One of the gentleman named Bob Healy came to our conference with a quasi-functional prototype.

He had terminal cancer and Bob came to me and said, help me.

Entrepreneur Clay Clark has built several multi-million dollar businesses.

Now, he helps budding entrepreneurs like Bob turbocharge their ideas with a 14-step plan.

And a grillblazer.com is now a massively successful company that's becoming a household name in many American homes.

In this episode, we dive into how to rebuild American small businesses and industrial capacity.

You never want to outsource your core competency.

We have to import certain technology from countries that hate us to make military weapons to defend us.

That doesn't even make sense.

This is American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick.

Clay Clark, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders, and I'm Yanya Kellick. Clay Clark, such a pleasure to have you on American Thought Leaders.

Hey, thank you for being here in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

So this current administration is looking to revitalize the economy, to push it to a next level.

And for me, always small business has been a centerpiece of this.

Some people describe it as the engine of American innovation and growth and so forth.

But during the COVID years, just we're emerging out of them as we speak, a lot of small business was frankly wiped out.

And you're the guy who's actually helping people kind of build those small

businesses. So tell me about what you do. Well, in America today, we have approximately 330 million

Americans that live here. And we have 9.2 million Americans that identify as being self-employed.

And so what happens is somebody out there, a doctor, a dentist, a lawyer, a plumber,

somebody says, I want to start my own business.

And when they do, they don't really know the proven processes to start and grow a company.

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