245: Doing Good Work with Raul Hernandez

Welcome to another episode of the Startup Junkies Podcast! In this episode, Jeff Amerine and Matthew Ward talk with Raul Hernadez, business strategist, coach, consultant, and author. Raul assists creative founders in their company’s growth, culture, strategy, and team leveraging. Jeff and Matthew speak with Raul about things from his own journey into his consulting and coaching business, to engaging clients, work-life balance, how to define personal success, not to mention his upcoming book Productive Profits. You won’t want to miss this discussion. Thanks for tuning in!   Shownotes (0:54) Introducing Raul Hernadez  (2:02) Backstory and journey to online business  (4:05) Themes and challenges of entrepreneurs (5:09) Raul introduces his book (8:47) Challenges in authorship (10:31) Difference in guiding companies in various “early stages” (11:37) Tips for engaging clients  (12:27) Long-term goals for Raul’s business and marketing Consulting, and executive coaching (13:38) The “why” behind Raul’s work (14:54) How Raul recharges and spends “free time” (16:01) Work-life balance in 2021 (18:24) Thoughts and future for Clubhouse (21:28) What personal success looks like for Raul (22:04) Advice to Raul’s younger-self (22:54) Wrap up   Links Jeff Amerine Matthew Ward  Raul Hernadez Productive Profits Creating Startup Junkies  Zig Ziglar   Quotes “Because the thing about businesses sometimes is it can be very binary. It either works or it doesn't... It's a balance sheet. It's finance, it's a product market fit. But, when you work with  organic matter, with humans, it's variable. You don't know what you're going to get.” (4:51) “The train is going, but you're building the train tracks as well. And the train doesn't stop. In my view the train shouldn't stop. Cause that's your business. That's momentum.” (11:18) “ ...and then also taking cycle time to make sure that what you've implemented you're seeing and bearing the fruits of... and you may not see those fruits within the first 30 days. You might see those in 60, 90, 180 days.” (13:17) “So there is no [work-life] balance, but I think that you can actually create harmony between both.”  (17:41) “Get on LinkedIn and connect with every single person. Build real relationships. Read a minimum of five to eight books a month.” (22:21) “... always reading what's relevant to the problems that you're looking to solve. That's what I've found is beneficial for my education.” (22:45)   https://www.startupjunkie.org/ http://wlj.com/