PODCAST · business
Looking Backward
by Chad Sakonchick
For many, it often feels like you're starting over. However, each business endeavor you pursue and every job you take builds new experiences and new skill sets. We will be exploring how to become aware of your collective skillset to be successful moving forward.
Episodes
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Starting a Business - How to Deal with Setbacks
In this episode, Chad reflects on the setbacks experienced by the founders he interviewed. He discusses the challenges faced by each founder, such as running out of money, dealing with depression, launching a business during COVID, and facing skepticism from others. Chad emphasizes the importance...
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Starting a Business - Where to Find Ideas
Summary In this episode, Chad discusses where the eight entrepreneurs from the previous episodes found their startup ideas. He highlights that there is no one way to find a successful idea and shares the unique journeys of each entrepreneur. Some found inspiration from personal experiences, while...
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Starting a Business - Marketing and Distribution
Summary In this episode, Chad discusses the importance of distribution in entrepreneurship. He emphasizes that immediate success stories like Amazon and Facebook are the exception, not the norm. Chad highlights that being a successful entrepreneur doesn't necessarily mean having a million-dollar...
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Starting a Business - Getting Your Reps In
In this episode, Chad discusses the importance of getting your reps in when starting a business. He highlights the experiences of various entrepreneurs and how their previous endeavors and problem-solving skills contributed to their success. Chad also mentions the significance of listening to...
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From Lemonade to $10m in Fitness Products with Paul Jackson
Paul Jackson from Animalhouse Fitness discusses Monkey Feet, which allows users to lift dumbbells with their feet. He talks about the other products they sell, their team structure, and their approach to outsourcing. Paul shares his entrepreneurial journey, starting from selling lemonade as a…
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From Busboy to $1M Tax Tech with Max Minsker
Max Minsker is the founder of Bookmate, a tax filing service for small businesses and startups. Bookmate takes care of everything when it comes to filing taxes and ensures compliance with the IRS. Chad and Max discuss the differences between traditional CPA firms and online services like…
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From Finance to Steering 1000s of Monthly Fishing Expeditions
Captain Experiences is a platform for booking outdoor sports guides, starting with hunting and fishing. They have partnered with 1500 guides and have become the largest platform in the U.S. for booking fishing trips. They have about 200,000 monthly site visitors and are steadily growing.…
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From Playground Hustler to $10m+ Collegiate Apparel Empire
Nesha Sanghavi, founder of chicka-d, discusses the brand's focus on elevated premium essentials for women, with a primary market in collegiate apparel and secondary resort market selling non-licensed items to vacationers. The majority of chicka-d's business is wholesale, with a small percentage…
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From Pixels to Partings: $3m/year Funeral Home SaaS
Will Chang from Parting Pro discusses the challenges of the funeral home industry and how his company is bringing modern tools to an antiquated industry. He shares his background in computer graphics and his experience working in China. Will also talks about his time at Fundly and his obsession...
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Ellen Cassidy: Cheese Shop to Million-Dollar LSAT Educator
Chad and Ellen discuss her journey towards Elemental Prep, which started as an LSAT prep company but is evolving into an educational course on how to read and think better. Ellen shares her experiences working in various jobs, including cashier, cheese shop employee, and writing tutor. She also...
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Quinn Rudolph: From Snow Shovels to 7-Figures in Sexy Shorts
In this conversation, Quinn Rudolph from Awry Menswear discusses the company's revenue, team structure, cost structure, and sourcing process. He also talks about the separation of brands and marketing, the use of data from his previous business, and the challenges and successes of running…
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Will Tjernlund - Goat Consulting
Will Tjernlund of Goat Consulting discusses how his company helps brands and manufacturers sell more effectively on Amazon. They assist with catalog organization, choosing the right business model, logistics, copywriting, marketing, and day-to-day case management. Many of their clients are new to...
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Travis Devitt - Skill Incubator
Exploring many different opportunities is a great way to gain a broad range of experiences while narrowing down what craft you want to pursue. Travis Devitt engaged in a plethora of different entry level jobs, leveling up each time until he attended a presentation that pushed him into his core...
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William Griggs - Virtual Reality Rental
Some people love the process of building a business. Figuring out how the puzzle pieces fit together at every stage is part of the fun. But those individuals don't always find immediate success, instead they serially start at the beginning until something hits, which can be years in the making....
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Alison Smith - Umai Marketing
What makes you select an item off the shelf in your local grocery store? Pretty packaging, the name, or just a feeling? Social media companies like Facebook have become behemoths because they can sell ads on a very granular level to marketers. Alison Smith at Umai Marketing does just that for...
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Nick Huber - Storage Squad
Entrepreneurship is serendipity. Chance happens and if you're paying attention, it can turn into opportunity to realize that 5 hour/week lifestyle. It doesn't happen overnight, but if you're willing to put in some hard work up front and sacrifice "safe bets," then you can be like Nick from…
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Michael Gaman - Gudnow Media
How do people know that your business exists? How do you spend money to educate the right people and avoid wasting money advertising to the wrong ones? Michael Gaman from Gudnow Media specializes in a special intent based marketing known as Search Engine Marketing (SEM). If you've ever searched…
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Allison Cammilleri - Austin Venue Collective
Not everyone pines after becoming an entrepreneur since they were young. Sometimes, opportunity is sitting right in front of your years of specialized experience and it makes too much sense not to take the leap. Austin Venue Collective is an outsourced service whose customers are the very bars…
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Matthew Boyda - Genscape
How do you think your electricity bill is calculated every month? Turns out there is a very complex system of buying and selling that goes on. Matthew Boyda stumbled onto a public data file while working on a related project, allowing him to start Energytics which provides market forecasts for...
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Harlan Scott - Harlan Scott Hospitality
Ever witness a great restaurant that opens a second location then goes downhill? Harlan discusses how an early experience at a corporate restaurant taught him how to avoid this folly and to run a business instead of owning a job. Having managed half a dozen successful concepts at once, Harlan has...
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Cody Taylor - Cafe Josie
What business is more common than a food service business? Out of all the types of services out there, the individuals that serve our food and drink are a special set. Cody Taylor started in the food service industry as a bartender, then a server, assistant manager, general manager, and now the...
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Hunter Monk - Facebook Programmer
You don't always have to be doing your own thing to be an entrepreneur. Part of the journey is learning from as many sources as you can then picking and choosing the lessons that you deem most important. Current Facebook Programmer Hunter Monk is 26, but has a decade of experience running various...
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Chad Sakonchick - BetterLegal
It me! So who am I and why am I qualified to have a podcast about turning your failures into a growing skill set? Hopefully this episode will give you a solid background on my 22 years of work experience. From my first job staring at satellite maps for 8 hours a day to my current venture...
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Toni Jacaruso - Jacaruso Enterprises
Toni has spent the last 12 years taking Jacaruso Enterprises from a small Hilton contractor to a $15M a year business. Listen how she started her path towards hospitality CEO from humble beginnings as a babysitter then working the night shift at a hotel while still in high school.
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Looking Backward will be about taking your life experiences into an official skillset that you can be aware of moving forward.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
For many, it often feels like you're starting over. However, each business endeavor you pursue and every job you take builds new experiences and new skill sets. We will be exploring how to become aware of your collective skillset to be successful moving forward.
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Chad Sakonchick
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Looking Backward currently has 25 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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For many, it often feels like you're starting over. However, each business endeavor you pursue and every job you take builds new experiences and new skill sets. We will be exploring how to become aware of your collective skillset to be successful moving forward.
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Looking Backward has 25 episodes. Check the episode list to see recent publication dates and frequency.
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Looking Backward is created and hosted by Chad Sakonchick.
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