Starting with Nothing, Fighting for Everything | Episode 323

Real Business Owners

Trevor Cowley

Business

5 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this raw and unfiltered episode, Trevor Cowley sits down with longtime friend and former employee Shaun McClure for a conversation that hits harder than most. Shaun shares what it really looks like to build a business from scratch with no blueprint, no trust fund, and no Plan B. From working 18-hour days in the oil field to starting a business using personal credit, Shaun’s story is brutally honest and unapologetically real.This is what entrepreneurship actually looks like in year one: messy, stressful, and filled with doubt but also full of growth, clarity, and purpose.

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0:00.0	Being an entrepreneur sounds cool, but the reality of building a business is very, very difficult.
0:07.0	Every level that you hit, there's a lot of things that suck that you just won't want to do.
0:11.7	What you're capable of is on the other side I don't feel like it.
0:15.5	And if you're committed to what it is that you're trying to do, nothing is going to stop you from getting there.
0:23.7	Welcome back to another episode of real business owners with myself, Trevor Cowley.
0:27.4	Today's guest, we've got Sean McClure.
0:30.6	Me and Sean have a little bit of history.
0:33.1	A good history.
0:35.0	A good history. Yeah.
0:35.3	Back little ways.
0:36.2	Probably 10 plus years, maybe even more than that
0:38.9	when did you when did you start working at CBF it was probably 13 years ago 13 years ago something
0:44.2	like that I will say this about Sean um you know Sean has shown shown is Sean has worked at one of our
0:50.3	companies on and off over the last 13 years or whatever it may be.
0:54.4	And he's always been a hard worker, always showed.
0:58.2	You remember the time that you came to get a job?
1:00.9	And I said, no, because you smoked.
1:04.5	You remember that?
1:05.4	Yeah, I got the job.
1:06.9	Yeah, you did get the job.
1:08.4	I think you did quit smoking.
1:10.1	I don't know.
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