Start the Hustle

03/02/22 • 24 min

Welcome to the first episode of Hustle Machine, our new podcast designed for the entrepreneurial community.

We’re Jason Marlowe and Zack Tatum, co-founders of Market House, a website design company specializing in branding and automation, but this particular podcast goes far beyond the scope of our small business.

No, Hustle Machine is our attempt to build a community and connect with entrepreneurs and solo-preneurs and focus on the various elements of running your own business, operating as a freelancer and how to make your hustle or side-hustle work for you.

In this inaugural (that’s another, fancy way to say first-ever for those of you skipped senior English in high school) episode, we want to, in fact, focus on that word, “hustle,” and perhaps re-define it, in effect flipping the script on what it means for people today.

We’ve been running Market House for nearly a decade. We, ourselves, are hustlers. But we knew from the beginning we didn’t want to run ourselves ragged or neglect our families and friends to make our business a success.

We want to show you can hustle as a business owner or freelancer and still establish a balance between business and personal life. We want to change up the business culture and overcome that negative training.

Ultimately, we want to help you answer the question, “How am I gonna be happy?” as a business owner. The answer, in part, is balance and avoiding the rat race mindset businesses have been pushing for far too long. The rest, we hope, will come from the lessons you can learn from this podcast.

Going forward, we hope Hustle Machine will allow our community to connect with another, mentor each other, form peer groups and provide continuing education for business matters.

Hustle Machine will come out every week, with plans for some live episodes going forward. In the meantime, you can listen to the episodes we’ve already uploaded, visit us online or connect with us via the social media site of your choice, including Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube.

And if you like what you hear, we hope you’ll subscribe and follow on your platform of choice as we continue to expand and explore what Hustle Machine can become. Drop on by and listen to two college buddies turned business partners explain what they know about business to you, with some bad jokes and good tips along the way.

Let's start the hustle.

Welcome to the first episode of Hustle Machine, our new podcast designed for the entrepreneurial community.

Going forward, we hope Hustle Machine will allow our community to connect with another, mentor each other, form peer groups and provide continuing education for business matters.

Let's start the hustle.

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Get That Mindset Right

Welcome to episode 2 of the Hustle Machine!

“If you want to go to outer space, go to outer space.”

That’s the advice we found from a certain 9-year-old to her older sister and we encourage it wholeheartedly here at Hustle Machine. We just hope that little girl doesn’t have her own podcast yet or she might put us out of job in giving peptalks to those of you in need of finding a better mindset.

Lo and behold, it’s already time for Episode 2 and the Hustle Machine is up and running again as we focus this time on the importance of mindset in keeping your small business or other enterprise going strong.

Mindset is very important to us here at Hustle Machine. It plays a big part in hitting goals and you’ll hit more goals, quicker and better, when you’ve got your head fixed in the right mindset.

We talk about the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, and how the latter can help you set new goals, take advantage of opportunities that come your way and fight complacency to keep growing and changing as a business owner.

In addition to space metaphors, we’ve got all sorts of other metaphors to go around this episode, from mountain climbing to the first, and almost certainly not last, reference to the Boy Scouts and Scouting from Jason on this podcast.

We’ve got a lot of advice to go around this episode, from reading a lot of business books (the average CEO reads 60 books a year!) to being receptive to feedback when it comes your way.

Overall, we hope our listeners can use some of this advice to find themselves in the right headspace in their business dealings going forward. Mindset is a big deal at Hustle Machine and we want you to find the right one for your work, too.

And if you still need more of a peptalk after today’s episode, well, you can always try and find an encouraging 9-year-old to put you in the right mentality, whether it’s to go the bar, start a business or, yes, go to outer space. Maybe we’ll see you there.

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