Bootstrapped

Ex-googler goes from cable guy to catching camera thieves - Trevor Sehrer, Lenstag

Trevor Sehrer founded Lenstag in 2013 to fight camera theft and he’s been recovering camera equipment ever since. His childhood was tough to put it lightly. He dropped out of high school and college and eventually ended up as a site reliability engineer at Google. He moved from his hometown Corvallis, Oregon to Silicon Valley. Trevor embodies the spirit of this show as he’s extremely humble, relentless and entrepreneurial. His ability to keep showing up despite adversity pushing back against him is why he’s successful. The takeaway from this episode is, keep showing up. Keep trying and you’ll get there. That’s the only thing that matters. Business Contact Info www.lenstag.com [http://www.lenstag.com] First recovery: https://petapixel.com/2014/03/31/exclusive-lenstag-recovers-first-item-stolen-lens-returned-happy-owner/ [https://petapixel.com/2014/03/31/exclusive-lenstag-recovers-first-item-stolen-lens-returned-happy-owner/]

Relationships, work & living in Mexico - Robert Graham, GrahamComm Speaker Training

Until around the age of 30, Robert Graham was wandering around the world in search of answers to life’s two big questions, relationship and work. In this episode we go through Robert’s journey and his strategy for finding those answers. Robert Graham is the founder of GrahamComm, presentation, sales and communication skills training. He’s fully optimized his life to maximize his happiness. He lives with his wife and daughters six months of the year in Mexico and and the other six months in Oakland. The takeaway from this episode is that you should create a vision for what you want your life to look like AND a plan to get there Business Contact Info grahamcomm.net

Sam Parr CEO of The Hustle. How to Whole Ass One Thing

Sam Parr has started both bootstrapepd and venture backed businesses. Sam’s one of those people who’s a born entrepreneur and from an early age he was starting companies and selling things. Having two parents who were entrepreneurs he thought that’s just how people get jobs, you start a business. We go through his businesses, personal finance strategy that supports his entrepreneur lifestyle, mental health strategy and what led to putting Tim Ferriss in the four hour headlock: https://www.instagram.com/p/BQj-vGHhzhL/ The takeaway from this episode is that you should whole ass one thing instead of half assing many things. Quotes from the episode “Made money my entire life selling things” “I bet I just made more money than that teacher” “I don’t like being told what to do” “Every single thing that we touch has to be awesome” “We’re only going to do a couple things but we’re going to make them all really, really cool” Business Contact Info Sign up for The Hustle email: thehustle.co Sam’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/theSamParr?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor [https://twitter.com/theSamParr?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor] Sam’s 6 Month Cross Country Motorcycle Trip: http://imgur.com/a/euaD5 Sam’s work history: https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/ [https://www.linkedin.com/in/parrsam/] Hustlecon: http://hustlecon.com/ *Runner Sam mentions: Chris Lukezic [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christopherlukezic/]

Take risks, they lead to to success. Failure isn't permanent - Gary Nealon, RTA Cabinet Store

Gary Nealon went through bankruptcy at 30 years old after buying a business 1 year earlier. By many measures he’s your average guy who grew up in a lower-middle class family in America. By many other measures he’s quite far from average as he runs an 8 figure online cabinet sales business, a consulting business and more recently a social exploration and discovery wine app. I hope this episode gives you the confidence to take risks knowing that even if you hit rock bottom and file for bankruptcy at age 30, you can fight back and build a 10 million dollar plus business. The takeaway from this episode is that you should take risks because they often lead to success and failure isn’t permanent. Quotes from the episode “I was literally starting from scratch at the age of 30” - Gary Nealon “You gotta jump back on the horse and do something” - Gary Nealon “By the age of 30 I ended up filing bankruptcy on that and literally lost everything that I had.” - Gary Nealon “I assume and I hope that filing bankruptcy is the lowest point in my life and I’m like if that was rock bottom and I’m on my way back up, I know I’m never going back there down there so I’m going to have to do whatever I have to do now.” - Gary Nealon “To be able to be your own boss is one of the most gratifying things” - Gary Nealon “I liquidated everything I had an put it into this company” - Gary Nealon “By the age of 30 I ended up filing bankruptcy on that and literally lost everything that I had.” - Gary Nealon Business contact Info Gary’s Consulting Biz:www.garynealon.com RTA Cabinet Store: www.rtacabinetstore.com [http://www.rtacabinetstore.com] RTA Blog: www.rtacabinetstore.com/blog [http://www.rtacabinetstore.com/blog] Sweet Cabinet & Kitchen Pics on Facebook: www.facebook.com/rtakitchencabinetstore [http://www.facebook.com/rtakitchencabinetstore] Sweet Cabinet & Kitchen Pics on Twitter: twitter.com/RTACabinetStore Wine App: www.winetrailadventures.com

Nothing Values More Than Health - Bryce Huett, Distributor Wire & Cable

Bryce Huett is an entrepreneur who describes his life as fantastic. He is one of the few people who loves his job. In this episode we cover Bryce getting laughed at when he registered his business without an idea, his love of customers, company culture strategy, the value of trusting people and much more. The takeaway from this episode is the value Bryce puts on health. He's been described by employees as the fittest person in his 50 person office. Even in the darkest days of his current business, which almost died several times, he worked out almost every day and always maintained a healthy diet. I guarantee three outcomes from listening to this episode: you will laugh, learn and leave inspired. I've been told the first 15 minutes are a bit slow and although I don't agree, I'd love your feedback. Quotes from the episode “Those are the moments where literally you have to bootstrap yourself to get off the ground and if you don’t then it can end bad. And by that sense, you could go and find a job that you truly hate like a lot of people end up doing and never recover from that.” - Bryce Huett “I love what I do and that in itself puts me in the minority from a lot of people that work today.” - Bryce Huett "People that don’t make themselves vulnerable personally are not happy people, they’re not" - Bryce Huett Quotes from employees “Miss that guy. True leader and risk taker at the same time.” - Chris Camp, Former employee “Single most inspirational person I’ve met. He could talk to a team he’s never met and get them pumped up.” - Keegan Bast, Director of Sales Business contact Info https://www.distributorwire.com/who-we-are/company/