298: Gift of Struggle with Bobby Herrera
The How of Business - How to start, run, grow and exit a small business.
Henry Lopez, Levante Business Group
4.7 • 522 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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The Gift of Struggle with Bobby Herrera. Bobby shares his early life struggles, and how he channeled his challenges into becoming a better person & leader. He is the author of "The Gift of Struggle". Bobby is one of 13 children from a migrant family, and his early life taught him the value of hard work, rising early, and putting long hours in the field. These values also helped him through his time in the U.S. Army.
Henry Lopez is a serial entrepreneur, small business coach, and the host of this episode of The How of Business show – dedicated to helping you start, run and grow your small business. (TheHowOfBusiness.com)
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How of Business with Henry Lopez and David Begin, the podcast that helps you start, run, and grow your small business. |
| 0:13.0 | And now here are your hosts. |
| 0:14.7 | Welcome to this episode of The How of Business. |
| 0:16.6 | This is Henry Lopez. |
| 0:17.6 | My guest today is Bobby Herrera. |
| 0:20.0 | Bobby, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me. Looking forward to it. Yeah, absolutely. So Bobby, today we're going to chat about Bobby's life philosophies and experiences related to a great book that he's written called The Gift of Struggle. I have it in front of me here and had a chance to preview it in preparation or review it, rather, in preparation for this conversation. |
| 0:41.7 | So he has really given a lot of thought to the struggles that he has experienced in his life and how do we apply them? |
| 0:49.1 | How do we turn those into lessons or gifts to become better people, but also better leaders and therefore better |
| 0:56.2 | small business owners. |
| 0:58.1 | If you want to receive more information about the Hawa business, including links to the |
| 1:02.2 | show notes page for this episode, just text the word biz, B-I-Z to 31996. |
| 1:09.2 | So let me tell you a little bit more about Bobby and then we'll get into it. Bobby Herrera is the author, |
| 1:12.6 | as I said, of the gift of struggle. He's also the president, CEO, and co-founder of the Populous Group. |
| 1:19.7 | The Populous Group is a service firm that helps companies better manage their non-permanent workforce. |
| 1:25.8 | And he's also a very proud, understandably, U.S. Army veteran. |
| 1:30.3 | Bobby is one of 13 children from a migrant family, and his early life taught him the value of hard work, |
| 1:38.3 | rising early, and putting long hours in the field. |
| 1:41.3 | Those values have helped him through his life and of course got him |
| 1:46.1 | through the U.S. Army as well. And now he's really turned that and those reflections and those |
| 1:52.1 | struggles into how he helps others today. Bobby lives in the Portland, Oregon area. And so once |
| 1:57.9 | again, Bobby Herrera, welcome to the show. Thanks, Henry. I appreciate the |
| 2:03.1 | kind of words. Absolutely. We were just chatting beforehand. You were a Chicago Bears fan. And then I |
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