Larry Broughton: from Green Beret to Entrepreneur of the Year
Entrepreneurs on Fire
John Lee Dumas
4.8 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 August 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Larry is a CEO, Author, speaker, and former Army Green Beret. As the CEO of Broughton Hotels and Broughton Advisory, Larry has been awarded Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year and has had multiple TV appearances that include CNBC, CNN and MSNBC.
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| 0:49.6 | Entrepreneurs near and far. John Lee Dumas here and I am fired up to bring you our |
| 0:55.1 | future guest today. Larry Broughton. Larry, are you prepared to ignite? |
| 1:01.1 | Absolutely. Let's fire this up. Larry is a CEO, author speaker and former Army |
| 1:07.1 | Green Beret. CEO of Broughton Hotels and Broughton Advisory. Larry has been awarded |
| 1:12.9 | Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year and has been featured on CNBC, CNN and MSNBC. |
| 1:20.6 | Larry, I've given our listeners just a little overview. So take a minute. Tell us about |
| 1:24.8 | you personally because we want to get to know you and give us an overview of your business. |
| 1:29.1 | A great, John. I am so glad to be here. Thank you. Well, listen, I'm a serial failure. |
| 1:34.6 | I'm a serial entrepreneur and I'm just trying to live life. I grew up in a small town back |
| 1:40.0 | in rural New York and it wasn't a great upbringing at times. On the outside it looked, John |
| 1:46.1 | like it was kind of Mayberry RFD. But all of us, I had some challenges growing up and |
| 1:51.8 | I ended up moving out of my folks' house while I was 17 years old with my twin brother. |
| 1:56.0 | And I just knew there was something bigger and better for me out there. And so my twin |
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