Dave Woodward was at Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Gala in Salt Lake city. He shares his thoughts and experiences from being surrounded by 1,200 attendees hoping their entrepreneur won. He talks about what it takes to become successful and the importance of those who are around you. Tips and Tricks for You and Your Business: Characteristics of an Entrepreneur (7:45) Hope and Encouragement (10:00) Trials and Tribulations are worth it (12:00) Quotable Moments: "There is no such thing as overnight successes." "If you are afraid of doing hard things, you will never make it." Other Tidbits: Success and hard work as an Entrepreneur. Appreciation to those who surround you. Make your dreams come true. Links: FunnelHackerRadio.com FunnelHackerRadio.com/freetrial FunnelHackerRadio.com/dreamcar ---Transcript--- Speaker 1:       00:00         Welcome to funnel hacker radio podcast, where we go behind the scenes and uncover the tactics and strategies top entrepreneurs are using to make more sales, dominate their markets, and how you can get those same results. Here's your host, Dave Woodward. Speaker 2:       00:17         Well, welcome back everyone. This is going to be a little different podcast than you're used to getting from me. Uh, it's probably be a lot more vulnerable than I normally am and it probably won't be as much of a hype and, and jumping around. I've just been thinking a ton and pondering a ton. I literally just flew back from Salt Lake City and he was there yesterday with, with Russell and his wife, his parents, um, my son Chandler and his wife Fran, John Parks and Brandon at, uh, the entrepreneur of the year event. And it was just, it's caused me so much reflection. First of all, congratulations to Russell. For those of you guys, you may not have heard. Uh, he was awarded entrepreneur of the year and it was just an amazing event where we'll walk into where there's basically 1200 people in this, in the grand American hotel. The ballroom there, downtown Salt Lake City and 30 different finalists all basically been going for, you know, being the entrepreneur of the year. Speaker 2:       01:25         And I honestly thought, you know, there's no one deserves it more than Russell. And it was interesting for me to start to really think about entrepreneurship and so often we see this, these overnight successes or what appears to be an overnight success. And it was fascinating for me as I sat there reflecting back on our journey. And most of you, you know, click funnels to most of you guys. There's only three and a half years old even though wrestled, tried literally for over the last 10 years, uh, two different times to come up with it. It wasn't till todd came on board that a click funnels actually came, came into being. But I sent me down a long journey as far as my journey as far as being an entrepreneur and all the struggles and the craziness. And yet the, the excitement that most importantly I guess for me is I'm feeling so much gratitude and such appreciation for those who have stuck by me over all the years. Most of all, my wife, um, you know, it's, Speaker 2:       02:33         when I started as my entrepreneurial journey, it wasn't as glamorous as a lot of a lot of people are, are seeing entrepreneurship to be these days. Um, I remember, Gosh, over 20 years ago now, where at the time entrepreneurs were really those people who are referred to as people who just couldn't make it. They couldn't get a job. I remember so many times my wife been asked, so what is it that your husband does? And her not really being able to explain it and how grateful I am for her and grateful great plan for, for really anybody who is there for those who are out there going for it, who are trying to make their dreams come true or trying to have an impact on the world. And I know those people who are listening here, I don't know where you are in your journey. There's no such thing as an overnight success. Speaker 2:       0