After starting his entrepreneurial journey with just $3,000 in the bank and $60,000 in student debt, Chris Walker discovered that true success comes when your business serves your life, not the other way around.

In this episode of We Are Encoded, Chris joins host Chris Maffeo to share why you should create a business that enhances your life rather than consumes it.

Here’s what you’ll learn in this episode:

• Why bootstrapping offers more freedom than venture capital for 95% of businesses

• How clarity creates speed when you remove limiting beliefs and focus on what truly matters

• The surprising truth that Chris felt least free at his peak of financial wealth in 2022

• Why procrastination and negative emotions are signposts pointing to underlying limiting beliefs

• The power of recognizing that your beliefs create your reality

• How entrepreneurs can get trapped trading corporate jobs for investor-controlled businesses

• The difference between busy work and the few key actions that truly drive business success

• Why the best business relationships, partnerships, and customer connections feel effortless

• The importance of understanding every aspect of your business even if you don't perform every role

• How media narratives about entrepreneurial success often hide the complete story

Business is just one little compartment in your life, and Chris explains why the box that holds all the compartments "should be effortless, not hard."

This conversation reveals how paying attention to resistance and negative emotions can lead to greater alignment and fulfillment in both business and life.

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Thanks to our friends at Hatch for producing We Are Encoded and all of Chris’s short-form video and YouTube content. Hatch is a video-first content agency that creates short-form video content, video podcasts, original video series, and YouTube videos for B2B companies. Visit www.hatch.fm to learn more.