Subscribe & DownloadListen onApple PodcastsFollow us onSoundCloudListen on       Google PlayListen on       ​SpotifyGuest: ​​​​​​​​David Shriner-CahnCompany / Business name: ​Smashing The PlateauBusiness web site​​​ |​​​ ​​​Facebook   | Twitter | ​LinkedinDavid Shriner-Cahn is a recognized authority on entrepreneurship, leadership development, and the host of the business podcast Smashing the Plateau. After 28 years as a highly skilled employee, David Shriner-Cahn was told that his job was over. In spite of the immediate trauma and fear, he knew that as his next step, he’d rather work for himself and have more control over his destiny. That was in 2006.Today, David is a thriving entrepreneur, podcaster and speaker. He is guiding highly skilled professionals who are recovering from a late career job loss and who yearn to impact the world with their knowledge and creativity by becoming successful entrepreneurs.Tools / Books / Resources mentioned:Books: Mark Gerstein’s ‘Flirting with Disaster’Books: Gary Keller’s ‘The One Thing’.Show Notes:David Shriner-Cahn opens up about the time when he was let go after a long stint as a successful engineer and how that incident transformed him to start his solo consulting business. After seeing the trauma that other people went through, David wanted to focus on helping people transition into businesses after being let go.David accidentally stumbled into podcasting after starting a blog where he interviewed other business owners. Gradually, this transformed into ‘Smashing The Plateau’ podcast.With strengths in finance and operations, David started learning about marketing & promotions to grow his business. As a coach guiding people transition into business owners, David himself learnt about letting go of the fear of uncertainty and started embracing content marketing etc. to expand his reach.David emphasizes the importance of relationships and mentors. He had John Lee Dumas as a guest on his podcast and of course is a big name in podcasting with Entrepreneurs On Fire podcast. David talks about inspiring books such as Gary Keller’s 80-20 rule and Mark Gerstein’s Flirting with disaster. Finally, David gives advice to entrepreneurs to network and find mentors. BNI organization helped David a lot for networking. His advice is to have a cushion for first 6 months to one year of transition, choose a particular lane, and keep pursuing in that lane. One way to overcome adversity is to write down the answer to ‘What’s the worst thing that can happen’ and ask yourself what would you do if that worst thing were to happen. ​Episode Transcript (Click to expand)00:02Ramesh: Hello everyone. Welcome to the agile entrepreneur podcast. This is your host Ramesh Dontha. This podcast is about starting and building your own business with purpose, passion, perseverance and possibilities. Today I have a guest who has been in business for quite some time and he's been advising other people who want to start their own business. A very interesting background, so his name is David Schreiner Khan, David, after 28 years as a highly skilled employee, was told that his job was over. In spite of the immediate trauma and fear. He knew that as his next step, he will rather work for himself and have more control over his destiny. That was back in 2006. Today David is a thriving entrepreneur, podcaster and speaker, he has a very successful podcast called the smashing plateau. Smashing the plateau. He is guiding highly skilled professionals who are recovering from a late career job loss and who you want to impact the world with the knowledge and creativity by becoming successful entrepreneurs. So welcome David.01:23David: Thanks, so much Ramesh, it’s great to be on.01:27Ramesh: Thank you. Thank you. With that introduction, I have to ask you, what were you doing for those 28 years?01:35David: Well, I started my career as an engineer in corporate. I did that for a few years and actually and I made a major shift.