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The Real Reel

Leaning into Hard Work with Grip Shipping CEO Juan Camilo Meisel

The Real Reel

Natalie Barbu

Education, Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Business

4.8982 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Episode 242: Are you in need of a little business bootcamp? If you answered yes, you’ve come to the right place! On today’s episode, Natalie is sitting down with a fellow Forbes 30 under 30 founder and Miami local, Juan Camilo Meisel, for a deep dive into Juan's entrepreneurial journey. From his childhood candy-selling escapades in Columbia to founding businesses like the Amazon of South America and becoming one of the earliest members of the Butcher Box team, Juan is spilling all the tea. The conversation explores the significance of making quick decisions, the art of learning by doing, and the messy reality of what achieving success actually looks like, despite what you may see on social media. Juan also shares insights into his latest venture, Grip, which focuses on the logistics of shipping perishable goods. It's a power-packed session offering a behind-the-scenes look at the entrepreneurial journey and the unmistakable power of hard work. Please be sure to rate, follow, review, and of course, post to your highlight reel. Follow your host Natalie on Instagram @nataliebarbu and @therealreelpodcast. Follow Juan on Twitter, LinkedIn and visit www.gripshipping.com Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: OUAI - Get on your OUAI to save for the holiday. Go to theouai.com for 15% off sitewide and enter promo code REALREEL. Shopify - Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at shopify.com/realreel Storyworth - Go to Storyworth.com/realreel and save $10 on your first purchase! LUME - Control Body Odor ANYWHERE with @lumedeodorant and get $5 off your Starter Pack (that’s over 40% off) with promo code REALREEL at lumepodcast.com! #lumepod Factor - Head to factormeals.com/realreel50 and use code realreel50 to get 50% off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation.

0:05.0

We're an Asian mad about pets.

0:08.0

We bet birthday cakes for cats.

0:10.0

Let dogs share our beds and even get tattoos of ferrets. Yes, ferrets. Now that's love. You do anything

0:17.6

and everything for your pets and at pets at home so do we. Whether it's expert advice, veterinary care or grooming, more people

0:26.8

trust us with their pets than anyone else. We're all for pets. To verify

0:32.1

visit pets at home.com forward slash all for pets. To verify visit pets at home.com forward slash all for pets. People think unfortunately that you don't necessarily need to work hard to be very successful.

0:47.0

And I don't think that's the case. I think you need to bust your ass and work hard and say yes to work because a lot of people I think have become very entitled to say no to work early on in their career but you don't know what yes is going to be your winning lottery ticket.

1:05.1

You have to say yes and do the work and do it like as hard and passionate and like with a success mindset like as much as you can.

1:14.0

Welcome to the Real Real, where we go behind the highlight reel and go into the unfiltered.

1:20.0

I'm your host Natalie Barboo and let's get into it. Hello everybody and let back to the real real podcast with me Natalie Barboo in today's episode I am

1:36.4

interviewing Juan Camilo Maiseel and if you do not know who he is I just want you to think about the word entrepreneur because if you

1:45.2

think about the word entrepreneur and what it means it is literally one the second

1:49.9

you hear this episode you'll understand but he actually has started multiple

1:53.8

businesses and one of his first businesses was to be the Amazon of South

1:58.3

America so if you can imagine the type of entrepreneur that he is it is someone that it's very much the motto go big or go home and so I am

2:07.1

super excited to have him on the podcast and before we jump into it I also wanted to let you know that the audio for the first minute is going to be really weird.

2:21.0

It's going to be a very strange audio because for some reason my mic didn't pick it up my mic started recording like a minute in I have no idea why I don't know what happened I didn't hit anything. It just when I hit play it was like into the

2:36.0

first question that I asked which was about his childhood. So the first minute is

2:40.9

going to be my camera audio which is is really bad, but the rest of the

2:43.8

podcast is crisp mic audio.

2:46.9

So if you can get through the first minute, then I promise it's going to be really good audio.

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