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The Mike Litton Experience

From the Peace Corps to Selling ZICO to Coca-Cola | Mark Rampolla on Freedom, Failure & Entrepreneurship

The Mike Litton Experience

Mike Litton

Careers, Kids & Family, Business, Parenting

51.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, host Mike Litton sits down with Mark Rampolla — founder of ZICO Coconut Water, author of The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Freedom, and Co-Founder/Managing Partner at GroundForce Capital. Mark’s story is one of courage, reinvention, and purpose. From his early days in the Peace Corps in Costa […]

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0:00.0

Now, I'll tell you what happened then, but I'll just contextualize this.

0:05.7

I have been raising money nonstop since that very first raise, even after selling Zico, starting

0:13.9

funds.

0:15.0

I've raised a billion dollars, including our own funds, and it never gets easy.

0:20.9

Never. It's easier or it never gets easy. Never.

0:21.5

It's easier or I realize what happens.

0:24.8

But the same process I use then, I use now and I use always.

0:28.8

I made a lot of mistakes, a lot.

0:32.7

I lost a ton of money, millions, myself, millions. And I also brought a lot of people into investments

0:43.1

that followed me, trusted me, and lost millions. That is humbling. And through that process,

0:50.6

as well as a lot of other things fell apart in my life my health started to go to hell my

0:55.2

marriage fell apart i sort of woke up one day and thought this is not what success was supposed to

1:06.2

look like and i don't feel free i don't feel free i'm stuck on phone calls and emails and I'm angry and upset and da-da-da-da-da.

1:15.4

So I'm running like racing through the next goal and another fun and another deal and another

1:20.4

exit, another million or not.

1:23.3

And so I finally started to just take a step back and say, okay, I got to rethink everything.

1:29.8

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1:37.4

We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Michael Litton experience, who had a traumatic brain injury.

1:43.3

He was sleeping three hours

1:44.3

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1:50.0

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1:55.9

Welcome to the Mike Litton Experience podcast. Everyone has a story, and our passion is to help them tell it.

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