Fear of Success: What To Do When What You Want Is Scary
Fear of Success: What To Do When What You Want Is Scary April 10, 2019 General Business | Mindset Mastery Fear of success is a legitimate thing. And it’s one that probably prevents us from moving forward more than anything else, largely because we don’t recognize it...
Real People, Real Business
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Josh Fuller – Overcoming Obstacles By Going All In
Josh Fuller is the founder and CEO of Matic Digital, a digital strategy and talent growth agency that he grew to over $1.5M in new business in its first year. Josh shares how he did that while also battling serious health and business challenges that would have made most entrepreneurs give up – but he pushed through and kept going.
Building a business is hard work on the best of days, but when you get thrown both personal and business curve balls at the same time, it can be difficult to find the motivation to keep going under the weight of it all.
In this episode, Josh Fuller takes us on his journey to founding his creative digital company, Matic Digital, expanding his services into talent growth, and the rocky road he was forced to navigate after a serious health crisis and a non-paying client converged at the same time.
Josh tells us that he never had plans to start an agency and how he expanded from providing creative digital services to also growing and matching talent. His company focuses on acquiring top talent, and he describes the challenges, advantages and strategies he uses for retaining premium independent workers and the human-centered approach he takes that has been very successful.
After experiencing business success after just a few months, Josh was hit with an unexpected health crisis while also dealing with a sudden drop in revenue after a large client stopped paying their invoices. He’s very candid about how he considered closing the doors on Matic Digital but details how he was able to persevere by going all in, eventually making it through to brighter days.
You’ll be inspired by Josh’s resilience in overcoming obstacles and his gift for nurturing people and relationships that has become a superpower for growing his business.
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2:19 – Launching a creative agency
3:18 – The challenges of being a 1-person show starting a business
4:17 – Branching out into talent growth
6:09- The 3 categories of clients Matic works with
9:15 – The advantages of using top talent
11:08 – Strategy for retaining top independent talent when you’re an agency
13:02 – Why they employ a nearshore strategy for hiring talent
14:11 – Maturing their anchor business model by promoting the human story
17:33 – Creating a different approach to independent work
19:55 – The importance of emphasizing why you do something over what you can do
22:08 – On working with clients in a way that’s collaborative and fun
28:41 – What sparked Josh to start an agency when he previously had no plans to do so
29:58 – The big strength that has helped Josh build his business
31:30 – Helping clients find talent that’s a best fit for them
34:21 – How the move to big agencies revealed the need for strengthened people skills
36:53 – Getting hit with both financial and health crises at the same time
43:16 – Not quitting when things were at their worst and steps Josh took to turn things around
45:02 – The surprise resolution that sparked momentum for Josh and his business
45:52 – The big piece of advice Josh has about going all in
Find Josh at:
Website: https://www.maticdigital.co/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshfullercd/
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