How Eminem's Music Has Helped My Startup

Yeah, building a startup has a ton of ups and downs, emotionally. Some day’s are super great highs, things are hitting all the marks, then there are even more days of frustration, disappointments, and the feeling of failure. A failure that most have never known.

If you report to work for someone else, then all you have to do is, what they want. But in a startup, you have to do every job, and you have to do all the jobs you don't particularly like, well. It's your startup, and you want it to succeed so you stumble around hitting all kinds of lows and failures that make you feel even worse then a regular failure.

It's my idea, my creation on the line, I have to express it. Like Eminem, he found a way to express his art, his creativity. Yet he suffered what all startups suffer: The quest to get his idea to a better place. Yet he was smashed down by failure after failure. He even attempted suicide when he hit a place in his quest, to express what he knew was awesome music, but he couldn't get people to listen to it. Yes, he was beaten down to the point where he actually attempted to kill himself.

This is exactly how it is in a startup. Us entrepreneurs are artist too. We create ideas and we seek to present them to the public because we know it will help them in there life in some way. We want so bad to help other people with our art, that we go through this suffering of emotions even to the point of attempted suicide.

Let me tell you, I did not listen to Eminem when he first hit the scene. Oh no, I was in a world of raising a baby, and Rap music was so odd and strange to me, that I had no desire for it. So a long time after Eminem's music had cooled ~ There I was working out with my trainer and I said I need new work out music and he suggested Eminem. Rap, I said? Is it horrible, terrible music that is hurtful to women? My trainer answered, it's really great music.

So I went to the store and bought 3 cd's because I did not know how to purchase music online, all though that's how it's done nowadays. I started listening and I was blown away by what I heard, it was the most amazing thing I had ever heard.

Here was a man's life described in detail in ever word he rapped about. Why had I been so afraid of Rap? Media. Why did I think these rappers were brutal rapists and hated women? Media.

What did I find in Eminem’s music? An amazing gift. He made it though the build without killing himself. He hung in because he believed in what he was building. He went through all the crap us startups do. His music has helped me countless times in my startup, because when I felt really down and low I would just play – I'm Not Afraid – or countless other songs that just hit me with a power to not give up, to keep moving forward on my startup.

Eminem – His music ~ is my power ~ to keep moving forward ~ and not give up ~ My gift will bless people like his gift has ~ This is what I know for sure ~