Real Business Owners

When you are an entrepreneur who is in an industry with a lot of other entrepreneurs, it can become really difficult to make yourself stand out in the crowd. How do you do it, and how do you make your business thrive (especially in an industry with such a high rate of failure)? This week on Real Business Owners, Kale and Trevor talk with Peter Vekselman, an entrepreneur and business owner in the r...

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   In this week’s episode of Real Business Owners, we are proud to re-introduce Jeff Lerner. Having appeared previously on the show three years ago, as Jeff goes over the experiences he has had in the past three years, he, Kale, and Trevor will dis...

Too many entrepreneurs or businesses focus on the money or just the transaction part of business. This narrow thinking causes them to ignore the fundamentals: customer service and relationship building, which actually act as multipliers when it comes to the bottom line of a business. In this episode Trevor and Kale talk with Ryan Flint. They discuss the importance of building relationships rather...

Do you need to master the lost art of prospecting and sales? In this episode Sean Malone and Chris Baden share insights and wisdom that will provide hungry and ambitious entrepreneurs a recession proof growth system and unlock the secrets to having bullet proof sales conversions to conversions--SO YOU can CLOSE THE DEAL and feel great about it! If you are ready to level up personally and professio...

What would you do if you were in a lawsuit that was draining you personally and financially and had the potential to destroy your business?  Imagine that stress, but add to it the compounding effect of the pandemic lockdown.   In the episode we have the honor and privilege of welcoming back one of our former podcast guests and closest friends, Danny Blue.  We discuss the lessons earned and learned...

Everyone wants to receive credit for the things they do, the hard work they put in, the amazing accomplishments that they have pulled off. People want to feel that their time and effort was worth it and that their work gets noticed. Unfortunately, getting acknowledged for a lot of your hard work is eclipsed nowadays by criticism of the few times you messed up.  In this week's solo episode, Kale di...

Meet Nick Rastopchin: early gym-goer, real estate owner, entrepreneur, and Russian born. Having moved to the United States when he was only a child, Nick has an unique perspective compared to the average American.    In this week’s episode, Trevor, Kale, and Nick discuss complacency and how it is an antithesis to your goals for success. They will cover the different forms that complacency can come...

Are you a good friend? Are you a good family member? Are you a good coworker? Many people would likely answer yes to all of these questions. The true answer, however, may surprise you. Everyone has good intentions, but not many people are willing to put their intentions into action.    In this solo episode, Trevor lays down the hard truth behind what makes someone a good person. By drawing on his...

There are two kinds of people when it comes to businesses. There are starters: the people who are good at pulling an idea from nothing and making that idea happen. Then there are the finishers: the people who can take this idea and take it to the finish line. The starters and the finishes are both excellent at what they do in their own right, but the magic can only happen when you put the two toge...

Kale and Trevor talk to Garrett Larson, son of a hard working blue collar entrepreneur who taught Garrett the value of hard work. Garrett is the owner of Larson Waste from Snowflake Arizona and shares wisdom he has gained from putting in the hours hauling trash and building a business and making sacrifices. If you are ready to level up personally and professionally, go to joinrbo.com

The economy whispers to the business owner, "You can not withstand the storm."  The business owner whispers back, "I am the storm."   In this episode the guys talk about the elephant in the room. There are some things you can only learn in a recession, but it's a lot harder to learn when you're barely treading water and aren't prepared.   Trevor and Kale discuss how business owners have been throu...

Everyone reaches a point in their life where they run into obstacles and setbacks. The difference though is how we choose to respond and overcome these obstacles. In this episode of Real Business Owners Podcast Kale and Trevor sit down with Guest Amanda Catarzi and discuss some of the obstacles presented in her life. From growing up in an oppressive cult community to being sex and work trafficked,...

Leaders are not defined by their title. They’re defined by what they do for the people who work for them. Your employees will succeed or fail on your watch. One of the best characteristics a leader can have is humility. Most business owners feel they have to have all the answers, but best business owners know they only need to know where to find the answers and sometimes that means firing yourself...

Most entrepreneurs start their business so they can have time and money freedom. The reality is that most business owners just end up becoming an employee to their own business. In this episode Kale Goodman shares the business and investment strategies that he uses to gain time and money freedom.  If you are ready to level up personally and professionally, go to joinrbo.com

Obviously, no one wants to lose integral key players of the day-to-day operations of your business.   One of the most common ways to avoid this is to pay them well and offer additional value compensation, but there are always risks in doing so.   In this episode Kale and Trevor examine the potential drawbacks of the proverbial golden handcuffs that we as entrepreneurs put on ourselves when we rely...

There is so little time in the day, and yet there are hundreds of decisions to be made and options for you to consider. So how can you decide what life you want when your time is occupied by decision making? In this episode, Trevor talks about designing your life to be what you want it to be. From reducing the options you have to make with each choice to picking the hard choices, Trevor goes into...

Everyone has their own strengths and weaknesses. But while people can be insanely good at one thing and terrible at another, they also have the time and resources to to improve themselves on both accounts.   In this episode of Real Business Owners, Trevor and Kale discuss the popular idea of spending your time and energy on your personal strengths instead of your own weaknesses. They discuss the m...

At 19 years old, Shane Brinkerhoff started his first company which would eventually lead him into becoming one of the founders of the digital marketing online revolution that was just beginning in 1995. This was before Facebook, Twitter or even Google. Shane is an entrepreneur that has managed to come out ahead through nearly almost 30 years of being an online business owner. He has learned throug...

It is no secret that the world is steadily going down the proverbial toilet. The theories for why it is like this are countless, but at the end of the day it boils down to a simple fact: people today do not have any standards or values. In this week’s episode, Trevor and Kale talk about standards and values and their value in the modern world. From covering their own personal experiences before an...

A business partnership is just like any other relationship. You get out of it what you put into it.    You won't always agree, but you have to agree to always communicate in order to be successful.   In this episode, Kale and Trevor have a very honest and real conversation about where their perspectives have been and what they have been working on to overcome those challenges.   They talk about ho...

There are 4 disciplines in your life that when you devote time and effort will bring you immeasurable happiness and provide the means for a fulfilling life, but you must actively be working one each one in order to bring balance and meaning into your life.   Trevor and Kale talk about how important faith, family, fitness, and finances are and how neglecting to focus on any of these pillars which h...

Nowadays it seems like people are trying new things just because someone told them to do it. People see hyper successful individuals toting their own finely tuned routines and then they try to replicate it. But more often than not people never ask a very simple question: is this routine right for me?   On this solo episode, Trevor will discuss routines and the best way to make one tailored to you....

In this episode, Trevor and Kale talk about the skill sets and demands required for a start up business vs the skill sets and demands that are required to run a business at $15 million.  They open up about the pains and lessons they have learned on their growth into a multi million dollar operation and they discuss what will be required of them and the staff to move into their next phases of growt...

Steve Pedrosa, owner and President of Triton Consulting Group, a Southern California commercial construction company that oversees K-12 school district facilities.   In this episode we learn what it takes to come from being known as a scrappy scrappy street fighter and custodian to work and grind to become the director of facilities for one of the largest school districts in SoCal.   Most people w...

The son of a Ukrainian immigrant, Yelesay was brought up knowing the value of hard work, but his desire to make an impact is what has fueled this 21 year old entrepreneur to get comfortable with being uncomfortable in an effort to see how far he can take his ambitions. If you are ready to level up personally and professionally, go to joinrbo.com