What Is The Fire?
It's that nagging feeling that lives inside you, burning away in your gut, telling you you should be doing something else with your life. It's with you everywhere you go. It never stops. It practically dares you to make a move on a daily basis, taunting you to create something for yourself...to create something amazing.
What Is The Fire In Me Community?
TFIM is an online community of aspiring entrepreneurs where people with "the fire" in them can come together to learn about all things business. Whether theoretical or practical, our speakers, resources, coaches, and collective experience spans the spectrum of small business success. The community will learn across topics such as marketing, sales, positioning, labor, tech, accounting, training, finance, operations, systems, leadership, values, mindset and so much more.
Your level of experience DOES matter here. You should have none. With that, we will...
IDENTIFY your core values, strengths, and weaknesses
REVEAL small businesses most common challenges
SHARE with you the greatest wisdom from the best resources out there.
COACH you how to build a business foundation that will see your aspirations realized
The Facts
Most entrepreneurs are discouraged by friends and family from starting a business.
It feels $hi**y, to the spirited entrepreneur, but in their own fearful way they're just trying to look out.
The truth is friends and family typically know little about what it takes to start a business.
They know its hard but that's where the advice stops.
And if they have built a business, they probably don't want you to feel the pain they did.
But turning away is not the answer.
More education, resources, and mentorship is.
Simply put, entrepreneurship is HARD.
So hard that...
20% of new businesses fail during the first two years of being open
45% during the first five years
65% during the first 10 years
Only 25% of new businesses make it to 15 years or more
So What Makes a Successful Business Successful?
The answer will always be one thing and one thing only and forever
The Business Owner
Our purpose @ The Fire In Me is to...
Show you what to expect from entrepreneurship.
Build a community of experienced and aspiring entrepreneurs around you.
Establish a network of knowledge bearers to learn from with resources to access.
Prepare you for any adventures that may lay ahead.
To Succeed at this we...
Listen to your challenges, concerns, and questions as you consider what entrepreneurship means in your life.
Coach you on proper mindset, strategies, and actionable tasks to start a business.
Help you plan foundational elements unique to your future business.
Create breakout sessions with roundtable peers to help conquer your entrepreneurial challenges.
Provide you the elements you need to get across the entrepreneurial finish line!
The Tools We Use To Coach You On Your Way
The Fire in Me podcast is a weekly short form conversation (15-30 minutes) with successful small and mid-sized business entrepreneurs. We discuss the unique challenges and rewards of entrepreneurship, focusing on practical insights, lessons learned, and what keeps them learning, growing, and motivated. It’s all wrapped up by a series of 10 rapid FIRE questions - the answers to which will help young entrepreneurs find their way.
The Fire Pit small business roundtables are bi-weekly and monthly virtual interactive conversations and workshops made up of and for aspiring entrepreneurs. We discuss topics from across the entrepreneurial spectrum with intent to bring unique education, perspective, and engaging conversation around how to start and succeed at small business while we address individual concerns in live time.
The Torch is our leadership is our weekly newsletter. It fires off spectacular nuggets of inspiration while weaving threads of wisdom from across the world. A fast pace glimpse of small business in a fast paced world, you can get everything you need in 5 minutes or less.
We will run our proprietary RYG Startup analysis for any business concept you would like to assess. We will present red, yellow, green result indicators with recommendations for each foundational category. The results are yours to keep! Use it to continue on alone or jump into our accelerator program to get your business rolling!
Coaching. For. You. With any service from this category, your RYG analysis is free. Using it as the backbone of our engagement, we will consult with you in an ongoing, 1-on-1 arrangement to get you the mindset, strategy, & resources you need to launch your business. Every concept and launch approach is unique but there are undeniable best practices you will need to establish as well. We meld these elements to curate your custom entrepreneurial preparatory journey.
We offer a series of group oriented workshops designed to bring attendees through the challenges and strategy solutions of unique topical challenges such as finance and accounting, labor, sales, marketing, culture, among many others. Structured on an ad-hoc basis, attendees can sign up for any or all of the workshops.
*The RYG Analysis is NOT required for these workshops.
DID YOU KNOW? Did you know that failure rates for franchises can be as high as 50%, while others studies show lower rates around 20%?
Testimonials
I'm so glad I took the RYG assessment. It showed me everything I wasn't willing to look at with my idea that would have completely impeded my ability to franchise. I've decided not to launch my idea (at least at this time) and I thank Chris and SmallBizRoundtable for saving me time, money, and heartache I wasn't ready to invest. Stephen P.
There's no one I trust more to tell a group of hopeful, someday business owners what the real deal is than SmallBizRoundtable. I don't think I learned as much in all my years in school. Invaluable is the only word I can use to describe this community.
Lindsey D.
As someone who is very immersed in more advanced business advising, I get a lot of people asking about whether they should start their business idea and what they need to do. I respond the same way every time. I automatically send them to Chris and SmallBizRoundtable as a source I trust to help them ensure they have clarity about what they need to do and how to do it! - Angela Cote @ ACinc.
Well worth the money for what I learned about myself as I consider whether or not to become an entrepreneur. With Small Biz Roundtables guidance and community I can put the pieces in place to make it happen. The RYG assessment was enlightening. I have a clear path forward now. -Dan H.
When we started our business, my husband and I did not have a tool to help us determine our readiness, and therefore we've had to slow down and change course A LOT. It's so hard to start but with the right mentorship, it gets a whole lot easier. Working with Small Business Roundtables helped us chart a new course that we still follow today. - Jen C.
What's Next
Step 1
You determine your level of interest at someday becoming an entrepreneur.
Step 2
Submit a contact form.
Step 3
We schedule a free call that will allow us to get to know each other and get you invited to an initial FREE roundtable session.
Step 4
If you get value out of it, you'll sign up for more and become a stalwart member of our aspiring entrepreneur community.