40-minute listen
Portsmouth, NH
Hi Everybody, this is Pete Worrell from Bigelow, and I want to welcome you to another episode of the Positive Enterprise Value Podcast. In this podcast I interview high-performing Entrepreneur Owner-Managers who share with us the peak experiences in their lives, some of the struggles and adversity they've faced along the way, and how they overcame those challenges to succeed greatly in their enterprises, families, and communities. On this latest episode, I have the great fun of interviewing my close friend and client Chad, where he generously and graciously shares with us his thoughts about creating a life post transaction.
Chad and his wife Kim are the former owners of Marco Rubber & Plastics, an o-ring and seals provider, which they turned into a high-tech supplier of industrial products. With tremendous access to products that they both had in their inventory and that their suppliers had in their inventory, they turned Marco Rubber into a marketplace platform for the industrial products industries they served (think of the way Kayak is to travel).
You will hear Chad describe himself as neurodiverse. I described him with great love, as I describe both of us as…ADD, dyslexic misfits who would have a hard time working for anybody else. Chad dives into his process of building authenticity and earnestness through the awkwardness of being neurodiverse and coming into the business to help Dad and the family after his mom passed and his father became terminally ill. As many of our client’s journey’s go, after 20 years of hard duty, Marco Rubber became an “overnight success.” Bigelow was able to architect a capital gain transaction with a private equity firm for Marco where Chad and Kim continue to own a percentage of the company and have board seats while the company continues to grow. I think it's true that the company is now about three times the size that it was when they did a transaction about three years ago.
Chad goes on to share learnings and insights in his world “post exit,” and how for him it was really an opportunity for rebirth to articulate the beliefs that he developed over the years of building the business. He'll tell you about how he is gathering all of this knowledge and experience and creating opportunities for other neuroatypicals in his new, not-for-profit, what he calls www.atypicalpath.org (website is still in development) I really hope you enjoy this incredibly dynamic interview with one of the most insightful EOMs you'll ever want to meet.*
Listen below or on Soundcloud here.
You can find the resource guide Chad generously put together called "Atypical Entrepreneurial Life of Chad & Kim - Die with Zero Regrets" here.
*Note: in the interest of full transparency, I am also member of the Board of Directors in Chad’s not-for-profit, www.atypicalpath.org.
What I am Reading / Listening to
Finding Mastery Podcast with Dr. Michael Gervais
Episode 472: Brian Mackenzie on Breathwork for Wellbeing, Longevity, and High Performance
I am an inconsistent listener to Finding Mastery. Gervais is a sports team fan boy which doesn’t resonate with me, but from time to time he delves into domains that while they might arise in sport, also arise in the Entrepreneur Owner-Manager life.
This week’s podcast is with Brian Mackenzie, a human high-performance expert and a real explorer in the world of breathwork and endurance. Brian is a champion when it comes to breathwork—I have had the opportunity to spend a few days with him on two separate occasions learning some of his high-performance breathing techniques. In this podcast we get lucky to have Brian highlight some of his interesting and innovative breathing protocols and… in it, we get to experience some real gems, his views on the brain, the role of PHI or consciousness. I think it’s fair to say that all of us who are high-performing, high-effort EOMs get great benefit from some of Brian’s insights.
Highly recommended if you want a primer on achieving more performance through breathwork.
Entrepreneur Owner-Manager Quote
“In every life there is a moment—an event or a realization—that changes that life irrevocably. If the change is to be a happy one, one must be able to recognize the moment and seize it without delay. Rose Kennedy once told me that good luck is something you make and bad luck is something you endure, a very wise observation indeed. People do make their luck by daring to follow their instincts, taking risks, and embracing every possibility.”
—Estée Lauder on seizing the moments in life that matter the most. Estée Lauder (1908 - 2004) was an American businesswoman and philanthropist who co-founded the Estée Lauder cosmetics company with her husband, Joseph Lauder.
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