013 - Bob Brazell
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11/19/19 • 122 min
Bob Brazell is the Chef & Co-owner of Byrd & Barrel and Tamm Avenue Bar. He’s currently working on re-opening The Tenderloin Room at The Chase Park Plaza.
2:00 - Intro
8:00 - Athlete Eats
10:30 - Finding the Byrd & Barrel building
12:00 - Having good partners
14:00 - Owning restaurants is entrepreneurship on steroids
16:15 - Dealing with depression
18:00 - Desire to work in food & hospitality
22:00 - Restarting his life & going to culinary school
24:15 - Working at Monarch with Josh Galliano
25:30 - Working at Niche with Gerard Craft
29:00 - Asking a question and writing a paper
30:30 - Generational differences in workers
35:00 - Being a positive influence
36:30 - Working with his fiancee
39:00 - Social media & City Hall
45:00 - There needs to be a chef/restaurant alliance
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47:00 - Finding his business partners
52:30 - Roles in the partnership
55:30 - Why fried chicken?
57:30 - Importance of keeping the drive-thru
1:00:30 - Getting into the Enterprise Center
1:04:00 - Working on the Tenderloin Room
1:07:30 - The myth of the chef
1:09:00 - Rick Lewis
1:14:00 - Be your brand
1:16:00 - Taking over an established business
1:29:30 - Old school cool coming back in fashion
1:31:30 - Social media for businesses now
1:36:15 - Soft opens
1:37:30 - Receiving feedback
1:47:00 - Maturing as a business owner
1:55:30 - Business highlights
1:59:00 - Outro
Bob Brazell is the Chef & Co-owner of Byrd & Barrel and Tamm Avenue Bar. He’s currently working on re-opening The Tenderloin Room at The Chase Park Plaza.
2:00 - Intro
8:00 - Athlete Eats
10:30 - Finding the Byrd & Barrel building
12:00 - Having good partners
14:00 - Owning restaurants is entrepreneurship on steroids
16:15 - Dealing with depression
18:00 - Desire to work in food & hospitality
22:00 - Restarting his life & going to culinary school
24:15 - Working at Monarch with Josh Galliano
25:30 - Working at Niche with Gerard Craft
29:00 - Asking a question and writing a paper
30:30 - Generational differences in workers
35:00 - Being a positive influence
36:30 - Working with his fiancee
39:00 - Social media & City Hall
45:00 - There needs to be a chef/restaurant alliance
-
47:00 - Finding his business partners
52:30 - Roles in the partnership
55:30 - Why fried chicken?
57:30 - Importance of keeping the drive-thru
1:00:30 - Getting into the Enterprise Center
1:04:00 - Working on the Tenderloin Room
1:07:30 - The myth of the chef
1:09:00 - Rick Lewis
1:14:00 - Be your brand
1:16:00 - Taking over an established business
1:29:30 - Old school cool coming back in fashion
1:31:30 - Social media for businesses now
1:36:15 - Soft opens
1:37:30 - Receiving feedback
1:47:00 - Maturing as a business owner
1:55:30 - Business highlights
1:59:00 - Outro
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012 - Matt Murphy
Matt Murphy is a producer/videographer focused on maintaining productivity while raising a family.
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13:30 - Reading
17:30 - What Matt does
23:00 - First job
27:00 - Learning software on the fly
30:30 - Troubleshooting & failure
32:30 - Building his business
36:00 - Getting connected with Tony Robbins
38:00 - What he specifically does at a Tony event
43:30 - Working on “non-flashy” clients
45:30 - Educating clients on video content
48:00 - Society’s attention span influencing work
54:00 - How he’s expanded in his niche field
58:00 - Getting beyond the negatives of motivational speakers
1:00:00 - Herbalife and MLM’s being annoying
1:05:00 - Separating work and beliefs
1:07:00 - Realizing the importance of money at a young age
1:12:00 - Getting his kids to save money
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1:18:00 - Developing a pilot for a tv show
1:21:00 - Funding the initial production
1:25:00 - Editing the pilot
1:29:00 - Abandoning the project
1:52:30 - Time is our most valuable currency
1:36:00 - The ineptitude of Corporate America
1:38:20 - Vacations when working full-time vs. working for yourself
1:40:00 - Workplace efficiency
1:44:30 - Investing
1:46:15 - Preparing for the next recession
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1:51:00 - Recording adventure travelogues
1:57:00 - The human element of resorts & cruises
2:04:15 - Matt’s “escape” from Zambia
2:09:30 - Love/hate of India
2:13:30 - Eating & getting sick while traveling
2:15:30 - Beating jetlag
2:21:15 - Getting enough sleep
2:24:00 - Diversifying
2:28:20 - David Goggins
2:35:00 - The inherent selfishness of success
2:39:00 - Balancing humility vs. confidence
2:45:00 - Outro
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Jon Wheatley is a Product Designer & Founder. He’s currently working on launching a new social media platform @Stopwatch
6:00 - Intro
7:00 - Moving back to St. Louis
15:00 - Why I'm Moving My Business from San Francisco to St. Louis
18:30 - ArchGrants
22:00 - Going into Y Combinator
23:45 - Starting DailyBooth in 2009
28:30 - Judging Y Combinator applications
35:00 - Favorite American city
42:30 - Investors in DailyBooth
46:30 - Getting “banned” from America
54:00 - Using a telepresence robot for a year
58:30 - DailyBooth winding down
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1:01:00 - Starting up Peel
1:04:00 - Doing his own fulfillment
1:06:00 - Good & bad of transparency
1:10:30 - Pitfalls of a Kickstarter campaign
1:14:30 - Other Need/Want Projects
1:20:30 - Managing time & projects
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1:23:30 - Stopwatch
1:26:00 - Launching a “social network” in 2019
1:28:00 - How Stopwatch works
1:32:45 - Join the Private Beta
1:36:30 - Stopwatch business model
1:41:30 - Moderating & Censorship
1:48:00 - The grimey tech of ‘Prospect’
1:51:00 - Influenced by old ideas of the future
1:56:00 - Algorithms & Moderation
2:04:00 - Bruce Mau
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2:12:45 - White House trip
2:21:00 - Outro
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