Truth about becoming an Entrepreneur and getting ahead

In this episode, you will get an idea about being an Entrepreneur. People on a mission to start to need to know the basics and find people they can learn from to become more knowledgeable about it. You'll need to learn more about it yourself and find people who can help guide you with their honest opinion. 

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Madison: 0:20

I'm very disappointed in myself. I really is. I've been waiting for this moment ever since I was a kid. I saw my brothers that I got been saying this since a kids. They tell me, Ron, don't stop, but don't be like this end. You gotta finish what you start. You gotta show who you are. You gotta know who really is. I know it heard. Just play your card. I swear to God, I really care and I ain't mean to break y'all my feelings all up in there. All the way up in the stars. Real. Real. They all the way up in the store trying to get over it. Over what? How I feel every day. I'm on some shit trying to get my people cried, trying to show'em how to live em. This ain't it. Trying to get em outta here. This ain't the life. No. To live. This honestly, how I feel. I'm trying to hear how I feel. Cause I ain't here when I'm here, but I'm here. What's going on? What's going on? What's going on? Welcome to Against Given Odds. My name is Mad Dog Madison. At least that's what I like to call myself. This is a place where you ain't gotta be perfect, but you gotta strive to be your best. I'm building a community for the everyday working folks, and yes, that includes entrepreneurs because this is a place where growth is important. Some of the things we'll be speaking about is mindset, health, wealth, lifestyle, all that right here, because I wanna see you be your best man. Let's get it and let's go. I got a very special guest here today. What's going on?

Roosevelt: 1:35

Hey, how's it going? How's it going? How's everybody doing,

Madison: 1:39

man? I just wanted to bring you on, man, and now that I got you on, I would like for you to introduce yourself to every.

Roosevelt: 1:47

Hey, how's it going everybody? My name is Roosevelt Russell the third actually entrepreneur working man, was asked to come on this podcast and kind of introduced myself, father of five. You'll see me on Facebook, have my assistant manager of other podcast myself. That's pretty much it. Just in a nutshell.

Madison: 2:10

Man, that's story right there. I got five kids myself, man, I actually got two, three girls and two boys, so it's pretty busy around here, but, oh yeah, definitely. But you say that you was an entrepreneur, but we gonna get in that just a second. Just a second. But before we get there, could you take us back, like, where did all this start? Even before it started. Was there a rough patch in between the time? What put you towards this direction? The direction that I'm going toward. It stems back years ago, just getting outta school and doing different things and, just was like, man, this ain't working. That ain't working. And ran into somebody and. Network marketing for the first time, and it was a long time ago with a company called, I think it was Max's 2000, and it's just when you get your first taste of blood and, I just said it like that, the first time that you really get into the industry of messing with any of this, and it entertains you to a point that it's it's almost like you just can't let it. And that's what happened to me. And then I just, I stayed at it, as we all do we quit at points and then we come back into it. And then, finally after so long you, you start to really understand different things and you start to get it, and you start to get the aspects and the what, whatever it takes to make certain things work. And, it just becomes unique and it becomes what you really want to do at that. Yeah. So basically it brings us back to present day. So what actually are you actually doing right now?

Roosevelt: 3:44

Right now I'm online. I'm really just doing some things online. You'll see the Come Up system, which is a very unique system that, that it's a more of a digital platform kinda. and then also my res club, which is, has to do with travel and stuff like that. I'm just in that online. I do some different things offline. Also. A lot of sales, it's all, it's all, it all already boils down to is selling things anyway.

Madison: 4:14

It's a sales background. I feel like having a sales background is tremendous. I just had a podcast the other day with a guy named Troy. He's a. He's a multimillionaire and he owns a company called Course Careers. I don't know if you heard of it or not. No, I hadn't. But he's grown that pretty big and he started when he was 16 years old and now he's still, he is just 24 years old, so he is still young. So he's built it up and it's all from the sales background and all those type things. For you having a sales background, how important has that been in your life for business?

Roosevelt: 4:50

Having a sales background is important for business because it really entertains your mind to understand you wanna write your own paycheck and, that's the biggest thing because if. in corporate America then it's like you're you entertain a thought of having, the same paycheck all the time, and that's just, that's cool for you. But whenever you go into sales and you get an understanding of, if I do more, I can make more it it just makes you want to do more. Okay. And taking that into business, it's the same aspect. The better I make my business and the more I do in my. then, the more money I make.

Madison: 5:29

Yeah. So what you're doing now, how is that able, how are people able to get in and join what you're doing? Do you have a po Is it something that you have open that you help people with?

Roosevelt: 5:40

Yeah when it comes to what I'm doing, we'll go online, say to come up system, different things like that. It's a pretty u unique way of doing it because. I do provide a blueprint, as far as helping a person get better engagement. I can really do just evaluate your Facebook page, and stuff like that because we utilize Facebook mostly. So being able to. Take you from a situation where you're not really getting any, you don't have many followers and you're not getting much engagement, pushing you over to where you get the engagement that you need to actually build something online, yeah. And then, as far as getting started, it's just, Looking at a video, clicking a link, like you do with anything else, putting in information and then, starting lower level and, just increasing to higher levels, different things like that. The biggest part of is the actually the blueprint, I'm gonna say, because the worst thing. when it comes to online, it's, a lot of people get online and they jump from program to program. And the reason why they do that is because, lot of times they're not getting the people and the engagement when it comes to the algorithm, when it comes to Facebook, where you know the same people over and seeing what you're putting up. So you gotta create a way for. That not to happen where a lot of different people actually see what you're putting up. And that's the biggest thing that, that most people lack. The same people seeing their stuff over and over again and nothing happening. So they try something else and they try something else.

Madison: 7:12

So with that, without giving too much sauce out, like what would be some type of secret or gem that you would give to the people about, like, how can they get to the next PO point to be able to get their stuff out? Because I know that you have a pretty large following. So how do you, how does somebody get to a, the different point?

Roosevelt: 7:28

Getting to the different point is most of it is engaging is, I'm gonna say, is getting. Engaging with the people that's in on your Facebook and posting, more than one time a day and looking at what you post and what you share. It's just certain things. And then also making sure that that's your public. lot of people get on there and they have their pages private and don't realize, if your pages are private, no, no one's really gonna. what you putting out?

Madison: 7:56

So did it take you a long time to build your following or was it something that is just, once you figured out the skills to it, you was able to develop it?

Roosevelt: 8:06

My following came from a just an idea. And it came to me and I was just like, man, let me try this. And I tried it and it worked and it just continued to increase and increase. And so when something happens and it's working, you just continue to do it. And that's what I did and that's how my following got to the point that it did.

Madison: 8:28

Yeah, so I know there's a lot of people that's out there that want to enter entrepreneurship, but at the end of the day, some of their biggest excuses that I'm pretty sure we all have heard, either I don't have time, I don't have the money, I'm too old or I'm too young. What would you say about any of those?

Roosevelt: 8:44

I'm gonna say all of those are really mostly just excuses that we give ourselves because none of those are reasons to to not enter in and do anything. Because if you're if you don't have time, then it's something you really don't wanna do because for something's going to help you make. Okay. If you are too young, that's really not a question. Long as you, over the age of 18, you get going in anything you wanna do. Yeah. Too old is not anything because that's more of getting the understanding of technology when it comes to the too old part, when, what. That age runs into most of the time. And that's just really most of it. And what it all really boils down to is do you really want it or not?

Madison: 9:27

Yeah. I was told the other day when people was speaking about things that has to do with like financially, if that is an excuse that most people have, it's like if somebody say, I cannot afford it, I was told that shouldn't really be an excuse because there should be several different ways that you are able to bring in money. So what would you say about.

Roosevelt: 9:45

The, I can't afford it part. I'm gonna say that really all boils down to what you really want because, if you see something and it's something that you want you'll do whatever it takes to get it. If you gotta you have a certain item you can deal without for a little bit. You can go pawn it and get in the business. Get yourself going and go get it. Go get it out. Or you can, sell something online or you can, there, there's so many different options of ways you can make, a little extra money. If it's I take the 18 year old, for example, if I was 18, I'm trying to become an entrepreneur. I don't have the money to start this. Man, I go mo some grass, or, it's so many different ways. You just find a way to, to make that extra and you be determined in what it is that you're doing. If this is, I, my focus is on this I'm focusing on this and I'm gonna go get the money for that. and then I'm gonna jump in that and let's see if I can make it do what it do.

Madison: 10:43

Yeah. I can't agree with you anymore. And definitely when you're talking about that hustle it talk, it sounds like that grid is what's gonna get people to that different level. And if people ain't willing to put in that grid, take that time. And like you said in the beginning, it's sometimes you're gonna fail, sometimes you're gonna succeed in what you're doing. But at the end of the day, you gotta continue and just be your best. Sounds like what you're saying is just not give up li limit the excuses and be your best and continue to learn the game. So how do you teach people to learn the game and to get, to basically overcome some of the T troubles that they have or they may come go through being an entrepreneur if they was to come to you as a mentor or something.

Roosevelt: 11:26

Just understanding that it's a. Is the main thing, because if you come into it and you don't understand that, that it's a process, that it's not overnight, then that's where a lot of the failure comes from because it's like you're expecting more than what's showing up.

Madison: 11:46

Yeah. And I hear, I heard a lot in the entrepreneurship that you must have a why. Your why have to be the strongest thing that you have. Do you believe in that? Why do you believe that should be a possibility?

Roosevelt: 11:57

Yes, sir. That is very important because, if you don't have a reason why you're doing something and a lot of times it's, it comes to thought, why am I really doing this? Puts you in a position where you don't have the care for what you're doing, you don't care about it enough to spend that extra time doing personal growth, working on your mindset to spend that extra time studying the business or studying whatever it is you're doing. You don't, you won't care about that enough because you don't have a why. You don't have a reason why you're doing, you know what it is, you.

Madison: 12:30

Yeah, I feel like that's strong as well. And some of the things I've observed and some of the reasons why I definitely wanted to get you on here is because I feel like that you was special man and I. Just looking at your content, you always have some type of content or you have some type of value that you're giving to somebody and you're not asking people, Hey, come, gimme your money, gimme this. You always providing some type of information, and if somebody decides that they want your help, it seems like that you provide it to'em. But it's I feel like that's what separates you from a lot of other people. And I remember when I first got into supposedly the entrepre. it's, it is a lot of, it was a lot of ups and downs in the very beginning, and it was like, as you get into this, and then I remember, I'm not gonna mention the name of the program that I was in, but it started off as$7. Oh. And me not knowing much about entrepreneurship and all these type different things that you have to go through, the ups and downs that you spoke about. I was like, okay, I'm gonna vest this$7 in, and I thought I was just gonna become a millionaire because that's the way it was fed. and, or better yet probably was the way I wanted to perceive it. So it's an understanding that I will share to everybody that you have to have a good understanding of what you getting into. That's, that doesn't matter if you going into a entrepreneurship or you going to go work a nine to five, either way, you have to have a decent understanding in what you're getting yourself into and what it's involved. I feel like a lot of people, they get, they self into things and they jump into things and. Don't realize what they're getting theirself into. So I feel like that's very important that people have to figure out what it is that they're getting theirself into. And when it comes down to being an entrepreneur, you have to know that is going to be your hustle like, and when he is talking about going to the pawn shop or doing whatever it takes to be success. You have to really give it your all. It's, it is like, are you willing to put your property up? Are you willing to put your belongings up to give it to somebody else? Are you willing to lose it? Because it's like that hustle. If I go pawn something or I go borrow some money, or I go put something up for that sacrifice, then guess what? Most likely, if you really care about it, You're going to grind until you be able to make the money to go back and get what you need. So is that value? I feel like that you have to be able to provide and without and in any entrepreneurship, you have to know that if you don't have value, if you don't have something that you're trying to give back to people and something that you can give to somebody, then you're gonna fail every single time. You have to know, no business can call theirself a business. It's not a business if you don't have clients is the most important thing. So I really appreciate him for sharing that as well. And it's just that hustle and you gonna, and you gonna learn in entrepreneurship and getting in different things that it's gonna be so many obstacles that come up because there's gonna be software that you may have to pay. There may be some type of a, some type of a website that you may have to pay for, but just remember that you're investing into yourself. If some of these places that you're investing in do not have the software, they do not have the websites, and they do not have the manpower. What I mean by manpower is the employees or somebody that can assist you. Then that is going to be a problem for you. Probably not gonna buy from'em. If they don't have a logo, if they're not speaking correctly and addressing problems, that's gonna be a huge problem. So you have to think of those things when it comes down to having somebody else and providing someone else with value and providing someone else. That thing, whatever that may be, and that entrepreneurship journey that you're in, you have to figure out what is it? What is it that I need to provide for somebody? What is it that I need to be able to give to somebody and provide and continue building into my company? And seems like almost everyone that I bring on that speaks about entrepreneurship. And I will tell, I will say it myself that if you gonna take the money, and you're gonna continue to just. Spend that money. Every time you receive money, you're gonna have a problem. That's gonna be a problem. If you re, if every single time you take that money that you make in entrepreneurship and just spend it, no smart business owner is going to make money and spend it on something else. It has to go back into business. So what do you think about when somebody make the money from either the advertisement or building a huge following or whatever it may. what do you think about them spending that money on something else other than investing back into the business?

Roosevelt: 17:41

What I think about that is if you spend it on something else besides for investing back into the business be, besides for creating you, maybe your, a certain percentage that you take away, you. Find a way to make sure your business money is for your business. Cause if you don't your business will never prosper because, you're spending everything that you're getting out of it. And there's no way for it to really come to, where you want it to be. If everything you get from it you're taking it and spending on extra little things or whatever it is, or build, you gotta your regular finances for that until you get your business to a certain.

Madison: 18:21

Yeah, so this is against Giving OS podcast. And so with that, just to go into a little bit more detail. I know I said it a lot, but I just would like to make sure everybody understand what it stands for against giving uss is all the things that we are gonna go through as humans that we're gonna go through and hurt, and all the pain and the stumbles, whether it may be ups and downs. At the end of the day, it's overcoming those problems and being your best person. So with that being. What would you suggest? Do you have a time that you feel like you have failed and you wanted to give up in the journey of entrepreneurship, but you continue to go and you ended up on top?

Roosevelt: 19:01

Yeah. That's happened. If you're truly an entrepreneur, most of us have went to a point and, some of us, I'm not gonna say everybody, but some people go to get. A point like that. I did reach a point like that where I was like I don't know if I even wanna do this anymore. And whenever you get to the point that you understand what a mentor is and stuff like that, that's what, that's the key to, to keep you out of. Deciding to quit, cuz that's what it took for me is somebody that had already been through what I was going through and that was learning and had already knew, the things that I would go through and just advising me, Hey, you need to do this and this will help you do that and that will help you and showing me, the rope. Things I'm already going through that they've already been through. Mentorship is a big key to I went a long time thinking I could do it by myself and I didn't have the any type of success until I figured out that, I needed some help.

Madison: 20:02

Yeah, that was great. And to build a little bit more off of that mentor that you were speaking about, I feel like that mentor is very important and I feel like that's what he can help you with. There's so many other people. That I feel I can help you with it as well, but it's like when you find it's up to you, you have to find that right person. It's if you go talk to a counselor or you go find that church or whatever it is that you going to go do, you gotta find that right person for you because if you just go pick up anyone, somebody, you may find a mentor that's very successful and rich and they believe that you supposed to invest into the most expensive things and you can't. It may not be for you, or you may be willing to invest the most amount of money into something, but somebody else have a broke mentality and they haven't. Hit that notch yet where they can progress or get somebody else past a certain point and they are limitating you at the same time. So you gotta find somebody that has that middle ground for you that's going to tell you, okay, maybe you're spending a little bit too much money, or maybe we need to invest a little bit of more money, a little bit more time, a little bit more effort. But somebody that is willing to be honest with you and truthful. And I'm telling you, this guy right here, I'm telling you, he's co. If you go look at his social media, if you stay following him, go tell your friends. Matter of fact, because I'm telling you, you're gonna see consistency from him. You're gonna see him consistently posting something on his social media, something that's going to be able to help you where you get value. He's not out here, like I said in the beginning, trying to ask you for your money. But don't get me wrong, and let me tell you this right. Anyone that thinks that something is wrong with providing a service that adds value to somebody and gaining money from it, something is wrong with you because you have a problem with that, but you'll go to the store and buy some milk or you'll go to the store and get some gas. But if you can do that, was that free for you? No, I don't believe that was free for you. So you have to remember that when somebody else is putting their effort, their time, and providing value from that. So there is a time that you do have to invest in certain things. And I don't even know, I haven't spoke to him about what is it that he has a value for you to pay for. But at the same time, I believe every entrepreneur that, that word right there, that entrepreneur, they're just like a. They are setting something up because it's something that can help you and the right people are going to put the right things in place to help you. That's the whole point of being an entrepreneur. Finding something that provides value to other people are a sh shortcut to other people and give it to'em. That's the whole point of it, and this guy, I believe, can help you out and do that, man. So you definitely need to check him. I really appreciate you for joining me, man, because I, like I said, I don't just bring anybody on. I bring the people that I believe that I can go out and I actually, I can look at these things. I can view these things and I can vouch for it because everything that I said about you, if they go and look at you or go add, you, dare. They see that I'm not lying about these things. So from the following, from the mentorship, from adding value from the character of them, you'll see every last one of those things. Go look at his stuff, man. But can you leave us with a word of advice with how we can be successful and continue with consistency?

Roosevelt: 23:35

Leaving with a word of value. I, Three words. I think they're very important. Consistency is one of them. The other one is sacrifice, cause in, in order to really get to the point where you're consistent and any of, all this stuff, it's really all making a sacrifice. And then, it all sets you up to for dis discipline and discipline is really the key to it. Cause once you get to the point that you've made the sacrifice and you're being consistent in what you're doing in your business and whatever it is you're doing, if you could be selling lollipops. It doesn't matter if you're consistent at what you're doing. after a while, it is, you are gonna become disciplined and you're gonna know, hey, no matter what options, what obstacles, whatever happens, I gotta get this taken care of. And it just puts you at that point where you're going to be successful because you are doing those three things. You're. You've made a sacrifice. You're being consistent in what you're doing now. You've created the discipline to continue and do exactly what you're supposed to do.

Madison: 24:44

Thank you. One last thing. Where can they find you? Where can people get in touch with you at?

Roosevelt: 24:49

Facebook is the easiest, Roosevelt Russell III on Facebook very easy to get to me that way. You can email me R Russell, 8 0 6 gmail.com. Welcome to call or text me,(806) 437-6715.

Madison: 25:06

Yeah, I appreciate that and I can guarantee you that even if you needed a word to advi of advice and you wanted to get to the next level and you just don't know where to start, I can guarantee you if you reach out to. I don't believe that he'll steer you away. He probably will give you a little bit of advice. Please don't waste that amount of time. Please don't waste it. People do not like their time being wasted. And the reason I mention that is because there's time and there's money. Money can be replaced. You would never get time back. So please don't waste other people time value it just as much as you value your life because you have nothing but time. I really appreciate y'all for coming on, and guess what? This is against giving odds. Go tell somebody. Go share it. Go do anything. I appreciate you for coming on.