#8: Staying Calm and Cool with Jay Feldman

JAYSON WALLER UNLEASHED

Jayson Waller

Business, Entrepreneurship, Society & Culture

4.4 • 649 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Jay Feldman always knew he wanted to be in the car business, but a meeting with actor Mark Wahlberg now has him in the hamburger business too. The CEO of Feldman Automotive Group discusses with True Underdog Jayson Waller and co-host John LeBlanc the impressive milestones he hit early in the auto business, along with the time in 2001 where potential competition provided a springboard for the rest of his career. Feldman also shares his advice for entrepreneurs, and his thoughts really guide why he decided to partner in opening multiple Wahlburgers locations in three states and is in the midst of other acquisitions.

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0:00.0	Damn, damn, true underdog.
0:03.3	Damn, damn, unleash the power within.
0:06.4	Damn, damn, damn, baby.
0:09.4	True underdog.
0:14.5	True underdog, unleash the power within.
0:18.5	Jason Waller here with my co-host, John LeBlanc. We've got a special guest today. Jay Feldman. Jay, how are you doing today? I'm doing great. Thank you for having me on your podcast. Hey, I'm super excited to have you. So a little bit for the listeners. You know, our listeners are nationwide. And I know you've got a huge name here in the Detroit area. But can you kind of give them a quick thing of who you are and what you're doing?
0:37.8	So my company is Feldman Automotive and we have 10 locations, car dealerships in Michigan
0:44.6	and Ohio, Chevrolet, Chrysler Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, Hyundai, Kia, Genesis, and just recently acquired a Buick GMC dealership in Columbus, Ohio. Columbus, Ohio. We got offices there. We love that. Yeah, it's a great town. So, and you've grown up here in Detroit your whole life? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yep. And went to school here? I went to Andover High School, and I went to Northwood University. Where's Northwood University?
1:11.7	Midland.
1:12.7	I'm not from here. I didn't know. Right by Saginaw. Yeah. Is that like farmland? We were talking of if John's from farmland. Midland's not so farmish, but it's way more farmish than here. It's more built up now than it was when I went to school there. I came home every weekend when I went to school there.
1:09.0	So home was here, but you went to school there?
1:10.9	Yeah.
1:11.6	Okay.
1:12.1	What did you study to school there?
1:28.9	Yeah.
1:29.6	Okay.
1:30.1	What did you study at Northwood?
1:31.7	Business and marketing, automotive marketing and management.
1:34.3	And so I graduated in 92.
1:37.3	92 got right into what automotive then?
1:39.7	Yeah, right away.
1:40.8	Yeah, I started managing a dealership when I was 19.
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