EP 62: From Baseball to Insurance Entrepreneurship with Nicolas Lares

Now let me also ask you the following, moving on to, okay, so from, let's say initially that startup, when you found like that startup, you know, moving away from the startup and so forth.

Technically, even though you c- one could argue that you were starting from zero, you know, leaving the startup into like the insurance business, then starting your own.

You know, one could argue, oh yeah, you're starting from zero, as you had mentioned.

But technically, at the same time then, I w- I would say you probably n- not fully from zero 'cause at least you were like stacking skills, right? Like from what you learned in the AI business, stacked that to then this, the insurance business, which then stacked upon your own, own business as well.

Talk to me a little bit about that, 'cause I feel sometimes even with some guests in the past that I've had where they transition from different career paths and so forth, there's always pr- again, a possible hesitation.

You know, like, hey, you know, starting all over or this and that.

How are you able to ultimately, let's say, pers- like handle that, always making that new step and like, in a sense, you know, maybe n- maybe you weren't truly aware of like, hey, I'm still stacking skills.

Mm-hmm.

But at least the reason I'm asking this question basically is I can relate 'cause I've been like, you know, back then maybe you remember in, in Barry, I would do a lot of lighting and production.

I, I'm pretty sure-

Yeah

...

I talked about that a bit.

And obviously-

Yeah

...

I completely left production, then started doing, um, I don't know if you remember him, but his name was Stefan.

He was part of the finance program.

I think he was there after you, so you probably might not remember him.

But anyways, I joined one of his business during COVID, 'cause you know, production, everything was dead.

And so then I went on to his, working with his company.

It was a lot of like consultations with clients, phone calls, doing a lot of like consultations and so forth.

And then transitioned that into what I'm doing now, more into like the fitness space, fitness instructor, teaching, running, fitness, et cetera.

But I can see certain things that I build or learned from doing, let's say, production that helped me a lot with consultation and even to this now with fitness, that I'm doing like these live, these like virtual, um, fitness classes that some of that I can, it can st- it connects when I was doing like that old job at, with Stefan, et cetera.

And so unknowingly, I was like, "Oh, snap.

Now let me also ask you the following, moving on to, okay, so from, let's say initially that startup, when you found like that startup, you know, moving away from the startup and so forth.

Technically, even though you c- one could argue that you were starting from zero, you know, leaving the startup into like the insurance business, then starting your own.

You know, one could argue, oh yeah, you're starting from zero, as you had mentioned.

But technically, at the same time then, I w- I would say you probably n- not fully from zero 'cause at least you were like stacking skills, right? Like from what you learned in the AI business, stacked that to then this, the insurance business, which then stacked upon your own, own business as well.

Talk to me a little bit about that, 'cause I feel sometimes even with some guests in the past that I've had where they transition from different career paths and so forth, there's always pr- again, a possible hesitation.

You know, like, hey, you know, starting all over or this and that.

How are you able to ultimately, let's say, pers- like handle that, always making that new step and like, in a sense, you know, maybe n- maybe you weren't truly aware of like, hey, I'm still stacking skills.

Mm-hmm.

But at least the reason I'm asking this question basically is I can relate 'cause I've been like, you know, back then maybe you remember in, in Barry, I would do a lot of lighting and production.

I, I'm pretty sure-

Yeah

...

I talked about that a bit.

And obviously-

Yeah

...

I completely left production, then started doing, um, I don't know if you remember him, but his name was Stefan.

He was part of the finance program.

I think he was there after you, so you probably might not remember him.

But anyways, I joined one of his business during COVID, 'cause you know, production, everything was dead.

And so then I went on to his, working with his company.

It was a lot of like consultations with clients, phone calls, doing a lot of like consultations and so forth.

And then transitioned that into what I'm doing now, more into like the fitness space, fitness instructor, teaching, running, fitness, et cetera.

But I can see certain things that I build or learned from doing, let's say, production that helped me a lot with consultation and even to this now with fitness, that I'm doing like these live, these like virtual, um, fitness classes that some of that I can, it can st- it connects when I was doing like that old job at, with Stefan, et cetera.

And so unknowingly, I was like, "Oh, snap.