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Well, Caroline, my thing that I can leaveeverybody with is believe in yourself.
You know?
Find that grit that makes you strong.
And it's okay to lean on the people that loveyou.
You know?
If they support you, you can accomplishwhatever you need.
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And to be grateful, make sure that you rememberthat even though you may feel like you're doing
it all alone, you've got people in your cornerthat are helping you along with it.
So don't lose track of that in your faith.
Welcome to Inspired Choice Today.
I'm your host, Caroline Biesalski, here tobring you authentic stories, surprising
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Hello, and welcome, inspired podcast community.
This is your new episode.
My name is Caroline, and my today's guest isDavid Sauers.
And I'm so happy that he's here for ourinterview.
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How are you doing today?
I am wonderful, Caroline.
Thank you so much, and I appreciate yourpatience with my technical difficulty.
Thank you so much.
And some people say patience is my second name,so to say.
Okay.
I would like to really, I would like tointroduce you to the audience, of course, and
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you are the co-founder of Royal Restrooms,transforming the portable restroom industry
with luxury climate-controlled trailers.
With ventures like Pitch Perfect TV, SavannahBar Carts, ARI Transit Trailers, and KUKA Bush
Campers.
I hope I pronounced this all right.
You exemplify innovation and customer-focusedentrepreneurship.
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Your journey reflects a commitment to quality,creativity, and community impact.
Welcome to the Inspired Choice Today podcast,David Sauers.
Wow.
Thank you.
It sounds like a whole lot more when you put itlike that.
And in my life, it's, well, it's just normal.
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Yeah.
It's yeah.
For you, it is normal.
For the other people who get to know you morelike me, it is something completely different.
It's a different frequency.
We talked in frequencies, and we feel it aswell.
Something unknown we want to explore now.
And my first question to you is, what inspiredyou to revolutionize the portable restroom
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industry with Royal Restrooms?
Right.
Well, our origin story is quite unique.
I experienced kind of a traumatic event thathappened with my children when we went to a
portable bathroom at a festival.
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I took my girls over there and Stella, myoldest, was potty training.
And we entered a porta john and boom.
It was like all of this tension arose.
I was nervous.
I was kinda panicked because she's touchingeverything.
She's looking at this.
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And as frightened as she is potty training,this was totally different to her and a new
experience.
And it frightened her as well.
And I had to hand my other daughter off to astranger outside so that I could help Stella in
the porta-potty.
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And by doing that, Stella ended up going to thebathroom on me.
So it went from a traumatic experience to beingaggravated at what we were having to use.
And a porta-potty is something that back thenwe just accepted as kind of the necessary evil
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of going to an outdoor event.
But why?
Why do we need to do that?
There are so many things in the events industryand outdoors that we do and that we love as
human beings, why is something as basic asgoing to the bathroom relegated to a
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porta-potty?
Something so, you know, fundamentally basicthat upgrading it was not something that was
very difficult.
And so by putting a real functioning restroomon a trailer was a simple solution and one
that, quite frankly, changed the entireindustry and changed the outlook, the way that
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people go to the bathroom now at least in theStates.
Wow.
While you were talking, I thought, but, yes,how true this is?
It's something it's for you.
You said it's normal now, and it's normal foreveryone to use the restrooms.
I could say I have always to pay attentionwhich word I use because they are different.
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You can say bathroom.
I learned this.
And, you know, in Germany, I think we have onesupplier, one main supplier of, how do you call
this?
Portable, whatever, restrooms, and everyoneknows it and no one likes it.
So you really made this world a better placewith new places.
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In the beginning, it wasn't about making theworld or making any kind of change or impact.
It was really about affecting my community andmy area surroundings.
My business partner, Robert Glisson, and I werereally community-based people, and we lived and
breathed in this community, and we're reallyproud of Savannah as our hometown.
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And being the host city of the South inGeorgia, we do have a lot of tourists.
We have a lot of outdoor festivals and events.
So it's a special place.
And to kind of paint something like that, no.
We felt like we could do better, and we wantedto do better.
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And it really was not that difficult totransition.
Even though people accepted the regular portapotty, which is pretty much the standard across
the world, when we came and put in realfunctioning bathrooms, every time someone used
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it or tried our product, sat down on thattoilet, they no longer wanted to go back.
So it revolutionized, you know, or transcendedfrom people using it.
You know, it was almost word-of-mouth.
Oh, did you see the bathrooms?
Did you see the restrooms?
And it spread from event to event and from cityto city.
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People all over, they came and used it.
Why does Savannah, Georgia, have nicerestrooms?
You know, we need nice restrooms in Seattle,Washington.
We need nice restrooms in San Francisco,California.
People really looked at this and wanted to makea difference.
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They stood up and they said, we demandsomething a little better.
Oh, that's so true.
So this is the whole lifestyle.
It's about setting higher standards also and,yeah, and not settling for less, so to say, I
would say.
Yes.
Wow.
Absolutely.
Of course.
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It is.
How do you approach innovation across suchdiverse ventures from bar carts to
Well, each one has its own little segment, butour business in our Royal Restrooms has been in
the event services industry.
We've always considered ourselves somewhat of aprofessional service, not necessarily in the
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sanitation industry.
Because we've catered to events and weddingsand bigger type festivals.
So our background has always been centered inthat sense or that space trying to elevate the
event.
And over the years, we've seen differentsegments that we can improve upon, you know, by
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having large LED TV trailers.
You can use them at horse races.
You can use them at movie gatherings, outdoor,you know, music concerts, in anything to help
publicize or enhance.
You know?
Everybody's looking for that new wow and thatnew, you know, just what makes themselves
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different.
And all of the all of our different littleproducts allow that.
You know, when we offer a bar cart, it kind ofchanges the ambiance of just having a regular
tent or somebody out there serving drinks.
It kind of creates, like, a little I'm not evensure what you call it, but it's almost like
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it's a venue within itself.
It's a spectacle.
People see it from a distance.
They want to find out what it is.
And those things all, you know, transcend toelevating your event.
We have some what we call rural restrooms quickspace, which can be used as office trailers or
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dressing rooms or temporary, you know, mobileoffice type transitions, which by the way, I
got from, I got that idea more from my travelsin Germany and Amsterdam and Belgium because
everybody's got these portable office trailersat all the construction sites, which we don't
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necessarily have.
So it's something that you, you know, yourexperiences play into, you know, your life and
how you think that you can make things better.
Even if it's not totally your idea, you canbring it to somewhere else.
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Kruger Bush Campers though is more of a passionthat helps me reset my boundaries.
It gets me back with being one with nature.
I get out there and my Kruger Bush Campersallows me the opportunity to be out in the
wilderness and kind of be one with nature andreset.
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And it gives me that gratitude that sometimesyou forget.
Because so many times you get focused in all ofyour day-to-day work that you forget those
small graces that you have, and sometimes youfall into that self-pity where, you know, you
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can't escape.
And by being out there with nature, it's just adifferent feeling, and it's just amazing.
It just resets.
It fires off all those different neuron pathsin your brain that have been closed off because
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you've been looking at your phone or Google,and, you know, you're forced to make a decision
and think again.
And when you do that, your creativity comesback.
And, you know, problems that you may have had,or directions that were halted, new paths are
now opened.
And you have a chance to reflect.
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And I think that is the main reason that Istarted that venture, probably for purely
personal reasons.
I love what you shared.
It is a whole new world, like an adventure, andevery innovation you named has a different
story behind it.
And, yeah, I love that so much.
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What you said now, I'm inspired, of course.
I have so many images now, and I heard itbefore because we talked about innovations that
you only have to take one idea of someone elseand improve it by 30%, and then you have a new
product.
Yeah.
Yes.
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Absolutely.
And, you know, even if it's not so much a newproduct, being diverse and open to new things,
if you're not learning, you're not growing, andyou get stagnant.
And there are so many things across this worldthat we could all incorporate into our daily
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lives that maybe are not wrong.
They may be different, but it can be right.
You know?
It's like driving on the other side of theroad.
It's not wrong.
It's just different.
You know?
It doesn't mean that it's wrong.
And I think by sharing those ideascollectively, you know, we all grow and improve
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upon all of our lives in business and personal.
Wow.
I see what you mean.
And I also feel the quality of your productsand the love you put in there because the
trigger was the story with your daughter.
Right?
You had this need and you see the need forother people.
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We all need high standard function, portablerestrooms.
I know the word is maybe a little bitdifferent, but you will explain it to us.
Right.
Yes.
Yeah.
So, I mean, going to the bathroom is still oneof the most private functions that we do as
human beings besides maybe counting money, youknow, or having one or two secrets, you know.
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But we all go to the bathroom.
It's necessary.
You want to do it in comfort and free fromanxiety.
I mean, how terrible is it that you get nervousabout having to go to the bathroom?
You know, is it gonna be clean enough?
You know, how is it if you're having such awonderful time, why do you all of a sudden
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wanna get nervous about going to the bathroomor possibly getting dirty or something icky?
And so by providing nice facilities like that,it was an easy solution.
You know, it was comforting to me.
And if it's comforting to me, I would assumethat it's got to be comforting to someone else.
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And, you know, that feeling is, you know, itmakes my life easier and better.
And if we're able to provide that, then we cansell it.
I love it.
Yes.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Of course, I have another question.
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Can you share a key lesson from buildinglasting relationships with franchisees and
customers?
Yes.
So, you know, when you're having a franchiseand having a business, it's like a partnership.
It's a marriage.
You know, you are collectively working towardsthe same goal.
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You are trying to achieve the same thing, andyou both support each other.
You know, you both learn from each other.
You both kind of grow together.
You know, you do have your ups and downs, butthe most important thing is the overall goal.
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And that is, you know, your personal happinessand the care and joy of others, what it is that
you do on a daily basis.
You know, you don't want to hate what you do.
You want to love what you do, and you want totake care of the people that are the ones that
make it possible for you to do those things.
And when it comes down to it, you want toprovide as much for your employees as you do
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for your clients.
And the ones who are in partnership with you,yes, you want to do as much as you can for them
because you want to watch their families growbecause if they grow, you grow.
So being in a partnership like that is, youknow, it is challenging at times, but in the
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end, it's very rewarding because you get to seeyour small idea grow into something bigger and
turn into a legacy.
And you get to see people proud of what they dobecause they're doing it for themselves, but
it's, you know, it was fostered by you.
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Absolutely.
And I love how you use the word legacy becauseit is true.
It will last after you transitioned or I don'tknow.
And I think I'm convinced that everyone has atleast one idea within them to bring to the
world, to contribute, and to leave.
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Yeah.
Yes.
Everybody has hopes, ambitions.
They have dreams.
They have ideas.
But very few ever act on them because, youknow, of security.
They're worried about if they can do it or theycan't do it.
And I think if you do have an idea, believe inyourself and put forth the effort to make it
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happen.
You know, they say that I think, what is it,95% of solving a problem is writing it down and
identifying it.
The 5% is, you know, you've got 95% of theproblem done.
And that's with an idea.
If you've got an idea, it's a good one.
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You know, it can be put to use.
Because if it works for you, it's gonna workfor someone else.
And if you think it's a good idea and you thinkit's necessary and you think that it does, then
it will work.
It's just a matter of figuring the right stepsout to put it into play.
And a lot of that, the first step is yourself.
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Yes.
It's the start that stops most people.
That's so true.
And I totally agree 95% is mindset.
And when you put it on a piece of paper, thenit's the first step to its realization and 5%
is strategy to implement it.
Right?
To put it into, yeah, whatever.
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And I would like to know because I forgot theword.
But I would like to know where can we find youwhen people want to reach out to you after
listening to this episode?
Absolutely.
So I'm on LinkedIn personally as David Sauers.
My businesses are you can find on the web atroyalrestrooms.com or you could find Krugerbush
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Campers as well.
But we're on social media apps under RoyalRestrooms.
We're primarily here in the states.
But, yes, I would love to reach out and helpanybody that I can to achieve their goals in
any way.
That's so good.
Great that you mentioned this because youhelped me now with my goal.
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My goal is because my big dream is the podcast,and it's only the beginning.
But I committed to 1,111 episodes, and you arenumber 640 or so.
I don't know.
But I'm so it's
I'm at the, I'm at the halfway point.
Well, congratulations.
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Thank you so much.
You are a part, a huge part of it because youare so inspiring.
Thank you so much.
And, of course, I have one last question foryou.
It is about your goals and intentions.
Do you set goals?
And what is one of your next projects?
Absolutely.
I set goals.
They are far-fetched goals.
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A lot of my goals are continuing to change, butI usually think in terms of years rather than
months.
I establish small, adjustable, comparable goalswith one large one very far out.
My goals for the future are to implement morerestroom trailers and more offices across the
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country with a lot of my newer products that Ithink will be viable in the industry, in the
event industry.
And my other goal is Kruger Busch Campers.
I really believe that that is a life-changingexperience path.
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Something that could be a following that, youknow, inspires people that are in an older
generation that can't necessarily do what theydid when they were 20 or 30, but they still
want to be out there doing it.
And that's what Kruger Busch Campers does forme, and it allows me to be with my children and
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family and friends that are, you know, veryadventurous.
I love the word adventurous.
I learned this.
I love adventures as well.
And thank you so much for this interview andanswering all of my questions.
Now it's time for your final thoughts to theaudience, please.
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Well, Caroline, my thing that I can leaveeverybody with is believe in yourself.
You know?
Find that grit that makes you strong, and it'sokay to lean on the people that love you.
You know?
If they support you, you can accomplishwhatever you need.
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And to be grateful, make sure that you rememberthat even though you may feel like you're doing
it all alone, you've got people in your cornerthat are helping you along with it.
So don't lose track of that in your faith.
Oh, thank you so much.
I feel blessed.
Thank you.
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