Failure Creates Valuable Lessons that Shape Our Future with Brad Pedersen (S:3 - Ep 32)
Exploring the Marketplace
Shawn Bolz
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today on Exploring the Marketplace, Shawn Bolz and Bob Hasson interview Brad Pedersen. Brad is a Founder, Mentor, and Author. Brad was compelled to develop his first toy company; "bootstrapping" it from a basement condo in Red Deer, Alberta and growing it to become one of the largest Canadian toy companies. Along the way the company received several awards and accolades. Tune in as Shawn, Bob and Brad discuss how during the mid-2000s, the company fell into financial difficulty and was forced into restructuring, which ultimately ended up bankrupting the company a few years later. It is said that mastery lives on the mountaintop of mistakes. And as such the crucible of failure creates valuable lessons that shape our future. Brad used these lessons from the business failure as a catalyst to create better business models that will help you in your own businesses. Tune in!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Exploring the Marketplace Show where we're creating a conversation for what God's doing through Christians in the marketplace. |
| 0:11.6 | I'm Sean Bowles and my co-host is Bob Hassan. |
| 0:14.4 | We interview everyday influencers, |
| 0:16.4 | business leaders and entrepreneurs |
| 0:18.2 | from all areas of industry exposing you |
| 0:20.8 | to powerful stories of what God's doing through people just like you. |
| 0:24.7 | We're also sharing our thoughts about what God's doing in finance, business, entertainment, and |
| 0:28.3 | politics. |
| 0:29.3 | Come join the conversation now. |
| 0:34.6 | Welcome to exploring the marketplace. I am Bob Hasnn with Sean Bose. |
| 0:36.2 | What's going on today? |
| 0:38.4 | Well, we have an incredible person who cares about the environment |
| 0:41.0 | and sustainability and it's started a company. it's one of the fastest growing |
| 0:44.0 | companies in the world, not just like in his country of Canada, but in the world. |
| 0:49.1 | Brad Patterson had an early start, just an entrepreneurial wood cutting business at 16 years of age. |
| 0:55.6 | He also had one of the biggest toy companies in the world where they distributed over a |
| 1:00.4 | billion pieces of plastic. So it's interesting that is doing sustainability and environmental friendly company now but his faith |
| 1:07.0 | Story is gonna lead us through his highs and lows bankruptcies and some of the hard things he's at a walk through and there's a new book coming out as well |
| 1:14.4 | later on in the year that I think he'll tell us a little bit about but up next is |
| 1:18.0 | Brad Pedersen right here on exploring the marketplace. |
| 1:21.0 | You're gonna get a free resource. The TransLink God Workbook. the alone and it's going to teach you how to take your relationship with God the way you hear him and |
| 1:34.3 | actually transform your life in the world around you. |
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