Eating While Broke: JAMES DUMOULIN - School of Hard Chicks
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4.4 • 14.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2025
⏱️ 64 minutes
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The Black Effect Presents... Eating While Broke!
From Fast Food to Entrepreneurial Success: James Dumoulin's Journey | Eating While Broke
In this inspiring episode of 'Eating While Broke', host Coline Witt sits down with "James Dumoulin", co-founder of the 'School of Hard Knocks' media channel, to explore his incredible journey from working fast food and construction jobs to becoming a media mogul.
James dives into the importance of mentorship, lessons learned from early financial missteps, and strategies for building a successful brand. He shares his experiences growing up in a military family, living overseas, and how these shaped his professional skills. From starting on TikTok to founding a content agency, James opens up about the challenges, setbacks, and triumphs along the way.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. Hey guys, welcome to another episode of Eating While Broke. I'm your host, Colleen Witt, and today we have very special guest. School of Hard Knocks James Dumoulin is in the building. Did I say that right? That's correct. That works. I did. Okay, okay. I don't know if you're being super nice to me or not. |
| 0:22.7 | So we are all the way here in Austin, Texas. |
| 0:26.0 | I literally been like, do not miss a follow-up when it comes to getting you. |
| 0:32.2 | And you're very responsive and I'm super thankful. |
| 0:35.0 | I watch your show School of Hard Knocks and I love that you really make |
| 0:40.6 | the show about the content. But then you're always curious about like, who's James? You know, |
| 0:46.1 | well, at least for me, I'm like, who is he? And you, I felt like when I watch a show, you're almost |
| 0:51.5 | so hidden. It's like you have to like really stalk to find out who you are. So I'm excited to be able to have you on eating while broke. Before we get into all about James, I would like to know what you're going to have me eat today. Absolutely. Well, thank you so much for having me on. I love the concept of your show. I'm a media, the media mogul. |
| 1:11.5 | That's what I like to call it. But I love interesting concepts. And I thought that this was a |
| 1:15.0 | fascinating concept for a podcast. So I really liked it. But we're going to be actually having |
| 1:19.5 | a 12-count chick-fil-a nugget meal with fries and our sweet teas. That's a classic. It's |
| 1:25.5 | something that I've ever since I was a young kid grew up eating and still to this day, sometimes I indulge. Well, let's go ahead and try it. I'm not a huge Chick-fil-Aer, even though in L.A. it's like the most popping, you know, that and in and out. But I've had this before. My favorite thing at Chick-fil-A is the cross fries, but you said fries, and this is all they gave us. |
| 1:47.6 | They don't have regular fries? I thought they did. No, that's what they had, the waffle fries. Oh, okay. And great job on the sauces, too, barbecue and Chick-fil-A. Those are the go-to, and I didn't even say that, so. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, perfect. So take me back. I mean, we've all had it. Shout out to the listeners. You know a good Chick-fil-A meal. |
| 2:07.3 | The Yeah, yeah. Okay, perfect. So take me back. I mean, we've all had it. Shout out to the listeners. You know a good Chick-fil-A meal. The sauce is definitely the best. Let's go ahead. |
| 2:11.3 | Now, when was the last time you ate Chick-fil-A? |
| 2:16.8 | I want to say maybe like a month or so. A little bit of time. |
| 2:34.4 | Okay. Well, take me back to the nostalgia of Chick-fil-A. Absolutely. So my first job ever, I actually worked at Chick-fil-A. So for like 10 months when I was a sophomore in high school, was making 7-25 working at Chick-fil-A. 7-25, Jesus. |
| 2:35.9 | 7-25 an hour is crazy. |
| 2:42.1 | But you almost kind of have to, in my opinion, experience that in any capacity. |
| 2:47.6 | Maybe it's working in the food industry, you know, as somebody who's taking orders and stuff like that, to kind of realize that, hey, this isn't what I want to be doing forever. |
| 3:08.1 | And then my second job was actually construction. So I worked construction for two years, my junior and senior year of high school. Paid a little bit better, but still was, again, one of those things where it's like, hey, this was, this was cool, you know, made a little money doing it, was smart with it, saved it, but just wasn't something that I wanted to be doing forever. |
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