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JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

ENTREPRENEUR INTERVIEW: How To Build Life And Business Balance

JOIN UP DOTS - GET RICH & LIVE FREE (Business Coaching With A Touch Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Business, Education

5.01.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

ENTREPRENEUR INTERVIEW: How To Build Life And Business Balance Craig Swanson is todays guest joining us on the Steve Jobs inspired Join Up Dots business podcast At the age of 18, Craig founded Swanson Tech Support which tuned out to be a costly failure, and worked as a tech consultant for 6 years before founding CreativeTechs which lead to over a million dollars in sales. Soon after Craig co-founded the creative online learning platform CreativeLive, an idea that was birthed from a failed video training program for his IT business. CreativeLive would grow from a small start-up team to 70+ employees offering workshops with top industry leaders like Tim Ferriss and Brené Brown. Now Craig partners with creators, educators, and influencers by providing the missing piece that they need to get to the next stage of their business and is helping build $1 million dollar businesses one step at a time. He is also the head of the Seattle Entrepreneur's Organization Accelerator Program where he works to a similar mission, helping start-up's with $250k in revenue top the million dollar mark. him go again after discovering the big F of failure as a young man? And looking back would he do anything differently or has it all lead him to where he is today? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr Craig Swanson

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0:00.0

Life shouldn't be hard, life should be a fun-filled adventure every day, so now start

0:06.1

joining up dots, tap into your talents, your skills, your god-given gifts, and tell your

0:12.0

boss, you don't deserve me, I'm out of here.

0:16.5

It's time for you to smash that alarm clock, and start getting the dream business and

0:22.6

life you, well of course, are dreaming of.

0:26.7

Just join your host, David Ralph, from the back of his garden in the UK, or wherever

0:32.0

he might be today, with another jammed pack episode of the number one hit podcast, Join

0:37.7

Up Dots.

0:41.2

Yes, bad, good morning to you all, wherever you are across the world.

0:45.5

Thank you so much for joining another episode of Join Up Dots.

0:50.2

It's the show where we join up with dots, or connect with dots, as Steve Jobs said many

0:55.6

years ago, but what did he know?

0:58.2

What did he know?

0:59.2

Probably quite a lot to be honest.

1:00.8

Now today's guest knows even more than me, knows even more than Steve Jobs, he's a man

1:06.5

with so many fingers in so many pies, and he started quite early, because at the age

1:12.0

of 18 he founded Swans and Texaport, which turned out to be a costly failure and worked

1:18.1

as a tech consultant for six years, before founding Creative Text, which led to over a million

1:24.1

dollars in sales.

1:25.9

So after he co-founded the Creative Online Learning Platform, Creative Live, an idea that

1:30.8

was birthed from a failed video training program for anxiety business.

1:35.1

Now Creative Live would grow from a small startup team to 70 plus employees, offering workshops

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