#207: Are you even ready to start a business - Tash Corbin, Heart-Centred Business Podcast

Hello brilliant entrepreneur. It's Tash Corbin here and welcome to another episode of the Heart Centred Business podcast. This is episode number 207 which means all the relevant links and show notes are available for you over at tashcorbin.com/207. In today's episode, I'm going to help you answer the question ‘Are you even ready to start your business?’ Whether you've just been thinking about it, are maybe on the fence, are dabbling with a few things here and there, or are trying to get your ducks in a row to get started, this is going to be an extra valuable lesson just for you. Let's dive on in! To be honest, there is a lot of information, opinion and frankly, a lot of misinformation out there about what you actually need in order to start a business. I've heard all sorts of things – like needing specific qualifications, needing to have six months’ worth of savings in the bank, needing to build up an audience of at least a few thousand people first, needing to have a website, needing to work with a business coach, and all sorts of things that you need to do, be, or have in order to be ready to start an online business. But the truth is that there are eleventy billion different paths to having a business and getting your business off the ground. Many of those things I just mentioned that you're “supposed” to have in order to start a business, I did not have myself. Yes, I had university level qualifications in business, but I didn't even know that much about Facebook. I did not have six months of savings in the bank. I had zero audience. I didn't have a website. And whilst I did work with a one on one coach for a one day VIP intensive, at the end of that intensive I still didn't know what to do in my business, nor did I have a step by step set of instructions to tell how to go out and get clients. I want us to take away these restrictions and rules about what you need in order to “be ready” to have a business and get that business off the ground. I want to dive into what it is that you do need, and what that would look like for a bunch of different pathways. We are all unique, and all of our business ideas are very unique. Therefore, we have different requirements about what it's going to take to start a business. As a very basic example, it takes a lot less cash to start a service-based business than to start a product-based business in most cases, because in a product-based business, you need to have some form of stock unless you're doing drop-shipping. So even when the traditional model of that business requires a bunch of money to start up, there are so many cool ways that you can overcome that cash shortage when you're first starting out. I've got four things that I think tell you that you are ready to at least get started with an online business. Sure, you might not make your first million dollars with only these four things, but you are certainly able to start bringing in clients and making money. You're ready to have a business and get it started. If you've got some idea of what it is that you want to do, you don't need to be 100% clear.  When I first started my business, I knew I wanted to do some form of service-based business and some form of coaching. I thought I was going to be doing career coaching for women in the corporate world. But after working with just three people, I realised I left the corporate world for a reason - I did not want to be doing that anymore. I totally pivoted! You don't have to have a concrete idea and 100% clarity about what it is that you're doing. All you need is to have some idea of what it is that you want to do, the type of business model that you might be interested Let me know your thoughts via our Text FanMail!Join us in Noosa at the Heart-Centred Business Conference in September!Find out more and secure your ticket at: tashcorbin.com/conference