118: Christian Johnson and Chad Grills | Disruption

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 22 November 2016

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week’s podcast features two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, Christian Johnson and Chad Grills, disrupting the world of business. Johnson started Fotition a platform to unite brands people and charities to create a positive social outcome. He arrived at this idea by following his lifelong mantra, “creativity will save the world,” which lead him to a vocation that will leave a legacy. Grills, a former Army infantryman, took note of better ways to do things during deployments in Egypt and Iraq and channeled them into a sharing and trading service for business assets called Twist.com. He discusses the ways he has used the challenges of the military and life to overcome obstacles.

Lessons:

1, The problem is the solution (permaculture principle).
2, Learn to love the word no. Turn it into an opportunity to overcome challenge.
3. Ask yourself if you are living up to your life’s mantra and serving the greater good.

CREDITS
Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Hosts: Joe De Sena with Johnny Waite, Sefra, Col. Tim Nye, Delle & David Deluca
Synopsis – Matt Baatz
© 2016 Spartan

Transcript

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0:00.0	Cool.
0:01.0	Welcome back to Spartan Up podcast.
0:03.0	I'm joined by Sefra.
0:05.0	I've got Dave, I've got Joe, and Joe went with Mary into Silicon Valley.
0:10.0	Talk to a couple of incredible people.
0:11.0	Silicon Valley is just happening.
0:13.0	Yeah, really is bad.
0:14.0	You go out there, you start meeting people,
0:15.5	and it's like, wow, stuff's getting done.
0:17.5	Yeah, two guys are getting a lot of stuff done.
0:18.9	Chad Grills, Christian Johnson.
0:20.9	Tell us a little bit with that.
0:21.8	Yeah, so really got me excited about the possibilities of disrupting the world.
0:27.5	Like there's no better time.
0:29.5	Well, why don't we just dive in, watch it?
0:32.2	I think all of us watching it are going to learn that it's a little easier than you thought to really make a change and impact in the world right now
0:40.6	We are here for Spartan-Up Podcast. I'm in the Middle East Eating Breakfast in San Francisco at the Nico Hotel.
0:46.0	Kristen Johnson, CEO founder of Fotician.
0:49.0	Who has been advised to keep his fingers away from Joe's breakfast.
0:52.0	That's right.
0:53.0	What's Fotician?
0:55.0	And I'm just going to keep eating while we talk.
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