How To Get Your Parents To Believe In Entrepreneurship (QUICK FIX)

so guys your parents don't believe in you they think what you're doing is stupid well not to worry because in this video I will show you exactly how to go about dealing with that so yes welcome back to this channel if you don't know who I am my name is Iman gaggy I'm a seventeen or wait I'm just I'm sorry used to saying that at this point that it's it's still kind of gray to me I'm an eighteen year old high school dropout who dropped out at the age of seventeen which kind of ties into

the whole topic of this video as you can imagine my mother wasn't too pleased so we will we'll get into it so I know the situation you're in right now is you know you're trying this whole entrepreneurship thing and first of all just know you are not alone like this is something that I went through personally this is something that probably 95% of people watching this right now are going through as well and as I said you are trying to become an entrepreneur I know you're in your entrepreneurial process and your parents just do not

agree with it they think what you're doing is ridiculous they're probably think you're throwing away some sort of job opportunity or some sort of education opportunity and you know I'll jump into this in stages so first thing I need to kind of establish is are you relying on your parents you know are you relying on your parents for money you know housing this this or you know whatever it may be you know because at the end of the day if you're not relying on them then the only thing holding you back is their opinion and

I think you're in a very fortunate position because logistically it works for you it's just all in here and look trust me I understand you don't want to let your pants down you want the approval of your mom you want the approval of your dad you know but at the end of the day you've got to do what makes you happy and I can tell you me personally you know at the time of dropping out I wasn't relying off my mom at all or hadn't been for a while so really was my decision it was

my decision to do whatever the hell I wanted to obviously I had to consult with her and you know that I'd say for like four or five months my mom and my relationship was really rocky while I was trying to push for dropping out of high school but you know one of the good things about the situation is I wasn't reliant on her at all so really it was just a decision of you know this is something I want to do this is something I'm gonna do etcetera etcetera so if you're in a situation where

you've moved out and you already take care of yourself and just know that it's all in here and for a little bit your parents are gonna slightly hate you my mom didn't hate me sure but she was very very disappointed in my decision for a long long time and I can tell you now almost a year later you know now that I take care of my mom my mom's taken care of and there are certain things you know certain things we're going through as a family right now that are very very difficult for us and

you know it just something also a nice stuff is going on in my life right now if I had stayed in school we would have been abysmal II [ __ ] right now and if I hadn't gone out and build my businesses so the only thing she has for me now is gratitude and appreciation and you know even if we weren't going through this thing you know the fact that like it all worked on the end obviously she's very very proud of that so guys if you or no rely on your parents if that's not

an issue if that's not something you need to worry about just understand yes they might hate it for a bit they might resent the fact that you went against their best wishes but at the end of day it's you know you have one [ __ ] life you know what are you gonna do like you really just gonna you know just live in your dad or your mom shoutout for the rest of your life you know I think that's no way to live and as I said you know you just have to understand that for

a little bit they might not be happy with it they might not agree with it but you know half a year a year five years down the line when you're really making something of yourself and look I think when you burn the bridges or burn the boats or bridges whatever like that and you go all in and you're you know you're not [ __ ] around here it's gonna happen you know it might take longer than expected it might be shorter than expected but at the end of day it will happen and some of the

points that I'm gonna make if you are currently relying on your pants you can still use some of those too so look if you are an eighteen year old and you're reliant on your parents because well you live in their house and they give you money here and there or even if you just live in their house you know maybe they give you money maybe they take care of you buy you the clothes you need what like just regular stuff that you know teenagers and college students get if you are relying on them for that

sort of stuff then this makes it a little bit more difficult but I have some tips and some things that I started doing when I was like 14 15 - kind of like without being rude kind of like start preparing my mom for the type of person I want to become because obviously the type of person I want to become the type of person you want to become is very against the grain entrepreneurship is kind of like building up and you know there's a lot more mainstream spokespeople forever right now but you know it's still

not something that's widely accepted or it's something that you know you can do later on when you're 30 or 40 and you have a bit of a track record so a couple of things I want you to go ahead and ahead and do is number one I want you to be patient and I know this is frustrating but guys you know your parents there and then today they're sensitive people with feelings and a lot of time I know with my mom personally me dropping out of school it wasn't about the what's logical here it was

a matter of like know you've worked so like I've brought you here this far and with your parents for example they might have put so much effort into sending it to after-school activities and this and that to build up their support do it anytime you know look if you could you know some of you guys you're building up your marketing agency three years you built up your marketing agency and I suddenly turned to you in I want sorry [ __ ] you turns out social media marketing isn't the best financial vehicle it's actually this thing

called and I don't know being whatever it may be you know whatever the thing is then right you'd be a little bit upset you know you'd have some emotional resistance to that you ever just get stuck in your own ways and then someone shows you a path that's quite clearly a lot better but you just can't handle it like it's just too much for you for your ego to deal with the fact that now you have to completely shift your compass unlike everything you knew like you almost have to kind of admit that you're wrong

to yourself even though you know anyone who's smart would realize you know you have to do a little a little pivot to what's better so first of all you need to be patient with your parents most of the time it's not about it's sad but a lot of time or most the time it's not about you it's about them it's about what they're feeling on the inside and they go okay my son is or my son or daughter is gonna drop out of college my son and daughter is gonna drop out of high school how

does that make me look as a parent it's not about you look I think logically they know like if worse comes to worse what's gonna happen you get like a nine-to-five job like people out of college barely get paid more than the people working at Starbucks so it's like you know we don't need to have this argument or we really we we don't need to bring up this discussion in this video but that's one thing I need you to understand I need you to have a deep sense of empathy towards your parents okay so be

patient with them and have a deep sense of empathy now number two I want you to start showing them some success and do this gradually not all at one go trying to like prove something to them and I don't mean your success you know I would sit with my mom and I'd put on the TV I would put on the TV like YouTube and I'd put on people like you know this isn't like when I was like 14 15 I put on people like Christian guzmán or like you know all the like some of these

other like kind of like youtubers and also some like lifestyle entrepreneur side you you know me my mom like I'd sit down and I'd like watched eye Lopes with her and I'm like look at how cool this is and you know it just got her thinking and started showing her what was possible the fact that you didn't have to go this like conventional route because you know your parents are thinking like it's too good to be true yeah it might be possible for someone who comes from like a rich family but maybe not for my

son or like all these other like [ __ ] limiting beliefs that you probably have so do your parents have about your success and where you could go so next thing after being patient and just being ridiculously empathetic with them is number two I want you to start showing them some success I'll gradually over time you know if you're sitting around the table at dinner table just start talking to them you know what you learned about this entrepreneurship thing right and you know if they try to throw some [ __ ] at you I know

it's gonna be tough but just take a deep breath and then once again tomorrow talk about it again you know a little bit here and there you know start talking to them about some of some really cool books you read you know even if it's something like Tony Robbins you know it just it starts to get them thinking in a different different sort of manner and it's stuff like that so after you do that I need you to start getting your first few little wins you know so I had my first few little wins when

I was 14 and I used to flip Instagram accounts and I made a couple thousand you know and that was pretty cool you know that was a little win and after that when I was 15 I started training people you know I started to become kind of like an unqualified PT but it would be my my friend's parents and stuff like that I used to personal train people and then after that I went into like freelance content creation you know and these are all little wins that kind of stacked up and showed my mom yet

if you guys saw the Q&A with my mom she was like you know I knew what a man was like I knew he would make it work no matter what you know so that's the next thing so ridiculously empathetic number two start showing them other people's success and start getting them involved in the world number three start getting your own your your first your own first few little wins because it's so so important for them to see once again just break that limiting belief in their own head that is possible and the last one is

and this is last resort you can always pull the happy card and what I mean by that is you know if your parents are talking about the risk blah blah you know look your parents dead and I go look you know mom what is the most important thing for you when it comes to me like you know if if I was this your job would be done and you know that you can phrase it the way you want but they'll probably end up saying happy you know if you're happy I just want you to be

happy I want you to live a happy life and go look you know honestly mom like this other thing this other life it's not gonna make me happy and I know that right now and I would much rather you know take a risk but honestly the only risk in life is not taking a risk right and and and put my heart and soul into this thing and yes you know it might not work but like it's if I put a 100% into this thing that's a bit riskier it's far more likely to work than for

me to put like 20% into this thing that I hate you know and honestly mom like I don't think you want I don't think you wanted to be ten twenty years from now and you want me to resent you because I wasn't allowed to be the sort of person that I want to be once again you're just addressing your dad or your mom right now right and you can look I think any parent will will agree that they just want to see their their child happy and you know that's always sort of not like a

last resort but that's always a card and something that you can keep instilling instilling in them is the fact that you know you just want to be happy and I know you know that they want to see you happy so uh guys hopefully that's giving you just a little bit of pointers there's a lot of other things that uh that I had to do personally to get my mom to kind of like make peace and agree with it but look as I said you know if your parents are are against it use them as motivation

use that as a drive you know just because your parents are saying you you're not allowed to do it that doesn't stop like like for example if your parents are saying you know you're not allowed to do this whole entrepreneurship thing while you're in school just go okay cool I'm gonna cut out my two hours of TV time a day and I'm just gonna focus on this right you know there's always workarounds and even if you can only work one hour a day on this little like side hustle you can still make it work even

if they're trying to force this you know all these formal education and other like [ __ ] on you so guys that has been in my opinion I hope it has helped and I will see you guys in tomorrow's video [Music]