Join POWERHOME SOLAR CEO Jayson Waller for an entrepreneurship Q+A alongside fellow multi-figure leaders. Jayson built 3 companies from scratch into multimillion-dollar enterprises, always looking forward, evolving himself & his businesses while sharing his path to success & entrepreneurial insights.

**Meet the Panel**

Stephen Scoggins

• From homeless to heartfelt industry leader, Stephen Scoggins is a best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur of multiple businesses with multi-8-figure revenues, a motivational speaker who has spoken to audiences of thousands, and the creator of the proprietary Life-Mastery Framework affectionately named “Transform U”.
• As a well-respected and nationally sought-after business and life-mastery thought leader, he challenges and motivates people to break through the obstacles that stop them in their life to guide them to be who they were born to be.
• As a part of that endeavor, Stephen has taken over three decades of setbacks, failures, breakdowns, losses, successes, and comebacks and transparently uses them to provide simple-yet-effective step-by-step lessons to help anyone reclaim their hope and go from stuck to unstoppable.

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Today on the show Jayson is talking with John LeBlanc about listening to the voice inside your head and making yourself uncomfortable at times to help build yourself up, and move forward in life. You might end up failing in some endeavors, but you would be failing forward!

John wasn’t 100% positive about joining the Powerhome team, but the voice inside his head kept getting louder and louder, to the point where he couldn’t ignore anymore. He decided to go with his gut and take a chance, leaving behind everything he had built before this opportunity, and he took it. Now he’s moving up the company ladder and feeling more fulfilled then ever.

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Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.trueunderdog.com

Timestamps:

6:43 – Betting on Yourself and Failing Forward

10:08 – John Applying to Powerhome Solar

16:27 – Listening to the Voice Inside Your Head

19:45 – The Feeling of “Going For It”

24:46 – Making Decisions Quickly to Avoid Doubt

27:14 – Getting Stronger Through Accomplishing Challenges

31:45 – You Can’t Teach Passion

35:53 – Follow Your Gut and Call Out the Gate Keepers

40:14 – Look for Acceptance Within Yourself

Today on the show Jayson is talking with entrepreneur, mentor, podcaster, and philanthropist, Glenn Stearns. Glenn is the founder of Stearns Lending, now founder and CEO at Kind Lending, star of the Discovery channels Undercover Billionaire, and founder of Underdog BBQ in Erie, Pennsylvania.

From underdog in life to starring in Discovery Channel’s Undercover Billionaire. Glenn’s story is about adversity, attitude, and action from humble beginnings and the bumps along the way to achieving his wildest dreams. Glenn opens up to share his life, personally and professionally, to inspire others and to leave a legacy built on kindness.

Many have compared his journey to the fictional character Forrest Gump. Glenn’s adventures range from being in the courtroom the day of the OJ Simpson murder case closing arguments (“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”); traveling with astronauts and Vice Presidents; competing and winning the reality TV show “Gilligan’s Island”; to owning a Montana ranch with John Elway and a private Caribbean island with Sir Richard Branson.

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Follow True Underdog on IG: www.instagram.com/true_underdog

Reach out to Jayson directly at jayson@trueunderdog.com

Follow Jayson on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-waller-/

Follow Jayson on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaysonwallerbam

Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.trueunderdog.com

Mentioned in the Episode:

Glenn’s Company: https://kindlending.com/

Glenn’s Website: https://www.glennstearns.com/

Glenn’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glennstearns/

Glenn’s Twitter: https://twitter.com/GlennStearns

Glenn’s YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC-3gGP3f-8D93UimKiaBoQ

Glenn’s Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlennBStearns

Glenn’s Podcast: https://www.glennstearns.com/grithappens

Timestamps:

1:35 – Early Days for Glenn Stearns

3:58 – Glenn’s Early Vision For Himself

6:17 – Glenn’s Parents Growing Up

10:46 – Dealing with Success and Family Members

12:42 – Putting Your People First

17:42 – Undercover Billionaire

22:33 – Being Ok with the Pressure

25:32 – Thinking of Cancer Like a Business

27:17 – Glenn’s Podcast, “Grit Happens”

29:24 – What Does “Don’t Be Held Hostage” Mean to Glenn?

32:11 – Finding Glenn Online

On today’s episode, Jeff welcomes Jayson Waller, founder and CEO of , America’s number one solar company. Waller is also the host of “,” a top five entrepreneurship podcast on Apple.

Waller shares his background and startup story, then delves in to the key moves he made to become one of the fastest-growing solar companies in America.

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Follow Jayson on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-waller-/

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Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.trueunderdog.com

Mentioned in the Episode:

Key Moves Podcast: https://startupnation.com/podcast-radio/key-moves/

Jeff Sloan’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffsloandetroit/

Startup Nation’s Website: https://startupnation.com/

Today on the show Jayson is talking with Ajay Prakash and James Joun, co-founders of Rinse, a laundry and dry-cleaning app started in 2013. Ajay was COO and CFO of Humble Brands, a consumer product startup. He also had experience at Bonobos, Berkshire Partners, the NBA and Bain & Company. James was a health care investor at Essex Woodlands, a product manager at Genentech, and a consultant with Monitor Group.

The company, founded by Ajay Prakash and James Joun, is headquartered in San Francisco. Rinse is a portfolio company of Green D Ventures and Yard Ventures. Rinse started serving customers in 2013, but it was actually 30 years ago when the story really started. Joun’s parents have owned a dry cleaning storefront for more than three decades, and for years he’d been wondering how to increase sales in a particularly static industry. Ajay Prakash, befriended Joun at Dartmouth university. James Joun has degrees from Dartmouth and Harvard Business School. Joun was schooled in operations, such as running contraptions like the topper, which presses pant tops, and in the finer points of separating dirt and stains from all manner of fabrics. Joun now competes against the people who brought him into the business who also happen to be his parents.

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Reach out to Jayson directly at jayson@trueunderdog.com

Follow Jayson on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-waller-/

Follow Jayson on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaysonwallerbam

Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.trueunderdog.com

Mentioned in the Episode:

Rinse’s Website – https://www.rinse.com/

Rinse’s Twitter – https://twitter.com/Rinse

James’s LinkedIn –

Ajay’s LinkedIn –

Ajay’s Twitter –

Timestamps:

1:38 – James’s Childhood Experience

3:31 – How James and Ajay Met

6:13 – James and Ajay’s Relationship as Business Partners

7:10 – Bootstrapping the Business From the Start

9:25 – How Rinse Differentiates Itself From Others in the Market

13:46 – 2 Minute Pitch for Rinse

16:33 – Hardest Thing That James and Ajay Have Had to Overcome While Running Rinse

21:11 – Growth Strategy for Rinse Moving Forward

23:08 – ‘Covid Proofing’ Your Company in the Future

26:22 – Cow vs Buffalo

28:17 – What Ajay and James Are Most Proud Of

Today on the show Jayson talks about how you need to try and improve yourself by as small as 1% every single day, it’s like grass growing, you don’t notice it growing, but a week from now it needs to be cut! Improving yourself by 1% every day, that means you’ll have improved 365% in a year!!

Challenge yourself to things with which you’re uncomfortable, that’s the only real way to make improvements. If it was easy then everyone would be successful and the best versions of themselves, but it’s not. Try and set yourself a schedule for things you know you need to improve, that will help keep you accountable, and keep you on track to prove to yourself that you can do it.

Show yourself and show the haters in your life that you can do the hard stuff, that you can improve Every. Single. Day.

Links:

Follow True Underdog on IG: www.instagram.com/true_underdog

Reach out to Jayson directly at jayson@trueunderdog.com

Follow Jayson on Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jayson-waller-/

Follow Jayson on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaysonwallerbam

Check out our website to meet the team, view show notes and transcripts: www.trueunderdog.com

Timestamps:

1:23 – Giving 1% More Everyday

3:44 – Life is a Competition

4:48 – Two Small Goals Everyday

8:28 – Challenging Yourself Where You’re Not Comfortable

10:09 – Set Yourself a Schedule

12:02 – Show the Haters What You Can Accomplish