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On store shelves, customers might only see a bright yellow smile waiting to add some shine to the kitchen. But, behind the iconic ridges and gleaming eye holes are years of sweat and machine grime for Aaron Krause, 54, Scrub Daddy’s Founder and CEO.

Aaron's entrepreneurial journey started when he was just a kid living in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania. At 10 years old, he created his first invention: A rope and pulley system to turn his bedroom light on and off from his bed so he didn't have to get up and do it.

From there, Aaron kept his innovative side going by washing cars in the neighborhood. After graduating from Syracuse University in 1992 with a psychology degree, he told his family that he was going to open his own car washing business. His family was shocked and upset with his career path, to say the least.

But Aaron knew he could make it work. Not only by washing cars, but to start inventing new products. In 1994, he invented his first big product, which was a buffing pad for polishing cars.

In 1995, Aaron sold his car washing business and turned his focus to a new venture: Dedication To Detail, a buffing pad manufacturer. A few years after creating his business, he received polyester urethane foam from German manufacturer FoamPartner, which became a key part of Scrub Daddy's material now known as FlexTexture. However, the buffing pads he was selling with this foam at this time did not sell well and he was forced to stop selling it due to low sales in the market.


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Ready to invest in yourself? Join us as we sit down with Jim... for a conversation about personal development, goal setting, and unlocking your full potential. Discover actionable tips and strategies to create lasting change in your life.




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Real estate investing is a proven way to build wealth, but it can be an intimidating industry to enter. The truth is, though, you don’t need a ton of money or experience to get started. Mike Andes explains how to get started in real estate investing for beginners in this video.

Regular UpFlip viewers know Mike better for his landscaping business, Augusta Lawn Care. Mike was investing in real estate before he started his business, especially impressive when you realize he’s only now in his mid-twenties. He currently makes an average of $40,000 every month off of his twenty-three units, and that income is completely passive.

Today, Mike shares his real-world insights on how to invest in real estate. You’ll find out how much money you really need to get started and what types of real estate are the best to invest in as a beginner.

He’ll also share where he finds the properties he invests in, what he looks for to know whether it’s a smart investment, and what to do with the properties after you’ve invested to turn them into passive income streams.


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Aaron Amuchastegui excels at helping people buy real estate at a discount, and he’s turned that expertise into a thriving real estate business. Between his tools—like Lead Propeller, Prophawk, and Roddy’s Foreclosure Listing—and the more than 800 properties he owns across Texas, his businesses generate a quarter million dollars in revenue every month. Learn how he started and grew his real estate investing business in this interview.

Aaron started his first real estate business in 2009, just after the housing crash forced the California company where he’d worked as a realtor to downsize. He drew on his real estate expertise to invest in foreclosed properties, building a hedge fund from scratch and flipping over 1,000 homes in 3 years. That success was short lived, however. Competition from large investment firms forced his business to close and led to Aaron shifting his focus to properties in Texas.

The lessons he learned growing that first real estate business proved beneficial when he started investing again in 2015. In this episode, he’ll share what he did differently the second time around, as well as his advice for other new investors to avoid making the same missteps.

Today, Aaron’s business goes beyond simply investing. He’s expanded into the technology side of real estate investment, starting with his purchase of Roddy’s Foreclosure Listing in 2017. We’ll learn why he decided to broaden his focus to include investor tools and how he’s achieved consistent year-over-year growth with the listing service since he acquired it.


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n this episode, we dive into the world of culinary delights with Jim Rowe, a serial restaurateur who turned the art of making wings into a flourishing empire. Jim embarked on a journey of entrepreneurship at the age of 24, selling everything from tools to diamonds to windows, before finding his true calling in the restaurant industry, a passion ignited during his childhood days spent in restaurants where his mother worked.

Jim is the mastermind behind Wing Central, a cornerstone of the WC Restaurant Group with a stellar reputation for mouthwatering wings, evidenced by hundreds of 5-star reviews. Despite minimal advertising, Wing Central has soared, with innovative strategies like their gift card continuity program boosting sales by an impressive 17%.

From a single establishment, Jim has expanded his culinary kingdom to include a food truck and a cozy coffee shop, collectively amassing over $50M in sales. This interview sheds light on his journey from scraping by with odd jobs to building a restaurant sales empire, all without prior experience or significant capital.

Listeners will gain invaluable insights as Jim reveals the one entrepreneurship skill that single-handedly helped him build his empire from scratch. He also unveils the lucrative side hustles that paved his path to financial success. Notably, Jim’s prowess in restaurant marketing won him a Porsche Boxster, outshining his peers and boosting his sales by $900K in a single year—a story he eagerly shares.


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Antionette Carroll, Founder, President, and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, believes that if inequality is by design, then it can be re-designed by us. Over the years, she has helmed multiple initiatives dedicated to solving the fundamental problems of inequity and fair representation in the design industry and expanding our roles to examine inherent biases. In this talk, she offers a framework for prioritizing equal outcomes over equal access to change the mindset of the industry.

This talk was recorded remotely on May 22, 2020

About this speaker:

Antionette D. Carroll is the founder, president, and CEO of Creative Reaction Lab, a nonprofit educating and deploying youth to challenge racial and health inequities impacting Black and Latinx populations. Antionette has been named an ADL and Aspen Institute Civil Society Fellow, Roddenberry Fellow, Echoing Green Global Fellow, TED Fellow, ADCOLOR Innovator, SXSW Community Service Honoree, Camelback Ventures Fellow, 4.0 Schools Tiny Fellow, St. Louis Visionary Award Honoree for Community Impact, and Essence Magazine Woke 100. Over her almost 10 years of volunteer leadership, Antionette was named the Founding Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Task Force of AIGA. She’s a former AIGA National Board Director and Chair Emerita of the Task Force. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Design + Diversity Conference and Fellowship.


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