Are you interested in starting a business? Have you launched your business but are stuck? Starting, scaling and launching a business is a lot of work, but it’s a rewarding endeavor. Come learn business and entrepreneurship tips and lessons from our guest, Carl Gray, III, who is a serial entrepreneur and owner of 4 successful businesses (photography, cyber security, and consulting) who helps entrepreneurs launch, scale and grow their businesses from a place of experience and expertise. Join us on the couch, grab your glass, grab a friend, and get a notepad as we talk writing a business plan, work-life balance, basic business concepts, cultivating a successful entrepreneurial mindset, developing an elevator pitch, mentoring the next generation, expensive hobbies turned businesses, knowing your business personality, the truth about organic social media growth, and more! They say “If you do something you love, you’ll never work a day in your life”. But is that true? Join us on the couch where sips get real and let’s find out!
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Episode Timeline
0:00 Intro
0:05 Welcome to the Couch
1:43 Poppin Grapes: Shoe Crazy Wines – Sparkling Peach Mango
3:30 Poppin Grapes: Thousand Lives – Chardonnay
5:17 Meet our guest entrepreneur and business consultant Carl Gray, III
7:45 Entrepreneurship classes
10:23 Reaching and teaching young entrepreneurs
15:32 Entrepreneurial mindset – know your strengths, weaknesses, and passions
16:58 How to pitch yourself and your business
19:48 Even if you love what you’re doing, you will still work!
21:41 Work-life balance for entrepreneurs
24:31 Launch with Carl
26:27 Mentoring youth and teen future entrepreneurs
30:23 How to overcome struggles, hardships, and roadblocks in business
32:38 Carl recounts how he developed his 4 businesses
35:38 Expensive hobbies, niche businesses, and oversaturated markets
38:35 How to identify your target audience/avatar
41:50 An analysis of ALS2WA and our demographics
47:18 Things to consider when naming your business
49:13 The importance of content
51:41 Business motivations and goals
50:37 Evolution of a business (ALS2WA Case Study)
54:59 Starting a business alone vs. with a partner
58:43 Visionaries/dreamers and pragmatists – knowing your personality and working within it
1:04:46 Finding what drives you: dreams, results, goals
1:09:24 Social media doesn’t want you to organically grow, here’s why
1:11:39 How to work successfully in a partnership: dreamers/visionaries and producers/makers
1:13:45 Where to get more information, connect and network with other entrepreneurs
1:17:04 Wine Review: Sparkling Peach Mango by Shoe Crazy Wines
1:18:50 Cheers to that!
1:19:11 Thank you for wining with us