Episode #106: Lessons From Losing It All Featuring Jeremy Delk
“So when I was in that the world was over as I knew it. A few years later after I got stable, it ended up being the best lesson I've ever learned. You're never invincible, no matter how good things are going there's always something on the other side of the corner, that could happen.”
Jeremy Delk
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It was Benjamin Franklin who once said, “Failing to plan is planning to fail”. Having a well thought out plan that takes into account objectives, risk factors, accountabilities, mitigation strategies contingency plans in case things fall off the rails are all key aspects to a good plan.
Planning is important because it helps you establish appropriate goals and a good plan will help you determine if its realistic or not.
While there are many benefits to planning there’s one benefit that shouldn’t be ignored: peace of mind. Any project or idea that requires a plan will trigger some stress. Planning strips a lot of the uncertainty from the future and boosts your confidence. You’ve thought through everything. You’ve weighed the pros and cons. Stress probably won’t evaporate completely, but you have more peace of mind than you did before planning.
“I mean, case in point, me making all that money, I didn't learn sh*t. When I was doing what was doing, I didn't learn anything and it was taken away in four days, because I hadn't failed.”
Jeremy Delk is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for disrupting industries. Since 2001, his businesses have earned hundreds of millions in revenue, created 100’s of high paying American jobs, as well as other notable distinctions:
● Inc 500 - 21st Fastest Growing Company
● Inc 500 - 4th Fastest Growing Company in Health
He jumped into entrepreneurial ventures with the naivety of a child and the tenacity of a tycoon. He started day trading at the age of sixteen, learning and failing with each trade. It is this process of adapting through failures that is paramount to his success in business.
His knowledge and skill as a day trader helped him land a job as one of the youngest brokers at Fidelity trading institutional equities in Boston, and later in New York. It didn’t fulfill the entrepreneurial spark within him, so he decided to go out on his own creating Delk Enterprises. More than 20 years later, Delk Enterprises has holdings in biotech & healthcare, consumer brands, technology, building materials, and real estate development.
Jeremy He joins The Audacious Living Podcast and shares his lessons on perseverance, the Good, Bad, and UGLY of entrepreneurship and lessons learned through setbacks.
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