How to Manage Fear and High Stress with Bill Smith

Join us as our host, George Kamel, talks to Bill Smith, the founder of Shipt—a company he sold to Target for $550 million in 2017. He’s also the founder and CEO of Landing, his new venture. Bill shares the story of Shipt, including a dark time where he almost called it quits and shut the company down. He unpacks how he dealt with stress and the fear of failure and how he turned it all around. Later in the episode, George chats with Brian Williams, a Ramsey Solutions board member and the senior executive vice president of Ramsey+. Brian is known for tackling some of the most challenging problems we face as a business. He talks about ways you can manage the stress that inevitably comes with running your business.

 

You’ll learn:

• How one solution saved Shipt
• The biggest success principle most companies overlook
• Something that most entrepreneurs don’t realize
• If you should be friends with coworkers

 

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