It is a Share The Struggle Podcast tradition to star the year with a special episode intended to motivate and educate us on ways to set and achieve goals. In effort to mix it up this year Keith is Joined by a loyal listener and entrepreneur, Owner Operator of Freedom Designs Scott Pettengill. Learn how a motorcycle accident fuels the decision to star his own business and how making and achieving goals pushes him to leave a great job to go full time on his dreams! The best motivator to beat our own goals is to hear a story of a friend beating theirs! Today on Share The Struggle Podcast you will meet a new friend and get motivated to make and chase your own goals.
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This is hard to think about yourself and what you want people to know about you and your business.
I started Freedom Designs after a motorcycle accident leaving me sitting in a recliner thinking about what I wanted to do. I started researching software to start my own home design business because I always wanted to work for an architect which never happened for me. I found a cheap software that got me started. This software wasn't the best and took a lot of time to draw a set of plans, so after a couple of jobs I started looking for a different software and I happened to find one of the softwares I used in High School. I had business cards made up to give to people that showed any interest in my business but I didn't know that one friend that had a bulletin board outside his business was going to catapult my business as far as it did with just 5 business cards. After getting jobs from simply putting cards on a bulletin board I got real serious about starting my company. I started putting more time and effort into my company Freedom Designs, without knowing where it was going to take me but I knew that it was worth putting time into even if it was just enough money coming in that would pay for my software. I knew this would be something for me to do when I had down time and when I retired from my 40 hour a week job.
I didn't know that it was going to replace my 40 hour week job but I am so glad it did. I feel like I get more done during my working hours which is not 8-4. I check emails up to the time I go to bed. I am always thinking about my designs…
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