Welcome to Visionary Pursuit, a podcast where we explore what it takes to turn your big, bold ideas into reality. I'm Carolina Zuleta. I'm a life and business coach and your host for this podcast. I'm thrilled to have you here.
Welcome back. This is episode 30 of the Visionaries Pursuit Podcast. Thanks for tuning in. Last week was consult week, A week in which I cleared my calendar to meet as many of you as I could. And I have to tell you, it blew my mind. Within an hour of posting on LinkedIn, we had 95% of the sessions booked, and in the first 24 hours all of them were taken.
But what really. Blew my mind was all the people I met with. Such wonderful ideas, visions, creativity, innovation. It was amazing, and those conversations inspired today's episode because I seem to have the same conversation over and over again. A lot of you who have so many ideas that you wanna work on so many different things in different industries, in different capacities, but at times you feel overwhelmed because you don't know where to start.
Or maybe you start and then it's too much trying to do all of it. So what I wanna do today is share the insights I've gained over 15 years of working with many visionaries and entrepreneurs who have so many ideas. And I learned from Marie, for Leo, a term for this type of creatives, entrepreneurs, and visionaries.
And it's multi-passionate entrepreneur, and I love that word because it reframes. What feels sometimes like an inability to focus in a way that is telling us we're multi-passionate, we're expansive and creative, and there's so much we wanna do in this life. So for all of you who resonate with the name Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur, this episode is for you.
In the past, I've worked with many multi-passionate entrepreneurs. I've worked with a film director and producer who's also interested in cryptocurrency and wants to start a cryptocurrency business. I've worked with a woman who's an entrepreneur and sells some products, but is also wanting to start a nonprofit and become a professional fundraiser.
Personally me, I have so many ideas. This business is one of them, even me. My business, although it stayed in coaching, I've reinvented it multiple times. I've worked with people inside McDonald's, restaurants and warehouses as well as top CEOs, people that speak Spanish, people that speak English all over the world.
For a while I had a company about female empowerment, and now it's visionaries. So what is the problem with a multi-passionate entrepreneur? The problem or the problem we perceive is that we feel like we are too diverse, that we like too many things, that if we do project A, we're gonna be missing out on project B.
We prefer breadth than depth. We prefer to be a generalist than a PhD. And I wouldn't say that that's even the problem. The problem is that we make that wrong. The problem is that we start saying to ourself things like, well, I don't know anything about anything, or I just know a little bit about a lot of things, but what am I really good at?
I don't know. I don't have the depth in any subject matter, and that makes me feel insecure. So when we tell ourselves stories like that, that we're not really good at anything specifically or. That we're always afraid of missing out on the other project. We have a hard time actually executing on our ideas to take it from idea to fruition.
Many of us might start the idea, get very excited, but when things get hard, when we feel that we are bored with it, when we start thinking about another amazing idea, we can drop the first one and go to the second one. And then we start in the second one, and same thing happens. We start very excited.
We're putting all of our passion and ideas, and then we start hitting obstacles. And then we start hitting tough moments, or we start thinking about the third idea or the first idea that we never completed, and then we drop the second one and move on to the next. And with time that starts eroding our confidence.
I see it over and over people that come to me and tell me, listen, I started this and I felt I started this other thing and I invested all this money and I never make it happen. And I still have all these products that I created that were left from my project in my basement. And I feel awful about myself.
I've told everyone that I had this idea and then the next, that nobody actually really believes me. And worse, I don't believe myself. I see often that multi-passionate entrepreneurs that haven't found a way of executing on their ideas till they're real and profitable and in the world as they imagine them start doubting themselves and holding themselves back from trying something new because they don't trust in their ability to get things done in their ability to persevere until success.
And what breaks my heart is that then they get a job with a decent salary where the company that hires them sees their talent and their ability to do incredible things, and because now they have a boss, then they execute better for another person and they start developing this belief system that is, I can't be my own boss.
I can't hold myself accountable. I don't know how to stay with my own ideas and my own projects for long enough. The problem was never that you had many ideas. The problem was never that you were so passionate about so many different things. The problem was the way you were thinking about executing on all of these ideas.
The problem was that you made yourself the bottleneck for your own ambition because instead of focusing on one thing at a time, you tried to do it all at the same time, and then you ended up with nothing. Okay. I truly believe that as a multi-passionate entrepreneur, you can have so many of your ideas, maybe all of them even come to fruition, but you need to focus and learn how to constrain.
One of the people that I think is a great example of a multi-passionate entrepreneur is a man that's called Jesse Itzler. Let me tell you a little bit about him. When he was in his early twenties, he signed a record deal to be a rap artist, and he decided that instead of doing rap songs, what he wanted to do was jingles.
He eventually won an Emmy for a song that's called, I Love This Game, and created a famous jingle for the New York Knicks called Go New York. Go. While he was doing that, he started seeing that jingles were a great business idea. So he created a company that made jingles for many, many famous brands, and then he ended up selling that company for millions of dollars.
Once he became a millionaire, he started flying private jets and he came up with the idea of creating a company that sold hours of flying for a fee. It was called Marque Jet. He grew it to a point that he was able to sell it to Warren Buffet, NetJets. I. So listen, he had been a musician. He had been a business owner of a jingle company.
He had created a company about private flying and then he moved to coconut water and he founded that famous brand We probably all have tried at some point called Zika Coconut Water. And again, he grew that company to a point. He sold it to Coca-Cola. He's always been a fan of the Atlanta Hawks, so he became a part owner of the Atlanta Hawks.
He has published two books about his experiences training with a Navy Seal and living with monks. He has now a running company, a coaching company. He's a very successful public speaker, and the list goes on and on. So if one human being can be a rap artist, an entrepreneur, multiple times of business in very different industries, an author, a coach, why can't you have all the dreams you want?
But I think the lesson we can learn from watching Jesse's life is that he didn't do all in one year. He didn't even do all in 10 years. All these amazing ideas and projects he has executed them over a lifetime. Tony Robbins says most people overestimate what they can do in a year, but underestimate what they can do in 10.
If multi-passionate entrepreneur, the word resonates with you, I believe it's because you were meant to be one. So let's look at what really is holding you back, because it's not that you have too many ideas or projects. In my experience, what truly holds you back? Is that you don't know how to manage your emotions.
You're scared of failing. So when things get hard, your brain comes up with a brilliant idea to not confront the possibility of failure, but move to the next thing. You're very scared of feeling bored. Well, bored is an emotion, and learning to be bored with something is important for the path to being able to be successful with your business project or idea.
You are afraid of missing out on something, and that fear takes up so much space in your mind that you don't allow yourself to miss out on something. It's okay missing out on an idea or a project. It's not the end of the world. You can be equally happy and satisfied. Completing one idea first and then moving to the second one.
So my message is not that you cannot have multiple projects, my message is to build one at a time. Being an entrepreneur myself and seeing my clients, I know that to birth an idea, to move it from our mind to our reality and make it successful. It requires focus, time, attention. Some years ago I was attending a coaching event, and for one of the sessions they brought a pianist, and this pianist had the ability to look at you and compose a melody that represented your life, your spirit, who you were.
So they opened the stage for volunteers, and I sat in the audience and watched how person after person would stand on the stage. The pianist would look at them, contemplate them for a few seconds, close his eyes, sit at the piano and compose a melody that brought every single person to tears. One person after the other would stand up and say, I cannot believe that was my song.
It represented all the moments I've lived in my life. You told my story with music in a way that I can't even express it with words. We were all so moved by this pianist and his incredible gift, and then this pianist said something that stuck with me forever. He said. That he had given so much love and attention to that piano that the piano had revealed his secrets to him.
And I happen to believe that this is true for anything that we want to learn. If you're starting a business in marketing or advertising, or you're selling products or you're doing an artistic project, I believe that if you give it all your time, your love and attention, that idea will reveal secrets to you that you can't ever know if you don't stay with it long enough.
And part of the secrets that you're going to learn in that journey is how to manage yourself, how to manage your mindset, how to manage your emotions so you can persevere with an idea you have until you see it come live and see it in the world and see other people interacting with your idea. Your work is not supposed to entertain you or make you feel a certain way.
That's your responsibility. Your responsibility is to learn how to manage your own beliefs, thoughts, emotions, so you can stay with your dream long enough until that dream can reveal the secrets to you. And these skills is what we do in coaching week after week. My clients get better at executing on their ideas, have more success because they are doing their inner work.
So you might be asking yourself right now, yes, but I can execute one idea, but then what do I do with all the other things that are calling for my attention? And I wanna share a very simple tool that I give my clients. Many of them use it, and what it is, is we have either a small notebook or maybe it's even a document on your computer that we call someday, maybe.
And in someday maybe we write all those ideas that for a moment seem incredible, amazing, exciting. Okay. In my someday, maybe folder, I have ideas about writing a children's book, starting a non-for-profit, becoming a Professor, creating an amazing leadership program for young entrepreneurs and college students.
Why I think this tool works is because the energy that ideas give in our body, we have to put them somewhere so that energy is not blocking us from the idea we're currently executing. Okay. I believe that when we're multi-passionate entrepreneurs and we stifled our creativity by telling ourselves we're not good, following through that block of our creativity, that keeping all those ideas inside ends up affecting our mental health.
So all of you, multi-passionate entrepreneurs, remember you were born to bring all your beautiful ideas to fruition. You are creators. And with time, many of those visions will be a reality if you know how to manage yourself, and I would love to help you do that. Dream big. Put your ideas on paper, choose one, and keep going until that idea reveals its secrets to you.
I'll see you next time.
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