EP 84- Patrick Bryant, Founder of Code and Trust: The Agents of Change
Episode description
Relationships are everything! They are the foundation of everything that makes every single part of your life work fluidly. In order for them to work, you have to know your unique skill sets, what you bring to the table, and why it’s important to remove yourself from certain relationships if they are to grow. It’s magic when you find the right, like-minded people, and a motivated drive to keep you centered, accountable, and successful.
Patrick Bryant, Co-Founder of Code and Trust out of South Carolina, Co-Founder of GoToTeam, and an active serial entrepreneur. His main mission is to help others through collaboration and surrounding yourself with like-minded individuals with the same focus and drive to win.
Today, Jason, Steve, and Patrick dive in and start talking candidly about the beginning of entrepreneurship. Patrick shares the very first business he started with his Dad and how it ended in bankruptcy, divorce, a broken family, and heartbreak. The 3 amigos talk about the power of working as a unit with other entrepreneurs, the cost of money today and how to find sensible investments to place it through inflation. Patrick shares how he’s made a ton of mistakes and made it his mission to make as many as possible while building his businesses. He sheds light on working with his business partners and the importance of picking people you can help as well as them helping you through all phases of the growth process. Patrick shares his main focus beyond his 7 companies and his desire to speak and be out in the world helping other successful and motivated entrepreneurs. Jason talks about growth and why it’s important to find someone who likes to manage people and remove yourself from the equation.
What You’ll Learn:
- Why Patrick believes entrepreneurship is the number one change agent in the world
- A powerful conversation Patrick had with his Dad at 17 that led to them starting a family business and how it led to imploding his family
- The true definition of an entrepreneur
- What Patrick did once he got real money and how he kept himself from being broke and homeless
- How Patrick took failure, embraced it, and made it his main focus for the first few years of his career
- The difference between average people and entrepreneurs
- A little known fact about Bill Gates and his college education
- Steve shares some wisdom as it pertains to planning
- Jason shares how long it took him to get to the place where he didn’t have to sink every dime into his business
- Inflation and how they’re investing cheap money they’ve obtained before the hammer comes
- The start-up aspects of a business and why it excites Patrick
- Code and Trust and what they do to help other people in their businesses
- What the Harbor Entrepreneur Center is and how it has benefited the Charleston, South Carolina community with free space, accounting, law, and free mentorship
- The importance of surrounding yourself with people who have similar core values and the drive to move the needle forward
- Why business partners are so important if you’re going to be successful
- And much more!
Favorite Quote:
“When I came into some real money, I came to a place where I was not going to be homeless again. I’ll never have that feeling, and I’m going to take risks, but I’m just going to take risks with what’s left over. We get paid to fail. It’s odd the check comes on the day we win.”
- Patrick Bryant
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