Turning Struggles into Success: How to Overcome Setbacks & Stay Strong

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🔥 Every business owner faces struggles—but how you respond determines your success. 🔥

In this episode of The Grind, I’m opening up about some of the hardest challenges my wife and I have faced on our journey—from being homeless in 2020 to waking up one morning with our bank account drained to zero due to a financial mix-up. These moments could have broken us. Instead, they built us.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

✅ The reality of business struggles & setbacks – Why tough seasons are unavoidable
✅ How to push forward when everything feels like it’s falling apart
✅ Why consistency is the key to overcoming obstacles & staying on track
✅ The role of faith & mindset in navigating hard times
✅ Turning adversity into opportunity—how struggles prepare you for success

The truth is, every setback is a setup for something greater. No matter what challenges you’re facing in business or in life, you’re still standing for a reason—you have a purpose, and your breakthrough is on the other side of perseverance.

If you’re struggling right now, this episode is for you. Stay the course, keep showing up, and trust that your best days are ahead.

🎧 Tune in and let’s build something great together. 💪

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's going on everybody?
Welcome back to the Grind.
We're here midweek and superpumped to have another episode
out for you guys.
Today I wanted to talk aboutstruggles and struggles in life,
struggles in business, whateverthe case may be right.
After talking to a few peoplethe last few days that have
maybe been going throughsomething or struggling through

(00:21):
something, it really got methinking about this whole
struggle situation, right, andI've just been thinking about
some of the struggles thatCrystal, my wife, and I have
been through One being homelessin 2020 and going through that
whole scenario to starting oursalon and now having a full
service salon that has astorefront, looking to expand

(00:43):
into more locations here in thenext 18 months.
We have that, but we also justrecently last year had
California talk about or pullmoney from our account to zero
for like two weeks and it wasfor a business back in like 2013
or 14, saying that we hademployees that didn't pay taxes

(01:04):
on it and come to find out thatwasn't the case and we ended up
getting the money back, but itwas two weeks of like no money
and we're trying to operatethese other two businesses now
with employees and payroll andwhen you wake up and your bank
account is drained and thestate's telling you that you owe
19 grand, your heart sinks inyour stomach a little bit, and

(01:26):
so it's in moments like thatwhere you have to really lean on
the Lord right, and be likeLord, I'm still here, so I have
a purpose, I'm not dead.
It's remembering in thosemoments that you're still living
in your purpose and, througheverything, god is still working
and God is still moving and heis using that for testimony for

(01:51):
somebody else, like I'm heretoday, sharing some of these
struggles with you guys, formaybe something that you're
going through right, and I thinkit's just really remembering
that, no matter what, it's goingto be okay.
At the end of the day,everything is going to be okay.

(02:14):
I think it's really what I wastalking about in the last
episode of like during the chaosis just taking that rest,
taking a deep breath is justtaking that rest, taking a deep
breath and thinking through thesituation and picking it apart
piece by piece of okay, here'swhat we're gonna do to manage
and mitigate the situation right, and so like, yeah, when your

(02:38):
bank account you wake up is zero.
You, you're like great, where'sall of our money?
How are we going to eat?
How are we going to pay bills?
It's a crazy feeling, butremembering to relax.
I woke up in the morning.
I have breath.

(02:59):
God still has a plan.
Let's trust and let his peacebe my peace.
And yeah, it was a lot of stress, but at the end of the day, we
made it through, we got themoney back and we're still here,
and so I think it's justconstantly remembering that

(03:21):
God's not going to put youthrough anything that you can't
handle and he's growing youthrough the situation to be able
to handle more, because a lotof times, you have to get
promoted to the next level.
Right Like you learn to handlemore, because a lot of times you
have to get promoted to thenext level.
Right Like you learn to handlea hundred dollars.
Okay, great, now let's test youwith a thousand dollars.
Great, now let's test you with$10,000.

(03:43):
It's a promotion, right, likecan he trust you with the little
for the much?
And so when you go throughmoments like that, sometimes I
feel like it's a test, right,like, hey, can I trust that
you're going to lean on me oryou're not going to steer away
from me, no matter the situation?
Just like Job right.

(04:04):
So I just wanted to give alittle bit of encouragement
today of no matter what you'regoing through, no matter what
your circumstance is, justremember you're not alone.
You've got this, you're goingto be okay and if there's
anything that I can do to helpor be support for you, I'm here

(04:25):
for you.
But just remember to stayencouraged.
Remember you can find peace inthe Lord.
Open up your Bible, see whatthe Lord says about you and just
remember to keep pushingforward.
And on top of that, you canjust stay consistent.
Stay consistent in everythingthat you're doing, even though

(04:46):
you're struggling.
Wake up with a smile, wake upready for the day Thank you,
lord, for my breath in my lungstoday and tackle the day.
If you had a schedule for thatday of filming or shooting or
meeting with a client orwhatever the case may be, do
that.
Stay consistent in what you'redoing, because what will happen

(05:06):
sometimes is you have a littlehiccup or something comes up
right, and then it throwseverything off.
You start spiraling and nowit's like you're going down this
huge tunnel of misery.
You're just like one thingafter another after another, and
you're like man.
Everything in this world islike coming against me right now

(05:26):
, but it all started with theone thing, and that one thing
affecting every other situation.
You know, you wake up and themoney's gone.
Now you're all in sorrow.
Then you don't meet with theclient that you had an
appointment with at threeo'clock, and then that leads to

(05:46):
not landing that job.
And then that leads to you inyour head more, and then you're
mismanaging the money becauseyou're stressed out about the
money.
And then it leads to you inyour head more, and then you're
mismanaging the money becauseyou're stressed out about the
money.
And then it leads to the nextthing.
And so just remember not to letthat situation that you're
going through affect every otherarea of your life, and that
life will still go on.

(06:07):
Keep pushing forward and stayconsistent in what God's called
you to do and on your missionand your vision that you're
working towards.
I want to see every businessowner, every single person that
may watch this or listen to this, be successful and do what
God's called them to do and livethe best life, this one life

(06:29):
that we have here on earth,until we get to our eternal life
in heaven, to the fullest andbest that they can.
So I just really wanted to jumpon here, share that and share a
little bit of my heart aboutthat tonight and I hope you got
something from that.
Just love and appreciate youguys and super excited to do
this and be here and be able toshare what some of the stuff

(06:53):
we've gone through and be herefor you.
So, with that love andappreciate you guys, have a
wonderful night or day orwhenever you're listening to
this and I'll talk to you on thenext video.
Bye, thank you.