Brian Feldkamp, on Being a Lifelong Entrepreneur and the Massive Gains Made from Failing.
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
4.9 • 67 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2021
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Lawrence is joined by Brian Feldkamp, a man of rare distinction of someone who has never had a "boss" or a regular job in his entire life! Brian started his first mail order business when he was in his teens, then went from franchising fitness training programs to eventually moving to LA and working on his first tech startup. He moved back to Chicago where he started his second tech company, and from then on, started his third, fourth and fifth. His ultimate success is, in the words of Churchill: "going from one failure to another, with no loss of enthusiasm", learning, growing and developing along the way. He is the epitome of living with the ultimate growth mindset, carefully balancing every new venture on a sliding risk/reward scale. He balances all his business ventures with a spartan daily workout, while being a doting husband, and an involved father to his two handsome sons.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Enter the Lion Heart Podcast with your host, Lauren Stunning. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm really looking forward to talking to Brian Felcam. |
| 0:20.2 | Brian is one of those awesome people who have never had a regular job. |
| 0:24.0 | Forced by necessity of pay for college, he started his first business in his teens, |
| 0:28.5 | which was a franchise personal training company. |
| 0:31.5 | Not wanting to be stereotyped by the fitness industry, in his early 20s he left his whole |
| 0:35.5 | life and moved to Los Angeles to launch his first tech startup. |
| 0:39.5 | A few years later, after running out of funding, being about a decade too early for the technology, |
| 0:44.6 | he returned back to Chicago, where he started his third, his fourth and fifth companies. |
| 0:49.2 | He is truly a born entrepreneur and is always working on new projects, but most importantly |
| 0:54.6 | for me, he's someone who always prioritizes his health and fitness, no matter how many |
| 0:58.7 | hundred-hour weeks he works. |
| 1:00.7 | Hope you enjoy conversation. |
| 1:02.1 | Brian, my friend, thank you so much for doing this, it's so great to see you. |
| 1:09.1 | Of course, thanks for having me, Laurence. |
| 1:11.0 | So Brian, I got to start with a story because I just remembered this last night about how |
| 1:14.4 | you and I met. |
| 1:15.4 | So I've got this friend of mine, who's my coach, one of my coaches, but I was fighting, |
| 1:19.6 | and he's like, Laurence, I was single at the time, he's like, Laurence, I want to set |
| 1:22.3 | you up with this girl. |
| 1:23.4 | I want to go out with her sister, and then we'll have a double date, like are you down? |
| 1:26.9 | She's real cute. |
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