Our lives are like movies. Sometimes they get started right in the middle and we have to build around them.  It’s as if we get dropped into the very families, or socioeconomic situations that challenge us to make a decision……..to quit or grow.  Abandonment, poverty, depression, and many other challenges can take us off our paths, but eventually, we get back on track through the people that come into our lives, experiences we have, and opportunities that change the trajectory of our journeys. 

Doug Mitchell, CEO of Argenta Solar and Argenta Field Solutions made a climb from employee to ownership in less time than most entrepreneurs and took a company with just 2 employees and scaled it to well over 110 reps and over $5 million in a short period of time. 

Today, Patrick and Doug have a very heartfelt, honest, and candid conversation about life.  Doug jumps in sharing how he was abandoned by his Mother and Father who sent him to live with his aunt as a child.  Doug’s aunt would teach him how to cook, clean, and take full responsibility for his life.  He goes on to share his journey after high school working over 12 different jobs where he was fired at each one of them for various reasons until he came upon one where he told the owner he would eventually fire him or sell his business to him. Doug takes us on a journey that took him to marriage, children, infidelity, and ultimately forgiveness, reconciliation, and a rise from the ashes of life’s disappointments.  This episode is raw and real. If your’e looking to lean in on a discussion devoid of artifice, this is the one. 

 

What You’ll Learn: 

• How many times Doug actually saw his birth father in his life
• The nature of his relationship with his Mother to this day
• Impactful lessons his Aunt taught him growing up
• How Doug dealt with abandonment growing up
• Why Doug was given a second chance in his family life and the revelation of the most important thing he hadn’t learned until well after he became a father
• The creative, yet costly financing tactics Patrick used to bankroll Trailer King Builders to the successful organization it is now
• Why Doug credits Apex for helping him tremendously in his life
• Where Doug’s focuses lie now that he’s scaled his company to a comfortable place and why it’s never going to be enough

 

Favorite Quote: 

“I went through the divorce and everything and I focused on my kids.  All of a sudden, I became 10X a better father because I was like, I can’t be my dad. I can’t be my mom.  I gotta create this family life for my kids. I gotta be the one guy that got divorced, co-parent, and raise my kids in a healthy relationship with both of us where neither one of us was using the kids against each other. I really focused on that.  I took a lot of shots to the chin, and overcame pridefulness, selfishness, and the kind of things that got me into that situation in the first place. And I just started to focus on the kids and the family. That was the beginning of establishing my core values.”

• Doug Mitchell

 

Connect with Doug: 

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How to Get Involved:

Patrick Bolanos is a serial entrepreneur, business owner, and CEO of Trailer King Builders in Houston, Texas.

He was raised in Nicaragua, exposed to extreme poverty, and also had the fortune of being exposed to life in the United States traveling back and forth to both countries. 

After college, Patrick’s career took him into the corporate world of banking where he learned the important lessons of understanding what you’re selling and why it’s important to believe in it. 

Back in December of 2017, Patrick was fired from his job as a CFO for a Restaurant Group.  With only $500 to his name, rent due, his wife, 3 children at home, and one on the way, he was forced to figure out how to pull his family out of this financial abyss that was strangling his life. 

With no knowledge of how to build a trailer, Patrick simply figured all of it out and has now built it into the thriving empire of what’s now become Trailer King Builders.

This show highlights the failures, successes, lessons, and insights from Patrick and his guests. Bring your notepads and pens. You’re in for a real-life education. 

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