MI010: How to Be A True Entrepreneur with Gino Wickman (Entrepreneurship Podcast)
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4.6 • 592 Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to TIP. On today's show, I talk with entrepreneurship expert Gino Wickman. |
| 0:06.9 | Gino is a serial entrepreneur, founder of EOS Worldwide, and a best-selling author. We talk about |
| 0:12.8 | what it takes and what it actually means to be an entrepreneur, some of the biggest myths currently |
| 0:17.8 | surrounding entrepreneurship, if college is a prerequisite for success |
| 0:21.5 | when starting a business, and much, much more. Gino looks to share what he's learned |
| 0:25.8 | throughout his two decades of studying entrepreneurship and as an entrepreneur himself. |
| 0:30.6 | I hope you guys enjoy this fantastic conversation with Gino Wickman. |
| 0:35.6 | You're listening to Millennial Investing by the Investors Podcast Network, |
| 0:40.1 | where your host, Robert Leonard, |
| 0:42.0 | interview successful entrepreneurs, business leaders and investors |
| 0:45.3 | to help educate and inspire the millennial generation. Hey everyone. Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Robert Leonard. And with me today, I have |
| 1:02.6 | Gino Wickman. Welcome to the show, Gino. Pleasure to be here. For those listening that don't know |
| 1:07.5 | who you are, can you please walk us through your background and how you became an expert on small businesses and entrepreneurship? Yeah, you bet. I always say I've been an |
| 1:15.2 | entrepreneur since I was 21 years old. So I did not go to college, could not wait to get out of |
| 1:20.9 | academics. And so out of high school, kind of went out and found myself and through various |
| 1:26.4 | things, you know, realize that I don't want to work for someone. |
| 1:29.9 | I'm unemployable and, you know, want to work for myself. And so through my early 20s, did various things and ultimately ended up taking over the family business. |
| 1:38.9 | So I took over the family business when I was 25 years old. When I took it over, it was in dire need of a turnaround. It was |
| 1:44.8 | deeply in debt, and I really felt I could save it. And so over a seven-year period, I turned it around, |
| 1:49.6 | got it growing nicely, healthy, and then we decided to sell. There were three partners, my dad, |
| 1:55.0 | myself, and then a third gentleman successfully sold the business and then set off to pursue my next endeavor. |
| 2:01.9 | During the experience with the family business, though, I got involved in an organization |
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