Episode 20: The Entrepreneur Learning Tree
Have More Money Now with John Layfield
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4.6 • 743 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2026
⏱️ 45 minutes
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| 0:40.3 | The All right, John, now it's time for one of my favorite segments on the show. |
| 1:03.8 | We get to highlight an entrepreneur, someone who turned their passion into a business, |
| 1:08.3 | and has anybody done that better than our guest this week, John? |
| 1:11.5 | No. Look, he has done an incredible job. I'm a huge fan of what he's done professionally. |
| 1:16.8 | Huge fan of his personally. He's just a good dude, but he's done a really good job. And he's kind |
| 1:21.2 | of set the template for people that go out on the independent wrestling scene. He's done it better |
| 1:26.0 | than everybody else, but at least he set the template of what guys can, and he's been very open about helping guys try to do exactly what he's done. But yes, he's done it better than anybody else. We're excited to welcome him on, ladies and gentlemen, the one and only, the former indie god, he not finished mr matt car don't know how are you man |
| 1:45.6 | oh i'm doing great john i don't know if you could see i got that internet title that you held |
| 1:49.7 | for a week or two i did it was the greatest week in my life it really was we just uh we just did |
| 1:57.3 | a show with tommy wildfire rich who was you know was n w a champion for about, you know, for literally a week. And, you know, one of the greatest baby faces ever, but kind of reminds me of me. I was in her internet champion for just about the same. And both of us great baby faces. That's right. Lots of rumors about how both of you got your belts too. But we'll move on. I do want to ask, you know, Matt, a lot of our listeners, you know, they're listening |
| 2:21.5 | for a financial pod and so they may be familiar with your wrestling work or maybe they're not, |
| 2:25.9 | but what I really wanted to talk about today was the action figure business and specifically |
| 2:30.0 | how you turned this hobby and this passion into a very profitable business that you've grown |
| 2:35.8 | year after year after year. It's been really inspiring to watch from the outside looking in. |
| 2:41.4 | A lot of people assume if they're going to go into the business where they're going to |
| 2:44.2 | manufacture toys or collectibles that they've got to get a plant, they've got to get a warehouse, |
| 2:48.8 | they've got to have a full staff. You've been able to sort of bootstrap this thing and still grow it year over year. |
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