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CRAFTED Millionaire

179 | Growing a $10M Business, Marketing Yourself Online, & Becoming The Sober Entrepreneur - with Russ Perry

CRAFTED Millionaire

Cayla Craft

Entrepreneurship, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health, Business, Health & Fitness

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2019

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Russ Perry is the founder and CEO of Design Pickle, the world’s most successful flat-rate graphic design service. Russ has scaled his business from two employees to nearly 300, serving thousands of clients with over $10M in revenue.

Russ also co-hosts Good To Be Home with his wife, Mika, and is the author of The Sober Entrepreneur.

You Will Hear About:

  • [2:30] Starting a business to create the lifestyle that you want for you and your family
  • [7:00] Russ’ struggles with his first entrepreneurial venture and alcoholism
  • [18:00] Transitioning from entrepreneur to CEO & learning to lead people well
  • [23:30] How to communicate with and coach employees who fall under expectations
  • [32:00] A new way to think about meetings
  • [33:45] Why you should be advertising your business

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0:00.0

So when you get results, that's the best way to convince someone to change or, you know, have them change.

0:07.7

But you can't snack, you can't create these complicated plans, and if you don't have months and months and

0:14.1

months of commitment to it then really you're not even in a position to ask anyone to

0:19.2

do anything if you haven't even gone two weeks doing these things. Hey, babes, it's Kayla Crafts with the Mommy Millionaire Podcast.

0:34.0

I'm a mom of three little's ER nurse turned self-made millionaire and lifestyle entrepreneur.

0:40.8

I am bringing you inspiring stories of business and mindset tips to help you be

0:46.0

shameless in pursuing your ambitions.

0:51.8

Hey mommy millionaires I am so excited about today's guest I think it's been like a year in the making for this interview to happen

1:00.0

He's a very experienced entrepreneur Russ Perry is the founder and CEO of Design Pickle,

1:06.7

the world's most successful flat rate graphic design service.

1:11.2

So with his business acumen and leadership, Russ scaled his company

1:15.1

from two employees to 230 plus and thousands of clients with over 10 million dollars in revenue.

1:24.5

Russ co-host the good-to-be-home podcast with his wife Mika and is the author of the sober

1:30.2

entrepreneur.

1:31.2

You guys, I'm super excited to have him on because I actually met

1:34.4

Nika at a podcasting event that we both spoke at a couple months ago and she is

1:39.7

just like so amazing and I've listened into their podcast.

1:43.3

It's super fun.

1:44.1

They give a lot of just family tips.

1:46.6

You guys will have to check that out.

1:47.8

We'll make sure to link it up.

1:49.2

But welcome, rest of the show.

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