From Royal Engineer To Running A 6-Man Heating Business w/ Brent Songhurst

Your reviews online are phenomenal.

you know it looks really good

thank you yeah it's something we don't probably ask for enough really in the last few years i have got like um on our lanyards with our gas card one side we do have a google tap review that was probably a mistake of my part with so many things i wished i did sooner you know uh without a doubt like i was 24 i've learned the hard way in every way shape and form

I think it's like a really tricky thing.

Like, you know, as a business owner, yes, you could look back in hindsight and go, oh, yes, I could have done that.

But you just got to be really careful about the context.

Like the context of where you are now was really different.

When you were starting, I would imagine you're in a survival.

And the most important metrics and stuff is just activity, lots of it, because you don't know what you're doing.

You know, you don't know what's going to work.

So you just got to throw stuff.

But yeah, you just, you know, we do it for our own business.

You know, we've been running for 13 years.

And then, yeah, you just need to be quite careful about looking back and saying, I should have done that, should have done that.

Why didn't I see that sooner, et cetera?

Absolutely.

Like, I mean, but don't get me wrong, I don't hold on to it.

by any means.

I think you've got to, funny enough, I did a podcast a few weeks ago and I've said like owning a business will be the biggest personal development journey you ever go on.

And you've got to be so headstrong.

And I think in any given situation, it's always solutions, not problems.

And how can we learn from this experience, no matter how bad it is.

So either it doesn't happen again, or you get to really move on from it and use it to your advantage, right? Yeah.

Yeah, I would definitely agree with that.

The businesses are just a reflection of ourselves.