opportunities. And the same can be true for you, no matter if you're an entrepreneur or a PT student or just any one who is trying to get to the next level of success is that the same can be true for you if you're willing to embrace that discomfort and to put yourselves in these rooms, to put yourselves as the least experienced, most, respectfully, dumbest person in the room. And so how can you begin to embrace the discomfort that you might be feeling around getting yourself in these rooms and around you know, being taking initiative and being assertive in like I'm passionate about this, and I would love to learn from you.

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Well, the first step is that it all comes down to thoughts that we tell ourselves, and what I mean by that is thoughts that we tell ourselves about the situation, or, in other words, how we perceive what's going on, right? And you can simply do that by either choosing to change what you tell yourself about the situation while being in these rooms with people who are more experienced than you.

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So for example, instead of saying I'm a newbie, we can choose to tell ourselves I am learning. Instead of saying I'm not as successful as Person X, we can choose to tell ourselves, I'm so lucky to have the opportunity to be in the room with people who have walked the journey that I would love to walk, because they have an abundance of knowledge and abundance of, you know, experience. And in another example, instead of saying, I don't want to look dumb in front of my peers if I get the answer wrong, we can choose to say or to perceive it as when I try things, I get to receive feedback, which helps me to be able to learn faster, to implement faster. And so the choice is really yours. You can continue letting your fear of what others will think of you and where you're at in the journey keep you stuck right, like continuing to learn from the sidelines. Or you can choose to let go of making the situation mean anything other than I'm here to learn. I'm passionate about this. This is where I'm at on my journey. And so really, the question now becomes, what will you choose?

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And you know, if this is something that you've been struggling with, where you're unable to change the thoughts that you have around being in these rooms, and you continue to feel impostor syndrome, and you know that the imposter syndrome is getting in the way of you, you know, really just seizing the opportunities, then I'd love to help you, because this is what I specialize in. Is.

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Helping people understand how they're perceiving situations, helping them identify what is the limiting belief that is creating this perception, and how can I change that? Right? So if this is something that you're struggling with, I'd love to, you know, chat with you about what you're going through so so that you can finally just be able to be in these rooms and be able to, you know, just soak it all in, versus being so intimidated because of the stories in your head. And if this is something that you want to take advantage of, I offer free strategy calls where we will help you to first identify what is going on around that anxiety and that uncomfortableness that you feel, and then we work on eliminating that. Okay, so that's all I have for you guys as always, please know that I am rooting for you.

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I'm rooting for your thriving business in life, and I will see you guys on another episode next week. So until then, bye, for now, bye.

Episode 29: The Biggest Lesson Teaching At Creighton Taught Me About Entrepreneurship

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