Finding Your Genius with Rich Cardona

Success Fundamentals

In this episode of the Success Fundamentals Podcast, Kris Sykes and Brian Goldsack talk to Rich Cardona, founder of Rich Cardona Media and the host of the NFT for Newbies Podcast. Rich shares his journey from the Marine Corps to his short stint working in the corporate world, before he decided to jump ship straight into entrepreneurship.

Rich also talks about his ideas about leadership. While he thinks leadership is something your work on, it is also something that you notice in yourself early on. Rich also explains that good leadership will always be about helping others, anything else is just ego.

HIGHLIGHTS

• From Marine Corps to Corporate to Entrepreneur
• Quitting corporate job and moving back to parent's basement
• Do you have what it takes to make it out on your own?
• Don't be afraid to make changes and pivot to the next thing
• Chase attention more than money
• Service is a better fuel than cash
• Show up exactly as you are, as much as you can
• It's best to deal with your demons early
• Get comfortable with monotonous hard work
• Pitching is the worst way to attract clients
• Good leaders make themselves replaceable over time
• Take your leap of faith and be selfish
• You can always make more money
• Always check your ego

QUOTES

Rich: "You need to have a self-awareness which is the key to doing anything on your own ever. You know who you are and you know who you aren't. So if you think that you're cut out for this leap of faith, the valleys are far more often than the peaks. It's just literally like do you look at it as 'I learned so much from that' or 'I am learning so much from this' when a client bails a day before an invoice is due, or something like that."

Rich: "If you start to see that something you're doing is garnering a lot of attention, you need to follow that more than money. Because if you can grow that exponentially, then the money is just gonna come piling."

Brian: "Some people might never take the journey because they're afraid that they are being selfish and all they're doing is pursuing their own interest or own ambitions. However, once you take the leap, you're going to have to come to grips that even in your selfishness, you will have to be of service to other people anyway. So be selfish, say, 'I'm gonna do this' and then in your selfish pursuits you're gonna have to help people."

Rich: "You should never say 'I'm a leader'. You shouldn't designate. Let other people designate that for you. And then, if that's the signal, that's good. If you find yourself wanting to impart knowledge or experience and help other people then you're probably a leader as well. But it's certainly something that can be worked on, it's certainly something that you can read up on and all these kinds of things. But I think it's just one of those things that you will either notice that you want to serve others, or not."

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• LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/richcardona/
• Podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/nfts-for-newbies/id1581483443
• Website - https://richcardonamedia.com/

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