Can't tell your team. Can't tell your family. Can't tell your friends. #team #family #friends
In this episode, Brian T. Frederiksen highlights a common but often unspoken reality for business owners: the burden of carrying difficult problems alone. He explains that owners often cannot share their struggles with their team, because the team needs confidence; with their family, because they need stability; or with their friends, because they assume everything is going well. As a result, many leaders keep pushing forward even when they feel overwhelmed, isolated, or under intense pressure. Frederiksen connects that emotional isolation to the mission behind FWA and the broader fence and gate industry community. He says the organization was created to provide small business owners with spaces and events where they can connect with like-minded peers, share experiences, and find support. He points to the Fence Show and Security Expo in Las Vegas, educational programs, demo days in Florida, and Fence University as examples of resources built “for us.” His message is that while business owners may feel alone in their day-to-day challenges, they are not alone in the industry, and events like the Fence Show exist to bring that support to life.
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(248 words)There's a moment that every business owner has where you can't tell anybody how bad it is or how bad it feels. Um or what's really going on sometimes. Uh you can't tell your team because they need confidence. Uh you can't tell your family cuz they need stability. Uh you can't tell your friends because heck, they all think you're doing great. So, you continue on, not because you're okay, um, but because the weight of everything's on your shoulders. And that's why I created FWA, because we needed stuff for us. We needed stuff for us small business owners, um, places where we could go and places where we could um, talk to like-minded people. And that's what these events are about. That's what the Fence Show and Security Expo in Las Vegas is about. That's what our educational um, stuff is about. That's what demo days in Florida is about. And that's what everything we um, continue to build is about. um right down to the fence university and everything. So, it may feel like you're alone. It may feel like um well, you know what? You are alone. It uh you are alone in um everything you got going on at your uh business that you can't share with everybody, but you're not alone in the industry. So, get over to the fence show this October and uh come talk to some like-minded people because that's what this show was built for, just for
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