Welcome to 'How I Built My Small Business,' where I delve into unfiltered conversations with small business owners, revealing their humble beginnings, challenges, and game-changing advice. This podcast is a labor of love, aiming to inspire and empower small business enthusiasts and anyone curious to know the original spark of entrepreneurs' ideas, hints into how much revenue small business owners make, their profit margins, specific strategies used to grow, challenges faced, major wins, and ...
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Gipsyhearts - How I travelled 12 countries and built my business
Gipsyhearts - How I travelled 12 countries and built my business
Welcome guys, I’ll introduce you to some very intimate stories about my travels through around 12 countries, my reflections on life and my journey becoming an entrepreneur! www. Gipsyhearts.com
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Amy Lai - How do you start a franchise? Boba Beginnings to 45+ Franchise TEASPOON Locations in five years
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Amy is the co-founder and CEO of Teaspoon, a nationwide boba chain that opened its first store in Los Altos, california, in 2016 and started franchising two years later. Since then, the brand has expanded to 45 Teaspoon boba shops nationwide and counting. Her business has been featured in Style Magazine, Restaurant Magazine, Chef's Warehouse and mo…
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Brian Dutt - How do non-engineers build successful apps? Empowering 10,000+ Creators (Everyday People) at BEEROLL.IO
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Brian Dutt, in the heart of New York City, talks with us about what it's like starting and growing a video creation platform and app. Brian is the founder CEO of BeeRoll, a tech platform that empowers leading brands to weave authentic stories through user -generated content. For nearly a decade, Brian worked in the corporate world as an analyst exe…
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Rachel Berick - How to start a business with $600? Learn how MAPTOTE founders climbed to 800+ stores worldwide
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Rachel is the co-founder of Maptote, a Brooklyn based small business that has been making fun and functional products with unique location-centric designs. With a tale that stitches together art, fashion, and sustainability, Rachel recounts the leap of faith that propelled a single Brooklyn map tote bag and an initial $600 investment into a diverse…
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Skip Abed - How a 26 year old spotted an opportunity! Becoming owner-operator of the SANTA BARBARA SAILING CENTER.
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Skip Abed bought the Santa Barbara Sailing Center at twenty-seven years old back on April 1, 2000 after working there for eight years. Skip saw a vision for the myriad of ways he could improve the Santa Barbara Sailing Center and over the past twenty-three years, he's gradually put them in place growing the business from about ten boats to over for…
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Rochelle Webb - How does social entrepreneurship work? Building online marketplace OPTIMIST MADE to empower global fashion designers while making a positive impact on the world
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Rochelle Webb is a clinical assistant professor of entrepreneurship and marketing at Loyola Marymount University. She’s not only an academic powerhouse, but also the visionary founder and CEO of Optimist Made, connecting global designers to the American market. With over a decade in corporate America, Rochelle’s expertise in global brand marketing …
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Ross Jacobson - Are you crazy to pivot into entertainment at 29?! Learn how 3311 PRODUCTIONS indie producer went from "tape-librarian" to producer in four years.
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Ross Jacobson is the co -founder CEO of 3311 Productions, a company of film lovers who take movie making seriously, but not themselves. Ross went from the entry level job as tape librarian at Magical Elves, the producer of Top Chef and Project Runway, to leading the company in just four years. Ross is a film industry veteran who has brought films t…
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Melissa Martinelli - Crafting DRINK SUPERFRAU! from surplus whey. Getting into 400+ Stores and Fighting Climate Change
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Melissa Martinelli is the founder and CEO of Superfrau. Melissa was an immigration lawyer and pivoted to crafting delicious Super Sodas made from surplus fresh whey that is generated during the youghurt fermentation process. She has been featured on the Boston Globe, was a speaker at the Tufts University Food and Nutrition Innovation Institute, and…
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Mark and Anne McGinty - Netting seven figures in months hanging Christmas lights with SAN FRANCISCO HOLIDAY LIGHTING, INC.
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In this special episode, join me, Anne, and my husband Mark as we co-host a journey down memory lane, reflecting on the origins and evolution of San Francisco Holiday Lighting, Inc, a full-service holiday lighting and decor installation company. Mark, with a background in carpentry, and myself, formerly a sales representative for a nationwide oral …
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Kelsey Sheofsky - Building SHELTER CO., a high-seven-figure glamping and outdoor event production company
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Kelsey is the owner of Shelter-Co, a full scale event production company with luxury canvas tents and beautiful furnishings to boot, that has gained a reputation for well-designed, thoughtful, and environmentally conscious productions. Prior to starting Shelter Co, Kelsey cold-called Alison Hotchkiss of Alison Events to see if she had any job openi…
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Loren Vandegrift - SPECIAL EPISODE: What business should you start? Insight from BUSINESS EXITS broker on sales, values, and trends
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Loren is a Parter at Business Exits and has sold over $300 million worth in businesses over the past six years. Prior to brokering business deals, Loren was the founder CEO of a technology strategy consulting firm that he exited after thirteen years. After his own terrible experience as a seller, Loren was motivated to create a better and more auth…
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Dr. Arlene Dijamco - Building a Thriving Wellness + Healthcare Practice with ALL WORLDS HEALTH
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Arlene is a true force in the wellness realm. As the owner of All Worlds Health and Pediatrics, a dedicated teacher at the Osteopathic Cranial Academy, and the heart behind the All Worlds Foundation, Arlene is not just an integrative physician; she’s a catalyst for healing, empowerment, and spreading peace, joy, and love. She has been described as …
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Adam Rosendahl - Can you build a business that helps people feel more connected IRL? Worldwide LATE NITE ART events use Creativity to Cure Disconnection
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Adam Rosendahl is the visionary founder and CEO of Late Nite Art . As an Experience Designer and Artist, Adam weaves a variety of art forms and cutting edge facilitation to foster deep connection and trust for a very impressive list of teams and conferences around the world. From Outward Bound USA to the Scaling Intimacy School of Experience Design…
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Simone LeBlanc - How a personal life stylist built 16-employee luxury gift business SIMONE LEBLANC
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While serving as a personal life stylist for a wealthy LA client, Simone was tasked with curating gifts for special events and holidays. In 2014, she seamlessly melded her experience and artistic vision, birthing her eponymous gift box business, Simone LeBlanc. She has helped notable clients such as the Obamas, Jamie King, Taylor Swift, and more wi…
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Chelsea Bay Dennis - Can you still make a living as a USA-based graphic designer? C.BAY DESIGN shares how with Bonus Content on Buying Property on an Entry-Level Salary
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Chelsea Bay Dennis is a graphic designer, certified life coach, and storytelling even creator with nearly twenty years of experience. She was a co-owner of a four person graphic design firm and also a solo entrepreneur that found a win-win solution for clients and herself. Listen as she provides nuggets of wisdom that anyone interested in graphic d…
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Nick Tappan - No college? No problem. PAPAS AND POLLO restaurant transforms into a seven figure thriving success
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Nick chose life experience and industry exposure over a formal higher education and learned how to manage and run a restaurant. Then, in 2011, a longtime-local "Seb-Mex" eatery Papas and Pollo was threatening closure in Sebastopol, California. Nick saw the potential to bring back a community restaurant, negotiated seller financing for three years, …
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Chad David Kraus - How a Self-taught photographer's hobby turned into a seven figure business with CHAD DAVID KRAUS PHOTOGRAPHY
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Chad went from being a self-taught photographer hobbyist that took photos of his family's travels and memories the way many of us do. In 2008, after experiencing reduced hours and a shrinking paycheck at his job, he boldly launched Chad David Kraus Photography. Since then, he has photographed over 1000 weddings, bar and bat mitzvahs, and several ic…
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Mac Skinner - Employee to owner of TWO-ROCK AMPLIFIERS and growing a legendary brand back to seven figure revenue
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Mac Skinner was an employee of Two-Rock amplifiers for over six years and found an opportunity to co-purchase the brand in 2016. Within five years, he and his co-owner, Eli Lester have more than quadrupled sales, released new lines, and built the legendary brand back up and beyond. Check them out on Instagram @tworockamplification Listen to his jou…
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Jenny Griffo - Non-profit employee to multi-million dollar community-focused GRIFFO DISTILLERY. How?!
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Jenny Griffo worked in education and the non-profit sector building libraries in Southeast Asia and East Africa for Room to Read before pivoting in 2015 to co-founding and operating award-winning, community-focused Griffo Distillery in Petaluma, California. With no prior experience in sales or business, Jenny learned on-the-fly, grew multiple reven…
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Trailer for the How I Built My Small Business Podcast: fascinating stories with practical advice and insight from entrepreneurs willing to give you the keys to how it's done. In each episode, I interview small business owners who have made anywhere from a livable salary working part-time to others making upwards of twenty million a year (and everyt…
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This Chapter is about the final trigger that made me take the decision to quit my job an start travelling! Cause time is the only thing you can’t buy!
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Mit dem Plan einen langen Urlaub zu nehmen wurde ich damit konfrontiert, dass Zeit das einzige ist was man im Leben nicht kaufen kann, so entwickelte sich der Gedanke meinen Job zu kündigen.
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Thinking about a looong vacation ending up thinking seriously about quitting my job realising time is the only thing you can’t buy in life!
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In diesem Kapitel geht’s um ein Schlüsselerlebnis, das Ursprung einer langen Reise wird und das Fundament der heutigen Marke www.gipsyhearts.com bildet.
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Chapter 1 is about my very first time I thought about travelling. A trigger moment, that changed my life and built the fundament for my brand today. http://gipsyhearts.com/ - A brand dedicated to backpacker-Photography and Ethnic Lifestyle.
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