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Groundwork with Erik Young
by Erik Young
Groundwork with Erik Young is a long-form conversation series with founders, creatives, and nonprofit leaders about the work behind what they're building. Erik is a filmmaker and the founder of Storyfuse, and he sits down with people doing real work to talk about how they got here, what it cost, and what keeps them going.
Episodes
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Hunter Harrelson on ten summers of BEACHBALL Properties
Hunter Harrelson founded BEACHBALL Properties, and this is the company's tenth summer. He talks with Erik about where the brand came from, the lean early years, and the stretch when he wrote more than $560,000 in refund checks in about two weeks. He also shares why he still feels like they're…
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Chase Duke on taking over at 23
Chase Duke was 23 when his dad died and he had to step in and run the family company. He talks with Erik about carrying the weight of a whole team, why building something meaningful means signing up for hard times, and how faith shapes the way he leads now at 28.
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Dustin Jackson on a paintball business at 14 and the ones that followed
Dustin Jackson has about eight companies, and the first was a paintball rental business he started at 14 with a $1,500 loan. He talks with Erik about growing up with little, learning to sell early, and the businesses he built after that.
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Isaac Stooksberry on ten years of Big Fish Ministries
Isaac Stooksberry opened Big Fish Ministries on Leap Day in 2016 with a few men in a garage apartment. He talks with Erik about ten years of the work, losing the original building to a fire, and why the lives changed there matter more than the building.
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Marcus Allgood on discipline, family and Gather and Grind
Marcus Allgood owns Gather and Grind in Daphne and also works in real estate. He talks with Erik about the personal journey that shaped him, the early-morning habits that keep him grounded, and how he balances family, a coffee shop and an investment team.
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Jimmy and Megan on working together at Bluewater Exteriors
Jimmy Fazekas and his daughter Megan Harcrow run Bluewater Exteriors together. They talk with Erik about the phone call in 2019 that brought Megan to the business, learning marketing on the job, and the highs and lows of a father and daughter working side by side.
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Tim Lower on sweat equity and never saying it's slow
Tim Lower sits on the other side of the table for once. He talks with Erik about trading sweat equity for money and then money for time, buying an office building when everyone said offices were done, and why there's never a perfect moment to start.
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Lee West on The One Rescues and setting families free
Lee West founded The One Rescues to free families held in bonded labor in Pakistan's brick factories. He talks with Erik about the email that led to his first rescue, and how a rescue works, from paying off a family's debt to helping them start a business so they stay free. He also shares the…
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Alex Piercy on building SWAG from a garage
Alex Piercy and his business partner Phil Duke started SWAG Window Designs in a garage. Alex talks with Erik about leaving steady jobs, the year they stopped paying themselves so the team still got paid, and why he keeps making Swag Sessions videos more than 500 episodes in. It's an honest...
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Jimmy Fazekas on starting over and knowing your numbers
Jimmy Fazekas started working in his family's gutter business at 13 and bought it from his dad at 19. He talks with Erik about losing that business in the housing crash, five and a half years in law enforcement, and starting Bluewater Exteriors with a $10,000 savings bond his grandmother left…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Groundwork with Erik Young is a long-form conversation series with founders, creatives, and nonprofit leaders about the work behind what they're building. Erik is a filmmaker and the founder of Storyfuse, and he sits down with people doing real work to talk about how they got here, what it cost, and what keeps them going.
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Groundwork with Erik Young is a long-form conversation series with founders, creatives, and nonprofit leaders about the work behind what they're building. Erik is a filmmaker and the founder of Storyfuse, and he sits down with people doing real work to talk about how they got here, what it cost,...
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