Kevin Bell

The Diary Of An Entrepreneur In The Messy Middle

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The Diary of an entrepreneur in the “messy middle”

April 5th, 2025

There’s a “messy middle” stage in the progression of entrepreneurship that I’m swimming in right now. Maybe you are too.

I’m not mad about it, it just is.

And if I’m being honest, it’s a good thing because MOMENTUM IS MESSY.

BUT—

It’s not easy to be in the purgatory between knowing that you have value and a message to share with the world and forked still trying to figure out HOW…

And man, I’ve done the things. Like TONS of things.

I’m not just sitting here pondering these grand ideas, I operate with almost too much action where I have 10 pots on stove and I’m still trying to work the front of the house and keep the patrons happy.

Here’s a few to wet your whistle:

foam roller sales

Nutrition plans

Personal coaching

Online personal coaching

Workout plan programming

High ticket coaching

Supplement sales

Travel agency start up

Spark - idea validator

Single family home

Land investing

Air BNB

Wholesaling

Self storage

VA agency

VA editing agency

Online Jobs competitor

Cleaning business

Dumpster rentals

Blog

Podcast

Writing a book

Course creation

Newsletter

Cold call agency

Third party management

Bookkeeping biz

Ambitious Dads

Grill cleaning

Insurance business

Quest Homeless Services

SMB

Lawn care business

Sub contractor model

App building

Future Founders / gen F

Book Club

There’s more, but I’ve probably lost a handful of you by now… and I’m ok with that!

Because the few that hung on, you are who I want to talk to anyway.

You might have read that list and seen some things that you’ve tried, thought about or that you’re currently doing.

But you still haven’t figured “it” out yet!

And it’s SO frustrating.

I get it. I feel it. I’m IN IT RIGHT NOW.

And believe me, when I figure it out… whatever IT is, you’ll be the first to know!

But until then, what do we (I say we because you’re in this with me) do?

Well, we climb together.

This journey that you’re on is GNARLY.

The interwebs like to glorify the success— heck, I’ve found myself only wanting to share the wins.

The wins are fun, they’re sexy, they are click bait-y… but what about EVERYONE else?

What about the stories of trying stupid things and getting stupid results?

What about that one time you dipped your feet into MLMs and were embarrassed to admit it?

What about the employees that you’ve hired and then had to let go of because you just couldn’t afford it?

What about the failed investments, the disastrous partnerships, and the hours and hours and hours of content that you’ve created only to be seen by a few dozen people?

No one talks about that… not super openly at least…

But that’s all part of it. It’s part of the climb. It’s part of your story that you’ll one day tell as one of SUCCESS.

CALL TO ACTION:

*** sometimes you just have to paint it out like that

I am not a guru, I don’t have it all figured out, but I AM a dude on a mission.

I’m a dad who’s busy AF with a dream to build something BIG AF.

I've had some success and toms of failure. But today is a brand new day and tomorrow is too.

I'm an entrepreneur in the trenches who wants to climb with OTHER entrepreneurs in the trenches.

If ANY of this ignites something in you and you feel called to create and build but you’re still trying to figure it out— Let’s figure it out together.

*** I don’t have a course, I don’t have training, I sincerely want to connect with those that feel the same way.

Here’s the plan (all tentative, but that’s the beautiful mess of building in public right?)

… how’s that for an MVP 🤣