Dugan & Dame

Vaughan & Angela chat with EDBL and PAPAs legends Troy and Chelsea Ganter about the importance of systems in growing a brand and path of overcoming addiction. 

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• The history of Papa's Raw Bar - a local staple in the community.
• Building a generational family business.
• The struggle of finding yourself when it feels like everything is falling apart.
• Dealing with addiction and manipulating your story.
• Beautifully Bitter - the meaning that affects us all. 
• "Ya Mon" - and the good vibes feeling
• "I am Breathing" and how thats enough to get us through the struggles.
• Knowing your story and its impact on everyone around you.
• Becoming a coach for your staff.
• Systems, systems, systems...
• PIP - Performance Improvement Plans
• EDBL - Eat. Drink. Be Local. 
• The struggles of building a community in South Florida. 
• Learning from your failures.
• Laving a legacy of how you treat people.

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Mentions:

Papas Raw Bar - https://papasrawbar.com/about-papas-raw-bar/

Papamigos - https://papamigos.com

Vaughan & Angela chat about finding mentors and the unseen challenges that can be sidestepped when you have people on your team who have paved the path before you. 

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• Asking for help when you need it.
• Creating partnerships within your business - vendors, relationships. and more.
• The importance of open communication with your vendors.
• Leaning on your suppliers for their expertise and guidance. 
• Learning the importance of trusting yourself and you own expertise.
• The value of your YES.
• The importance of mentors.
• Staying near the train track even if things hear off for a while.

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Mentions:

Daniel Singer and FILTHY FOODS - https://filthyfood.com

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• Learn about the guy who makes Dugan & Dame pretty and our brand come to life.
• How a brand is more than a logo - it's the sum of its parts.
• The importance of someone who understands branding to be on your team, especially with start-ups.
• Process of starting a creative brief.
• Why failure is high with those who think they can do it all themselves and running the risk of imposter syndrome.
• Are online services worth it?
• Discussing budgets up front and discovering the value of your brand.
• Importance of brand consistency and how you make the consumer feel.
• 3 second rule.
• Open constructive communication and how it can keep you afloat.

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• Utilizing your business to design your life while being comfortable with where you are.
• The basis of FROPRO - a delicious healthy snack bar, but even more so -> a community that supports each other and are dedicated to bettering themselves and those in recovery from addiction.
• Testing the market, overcoming fears, and learning by doing.
• Matt shares his story of recovery and what it's like to put it all out there and the one brave fearless moment that helped FROPRO find a purpose and establish momentum.
• 'Be a lighthouse, not a fog horn.' The balance of being supportive to those in recovery, not pushing the story on them. 
• Tough, drastic changes that shift life and moving forward with no regrets. 
• How businesses can start and stop several times before they finally come to life. 
• The concerns of continuing the story and mission through organic growth, transcending distance and becoming part of the brand. 
• How shared company tried to steal their product (more than once).
• Growth costs!
• Being grateful in the moment but always looking forward and asking, 'what's next?'
• How to balance your own needs with your partners - love is what makes the business stabilize.
• Working in versus working on the business and being able to delegate.
• Finding time to check in with your partner, even when life moves so fast. 
• What it takes to grow fast and not give up in what you believe and knowing when its time to step out of the way. 
• To co-pack or not.
• Communication & Love - finding your why!
• The announcement of their new flavor of FROPRO!

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Mentions:

Matt & Chelsea Williams from FROPRO - https://www.gofropro.com

Uncle Matts Orange Juice - http://www.unclematts.com

Listen out for:
 

• The importance of quality as a foundation for business.
• Business school isn’t the only path for venturing into business – following what feels right. 
• The value of mentors – ones you’ve met and the ones you haven’t.
• Balancing business decision making with your partner.
• Making the tough decision to start or expand a business with a family in tow.
• How ‘life balance’ doesn’t look the same for everyone.
• Angel investors and what they are truly investing in.
• The cultural stress of early success may not be all its cracked up to be.
• Utilizing kickstarter to start a business.
• ‘There’s no bad business with good people.’
• The soul of a business is within the people who own it.
• The importance of being a good parent through it all – that’s what the kids will remember.
• Taking it a day at a time when the burden almost feels like it’s too much.
• Identifying when something is missing and the power of therapy!
• Never settling; always be ‘tinkering with the toy.’
• Continuing to grow a vision; even if the timing is not correct.
• The importance of self-development and retrospection.
• SBA loans to grow business.
• Living in the season of your life.

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Mentions:

Brandon & Nicole Wells from Wells Coffee - https://wellscoffees.com

Danos Tequila - https://www.danostequila.com

Petes Coffee - https://peets.com

Stumptown Coffee Roasters - https://www.stumptowncoffee.com

Boot Coffee - https://bootcoffee.com

Q Grader Certification - https://www.coffeeinstitute.org

Enneogram - https://www.enneagraminstitute.com

Book: Late Bloomers - https://www.latebloomer.com

• New D&D products being launched.
• The motivation and vision that is driving Dugan and Dame. 
• How Vaughan and Angela find mentors and support through outside resources.
• Social responsibility in business and disrupting the business "norm."
• Building, forecasting and creating the culture for a new business.
• Merging family and business.
• Teachable moments and learning and growing from our mistakes. 
• Setting yourself up with big dreams and visions from the onset of a new business and the big visions that Dugan and Dame has. 
• How perspective can change the momentum of business.
• Defining husband and wife roles within a business and recognizing each others strengths. 
• The importance of being ready.

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Steve Nudelberg -  – https://nudelberg.com/podcast/

Mindvalley podcast with Vishen Lakhiani and Marc Randolph  – https://podcast.mindvalley.com/netflix-cofounder-on-how-to-turn-dreams-into-reality-marc-randolph/

Danos Tequila - https://www.danostequila.com

Brandon & Nicole Wells from Wells Coffee - https://wellscoffees.com

Matt & Chelsea Williams from FroPro - https://www.gofropro.com

Vaughan & Angela dive into their first-hand experience having multiple businesses affected by COVID. From having the cops show up to enforce the restaurants being shutdown to losing every customer in their tonic & bitters company, Dugan & Dame. 

00:00: COVID convo and how we each get our "news"

10:00: The (bad) luck of the Irish and being shutdown on St. Patrick's Day at our restaurants, how we adapted, and what lies ahead.

14:25: Transitioning into serving the community and how some other businesses adapted quickly. "Finding Purpose".

25:00: Time to reopen, one phase at a time.

34:00: time to rally the troops. Communicating with your team and your guests.

38:00: Getting your talent back to work and learning how to be a better manager during a time of crisis. 

45:00: Red onions on pizza and not letting someone move your cheese.