Sep 8, 2026 · 30 min · 10 segments
If you are ready to level up personally and professionally, go to joinrbo.com Most entrepreneurs think growth means starting something new. Sometimes, the fastest way to grow is to buy what's already…
Rick TrimmerHostBeing an entrepreneur sounds cool, but the reality of building a business is very, very difficult.
Every level that you hit, there's a lot of things that suck that you just won't wanna do.
What you're capable of is on the other side of "I don't feel like it." And if you're committed to what it is that you're trying to do, nothing is going to stop you from getting there.
And I wanted to do something, uh, so I've been calling all of our members in our community, um, getting to know them, just getting to know who they are.
Trevor brought me in a couple months ago, and I wanna know who everybody is and what their individual wants and needs are being in Real Business Owners, right? They're making an investment, monetary and time, and I want to give them direct value, not just cast a large net.
And what's come up in a lot of those conversations, I've, I've done about 70 of them so far, and what's been coming up is most people obviously in business want growth, right? Um, we wanna expand, we wanna be growing, innovating.
And so I thought a good, uh, episode today, you've all probably heard me say that I own, um, I bought, started, acquired, um, 18 businesses in my life, and it's actually 19.
I did the, um, I actually did the math today, and I wanted to talk about those, why... what, what each one of those businesses were, just touch on them, and why I bought or acquired or started a new business, and kind of how I did that.
Again, I think it's a really-- It's been really good for me, uh, in different scenarios, which we will go over and why I did it, but it's allowed me to get new customers, new equipment, inventory, uh, people, and so it's really a good way to speed up the growth process.
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Being an entrepreneur sounds cool, but the reality of building a business is very, very difficult.
Every level that you hit, there's a lot of things that suck that you just won't wanna do.
What you're capable of is on the other side of "I don't feel like it." And if you're committed to what it is that you're trying to do, nothing is going to stop you from getting there.
And I wanted to do something, uh, so I've been calling all of our members in our community, um, getting to know them, just getting to know who they are.
Trevor brought me in a couple months ago, and I wanna know who everybody is and what their individual wants and needs are being in Real Business Owners, right? They're making an investment, monetary and time, and I want to give them direct value, not just cast a large net.
And what's come up in a lot of those conversations, I've, I've done about 70 of them so far, and what's been coming up is most people obviously in business want growth, right? Um, we wanna expand, we wanna be growing, innovating.
And so I thought a good, uh, episode today, you've all probably heard me say that I own, um, I bought, started, acquired, um, 18 businesses in my life, and it's actually 19.
I did the, um, I actually did the math today, and I wanted to talk about those, why... what, what each one of those businesses were, just touch on them, and why I bought or acquired or started a new business, and kind of how I did that.
Again, I think it's a really-- It's been really good for me, uh, in different scenarios, which we will go over and why I did it, but it's allowed me to get new customers, new equipment, inventory, uh, people, and so it's really a good way to speed up the growth process.
