Mikey Taylor: Why True Empire Builders Plan for the Long-term - 079

Bedros Keuilian Podcast Show

Bedros Keuilian

Self-improvement, Education

5 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Whether you recognize Mikey Taylor as a professional skateboarder or successful serial entrepreneur, here’s the most important thing you need to know about him: by his own admission, he’s just a guy who was too lazy to get a real job and instead built an empire by following his passions. Watch or listen to discover how you can do the same when you embrace speed of implementation.

“You can feel someone’s energy -- how they are in person -- through Instagram.”

- Bedros Keuilian

Here’s what you’ll discover:

5:17 - How the desire to fit in and enjoy life led to a career in professional skating

7:12 - What Mikey did to clinch his first three sponsorships

12:14 - How to adopt the entrepreneurial mindset of an 18-year-old “idea incubator”

27:23 - How to use branding, marketing, and story-telling to rise to the top in a competitive industry

36:05 - Why Commune Capital is trying to make a difference for skateboarders, athletes, and other professionals

“Looking back, I can’t believe I ended up getting sponsors by sending out a VHS tape of me skating. That didn’t happen back then.”

– Mikey Taylor

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0:00.0	You're always going to have problems no matter what if it's going good or bad there's problems
0:04.0	your idea and path and plan never it's never what it's supposed to be it's always kind of
0:10.1	derails into other things and you forced to having to figure out new solutions
0:14.0	of these problems, right? Hey friends welcome to another episode of the Empire Podcast this is an inside look and
0:36.8	today we've got a very special guest his name is Mike Taylor and he was not only a
0:41.8	professional skater who made his money obviously skating as an athlete
0:45.7	But he segued into being an entrepreneur I would say an influencer a person who makes tremendous impact and of course now he's doing something very
0:54.2	special for the industry that he came from so let's welcome mikey
0:58.1	what's up mikey I appreciate it thanks for coming out man yeah of course so
1:00.7	do you've got a unique thing first of all, we should talk about the connections of how we met, because social media, they used to say that everyone's like, what did they call, six degrees of separation, right? You're six degrees separated from anyone you want to meet.
1:14.0	I believe Instagram, Facebook, social media has probably brought that down to one, maybe two degrees.
1:19.0	For sure. And the degree of separation between us was our friend Randall Pitch with it.
1:25.0	And you started your podcast about four months ago and Randall got it was on it, right?
1:33.5	He reached out to you.
1:34.5	So, how did you guys connect?
1:36.1	I know you guys both skate, but how did you guys connect?
1:37.8	Okay, so we were starting a podcast and we were trying to have,
1:41.8	you know, between five and seven interviews finished before we launched.
1:45.6	And we wanted to have people with following to help kind of promote the early stage.
1:51.0	So we were just reaching out to people. Not Randall.
1:53.4	Randall wasn't even on my radar.
1:54.6	And but I knew.
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