1426: No Mom I Can't Take You To The Airport Tomorrow by John Lee Dumas of EOFire on Entrepreneurship

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[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_00]: No I Cannot Take You To The Airport Tomorrow by John Lee Dumas of EOFire.com

[00:00:35] [SPEAKER_00]: First and foremost, Mother, I love you. You nurtured me as a child and you sent me off to college

[00:00:41] [SPEAKER_00]: and to war with a weeping hug. You've supported me at every stage of my adult life,

[00:00:46] [SPEAKER_00]: and we both know there have been many. But no, I cannot take you to the airport tomorrow,

[00:00:51] [SPEAKER_00]: on a Wednesday at 2 p.m.

[00:00:53] [SPEAKER_00]: Is the author of this post afraid to identify himself after making such a cold-hearted declaration?

[00:00:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely not. My name is John Lee Dumas and I am the founder and host of the business podcast

[00:01:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Entrepreneur on Fire. I live in San Diego, California and I recently took a two-week,

[00:01:09] [SPEAKER_00]: part-work, part-play trip to my home state of Maine to enjoy the gorgeous fall.

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_00]: At the tail end of my trip, my folks were leaving on a mini-vacation of their own.

[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: One morning over breakfast, my mother looked up at me and said,

[00:01:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Honey, your father and I have to leave for the airport tomorrow at 2 p.m.

[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: You can drop us off, right? She said it in such a matter-of-fact tone,

[00:01:27] [SPEAKER_00]: so confidently, that I knew I would potentially be shattering her long-held belief that I would

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_00]: move mountains for her if I told her no. Mom, I'd love to, but I have a 12 p.m., 1 p.m. and

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_00]: 2 30 p.m. Skype call tomorrow with three clients on three different continents.

[00:01:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Skype? She looked at me perplexed. Can't you tell your friends you'll call them later?

[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like you're talking to clients the same way you did when you were at

[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_00]: John Hancock or something, right? Ah, the days of John Hancock still ring proudly in my

[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_00]: mother's mind. Four years after serving our country as an army officer, highlighted with a 13-month

[00:02:00] [SPEAKER_00]: tour of duty in Iraq, I went off to law school, a shining future spread out in front of me. Six

[00:02:06] [SPEAKER_00]: months later, I was home, a law school dropout, a disappointment to my parents who before this

[00:02:11] [SPEAKER_00]: travesty had only known success with their son. You can imagine their relief when I informed

[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: them that I had accepted a position to work at the vaunted insurance giant John Hancock

[00:02:20] [SPEAKER_00]: for a trusty salary of 35k a year. Once a month, my mother would proudly call the front desk's

[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: 1-800 number and ask to be transferred to her son John Lee. I'm sure she imagined three phones ringing

[00:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: off the hook and major deals happening in the midst of her interruption. She would always say,

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_00]: John Lee, I'm so sorry to bother you. I know how busy you must be, but I was just hoping

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_00]: we could see you for dinner Sunday night. You don't have to answer now. I know you're

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_00]: so busy, so just call me after work and let me know. Oh yeah, and bring your laundry on

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Sunday if you'd like. And boom, she would hang up the phone before I even had the chance to utter

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_00]: a syllable. Then I would continue simultaneously updating my fantasy football team, playing

[00:02:58] [SPEAKER_00]: solitaire and Facebook messaging my friends to coordinate what happy hour spot we would be

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: heading to at 4.59pm. So back when I had nothing better to do than take my mother to the

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_00]: airport at 2pm on a Wednesday, she wouldn't even dream of wasting more than 15 seconds

[00:03:12] [SPEAKER_00]: of my corporate work time. Now her entrepreneurial son could surely call his Skype friends later

[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_00]: and take two and a half hours on a Wednesday to take his life giver to the airport.

[00:03:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Now it's time to be honest with you, Mr. or Ms. Reader. This post is not a rant from a

[00:03:26] [SPEAKER_00]: disgruntled son, although I know it may seem like nothing but that thus far. I'm actually

[00:03:30] [SPEAKER_00]: thrilled that my mother's generation looks at me this way. Today's location independent

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_00]: entrepreneurs are the first of our kind. We are living in uncharted territory and

[00:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: it's exhilarating. This newness won't last long. We are the wild west cowboys and

[00:03:44] [SPEAKER_00]: cowgirls of the 1800s, the rebel patriots of the 1700s, the pilgrims of the 1600s. Need I go on?

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_00]: Side note, I was an American Studies major in college. Most people don't get us right now and

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_00]: that's okay. In fact it's great. It's kind of like striking gold in the Klondike but no one

[00:04:01] [SPEAKER_00]: really believes you even after you start tossing golden nuggets in their lap. My mother has

[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_00]: always been incredibly supportive of entrepreneur on fire but even after a feature in Thai magazine

[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_00]: I still think she's waiting for me to find a real profession, preferably one with a name she can

[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_00]: spell. Entrepreneur is tricky. So back to breakfast that morning in Maine. As my mother continued

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_00]: to question the Skype calls I had set up the next day with my friends, she happened to be reading

[00:04:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Entrepreneur on Fire's latest income report which we release monthly in order to be 100%

[00:04:31] [SPEAKER_00]: transparent with our followers by showing them what's working, what's failing, what activities

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_00]: are bringing in money and which ones are losing or costing us money. Entrepreneur on fire had a

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_00]: pretty impressive September topping 50k in revenue for the first time ever. Very nice honey, my mother

[00:04:46] [SPEAKER_00]: commented between bites of her cereal that's more than I ever made in a year. The remark was

[00:04:51] [SPEAKER_00]: made very nonchalantly almost flippantly. I looked over at her. She was bouncing my two-year-old

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_00]: niece on her lap while reading the report on her iPad chomping away at some Cheerios and

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_00]: keeping one ear open for the ding of the dryer signaling my clothes were ready to be folded.

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of words bubbled up in my mind as I watched her. Words that would explain how 50k was also

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_00]: more than I had made during my entire year at John Hancock and also how I knew that my three Skype

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_00]: friends were going to help me exceed that number in our next income report. Instead, I took my last

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_00]: sip of coffee, placed the cup in the sink and looked at my mother and said,

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what mom? I'd love to take you to the airport tomorrow.

[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: You just listened to the post titled No Mom I Can't Take You To The Airport Tomorrow

[00:05:36] [SPEAKER_00]: by John Lee Dumas of EOfire.com. This show is sponsored by BetterHelp. We're all marveled at

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[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_00]: And thank you to JLD for letting us share his content. Since 2012, John Lee Dumas has interviewed

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_00]: over 2,000 incredible entrepreneurs including Tony Robbins, the famous motivational speaker

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_00]: as well as businesswoman and shark on Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran, Tim Ferriss and many more.

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_00]: But that came after a lot of hard work and soul searching.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_00]: After serving as an active duty army officer for four years, he tried law school but was

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_00]: a first semester dropout, corporate finance and commercial real estate. He now hosts a podcast,

[00:07:14] [SPEAKER_00]: teaches podcasting, creates journals and a lot more. He also posts his revenue every month

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_00]: on his site, sharing exactly where it's coming from. It's pretty much always six figures so he's

[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_00]: doing quite well. And you can check that out and learn more about him at eofire.com.

[00:07:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, I think that's going to do it for today. Hope you are having a happy Monday and

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_00]: great start to your week. Thanks so much for being here and I will see you back here tomorrow

[00:07:38] [SPEAKER_00]: where your optimal life awaits.