82: Entrepreneurship Under Pressure

In this episode of “Why I Left,” host Brian Aquart dives deep with Michael Dermer, the visionary founder of The Lonely Entrepreneur. Michael shares his entrepreneurial journey, from creating the first U.S. company to reward healthy behaviors to founding a platform that supports over a million entrepreneurs globally. Learn how he transformed adversity into a mission to empower diverse communities, and discover the tools that help individuals turn their passions into thriving businesses.

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  • Thumbnail for 23: Adapting To The Fear Of Taking Risks – Luke Chirayil

    23: Adapting To The Fear Of Taking Risks – Luke Chirayil

    When the Pandemic struck, Luke Chirayil, a self-taught programmer from Chicago, fearlessly pursued his passion for technology and marketing by pivoting from a corporate job to his own business, battling the fear of failure and the pull of comfort for a chance to follow his dreams.

    “When you’re self taught, when you drop out of school, you don’t have a degree, you’re kind of in that impostor syndrome phase where you’re like, am I a real programmer? Am I really cut out for this? So it really helped me, especially going through the boot camp, and just that helped me realize, okay, I am pretty good at this stuff.”
    Luke Chirayil is a self-taught programmer and entrepreneur who dropped out of school and launched his own digital marketing company, Ndm Analytics, prior to the pandemic. He has since leveraged the pandemic to help businesses transform digitally and stay afloat.

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  • Thumbnail for 11: Designing the Life You Want – Keith Allen Johns

    11: Designing the Life You Want – Keith Allen Johns

    Keith is a former Chief Operating Officer for a tech company who realized that work shouldn’t suck, so he founded Keith Allen and Company to help people find their purpose, turn it into a business idea, start that business on the side and exit the corporate world. He’s helped many leaders break free from the corporate world by building & scaling purpose driven businesses.

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    6: Untangling the Emotions of the Pandemic with Support – Valeria Colato

    Today, I chat with Valeria Colato. Valeria is currently a Customer Success Associate in the Tech industry. She’s a natural extrovert who was heavily impacted during the shutdowns of the pandemic, but she was able to use available resources to determine where her values truly lied.

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