Ditch Digger CEO with Gary Rabine

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“One of our clients had a 3 million square foot distribution center and wanted to zoom in and find a penny on the ground that he knew was there, and he did.” - Austin Rabine, Founder of SITE

SITE has been nominated as a finalist for the Chicago Innovations Award. Please vote for them here!

Austin Rabine started SITE as a pavement assessment service that utilizes modern technology to give their customers in-depth analysis and reporting on their properties. Austin set out to create a product that was an easy way to show businesses a portfolio of their property maintenance items so they can make quick and informed decisions.

Austin is the son of our host Gary Rabine, who adds color to the early days of Austin’s entrepreneurial spirit.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

01:34- Designing SITE and building a network of thousands of drone pilots

10:20- Current properties assessed: Faster. Better. Cheaper.

12:40- How did Austin get customers to buy in?

20:00- How to maintain relationships with great clients

26:00- What is Austin learning?

27:00- How to create a fun environment

30:40- Could Austin's business happen in any other country?

33:10- Competitors and innovations

37:30- Quinton's true takeaways

39:35- Quinton's new baby boy

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“Surround yourself with people that are better at the things that you aren’t good at or don’t want to do and focus on your strengths in business”

- Austin Rabine, Founder of SITE

Austin Rabine started SITE as a pavement assessment service that utilizes modern technology to give their customers in-depth analysis and reporting on their properties.  Austin set out to create a product that was an easy way to show businesses a portfolio of their property maintenance items so they can make quick and informed decisions.

Austin is the son of our host Gary Rabine, who adds color to the early days of Austin’s entrepreneurial spirit.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS:

04:20- Gary just got back from India, shares his experience

09:00- Introducing Austin and what he learned from his parents

11:10- First official job - mowing lawns

15:45- How Austin learned to invoice and made $1000 per week at age 14

19:40- Playing sports and maintaining the business

21:45- Learning financial lessons through insurance and car accidents

24:20- How to get out of a ticket #UglyCry

26:10- Austin's perspective on college

30:00- The family business

33:30- How Austin started working with Nick Mathey

35:10- How did Austin differentiate himself?

37:00- The most important pitfall to avoid as an entrepreneur

38:25- Surrounding yourself with good people who are good at what you are not

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Our goal is to inspire everyone to start their own business and help you grow it to millions or even billions in value so if you feel any benefit from this episode please let us know by leaving an iTunes review, sharing this episode on social media and emailing a link to anyone you think would also find benefit here. Thank you.

"I'll take no's all day long, but I'll find that one yes that's gonna help change my life."

- Chris Krause

01:34- Chris Krause really knows 'why' he's doing the work he does

07:00- Graduating with a meaningful degree + 'athleadership' is a competitive edge

10:30- 5 aspects of championship culture

13:15- The importance of making and achieving a game plan

19:45- Chris's thoughts on mentorship

27:00- Chris's next goals

30:30- Could Chris have built this business anywhere else?

34:30- Interview with Chris Krause Jr.

39:30- Quinton's true takeaways

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Check out https://www.DitchDiggerCEO.com/ for this week's TOP 8 Business Growth strategies and subscribe to our newsletter to download Gary’s 13 Keys to Creating a Multi-Million Dollar Business.

Follow us on Instagram @DitchDiggerCEO (https://www.instagram.com/ditchdiggerceo/) for more helpful Business Growth tips.

Our goal is to inspire everyone to start their own business and help you grow it to millions or even billions in value so if you feel any benefit from this episode please let us know by leaving an iTunes review, sharing this episode on social media and emailing a link to anyone you think would also find benefit here. Thank you.

"This [NCSA] can change communities. When it becomes the expectation that you go to college rather than the outlier that got to go to college."

- Chris Krause

HIGHLIGHTS:

01:34- Introduction

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"Solid Core Values Make It Easy To Hold People Accountable" 

- Tom Walter, Founder of Tasty Catering

Tom Walter (https://thomasjwalter.com/) is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, as well as a principal in numerous companies with over forty years of experience as an owner and operator in the service industry. He has started 32 companies, acquired 3, sold several others, and even terminated a few.

He started his first business—a fast food restaurant called Tasty Pup—in 1971, with the help of his girlfriend’s monetary investment. Over the years, Tasty Pup evolved from its origins as a fast food restaurant, into today's Tasty Catering, which remains Tom’s primary and largest investment.

Tasty Catering employees are shareholders in eight of the nine companies. Five of those companies are the result of employee-constructed business plans that were submitted to Tom and his brothers. Tom, Larry, and Kevin assisted in the start-up of those companies, and then remained on as equity investors.

Tom’s many tasks keep him busy—sometimes that including seven-day workweeks—but he has never, in the last 40 years, felt over-worked. He believes that if you’re passionate about something you love, it will never be constituted as “work.”

01:40- A good gauge of a company is employee engagement

03:40- The average company gets 4-6% of their employees thoughts per day

06:10- Solid values make it easy to hold people accountable

06:55- Tom's seven core values

09:30- All about Tom's book and why he wrote it

13:45- Distributed leadership

16:35- Tom's most important awards

19:25- When the national average for turnover is 50%, Tasty Catering's is 4%

22:00- Finishing big: What's next for Tom?

27:35- Could you have created this business in any other country?

38:40- Q's takeaways

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"Hire people not only for skill, but for who they are. What kind of culture do they have?" - Tom Walter founder of Tasty Catering

Tom Walter (https://itsmycompanytoo.com/) is a serial entrepreneur, author, speaker, as well as a principal in numerous companies with over forty years of experience as an owner and operator in the service industry. He has learned a lot of life lessons from the start up of 32 companies, acquisition of three, sale of several, and—in a few cases—the termination of businesses, all in a broad spectrum of markets.  

He started his first business—a fast food restaurant called Tasty Pup—in 1971, with the help of his girlfriend’s monetary investment. Over the years, Tasty Pup evolved from its origins as a fast food restaurant, through many other food-related businesses, and into the Tasty Catering of today, which remains Tom’s primary and largest investment.

Two of his businesses were large failures, which he considers to be great learning examples.  

He is currently a principal in nine of the successful organizations. To an outside source, his involvement in so many businesses simultaneously may appear a bit overwhelming, but many of his concurrent ownership's came about because of Tom’s strong belief in the investment of young people’s ideas.

Tasty Catering employees are shareholders in eight of the nine companies. Five of those companies are the result of employee-constructed business plans that were submitted to Tom and his brothers. Tom, Larry, and Kevin assisted in the start-up of those companies, and then remained on as equity investors.

Tom’s many tasks keep him busy—sometimes that including seven-day workweeks—but he has never, in the last 40 years, felt over-worked. He believes that if you’re passionate about something you love, it will never be constituted as “work.”

05:10- Tom Walter's story

07:45- Tom's seventh business failure

14:30- How to balance family and work

15:30- Money vs Family

17:25- Entrepreneurs have a disease

20:15- There's nothing worth losing a child

21:20- Early days at tasty catering

23:50- Gary's favorite book

26:20- Tom's favorite book

30:00- Changes happen when Tom started Tasty Catering

34:40- If the VP doesn't know the values, you are in trouble

36:00- Core values contribute to your bottom line

38:00- Hire and fire by values

45:00- Four keys to culture

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"The Most Important Thing is To Have Passion" - Dr. J. Roberto Trujillo, M.D

Hi, Ditch Digger CEO listeners. We did something a little different with Dr. Roberto's episode. This guy is so amazing and has so much to talk about. We had to create two parts. It was great timing for us to create two parts because something has happened in the last week that I'm super excited about. Dr. Roberto has scheduled my son Nik and I to go to his research center in Bangalore, India to be treated. Nik for cerebral palsy and me for epilepsy. We will be going for 28 days of treatment. Both of our cases are on the mild side of the spectrum. We know we have challenges to overcome and there's no proven cure for either of our diseases. We will also be going to get a chance to understand the technology and the protocol in case my wife Cheryl needs to go to Dr. Roberto's clinic for treatment of her brain cancer and other presumed incurable disease. So strap on your seat belts as we enjoy one of the leading minds in the world of medicine today, Dr. Roberto Trujillo, with his slogan to cure the incurable. Enjoy!

Dr. J. Roberto Trujillo, M.D., Sc.D. is the Chairman and CEO of TruCytonics Institute & NeuroCytonix, Inc., at the Montgomery Biotechnology campus of Johns Hopkins University. His current focus is on translation research of neural tissue engineering (quantum magnetic resonance) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and Parkinson’s disease. He is a member of the medical advisory board at Fisher Wallace Laboratories, LLC. As a pioneer in the field of neurovirology at Harvard, Dr. Trujillo founded the Pan-American Society of NeuroVirology in 2000. He is the co-inventor of CERCA, a U.S. patented photodynamic therapeutic medical device for the prevention of cervical cancer. Dr. Trujillo is a leader of medical sciences of the Americas, and he has received numerous awards, professional titles, and honorary doctor degrees. Following an internship in medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, he completed a two-year clinical neurological and neurosurgical fellowship at Texas Medical Center. After receiving a training award from NIH, Dr. Trujillo obtained his Doctor of Science degree in Neurosciences and Molecular Virology at Harvard University.

01:30- Brain dogma: "I never gave up because I wanted to serve people"

08:30- Dreaming big gets us to the moon

10:38- Success with NeuroCytonix and looking forward

14:48- Where this progress will go in the next 5-10 years

17:00- $280 Billion spent on this research and why it costs so much

20:27- The beauty of being an American

23:55- The source of Roberto's focus

25:52- Back pain cure takes time

29:10- How Roberto's technology helps a patient with epilepsy

34:50- AMAZING brain cancer trials and improvements without side effects

38:55- FDA approval status

40:06- The exact process of Roberto's technology

45:05- About Roberto's family

50:30- Doctors need to learn business

Connect with Gary Rabine and DDCEO: 

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Our goal is to inspire everyone to start their own business and help you grow it to millions or even billions in value so if you feel any benefit from this episode please let us know by leaving an iTunes review, sharing this episode on social media and emailing a link to anyone you think would also find benefit here. Thank you.

"The Most Important Thing is To Have Passion" - Dr. J. Roberto Trujillo, M.D

Dr. J. Roberto Trujillo, M.D., Sc.D. is the Chairman and CEO of TruCytonics Institute & NeuroCytonix, Inc., at the Montgomery Biotechnology campus of Johns Hopkins University. His current focus is on translation research of neural tissue engineering (quantum magnetic resonance) for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and Parkinson’s disease. He is a member of the medical advisory board at Fisher Wallace Laboratories, LLC. As a pioneer in the field of neurovirology at Harvard, Dr. Trujillo founded the Pan-American Society of NeuroVirology in 2000. He is the co-inventor of CERCA, a U.S. patented photodynamic therapeutic medical device for the prevention of cervical cancer. Dr. Trujillo is a leader of medical sciences of the Americas, and he has received numerous awards, professional titles, and honorary doctor degrees. Following an internship in medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, he completed a two-year clinical neurological and neurosurgical fellowship at Texas Medical Center. After receiving a training award from NIH, Dr. Trujillo obtained his Doctor of Science degree in Neurosciences and Molecular Virology at Harvard University. 

02:24- Story of how Gary and Dr. Roberto Trujillo met 

05:30- Roberto's story and upbringing

11:25- Started rotation at age 18

12:00- Difference between US and Mexican medical school

16:54- Challenges are opportunities to grow

19:50- Passion is to study the brain

23:25- AIDS virus causes so much damage to the brain

23:55- Becoming the first molecular neuro-virologist at Harvard

25:52- The importance of passion

28:30- 3 keys to success

29:52- Advantages in America

32:50- If you have an idea you can pursue it, unreal medicine

37:35- All about the NeuroCytonix company

39:40- What clinics look like in America vs India

42:25- Turning brain dogma upside down

Tune in for part 2 next week!

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"If we're going to be better tomorrow we've got to start opening ourselves to different thoughts in the most humble way we can." - Scott Mordell

I'm so excited to get my buddy Scott Mordell in front of my listeners. 

Scott's an amazing guy. He's a leader of leaders. Starting out in the accounting world going to school for accounting in Michigan. Becoming an accountant at a big firm, and then having the opportunity to go to work for an entrepreneur organization like the Duchess group, being mentored by,  just two great guys a father-son, team, Dick-Duchess, and a son Craig, as well, as so many others. He's become such an amazing leader in the world today. 

Plus he's not just a CEO of any normal company, but a CEO of 28,000 CEOs across the globe. How crazy is that? And this guy does an awesome job of guiding this great organization, an organization that has grown from 18,000 members to 28,000 members. 

That has caused people to start pounding on the door to get into YPOs chapters all over the world. 

So get your learning ears on and and listen to a great friend of mine, a guy I really love and an amazing leader in our world today that not many people get the opportunity to spend time with, Scott Mordell!

BIO:

Scott Mordell has been a YPO member since 1995 and a former chair of its Chicago Chapter. He has more than 20 years of CEO-level experience in organizational management, strategy development and implementation, global commerce and public policy. 

YPO is the premier global leadership organization for more than 28,000 chief executives, who employ more than 22 million people globally and generate $9 Trillion in annual revenues.

For more information, visit www.ypo.org. 

00:00- Intro

01:35- Podcast summary

03:30- Talking about Scott

06:05- Forum IPO mates with Gary

06:40- Scott's upbringing-grew up in Detroit, high school

08:40- Sports played- football, hockey

11:05- Folks go into public accounting when they don't know what to do?

14:25- About accounting lessons

15:35- Public accounting for 4 years then went to grad school

16:15- About cereal

17:55- Getting great advice- go into business

21:15- Arlington race track experience 

21:45- "I thought it was going to be an attorney"

22:35- Traits you saw in your mentor

27:10- Time at Arlington was from CIE to CEO

28:15- Join YPO or get fired

30:15- Gambling regulations, had to close the racetrack

34:40- Dealing with Illinois politics, your organization purpose

35:45- People profits capital

38:05- The importance of ethics

39:55- Success at the racetrack

42:05- Post horse racing- corporate

45:45- How Scott got involved with YPO - Scaling service is more difficult than scaling manufacturing

49:05- How the forum changed Scott's life

53:55- Why it's important to be curious

54:55- Going from 18,000 to 28,000 members

56:35- The 5 keys for successful scaling

01:05:20- No straight lines through life

01:05:50- How did you build the grit needed to manage other CEO's

01:10:15- Next 10-15 years?

01:14:05- Scott for governor?

01:15:30- Advantage to america free enterprise system

01:19:35- Q's take aways

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The "Ditch Digger CEO" is a podcast for trailblazers. It’s about climbing to the top of the ladder no matter where you start. It's for those with big, bold ideas who want to learn from the experiences of some of the most successful people in the world. This is a show about those who grow their businesses from nothing to million- or even billion-dollar enterprises. 

Often beginning their journey in ‘dead-end’ jobs, as single parents, or working multiple part-time gigs with only their grit and work ethic to work with. 

Our guests are shining examples of success against the odds that want to share all the secrets of how they achieved their incredible success. With Gary Rabine (of Rabine Group) and Quinton James (of True Mentors) as your hosts, this is an inspirational business podcast that gives relatable, actionable, real-life advice from trailblazers that have been there. 

Gary and Quinton bring their tough questions, fresh perspectives, and business-savvy to the podcast’s spirited dialogue on how to get ahead in whatever industry you are in. 

Our goal is that these tips and mindsets will encourage you to turn your dreams into ambition, making your situation a little more enjoyable, profitable, and at the very least, wildly successful. 

Our guest lineup includes some extremely exciting and inspirational personalities, including the founder of Jimmy John’s, the co-founder of RedBox, sports stars & legends, and so many more. 

Launch yourself forward with Ditch Digger CEO 

Shownotes:

5:00 Motivation from when people tell you you can't do something 

9:00 Gary’s Family 

15:30 Why Gary Started DDCEO 

28:30 How did the Rabine Group get started 

36:00 Gary's thoughts on the best way to start a business in 2018 

42:30 "Do's and Don'ts" when working with family 

45:00 The importance of mentors 

55:00 How to stay positive in the face of certain doom 

60:00 Growing to $200 million in revenue from 2004-2013 

1:10:00 How Rabine Group was able to thrive during the 2008 recession 

1:13:30 The importance of NOT being the smartest guy in the room 

1:16:00 How to use differentiation to drive your growth 

1:21:00 The importance of philanthropy 

1:30:00 Why should you listen to DDCEO? 

1:31:00 Quinton's True Takeways

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