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Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

472: Taking a Risk to Be a Great Dad

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

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

5618 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Joshua Latimer threw in the towel when none of the side gigs he tried worked out. He went down a traditional career path: banking. He was very driven and focused, and so he succeeded. But he was far from happy building someone else’s dream. He wanted his children to see that if you attempt to do things, it's going to be okay. If you try to influence the world and live a better life than average, you can do it. That would require he take a big risk.

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0:00.0

Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent to do what you love, number 472. I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered his talents to do work he loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.

0:29.2

We created this podcast to provide you with the insight, strategies, and tools to propel your career to the next level.

0:38.0

When none of the side gigs he tried just after school were working for him,

0:42.3

Josh threw in the towel and took a job in banking.

0:45.1

He was very driven and focused, and so he succeeded,

0:48.3

but he was far from happy building someone else's dream.

0:52.4

I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Josh Latimer. Welcome, Josh.

0:58.2

Hey, thank you so much for having me, Don. It is our pleasure. Josh, are you using your talents

1:03.2

doing work that you love? Heck, yes, I am, Don. Okay. All right, all right. We want to hear the whole

1:10.0

story. Josh left his job as a banker for J.P. Morgan Chase to start a cleaning business in Michigan, which he eventually grew and sold to a California-based cleaning conglomerate in 2015. Now he's living in Costa Rica with his four children and wife, where he helped small business owners

1:28.2

from all over the world understand the power of business systems and automation and the

1:32.9

freedom they bring. Josh, that's a pithy summer of your career. Take just a minute and tell our

1:37.4

listeners around the world what you're engaged in now that has you excited. Sure thing. Other than

1:42.4

trying to be a spectacular husband and father and failing

1:46.1

miserably sometimes, but doing my best. Other than that, on the professional side, I actually work

1:51.1

with a software company, which may sound really fancy, but I'm not a programmer or anything like that.

1:56.5

I'm just an average entrepreneur with ideas, and it's really a whole new adventure.

2:01.5

It's a completely different industry for me. I have a team that's around the world. But it's a lot, a lot of fun. And we're having some really good success to start. Good. What's the niche? What's the application? What does it do for folks? Well, what it is. it's an app for your iPhone or your Android phone called Send Jim, like the person, Jim, J-I-M.

2:02.5

Yeah. do for folks? Well, what it is, it's an app for your iPhone or your Android phone called

2:17.9

Send Jim, Jim, Jim, J-I-M. And we're trying to change the world of business through

2:25.1

relationship marketing. And the nutshell version is you can use our app to send brownies and

2:31.0

gift cards and greeting cards and thank yous and postcards and letters and all kinds of stuff to your current customers to do a better job in what we call

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