--- id: VIDEO_mentrepreneurs-level-one-series-introduction title: MENtrepreneurs Level One Series - Introduction content_kind: video category: Videos corpus_topic: asxer-owners source_kind: youtube youtube_id: hWv2d29PAI4 youtube_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWv2d29PAI4 youtube_channel: https://www.youtube.com/@MENtrepreneurs youtube_description: Beginning fall 2010 MENtrepreneurs is facilitating a series of 18 sessions for small groups of enterprising men to learn about scotomas, arrested development and personal growth issues specific to small business. Watch this video for more. watch_stem: mentrepreneurs-level-one-series-introduction watch_path: /v/mentrepreneurs-level-one-series-introduction.html related_article: Video/GARWIS_not-go-it-alone-mentrepreneurs.md summary: July 21, 2010, the earliest dated public teaching in Daniel Comp's video library. He names isolation among solo business owners as the problem and promises help by "not go it alone." The asxer keeps that same promise for owners in 2026. keypoints: - In Daniel's words, "It's about meeting your needs personally and professionally by helping you not go it alone." - The first lesson was scotomas, the emotional and psychological blind spots that can kill a business. - "[Read the asxer essay](https://asxer.com/a/GARWIS_not-go-it-alone-mentrepreneurs.html)" - "[Watch on danielcomp](https://danielcomp.com/v/mentrepreneurs-level-one-series-introduction.html)" - "[Mission: The Long Witness](https://danielcomp.com/a/GB_mission-1-the-long-witness.html)" tags: [asxer, mentrepreneurs, scotomas, long-witness, video] consent: owner agent: Asxer Gärwis created: 2026-10-22 updated: 2026-10-22 date: 2010-07-21 vault_stage: 07_CODEX enrich_status: ok enrich_method: bot pipeline_filename: VIDEO_mentrepreneurs-level-one-series-introduction.md content_status: approved approved_by_daniel: 'APPROVED 2026-10-23 (Daniel, in Asxer''s chat, 4:15 PM PT)' routing_source: carbon prefix: VIDEO headwaters: asxer.com asker_site: asxer.com mission: M1 The Long Witness --- # MENtrepreneurs Level One Series - Introduction ## Key lessons - In Daniel's words, "It's about meeting your needs personally and professionally by helping you not go it alone." - The first lesson was scotomas, the emotional and psychological blind spots that can kill a business. ## Transcript **Daniel:** Hi, I’m Daniel Comp and I’m Angelina Musik-Comp, and we’re the founders of MENrepreneurs and MOMtrepreneurs. We’ve twice been awarded as Business Champions of the Year by the Small Business Administration for facilitating business success. We’re shooting this video from our studio and home in the Pacific Northwest — where actually my peers are outside playing on the river, and we’re being responsible by helping you understand a little bit about these upcoming classes. I’ve been an entrepreneur for 34 years. Over those few decades I’ve had some pretty tremendous successes and some pretty horrendous failures. But **MENtrepreneurs** is not about me. The organization and our training is about helping you get out of isolation. It’s about connecting you with other men of valor. It’s about building on your strengths rather than trying to fix your weaknesses. It’s about meeting your needs personally and professionally by helping you not go it alone. So follow me on this. In America there are 309 million citizens. Of all the businesses in America — roughly 30 million of them — one half are men who are going at it solo with zero employees. That’s 15 million men who are struggling without connection to other men. They’re unsupported. Unrecognized. MENtrepreneurs is here to help this group connect to each other. All of that sort of starts with **awareness**. See, if you don’t even know what you don’t even know, then you can step on stuff that can kill you without even being aware or preparing for it. And that’s not what a man of my age wants to see younger men do. Others of you who are experienced, as I am, understand what it is in your life to transition from ambition to meaning — where you want to leave something for the men following you, like a good relay race. This awareness is one of the things we’re starting with in the **Level One Series** called The Enterprising Cycle. That’s 18 sessions done over 6 months. It’s a series of small groups that will really open your eyes to some of the things you’re not even aware of. Like the first thing we’re going to do is teach about scotomas — not just that you have blind spots in your eyes, but the fact that we’re blind emotionally and psychologically to things that will kill our business. I mean, one simple decision for me cost me $400,000. You don’t want to go through that. You don’t want your kids looking at you and saying, “Dad, do you have any integrity left because you can’t deliver on your promises?” Well, I was trusting on people to pay me what the contract said — not having to go litigate against a $6 billion company. Things like that you don’t need to do. So I want to personally invite you to experience some of the training. Go through the sampler session and see for yourself that there are some pretty amazing things that, applied to our business and our personal life, can literally transform the way we think, the way we behave, and the way our business prospers. Then I’d like you to be a part of a small group, go through the Level One Series — 18 sessions over 6 months this fall and winter — so that next summer 2011 you can join me in a band of maybe a dozen to 15 men on a transcontinental expedition together. Those two things are some of the most amazing transformations you can ever experience in your life as a man of valor and as an enterprising man in business. So I’m inviting you to be in a small group and to come on next year’s expedition. Look forward to seeing you.