There are are moments in life where it seems like you’re standing on the edge of a cliff screaming into a canyon below. The only problem is, no one can hear you. So you step away from the cliff and carry on back into your normal life still carrying that raging hunger for freedom….the desire to be liberated from working for anyone other than yourself. What you don’t realize is in order to truly have freedom, you have to go through a whole different level of work, and all of it eventually, is worth it.  

Jessica Dennehy is the Founder and CEO of Pivot and Slay and serial entrepreneur. She’s an a best-selling author, speaker, coach, and host of the Day Slayer podcast.  She’s blue-check verified on multiple social media platforms and has been featured in publications multiple times like Forbes, Entrepreneur, and Inc magazines.  Jessica has built a monster platform that has allowed her the opportunity to show others there is another way through this life where the sacrifices you make will reap rewards beyond your wildest dreams, as long as you’re willing to do the work. 

Today, Patrick and Jessica break the episode open sharing a moment of gratitude and admiration for one another’s journeys through the various stages of life and business.  Jessica shares the inspiration that took her from Wall Street to entrepreneurship.  They discuss family, being parents, and the stresses of juggling home life, spousal commitments and staying on budget in the business. If you’re working in a dead-end, suffocating, comfortable corporate job and need a change, listen closely to what it’s going to take to make your breakthrough and breakout into a different life. 

 

What You’ll Learn: 

• How much Jessica was asked to pay in order to get verified on social media and why she said “No”

• What is required for your to boost your SEO on Google organically without paying a dime

• How much time you have to invest to get to a place where you become verified

• The number of times a day you have to post every single day and what social media channels to post on

• Why Jessica decided to leave Wall Street as a high-level attorney

• The simple mentality that allowed her to create one of the most successful barbershops in New York while never having been a barber 

• Why Jessica quit being an attorney 

• How far along she was in her pregnancy when they opened the doors to her first business

• The best way to co-manage a business with a former spouse 

• The importance of setting a great example as a mother 

• How Jessica removed herself from the day-to-day operations of the barbershops

• What it means to Pivot and Slay and why she created this growing movement

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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. 

Connect with Patrick on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Instagram.

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