Sep 3, 2026 · 47 min · 10 segments
Johnny Tan!! In 2023, Johnny opened the coolest golf & coffee third space the world had ever seen **(Johnny's Golf Shop)**. Since then, Johnny has become a leading golf content creator in Australia…
Johnny TanGuest
James BooneHost
Yeah, drive-by on a four-lease line, but then also a vacation that enlightened you to say, hey, actually, it's not just a vacation.
And then once you have the safety net, it feels like there's probably some freedom there to shake and move a little bit.
Yeah, no, I mean, I still catch up with a lot of... my ex-colleagues and we still actually like some of the conversations still revolve around how about certain accounts are doing and then they'll say some problems with it and i'll actually go well have we actually like looked at this process there and they're like
it's a consulting firm and i think i was not that i was built for consulting but i enjoy certain aspects of this life about like poking around and prodding and just be like is there a better way to do this And maybe that's, you know, maybe that's a metaphor for my life.
Well, I've also heard you say, backing up a little bit whenever you're in your mid, late 20s of like, okay, do I need to go to school? Should I just keep working? Should I start a business? I've heard you say, it's okay.
It's either I'm going to spend 60 grand on going and getting more school, or I can spend $5,000 on starting a business.
Getting it off the ground, even if it didn't fail, there'd be a ton of takeaways.
Again, if you, if you literally, if you go to Johnny's accounts, Johnny's golf shops, golf shots right now.
But if you go down to the bottom, like Johnny will, it's a litmus on, uh, Hey, like, don't do this.
This is like, not, not, not the best way to make the most money possible, but there's an idea in his head and in his heart.
Yeah, drive-by on a four-lease line, but then also a vacation that enlightened you to say, hey, actually, it's not just a vacation.
And then once you have the safety net, it feels like there's probably some freedom there to shake and move a little bit.
Yeah, no, I mean, I still catch up with a lot of... my ex-colleagues and we still actually like some of the conversations still revolve around how about certain accounts are doing and then they'll say some problems with it and i'll actually go well have we actually like looked at this process there and they're like
it's a consulting firm and i think i was not that i was built for consulting but i enjoy certain aspects of this life about like poking around and prodding and just be like is there a better way to do this And maybe that's, you know, maybe that's a metaphor for my life.
Well, I've also heard you say, backing up a little bit whenever you're in your mid, late 20s of like, okay, do I need to go to school? Should I just keep working? Should I start a business? I've heard you say, it's okay.
It's either I'm going to spend 60 grand on going and getting more school, or I can spend $5,000 on starting a business.
Getting it off the ground, even if it didn't fail, there'd be a ton of takeaways.
Again, if you, if you literally, if you go to Johnny's accounts, Johnny's golf shops, golf shots right now.
But if you go down to the bottom, like Johnny will, it's a litmus on, uh, Hey, like, don't do this.
This is like, not, not, not the best way to make the most money possible, but there's an idea in his head and in his heart.
The rest of this transcript — segmented and speaker-labeled, so you land on the exact moment something was said
Search every transcript — by keyword, by phrase, or by meaning, across every show Radar indexes
Trends — what is surging across podcasts, measured against its own baseline
Alerts — when a name you follow appears in a newly indexed episode
No account is needed to search Radar.