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Entrepreneurs · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Well, we got a question in for our American mamas. It says,
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  dear mamas, do you remember when being an entrepreneur wasn't cool? Well,
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  let's ask our American mamas. Alma, she said, and joining is now
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  our American mama is Terry Edville and Kimberly Burlason. I don't remember when being
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  an entrepreneur wasn't cool, because that's kind of been like a thing in my
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  family. Like I owned a soccer store at age eighteen and had fifteen employees
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  and my brothers. That's kind of what his job is as a start businesses
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  all the time. And you know, my dad had his own medical practice,
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  so being an entrepreneur, and we kind of looked up to entrepreneurs growing
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  up. So I'm starting to think I may have been a nerd if being
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  an entrepreneur wasn't cool at you're young. Yeah. Well, actually there was
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  a time in the eighties when if you said you're an entrepreneur, people didn't
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  know what that was. So they kind of looked at them like, oh,
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  they don't have a real job. They're just saying that. They're using
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  that word, you know, because really and truly, these are people who
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  would create a job, something that they would see a niche, a niche
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  somewhere and they would create and work hard at it. But and especially if
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  they dropped out of college to become and they were extra loseries dress and see,
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  like your family, we grew up with a father who was an entrepreneur
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  in the greatest sense of the word. But I remember during that time,
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  my grandmother Gracey's saying, time, I don't know what to say when people
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  asked me what to do, and he said, well, you don't have
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  to say anything. I just start businesses. And he was very successful and
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  it is a risk taking thing. And so she like she wanted to be
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  able to say, my son's a doctor or a law Yeah, you know,
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  she wants to be able to say what that was because that fit into
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  the box of that generation. Well, now we see that our father,
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  y'all family was ahead of your time. Yes, because you gave people permission
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  to dream bigger than those little things that are inside the box. And so
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  now there are colleges, even at Louisiana Tech, they have a department of
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  entrepreneurship. They have at different there are colleges that are simply entrepreneurial colleges like
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  this has been and when the dot com era came, that's really when that
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  became like not only was it well, became acceptable. Yeah, not only
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  was it acceptable to be an entrepreneur. You look, you were revered for
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  it, right because not because you started something and then made millions. You
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  know. Kimberly and my dad and my other sister, Lindsay they lived in
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  Arlington and they started a magazine. And I want you to tell well,
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  you've heard about this. We had my dad an entrepreneur. He had several
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  fortunes, lost many many more, you know, a lot of failures,
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  but he had some big successes. So he started a magazine for entrepreneurs and
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  it was called Millionaire Blueprints Magazine, and it was basically stories of millionaires and
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  it was learning their blueprint, like step by step what did they do to
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  go from zero to a million dollars? And it at the time became the
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  fastest growing magazine in the country. And it was it was so successful,
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  so much fun to do. But one thing I learned, because part of
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  my job was to have millionaires be on our magazine, I have to tell
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  you I was scared to death. I did not know how to do this.
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  I remember my legs shaking so bad before I'd pick up the phone to
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  call a millionaire to ask him to be in our magazine and tell us all
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  of his secrets. And then it got to wears nothing but what the common
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  denomination dominator was among these people. They were all they worked very hard,
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  but also kind of surprised by their own success. And the hustle was more
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  fun than the goal, because they said, one they reached that million air
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  status, it was harder to maintain, like you felt like you had to
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  keep going, you had to get bigger and bigger and bigger. Whereas the
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  hustle in the very beginning was the easiest and kind of surprising to all of
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  them. And so maybe that's why Elon Musk keeps starting brand new businesses is
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  because the hustle of getting them up and going is the fun for you.
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  There's the thrill. The thrill is in that it was. That was the
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  do you know that? I wrote a three part series book called Sonny the
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  Entrepreneur because her daughter is is like twenty years ago, and I love it.
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  It's one of those things I think one day, one day because it's
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  so great. But I was so, I was so impressed with Sonny.
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  That's Kimberly's middle child, oldest daughter, and she would draw these rainbows.
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  She would do entrepreneurial things even as a little girl. She continues to do
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  that. She's very brilliant. And so I wrote this book about about Sonny
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  the Entrepreneur, and it is one of my favorite favorite books and has never
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  seen the day, you know, light of day. It will, but
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  I will. I will say this. We grew up with a five so
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  that after church on Sundays and los Amego's lunch, we would drive around Shreveport
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  and look at the mansions. And our father he was more impressed if you,
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  he say, look at that. If they were doctors and lawyers,
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  Okay, you went to school, you got that education. But when he
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  knew that these people were entrepreneurs that started from the ground up, he would
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  tell us about that, like, let me tell you what they did?
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  You tell you that story. Yeah. He was always so so inspired by
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  those who pulled themselves up with their own minds, create creative people that were
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  able to find a way to make money at that. And so now,
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  I mean, it's one of the coolest things you can be is an entrepreneur.
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  It is it is uh and actually that's kind of what the show is,
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  because yeah, the show again started from nothing and now we're in I
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  guess this last week we picked up four news stations, so I'll go look
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  at us. Go thank you. You like to ask our American mama is
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  a question? Go to our website Americanground Radio dot com, slash mama's and
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  click on the ass The mama's button turned out of Kimberly Brother. Listen,
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  thank you so much, Thank you,