This is a special blog post featuring my interview with Jamie Iria on his podcast “Creative Spin”. It’s all about how we as entrepreneurs need to be open to the places our business will take us even though our plan might be something different. I wanted to share this because I know it’s an important part of creating any business.

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We live in a world where trust is a huge factor in many of the things we do. 

But we don’t often talk about it.

When we read online reviews for people we need to hire for something, there are lots of words to describe the provider and the service provided. But one sentence you hardly ever see is, “I trust this person.”    

That’s because it’s really hard to generate complete trust using only written words.

Trust is a feeling.  It’s something we build with others and others build with us.

This post is about three trust experiences I had within a relatively short period of time: one where my trust was broken; one where gaining my trust was not a concern; and one where my trust was sincerely earned.

When I was a kid, my morning routine involved getting up at the crack of dawn and doing my farm chores. One of my favourites things about that was being mobbed by the animals.

As soon as I would crack open that old barn door each morning, they’d come running toward me, almost knocking me over in the process, like I was some long-lost relative.

It didn’t matter whether it was the goats, pigs, puppies, or chickens.  They were all gathered around me within an instant of my arrival.

Of course the reason they treated me this way was because, most times, I came in carrying a bale of hay or a couple of buckets of food.

I had something to give them.  

The funny thing was that if I came into the barn without food, they’d react the same way.