Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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Evan Carmichael is asked what gave him the strength, at a young age, to believe he could show other entrepreneurs a better path forward, even though most people do not naturally have that kind of self-belief or understanding of money. He admits he would not even call it strength, describing it instead as slowly walking a path where things fell into place, and that looking back he could have been far more strategic than he actually was at the time. At 22, after selling his first company for a decent but not life changing amount, he had no plan and simply started saying yes to everything.
That habit of saying yes led him to speak at international events representing Canada in places like Mexico City and Brunei, opportunities he never actively sought out but accepted because he did not know what else to do. Eventually he wondered why he needed to travel internationally to speak when there were plenty of people struggling with the same problems closer to home, which led him to start small speaking events locally, first out of a library, then a bank, then bookstores, before eventually outgrowing all of them.
Those small, mostly free speaking events eventually grew into paid speaking engagements and then a YouTube channel, a path Evan describes as only making sense when looking backward, echoing Steve Jobs's idea that you can only connect the dots in reverse. At the time, 22 year old Evan had no idea what he was building, he was simply a person whose identity had disappeared along with the business he sold, searching for the next thing without a job he actually wanted to take.
Looking back now at 46, Evan's more strategic answer is that your purpose comes from your pain, meaning whatever you struggled with the most becomes the thing you are naturally positioned to help others through. Because he struggled so intensely as a young entrepreneur, it became natural for him to want to help other entrepreneurs avoid that same level of struggle. He is honest that he did not feel particularly courageous at 22, he mostly felt lost, having lost both his business identity and his business partners at the same time.
Evan's closing point is that most people rarely feel courageous while they are actually in the difficult moment, courage is usually something that only becomes visible in hindsight. Saying yes to everything when you feel directionless might look courageous from the outside, but from the inside it often just feels like survival. The lesson is that you do not need to feel brave to take the next step, you simply need to keep walking the path and let the purpose reveal itself over time.
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To join Movement Makers, DM Evan on Instagram at instagram.com/evancarmichael
Evan Carmichael is asked what gave him the strength, at a young age, to believe he could show other entrepreneurs a better path forward, even though most people do not naturally have that kind of self-belief or understanding of money. He admits he would not even call it strength, describing it instead as slowly walking a path where things fell into place, and that looking back he could have been far more strategic than he actually was at the time. At 22, after selling his first company for a decent but not life changing amount, he had no plan and simply started saying yes to everything.
That habit of saying yes led him to speak at international events representing Canada in places like Mexico City and Brunei, opportunities he never actively sought out but accepted because he did not know what else to do. Eventually he wondered why he needed to travel internationally to speak when there were plenty of people struggling with the same problems closer to home, which led him to start small speaking events locally, first out of a library, then a bank, then bookstores, before eventually outgrowing all of them.
Those small, mostly free speaking events eventually grew into paid speaking engagements and then a YouTube channel, a path Evan describes as only making sense when looking backward, echoing Steve Jobs's idea that you can only connect the dots in reverse. At the time, 22 year old Evan had no idea what he was building, he was simply a person whose identity had disappeared along with the business he sold, searching for the next thing without a job he actually wanted to take.
Looking back now at 46, Evan's more strategic answer is that your purpose comes from your pain, meaning whatever you struggled with the most becomes the thing you are naturally positioned to help others through. Because he struggled so intensely as a young entrepreneur, it became natural for him to want to help other entrepreneurs avoid that same level of struggle. He is honest that he did not feel particularly courageous at 22, he mostly felt lost, having lost both his business identity and his business partners at the same time.
Evan's closing point is that most people rarely feel courageous while they are actually in the difficult moment, courage is usually something that only becomes visible in hindsight. Saying yes to everything when you feel directionless might look courageous from the outside, but from the inside it often just feels like survival. The lesson is that you do not need to feel brave to take the next step, you simply need to keep walking the path and let the purpose reveal itself over time.
#Motivation #Shorts #EvanCarmichael
