The three areas you need to focus on to manage your team’s anxiety are:
1. Create structure for your team
2. Don’t paint with a broad brush (address each member’s anxiety)
3. Take time to self-reflect
Often what happens with first hires for entrepreneurs is it starts off really great, but then over time the employee becomes more of a hassle to you than a value to your business, because you made some mistakes when you hired them. It can be so exciting to bring someone on your team, but it is the first step to growing your business, which means it can also be a little scary. I wanted to help you avoid making your life more difficult by giving you 5 tips for hiring your first employee. Follow this advice and hopefully, this employee works out perfectly, makes your life easier and is the first of many!
Kingdoms and Creators is a series created for early-stage entrepreneurs and creators to help teach you what is required to get started to create your Kingdom. Jordan Green, the creative director, and KC Holiday, the entrepreneur, have partnered to create this videocast specifically for the ambitious individuals who want to start, but aren’t exactly sure where or how to do it. The guys will discuss strategies to be applied to business and brand to help you create your kingdom.
In this video, I discuss what to do to define success for yourself and how to overcome feeling like a failure as an entrepreneur or founder. Success and failure are seen as the only two options for us as entrepreneurs, small business leaders, or startup founders. I believe there are more options than just the success and failure defined for us by social media, other founders, or the elite in business and sports. Begin comparing yourself to where you came from and you’ll have a much different view of success. One day at a time. One foot in front of the other. You will get there and become a successful entrepreneur!
I wish someone had warned me about these ugly truths of entrepreneurship before I started my own business. If you are a new entrepreneur this video is a must-watch to help avoid the issues most founders don’t learn about until it is too late. A lot of people want to be entrepreneurs, but few understand exactly how difficult the journey can be. In this video, I cover my eight ugly truths of entrepreneurship and the difficult parts of growing a business you can expect to experience.
I had no idea what to expect on the first Black Friday weekend with QALO. In this video, I share my story of how my wife and I packed all the orders that came through and what my first Black Friday as an entrepreneur taught me I needed to do next. The chaos of Black Friday weekend made me do these two things and If I never would have done them, QALO would never have been able to become what it is today.
In this video, I describe where I was professionally when I started QALO, and what is required to overcome a lack of experience in business as an entrepreneur. Most people think you need to have an impressive resume before you start your own company, which leads to a lot of people never taking the leap of faith to do it. I am proof that is not the case.
It is scary to take a leap of faith and start anything whether it is a business, a vlog or a YouTube Channel. In this video, I discuss my process for overcoming fear and talk about how I finally found the courage to start a vlog for entrepreneurs after thinking about it for almost a year. I explain why I was fearful of launching my own vlog, and all of the positives and negatives to taking a leap of faith. If you feel yourself holding back from pursuing your dreams, and need some motivation, this video was created for you. Success isn’t easy and it doesn’t happen overnight, but I believe we all are capable of building something truly impactful. Being successful is relative, and even if you taking action only leads to one other person’s life being impacted, wouldn’t we say that was worth it? Who knows what it may lead them to go do; maybe build a business, travel the world, or invent the new revolutionary product. It starts with you.
My name is KC Holiday and I am the Founder and Chief Evangelist for QALO. I started it from a living room in 2013 and ended up #51 on the Inc 500 list. I’m first a husband, second a father and third an entrepreneur. This channel is my life as all of those things. In this episode, I preview my channel by sharing who I am as an entrepreneur, how I balance my entrepreneur life with being a husband and father, and the value I hope to give you through my videos.