Knocking Doors Until His Knuckles Bled. Eric McDonald

Eric McDonald on hard work and the problem of independence.

VOTW Episode 014

Release Date: July 15 2025

Host: Toby Lyles

Guest: Eric McDonald

Welcome to Episode 14 of Voices on the Wind with host Toby Lyles. He is joined today by Eric McDonald owner of Custom Home Painters of Cheyenne. Eric talks about the strengths and weaknesses every entrepreneur faces when starting a business.

“That was probably my biggest thing that was almost, I was just fooling myself that like, the reason why I'm so successful is because I'm independent, I'm hardworking and I could, could just get anything done. But the problem is, like when you are so capable at doing stuff, you don't allow other people to help you. And pretty soon, it's impossible to get the scale any higher, because, I mean, you're only one person, you're only human.” – Eric McDonald

“And so I wouldn't say fear, probably one of the things that probably held me back, I mentioned

independence. When you're running a company, and where it's all about you, independence can be a good thing. But there's a saying, you wanna go fast, go by yourself, if you wanna go far, go with other people.” – Eric McDonald