Alexandra Spirer of Authority Magazine had the pleasure of interviewing Jeremy B. Shapiro of The Bay Area Mastermind. Jeremy B. Shapiro is a serial-entrepreneur and is the founder of Bay Area Mastermind. In his role as mentor and coach to entrepreneurs, Jeremy has helped small business owners make the transition from “solopreneur” to “business owner”. Since 1998, he has been helping entrepreneurs discover the core strengths in themselves and their business, and realize their true potential, combining passion and expertise to grow their businesses and attain the freedom they deserve.
Thank you so much for joining us. Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?
I’ve always been an entrepreneur. All of my businesses from my very first businesses that I started back in high school decades ago always have to do with empowering business owners and entrepreneurs. There’s a lot of freedom that comes with having your own business, and I’ve seen both how that can be powerful for some, in giving them freedom to have the optionality of choosing what to do, freedom of time, in terms of how they spend their time, and obviously, the financial freedom component.
And I’ve also seen the other side, where people think they have a business, whereas what they really have is a glorified job, with the worst parts of having a job and the worst parts of owning a business combined.
Helping folks on that journey of entrepreneurship, going from that point A of a glorified job to B, being a true business owner, is really exciting. So all the work I do through the Bay Area Mastermind or through consulting and coaching is always within that realm of helping entrepreneurs to find freedom.