Ep.74 How to go after your dream and make it happen - with Duane McHodgkins

Show notes

Duane McHodgkins is the owner and operator of Duane’s Reliable Computer Services in Parker, Colorado, where he lives with Becky, his wife of thirty-six years, and Misty, their long-haired chihuahua. He has two grown children, Miranda and Parker, who gave him insight into the struggles of younger people during the pandemic.

Duane has grown his business and adapted to changing conditions for more than ten years, helping small businesses and individuals manage their technology issues. Many of the ideas for his book, Lessons from the Business Heroes of the Pandemic, came from his personal experience as a successful business owner and from his friends and networking partners who also have built successful careers. Prior to running his own business, Duane worked in a management capacity in a number of other successful companies. He learned about being innovative and resourceful while serving in diverse roles in the business world. You can learn more about Duane’s Reliable Computer Services at CallDuane

In this episode you will learn about:

• Duane's life story. How losing his well-paid job and with his colleagues and friends has changed his life
• What you need to do to grow your business
• Duane speaks about how businesses need to adapt to changing conditions
• How a network can benefit your success

Quotes:

"I tried when I was 22 years old, I owned a restaurant for about a year. Wasn't the right fit. I couldn't tell you anything that happened outside of those four walls that year. But I knew I wanted to have my own business again. I was not in it at all. I was, I was in sales and sales management with a number of different companies."

"I had a company car. So in one day I lost my job, all my friends and my car. So that was a, yeah, that was kind of a shock to the system. And that started pretty much a 10 year journey of just trying to get back to that point in my life. During that 10 years, I went through some times of unemployment, and sometimes of underemployment."

"I was in my mid to late forties at the time. And you know what, um, I really didn't see myself doing that until retirement because it was a lot of physical work. I'm sitting there going, okay, what's, what's the plan here? What am I going to do? You know, and in a conversation with my wife one day, uh, she said, well, what if you, um, started a business and helped people with their computers?"

Resources: Get the Duanes book _Lessons From the Business Heroes of the Pandemic HERE

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