3 Businesses, 2 Kids, and a Kanban board. Managing Life & Business with Tom Sylvester
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2017
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Tom and Ariana are college sweethearts and now Business partners, this husband & wife team are owners to 3 very different businesses. While running their real estate business, wine & liquor store, and online coaching & training for entrepreneurs, they've also raised two energetic youngsters.
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| 0:00.0 | What's Shakenfire Nation? |
| 0:03.8 | JLD here and welcome to episode 1831 of EO Fire, where I chat with entrepreneurs on |
| 0:12.8 | fire seven days a week. |
| 0:16.4 | And if you are ready to accomplish that one big goal, check out the Freedom Journal. |
| 0:21.4 | And you'll accomplish that goal in 100 days. |
| 0:24.6 | Now let's chat with today's featured guest, Tom Sylvester. |
| 0:28.6 | Are you prepared to ignite? |
| 0:31.2 | Absolutely, John. |
| 0:32.4 | Yes. |
| 0:33.7 | From computer programmer to serial entrepreneur, Tom owns and runs a real estate business, |
| 0:39.0 | a wine and liquor store and an online coaching and training company for entrepreneurs. |
| 0:45.4 | Tom, take a minute. |
| 0:46.4 | Fill in some of those gaps from that intro and give us a little glimpse of your personal |
| 0:50.1 | life. |
| 0:51.1 | So as you said, I run a variety of different businesses along with my wife. |
| 0:55.8 | We have two young kids and we actually met, she was actually the very first girl that |
| 1:00.6 | I met in college. |
| 1:02.3 | And so from there, we had a handful of really good years in college. |
| 1:07.5 | As you said, I was a computer programmer. |
| 1:09.8 | And it was interesting that as we got towards the end of our college career, we started thinking |
| 1:14.4 | about kind of the next steps of what happens beyond college. |
| 1:17.8 | And both of us were looking for our jobs. |
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