Turning $100 into 20k / month With Mason Johnston | Episode 318

Real Business Owners

Trevor Cowley

Business

5 • 704 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

At just 17 years old, Mason Johnston is pulling $20–30K/month selling handmade cutting boards—and he’s still in high school. In this episode, Trevor Cowley sits down with Mason to unpack how he went from craft fairs and nativity sets to dominating Etsy and building a brand with national reach. This isn’t just a “young entrepreneur” story—it’s a masterclass in grit, systems, and thinking bigger than your circumstances.

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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.
0:11.6	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.
0:23.9	Welcome back to another episode of real business owners with myself, Trevor Cowley.
0:28.0	Today, we have an incredible guest, Mason Johnston.
0:31.7	I met Mason a few weeks back.
0:34.7	He's 17 years old.
0:35.7	He came up to me and said, hey, I listened to the podcast. We
0:38.3	chatted it up and you guys will be surprised to hear his story, to hear about the revenue that he's
0:44.5	generating going into 12th grade as a senior this next year. So he was doing this from the time he
0:52.4	was 12 years old to now being 17.
0:55.8	And he's doing incredible things.
0:57.1	I think you guys are going to enjoy the episodes.
0:58.9	So let's get to it.
1:00.4	It wasn't that long ago.
1:01.3	It was at a funeral.
1:02.9	Weird circumstance.
1:04.5	To me.
1:05.5	Yeah.
1:06.5	And Mason came up to me and said, hey, you Trevor from real business owners.
1:10.4	I listened to the podcast.
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