Office Free Entrepreneurs

Office Free Entrepreneurs

By Brad SpencerBusinessEntrepreneurship
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Office Free Entrepreneurs episodes

  • #014 Liam Martin - Building Your Business For The Long Haul With Remote Work (+190% Growth In One Year)

    Today's episode is a special one for me. I've known Liam for over 10 years now and through tons of pivots in both of our careers, we've stayed friends due to a focus on building for the long haul.


    Liam's a cofounder (and current CMO) for Staff.com. They are one of the largest players in the time tracking space and run one of the largest conferences on remote work called Running Remote. After a crazy year during Covid when they grew just under 200% after capturing a lot of the corporations who moved their workers remote, Liam's company proved that building for the long haul is the only way to capture opportunities that pop up once every decade.

    In this episode, Liam shares a lot of perspective on using content to build for long term growth and how a focus on "lifetime customer value" will change how you make decisions.

    If you're building a software company or a business you plan on selling one day, then this episode will give you a lot of tips to speed up that growth curve and prepare you for the journey ahead.

    41 min
  • #013 - Chris Martinez: Turning a Rough Childhood into a Successful Agency That Thrived During The Pandemic (The Story)

    This episode was a lot of fun. Chris and I met through a couple of mutual friends in 2020 and really hit it off. Despite running a large agency in Tijuana, Mexico that's hiring a LOT of people due to a surge in business last year...Chris took the time to tell me about his story.


    And it's really interesting (to put it mildly). I've had a lot of people share tough stories and how key turning points made a huge difference in their life. Chris is a master storyteller. He had me glued to my seat with how he leveraged soccer to stay out of the wrong crowds and overcome countless setbacks.

    He's failed a lot. Lost loved ones. And through it all...still found a way to build a business that employs lots of workers and supports countless other agencies. As they've gone deeper into the agency world, they've developed systems + consulting to help other agencies increase profits, document SOP's, and make their business fun again.

    If you're looking for someone who created a business despite countless things stacked against him and still found a way to turn those into advantages...then this episode will not only inspire you but help you move things forward in a big way in 2021. 

    1 hr
  • #012 - Josh Rosenberg - Building Empires in Untapped Markets, and Cracking the Corporate Client Code

    Today's episode is a treat. Josh Rosenberg is a direct response copywriter who works differently than most. He's got more skills that most but the biggest one I've always picked up on is he sees "leverage" in places that few others can.


    After starting out hustling and overcoming poverty as a kid, Josh has seen and created opportunities for himself that only a tough upbringing will help you to see. This is a common experience talking with folks but Josh is on a whole other level.

    I really enjoyed this conversation. The biggest takeaway for me was seeing how this brilliant fella turned those skills into opportunities that anyone could go after and yet don't. And often times, as he'll show you...the bigger opportunities are easier to get once you know how to play the game. And he'll lay that all out for you to get bigger deals than you ever thought you could. 

    54 min
  • #011 John Hutchison - The Story of An IT Career, Moving Across The Globe, and Coming Back From Near Failure

    In today's episode, I interview John Hutchison. John and I have been friends for 6 or 7 years. When I met John, he was successful in the ecommerce world. As I soon learned after spending time with him over a nice meal, there's a lot more to this story.


    John is a prime example of a self-made entrepreneur. Despite mistakes, setbacks, and changes in the business world, he's always figured out a way to keep getting better and growing as an advertiser, copywriter, and business owner.

    In this episode, he lays out the full story. This is a globetrotting story with many ups and just as many downs, but what you'll see is someone who's built a core set of skills that have always come through to build back better, stronger, and more profitably each and every time.

    You'll love this episode. If you're someone who hasn't quite charted the "typical" journey, you'll appreciate John's inspiring story. 

    57 min
  • #010 Matt Schmitt - Lessons From Graduating During A Recession To Exiting An Ecommerce Company

    In this week's episode, I interview Matt Schmitt. We've known each other and run in the same social circles for a number of years. What's interesting is we both graduated right at the bottom of the recession that came in 2008-9 period. Neither of us got gigs in our degree field.


    Eventually though, Matt was able to get a job working at Anheuser Busch (AB). He relayed the story how he worked there while building up things, testing new ideas, trying out various ecommerce ventures.

    Eventually, he left AB to pursue his ecommerce ventures with full force. With the confidence that comes from his wife believing in him and helping him grow, Matt built up a large company and shares that story. This wasn't just a small little ecommerce store either. He sold it for a large sum to another business owner. Needless to say, that experience and the lessons learned had me captivated.

    This is one of our longest episode and funny enough we spoke just as long prior to the call. This episode was a gamechanger for me with just some of the wisdom that Matt shares.

    You'll love it too!

    1 hr 12 min
  • #009 Jon Schumacher - The Power Of Progress, Pivoting, and Consistently Getting Better As An Information Marketer

    In this week's episode, I interview Jon Schumacher. Jon's a really neat marketer I met a few years ago and we hit it off pretty quickly. While he's known for building high quality sales webinars for corporations to close more deals and executives wanting to build a personal brand, Jon shared a side of his story that I hadn't heard before.


    He's done it all. After being a successful physical therapist with excellent grades after a "so-so" grade average as an undergrad, Jon built up a practice and was quite successful. But as you'll see throughout Jon's journey, things move in waves. After realizing he didn't want to be stuck in that environment, he set out on his own building information products.

    After a number of trials and tough experiences, including partnerships that didn't work out, growing bored with models as technology changed, and just realizing more about himself, Jon's built up an extremely successful business.

    The power of this episode for me was really seeing that even though people today can be successful, you never know their journey. Wherever you are today doesn't matter. As long as you're willing to put in the work, focus, experiment, and double down on what's working, you can do anything.

    Jon's story illustrates this perfectly!

    53 min
  • #008 - Ely Delaney - How to Automate, Delegate, and Delete To Have More Fun In Your Business

    Episode #008 - Ely and I became friends relatively recently. One of the things that pulled us together as fast friends was our mutual love of connecting with people. One of the big reasons Ely is able to do that is because he automates + delegates so many of the "$10 tasks" in his business.


    Doing this frees up time to connect with more people. He hosts a weekly mastermind called (appropriately) #MeetCoolPeople where I've personally made quite a few new friends as well.

    In this episode, Ely will share his journey and how he escaped his old "office" environment by sending one of his star employees "out to get a coffee." When that employee came back...things had changed.  You'll hear the story and how this led to a life full of more fun, free time, and having stuff sell for you each and every day.

    50 min
  • #007 Jordan Hall - Hooks, Offers, and Focus from An 8 Figure Publisher

    In our latest episode (#007 but who's counting?), I speak with Jordan Hall. Growing up as a creative and energetic youth, early on he noticed how offers, hooks, and keeping people curious could play a big roll. After getting into some trouble in his teenage years, he realized how he could use these skills to create new businesses and spot opportunities no one else could see. Fast forward past a few successes, he discovered how focusing that skillset onto a large market with lots of customers was the ticket for building a long term business.


    A decade later, and many millions of dollars in sales, Jordan publishes other experts and creators who want to take their business to the next level. In this episode, we share stories on how to find hooks and offers in whatever it is that you're doing and the power of focus...and why it's a lot easier than you might think to dial in on what matters.

    Jordan's a long time friend and he shared information even I didn't know about his past and how it shaped his journey into being the highly-succesful publisher he is today!

    1 hr 2 min
  • #006 Richard Matthews - Escaping the 9-5 By Building A Business While Traveling America in an RV

    In Episode 6, Richard Matthews shares his story from growing up with a childhood full of adventures with his mom and dad. Early on, he realized he wanted to build a life that was free of the typical constraints when his dad worked heavily. Richard's goal? "To make sure I was there for my kids as much as possible."  


    In this episode, you'll hear his story of building multiple businesses, failing a few times, and even taking a couple years off building up a large corporations marketing strategy while figuring out finally how to build a business that was extremely profitable, automated, and allowed him and his family to live the life they wanted...all from his "Mobile Command Center" (aka...an RV)!

    58 min
  • #005 Charles Livingston - from Chiro To Coffee (Founder, Lifeboost Coffee)

    In our 5th episode, Dr. Charles Livingston shares his story growing up in small town Indiana and how that first led him to a career as a Chiropractic Physician. After seeing one of his lifelong friends create a business online, Charles started out working for him doing customer support while still working as a Chiropractor. After years of building successful information marketing and software businesses, Charles went all in on Lifeboost Coffee after a "random reachout" led to a great opportunity to carve out a lucrative segment in the coffee market. After a few years of high speed growth that Charles will talk about...you'll walk away with a great understanding of going from the "office" to working from anywhere. 

    56 min

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