What Is The Fire?
It's that nagging feeling that lives inside you, burning in your gut, telling you you should be doing something different with your life. It's with you everywhere you go. It never stops. It practically dares you to change your life on a daily basis, to create something for yourself...to create something amazing.
Unfortunately most entrepreneurs are discouraged by friends and family from starting a business.
They know its hard but that's where the advice stops.
Conceding is not the answer.
More guidance, education, and mentorship is.
What Is The Fire In Me Community?
TFIM is an online community of aspiring entrepreneurs where people with "the fire" in them can come together to learn everything there is to know about business.
Our speakers, resources, coaches, and collective experience span the spectrum of small business success resulting in a community that learns across a multitude of entrepreneurial topics.
Your level of experience DOES matter here. You should have none.
Our purpose @ The Fire In Me is to...
Show you what to expect from entrepreneurship.
Build a community of experienced and aspiring entrepreneurs around you.
Establish a network of knowledge bearers to learn from with resources to access.
Prepare you for any adventures that may lay ahead.
To Succeed at this we...
Listen to your challenges, concerns, and questions as you consider what entrepreneurship means in your life.
Coach you on proper mindset, strategies, and actionable tasks to start a business.
Help you plan foundational elements unique to your future business.
Create breakout sessions with roundtable peers to help conquer your entrepreneurial challenges.
Provide you the resources you need to get across the entrepreneurial finish line!
Simply put, entrepreneurship is HARD.
So hard that...
20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open
45% during the first five years
65% during the first 10 years
So What Makes a Successful Business Successful?
The Business Owner
IDENTIFY your core values, strengths, and weaknesses
WORK on your business not in your business
BE addicted to your business
LEAD with humility.
The Tools We Use To Coach You On Your Way
"At the End of the Day" podcast is a weekly short form conversation (15-30 minutes) with the most successful small and mid-sized business entrepreneurs we can find. We discuss the unique challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship, focusing on practical insights, lessons learned, and mindset. We wrap it up with a series of 10 FIRE Round questions - the answers to which will help aspiring entrepreneurs burn it down.
The Fire Pit small business roundtables are bi-weekly and monthly virtual interactive conversations and workshops made up of and for aspiring entrepreneurs. We discuss topics from across the entrepreneurial spectrum with intent to bring unique education, perspective, and engaging conversation around how to start and succeed at small business while we address individual concerns in live time.
The Torch is our leadership is our weekly newsletter. It fires off spectacular nuggets of inspiration while weaving threads of wisdom from across the world. A fast pace glimpse of small business in a fast paced world, you can get everything you need in 5 minutes or less.
We will run our proprietary RYG Startup analysis for any business concept you would like to assess. We will present red, yellow, green result indicators with recommendations for each foundational category. The results are yours to keep! Use it to continue on alone or become a member of our our community and get your business rolling!
Coaching. For. You. With any service from this category, your RYG analysis is free. Using it as the backbone of our engagement, we will consult with you in an ongoing, 1-on-1 arrangement to get you the mindset, strategy, & resources you need to launch your business. Every concept and launch approach is unique but there are undeniable best practices you will need to establish as well. We meld these elements to curate your custom entrepreneurial preparatory journey.
We offer a series of group oriented workshops designed to bring attendees through the challenges and strategy solutions of unique topical challenges such as finance and accounting, labor, sales, marketing, culture, among many others. Structured on an ad-hoc basis or as part of the workshop membership or a larger package - you can sign up for any or all of the workshops.
Testimonials
I'm so glad I took the RYG business plan assessment. It showed me everything I wasn't willing to look at with my idea that would have completely impeded my ability to start my business. I've decided not to launch my idea (at least at this time) and I thank Chris and The Fire in Me for saving me time, money, and heartache I wasn't ready to invest. Stephen P.
There's no one I trust more to tell a group of hopeful, someday business owners what the real deal is than this community. I don't think I learned as much in all my years in school. Invaluable is the only word I can use to describe this community.
Lindsey D.
As someone who is very immersed in more advanced business advising, I get a lot of people asking about whether they should start their business idea and what they need to do. I respond the same way every time. I automatically send them to Chris and The Fire in Me as a source I trust to help them ensure they have clarity about what they need to do and how to do it! - Jerry F.
Well worth the money for what I learned about myself as I consider whether or not to become an entrepreneur. With The Fire In Me guidance and community I can put the pieces in place to make it happen. The RYG assessment was enlightening. I have a clear path forward now. -Dan H.
When we started our business, my husband and I did not have a tool to help us determine our readiness, and therefore we've had to slow down and change course A LOT. It's so hard to start but with the right mentorship, it gets a whole lot easier. Working with TFIM helped us chart a new course that we still follow today. - Jen C.
What's Next
Step 1
You determine your level of interest at someday becoming an entrepreneur.
Step 2
Submit a contact form or join with one of the membership links above.
Step 3
Immerse yourself in the community to gain as much learning, sharing, and growth as possible.
Step 4
Become a stalwart member of our aspiring entrepreneur community and soon enough...an entrepreneur.