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New Year's is here, and with it brings the possibility of change.

As one behavioral scientist put it, first starts are really powerful.

So as you head into 2023, LifeKit is a great resource to help you plan your life and tackle changes, both big and small.

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I was learning much more running a business on the streets versus studying in school, and I remember sitting down with my father, who's a liver transplant surgeon.

Wow.

But I remember having to sit down to him and just say, Dad, got some good news for you.

And I presented it as good news, because to me it was good news, and I thought if I could get him excited, he might agree with me, and I told him I was leaving school.

And he said, you're dropping out of school to become a junk man.

From NPR, it's how I built this.

A show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.

I'm Guy Ross, and on today's show, how an old pickup truck and a simple idea inspired Brian Scudamore to build this.

And Scudamore to build the largest junk hauling service in the world.

By this point, if you've been listening to the show, you know all about the inspiring people who had an idea and then ran with it.

Whether it was Sarah Blakely, with Spanx, or Tony Shea, with Zappos, they had a vision, and they pursued it.

But almost all of them, they had to go through a complicated process to get from idea to implementation.

Which is why today's story is such a contrast, because while junk hauling may not sound sexy, Brian Scudamore's idea was comparatively elegant and simple.

He didn't need a whole lot of money to start, he didn't need any outside investors, and he didn't need to hire anyone, at least at first.

And to be clear, Brian did not dream of a life hauling away other people's trash.

But he did dream of starting a business, even as a kid in Vancouver, Canada.

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