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Entrepreneurs who struggle take every failure personally; those who win treat each decision as an experiment. In this episode, Leila shares a tough truth about entrepreneurship: effort doesn’t guarantee success. The key to growth is learning to embrace failure as feedback and not defeat. She also shares five mindset shifts necessary to grow a start-up into a multi-million dollar business.

In this episode

00:00 Beware: smart people tend to procrastinate more

02:52 Information doesn’t exist without action

04:58 Wasted work is inevitable

07:52 Your business doesn't need to look like a real company

10:20 The market doesn’t reward effort

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