How to do well AND give back with TruWood founder Ibrahim Hyder
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Ibs and Bish are 23 year old entrepreneurs who started TruWood in their last semester of University. TruWood sells affordable and unique accessories and also give back by planting 10 trees for every order. So far, they've planted over 75,000 trees with a goal of planting 1,000,000 trees by 2018!
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| 0:00.0 | Hold on to those afterburners Fire Nation JLD here and welcome to episode 1685 of EO Fire |
| 0:09.5 | where I chat with today's most inspiring entrepreneurs 7 days a week in goals equal success |
| 0:16.8 | Fire Nation with the Freedom Journal you'll be accomplishing your number one goal in 100 days |
| 0:22.2 | check it out the freedom journal.com. Now let's chat with today's featured guest Ebrahim Heider |
| 0:29.1 | Eves are you prepared to ignite? I'm prepared. Yes. Eves is a 23 year old entrepreneur who started |
| 0:36.4 | true wood in his last semester of university. True wood sells affordable and unique accessories |
| 0:42.5 | and also gives back by planting 10 trees for every order and so far they plan over 75,000 trees |
| 0:48.5 | with a goal of a million trees by 2018 and Fire Nation true story. I'm rocking my true wood |
| 0:55.9 | shades on a daily basis down here in Puerto Rico I get tons of call from that. That's awesome |
| 1:00.8 | that's good to hear. Eves thanks for that brother appreciate the gift and as well as the glimpsial |
| 1:04.6 | personal life. Sure definitely so yeah so me and my co-founder B-Shoit we started this company maybe |
| 1:11.9 | around eight eight to nine months ago and you know before before we actually started this company we |
| 1:18.1 | had started maybe you know five or six other businesses and we were in our last semester of university |
| 1:23.6 | and you know we were kind of primed to get that full-time job and and we had all we'd lined all that |
| 1:28.8 | up but you know me and him used to talk a lot and we said you know what we really don't want to be |
| 1:34.8 | working for someone all sort of entire lives so we said if there's any time to you know take advantage |
| 1:40.4 | of the time that we have and the lack of responsibility is to start a business it's going to be now so |
| 1:45.8 | you know we started trying a bunch of different businesses and then eventually true wood is the one |
| 1:50.1 | that took off. Well I love that number one number two fire nation when you're 23 20 27 and you |
| 2:00.0 | just have time you haven't gone down that road of you know family kids mortgage cars all these things |
| 2:06.8 | throw the die roll the die like who knows like you guys could have gone ahead and tried all these |
| 2:11.2 | things none of them would have worked and guess what you would have been 24 and pretty much in the |
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