Mike Michalowicz on Entrepreneurship and Authenticity

Entrepreneurs on Fire

John Lee Dumas

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4.8 • 4.1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2013

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Mike is the entrepreneur behind three multi-million dollar companies and the Author of The Pumpkin Plan and the business cult classic, The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur. With a popular, quirky website at MikeMichalowicz.com, he is a globally recognized entrepreneurial advocate. He is a former small business columnist for the Wall Street Journal and now hosts the business make-over segment on MSNBC’s Your Business.

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0:00.0	Entrepreneur on Fire Episode 382
0:03.9	John Lee Doomis is here with your daily dose of inspiring entrepreneurs.
0:08.8	Welcome to Entrepreneur on Fire and prepare to ignite.
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0:53.3	thrilled to introduce my guest today, Mike McCallowicz. Mike, are you prepared to ignite?
0:59.1	Apps of freaking loot. Yeah, Mike is the entrepreneur behind three multi-million-dollar companies in
1:06.0	the author of the pumpkin plan in the business cult classic The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur.
1:11.7	With a popular quirky website, Mike McCallowicz.com, he is a globally recognized entrepreneur advocate.
1:18.8	He is a former small business columnist for the Wall Street Journal and now hosts the
1:23.1	business makeover segment on MSNBC's Your Business. I've given Fire Nation just a little
1:28.4	overview Mike, but take a minute. Tell us about you personally because we want to get to know you
1:32.7	and then give us an overview of what you have going on. Yeah, so you know you just read what's
1:37.2	called my CV and the CV, you know what that really stands for, covers vomit because I think it's
1:44.8	the one page of bullet points of all the great successes that covers the challenges of business.
1:49.9	So yeah, I've grown and sold two multi-million-dollar companies. Absolutely, I currently operate my third,
1:54.6	that's the third company, but I struggled to get there and I've lost my shirt, I've made tons of
1:59.2	money and I've lost tons of money and what's come out of it is the realization and now I'm a
2:06.4	proponent for sharing that entrepreneurship is not what you see on the cover of the magazine,
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