WTC : 013 – Love and entrepreneurship can it work? Challenges and what you need to know

In this episode of the Wartime CEO, our guest is Isaac Sandoval. He’s a real estate lending and investment advisor looking to make meaningful connections with people interested in engaging in the industry. He is also the Principal of Guardian Loans, a real estate investment firm and private capital provider. Today, Isaac talks with us about managing relationships while having the role of an entrepreneur. Stay tuned!

Juggling Relationship and Entrepreneurship

[01:14] Having a relationship is a common thing in everybody’s life. Entrepreneurship is a large undertaking. When it comes to getting advice or trying to juggle the two and try to achieve both things in life, it stems from mentorship. There’s no public forum on juggling being an entrepreneur and building whatever version of a relationship you’re after.

The Main Challenge

[03:20] The main problem is finding the time to be mentally present when you need to be with the person you are trying to court or getting to know. That is a challenge because you’re carrying all this extra baggage from having to put deals together, solving problems, and solving issues. Many times, it’s difficult to make a transition to where this person is super excited to see you. You have to match that energy. Communication is the number one solution for that. 

Building Purposeful Time

[08:55] For Isaac’s version of entrepreneurship, it is about building together. If you and someone are headed in the same direction with the same vision, things will check out. You can make time in a busy schedule to spend time together. Purposeful time has to be built in a grid. That has to be a priority for things to work.

Pure Dedication

[14:09] If you’re trying to build that top 1% company, you must dedicate your time, energy, and effort 24/7. Entrepreneurship is an opportunity to accelerate the better parts of life at a younger age. You can get to what you want faster and achieve goals from an entrepreneurial standpoint. It will be hard not to be one-dimensional. But if you want a more rounded life in the sense that you can spend more time and other things, you have to turn off that part of your life. That takes up a lot of attention to show off the other things you’re interested in.

The Best Friendships

[20:11] The best part of a good friendship is regardless of how much time has passed, you could randomly walk in on somebody, meet up with them, and just pick up right where you left off and keep things going. Those are by far the best relationships anyone can have.

[22:27] If you want to accomplish something big, there’s no point in wasting time where both of you will not contribute to each other’s life goals. Both people have to be bought into the vision. It has to be a shared vision for anything to work.

Exploring Ideas as an Entrepreneur

[31:27] As a thinker, Isaac loves exploring ideas and concepts. The biggest hit or miss for him is someone close-minded or stuck in one way of thinking. There has to be some level of balance.

[33:58] The trademarks of being an entrepreneur is either you’re incredibly a realist to a point where you understand where you stand and you leverage those skills, or that you’re so delusional that you’re cutting through all of it to where it doesn’t matter what people are selling.

Becoming an Effective Communicator

[37:45] In the beginning, when bad news comes, you almost stumble over the bad news because you are finding it hard how to deliver that bad news. But as you get more seasoned, you learn to communicate more effectively. You learn to problem-solve more efficiently and look at problems differently to where it might not be a negative thing. It might just be the positive thing that you were missing. Over time, it becomes easier, whether in a relationship or just bad news. It just becomes easier to be an effective communicator.

The Learning Curve

[46:43] Entrepreneurship is hard. Relationships are even harder. But there’s a learning curve. As you get to know yourself more, it’s easier to share who you are with other people, understand what will work for you, and get to know what will work for them. It’s the trial by fire and everything in entrepreneurship. Your relationship is no different in that sense. So don’t get discouraged if it doesn’t work out the first time with someone who might not be the one.

Learn more about Isaac Sandoval:

• https://www.linkedin.com/in/isaac-sandoval/