We were lucky to catch up with Ian Amor recently and have shared our conversation below.
Ian, looking forward to learning from your journey. You’ve got an amazing story and before we dive into that, let’s start with an important building block. Where do you get your work ethic from?
From my parents actually. It’s from them that I have a working stance of, ‘Don’t start something if you don’t intend to finish it’. It has always helped me see things through to the end. No matter how big or small. As well as see things from the large and small, to ensure that I can call it finished.
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
I’m a KC Native, born and raised, I love the city I enjoy its people and I want to give it a special boost. How I started began after my time with the military ended. I was back home, filled with anxiety, and didn’t have a set direction to go in. I ended up jumping from part-time to a part-time job, just waiting for opportunities and someone to notice the potential I saw in myself. I got tired of it and started my work as a digital entrepreneur. Slow going, so I still had to go with my part-time jobs. Eventually, I found a good day job that took a chance on my potential. From there, I was able to push my life forward properly, and I want to be able to push other people’s lives forward with the opportunities that came late for me.
If you had to pick three qualities that are most important to develop, which three would you say matter most?
In no particular order…
1) Understanding social norms, and breaking them. There are several levels of expectation that people as a whole expect from a singular person. Certain relationships, education, and career goals that should be met at certain points in one’s life. Then realizing that life isn’t a path of checkpoints, but rather being lost in the woods. You may get completely lost, fall over, run into things, get scrapped up, etc. It doesn’t matter. So long as you never give up on yourself and keep yourself going. No matter what other people think, say, or do around you. Your life is yours, not a checklist of requirements.
2) Understanding self. It is extremely difficult to get through life and social interactions when you aren’t even sure of yourself. What your reaction will be, what your good and bad parts are, and what you bring to each and every little event. Whether it’s good or bad.
3) Do not be afraid to ask. “The worst they can say is No” is a response people get a lot when they say they’re afraid to ask something. Cause they want the positive but don’t want to get the negative. The thing is, “No” changes nothing. You are still where you are, it’s just the step you wanted to happen didn’t happen here. It doesn’t mean it’ll keep happening if you ask someone else.
One of our goals is to help like-minded folks with similar goals connect and so before we go we want to ask if you are looking to partner or collab with others – and if so, what would make the ideal collaborator or partner?
I am looking for other ‘People Builders’. Individuals that see the world as I do and realize that there are more than the standard options. That the 9-5 career isn’t the life lock that everyone fears it is. There is an escape, there is another option, an option where you have the freedoms you desire.
I want the people that see that and want to help bring those people up to that level. To give them a sense of daily freedom where they don’t need to hawk eye their bank accounts and budget every penny. They don’t need to be worried about their time off being approved. That they can wake up each day to their own alarms because they want to be up at that time. Not because they have to be.
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