439: A Profitable Business Good for Schools

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2017

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Jeremy Barnhart experienced a successful career in finance, but he worked long hours and travelled extensively. Frankly, he wasn’t passionate about the work. He “retired” and started a company for something he cared about–assisting schools in fundraising. Now Jeremy has time to coach his 3 sons’ basketball, football and baseball teams. He is a co-owner and vice president of franchise development at Apex Fun Run, a healthy and safe alternative to school fundraising. The company partners with schools to raise funds for campus needs. The concept incorporates a two-week character building and leadership program for students that culminates with a student “run” to raise donations for schools. His company has also opened the door for 80 franchisees in 21 states.

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 439. I'm your host,
0:17.0	Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered
0:22.1	his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:28.1	We created this podcast to provide you with the insight, strategies, and tools to propel your
0:33.6	career to the next level. Today, I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Jeremy Barnhart.
0:40.7	Welcome, Jeremy.
0:42.2	Thanks, Don.
0:43.3	Jeremy, are you using your talents doing work that you love?
0:46.5	Yes, I am.
0:47.7	All righty. Well, we want to hear the whole story.
0:50.4	Jeremy Barnhart experienced a very successful career in corporate finance, which had him working long hours,
0:57.1	traveling and taking him away from his wife and three young children. He simply wasn't having
1:01.3	fun with his work. He wanted to live a more active and present life. Now he has time to coach his son's
1:07.1	basketball, football, and baseball teams. Today, he's co-owner and VP of franchise development
1:12.5	at Apex Fund Run, a healthy and safe alternative to school fundraising. The company partners with
1:18.9	schools to raise funds for campus needs. The concept incorporates a two-week character building
1:24.3	and leadership program that culminates with a student run to raise donations
1:28.7	for schools. So Jeremy, that's a summary of your career. Tell our listeners around the world
1:34.6	what you're engaged in now that has you excited and motivated, if you would please. Yeah, absolutely.
1:41.2	So I'm really excited about what we've got going on these days at Apex Fun Run. We started a really unique concept that really didn't exist in the past. The fundraising industry has not really changed over the last 40 or 50 years. It's still primarily product-based, selling unhealthy products that perpetuate some of our issues in our country with childhood,
2:01.2	obesity and youth diabetes. And we really created a program and a company that helps schools
2:06.7	raise much-needed funds. As you can imagine, there's educational budget cuts all over America,
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