Stop Being a Slave to Your Business with Neil Goldsmith

Today’s episode features my longtime friend & serial entrepreneur Neil Goldsmith. Back in 2016, Neil quit his 9-to-5, moved to Thailand, and built a successful e-commerce business selling Viking-inspired products. Since then, he’s traveled the world and turned a single horn mug into a 35-product business. We talk about the wild, messy, and often unexpected path of watching a business grow, decline, and evolve over its first 10 years, and then figuring out what comes next. Neil opens up about the emotional attachment entrepreneurs can develop to their businesses, the challenge of becoming a slave to it, the missed opportunity to sell his company, and his efforts to build systems, teams, and AI-powered tools that give him his freedom back. He also shares the story behind his new SaaS company, Replenly, a failed venture into the kava industry, and why some of his biggest “failures” became some of his best adventures. Resources & sites mentioned in this episode: The episode where I talk about the concept of freedom can be found here, and where I talk about productivity can be found here. Check out Norse Tradesman’s website, Instagram, and Etsy shop  Learn more about Neil’s new SaaS product, Replenly Find Neil on Instagram and LinkedIn