🎧Audio Version: A Glimpse of Ikigai and a New Venture

🎧Audio Version: How to Consistently Get Lucky

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🎧Audio Version: A Glimpse of Ikigai and a New Venture

What I am good at * Public Speaking * Coaching and mentoring * Financial modeling * Synthesizing disparate information * Explaining complex ideas simply * Teaching * Cooking (this may be a stretch) / following recipe directions * Empathy * Maintaining relationships * Absorbing information * Writing Things I like to do * Talking to friends * Public speaking * Coaching and Mentoring * Reading * Eating good food * Travel * Skiing * Dissecting people’s business problems * Learning business models * Dog walking * Working out * Self improvement * Comedy (note - sadly not something I am good at!) Things I can make money doing * Consulting with startups on financial stuff * Dog walking * Financial services * MBA essay coaching * Teaching * Alumni relations for Wharton or Navy * Real estate development * Become a realtor * VC * Work for MAPS [https://maps.org/] * Syndicate deals * Host a conference * Bartending * Tech company ops/strategy role * MBA admissions * Prostitute myself (sorry mom, but I do think I could make good money) * Entrepreneur in residence Day 1 at KKR - Day 2 at JP Morgan Chase - Get full access to Retained Learnings at brendanaronson.substack.com/subscribe [https://brendanaronson.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4]

🎧Audio Version: Stop Ideating, Start Executing

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🎧Audio Version: Q2 Learnings, Q3 Goals, Compound Interest and Product Led Growth

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3 Rules to adopt an entrepreneurial mindset

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