Joining us today is Alan Barker to talk about how sometimes being in the right place at the right time is not the only thing required to start a successful business; vision, commitment, and making the right choices are also a massive part of it. 

Alan is the Founder and Owner of Infinite Discs, one of the top disc golf retailers in the world. He is a loving husband, father of four boys, and a two-year-old princess, and has been a visionary entrepreneur since 2002.

In this episode, we delve into Alan's extraordinary journey as the founder of several successful businesses. We explore Alan's brilliancy in detecting business opportunities, his fearless approach to new business ideas, and how frugality and adequate spending allowed him to create Infinite Discs. 

We also talk about the possibilities COVID opened for Infinite Discs and the importance of creating a business that provides us freedom. In addition, Alan shared his thoughts on how to start being our future selves today. 

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Alan talks about his first steps as a web developer when the internet was crawling (3:52)
• Alan describes how he started his first business selling satellite dishes door to door (5:29)
• Alan talks about his experiences as a realtor and how he exploited the opportunities he saw the internet could provide (8:04)
• Alan explains how he got into the disc golf world and the opportunities he saw in that huge, small market (10:59)
• Alan talks about the challenges and the new opportunities the pandemic brought (15:04)

Resources:

• Infinite Discs website
• Infinite Discs Instagram
• Infinite Discs Twitter
• Infinite Discs Facebook
• Book: Benjamin Hardy - Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation

Connect with Alan:

• LinkedIn

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