No Broke Months For Salespeople - The Blueprint for Scaling Powerful Brands: Venture Capital, Grit, and Game-Changing Growth with Chris Van Dusen

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

In This Episode Guest:Chris Van DusenMarketing & Sales | Private Equity | Corporate StrategyChris Van Dusen is a marketing and growth professional with extensive early-stage and capitalization experie...nce. He is the founder of Parcon Media (now Parcon LLC), former Chief Growth Officer of Balanced Health Botanicals, and a key growth partner behind Surf City Still Works.About Chris Van DusenChris launched Parcon Media and scaled it to $1.5M in top-line revenue in under two years before merging into what is now Parcon LLC. The agency worked with brands including Travis Mathew, Experian, University of California Irvine, University of California Office of the President, and Maglite.As Chief Growth Officer of Balanced Health Botanicals (BHB) in Denver, CO, Chris allocated and deployed a ~$20 million marketing budget to democratize CBD and scale BHB into the largest supplier of hemp-derived CBD globally. His strategy fueled massive DTC and brick-and-mortar growth through 2019 and navigated the shifting COVID-19 landscape in 2020—culminating in a $75M sale to Village Farms (NASDAQ: VFF) in August 2021.Simultaneously, Chris helped scale Surf City Still Works in Orange County, CA. He expanded marketing, retained Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (the largest spirits distributor in the U.S.), raised $3.7M in capital, and moved operations into a 25,000 sq ft manufacturing facility—the first of its kind in Orange County. He also built a world-class advisory board including Bob McKnight (Founder of Quiksilver) and Travis Brasher (Founder of Travis Mathew), leading to a merger with Kimo Sabe, a Los Angeles-based mezcal company.Chris holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the College of William and Mary. He has served on boards including the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) and the Irvine Public Schools Foundation (IPSF). He is a member of Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO), Young Executive Council (YEC), a National Board member of Alder, and has previously been a member of PTTOW!. Chris frequently speaks on marketing, growth, product-market fit, and brand building.What you’ll learn in this episode:● Why truly understanding your customer is the foundation of scalable growth● How conversion rate optimization can 5X your ROI without increasing ad spend● The difference between lifestyle businesses and venture-scale companies● What venture capital investors actually look for before writing a check● Why focus beats chasing every opportunity● How discipline, grit, and “doing hard things” build elite entrepreneurs● The balance between confidence and coachability in leadershipConnect with Chris Van DusenInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/chrismvandusen/?hl=enTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@chrisvandusenYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@officialcvdFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/christophervandusenLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chrismvandusen/ To find out more about Dan Rochon and the CPI Community, you can check these links:Website: No Broke MonthsPodcast: No Broke Months for Salespeople PodcastInstagram: @donrochonxFacebook: Dan RochonLinkedIn: Dan RochonTeach to Sell Preorder: Teach to Sell: Why Top Performers Never Sell – And What They Do Instead

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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to No Broke Months for Salespeople Podcast. In this episode of the No Broke Months for Salespeople podcast, Dan Rochon sits down with Chris Van Dusen to break down what it really takes to build, scale, and exit powerful brands. From growing one of the largest CBD companies in the country to selling multiple ventures, Chris shares the strategic levers behind sustainable growth, the art and science of venture capital investing. and why doing hard things daily builds unstoppable entrepreneurs. I am joined. Well, first, I should tell you who I am. My name is Dan Roshan, and today I'm joined with Chris Van Dues. Chris Van Duzan, and Chris and I are going to talk about how Chris Van Dusen builds and scales, powerful brands.
Starting point is 00:00:53 So we're going to talk about game-changing growth today. And a little bit about Chris, he's a powerhouse in venture capital and private equity. and he's currently serving as a senior partner for Seleco Capital and specializes in fueling the growth of late-stage startups and scaling businesses with a bold brand-focused approach that drives measurable success. In other words, this guy, he gets shit done. Chris, welcome. How are you?
Starting point is 00:01:20 Dan, thank you so much for having me, man. This is great. Excited to be here, big fan. It's my pleasure. So, Chris, so tell us a little bit. So today we're going to talk about game-changing growth. and we're going to talk about, you know, how, you know, to build and scale powerful brands. But before we do that, I know you've got a history of, you know, bringing multiple brands to
Starting point is 00:01:40 market, selling them and, you know, scaling them, building them and selling them. So tell us a little bit about that. Like, how did you get involved in this and what were your first couple ventures? Yeah, absolutely. So it's funny. I moved to California back at the end of 09. The company came out for, unfortunately. restructured, which means I'm this like forced or accidental entrepreneur.
Starting point is 00:02:05 But as an economics major, I love this interplay between, between sales, marketing, business development, and also the big dreaded finance, meaning the numbers side of the world, right? And so I started an agency in 2015 and with some partners, we grew that to be a pretty good agency, really focused around conversion rate optimization, high intent media buying, right? Everyone at the time was just buying media, but I used the fishing analogy, right? You'd catch the fish, you'd put in a net, it'd fall right through. And so we worked really hard to make that net as strong as it could because you could double a
Starting point is 00:02:38 conversion rate, add 50% to a conversion rate without the added cost of just spending more $10, right? Yeah. And so during that time, I met some gentlemen who wanted to start a CBD company. And so I joined kind of as number six, if you will, and we ended up growing what ended up being the second largest CBD brand, sold it in 2021. The funny part was, as I mentioned, I had agency that was doing conversion optimization was doing media buying that's what I knew how to do so a lot of our focus was direct to consumer right selling products online and in that CBD space in that CBD world it was something that no one was really doing exceptionally at the time and we had a great spot to jump in and I think that's a really important piece is finding out what possibly others
Starting point is 00:03:22 aren't doing exceptionally and being able to do that because you can't be great at everything you can be really excellent at a few things and doing that well is an amazing way to really focus on scale but we sold that CBD brand I had the the fortune to found a liquor distillery in Huntington Beach with my wife and another couple we sold that in 21 and then sort of beauty care brand naturally uh in 2019 so uh you know for anyway so we got CBD we got liquor and beauty right like you sound like uh you're just um perfect for a party you know it's like exactly uh And then yeah, I had the opportunity to do a few funds in the cannabis space as well around, but I call picks and shovels. But really, I love finding companies that have a really unique, kind of a UVP, unique value proposition, can see some kind of market sediment, can see that product market fit start.
Starting point is 00:04:16 And then being able to either now put capital or before put resources strategy against really helping them understand why and how they'll grow the best, most sustainable way possible. So, Chris, so you mentioned about, you know, basically lead generation and then lead conversion. And how if when you're able to increase your lead conversion, then that reduces your lead generation cost. And that's something that I think a lot of salespeople, entrepreneurs, you know, I think a lot of us focus on, you know, the, the lead generation, the marketing cost, you know. And then, but we don't recognize that if I spent a dollar for, you know, let's say if I spent 10, to get one lead, then, you know, and I, you know, close, you know, $100 gets me 10 leads and I close one. Well, that same $100 can get me 10 leads and I close five, then I just 5xed my return on my investment. And so that's a really smart way to look at things.
Starting point is 00:05:16 So we're going back into these various companies that you've, you know, that you've built or invested into and scaled, et cetera. What would you say are like the key levers to success? because as you mentioned, we can't all be excellent at everything. So if I'm only excellent at a few things as an entrepreneur as a salesperson, what would those few things be? So a couple things. One, truly understand your customer. I don't think enough of sales folks, marketers, CEOs, founders, you know,
Starting point is 00:05:46 you kind of name it, really truly understand their customer, right? It's easy if you're saying I'm going to sell a health care SaaS business, right? And I'm going to have that endemic customer base. But let's say I'm selling back to what we were, CBD, right? Well, who and why? And the big question is why. And then the next question is, why me, meaning why my brand? Like what's attaching that?
Starting point is 00:06:13 And then truly understanding how they use it, right? If we go back to kind of traditional marking, there's day parts, right? Are they using the morning, using it night? Are they using it after work before we're like, how does that all work? You can't just say it's good for you, you need to take it. Hard stop, right? You need to physically figure out why and the use cases and then double down and try to understand the through lines with the majority of customers.
Starting point is 00:06:36 You're not going to solve it for everyone. And I think that's the biggest problem. And, you know, when we invest, we look at how founders look at their own companies and how they identify who their customer base is and, again, the why. And that really gives you your kind of total addressable market. When a founder says my total addressable market is every single person in the world, right? I say no, right? Because even if you have, you're selling a product for bicycle enthusiasts, there's a strata
Starting point is 00:07:06 of different types of enthusiasts, right? Who like riding to our professionals and everything in between and you need to understand where your product actually fits and how it loses interest as you strata out towards the extremes. And so I think that's really important. And then build marketing, build discussion points all around that. And for the ones that are on the straddle points, be able to understand why these people love it so much and build marketing tracks around that, right? So it's you brought up a good point.
Starting point is 00:07:32 Everyone focuses on acquiring. Well, if I acquired 100 new potential customers, not all of them have the same needs, wants, desires out of that product, you hope they do, right? But they don't. And so really understanding which ones are the ones that are the warmest and which ones are the furthest away and you may never get and understanding where to you're to spend your time, energy, or as I say, time and treasure, right, against making them a customer. You consider yourself.
Starting point is 00:07:59 Like, if you, would you consider yourself an entrepreneur, a marketer, a salesperson, a business person, how would you describe yourself? Yes. What's your identity? Yes. Yes. What's first? So, you know, I look at this way.
Starting point is 00:08:15 If you look at my career from where it started, it would be more predominantly called a sales role. Right. You know, out of college, I worked for a company called United Rentals, selling construction equipment, transitioned, funny enough, natural transition right into real estate investment banking where I was a wholesaler selling growth and income funds and MESDET. But whether or not you're an entrepreneur, whether or not you have a traditional sales job, whether or not you were at customer service, or you are a data analyst. In all respects, I believe you were in sales for either the company you're employed or the
Starting point is 00:08:50 company that you run. And so being able to understand your company, what you sell, what you do, and be able to, for lack of a term, evangelize that is kind of the nature of sales. I think everyone does that. I happen to own a media agency, right, marketing agency. So that makes me both an entrepreneur and that I started it in sales, because guess who has to get all the clients, right? Me, right? And be able to merchandise and work on business development. And I think just, you know, the true nature of being an entrepreneur is in sales. And there are a lot of people smarter than myself who talk about this, right? The most important thing you can be as a founder and a business is one that runs culture, vision, right?
Starting point is 00:09:33 Vision is selling. Vision is selling why you should believe in this company. And lastly, being always fundraising. Now you say always fundraising, well, traditional venture has rounds. Well, you should be fundraising in between rounds to get ready for the next, right? You're always merchandising. which means you're always selling, and you're always doing business development,
Starting point is 00:09:51 you're always working on partnerships. And it's the thing that most people don't realize. Today, you're, you know, another hat such as which would you, I would call a venture capital investor. And so what's the difference in your mind between being an entrepreneur and a venture capital investor if there is one? You know, I think some of the greatest investors are former entrepreneurs, right? they've gone through it, they understand what it's going to take to build a company.
Starting point is 00:10:21 They understand certainly the risk involved in that company. They've had other people bet on them. When you look at an entrepreneur, you look at someone who gets up every day and the majority of the time are extremely insecure about their future, right? Some days, it's the best day you've ever had and some days you feel like you're going out of business. I'm not sure if I know the difference. There's not much of one, right?
Starting point is 00:10:47 a Tuesday and a Thursday. And then what's hysterical is you go from this roller coaster of emotion to one day you're fortunate enough to sell. And unless you have some kind of second bite of the apple, you're staying on through private equity, you sell the company. And then it's all gone. And you sit there. And I remember after the last acquisition, seeing there like answering AT&T emails.
Starting point is 00:11:12 Right. No, I would not like your upgrade. But because there's nothing else coming in, right? Your identity is wrapped in this, you know, stomach turning journey. But it's fantastic. Well, I think on the other side, as an investor, we're supporting and looking and doing what we can for our investors' dollars to go pick the right companies who have the right trajectory.
Starting point is 00:11:35 And we're there many, many times, the majority of times here at Slico, sitting shoulder to shoulder helping them. So we're feeling that same pain, right? You know, when you have a brand, you know, that's worthy to invest into and that has true scaling potential, how do you know? It's both an art and a science. So the art is, you know, I have the great fortune of having what I built up over years, a great network of what I'll call COI, centers of influence, trusted advisors who will bring deals. I see quite a few of them. I've only originated a few since I've been at the firm.
Starting point is 00:12:11 And if you looked at that as a percentage, it is very low compared to what has kind of come over my desk. And as I mentioned, there's art and sciences. I need to do the science stuff, right? I need to understand forecast. I need to understand your cash bar. I need to understand all the things that our capital will be doing, right? What it's going to be used for. I need to understand how big the market is.
Starting point is 00:12:33 I need to understand in five years, seven years, whatever our time frame is, is there going to be the promise of liquidity event that get our investor dollars back, right? This is the point and purpose of this, right? I need to understand if this is a lifestyle business, which there are many amazing cash flowing lifestyle businesses that aren't great for the type of deals we do, right? And that's not a bad thing, right? I love those businesses. They're just not ones institutionally I can give dollars to
Starting point is 00:13:01 because there isn't that multiple on exit at the end. So I'm looking at that. The art really comes in, let's say all that's baked. It's a great transformational business. It's disruptive, it's gonna do the things, on timeline, it has a large, you know, Tam, if you will, total addressable market. It is revolutionary. Then I have to look, just like I'm looking at you, Dan, and go, do I think that this
Starting point is 00:13:23 individual, right, this haircut or this group of haircuts can get that done? Because at the end of the day, this is a people business, right? And so there are many stories of great companies going out of business just because the two founders weren't aligned. So I like really understanding if it's two multi-founders, their views and do they sync? Is one trying to build something over here and the other is just trying to build what they like? If it's a single founder personally, and I can kind of show you that track record on the deals I brought in, I love second and third-time founders.
Starting point is 00:14:01 They've already learned and they've already had the defeat. Yes. So I was a first-time founder at one time. I have nothing but the utmost respect. But I do believe, and I talk about this quite often, that the idea of being an entrepreneur has been romanticized in our culture. And I love it.
Starting point is 00:14:23 Look, I, again, you asked what hat I wear. I have done that, right? It's hard. It's not for everyone. And I think that's okay. I'd say it's not for most. It's not for most, yes. And so, you know, as I'm looking,
Starting point is 00:14:39 across the table at someone that we're going to invest again time and treasure right capital and time to not only mentor but help drive this company forward do i believe you have the fortitude the grit the determination right add all those great words to actually do this to go get kicked every day and wake up the next morning with little sleep going i'm ready to do it again that's the with with energy and with zeal and with you know excitement exactly What would you say, Chris, what would you say some of the biggest challenges that you've seen founder's face when growing their businesses? Staying focused. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:20 I go back to if everyone in the world is your customer, then you have a problem, right? And this is actually part of our diligence process as well as truly understanding your market. You may have a product that can work in multiple verticals, but you end up a mile wide and inch deep. Right. And so noise, ideas, things like that are the things that can get you off track. Being myopically focused on the vision and the mission of the company and adding as appropriate to other verticals, other sectors, other applications is the smart, prudent way. It takes longer, but you're not going to burn cash as fast. And so it really comes down to being focused. There was actually a great interviewer list, and I think it's a little aged now with Jeff Bezos talking about the fact that at the beginning of Amazon, with a whiteboard in an hour, he'd have 100 new ideas for what they needed to do. And one of his senior execs, who they only worked together for a year at this point, said something like, you have enough great ideas every minute, every hour, every day to absolutely ruin Amazon.
Starting point is 00:16:34 I can understand that. Sure, but it worked. Well, because he was able to focus and not share those ideas at the velocity he was before. And that really is staying focused on mission. And I think that is one of the biggest things. The other, I would say biggest thing that can cause issues is not truly understanding what it's going to take to get you from point A to point B. Overestimating, being optimistic, overselling. And look, I said we're all set in sales. I guess. get it, but overselling your ability to get somewhere, not raising your hand with your advisors or your investors or your board to say, I need help, right? There's this great story, the difference between a cow and a buffalo, and one's all weathered and big, it has humps, and they run into storms
Starting point is 00:17:22 when they come, and the cow runs away from the storm, but actually the buffalo spends less time overall in the nastiness. Yeah, because you're running through it. Yeah, you're running right through it. And so it's that type of back again to the, back again to looking at how you should do things. Being up front, being honest, being focused. That's the way it's, it's going to go. It should work. I think, you know, it's,
Starting point is 00:17:46 there's a little bit of a paradox in the behavior, you know, the typical behavior of an entrepreneur, which is incredible optimism and faith, confidence, you know, and these are things that if you don't have that, then, you know, you got no business being in an, and read it might like like it just you have to have that but then on the the downside of that you know over confidence or you know over you know um you know you know an excessive opinion of yourself is not something that is a is necessarily a good trait right so it's like how do you balance that
Starting point is 00:18:25 like i got this versus damn i need help so i think that everyone should have a little pt barnum in them when they're talking about it. That's going back to the sales. But when you sit down and it's not time to be on stage, are you prudently managing the business the way it needs to be done? Are you looking at it and understanding true costs? Are you bringing in the right people to help you analyze and say, here's our cash burn or here's what we're going to need to really get this done? Or I think it might take two months when it's really going to take six and truly understanding timing on what you're building, what you're endeavoring to do. And sometimes, entrepreneurs, just have haven't done that yet. And so being open to bringing in the right type of help, especially early
Starting point is 00:19:10 on, is huge. You know, not every investor is created equally. And I will honestly stand on my soapbox and talk about that as well. You know, if you're building a health care SaaS business, as I mentioned before, I'm not a health care SaaS investor. There are better ones out there. Doesn't mean I don't want to play, but I shouldn't lead you around and I shouldn't be sitting on your board. When you say better, but you mean better for you. Is that what you mean by that? Yeah, there are great venture P.E firms, great. Even angels that that is what they have, that is what they have done for their career. So you know what? They're going to be what we call smart capital. They're going to give you that check. Yes. They're also going to be there to
Starting point is 00:19:49 actually possibly open up doors, help you think about the way you should go to market, bring an expertise that someone like me wouldn't have. But we talk about. But we talk about about sports tech, if we talk about things that I'm passionate about, you talk about consumer goods, things that I've done and sold before, then yeah, I'm that right guy, right, to do that. And I think that is really important is getting the right smart capital, the right smart people around you as you grow who understand the market more than just a check. One of the things that when I didn't mention in your bio is that you're a black belt in Jitsu, is that correct?
Starting point is 00:20:29 That is correct. Yes, sir. And so that took time, dedication, consistency. Would that be inaccurate? It would not be inaccurate. It took about nine years of training three to four days a week. I built a studio at my house, trained all over the world. other than me and my wife and daughter, it's probably the single most impactful and important thing I've ever done in my life.
Starting point is 00:20:59 So how is that single most impactful important thing that you've ever done in your life besides your family? How does that influence your leadership and your business philosophy? Do hard shit. Am I allowed to swear? Do hard stuff. No, no, we're going to, we just kicked you out. All right. You know, I showed up day one back in 2016.
Starting point is 00:21:22 I had wrestled in high school. I knew what it meant to be on the mat, really didn't want to do it. 150 pound purple belt woman tapped me out in, I think it was 90 seconds. I was 270 pounds. She was 150. And I went, whatever this is, I need to know how to do it because this is ridiculous. And then literally, like I said, dedicated my life. You know, there's a lot of corollaries to be in an entrepreneur.
Starting point is 00:21:44 or first and foremost, some days you're the hammer, some days you're the nail and you don't know which day it's going to be when you show up. The other thing is. So these you're the hammer and some days 150 pound, uh, purple belt takes you down. Correct. Correct. Um, you know, really when you, when you look at it, it's, it's a tough value proposition. I love it more than anything, but it's a tough value proposition because you're going to show up
Starting point is 00:22:10 for the better part of a year, year and a half. three days a week and you're going to have no idea what's happening. Sure. And everyone is going to, I won't want to use the word smashing you, but just you're going to feel very uncomfortable for an hour and a half a day. And you're not going to know what's happening, but you're going to watch the human body move in ways you never knew possible. And you're going to keep hopefully wanting to come back and do it more.
Starting point is 00:22:38 But it takes a while to actually feel a monochem of like success, Now, success might just be defending the fact that you didn't get choked as many times as you did yesterday. Right? But that's the upfront value proposition at the beginning. It's really tough. But if you can weather that, if you can then get into Blue Belt and get into Purple Belt and keep that journey going, it absolutely will change your life. And what you realize is you had the grit, you had the fortitude, you had the determination to stay with it. Again, isn't that what being an entrepreneur's like, right?
Starting point is 00:23:12 going into the storm, the hard stuff every single day and saying, I as an adult, because I started at 36, I as an adult, I'm going to wake up and go put myself in pain for an hour. And I used to do it in the morning because it was the time that worked best for me. And what I found was every decision got a little bit easier. And as I gave you the track of success in my career, all of it started in 2017 when we started doing CBD. I had my agency. I started that in 15, but I started jihitsu in 2000. And so it was one of those where no excuses, you go and you put in the work, you put in the mat time,
Starting point is 00:23:51 you go and you spend that time and you feel that grit and it carries over to everything else you do. Because, you know, I think someone much smarter me said, the rest of the day gets a little easier when someone tries to actually impose harm on you in the morning. The decision making ability, the decision velocity, which is all of Jiu-Jitsu, figuring out how to make fast decisions right or wrong and move quickly if they're wrong and pursue them if they're right and that is also being an entrepreneur is figuring out how decision velocity makes sense within your company and this is practicing it every day what what daily habits or principles help you to stay focus and effective in your life certainly jiu jitsu certainly just being active every day
Starting point is 00:24:39 I need to do something. Breaking a sweat, the feeling, no one has ever said after a workout, damn, that sucked. But they will always make excuses not to go. And so I think the biggest thing is getting something in every day seems to clear the mind, the soul to be ready, to being really focused on time management. And it's the thing that we just naturally as humans aren't the best at. There are a lot of dings and pings and things from our computers or from our phones that are going off that can warp you down a rabbit hole for 10, 15 minutes. And you do that two or three times a day, times a week.
Starting point is 00:25:21 And you go, man, I don't have time to do anything I want. Well, I just gave you all your workout time for the week. Right. So it's really understanding how to stay focused. Those are the biggest things. And allow yourself to have some time to do some things that you enjoy. I don't care how busy you are, right? You know, again, I've had conversations with people who say they don't have time,
Starting point is 00:25:45 and then I ask them what TV shows they're watching, and there's definitely a lot of time. Yeah, and so what I'm, you know, as we sort of get to the end of our conversation here, Chris, what I'm discovering or I'm becoming aware of is the fact that consistent action through time create success, whether that be physical or mental or spiritual or in any other capacity, business professionally, personally, and that there will be times where you're going to get punched in the teeth. And, you know, then you get a choice of, you know, what do I do about this? And the hardest thing in the arena is driving to the, you know, driving to the gym, not necessarily being in the gym. And so it's really just getting started. And then, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:32 creating habits that allow for you to make decisions. Is it bad to watch TV? No. But if, but, but, but it goes back into that. Is that a, a, a mechanism to avoid something? Or is that a mechanism to down, you know, to, to relax, you know, and in, and again, there's no judgment on anything, right? Just recognizing the reality of, you know, if you're doom scrolling on, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:58 on, on, on, on Instagram or Facebook or TikTok, you know, and two hours later, You come back and say, I had no time. Well, you know, just being aware of what you just did and then make a different choices moving forward. So that's sort of the way that I'm summing up what I understood you to say. Am I hitting that pretty right? Yeah, I think you are. You know, there has been for years and we saw this whole hustle culture come out, right?
Starting point is 00:27:24 And, you know, not mad at it, got some people going, right? But I think at some point it's reckless, right? Sure. I'm not an advocate for work-life balance because I don't think that's necessarily something it's counterbalance. Yeah, certainly not at the same time, right? Right. Yeah. However, I think that there's this piece of what do you want, right? If you prioritize it, it gets done. If you want to, you will do it. And so if you don't want to do it, don't be mad that you didn't do it later, right? So if you prioritize it, you say, these are the things that I want to achieve.
Starting point is 00:28:00 Guess what? Everything else will fall away. And naturally, you will select the things that you prioritize and that you want to do. But in a post-mortem getting mad that you didn't do them, well, did you prioritize them? Right. Like that's this rub, right? Is figuring out, well, I mean, everyone I believe is capable of saying, these are the most important things that I want to achieve. And then going to do them.
Starting point is 00:28:23 And any other reason you didn't do them is an excuse. And that's on you to figure out. out why, right? So for me, you're absolutely correct. Please, uh, lightning lightning round. You ready for some, some fast, uh, fast paced questions and answers? Let's go. What's your favorite podcast? Yours. Ah, no broke months podcast for salespeople. Right answer. What's your favorite book? Uh, there's a few, but a road to character. A road to character. If I say, besides PT Barnum, I say who inspires you for marketing.
Starting point is 00:29:00 What's the name? What's the first name that comes to your mind? Steve Jobs. Who inspires you for strategy? Ooh, probably Steve Jobs as well. Man was brilliant. I say entrepreneur, whose name comes to mind. Elon.
Starting point is 00:29:19 Hard problems. What's your favorite all-time movie? Boondock Saints. Do Doc Saints, man, you got some good answers here. You got some good answer. Chris, how can somebody get in touch with you? Easiest way. LinkedIn.
Starting point is 00:29:37 It's Chris M. is in Michael Van Dusen. Instagram's the same. And both of those you can find my email on. Thank you for your time today, Chris. Audience, thank you for your time as well. And I want to wish that you have the best day of your life. Be grateful, make good choices, go help somebody.
Starting point is 00:29:53 And remember, I love you. Remember, you are loved. Remember, you are lovable and you are worthy. God bless you. This is Dan Rochon, host of No Broke Months. Do you want consistent and predictable income with no broke months? My new book, Teach to Sell, why top performers never sell,
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