112: Entrepreneur Takes on Business Schools with Audacity and Price

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2015

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Clay Clark, founder of Thrive15.com and SBA Entrepreneur of the Year, is described by Yahoo as the "Jim Carey of Entrepreneurship." Through his tireless tenacity and honey badger work ethic, he has founded and co-founded a string of successful companies including DJ Connection and Elephant in the Room Men's Grooming Lounge. Recognizing that his failures and subsequent successes could benefit others who are poor “like I used to be,” he created Thrive15.com, an online business school experience he describes as “nine to ten times better than the average business school, but at 1% of the cost: $50 per month—with a 30-day free trial.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world.
0:11.0	Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 112.
0:16.4	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison.
0:18.9	Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has
0:21.9	discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:29.3	Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Clay Clark. Welcome, Clay. Hey, thanks for
0:34.8	having me on the program there. I'm glad you guys are going to be putting up with my harassment here for the next few minutes, I guess.
0:40.6	We look forward to it. Clay, quick question. Are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:45.7	Absolutely. Good. We want to hear the whole story. Thrive15.com founder Clay Clark started his first multimillion dollar business out of his college dorm room.
0:57.9	He was named Oklahoma's U.S. Small Business Administration Entrepreneur of the Year and has been featured in entrepreneur, Forbes, Fast Company, Bloomberg, and many others.
1:09.1	Clay's an entertainer, educator, and business growth consultant,
1:13.2	and has worked with Boeing, Maytag University, Farmers Insurance, O'Reilly's Auto Parts, Hewlett-Packard,
1:20.2	and Valspar Paint, to name just a few. Clay, that's a pithy summation of your career today.
1:25.5	Tell us what you're working on and engaged in now that
1:28.0	has you excited and fired up. Four big projects right now are the elephant in the room that's the
1:34.6	men's grooming lounge that I'm an investor in. That is now, we're up two locations and we're
1:40.1	improving our key performance indicators to the point where we're almost ready to open up our
1:44.0	third and fourth location.
1:46.0	The second is a guy that I've done some consulting with over the years.
1:49.0	It's a company called OxyFresh, oxyfresh.com.
1:51.8	Those guys have now opened up over 300 franchises, and they were just written about in Forbes, and that was really exciting.
1:58.2	The third is one of my consulting clients, she's opening up her expanded bakery,
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