728: Steven Dimmitt | Successful Entrepreneurs Scratch Their Own Itch

Steven Dimmitt is living proof that when you live life chasing your own curiosity, the output can lead to opportunities you never knew existed. Steven is a rock climber, podcaster, and entrepreneur.
He left his engineering job to move into a van full-time, and pursue personal goals in his passion of rock climbing. For the past year, he has been building The Nugget Climbing Podcast where he interviews world-class climbers to tease out the habits and routines that got them where they are today. The podcast has already hit 500k downloads in the first 18 months. 
Dive in and let’s explore how successful entrepreneurs are the ones who scratch their own itch!

Things you will learn in this episode:
[00:01 - 05:28] Opening Segment 

I introduce today’s guest, Steven Dimmitt

Steven gives a bit of his background 

Thinking life is about choosing the “least bad option” 

Fell into the path of engineering 

Breaking out of the self-limits

Going into entrepreneurship - “what is an itch I want to scratch?”

[05:29 - 20:01] Successful Entrepreneurs Scratch Their Own Itch

Steven talks about his first lessons as an entrepreneur

The mistake of trying to create something you’re not interested in 

The start of Steven’s blog 

Building credibility with the podcast 

Starting a podcast without generalizing the content 

Rising above the competition by niching down 

Incorporating your interests and digging deeper 

Scratching your own itch 

Always curious and asking questions

The networking opportunity that comes from good interviews 

Becoming financially stable from the content alone

How Steven makes his content unique through authentic curiosity 

Extract the most interesting things from each person 

A quick word from our sponsor

[20:02 - 26:50] Steven Dimmitt on Building Your Network 

How Steven breaks out of his shell to connect with other people 

Breaking down introversion vs. extroversion 

Get uncomfortable at least once a week 

Who you know or what you know

Network over knowledge 

Make other people as interesting as possible 

Some amount of imposter syndrome can be healthy 

[26:51 - 35:33] Closing Segment  

ThE RaNDoM RoUnD

How to connect with Steven

Links below 

Final words 

 
Tweetable Quotes: 
“If you change your inputs, you are capable of achieving different outputs.” - Steven Dimmitt

“I think people can really feel curiosity. I don’t force my guests to talk about specific things, I just want to really try to extract what’s most interesting about that specific person.” - Steven Dimmitt

“Everyone is interesting if you ask them the right questions.” - Steven Dimmitt

Resources Mentioned: 

The Nugget Climbing Podcast

The Four Hour Body

The Four Hour Workweek

Tools of Titans

 
Want to connect with Steven? You can follow him on Instagram. Show some love and head on over to https://thenuggetclimbing.com/ and get connected to the community. 

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