Dive into this episode with me and my father, Brett Hurt! As the founder of six companies - his current being Data.World - he has lots of entrepreneurial stories and advice to share! This episode is particularly sweet and special to me and packed with great advice, lessons learned, and stories never before shared by Brett! We jump into his powerful insight on being bullied as a kid (though now he holds forgiveness in his heart), finding his passion for coding and technology - back when it was "weird" to play around with computers rather than sports, for instance, and so much more. I made this episode #7 for my dad's lucky number 7! Brett would program for over 40 hours a week from age 7 into adulthood, showing just a taste of his love and inspiring story starting from a young age. Brett also has a blog called  Lucky7.io where his free book, The Entrepreneur's Essentials, is available for any aspiring business leaders.

 

We talk about: 

• Adaptability
• How Brett's father raised him with "tension" and what that means
• Funny stories about his upbringing
• How his father instilled humility into him from a young age
• How adaptability is one of the most important virtues of today
• Brett's current company Data.World
• His coding passion starting at age 7
• Being bullied and how it drove him to be successful 
• How his mom fostered his love for technology
• Hate he recieved 
• Staying humble as a leader
• The importance of kidness
• How health is the #1 most important thing
• How forgiveness is so important
• His teacher saying to his mom "Your son is going to be a loser in life because all he talks about is the computer", and how he defied those odds
• The gentle legacy of his mother
• So much of his love being learned from his mom
• Him and Debra's love story (my mom)
• Raising children as the most entrepreneurial thing you can do
• Number 1 thing you have to do as a parent is expose your children to different things and let them find their passions
• Levi (my 14-year-old brother) being so similar to Brett
• How Levi thinks like a robot sometimes: "Dad, I loaded the humor module into my system"
• How Brett would DREAM in code as a kid, and would wake up with the answer to hard coding problems
• Brett's gym journey going from 140 to 225 lbs in college
• Starting out with no money
• You never know if you don't try
• Losing both his parents
• It's about the journey
• His biggest pieces of advice for transforming your life and what to do
• The importance of community and taking risks
• Knowledge is power
• Living in the information-age right now
• The prevalence of bad news compared to good news

 

References:

• The Entrepreneur's Essentials by Brett Hurt - book
• Lucky7.io - Brett's blog
• Good to Great by Jim collins - book
• Starting Greatness by Mike Maples Jr - podcast
• Masters of Scale by Reid Hoffman - podcast
• Enlightenment Now Steven Pinker - book
• Abundance by Peter Diamandis