264: Why Luxury Goods Are Important with Daniel Curtis

The Chris Harder Show

Chris Harder

Business, Entrepreneurship

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🗓️ 16 September 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

Joining the family business but reinventing from the ground up
Growing up in an entrepreneurial family
The correlation between wealthy people who are happy and those who aren't
Compartmentalizing different areas of your life
Raising kids on how to view success
Why luxury goods are valuable and important

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Show Notes:

Today I'm sitting down with a friend of mine, Daniel Curtis. He is the founder of Robb Vices, a highly curated luxury boxed goods membership.

We talk about what it was like growing up in such a highly successful entrepreneurial family, how his parents made him such a kind, hungry and driven individual despite growing up with so much privilege, and why and how he started Robb Vices. And we talk about how he balances being a great husband and father with his incredibly successful business. And he points out the one strong correlation between wealthy individuals who are happy and those who aren't.

Question Highlights:

Did you always have expectations of working in the family business?
What pressures and gifts come from growing up in an entrepreneurial family?
When you grow up surrounded by luxury, do you feel like it spoils you?
What is the correlation between the wealthy people who are happy and those who aren't?
What are some examples you've seen of people with great wealth being very generous?
How do you balance being a good husband, father, and entrepreneur?
How do you want your kids to grow up viewing success?
Where did the idea for Robb Vices come from?
Why is luxury so important and why should we care about it?

Guest Bio:

Daniel Curtis is the Founder & CEO of Robb Vices. Through this membership platform he serves as a curator for the curators. Robb Vices membership delivers a surprise delivery of unique products as well as a magazine that tells their story on a monthly basis. He created Robb Vices as an independent company out of Robb Report magazine where he previously served as Vice President and was formerly a Curtis family operated business. Most recently Daniel has launched an exclusive luxury eCommerce platform: VicesReserve.com as well as a cigar discovery membership called Cigar by Vices.

Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com

For the Love of Money is a production of Crate Media

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0:00.0	If you haven't trained yourself, if you're not looking at the world with,
0:03.0	how can I share all this great stuff,
0:06.4	it's going to feel so hollow and empty that it's actually going to do less for you than more.
0:13.0	Welcome, everybody. This is for the love of money, where we are making you unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools,
0:25.0	tips and stories of those who have already made it.
0:28.6	My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible guests in order to prove that when good people make good money they do great things.
0:42.0	Hey everybody welcome back to another incredible episode of For the Love of Money
0:46.3	I cannot wait for you to hear today's episode because I'm sitting down with a friend of
0:50.3	mine named Daniel Curtis now here's why among many reasons I love Daniel.
0:55.2	He is the founder of Rob Vices.
0:58.8	Now Rob Vices is attached to the magazine
1:02.1	that many of us grew up with, the most famous iconic luxury
1:05.7	magazine ever called Rob Report.
1:08.5	His father was the founder of Rob Report magazine along with many other magazines that you probably read and enjoy if you listen to this podcast as well.
1:17.0	So he's got an incredible perspective on the world of luxury and And he founded Rob Vices, which is a highly curated luxury box membership,
1:29.5	where a box full of different luxury goods
1:32.0	shows up at your doorstep every single month.
1:35.4	It's the coolest thing ever.
1:36.2	Lori and I get it and we love it.
1:38.7	Things like fine wines and cool upscale toys and tools and foods and spirits you name it
1:44.0	anyhow it's one of the coolest things that we get and I can't wait to talk to Daniel
1:48.2	about why and how he founded Rob Vices but we get into some very meaningful stuff first. For example,
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