In this episode, you learn about the unconventional paths that have led each host to their most recent business endeavors. This includes how Jason quit his good-paying, mundane job and made $1 million wearing branded t-shirts and Greg going from barely graduating high school to starting his first business at age 22 before being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
Topics discussed include:
- What Greg and Jason learned in school versus the real-world and how it has shaped their business decision-making.
- Each hosts early employment days and when each discovered they wanted to be entrepreneurs.
- Why having great job experiences still wasn't enough for Jason or Greg to remain employed.
- How Jason and Greg went from mostly directionless early in their careers to focusing their energy on their respective entrepreneurial paths.
- Jason's experience being one of the first online and social media influencers before the term entered the general business lexicon.
- How both Jason and Greg reached business burnout and what they did about it.
- Greg describes the difference between "knowing about" business and "knowing" it. Hint: The difference lies in skin in the game.
- Greg and Jason each discuss the one book that inspired them to begin each of their entrepreneurial journeys.
- What led Jason to launch a software-as-a-service business https://www.teachery.co/
- Greg discusses the difference between being self-employed and being a business owner, and the difficult lessons he learned being on the wrong side of this quadrant.
- What led Greg to conduct a project traveling all 50 United States helping over 500 aspiring entrepreneurs launch their business ideas.
- How Greg and Jason met and what brought them together to create this podcast, Move The Needle.
- A summary of the current projects and businesses both Jason and Greg are working on and the short-term goals they have for each.
Thanks for listening!
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Reach Greg Hartle at Online @ GregHartle.com
