Move The Needle
The Small Business Background of Jason Zook and Greg Hartle
Episode Summary
The life and business background of Jason Zook and Greg Hartle, two friends and serial entrepreneurs who have nearly 40 years of combined small business experience. And, how they plan to use trial-and-error in their own companies to help you make better business decisions.
Episode Notes
In this episode, you learn about the unconventional paths that have led each host to their most recent business endeavors. This includes how Jason quit his good-paying, mundane job and made $1 million wearing branded t-shirts and Greg going from barely graduating high school to starting his first business at age 22 before being diagnosed with a life-threatening illness.
Topics discussed include:
- What Greg and Jason learned in school versus the real-world and how it has shaped their business decision-making.
- Each hosts early employment days and when each discovered they wanted to be entrepreneurs.
- Why having great job experiences still wasn't enough for Jason or Greg to remain employed.
- How Jason and Greg went from mostly directionless early in their careers to focusing their energy on their respective entrepreneurial paths.
- Jason's experience being one of the first online and social media influencers before the term entered the general business lexicon.
- How both Jason and Greg reached business burnout and what they did about it.
- Greg describes the difference between "knowing about" business and "knowing" it. Hint: The difference lies in skin in the game.
- Greg and Jason each discuss the one book that inspired them to begin each of their entrepreneurial journeys.
- What led Jason to launch a software-as-a-service business https://www.teachery.co/
- Greg discusses the difference between being self-employed and being a business owner, and the difficult lessons he learned being on the wrong side of this quadrant.
- What led Greg to conduct a project traveling all 50 United States helping over 500 aspiring entrepreneurs launch their business ideas.
- How Greg and Jason met and what brought them together to create this podcast, Move The Needle.
- A summary of the current projects and businesses both Jason and Greg are working on and the short-term goals they have for each.
Thanks for listening!
Reach Jason Zook at Hello @ JasonDoesStuff.Com
Reach Greg Hartle at Online @ GregHartle.com