Born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Phil Catudal is a globe-trotting, food and language loving, serial entrepreneur. He is a Cancer survivor; a top MBA degree Honor’s graduate; a NASM-CPT Hollywood Celebrity Trainer; and, most important of all to him, a proud father of three.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Phil’s Brother
- Tim Ferriss
- Dave Asprey – founder of Bullet Proof
When business started difficulties overcame:
“starting a business is really scary… when you have nothing to lose, let’s say you are a 21 year old college kid is not so hard to say hey I’m going to sleep in my car and eat rum and noodles and it doesn’t matter, but when you have little kids to raise… it’s a bigger risk than simply oh am I going to eat a couple of noodles tonight. When I really decided to go all in and start my business online and quit my real job I had to ask my wife hey is this okay… it was definitely overcoming that fear of failure and realising that investing it myself was going to have bigger risk but reward than the safety of working for a company”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Book by Stephen R. CoveyFavourite Quote:
“When in doubt there is no doubt” – The Ronin Rule
Recommended Online Resources:
- Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. Owned by Condé Nast, it is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and has been in publication since March/April 1993.
- Los Angeles Times – The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It has the fourth-largest circulation among United States newspapers, and is the largest U.S. newspaper not headquartered on the east coast.
- The New York Post is a daily newspaper in New York City. The Post also operates the celebrity gossip site PageSix.com, the entertainment site Decider.com, and co-produces the television show Page Six TV. The modern version of the paper is published in tabloid format
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Start right now. That doesn’t mean go and quit your day job and give everything up today. If you are in a place to do that then great… someone once gave me another great piece of advice, they said what you do in your spare time when you are not at your job, that is a great indicator of who you are and how badly you want something… every single day you should be doing something for that. So maybe register the .com domain, register the LLC, maybe spend 20 minutes doing this on your spare time when you’re not working… just do it… it doesn’t mean all or nothing I guess you could start small and do something every day towards your goal and it is going to happen quicker than you realise”…[Listen for More]
More About Phil Catudal:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Start by asking the question ‘Why’. This is because behind the question ‘Why’ there lies answers to your question.” D.S. Mashego
Other Quotes From the Chat with Phil Catudal:
- “If it doesn’t energise me if it doesn’t make me feel mentally or physically excited in my business then it’s not something that I’m going to approach”
- “if you have a product that you want people to buy you have to describe it very simple and you have to explain what are you selling, to whom are you selling, and what does it do. Those the three keys… if you can clarify those three things and really just make it exactly simple to understand and why it will add value to them that is all that matters, they are going to pay, the business is going to be there”
- “people vastly underestimate how difficult it is to sell something”
- “if you can’t let people know exactly what you are selling and for what purpose it doesn’t matter how good it is”
- “you can’t do everything on your own so surrounding yourself with people who are good at the things you are not good at is the most important”
- “know your weaknesses and whatever they are hire people who are excellent at it to help you so that you don’t waste time and money trying to learn something somebody could do better than you”
- “if you are working super smart but doing the wrong things then it is not going to work. Conversely if you’re working smart but not hard maybe you will have a little bit of success but at some point it is going to burn out
- “knowing what to do and consistently doing it are key”
- “Innovate or die is very very true. You have to keep up with the changes in your industry, what clients are demanding, you have to be visionary in the sense of how can I add value, how can I do more”
- “you can’t have it all but you can get pretty damn close”
- “nothing is more useful than being the best at what you do”
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