TMBA517: From High School Dropout to Seven Figure Exit
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
A few weeks ago, we shared a conversation about "Sweaty Startups", and how we can use internet business skills to compete and win in traditional, physical services industries.
This topic really struck a chord, and we've received a ton of feedback from listeners who want to hear more about these kinds of opportunities.
Enter Eric Gilbert Williams, an entrepreneur who grew his Canadian-based roofing company to 6 million dollars in annual revenue before he sold it last year.
In his teenage years, Eric dropped out of high school and got arrested for selling drugs before eventually turning to entrepreneurship as a source of redemption.
Eric joins us on today's podcast to share his remarkable story.
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| 0:00.0 | It's your company. |
| 0:00.9 | You have to take ownership for you. |
| 0:02.7 | When hiring a business coach or a lawyer or an accountant, to me, I feel like people need |
| 0:07.4 | to just get over themselves, stop being so intimidated, and treat them like a high paid |
| 0:11.4 | employee. |
| 0:12.5 | They're under you, right? |
| 0:13.7 | You're not under them. |
| 0:18.0 | Hey, podcast listener. |
| 0:19.5 | Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:31.6 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog. Check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:44.1 | Well, I feel like I've been gone from the pod for a little bit. |
| 0:53.6 | The last couple weeks we were running the |
| 0:55.0 | biography episodes, incredible feedback and emails from you guys on that. And in fact, we might |
| 1:01.0 | have to do some follow-ups because there's a lot of questions about the origin stories, |
| 1:05.4 | a lot of comments about how ridiculous it was that Ian was trying to transport ferrets across |
| 1:10.7 | the country and so on. |
| 1:11.6 | I'm so glad we were able to do that and share it with you guys. It was fun to do. |
| 1:17.2 | And it's honestly, it's great to be back on the pod. Today's episode, we are going to talk |
| 1:21.3 | about how you can strategically start a services business. And these are right in front of us. So many of us go in to start |
| 1:28.6 | marketing services, but there's also traditional services business. So if you're struggling to get |
| 1:32.9 | something off the ground, I think this episode could be inspiring to you. And if you got something |
| 1:36.7 | going, also add a little texture to the conversation. But can I take a moment to reflect about |
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