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The Real Reel

Entrepreneur tips from Selling a Company to Coca-Cola & Buying It Back

The Real Reel

Natalie Barbu

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2024

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Joining Nat this week is Mark Rampola, the founder of Zico coconut water, and he shares his journey to becoming a successful entrepreneur after leaving his comfortable corporate job behind. Mark and Nat then dive into the entrepreneurial mindset and touch on everything from risk-taking to self-awareness to finding joy in the journey. Mark discusses buying back his company from Coca-Cola and the new Zico product he’s excited to launch, which he thinks is their best (and tastiest) product yet! This episode isn’t just for aspiring business types, as Mark’s insights extend beyond the life of an entrepreneur and crossover into everyday territory, which listeners are sure to find both informative and entertaining. You can find out more about Mark and his companies at Zico.com and Groundforcecapital.com Leave Nat a voicemail! https://www.speakpipe.com/Therealreelpodcast  Thank you so much for being a part of our podcast community! Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. This show wouldn't be possible without our incredible sponsors. Check out these deals just for you: Earnin - Download EarnIn today in the Google play or Apple app store.When you download the EarnIn app type in Real Reel under PODCAST when you sign up – it’ll really help the show.  Ouai - Go to theouai.com and use promo code REALREEL for 15% off any product. Shopify - Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/realreel.  Adobe - Search for In the Making in your podcast player and subscribe or follow the show Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

0:06.0

There are some departments that if you go into them,

0:09.0

you have to have really thick skin.

0:12.0

And HR is one of them.

0:17.4

Here we go again.

0:18.2

I know, here we go again, right?

0:20.1

But ear licking.

0:32.0

Everybody has. but earlicking. Everybody had to attend a mandatory Bible study because that supervisor was a minister and it was approved by HR. Her picture was also on there and her nickname was Doome Decimal.

0:36.0

Oh my God.

0:38.0

I also had a college librarian.

0:41.0

Her nickname was Big Titz McGee. Have you ever worked the

0:46.3

full day with your kids hidden under your death? No. No. Allow yourself, give

0:52.2

yourself the privilege to be human. That's what it is. Just feel it so that you can go through it.

0:58.8

Yeah. And come out the other side.

1:00.8

Mike drop. What I would say the more important. What I would say though more important than the strategy I said was the fact that I understood I've got to find a strategy.

1:21.0

There's a famous old saying that execution and strategy for lunch, like the end of the day, a good okay strategy well execute is a hell lot better than a great strategy that sits on a shelf.

1:37.0

Welcome to the Real Real, where we go behind the highlight reel and go into the unfiltered. I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it.

1:56.1

Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to the real, real podcast with me Natalie Barboo welcome to a new era everyone I am so excited I am revamping this podcast to bring back the really interesting interviews. I spoke about this in my last solo interview

2:06.7

but if you guys didn't listen to it or solo episode I should say if you didn't listen to it

2:11.6

totally get it because I have just been so uninspired and unmotivated by the

2:16.4

podcast and I'm telling you a switch has flipped and I'm back. I think I felt really bogged down because I put this pressure on myself to only film in-person

2:26.8

interviews and I had great intentions and I do think in-person is better than virtual, but not when you

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