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Small Business War Stories is a weekly show recorded in person with small business owners. We get the triumphs, struggles, and funny stories from our guests’ everyday lives.
Hosted by Pablo Fuentes, an entrepreneur and musician based in Austin, Texas.
For more on the show, please visit https://smallbusinesswarstories.com/
Robin Moore and Cebastien Rose, self-proclaimed "plant nerds" are seasoned foragers and farmers.
When they decided to leave their jobs and start their own business, they made a list of things they lived to do.
When their list included being outdoors, being in the wild, spending time with their dogs, foraging, and being in nature- the direction of their business, Dryland Wilds, became second nature.
Join us this week as we discuss distillation, enfleurage, maceration, essential oils, tinctures, concretes and absolutes and much, much more.
Steve Jones founded Teton Gravity Research with his passion for action sports and technology.
This week, I had the pleasure of talking to John Lee Dumas. John is the founder and host of Entrepreneur on FIRE, an award winning podcast where he interviews entrepreneurs seven days a week.
For this week's special FLASH episode, we were able to talk to John. Join us as he shares some of his best pieces of advice and wisdom from his experiences.
Tom and Carrie Dragt have been collectors of vintage pieces since they were kids. Opportunity struck when an old clothing store went out of business and Tom and Carrie bought some of their old inventory.
This led them to focus on vintage clothing.
They began selling out of their house and doing online sales, then moved to a store three years ago. They find pieces through traveling and utilize Instagram to show off their recent finds. Tom and Carrie started Old Colorado Vintage, a store that brings together vintage clothing and articles.
This week on Small Business War Stories, Tom and Carrie join us from Durango, Colorado.
At this year's Inbound conference in Boston, MA, we had the pleasure of meeting Strother Gaines.
Strother Gaines is an entrepreneurial coach, a theater owner and a Unicorn, dammit!
Strother, fresh off his breakout session, How To Network Without Being An @sshole", gives us pointers on how to network comfortably, while remaining true to yourself.
Carla Nowicki's background as a young athlete alerted her to a problem facing many young athletes.
Instead of encouraging athletes to be stronger or healthier, there was a constant emphasis on being smaller. The message was that being smaller was the key to being faster and "better" for these young athletes.
Carla started Pursuit Nutrition, a performance solution for individuals looking to pursue their best selves.
Paulo Coelho Brandão comes from a city in Brazil called Manaus. Manaus is located in the middle of the Amazon jungle, accessible not by automobile, but only by airplane or boat.
Known by many as 'Coelho', Paulo is a Black Belt World Champion in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
Killy Scheer always had a love for interior design. As a young child, she constantly found herself rearranging her bedroom.
After working for a few design firms, both big and small, Killy decided she wanted to go out on her own.
On this week's episode of Small Business war Stories, we join Killy to talk about her Austin-based boutique interior design firm, Scheer & Co.
Faced with a new year, you are probably reading about diet cleanses and all sorts of 30 day challenges to transform your body- and quick!
Tod Moore of Atomic Athlete started his "Fitness with a Purpose" approach with some rusty barbells out of the back of a truck in Austin, Texas.
Rather than piggybacking on fad workouts, Tod Moore was more interested in identifying individual strengths and weaknesses, honing in on them and building out a sustainable physical fitness system.
The Hotel Kitsmiller Main is a family-owned retro motor court built in the 1940s in the town of Fredericksburg, Texas.
Matt and Taylor Gutierrez met in Austin while they were both working in the corporate hotel world. Little did they know, they would be afforded the opportunity to run Taylor's family's longstanding business.
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