#48: Tell Your Story with Brian Scudamore
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Jayson Waller
4.4 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Today on the show we’re talking to Brian Scudamore, the founder and CEO of O2E brands, the parent company of 1-800 Got Junk, Wow One Day Painting, and Shack Shine. He also wrote a book, WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success, talking about his story of how he came from small beginnings to owning several companies.
As a kid Brian moved from school to school, having to make new friends, learn the environment, and adapt. Brian thinks that had a big impact on becoming an entrepreneur. He had to learn to overcome those obstacles, meet new people, and create new relationships.
Brian talks about how he needed to make failures in order to get to where he is today, he mentions a time, early in 1-800-GOT-JUNK’s life that he had to fire 11 people at once because they weren’t good fits for his image of the company. He doesn’t regret any of it because without those mistakes, he wouldn’t be where his today, with the lessons he’s learned from them.
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Mentioned in the Episode:
Brian's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scudamore/?originalSubdomain=ca
Brian’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/brianscudamore?lang=en
Brian’s Book, WTF?! (Willing to Fail): How Failure Can Be Your Key to Success: https://www.amazon.com/WTF-Willing-Fail-Failure-Success-ebook/dp/B07JXY3823
Brian’s Podcast, The Founder’s Story: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/founders-stories/id1481911839
Timestamps:
1:38 - Brian’s Businesses
3:13 - $700 and a Truck
5:03 - Level of Doubt
7:38 - Born to be an Entrepreneur
9:00 - New Kid on the Block
11:52 - Tough Decisions
15:42 - Learning From Bad Decisions
19:19 - Book Writing Process
22:33 - Helping People, Using Your Story
24:18 - Building Up the Business
27:16 - What Happens to the Junk?
28:20 - Wow One Day Painting
32:14 - You Can’t Buy Time
34:17 - Where to Find Brian and His Companies
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| 0:00.0 | Jason Waller here, True Underdog podcast and YouTube channel. |
| 0:03.8 | Listen, make sure you subscribe today. |
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| 0:15.1 | Damn, bam, damn, true underdog. |
| 0:18.3 | Damn, damn, unleash the power with me. Bam, damn. Build it to do you, baby. Damn. Unleash the power with him. |
| 0:21.4 | Damn. |
| 0:22.1 | Damn. |
| 0:22.6 | Jason Waller here. |
| 0:28.4 | What's up, Underdogs? |
| 0:29.2 | I've got a super great show for you guys today. |
| 0:32.3 | I've got a true entrepreneur, a grinder. |
| 0:35.6 | Brian Scudamore, who not only dropped out of college once, but twice, |
| 0:39.7 | and took $700 and made it into a $100 million-plus business. How are you doing, Brian? |
| 0:46.4 | I'm awesome, Jason. Yeah, thanks for having me. Great to be here and love your energy from the |
| 0:51.0 | second we connected, even pre-show here. You're fired up. |
| 0:54.8 | Oh, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Dude, I love stories where people grind, people overcome |
| 1:00.0 | adversity, you know, people are challenged. I read some of your background where you felt |
| 1:05.4 | you were born to be an entrepreneur and people that that can't relate to that. You know, |
| 1:10.1 | we share that same energy of, you know, |
| 1:12.2 | you want more, you want to be the leader, you want to see how you can scale, you want to see |
| 1:15.8 | how you can grow. |
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