5 • 831 Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Jake and Gino Show. |
| 0:10.1 | Today's guest is Doreen Rivers, a Jane of many trades, and she has mastered them all, |
| 0:15.2 | a PhD in business management, a degree in creative writing, a general contractor license, |
| 0:21.3 | construction. At the top it off, she's built, grown, a general contractor license to construction. |
| 0:26.1 | At the top it off, she's built, grown, and sold many numerous businesses, which is today's theme, how you can build, grow, and then exit a business and enjoy your journey. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to the show, River. |
| 0:34.0 | Do you know, thanks so much. |
| 0:35.3 | It is so fun to be here. |
| 0:37.3 | We had a little pre-chat before we got online here. And this is just going to be pure fun. I love what you do here. I love the service that you provide for every people, other people, and especially the information that you give them that helps them to better their lives. |
| 0:54.1 | Well, we're going to be pitching the book today. |
| 0:56.1 | I got a great book over here, Brain to Bank. |
| 0:57.7 | My first question for you is, how do you know as an entrepreneur that you've got a good |
| 1:02.5 | idea worth pursuing? |
| 1:05.3 | That's a great first question. |
| 1:07.1 | And I'll answer that by telling you sort of what happened to me and how I got to know |
| 1:11.9 | the answer to that. And it really, it all started with a toothpick. I was eight years old and my |
| 1:18.2 | brother and I were walking down the street and all these kids had these lemonade stands and they're |
| 1:23.4 | selling lemonade for a penny apiece and they're all in competition with each other at the same |
| 1:29.2 | price, and we're thinking, well, you know, we need to make some money too, but we don't want to do |
| 1:34.3 | what everyone else is doing. So we took these old-fashioned ice cube trays, the metal ones, |
| 1:40.1 | and we filled them with Kool-Aid, and we put them in the freezer, and the trick is to remember about halfway through the process to go and stick these toothpicks in |
| 1:49.0 | So that at the end of the day you have these little baby popsicles which we called chipsicles |
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