#127 - Ex NFL Wide Receiver Builds The Fastest Growing Waste Management Company In Texas, In Less Than 2 Years! - Russell Shepeard | #1 The Trucking Podcast

Truck N' Hustle

Rahmel Wattley

Investing, Entrepreneurship, Business

5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2022

⏱️ 107 minutes

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#trucknhustle #trucknhustlepodcast Join us this fall at Freight Fest, Trucking Conference Of The Year brought to you by Truck N’ Hustle November 4th-6th Houston TX! Special Offer https://freightfest.com Special thanks to our sponsors for collaborating with us for the FreightFest 2022. You check our Sponsors on the link below, https://linktr.ee/trucknhustlepodcast Waste Management is a booming 200B dollar industry that is ripe for new innovations and market disruption. Following a Successful 7 year NFL career, Russell Shepeard and his new team ShepBoys Waste Management are among those leading the pack. Today, Russell’s company is responsible for transporting over 10,000 gallons of waste weekly while supplying and servicing over 400 portable Restrooms across Houston, TX. The company is the fastest-growing waste management company in Houston, offering waste management solutions, and a suite of other related services. Russell has always loved entrepreneurship which was right up there with his love for sports. His mindset was always different than a lot of his peers, even in his college days. Although he was an athlete, he was always looking for ways to level up financially and create alternate revenue streams. After getting Into the league Russell started his journey in transportation his own dump truck company. Still focused on football he could not be as hands-on with the business as he wanted, so his father played a major role in the daily operations to keep it running. Meanwhile, Russell’s mind would still entertain ideas for other streams of income. One day he ended up having an impromptu conversation with an associate that would change his life. This conversation would lead him to find waste Management. Still playing In the NFL Russell began brainstorming Innovative ways to get into the industry. He would start his company in 2020 and finding what Russell affectionately calls “liquid gold”. Russell would turn away from a potential huge NFL contract and would retire to go full-time and grow ShepBoys. The proof of concept was enough for Russell to go all in because the company saw instant results. To date, the company has done so well they’ve been approached 3 times in their short existence to be acquired. Russell however, continues to play the long game, building a family legacy at ShepBoys by expanding their products, services, and territory. This episode may be our best-kept secret yet. You don’t want to miss it.

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0:00.0	What's up y'all? This is Ramel Watley and welcome to Truck and Hustle, the podcast for trucking entrepreneurs.
0:07.0	If you want to learn about the trucking industry from the business side of things, you're in the right place.
0:12.0	Every week, I interview the people who are making it happen on a daily basis.
0:17.0	I get them to share their successes, their failures, and sometimes even their secrets.
0:21.7	The goal is to show you how you two can create financial freedom in the booming trucking industry.
0:26.7	So sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
0:29.8	This is a trillion-dollar industry, no waste, whether it's physical, it's liquid.
0:34.6	You know, this stuff isn't going anywhere.
0:36.4	So if you're dealing with that type of money, the equipment got to be efficient.
0:40.2	I tell all my NFL partners from a time Matthew, Mike Evans, everybody that I talk to about this, I say I feel like I've discovered liquid gold.
0:51.3	Turn my mic up for you.
0:53.9	Take there. Yeah, yeah. On are you? Take there.
0:55.3	Yeah.
0:56.5	On the road to the riches.
0:59.1	Life takes a toe like bridges.
1:01.5	Good friends will come foes and snitches.
1:04.0	Better watch you nose in your biz, biz, biz.
1:07.6	All right, all right.
1:09.1	Hustle fam.
1:10.5	We are back with another amazing episode. And when I tell you that we have a special, special one today, listen, y'all, I am impressed, amazed. I don't even have the words to say when I tell you about this business, my brother Russell Shepard here, bro, what's up,
1:28.9	man?
1:29.2	Appreciate for having me, man.
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