#169 – Brian Feldkamp: Life of an Entrepreneur
Enter the Lionheart
Lawrence Dunning
5 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Lawrence is joined by Brian Feldkamp a lifelong entrepreneur who started his first mail order business in his teens. He moved to LA on to work on his first tech startup and has, since then, launched multiple ventures while living in Chicago, Indiana and now Austin, TX.
Brian is the epitome of living with the ultimate growth mindset. He carefully balances every new venture on a sliding risk/reward scale. He balances all his business ventures with a spartan daily workout while being a doting husband and an involved father to his three young boys.
0.00: Brian on the lifestyle of an entrepreneur and perspectives of stress
7.00: Why fame and money aren’t the key to happiness
8.30: Brian’s background as an entrepreneur
12.30: Moving to CA to follow an entrepreneurial opportunity
20.00: Finding happiness in the struggle
28.00: Healthy skepticism with institutions
36.00: Trump’s Assassination attempt
45.00: Preparing your kids for an uncertain world
52.00: Moving across the country for opportunities
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| 0:00.0 | A single theme is too narrow for great minds and daring hearts. |
| 0:18.0 | Get ready to enter the Lionheart with your host, Lawrence Dunning. |
| 0:22.4 | Ryan, every time I see you, I say, we've got to talk more. But it's just, it's the American dream. |
| 0:28.4 | We're overworked and underpaid. Yeah, like most of us, no, it's great to see you. We do need to talk |
| 0:34.4 | more. We were just saying, we say it every six months, three months, |
| 0:37.6 | say, hey, great talking to you. |
| 0:38.6 | We get to it more often and then we don't. |
| 0:40.4 | And so I guess we were forced to through this podcast. |
| 0:43.6 | So that's fine with me. |
| 0:45.3 | Brother, do you think that's one of the struggles of being an entrepreneur and a family man? |
| 0:48.9 | It's just there never seems to be enough time. |
| 0:50.9 | So I always compare it to my dad. My dad is a retired pilot. So when I was |
| 0:54.7 | growing up, it sucked when he was gone, because I love my dad. I'd miss him. He'd be gone for a few |
| 0:59.1 | days, sometimes five, six days. But then it'd be home for a week and he was undistrapid. |
| 1:04.5 | He, like now when I look at him, when I look back at that time, like, how lucky was he woke up. He'd make the kids' frequency, he'd drop him up to school, he'd relax, maybe he'd do an afternoon workout. It was so nice. I just got back |
| 1:16.1 | for a vacation to Europe. I was at a wedding, and then I saw my family. I was working every day, |
| 1:20.4 | remotely checking in, coordinating, doing things, but you just never get a break in this connected world, I guess. Yeah, there's no break, but you hit on a couple of big things. |
| 1:30.1 | Kelly and I talk about how lucky we are. |
| 1:31.5 | There's very few. |
| 1:32.4 | We're so fortunate in so many ways, but one of the ways is there's very few people who get |
| 1:36.8 | to pick their kids up and drop them off at school almost every single day. |
| 1:40.4 | And we get to do that. |
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