076: Thom Beers | "Deadliest Catch" Producer

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2016

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Thom Beers, successful producer of shows including Deadliest Catch, Ice Road Truckers & Monster Garage has taken a treacherous path to achieve his success himself. Starting at the bottom he worked his way up through grit, persistence and staying one step ahead of everyone else. His passion, apparently very much alive, propelled him through the rough patches. He has some valuable tips on how to navigate those icy roads and stormy seas that one will inevitably encounter along the way to any achievement worth pursuing.

Lessons:

1. Passion is the most important thing in the world: If it doesn’t make your heart pump Kool-Aid, it’s not worth doing.
2. Develop an optimal business culture by gathering together people with the same passion as you.
3. Hire really good people and then let them run.

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to Spartan Up Podcast. We're going to interview somebody every week from all over the world and see what they did in their life to become successful, no matter how they define it.
0:12.0	Okay, go. We are here for Spartan Up Podcast in Pittsville, Vermont. It is still raining.
0:17.6	But you should come visit even with the rain.
0:21.0	Tom Beers, who started deadliest catch, if you haven't seen that on TV, you need to watch it.
0:27.0	It's awesome.
0:28.0	I'll tell you a funny story, I don't know if I'm allowed to be telling.
0:31.0	So if you're listening to this this that means I got approval.
0:34.0	Do you want to tell the story at the end of the interview?
0:37.0	Yeah, you know what I'll tell the story at the end of the interview.
0:39.0	It's gonna blow you it's gonna blow you away.
0:41.0	The interview is gonna blow you away.
0:42.0	This is a fun interview about what would you say this is about?
0:46.1	He's a guy who's come up with some of the most incredible shows on television and he talks about
0:50.3	how he was able to do it and just some ridiculous stories along the way.
0:53.0	Incredible.
0:54.0	And I'm Sethra by the way and this is Johnny and Colonel Nye and Joe DeSenna and Marion here in the camera.
1:00.0	We are here for Spartan up the Podcast in Malibu, California, behind the scene Spartan Race with
1:06.3	Tom Beers.
1:07.1	Tom Beers created the truckers, what was?
1:10.0	Ice Road truckers, Debius Catch, Axman, Storage Wars, Monster Garage, Monster House,
1:17.8	Bering Seat Gold, you know, a couple of tiny little shows.
1:21.6	Nobody really knows. Yeah, yeah. so the idea behind this podcast is
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