📍 Valuing Yourself in Business: Overcoming imposter syndrome, avoiding overcommitment, and setting clear boundaries are crucial for self-awareness and fair compensation in entrepreneurship.

📍 Challenges in Solar Industry: Ensuring quality work, addressing race-to-the-bottom pricing, and streamlining community solar projects to improve the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of renewable energy.

📍 Building Community Solar: Focusing on low and middle-income communities, attracting outside investment, and collaborating with strategic partners to create disaster-resilient, community-focused renewable energy solutions.

In this episode 156 of "Failing to Success", Eric Olson, President of Inspired Energy Solutions, shares valuable insights for entrepreneurs in the renewable energy sector. He emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and setting boundaries to avoid overcommitting while seeking fair compensation. Eric highlights challenges in the solar industry, including the need for improved quality of work and addressing the race-to-the-bottom pricing mentality. He advocates for community solar projects as a more efficient and cost-effective way to drive renewable energy adoption, particularly for low and middle-income communities. Eric also discusses the significance of strategic partnerships and system optimization for successful business growth.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 Intro

00:00:17 Valuing Yourself While Growing a Business

00:02:49 Biggest Problems in Solar

00:03:49 Community Solar

00:09:53 Building Solar in Hawaii

00:10:57 Advice to Entrepreneurs

00:12:10 Contact Eric