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What's shaken fire nation JLD here and I am fired up to bring you our featured guest today Brandon Adams.

Brandon, are you prepared to ignite?

I was born to ignite, buddy. Yes.

Brandon is an investor entrepreneur author and podcast host of University of Young Entrepreneurs.

Having invented Arctic stick and buying a tri-state ice distribution ship at 22 years old,

he recognized the main obstacles of getting started. Lack of funds and resources.

Brandon launched the University of Young Entrepreneurs to help support other entrepreneurs and assist them with getting their ideas funded.

Weekly, Brandon appears on TV across the country promoting crowdfunding campaigns to the masses.

Brandon, take a minute. Fill in the gaps in this intro and give us a little glimpse in your personal life.

Well, glimpse of my personal life. Well, I grew up in a small town in Northeast Iowa, about 750 people.

I was born an entrepreneur. My dad sold ice for a living and I saw what it was like to run a business.

Well, when I turned 22 years old, I bought that company out. But like you said, I mean, I learned the main obstacles for taking anything to market or start a business.

And lack of funds and lack of resources. That led me to doing a podcast.

And it led me to creating courses. And it got me really obsessed with crowdfunding.

And I invented a product called the Arctic Stick back here 3.5 years ago.

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