Million Dollar Weekend: The Surprisingly Simple Way to Launch a 7-Figure Business in 48 Hours

That skill—having the chutzpah to ask for what you want, despite the fear—is the entrepreneur’s ultimate and most necessary quality. The thing is, most people don’t ask for what they want. They wish for it, they make “suggestions” and drop hints, they hope. But the simple fact of business is that only by asking do you receive what you want. No ASK?

And it’s not just my father that set me up for success in this way. When she was growing up,2 the father of Spanx founder Sara Blakely would ask her and her brother nightly: “What did you guys fail at this week?”

became an expert at taking leaps. Being unafraid to start new things meant that, unlike most people, I was constantly conducting experiments in my personal and professional lives, in both big and small ways. New industries. New hobbies. New technologies. New roles. New people. New side hustles. That’s where I found my superpower, which taught me a

Who is the type of person that starts a million-dollar business? The type of person who asks for what they want. If you want a new job at a new company, you have to ASK for it. If you want more money from your boss, you have to ASK for the raise. If you are selling something, you have to ASK the customer to buy it.

anyway. As my guy Ralph Waldo Emerson1 likes to say: “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”

The secret to my father’s mastery of selling in a language he barely spoke is one word: chutzpah. It’s the Yiddish word for moxie, nerve, audacity; it’s a determined, give-no-f*cks approach to life. When Israelis say you have chutzpah, they mean you know what you want and go for it. They mean you have endless tenacity. They mean you’ll do what it t

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became an expert at taking leaps. Being unafraid to start new things meant that, unlike most people, I was constantly conducting experiments in my personal and professional lives, in both big and small ways. New industries. New hobbies. New technologies. New roles. New people. New side hustles. That’s where I found my superpower, which taught me a

intentionally developing your Ask muscle is a REQUIREMENT for entrepreneurial success.