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Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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🗓️ 5 December 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Ken is the founder of Good Start Packaging, a supplier of compostable takeout containers for restaurants based in New Hampshire. You might recognize him from Capital One's latest ad campaign!

Top 3 Value Bombs:

1. The only way to change to the world is to change yourself. Work on yourself. Always be better.

2. Struggle is a good thing when it means overcoming your fears and your limiting beliefs.

3. The big, early win is sweet. But it’s going to take a lot of rejections leading up to that - before you get that first big win that can start your momentum to building something very special.

Spark Business with - Capital One

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0:00.0	Boom! Shake the room fire nation JLD here with an audio master class that you are going
0:10.0	to be able to put to good use. It is using credit cards to get an edge for your business.
0:17.3	We are bringing Ken on. He's a founder of Good Start Packaging, which is a supplier of
0:23.0	Composable Takeout Containers for Restaurants based in New Hampshire. You just might recognize
0:28.2	him from a recent Capital One ad campaign. He's going to be breaking it down for us how
0:34.1	he has used credit cards to get an edge in his business and how you can too. So as soon
0:39.4	as we get back from thinking our sponsor will kick right in. Are you an independent business
0:44.0	owner looking for a commerce platform that will be a reliable partner when it comes to selling
0:48.2	your products, then look no further than Shopify. For a limited time only visit shopify.com
0:55.0	slash E O F and start your 28 day free trial today. That's shopify.com slash E O F. So
1:04.6	Ken say what's up to a fire nation and share something interesting about yourself that
1:10.2	most people don't know. Sure thanks for having me on the show John. Hello Fire Nation.
1:16.9	I had 330 kids in my high school graduating class and one of the only things that all those
1:27.2	people knew about me in high school was that my career ambition was to be the director of
1:32.3	the David Letterman show. I always wanted to be behind the scenes and not stand out.
1:37.4	I think probably the reason that people didn't know much about me was because I was really
1:42.7	really shy. In fact I was voted the shyest person in the class. So for years I was really
1:49.2	embarrassed about that mostly because of all the opportunities that I felt like I missed
1:54.0	to connect with people and for them to get to know me. But really I think in the end it was
1:58.3	probably a gift because the pain that was associated with that title really forced me to struggle
2:05.1	outside my comfort zone. And I think I think it was that recognition that struggle is a
2:11.0	good thing when it means overcoming our fears and our limiting release. And that was really
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