"Mike Smith is a 30-something-year-old from Nebraska. He has four companies, a non-profit that supports youth, over 100,000 followers on Instagram, and spends most of the year on the road, speaking to students around the country about how to be better human beings.
“I don’t believe in jobs, I believe in lifestyle,” he says. Dressed in a t-shirt, and a baseball cap with shoulder length hair, Smith is anything but the traditional startup entrepreneur.
In fact, he doesn’t like to be called an entrepreneur. “I can’t even spell it. I always have to check on my phone,” he jokes.“But seriously, I just don’t really think of myself as the kind of entrepreneur that’s often portrayed in the media these days. I don’t build companies to make money. I do them because I get really excited about some issue.”
“People always say do what you’re passionate about. It’s not quite that simplistic," he says. "You should do what you’re good at, what you have a good skillset for. For me, it was gathering a community around an issue, networking, and speaking. So how could I use that to improve people’s lives, not making money?”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eshachhabra/2017/08/31/how-this-nebraskan-entrepreneur-built-a-career-out-of-helping-youth-across-the-united-states/#1e90151214b6
“I don’t believe in jobs, I believe in lifestyle,” he says. Dressed in a t-shirt, and a baseball cap with shoulder length hair, Smith is anything but the traditional startup entrepreneur.
In fact, he doesn’t like to be called an entrepreneur. “I can’t even spell it. I always have to check on my phone,” he jokes.“But seriously, I just don’t really think of myself as the kind of entrepreneur that’s often portrayed in the media these days. I don’t build companies to make money. I do them because I get really excited about some issue.”
“People always say do what you’re passionate about. It’s not quite that simplistic," he says. "You should do what you’re good at, what you have a good skillset for. For me, it was gathering a community around an issue, networking, and speaking. So how could I use that to improve people’s lives, not making money?”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/eshachhabra/2017/08/31/how-this-nebraskan-entrepreneur-built-a-career-out-of-helping-youth-across-the-united-states/#1e90151214b6