I had a mugshot at 21. By 28 I had three companies.

The gap between those two facts is not talent. It is the one decision I had to make before anything else could move.

In Episode 83 of First in Mindset, Jay Awal breaks down the single shift that separates the people who keep waiting from the people who actually build.

Here is what most people do. They wait to feel ready. They wait for more confidence, more clarity, more time, more money, more proof that it is going to work. And while they wait, the waiting becomes the habit. It gets easier to stay still. The longer you sit, the more sitting feels normal. And one day you look up and realize the waiting was never about readiness. It was about fear dressed up in reasonable clothing.

This episode is about the one thing Jay had to learn the hard way coming out of the lowest po ...