270: Once Again, the Return of the Non-Food Franchise King: Jon Ostenson of Franbridge Consulting

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Millionaire Interviews Podcast & Sir Austin Peek

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🗓️ 30 December 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Jon Ostenson is the Founder of FranBridge Consulting. Jon is a top 1% Franchise Consultant in the US, and frequent contributor on franchising across a variety of outlets and publications. Jon is a multi-brand franchisee himself, and along with his business partners, he has great operators leading these ventures. As a result, he is able to commit over 90% of his time to helping others achieve their own dreams of freedom and wealth generation through business ownership. Prior to FranBridge, Jon was the President of ShelfGenie, a national franchise system with 200 locations. Before he had his start in franchising with ShelfGenie, Jon spent 15 years in the corporate world, most recently as the Vice President of Sales for Carter’s Inc., responsible for over $350M in annual sales. Jon began his career as a Consultant with Accenture, often working Internationally on behalf of clients. Jon serves on the Board of the Entrepreneurs Organization and is active in supporting charitable organizations such as Growing Leaders and Hope International. Jon has BBA and MBA degrees from the University of Georgia and lives in Atlanta where he and his wife, Jenny, have 3 children and are very active in the community. Want to Support the Show? Well we'd love for you to join our Patreon Group! What's in it for you? Well you'll instantly get a scheduled call from Austin, where he'll help you with your current or future business... Sign-Up Now at millionaire-interviews.com/patreon. 😀😎😍 *** For Show Notes, Key Points, Contact Info, Resources Mentioned, & the Fabulous 4 Questions on this episode visit our website: Millionaire Interviews. ***

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0:00.0	I can do this, I can do that, but how do I really want my day-to-day to look like?
0:06.6	I will say I'm the hardest boss I've ever had.
0:08.8	So there are pros and cons to business ownership.
0:10.9	You know, I work myself hard.
0:15.4	But I've got the flexibility.
0:16.8	I dropped the kids off at school this morning.
0:18.4	I will be at their game later this afternoon.
0:20.8	Designing your life, being intentional around it, trying your best to live in the moment.
0:24.9	And I'm really big into passive investments too. So franchising for me is a piece of the total pie.
0:32.0	I always go back to the line, activity breeds activity. And I think that once you start moving towards option A or option
0:38.4	B, that's when option C comes out of left field. So you don't have to have all the answers today,
0:43.0	but just get up, start moving in a direction, and then that's when things fall into place.
0:47.9	Hey guys, great to be back. John Austenson here in Atlanta, Georgia. I work in all things
0:53.6	non-food franchising. I lead a firm
0:55.9	Frambridge Consulting, where we help clients around the country step into business ownership
1:00.5	through franchising. And I love educating, love assisting them, helping them identify the top
1:05.0	opportunities for them in their market. On a personal front, I've got three kids, 13, 9, and 6.
1:11.3	We're incredibly active here in the community, but we work with clients all across the country.
1:16.4	45 years old, have been in franchising, eight, nine years now.
1:20.1	We'll tell the story in a minute about how I saw the light and stepped into franchising,
1:24.1	which is absolutely passionate about the business model that franchising provides and how it helps so many step into business ownership.
1:30.6	Yeah, no, that's great. And you can help people all across the U.S. with kind of what you do with Frambridge?
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