Unleashing the Entrepreneurial Spirit for Good: A Conversation with Kent Gregoire
The Proven Entrepreneur
Don Williams
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 October 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Join Don Williams on The Proven Entrepreneur Show as he chats with Kent Gregoire, a seasoned serial entrepreneur and stakeholder business advocate. In this insightful episode, Kent shares his journey from a young entrepreneur selling homemade goods to becoming a leading figure in the world of purpose-driven business.
Discover how Kent's early experiences shaped his entrepreneurial mindset and how he navigated the challenges and triumphs of his career. Learn about his unique approach to business, focusing on ethical practices, human-centered leadership, and the power of trust.
Kent also delves into the importance of aligning personal and business goals with a higher purpose, emphasizing the transformative impact it can have on both personal and professional success. Tune in to gain valuable insights into entrepreneurship, leadership, and creating a positive impact in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Don Williams here with today's episode of the Proven Entrepreneur Show. |
| 0:08.0 | What a treat we have today, very good friend of mine, lives in Vermont, but he's trespassing, I believe in Florida |
| 0:18.0 | today, and so we're thrilled to have him. |
| 0:21.0 | Kent, Craig Gua, please welcome to the show. |
| 0:24.0 | It's great to be here, Dawn. |
| 0:25.0 | Yeah, I'm thrilled to have you. |
| 0:27.0 | I've been looking forward to this. |
| 0:28.0 | We talked, I don't know, maybe a couple of months ago, |
| 0:31.0 | and this has been on the calendar, calendar busy people that's a good thing. |
| 0:35.6 | So start out and tell us a little bit about your current business and I know you're a serial entrepreneur, but tell us a little bit about |
| 0:44.2 | stakeholder business, what you do, who you do it with, and why you do it? |
| 0:49.0 | Sure. So stakeholder business was something really a brainchild that three of us had all of us independently more than a decade ago trying to really understand how to evolve capitalism here not just in the US but certainly abroad as well and so using |
| 1:06.0 | a stakeholder-centric approach and what that means is really about how do we engage with our stakeholders to solve worthy, you know, real specific |
| 1:17.8 | worthy challenge that might be for the environment as or it could certainly be with regard to community society. |
| 1:27.6 | And so it's companies we certainly can identify with them. |
| 1:32.0 | Most consumers and most of them, we're all consumers, |
| 1:35.0 | you know, we really do identify with those brands, |
| 1:37.0 | whether it be Patagonia, |
| 1:39.0 | or it might be on a commercial side like Interface carpet. |
| 1:42.0 | The list is certainly lengthy the very purpose |
| 1:44.8 | driven and they use that purpose as their most strategic you know direction it's that |
| 1:51.0 | north star it's that moonshot But they don't just say it. Literally, the entire company is aligned with that purpose and it becomes |
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