TMBA527: Letting Go of Your Ego
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Mark Brenwall is the founder of WOD Nation, an Amazon FBA business that sells CrossFit products.
A few years ago, Mark joined us for one of our favorite conversations we've had on this podcast in an episode called "The Power of Under Optimization".
That episode was all about Mark's unconventional business approach, which prioritizes lifestyle and happiness over aggressive growth.
Today's episode is the first in a two-part series where we revisit Mark's story.
In this first part, we explore some of the personal and professional circumstances that led Mark to leave a seemingly great life in the United States for the unknown.
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| 0:00.0 | Anybody who's like going through the tough times of the end of your drinking career or using career, |
| 0:06.4 | those last few years are just torture because you're just using more than you want. |
| 0:11.3 | You want to quit and you can't. |
| 0:13.7 | You're looking for ways to moderate that aren't working, right? |
| 0:16.8 | It's just like you're in this freight train to the bottom. |
| 0:23.5 | Hey, podcast listener. Even if you are alone in your entrepreneurial journey, know that today, |
| 0:28.3 | right now in your earbuds, you are joined by thousands of entrepreneurs from all around the |
| 0:32.9 | globe seeking to grow better, more profitable, location independent businesses. |
| 0:37.7 | If you'd like to learn more about what we do and download our entire back catalog, |
| 0:42.9 | check out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:52.3 | Welcome back to the podcast for Farrell entrepreneurs. |
| 0:57.3 | I like this word. |
| 0:58.4 | It's like we can't be domesticated. |
| 1:02.4 | We are weird, but not too weird. |
| 1:05.0 | We are freedom seekers. |
| 1:06.8 | I think that's fair to say. |
| 1:08.6 | Back in the good old days, we called it lifestyle businesses, especially just simplifying |
| 1:14.1 | the idea of a lifestyle business. |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, yeah, you want to make money. |
| 1:18.1 | But money's interplay with time is really the critical thing. |
| 1:22.2 | And all those other currencies can kind of fit under time. |
| 1:25.1 | Like, how do you want to make the money? |
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