186: Forbes 30 Under 30 for Social Good with Josh Durham
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 December 2018
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
In This Episode You Will Learn About:
- Josh being recognized by Forbes
- Preparing for success
- What Weighting Comforts is
- Company growth
- Josh's biggest struggles and challenges
- Breakthroughs
- Working with family
- Why giving is important to Josh
Resources:
- Learn more: weightingcomforts.com
- Instagram: @weightingcomforts ; @joshjdurham
- Sew For Hope
- Read: Predictable Success by Les McKeown
- Mastermind: fortheloveofmoney.com/mastermind
Show Notes
Today I'm sitting down with a good friend of mine, Josh Durham. Josh is a young entrepreneur, at just 23 years old, and runs a successful company, Weighting Comforts. His company makes weighted blankets to help people with their stress, anxiety, and difficulty sleeping – he's not only changing lives with his product, but he's also changing lives by the way his product is made. Josh's company specifically hires immigrants to do the sewing of the weighted blankets, which provides not just jobs, but better lives for the people employed. I'm really excited for you to listen to this episode, it's really incredible hearing Josh's passion for people and doing good things.
Question Highlights:
- What did it mean to you to be recognized by Forbes?
- What are your core values?
- What is Weighting Comforts?
- How did you grow so quickly?
- What is the "why" behind your company?
- How has this changed the life of your employees?
- What's the biggest hurdle you've had with your rapid growth?
- What was the biggest breakthrough you've had?
- How do you view money?
Quotes
Josh Durham founded Weighting Comforts, a weighted blanket that naturally increases serotonin in the body. Each blanket is hand-sewn by refugees in Nashville, Tennessee. They are on track to generate $8 million in revenue in 2018.
Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to change your life, stop focusing on what you can get and start focusing more on what you can give. |
| 0:07.0 | I think that a lot of suffering comes from focusing on yourself and just focusing on what you can get. |
| 0:18.0 | Because you can continue to get all the prettiest things in the world, |
| 0:22.0 | but if you have no one to share them with |
| 0:24.4 | then you don't have the lives. |
| 0:27.6 | Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success |
| 0:35.7 | by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:41.1 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible |
| 0:44.8 | guests in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great |
| 0:49.6 | things. names. Hey everybody, welcome back to another amazing episode of For the Love of Money. |
| 0:59.0 | I'm really excited because I'm actually sitting down with a close friend named Josh Durham. |
| 1:02.6 | Now Josh is just 23 years old and already runs a multi multi million dollar |
| 1:08.2 | company, but the company is so freaking cool. |
| 1:11.3 | You see, he's the co-founder of Waiting Comforts. |
| 1:14.6 | It's the company that makes those weighted blankets |
| 1:16.6 | for those with stress and anxiety and difficulty sleeping |
| 1:19.9 | and all those ailments that people really struggle with these weighted |
| 1:23.4 | blankets make a huge difference so they're not only changing lives with their |
| 1:28.4 | product but you're going to find out quickly they're changing lives by the way they employ people as well. |
| 1:34.4 | You see this company is a social entrepreneurship company that's been recognized by Forbes |
| 1:38.8 | in Huffington Post and Southern Living and you name it. |
| 1:41.5 | They're starting to be recognized everywhere. |
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