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JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

#18: Building a Foundation of Excellence with Gokce Donat

JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

Jayson Waller

Business, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.4649 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Gokce Donat specializes in building single-family custom homes near her home in suburban Detroit. How has she made it as a woman in a male-dominated construction field? Donat shares her formula for success with True Underdog Jayson Waller and co-host John LeBlanc, and her energy, humor and humility will also inspire.

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0:00.0

Damn, damn, true underdog.

0:03.3

Damn, damn, unleash the power within.

0:06.4

Bam, damn, damn, damn, true underdog.

0:12.5

Damn, damn, ban.

0:14.8

Jason Waller here, true underdog podcast, unleash the power within.

0:20.3

I've got my co-host, John LeBlanc on here. We're still

0:23.2

doing the COVID stay at home trying to get through this time. We've got a special guest here for you,

0:28.8

a true boss, a true entrepreneur, a true builder. Gucci did not. How are you doing, Gooch?

0:35.1

Hey, Jason, I'm doing great. How are you guys doing? I'm good. So we talked about it a

0:39.1

minute ago. I suck it pronouncing your name. Let's see if John can do it. Gopcce. Perfect. That is truly perfect. I'm not kidding. Good job. That's great. Well, so you're in Michigan right now, right? I'm in Michigan. I'm in Michigan. We're living through COVID. As you mentioned, I'm in Michigan I'm in Michigan we're living through

0:54.4

COVID as you mentioned I'm in construction we get to go back live May 7th so everyone's a little

1:02.3

apprehensive but pretty excited to get back to work yeah the governor's been going back and

1:06.6

forth well try not to talk politics on on the pod right but let's let the listeners and the viewers know exactly what it is you do in business,

1:16.0

you know, who you are and what it is you're doing right now.

1:20.2

Well, you know, for the past really 15 years, I've been kind of a serial entrepreneur,

1:25.5

but the last 10 years I've been in of a serial entrepreneur, but the last 10 years, I've been in single-family

1:29.1

custom residential home building in our area here in Bloomfield and Birmingham, Michigan,

1:36.4

which is how we met, Jason. And, you know, I got into it through, so my personal home, we built about 13 years ago. And, you know, I got into it through, so my personal home, we built about 13 years ago,

1:48.0

and the gentleman that built our home said, wow, you're really good at this.

1:54.0

So the way that my process works is I have a vision, and then my architect, I draw something,

2:00.0

but then my architect really draws it, and then it gets built, right?

2:05.0

So, and, and, you know, most people, when they think about construction and the building process,

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