263: Healing your hometown with Bob Dalton, CEO of Sackcloth & Ashes

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 15 April 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Bob Dalton is the founder and CEO of the blanket company Sackcloth & Ashes, based in Oregon where they give a blanket to a homeless shelter every time they sell a blanket.Bob’s story of conviction to Christianity is soul-stirring, and as he takes me through that journey he also unfolds how his company, Sackcloth and Ashes was born. He talks about the miracles that came about that catapulted Sackcloth & Ashes into almost overnight success, from a placement in Anthropologie that created orders beyond what they could even fulfill, to an official collaboration with Instagram where they were featured to the millions of followers that follow the official instagram account.Finally Bob really gets to the core of why it’s so important to serve in your hometown, and how you can make the biggest impact in the world by going just down the street and truly seeing your neighbors and ministering to them. Buy a blanket and get involved at https://sackclothandashes.com/collections#Shop-all Bob Dalton on Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobxdalton/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Bob Dalton in the house. This is so exciting. So fun to see you again. We got to meet in LA last year at an
0:17.0	event with some mutual friends and we sat down next to you and I found out your
0:22.1	name was Bob and I told you that we had a little baby
0:24.8	named Bobby and you said oh only like my very closest friends get to call me Bobby.
0:29.8	Yeah only in the hometown or the people in my close circle. Yeah, only the homies. Yeah, yeah in the hometown or the people in Michael Circle.
0:32.6	Yeah, only the homies, yeah.
0:34.4	Yeah, but Bob, you have such a cool story,
0:36.4	so I'd love to just start out with that.
0:38.4	If anyone isn't totally familiar with you
0:40.5	and your incredible company, Sat Cloth cloth and ashes can you kind of just
0:43.3	tell us like how that all got started? Yeah how far back do you want me to go? Do you want me to do
0:48.5	you want me to start with just kind of the beginning stages of the business or do you want me to go back further?
0:54.4	I want you to do whatever you love, whatever part of the story you love to tell, that's what I want you to tell.
0:59.6	Yeah, I would say because you have a lot of people listening that are believers I that's been a huge part of my journey so and really laid the foundation for me of
1:11.1	understanding who I was before I started a business, which I think is really important,
1:16.0	despite what the business ended up doing,
1:18.0	whether it became successful or ended up crashing into the ground,
1:21.0	there was a foundation that was built in me of
1:23.9	understanding who I was prior to being deemed as an entrepreneur or business owner so
1:29.0	my faith journey started in high school early early it started before that, I started
1:34.7	riding the church bus when I was young. Yeah. And I grew up in this little
1:39.2	tough part of town in Cues Bay, Oregon and a little coastal town and it was just my mom.
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