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The Home Service Expert Podcast

How to Embrace the Right Mindset to Bounce Back from Any Setback

The Home Service Expert Podcast

Tommy Mello

Business, Management

4.8705 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Jerry Isenhour is a speaker, mentor, coach, educator, and the author of Chaos to Reinvention: How to Turn Chaos into Clarity. He built various businesses from the ground up, including a chimney service business, a fireplace & outdoor living retail operation, and a manufacturing entity. Launched in 2010, his business coaching service, CVC Coaching, primarily assists professionals in the chimney and venting industry.

In this episode, we talked about strategic planning, new business development, sales, small business, marketing strategy...

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0:00.0

I was basically owned by the banks because in that time, you could get equity funding.

0:05.8

If you have property, you could get funding for it's not like it is today.

0:10.1

So in this faithful day in 2010, they called all my loans, gave me five days to come up with.

0:16.8

I'll give you the figure.

0:17.6

It was $1.3 million and said, you got five days to do it.

0:21.3

And I said, you got to be kidding me.

0:22.8

They were serious.

0:24.3

I lost all my businesses.

0:25.9

I lost my home, one of my homes.

0:28.0

I lost my commercial businesses.

0:30.1

I basically had no job.

0:31.9

I was able to sell my manufacturing entity to my wife, lock, stock and barrel.

0:37.3

She owns it today, still operates it.

0:39.5

And all of a sudden, I'm unemployed on North Carolina unemployment insurance,

0:44.0

pulling an unemployment check.

0:45.5

Still remember this day, $423 a week, Tommy.

0:48.7

That's what I got as a out of work CEO of my own company,

0:52.9

because I found out I qualified for unemployment and then

0:56.5

it's like okay what you're going to do now welcome to the home service expert where each week

1:02.1

Tommy chats with world class entrepreneurs and experts in various fields like marketing sales

1:07.9

hiring and leadership to find out what's really behind their success in

1:12.6

business. Now, your host, the Home Service Millionaire, Tommy Mello.

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