In today's episode we talk about:

• Freshly baked bread… with a slab of butter… while really high… is the greatest thing ever - and essentially why Beacon Doughnuts exists.
• How college is NOT the only option and path to success. (We have a combined debt well over $100k and neither of us needed any of it to get to what we’re doing today.)
• Why you shouldn’t go to culinary school for career reasons.
• Why “don’t worry about it” (a line fed to high school students and their parents thinking about taking out student loans) should be considered a crime.
• What it’s like learning on the job, in the real world, compared to what you learn in the classroom + learning the value of hard work through experience and having no other option.
• Saying fuck the food industry! ...only to have me proposition him with starting a donut shop a year after leaving that world.
• Scrapping together operation “Back Alley” donuts (starting a biz from the ground up is wayyy less glamorous than it seems.)
• The importance of not being afraid to figure things out and being resourceful when starting a business. Oh, and BE PATIENT - worthwhile shit takes time to come to fruition.

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Guest info:

IG: @beacondoughnuts

www.beacondoughnuts.com

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Why the World Needs You Facebook group

Ben’s Instagram

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Intro/outro music:

Jeff II - Wait For Me

https://youtu.be/YuBBSQI2XDQ

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