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Damon Brown
May 07, 2025

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Hi reader,

I always knew I wanted to be a dad.

I also love hearing other people’s wisdom.

Stories are great, but the gems are the little details you keep hearing over and over again from completely different people.

And, until I had my boys, every parent I admired said the same thing.

“There is no such thing as the perfect time to start a family.”

Now, there’s a wrong time. But never a perfect one.

Then, of course, I learned they were right.

If I knew the recessions, the twists and turns, the lift required over the past dozen years.

It would have been a “maybe later”.

But some decisions you don’t see the wisdom in until after you make them.

And being so in love with being a dad to my kids, I can’t see any other life.

I found that also applies to every major decision I’ve made.

Including becoming an entrepreneur 💡

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The secret is that there will never, ever be a perfect time for you to start a business.

To open up that bakery.

To build that app.

Anyone who says there are perfect times is either delusional or has rose-colored prescriptions.

Like many of my peers, I started my freelance journalism career during the dot-com burst.

My first major book came out during the housing crisis.

And now, me and so many other folks are creating, building, doing during one of the most turbulent times in recent history.

Right now.

When I talk to people now, it’s not that they are frustrated about the kid parenting, the business founding, the art creating they opted in to do.

Somehow we find a way to make it work.

Rather, they are sad because they didn’t start something.

It is the missed opportunity to make an impact on the world that weighs heavy, not the responsibility that comes with the commitment.

What are you afraid to commit to now? 🫥

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🙋🏾 I’m Damon! (http://www.damonbrown.net) I help side hustlers, solopreneurs & others like yourself bloom. As a bestselling author, 2x startup founder & 4x TEDTalker, I co-founded the popular connection app Cuddlr and led it to acquisition within a year while being a stay at home dad with my infant son.

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