#116: Be Your Own Boss with Brian Scudamore
JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED
Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2022
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show Jayson is talking with Brian Scudamore, the founder and CEO of O2E brands, the parent company of 1-800 Got Junk, Wow One Day Painting, and Shack Shine. He is also the author of, WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success, and BYOB: Build Your Own Business, Be Your Own Boss.
As a kid Brian moved from school to school, having to make new friends, learn the environment, and adapt. Brian thinks that had a big impact on becoming an entrepreneur. He had to learn to overcome those obstacles, meet new people, and create new relationships.
Highlights:
- Brian’s process for writing books
- Figuring out what type of entrepreneurial personality you have
- The one thing that’s holding most people back from starting a business?
- Why all the excitement of entrepreneurship is in the failure
- Everyone needs a pre-flight checklist
- The power of tenacity and consistency
- Why it’s so important to work on the business, not in the business
- How Brian built an incredible culture for both franchise owners and employees
- Creating a vision that everyone can get behind
- Learning from your competition
- And much more…
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
| 0:03.8 | Listen, make sure you subscribe today. |
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| 0:09.5 | You can go to our YouTube channel, True Underdog, or you can visit trueunderdog.com and subscribe to all of it. |
| 0:15.1 | Damn, bam, damn, true underdog. |
| 0:18.3 | Damn, bam, unleash the power with him. Bam, damn. Build a good movie, baby. Damn. Unleash the power with him. |
| 0:21.4 | I'm Jason Waller here with the true underdog podcast and underdogs. |
| 0:29.4 | I have got a returning guest today. |
| 0:31.8 | Good friend of mine. |
| 0:32.8 | This guy is a true entrepreneur. |
| 0:36.0 | I mean, he started his business by finding a truck and taking a chance |
| 0:40.5 | on himself and putting some money in that. He's built multiple companies. My buddy here, Brian |
| 0:45.3 | Scudamore, how are you doing, bud? I'm awesome. Thanks for having me back, Jason. I'm super excited. |
| 0:50.5 | So, like, last time we talked about, you know, your Wow, one day painting. We talked about |
| 0:55.8 | 1-800 got junk. But you've been doing a lot of things since the last time we had a podcast, |
| 1:01.2 | right? Well, since then, we've certainly got three brands. So things are growing. We're busy. |
| 1:06.7 | We've got Shack Shine, which is the house detailing industry. So we're trying to professionalize a third space and we're just, we're rocking it. |
| 1:14.8 | But the pandemic's been great for us. |
| 1:16.9 | I mean, obviously a hard time for everyone in many ways, but business wise, |
| 1:21.9 | rocketing revenue, records keep getting broken every month. |
| 1:25.9 | And it's been exciting. |
| 1:26.9 | People have spent so much time at home. |
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