Wired for Success: Doc Watts Electric
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
iHeartPodcasts
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 5 March 2024
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
It can be tough to start a business. And if you’re a young family on the brink of the birth of your first child, it can be even tougher. Yet George and Margarita Rivera did it anyway. When George came home and told Margarita he quit his job to start his own electric company, she had apprehensions. Could they keep their family afloat while starting this new company?
Join Ben and Tanya as they chat with the founders of Doc Watts Electric about those first rocky months. Discover how they built a company as they built their family, learned the tools of the trade while learning how to run a successful business— and avoided their competitor’s mistakes by looking to the future. These are The Unshakeables.
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| 0:00.0 | I told my boss I'm done with this. I just couldn't do it anymore. |
| 0:05.0 | Some businesses start from a great idea, some from a need, but for George and Margarita Rivera, |
| 0:11.0 | their company, Doc Watts Electric, was founded in a moment of frustration. |
| 0:16.6 | He came home to pretty much let me know that he had quit his job and that he was going to do this side thing full time. |
| 0:26.0 | It was super bad timing. I'm eight months pregnant. I was just like what are you |
| 0:32.0 | thinking? |
| 0:33.0 | The stakes are extremely hard. |
| 0:35.0 | It's like a do-a-die moment. |
| 0:37.0 | Either I'm going to put food on the table or not. |
| 0:41.0 | Welcome to the Unshakables, from Chase for Business and Ruby Studio from I Heart Media. |
| 0:47.0 | I'm Ben Walter, CEO of Chase for Business. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm Tanya Nippo, a lawyer and consultant for business owners. |
| 0:54.0 | On the unshakables, we're sharing the daring stories of small business owners |
| 0:58.0 | facing their crisis points and telling the stories of how they got through it. |
| 1:02.8 | Ben, we're back with another story. |
| 1:05.9 | Tell me all about it, Tanya. |
| 1:07.2 | Well, once upon a time, newlyweds George and Margarita decided to leave behind |
| 1:12.3 | everything they knew while raising an infant. |
| 1:14.8 | Though the first few months were hard, they finally got a huge break and put everything on the line. |
| 1:20.1 | Would this moment make or break the couple and the business? |
| 1:23.4 | Is that a Hollywood movie or a small business story? |
| 1:25.8 | I'll let you listen and then you can decide. |
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