Walk Like Beggars
Walk Like Beggars is about the humble path of now successful entrepreneurs, athletes, politicians, and others. We highlight their failures, struggles, and triumphs as they walk the lonely road towards success.
Episodes
Walk Like Beggars | John Richards, Serial Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Mentor
He made his splash by taking yellow pages online and had a massive 7 figure+ exit. Since then he has been a entrepreneur: Co-founder of several ventures leading to high-multiple exits.
As an investor: Active angel investor having directly invested in scores of new and mature ventures as well as hundreds more through investment funds.
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Walk Like Beggars | Platform Accounting Group, Founder and CEO - Reyes Florez
At Platform, they acquire independent accounting firms and then manage them with one-on-one care, while giving them a technology and operational touch-up.
He studied at Chicago Booth School of Business, associate at Goldman Sachs, Investment banking at Credit Suisse before jumping into entrepreneurship.
Walk Like Beggars | BetterBody Foods, Founder and CEO - Stephen Richards. BetterBody Foods provides natural foods to almost every major retail store in the US and more (think Costco, Sam's Club, Walmart, you name it!), with well over 50 million in sales a year. Spearheaded by there flagship product PBfit a powdered peanut butter.
Stephen started out as a lawyer in LA before moving to Utah and into business. Another lawy...
Walk Like Beggars | Neighbor, Founders - Joseph Woodbury, Colton Gardner, and Preston Alder
These guys are the AirBnB of storage. They help thousands of people make anywhere from $500-$15,000/year by renting out unused space to neighbors who need storage.
From recent BYU grads to one of Utahs most prospective startups, with a fast growing company and eyes on the prize of a huge innovation to take over the home storage market. It wa...
Walk Like Beggars | John R. Curtis proudly represents Utah’s 3rd Congressional District in the United States Congress.
Prior to being elected on November 13th, 2017, John was the 45th mayor of Provo City serving two terms. Known for his personal approach to city government, Mayor Curtis prioritizes his outreach to residents of Provo by utilizing various channels including his popular blog. He was named the #1 Top Elected O...
Walk Like Beggars | Humless Reliable Energy, Founder and Owner - Glenn Jakins
Glenn was born and raised in South Africa, Glenn lived a life full steam ahead. Currently managing well over 10 business averaging over 40 million in sales a year, he served in the South African navy, has swam with great white sharks, sailed around half the world, and all starting by selling avocados for 5 cents.
Truly a self made Amercian dream, an...
Walk Like Beggars | Executive Director, Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at Brigham Young University - Scott Peterson
Scott is the Executive Director of the Rollins Center for Entrepreneurship & Technology at BYU, a program which he ran as the Managing Director between 2010-2015. He is also the Founder and Chairman of Omadi, Inc., a venture backed SaaS mobile CRM platform for workforce management, serving th...
Walk Like Beggars | Kenneth Boggs Custom, Founder and CEO - Kenneth Boggs. Kenneth is a former college athlete, Boggs’ started creating suits that can be found on Dwight Howard of the Washington Wizards, Ziggy Ansah of the Detroit Lions, Raul Neto of the Utah Jazz and James Harden of the Houston Rockets. His suits have also walked the runways of Paris, New York and Atlanta shows.
And Boggs — a man who does not own one pair of jeans...
Walk Like Beggars | Kodiak Cakes, Co-Founder and CEO - Joel Clark
Kodiak Cakes is a family business that was a 'Shark Tank' reject — now it's bringing in $100 million a year with the best-selling pancake mix at Target.
Kodiak Cakes are the national market leader for whole grain, high protein flapjack & waffle mixes sold in supermarkets nationwide. www.kodiakcakes.com
One of our favorite interviews from one of the most hum...
Walk Like Beggars | Slingshot, Founder and CEO - J. Taylor Olson
ANOTHER former lawyer. HE knew before he even graduated that law wasn’t right from him. Slingshot is one of the fastest growing companies in Utah. Slingshot provides home service companies with a suite of tools and services that create instant lead contact, enhance close rates and turn existing customers into raving fans.
This was such a fun interview and we gai...
Walk Like Beggars | Jenny Wecker is the CEO and Founder of the multimillion dollar female bag company Fawn Design which set the standard for diaper bags. Fawn Design - Helping women embrace every stage of Womanhood. More importantly, Jenny is a wife and mom of 2. Dive in as we learn her story from the early days of sewing herself as a little girl, to having celebrities around the world rock her bags. She is an incredibly powerful f...
Walk Like Beggars | Dean Karnazes, otherwise known as, "Ultramarathon Man" has completed hundreds if not thousands of endurance events. A father, author, and sponsored athlete, Karnazes is a man in motion! A few of his achievements are listed below:
- Ran 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes without sleep in 2005
- Single-handedly completed "The Relay", a 199-mile (320 km) run from Calistoga to Santa Cruz, ele...
Walk Like Beggars | Joseph May is a former lawyer, turned Kickstarter pro, Breton Company makes men bags and accessories and Joseph has had 4 successful Kickstarter campaigns. One day sitting in an office dreading his corporate life, Joseph’s key to freedom came through utilizing the Kickstarter platform and has never looked back.
Check out his amazing backpacks and goods here: https://bretoncompany.com/
Walk Like Beggars | Case Lawerence is the Founder and CEO of CircusTrix. With over 300 facilities and 3,000 employees worldwide, CircusTrix is the largest owner, operator and franchisor of trampoline parks in the world and owns the leading brands in the industry including Defy, SkyZone, Rockin' Jump, Superfly and Ryze. In 2018, CircusTrix was named the #2 Fastest Growing Company in Utah and joined the Inc 5000 List for the 2nd cons...
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