Leadership Journeys [83] - Gabriel Jarroson - "On Saturday & Sunday I'm gone. There is nothing you can do to reach me."

This is the Leadership Journey series on the Choosing Leadership Podcast.I believe we all have a lot to learn from each other's stories - of where we started, where we are now, and our successes and struggles on the way. With this series of interviews, my attempt is to give leaders an opportunity to share their stories and for all of us to learn from their generous sharing. If you know a leader whom you would like to see celebrated on the show, please send me a message on LinkedIn with their name.We spoke about his interesting story of starting multiple companies in the last 15 years. He shares how he has learned the value of meditation, slowing down, and keeping your balance over the years, and how he maintains boundaries between work and his personal life now. He also shared a dream which keeps coming back to him, and we explored trusting our intuition and what it could mean.You can find Gabriel at the below linkshttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gabrieljarrosson/https://twitter.com/GJarrossonIn the interview, Gabriel shares I've been  an entrepreneur my whole life when I was, 13 started. Learning html, css, creating websites and actually trying to sell them to friends of my parents.No one in my family was an entrepreneur, but, My family had an entrepreneurial spirit. I would say a project spirit, like if you wanna go after something, go do it.I was really passionate about building a business and I really to make it, whatever that means. And for me, when I was really young, 18, 20 was have a business that grows, that exists that, is a real business, not just a hobby. And so the first thing that I did was I was starting a new business every week, every month. That was obviously a mistake I've come to realize.It's actually my first exit that I mentioned, and I realized that wine is a terrible business because white is heavy and so it's very expensive to ship. Shipping is by weight.  and it's also very fragile so it breaks, you have to send it again.when you're investing in a startup, you want to reduce. , everything that can go wrong. There's this thing that says anything that can go wrong will. And so you wanna reduce all of those potential problems, shipping, but even, production, there's, raw materials that you gotta have. There's production in itself, the assembly line. So many little things that can go wrong.If you wanna succeed, you are going to have at some point to work super hard for some periods of time. Maybe when you're when you've made it, you can relaxI've learned that the importance of self-care, if you wanna work hard and be able to keep doing this in a long time, you gotta, take care of yourself, not do it not burning out and meditatethe only way to be sure to fail is to, forfeit and abandon. But if you keep going, at some point, something is gonna happen. learned the value of your, reputation, your kindness, being nice to others. That's something that I, completely didn't care about at the beginning. On the side, helping coaching entrepreneurs, helping them grow, develop their business and also I'm, helping the companies that I invest in grow.