Some of the hardest working people can be found on the farms of America producing the very food that makes it to the grocery shelves. It’s a tireless, 7-day a week job requiring hard,thankless work sunup to sun down.  Jason Graybeal is founder of the Graybeal Group, providing insurance services for home, auto, agriculture, and beyond.  He’s a serial entrepreneur, Host of the “No Bull Business and Brews” podcast and a brand new author as of the airing of this episode. He’s active in many circles and leads his multiple companies with a farm hand’s work ethic.   Today, Jeff and Jason take a dive into Jason’s childhood as he shares spending time with his grandpas and the lessons they taught him about hard work, doing good business, and life.  They also discuss why they enjoy catering to farmers, their work ethic, and what makes them the hardest working people on this planet.  Jason talks about some of the choices he had to make just to keep his business afloat over the last 20 years and his drive to share those lessons with fellow entrepreneurs in the hope of saving them 7 or 8 years of trouble, time, and money spent.  Jeff talks about Jason’s new book dropping today titled, “See and Seize: Lessons from Merging and Acquiring Agencies and Assets.” Be sure to pick up a few copies for you and your friends on Amazon! 

 

What You'll Learn:

 

• What Jason’s grandfathers did for a living 
• The true work ethic of farmers and what it takes to successfully run a farm
• Jason’s inspiration behind his first book titled: “See and Seize: Lessons from Merging and Acquiring Agencies and Assets.” 
• Why it’s important to be fearless as an entrepreneur
• The biggest humiliation Jason endured over the last 20 years of his entrepreneurial journey 
• What it means to manage a team of 30 in the insurance industry 
• Jason’s entry into the insurance field and the very first agency he worked at 
• Who Dick Ferrante’ is and why he’s important to Jason
• Jeff and Jason talk about why it’s important to listen to learn versus listening to reply 
• The one thing Jason does when he goes to large networking events
• Jason’s favorite beer
• Two books that have had the most effect on Jason, one that he reads repeatedly and a book that has launched them both into great success in insurance
• Why being willing to start from zero has had a huge impact in Jason’s ability to acquire insurance agencies 
• And much more! 

 

FAVORITE QUOTE:

“Small town America, Farming, Agriculture; those are the people that work harder than anybody in any industry can ever realize. They just don’t get it. You think you work hard? They work sunup to sun down everyday throughout the entire year. There’s always something to do.”

• Jason Graybeal 

 

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Get Jason's Book: "See and Seize: Lesson from Merging Agencies and Acquiring Assets"

 

How to Get Involved:

Addicted to Winning connects listeners through stories that prove why mindset matters. Jeff Brekken was working a 60-hour week on his family’s farm by the time he was 10. When he wasn’t helping with the harvest, he was at the hockey rink. Jeff’s early life experiences taught him he needs to be either all-in or all-out. 

In 2000 he started a single-family home construction business and by 2008 he was looking for his next big thing. Jeff founded the Blue Sky Benefit Solutions & Rise Above HR/Recruiting on top of a lifelong passion for helping people. Through this show, Jeff will take that passion one step further.

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