Podcast appearances and mentions of hollis carter

Hollis Carter is the Co-Founder of Baby Bathwater Institute, Lifelong Entrepreneur, Curious Human, Lover of Adventure, and Purveyor of Good Times. In this conversation, Jeff Banman and Hollis Carter discuss the importance of community and the power of mentorship. They delve into Hollis' personal experience with learning disabilities and how he overcame them. They also explore the creation of the Baby Bathwater community and the value of authentic connections. The conversation highlights the need for safe and supportive environments where individuals can feel understood and supported. They emphasize the importance of moving away from transactional relationships and fostering genuine connections. The conversation concludes with a discussion on balancing structure and organic interactions within a community. The conversation explores the importance of creating a safe space and answering the question of whether one feels safe physically, spiritually, emotionally, and mentally. It emphasizes the significance of alignment and being in tune with oneself, as well as the power of community and co-regulation. The discussion also delves into expanding primal responses and the value of having a support network that provides both support and challenge. Finally, it highlights the role of influential figures in personal and professional growth.

Hollis Carter is the Co-founder of Baby Bathwater Institute, Lifelong Entrepreneur, Curious Human, Lover of Adventure and Purveyor of Good Times. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. Being in a community of people you are valuable is the most powerful way to achieve success. 2. At the end of the day, what you are selling is trust, and being part of a community business is about supporting and challenging one another. 3. Your version of happiness is very different from other people. Take time to analyze that and figure out for yourself. Mixing business with pleasure since birth - Baby Bath Water Institute Sponsors HubSpot HubSpot's all -on -one customer platform can make growing your business infinitely easier. Visit HubSpot.com to get started today Thought-Leader Ever thought about giving a TEDx talk. Visit Thought-Leader.com/fire to join a free training and learn how to land a TEDx Talk and spread your message to millions

Hollis Carter is the Co-founder of Baby Bathwater Institute, Lifelong Entrepreneur, Curious Human, Lover of Adventure and Purveyor of Good Times. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. Being in a community of people you are valuable is the most powerful way to achieve success. 2. At the end of the day, what you are selling is trust, and being part of a community business is about supporting and challenging one another. 3. Your version of happiness is very different from other people. Take time to analyze that and figure out for yourself. Mixing business with pleasure since birth - Baby Bath Water Institute Sponsors HubSpot HubSpot's all -on -one customer platform can make growing your business infinitely easier. Visit HubSpot.com to get started today Thought-Leader Ever thought about giving a TEDx talk. Visit Thought-Leader.com/fire to join a free training and learn how to land a TEDx Talk and spread your message to millions

Welcome to another enlightening episode of "The Art of Making Things Happen with Steve Sims." Today, we're honored to have Hollis Carter, the co-founder of Baby Bathwater, join us in celebrating its ten-year anniversary. In this compelling conversation, Hollis shares his journey of fostering authentic and supportive relationships in the entrepreneurial world. We'll dive into the importance of trusting one's instincts, the pitfalls of quick endorsements, and the need to thoroughly vet relationships. Hollis and Steve discuss the critical challenges entrepreneurs face as their businesses grow, emphasizing the necessity of effective delegation and surrounding oneself with the right people. They also explore the transformative power of genuine connections, the struggle with imposter syndrome, and the value of authentic interactions at networking events.  Don't miss out on their insights about the importance of community, financial literacy, and showing up authentically. Plus, get a sneak peek into Baby Bathwater's upcoming anniversary event in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Tune in for an episode filled with wisdom, inspiration, and actionable advice to help you disrupt, connect, and grow in both life and business.

Welcome to another enlightening episode of "The Art of Making Things Happen with Steve Sims." Today, we're honored to have Hollis Carter, the co-founder of Baby Bathwater, join us in celebrating its ten-year anniversary. In this compelling conversation, Hollis shares his journey of fostering authentic and supportive relationships in the entrepreneurial world. We'll dive into the importance of trusting one's instincts, the pitfalls of quick endorsements, and the need to thoroughly vet relationships. Hollis and Steve discuss the critical challenges entrepreneurs face as their businesses grow, emphasizing the necessity of effective delegation and surrounding oneself with the right people. They also explore the transformative power of genuine connections, the struggle with imposter syndrome, and the value of authentic interactions at networking events.  Don't miss out on their insights about the importance of community, financial literacy, and showing up authentically. Plus, get a sneak peek into Baby Bathwater's upcoming anniversary event in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Tune in for an episode filled with wisdom, inspiration, and actionable advice to help you disrupt, connect, and grow in both life and business.

“I'm just generally curious about a lot of things.” – Hollis Carter Entrepreneurs, inquisitive & risk-tolerant by nature, tend to have diverse backgrounds. Hollis' is almost dizzying. This master of the side hustle has started more companies than you can count, beginning in early childhood. But it's the SAAS company he built into a 7-figure virtual business in less than a year & becoming a (very young) founding investor in one of the nation's most unique ski resorts that grabs your attention. Then, of course, there's his membership-based community for entrepreneurs (with arguably the funniest name you've ever heard) that makes you wonder. Is he just skipping randomly from one thing to the next? Hardly. Coursing through the heart of every one of Hollis' companies is community, & his knack for building it in the most natural & mutually beneficial ways will leave you wondering why it's ever been tried any other way. To learn more: Find him at BabyBathwater.com or @HollisC on Instagram. Hollis' endeavors are proof of Akio Morita's assertion: “Curiosity is the key to creativity.”

Welcome back to Making Bank. On today's episode, we have a compilation of previous episodes with Hollis Carter, Brendan Kane, Riley Dayne, Todd Brown, David Osborn, Cassidy Phillips, and Max Finn and in this episode, you will hear tips and tricks from top entrepreneurs about the guide to success.   (2:49) Hollis Carter Never bite more than you can chew. Sometimes when you get inspired by a project, you tend to want to do it only to find out that it takes a lot of work. You need time, resources, and a lot of planning. As a result, you get overwhelmed. That is why you should never take more than what you can handle.   (8:22) Brendan Kane You can get a big A list celebrity, but if you don't have content that's compelling, nobody cares. There is so much content out there, people are not going to have time for yours. Remember you can interview people who are not celebrities as well as long as their story is compelling.    (12:40) Riley Dayne The word passion today gets a bad rep. Many will say don't follow the passion, follow the money, however passion is important because it gives you that power and drive you need on a day where you feel like giving up. It gives you that extra push. You will always find roadblocks but passion is the key ingredient to help you get through them.    (23:41) Todd Brown One of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make is starting with a product. Many entrepreneurs fall in love with a particular product and when their marketing doesn't work, they fail and get crushed. Rather than falling in love with a product, you should fall in love with being an entrepreneur. Doing this gives you the freedom to pick yourself up and move on in case things don't work out.   (30:22) David Osborn Sometimes the journey is the destination. It might seem like it's taking longer for you to be successful but when you look back, you will realize that whatever happened to you, happened for a reason. It got you to where you are right now. So no matter how long it takes, just remember that every single step matters in the journey of success.    (33:27) Cassidy Phillips You gotta work with your children, not for your children. Include your children in some of the hardships you live rather than just handing them over your wealth. Be the responsible badass parent and hard working entrepreneur you are so that your children can look at you and realize your work and also work as hard as you do.   (39:04) Max Finn The most common mistake that entrepreneurs make is they want to control everything, they want to do everything by themselves. The thing is once you do this, you will soon have a constant decline around areas that you are not looking at. That is why you should hire experts to take care of the things you cannot supervise. This will help you grow more in the long run.   Tags: @hollisc  @brendankane  @rileydayne  @toddbrown @iamdavidosborn  @thecassidyphillips  @maxfinn

Welcome back to Making Bank. On today's episode, we have a compilation of previous episodes with Hollis Carter, Brendan Kane, Riley Dayne, Todd Brown, David Osborn, Cassidy Phillips and Max Finn and in this episode you will hear tips and tricks from top entrepreneurs about the guide to success.   (2:49) Hollis Carter Never bite more than you can chew. Sometimes when you get inspired by a project, you tend to want to do it only to find out that it actually takes a lot of work. You need time, resources and a lot of planning. As a result you get overwhelmed. That is why you should never take more than what you can handle.   (8:22) Brendan Kane You can get a big A list celebrity, but if you don't have content that's compelling, nobody cares. There is so much content out there, people are not going to have time for yours. Remember you can interview people who are not celebrities as well as long as their story is compelling.    (12:40) Riley Dayne The word passion today gets a bad rep. Many will say don't follow the passion, follow the money, however passion is important because it gives you that power and drive you need on a day where you feel like giving up. It gives you that extra push. You will always find roadblocks but passion is the key ingredient to help you get through them.    (23:41) Todd Brown One of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make is starting with a product. Many entrepreneurs fall in love with a particular product and when their marketing doesn't work, they fail and get crushed. Rather than falling in love with a product, you should fall in love with being an entrepreneur. Doing this gives you the freedom to pick yourself up and move on in case things don't work out.   (30:22) David Osborn Sometimes the journey is the destination. It might seem like it's taking longer for you to be successful but when you look back, you will realize that whatever happened to you, happened for a reason. It got you to where you are right now. So no matter how long it takes, just remember that every single step matters in the journey of success.    (33:27) Cassidy Phillips You gotta work with your children, not for your children. Include your children in some of the hardships you live rather than just handing them over your wealth. Be the responsible badass parent and hard working entrepreneur you are so that your children can look at you and realize your work and also work as hard as you do.   (39:04) Max Finn The most common mistake that entrepreneurs make is they want to control everything, they want to do everything by themselves. The thing is once you do this, you will soon have a constant decline around areas that you are not looking at. That is why you should hire experts to take care of the things you cannot supervise. This will help you grow more in the long run.   Tags: @hollisc  @brendankane  @rileydayne  @toddbrown @iamdavidosborn  @thecassidyphillips  @maxfinn

Welcome back to Making Bank. On today's episode, we have a compilation of previous episodes with Hollis Carter, Brendan Kane, Riley Dayne, Todd Brown, David Osborn, Cassidy Phillips, and Max Finn and in this episode, you will hear tips and tricks from top entrepreneurs about the guide to success.   (2:49) Hollis Carter Never bite more than you can chew. Sometimes when you get inspired by a project, you tend to want to do it only to find out that it takes a lot of work. You need time, resources, and a lot of planning. As a result, you get overwhelmed. That is why you should never take more than what you can handle.   (8:22) Brendan Kane You can get a big A list celebrity, but if you don't have content that's compelling, nobody cares. There is so much content out there, people are not going to have time for yours. Remember you can interview people who are not celebrities as well as long as their story is compelling.    (12:40) Riley Dayne The word passion today gets a bad rep. Many will say don't follow the passion, follow the money, however passion is important because it gives you that power and drive you need on a day where you feel like giving up. It gives you that extra push. You will always find roadblocks but passion is the key ingredient to help you get through them.    (23:41) Todd Brown One of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make is starting with a product. Many entrepreneurs fall in love with a particular product and when their marketing doesn't work, they fail and get crushed. Rather than falling in love with a product, you should fall in love with being an entrepreneur. Doing this gives you the freedom to pick yourself up and move on in case things don't work out.   (30:22) David Osborn Sometimes the journey is the destination. It might seem like it's taking longer for you to be successful but when you look back, you will realize that whatever happened to you, happened for a reason. It got you to where you are right now. So no matter how long it takes, just remember that every single step matters in the journey of success.    (33:27) Cassidy Phillips You gotta work with your children, not for your children. Include your children in some of the hardships you live rather than just handing them over your wealth. Be the responsible badass parent and hard working entrepreneur you are so that your children can look at you and realize your work and also work as hard as you do.   (39:04) Max Finn The most common mistake that entrepreneurs make is they want to control everything, they want to do everything by themselves. The thing is once you do this, you will soon have a constant decline around areas that you are not looking at. That is why you should hire experts to take care of the things you cannot supervise. This will help you grow more in the long run.   Tags: @hollisc  @brendankane  @rileydayne  @toddbrown @iamdavidosborn  @thecassidyphillips  @maxfinn

Welcome back to Making Bank. On today's episode, we have a compilation of previous episodes with Hollis Carter, Brendan Kane, Riley Dayne, Todd Brown, David Osborn, Cassidy Phillips and Max Finn and in this episode you will hear tips and tricks from top entrepreneurs about the guide to success.   (2:49) Hollis Carter Never bite more than you can chew. Sometimes when you get inspired by a project, you tend to want to do it only to find out that it actually takes a lot of work. You need time, resources and a lot of planning. As a result you get overwhelmed. That is why you should never take more than what you can handle.   (8:22) Brendan Kane You can get a big A list celebrity, but if you don't have content that's compelling, nobody cares. There is so much content out there, people are not going to have time for yours. Remember you can interview people who are not celebrities as well as long as their story is compelling.    (12:40) Riley Dayne The word passion today gets a bad rep. Many will say don't follow the passion, follow the money, however passion is important because it gives you that power and drive you need on a day where you feel like giving up. It gives you that extra push. You will always find roadblocks but passion is the key ingredient to help you get through them.    (23:41) Todd Brown One of the biggest mistakes that entrepreneurs make is starting with a product. Many entrepreneurs fall in love with a particular product and when their marketing doesn't work, they fail and get crushed. Rather than falling in love with a product, you should fall in love with being an entrepreneur. Doing this gives you the freedom to pick yourself up and move on in case things don't work out.   (30:22) David Osborn Sometimes the journey is the destination. It might seem like it's taking longer for you to be successful but when you look back, you will realize that whatever happened to you, happened for a reason. It got you to where you are right now. So no matter how long it takes, just remember that every single step matters in the journey of success.    (33:27) Cassidy Phillips You gotta work with your children, not for your children. Include your children in some of the hardships you live rather than just handing them over your wealth. Be the responsible badass parent and hard working entrepreneur you are so that your children can look at you and realize your work and also work as hard as you do.   (39:04) Max Finn The most common mistake that entrepreneurs make is they want to control everything, they want to do everything by themselves. The thing is once you do this, you will soon have a constant decline around areas that you are not looking at. That is why you should hire experts to take care of the things you cannot supervise. This will help you grow more in the long run.   Tags: @hollisc  @brendankane  @rileydayne  @toddbrown @iamdavidosborn  @thecassidyphillips  @maxfinn

Do you want to make more money?   In this episode of the Happy Hustle Podcast, I am super excited to talk to you about something that is near and dear to all of our hearts: money. Yes, that's right. Money can be a powerful tool that can help you create the reality that you want, and it's essential if you want to Happy Hustle a life that you love.   I have had the pleasure of interviewing some of the most brilliant minds in the business world. I've talked to Harvard lawyers, nine-figure entrepreneurs, and influential investors, and all of them have one thing in common: they know how to Happy Hustle their way to success.   And now, I am excited to share with you their insights on how they make money. You will hear from Dan Martell, Kareen Walsh, Hollis Carter, Genevieve Pleasure, Robin Thurston, Chris Felton, Bart Miller, Candy Valentino, Darin Olein, Norm Westervelt, Craig Collins, Kiana Danial, Sterling Hawkins, Joey Vaillancourt, Deidre Sirianni, Jeff Lerner, Dr. Kristin Camilla, and Mr. Jeff Socha. Each of these entrepreneurs has shared their unique Happy Hustle Hack for managing money and building wealth. Whether it's investing in real estate,  saving, or building their business, each of them has found a way to make money work for them.   So, if you're looking for some inspiration on how to build wealth and create the life you want, be sure to tune into this special episode of the Happy Hustle Podcast.   And if you find it valuable, please share it with someone you know who could benefit from these insights. Together, we can spread the Happy Hustle movement and help more people build the lives they want.   Connect with Cary!https://www.instagram.com/cary__jack/https://www.facebook.com/SirCaryJackhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cary-jack-kendzior/https://twitter.com/thehappyhustlehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDNsD59tLxv2JfEuSsNMOQ/featured  Get a free copy of his new book,  The Happy Hustle, 10 Alignments to Avoid Burnout & Achieve Blissful Balance https://www.thehappyhustlebook.com/  Sign up for The Journey: 10 Days To Become a Happy Hustler Online Course http://www.thehappyhustle.com/JourneyApply to the Montana Mastermind Epic Camping Adventure https://caryjack.com/montana “It's time to Happy Hustle, a blissfully balanced life you love, full of passion, purpose, and positive impact!” Episode Sponsor Did you know that 4 out of 5 Americans are magnesium deficient?  And almost everyone is at suboptimal levels. And that's a big problem because magnesium is involved in more than 600 biochemical reactions in our body. Now here's what most people DON'T know: taking just any magnesium supplement won't solve your problem because most supplements use the cheapest kinds that your body can't use or absorb. That's why I exclusively recommend Magnesium Breakthrough. It's the only full-spectrum magnesium supplement with 7 unique forms of magnesium that your body can actually use and absorb. When you get all 7 critical forms of magnesium, pretty much every function in your body gets upgraded... from your brain... to your sleep... pain, and inflammation...and less stress. BiOptimizers only offers this discount once a year, so don't miss out. Just go to www.bioptimizers.com/happy and enter code happy10 to get 10% off any order.   I assure you that all BiOptimizers supplements are best in class. If for some reason you feel differently, you can get a full refund, no questions asked. They are so confident that they offer a 365-day money-back guarantee!

“You got to like people, and you gotta recruit the people you want to be around. And then treat them cool and make sure you like your partner. And then find someone who can do organizational things.” — Michael Lovitch This week Sachit (@sachitgupta) chats with Michael Lovitch (@michaelovitch) and Hollis Carter (@hollisc), co-founders of Baby Bathwater Institute — A community comprised of some of the world's leading minds and entrepreneurs, with a focus on helping bootstrapped entrepreneurs navigate the crazy world of business ownership while having good times and making lifelong friendships. Hollis Carter is a serial entrepreneur and avid skier. He started his entrepreneurial journey in the early 2000's, founding multiple companies, including a SAAS company he built into a 7-figure virtual business in less than a year. In 2013, he became a founding investor in Utah's Powder Mountain Ski Resort. Michael Lovitch, MA is a former special education professional, over-educated grad student, and floundering tech sales guy who decided at the age of 34 to take the entrepreneurial path because nothing else was working. He started a publishing company in the psychology space that ended up being a 7-figure endeavor, then parlayed that into a physician-based nutritional supplement company (RealDose Nutrition) thatended up with annual revenues of $50 million dollars before he sold out his stake. Follow our host, Sachit Gupta on Twitter and sign up for the Creators Collective Newsletter. Do you want to learn how to make a living as a creator? Check out the CreatorsMBA. 00:00 Introduction 00:26 What is a successful community? 09:19 When did your events start turning into a community? 13:55 How do you encourage your community members to connect with each other? 17:21 The process by which people come into baby bathwater 21:41 Patterns in people from the same type of business 26:53 How to create a good experience for people 37:00 How to deal with people that take advantage of the community 43:17 How to get feedback from the members of the community 47:40 What you should be thinking about in order to build a successful community 53:56 How to agree in a moment of disagreement 55:54 The vetting process for the Baby Bathwater community 58:12 In the process of building the community, what have you learned about yourselves? 1:02:29 What does it mean to be a conscious creator? 1:07:21 Closing Remarks 

Do you want to experience an adventure within entrepreneurial reality? In this episode of the Happy Hustle Podcast, I chat with Hollis Carter, co-founder of Baby BathWater Institute. Hollis and I talk about organizing outdoor events, masterminding, and networking.   Hollis is a longtime serial entrepreneur, avid outdoorsman, and a purveyor of good times. He bootstrapped a handful of DTC online businesses he has since exited.   His experiences and observations have led him toward co-founding the Baby Bathwater Institute, where he works with the world's leading minds and entrepreneurs to cultivate meaningful relationships. If you're looking for an entrepreneurial support system where you receive tangible business value, apply today at https://babybathwater.com/apply/   In this episode, we cover:   [00:31:48:25] Cultivate Mutual Beneficial Relationships[00:40:03:00] Learning Your Customer's Behavior[00:50:00:21] Create Clarity & Balance[00:51:14:08] Happy Hustle Hacks [Health, Money, Entrepreneurship, Spirituality][00:55:01:28] Rapid-fire questions What does Happy Hustlin mean to you?  Hollis says to make it fun and something exciting for you, and obviously having resources part of it. So if you could tie something you love doing into something that provides for you, then like you, have the ultimate win and that's key. Connect with Hollishttps://www.instagram.com/hollisc/https://www.facebook.com/holliscarterhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/hollis-carter-9103195/  Connect with Cary!https://www.instagram.com/cary__jack/https://www.facebook.com/SirCaryJackhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/cary-jack-kendzior/https://twitter.com/thehappyhustlehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFDNsD59tLxv2JfEuSsNMOQ/featured  Get a free copy of his new book,  The Happy Hustle, 10 Alignments to Avoid Burnout & Achieve Blissful Balance https://www.thehappyhustlebook.com/  Sign up for The Journey: 10 Days To Become a Happy Hustler Online Course http://www.thehappyhustle.com/JourneyApply to the Montana Mastermind Epic Camping Adventure https://caryjack.com/montana “It's time to Happy Hustle, a blissfully balanced life you love, full of passion, purpose, and positive impact!” Episode Sponsor Did you know that 4 out of 5 Americans are magnesium deficient?  And almost everyone is at suboptimal levels. And that's a big problem because magnesium is involved in more than 600 biochemical reactions in our body. Now here's what most people DON'T know: taking just any magnesium supplement won't solve your problem because most supplements use the cheapest kinds that your body can't use or absorb. That's why I exclusively recommend Magnesium Breakthrough. It's the only full-spectrum magnesium supplement with 7 unique forms of magnesium that your body can actually use and absorb. When you get all 7 critical forms of magnesium, pretty much every function in your body gets upgraded... from your brain... to your sleep... pain, and inflammation...and less stress. Here comes the best part: the makers of Magnesium Breakthrough - BiOptimizers - are having an incredible Black Friday special offer from November 21st to 29th. You can get - not only Magnesium Breakthrough - but all of BiOptimizers best in class products with 25% off. BiOptimizers only offers this discount once a year, so don't miss out. Just go to http://www.bioptimizers.com/happy and enter code happy10 to get 25% off any order.   I assure you that all BiOptimizers supplements are best in class. If for some reason you feel differently, you can get a full refund, no questions asked. They are so confident that they offer a 365-day money-back guarantee!

Hollis Carter is an entrepreneur and avid skier who, after founding many companies in his career, recently became the co-founder of the Baby Bathwater Institute, a membership-based community of entrepreneurs with a focus on cultivating natural, mutually beneficial relationships. Since his business relied on many in-person events, it was quite affected by the Covid 19 pandemic and subsequent restrictions. During this time of cancellations and being stuck at home, Hollis thought of a way to add value to the members during this new situation and started to offer a series of services with a performance-based model. This model quickly grew and he ended up selling it before actually having to fully build an agency. In this interview, he talked about the process of building and growing an agency to over $4 million and then selling it, all during a pandemic. 3 Golden Nuggets Growing an agency during Covid. Before the pandemic, Hollis was organizing many in-person events. Once they were canceled because of this new situation, he realized he had a perfect opportunity to offer a new service that would offer value to members of his mastermind. There was already a business relationship and he knew their products and believed in them. So he got ready to work under a performance-based model. “It was really very simple,” he says. The offer included podcast interviews, email lists, and content sites. He spent on setting up all the automation and tracking and found someone to handle that. And of course, under this model he was working with clients, not for them. Simplifying the offer. How can you make things simpler for you? First of all, don't just take a good deal. This agency had the advantage of having a group of companies whose product they trusted. Even then, our guest says, they took people who were so product-focused that we were going to get the content and the angles they needed. People who knew they needed to be told how to market this product. They also let clients use the work they were creating and focused on the 10% that drove revenue. However, there are some things they would do differently a second time around: setting a flat fee and, instead of complicated spreadsheets just telling the client “here's the number that came in, this is our cut,” would save a lot of time. Finally, figuring out how to set expectations of timeline, having a written document with a timeline that the client can reread instead of emailing you questions. Pulling from other industries. Hollis believes in taking knowledge from other industries into your own. He makes sure to have participants from different types of businesses in his masterminds and sustains there's always nuggets that you can pull from other industry practices that might not exist in a niche that you're opening, like what he has learned about hiring from the hotel space. He encourages others to give themselves a chance step outside what they know and learn something new that they can implement in their business from an unexpected source. Sponsors and Resources Ninja Cat: Today's episode is sponsored by Ninja Cat, a digital marketing performance management platform where you can unify your data, create beautiful, insightful reports and presentations that will help you grow your business. Head over to ninjacat.io/masterclass to enjoy an exclusive offer for podcast listeners. Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio | Stitcher | Radio FM Growing an Agency Fast to Over $4 Million and Selling Quick Jason: [00:00:00] What's up, agency owners? Jason Swenk here. I have another amazing show guest. We're going to talk about how when COVID hit, they formed an agency and ramped it up to over $4 million and sold it, during COVID. So it's a really cool episode and you're going to enjoy my guest. So let's go ahead and get into it. Hey, Hollis. Welcome to the show. Hollis: [00:00:29] Hey, man. Thanks for having me. Jason: [00:00:30] Pleasure to have you on. So for the people that have not heard of you or met you at one of your cool events, tell us who you are and what do you guys do? Hollis: [00:00:39] Yeah. My name is Hollis Carter. Living in Boulder, Colorado, but originally from Georgia, where I kind of got my first start in internet marketing stuff. I was like early in college and built a couple of online businesses and luckily had one that did pretty well and sold that. And then I moved to Colorado and did this skiing thing for a while and, uh, living in the mountains and it was great, but I could only talk about skiing and snowboarding and mountain biking with people. So, I'm now a front ranger living in Boulder and enjoy it and got back in the mix of things. Our main business is called the Baby Bathwater Institute. You've come out to one of our events that we had at out mountain. And, uh, I started, my other businesses based on the thing that I use to learn… Like no one was really teaching relevant stuff in the late nineties, early two thousands. So to do it, I thought let's sit at the bar and a lobby at a conference and got most of my nuggets. And so when we had some free time, me and my now business partner who were lobby con buddies for like a decade… We started hosting these events and the whole idea was curating nice people who are in the grow and scale phase and the actual founders of their business. And in a lot of different industries that we could draw knowledge from different places, less of a kind of echo chamber mastermind of people doing the same thing. Cause there's a lot of value in those, but it's very linear. This was more of organic group meetings to have fun and, um, draw things from other industries and stuff. But we have agency people, we've got guys from hotels, we've got guys from e comm businesses… I guess I say people, not guys, cause we have plenty of girls too. We've been doing it for about eight years and I love it. Compared to the businesses I've done before, it's probably the dumbest business model. Cause it's overhead-intensive, time-intensive, relationship intensive. But I actually like it. So we're doing it for years and we'll probably do it for a very long time and really enjoy it. Jason: [00:02:37] Very cool. And COVID hit you guys really hard because your whole thing is about live experiences and that kind of stuff, uh, which are a lot of fun. And so tell us about like… cause we were talking a couple of weeks ago, you were like, man, I couldn't do these live events and that's really what the membership was for. So we gave all this money back to the members because we couldn't do live events. But I started an agency kind of by accident and it quickly grew. So talk about how did you grow the agency so quick? What did you do? Because a lot of people are looking at going, and I've seen a lot of growth in agencies over during COVID, but yours was really pretty, pretty good. So tell us a little bit more about that. Hollis: [00:03:18] I think it was, it was different because much of it was born out just starting that momentum sort of grew versus sitting with a very particular plan. Where Baby Bathwater came less out of need more out of want, this came out of need. And so there… Also, we are locked in our house and I could stay focused on, cause I wasn't doing… Going to conferences or traveling or doing things. But I think the main frame was okay, just postpone slash canceled, who knows a handful of events. We basically lost about two and a half million bucks in that decision. Which happened before people in the states even believed that this COVID thing was gonna affect us because our president was in Italy. And so we saw it a little early. We knew we didn't want to let people go. There was no PPP stuff yet. And me and my partner, Michael, we always knew we could always fall back on our marketing skills, which is kind of what got us to a place to even know what people wanted from a mastermind. So our personal interests has been in the health and wellness sort of space. We see lots of stuff that's crap. And we see lots of stuff that's good. And we happened to know a few people who have amazing products that are members. But they're product guys, they're not marketing people at all. And so we kind of went in with the thesis of how do we enhance the people who are already members value and we can't do anything for 'em, but also don't run any risk of screwing up the relationship if we get in bed with them and do something different than what we already have a good relationship with. So, I mean, it basically started with four products. I knew we had people in the group who had platforms. That love the products, cause they give them out at events. They love them. And I know they have a lot of traffic and I knew these people have great products. Didn't even know what I'm talking about. Like you should just set up this campaign and get them on the podcast and set up an email. You can track it with affiliate links… And all like, can you just do that for me? Kind of thing. So, I mean, it was actually super, super simple. Essentially, out of a network license for post affiliate pro so that we could track all of the clicks and conversions and build it very slowly, not a lot of overhead. It costed maybe like five grand or something we spent getting set up and all that automation and tracking. We did have a really hard time finding someone to help us run that once it worked. We ended up finding the guy who made the tutorial videos for the original version of it and tracked him down. And it was the first hire because it was complicated and how he set up the company structure. But the basics of it was we had people get podcast, email lists and content sites. I mean, people have great products that had a unique hook. It couldn't just be like, like we did have a CBD, which is a crowded market with a bunch of people at all look the same. But this had clinical trials, some studies, so I could go get functional medicine doctors to say something unique about it and they could write a real piece of content. So really we just took the friction out of the middle, which was, it's hard for the product owners to focus on these things that are ancillary. Then buy an ad that are not doing very diligent tasks that can scale these like one-off promotions and managing people is hectic. Like if I had a brand, I wouldn't want to do stuff we were doing because I know the costliness of managing all these relationships and getting it on the calendar and getting all the stuff they need. But in our unique situation, we had time. We… the money. We wanted to serve the people who we wanted to have back when things came back online. And so it made sense to keep calling them chatting and working it out and figuring it out. So our deal is that we took... it's very minimal, it's just an average, about 10% of the revenue for 12 months of the customer. And we would do a, you know, a multi-tiered campaign where, you know, perhaps the person to get on a podcast and do an interview about the product that was very educational and content-heavy. So it didn't just come out of the blue of this promotion. It was like ease into with good questions and then we'd do an article. And then eventually kind of like an email with a special offer and a landing page just for that person. And like something I've been back in early on was when one big person promotes the rest. So we usually just go for, you know, one or two people we have a good relationship that have a big audience and then their affiliates would see it happen. And we'd get a few more of those. But we did, because it was so hands-on, mess around with people who could send, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands of clicks and had an audience that already trusted them. So very boutique, very niche, but where it worked, very effective. I'd say the biggest bottleneck was calendars. You could lock in a deal and they might not have three months so they could do it. But we hit a point where we were going to have to start hiring more people, we had a tech guy, an administrative helper in an industry that me and Michael were putting together. Then we hired someone to go start recruiting more promoters, and then we need to start hiring writers and creatives. At that point, we actually ended up selling the business so that we didn't have to build an agency. The hard part of building an agency, managing the creatives, training, we never really hit that point. Although it looks like I'll go back to the trough and do it again. But I mean, really it was about that simple. It was like performance-based so we couldn't mess up relationships. And also we didn't want anyone to ever tell us, hey, you have to do this for me. Uh, it usually mostly came from the merchants with the products. They'd be like, hey, where are the traffic? And we're like, hey, we don't, we don't work for you. We're not on a retainer, but it's coming, it's coming. Then we'll get paid. Well, we only get paid when we make sales. So that helped us not get stress out. Jason: [00:09:32] Do you feel like you have to comb through mountains of data, jumping between multiple platforms to spreadsheets, to slide decks and backing in, in order to create performance reports for your clients? It's a constant drain on your agency's time and resources. And that's where our friends at Ninja Cat can help. Ninja Cat is a digital marketing performance management platform that really unifies your marketing data and empowers your agency to automate insightful, beautiful client reports that scale. Now Ninja Cat cat keeps your marketing performance and presentation tools in one place, freeing you up from manual data wrangling. And it really gives your team more time to focus on strategy and growing your business. And for a limited time, my smart agency podcast listeners will receive $500 ninja credit. When you go to ninjacat.io/masterclass to claim your offer and schedule a demo. That's ninjacat.io/masterclass. Yeah, I see a lot of people going the performance route. You know, one of our mastermind members, David, he was always constantly under the million mark and just trying to figure out how to get over it. And he switched to this model and got a million dollars last year during COVID, just from one client for the performance deal. Kind of like what you guys are doing, or you guys did or about to do again. I guess we can talk about that. But I liked how, when you're the performance model, they can't tell you what you can and can't do, or a timeline. You're just like, I'm putting a campaign together on our own dime, our own resources. This is what you're agreed to pay. I really like that. But I also like too, that, you know, this is a home run. Like it's a good product. I want people to not kind of overlook that and just don't go up to anybody and go give me 10% of all your sales. And plus too, you guys had relationships with them so you knew you could trust them. Because it gets really tricky sometimes when you're like, yeah, give me 10% of sales and they could the books however they want. Hollis: [00:11:54] Yes. So that was an interesting piece of... The one thing that I guess is there is we did have these relationships we've built over almost 20 years now. Which, if you just do it on the street, we couldn't start from scratch with that. So that was like our one… competitively used to do something here, but the book side of things, we actually knew how bad that can get. So we control that this was a bottleneck and business model, as far as administration and just workload. I kept everything clean, but we were starting to get super risky. So we invoiced the merchant for the payments and wrote to the affiliates. We did everything. So we essentially became a bank taking the money, moving the money versus paying out of their own affiliate program. It started to get pretty hectic. You get one monthly payment. We're trying to keep the relationships paying on time. We never ran into any issues, but you could see it coming as things got more complex. Jason: [00:12:52] Well, I'm sure the IRS probably set up red flags of all the money moving around. Hollis: [00:12:57] Oh, it was crazy that was passing through and yeah… And so like in hindsight, if we do this again, won't do the complicated equation where we have 12 months tail customer. We also calculated a refund risk thing. You know, now it's going to be one time upfront with a small fee for us that continues, but like the calculating the refund piece to try to mitigate risks. Like I think we went into it wanting to be like a no-brainer where it's like, hey, we've taken all the risks where X, Y, and Z, that you won't have to do anything for. Our contract is like the nicest thing in the world. If this was the only thing we were doing, and we were focused on it that thing would have sort of bit us in the ass, as it started to grow. But it worked well. It was boutique small. And we only did this from March to October. So it was like a significant period of time, but you can see all the forethought we didn't put into it with, oh man, the amount of time to calculate these things if I would've... There's a bunch of things we do if we really want to scale it simpler. If we do this again, you know. Jason: [00:14:05] What are some of the other things that you do simpler. Because most people listening here, this is their full-time gig. They weren't just looking at like, well, let's just try this project out, which that's really pretty cool that you guys are able to do that. Hollis: [00:14:19] Yeah. I think, you know… fed the horse because we had all the relationships and we knew this I'd stayed up drinking wine with every person in the thing all night. I knew we could do well with good products, which you highlighted, is like products that kind of sell themselves. And then the owner of those products, I think this is the simplest thing is don't just take a good deal. We only took people who were so product-focused that we were going to get the content and the angles we needed. All they cared about is being the best. But they didn't care about was telling us how to market it, that they actually wanted us to tell them. They would use the campaigns to inform all of the rest of their staff. One thing we did do well and make it easy was, hey, use the work we're creating. We don't need any cut of it. You can take our landing pages, reuse them. If you get your own affiliates, you can run them through your program. You know, just do that. Cause we only focused on that 10% that drove our revenue. The things we probably would have done different or not such a complicated calculation of the things. I remember when I first started in some of the affiliate stuff, people would hold back a percentage for refunds. There was like a whole equation. But we made everything else so simple for them. We didn't need to go, that… We could have just said here's a flat fee. Here's a number. Honestly, it would have saved one employee 40 hours a month in weird stuff. And in places where ambiguity… where also the customer on both sides has to read a spreadsheet that's complicated versus like here's the number that came in and here is the cut… over. I think simplicity would have helped a lot in that sense. And then other simplicity things, I think just figuring out how to set expectations of timeline. Even though we didn't work for those people, said it on the phone, in the conversations of like, hey, we might get a campaign locked in that's going to be out this far. But then they get in their own world. Like, where's the stuff? And I'm like, no, we already told you this. And so, one outline. Here's how this works, one the phone. Before you email me any questions, reread this. This is the rules of engagement and how it works. But that I would say once it worked and had momentum, changing the relationships from I work for you to we work together changed the whole dynamic of it versus, you know, just collecting a flat fee. Jason: [00:16:49] Yeah. I love that of like we work together rather than you're the dog barking orders to me. And even if you don't do a performance model. Hollis: [00:16:58] Yeah. It feels like you kind of got to do that sometimes. Cause I feel like that's how we like learned. If you worked in a restaurant going up or we… Whatever, like that's how it was. When you're getting paid, you just got to say yes, please, and as you wish. Which honestly doesn't even serve the client that well. Sometimes you're doing shit that they don't even need to get done. They just wanted to show that they tell you to do something. But we're only going to focus on brings in dollars. It doesn't bog down either of our teams. And that's why we switched the contract that you can leave whenever you want. You know, the psychology there was great because it was like, we're paying equally versus that, you know, walked into some long retainer and some big set up fees and things like that. Obviously you have to have some results for that to be worth it, um, for the relationship to stay. But if you know you can deliver on it, then it's probably better to be in a, a mutual relationship where either party can leave in 30 days notice versus trying to lock in really long-term deals. Jason: [00:17:58] Yeah, exactly. Well, awesome. Well, this is amazing, Hollis. Is there anything I didn't ask you that you think would benefit the audience listening in? Hollis: [00:18:05] Listen, I mean, it's funny just because it's a friend of mine that just got off a call with one of our members who, who set them up on like a little dinner in the same town. And I forget the book references basically it's about taking knowledge from other industries and bringing them into your own. So what I saw was great was a lot of the product companies who were here like some of them were in retail and other things. They just didn't know how to pull stuff from other areas. There's always like these levers that you can pull from other industry practices that might not exist in a niche that you're opening that you're trying to mark it as that in. And so I was really, all we did was just start reaching into other tools that there's no way they're ever going to get to this. So obviously we can take over this part for them and we're not also dealing with the dynamics. So there's someone in the house already being paid to do this or anything like that. It's pretty clean that way. But I think we just learned that from sitting in these events from people like, you know, we have some hiring stuff we've learned from guys in the hotel space, which I never would have thought to learn that until I sat into that at one of these events or whatever. So I've never seen through blinders. Like it's good to be focused and linear, but I think there's just so many cool nuggets in different industries you can pull and bring in that we all just kind of forget to take a glance at. Jason: [00:19:30] Awesome. Well, cool. Well, what's a website people go and check you guys out? Hollis: [00:19:35] Just babybathwater.com. Jason: [00:19:37] Awesome. Well, thanks so much for coming on the show. If you guys enjoyed this episode, make sure you go to their website. They have really cool events. I went to the one in, in Utah. And it was really pretty amazing. And if you guys want to really grow and scale your agency faster, what got you here is not going to get you to the next level and you need to do a number of different things. Because probably what got you to this level is from referrals and word of mouth, or maybe you selling, or maybe one salesperson. The biggest thing that you need is systems in place in order to grow and scale faster and get to the point where you can pick and choose. If you want to do that, I want you guys to check out our agency playbook. Go to jasonswenk.com/playbook and check it out. And it might just be the thing that will get you to the next level. So go do that now. And until next time, have a Swenk day.

Hollis Carter, a 23-year veteran with the SBA and a Hilco Strategic Alliance partner, discusses the advantages of debtor workouts versus foreclosures.  He also covers the major impediments to debtor workouts, as well as situations where a note sale is likely the most appropriate collection strategy.

Hollis Carter is a serial entrepreneur and avid skier. He started his entrepreneurial journey in the early 2000's, founding multiple companies, including a SAAS company he built into a 7-figure virtual business in less than a year. In 2013, he became a founding investor in Utah's Powder Mountain Ski Resort, where he now develops real estate and hosts events. His experiences (and observations) led him toward co-founding the Baby Bathwater Institute, a unique membership-based community comprised of some of the world's leading minds and entrepreneurs, with a focus on cultivating natural, mutually beneficial relationships.

Hollis Carter, a 23-year veteran with the SBA and a Hilco strategic alliance partner, joins the Hilco Global Smarter Perspectives Podcast Series to discuss the best practices in problem loan management during challenging times.

Hollis Carter is a serial entrepreneur and avid skier. He started his entrepreneurial journey in the early 2000’s, founding multiple companies, including a SAAS company he built into a 7-figure virtual business in less than a year. In 2013, he became a founding investor in Utah’s Powder Mountain Ski Resort, where he now develops real estate and hosts events. His experiences (and observations) led him toward co-founding the Baby Bathwater Institute, a unique membership-based community comprised of some of the world’s leading minds and entrepreneurs, with a focus on cultivating natural, mutually beneficial relationships. Don't forget to grab your FREE seat at the Growth Now Summit! www.growthnowsummit.com 

Hollis Carter, 23 year veteran with SBA and a Hilco strategic alliance partner, joins Steve Katz to discuss 504 Liquidation best practices.

Co-Founders Hollis Carter and Michael Lovitch have demonstrated ‘what happens when a couple of pseudo-intellectual hacks attempt to create a worthwhile entrepreneurial community.’ Serial Entrepreneur Hollis Carter admits that he turns his ‘outlets’ into businesses.  Carter talks with Roland today about his businesses, and specifically the Mastermind, Baby Bathwater Institute, that ties them all together.  "YEAH, THE NAME IS ODD, BUT DON'T LET THAT FOOL YOU." - FORBES Listen Today For, How this strangely-named Institute came about. “And we were like; we should do something together cause we go to eat like five times a week, and we need a credit card together.” Hollis Carter. Their alternative “Lifestyle” approach to a Business Mastermind. How they created stability by shifting their events business to a membership model that had events as one of the benefits. The downside of a Lifestyle business. Their 'non-mission statement' that provides direction.  The unique values that Baby Bathwater installs in their membership.  How they’ve used their marketing background to serve Baby Bathwater.  “That was the only time we actually ran any marketing. It was more for the intention of diversification than leads”. - Hollis Carter. Plus, Tips On Facilitating Networking in a Non-Business way. The carefully planned ‘light side touches’ that make all the difference. “There’s a lot of little touches, but our big one is not to make anything feel too structured…but we spend lots of time planning it so that they all kind of happen in concert without anyone really feeling it forced upon them.” Hollis Carter. • His Ask, Give, Share Model “Entrepreneurs are inherently competitive, and they seem to be competing quite a bit to give more. I love it” - Hollis Carter. And more! Thanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to Business Lunch with Roland Frasier? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on ApplePodcasts and leave us an honest review! Your feedback will help us improve the show and connect us with more high flyers like you. You can also find us on your go-to podcast platform here.  Find Hollis Carter On Instagram Visit the Baby Bathwater Site. Follow Roland Frasier On Facebook  On Instagram  Through his Website   Follow Business Lunch Podcast On Twitter On YouTube Thanks so much for joining us this week. Want to subscribe to Business Lunch with Roland Frasier? Have some feedback you’d like to share? Connect with us on ApplePodcasts and leave us an honest review! Your feedback will help us improve the show and connect us with more high flyers like you. Click to find us on Apple Podcasts and other podcast players. Business Lunch with Roland Frasier is brought to you by Scalable Podcasts.

If you own a business, you’ve probably thought about starting a mastermind group at one point or another. You might even have one right now. I’ve said for years that there are only two ways to change your circumstances in life, and that’s by acquiring new information or meeting new people. Well, a mastermind is without a doubt, the most valuable tool in the world to acquire both at the same time. Events are great, but there’s nothing like the connection you can build when you spend 2-3 days with a group of people in an intimate setting. The levels of trust, transparency, and connection that can be created in that kind of setting, just can’t be replicated any other way. And if you can get paid to host one of your own, well that’s about as good as it gets. But with that being said, starting and running a successful mastermind that’s built to stand the test of time isn’t easy. I’ve been a part of a few myself, and today I get to introduce you to the Co-Founder of my favorite one… Hollis Carter from Baby Bath Water. If you have a successful business, I think you should consider starting a mastermind for your colleagues, and if you do, this an incredibly rare chance to get a behind the curtain look at one of the most dynamic and valuable groups in the world, and how it was built. As you’re about to find out, Baby Bath Water is unlike anything else you’ve ever heard of, from the way they vet their potential members, to the amount of time, money, and effort they put into turning all of their events into an unforgettable experience. Resources: BabyBathwater.com Follow Hollis on Instagram | Facebook Music: Song: Clarx - Shakedown [NCS Release] Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds Free Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/Shakedown Watch: http://youtu.be/qJT0mc3q6Lg

James Keith and  Hollis Carter join Steve Katz on the Hilco Global Smarter Perspectives Podcast Series to discuss optimizing recovery values in the face of 504 liquidations due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

In this episode I talk with Hollis Carter about his entrepreneur mastermind group Baby Bathwater, the power of networking and how he is navigating the business challenges brought by the Coronavirus pandemic. Hollis Carter is a serial entrepreneur and avid skier. He started his entrepreneurial journey in the early 2000's, founding multiple companies, including a SAAS company he built into a 7-figure virtual business in less than a year. In 2013, he became a founding investor in Utah's Powder Mountain Ski Resort, where he now develops real estate and hosts events. His experiences (and observations) led him toward co-founding the Baby Bathwater Institute, a unique membership-based community comprised of some of the world's leading minds and entrepreneurs, with a focus on cultivating natural, mutually beneficial relationships. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/calvincorreli/message

Today we talk to Hollis Carter, co-founder of The Baby Bathwater Institute. Alright, I’m going to give you guys a second to close your eyes and listen to that name one more time: Baby Bathwater. Without restricting that creative mind of yours, try and guess what his company does. Alright, ready? If you guessed it was a group that hosts outdoor networking conferences with healthy food, unlimited booze, outdoor activities, and live music, then you are kinda close. Hollis would probably rephrase that description and say that it isn’t a networking conference, but a connection conference. The word networking has a lot of professional baggage, so Hollis is trying to distance his events from that of the corporate vernacular. He’s creating an experience that guests will cherish for years to come and connection is something that Hollis has been promoting his entire life. Ever since he was a young boy, Hollis has worked to foster an environment focused on community. In fact, Hollis’ discovery concerning the tenets of an ideal community can be traced back to his childhood experiences with his parents.

MAKING BANK is now a weekly YouTube TV show / iTunes Podcast full of #Success and #Business with Josh. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3: bit.ly/TumblrSubscribeSubscribe to iTunes: bit.ly/JoshF_ItunesSUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes and bonuses: bit.ly/JoshFSubscribe === SUMMARY === In episode 13 of season 4 of Making Bank, Josh Felber talks with Hollis Carter. He is not only an avid skier but a serial entrepreneur behind multiple companies including SAS which had built a seven-figure virtual business in 2013. He is a co-founder of Baby Bathwater Institute, a unique membership-based community comprised of some of the world's most leading minds and entrepreneurs with a focus on cultivating natural, mutually beneficial relationships for their next event.     Hollis is also the founding investor of Utah’s powder mountain ski resort where he develops real estate and host events. Later this year, his company Baby Bathwater will be hosting 150 to 200 entrepreneurs in an island off the cost of Croatia. This man is totally awesome!   Now he shares, his journey as a successful entrepreneur including some strategies on how to get started with business, asking the right questions, and overcoming the biggest challenges of being an entrepreneur.   Listen as he shares how his injury as a rafting guide led him to an awesome discovery of his entrepreneurial talent, including some personal advices on how to get into investing, and more exciting information about Baby Bathwater, as well as the following:    ✔ his rollercoaster ride as an ordinary rafting guide to a successful entrepreneur  ✔ top strategies that lead to success  ✔ what are the right questions to ask before investing  ✔ how answering a hyped-up advertisement turned into million-dollar earning in college  ✔ top skills you should have to be a successful entrepreneur  ✔ biggest lessons he learned along the way  ✔ biggest challenges of being an entrepreneur  ✔ all about Baby Backwater Institute and its upcoming even in Croatia     And much more!   #MakingBank, #HollisCarter, #joshfelber.com, #josh, #felber, #entrepreneur, #MakingBankS4E13, #marketing, #branding http://pix.joshfelber.com/HollisCarter-Medium === ABOUT Josh Felber === As a High-Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 billion annual revenues), I’ve been: • 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy• Voted the Best Personal Finance Expert in 2014 (National GOBankingRates competition)• A contributor to articles on Entrepreneur.com, Inc.com, & Forbes.com• Recognized multiple times in the National Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs• Expert guest on NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX• Keynote Speaker• Host of Making Bank TV Show I’ve helped my clients achieve: • Business growth from 6 to 7 figures & doubled revenues in as short as 6 months• Sales growth in 25% within 3 months using online and digital marketing• A $0 to $30 Million company valuation in just 9 years Get daily Success Tips on FB: www.FB.com/JoshFelber10x Meet Josh at his WEBSITE: bit.ly/JoshFelber Read Josh’s BLOG on: bit.ly/JoshF_BLOG Follow Josh on TWITTER: bit.ly/JoshF_TWITTER Follow Josh on LINKEDIN: bit.ly/JoshF_LINKEDIN

MAKING BANK is now a weekly YouTube TV show / iTunes Podcast full of #Success and #Business with Josh. Subscribe to the Podcast MP3: bit.ly/TumblrSubscribeSubscribe to iTunes: bit.ly/JoshF_ItunesSUBSCRIBE for weekly episodes and bonuses: bit.ly/JoshFSubscribe === SUMMARY === In episode 13 of season 4 of Making Bank, Josh Felber talks with Hollis Carter. He is not only an avid skier but a serial entrepreneur behind multiple companies including SAS which had built a seven-figure virtual business in 2013. He is a co-founder of Baby Bathwater Institute, a unique membership-based community comprised of some of the world's most leading minds and entrepreneurs with a focus on cultivating natural, mutually beneficial relationships for their next event. Hollis is also the founding investor of Utah’s powder mountain ski resort where he develops real estate and host events. Later this year, his company Baby Bathwater will be hosting 150 to 200 entrepreneurs in an island off the cost of Croatia. This man is totally awesome! Now he shares, his journey as a successful entrepreneur including some strategies on how to get started with business, asking the right questions, and overcoming the biggest challenges of being an entrepreneur. Listen as he shares how his injury as a rafting guide led him to an awesome discovery of his entrepreneurial talent, including some personal advices on how to get into investing, and more exciting information about Baby Bathwater, as well as the following: ✔ his rollercoaster ride as an ordinary rafting guide to a successful entrepreneur ✔ top strategies that lead to success ✔ what are the right questions to ask before investing ✔ how answering a hyped-up advertisement turned into million-dollar earning in college ✔ top skills you should have to be a successful entrepreneur ✔ biggest lessons he learned along the way ✔ biggest challenges of being an entrepreneur ✔ all about Baby Backwater Institute and its upcoming even in Croatia And much more! #MakingBank, #HollisCarter, #joshfelber.com, #josh, #felber, #entrepreneur, #MakingBankS4E13, #marketing, #branding http://pix.joshfelber.com/HollisCarter-Medium === ABOUT Josh Felber === As a High-Performance Coach and Start-Up Advisor, I help business owners, entrepreneurs, & millennials understand where you can grow your business with fast proven results to obtain wealth and find freedom. A serial entrepreneur with 28+ years of starting and growing multiple multi-million dollar companies (including one with $5 billion annual revenues), I’ve been: • 2x Best-Selling Author as a co-author with Steve Forbes & Brian Tracy• Voted the Best Personal Finance Expert in 2014 (National GOBankingRates competition)• A contributor to articles on Entrepreneur.com, Inc.com, & Forbes.com• Recognized multiple times in the National Who’s Who of Entrepreneurs• Expert guest on NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX• Keynote Speaker• Host of Making Bank TV Show I’ve helped my clients achieve: • Business growth from 6 to 7 figures & doubled revenues in as short as 6 months• Sales growth in 25% within 3 months using online and digital marketing• A $0 to $30 Million company valuation in just 9 years Get daily Success Tips on FB: www.FB.com/JoshFelber10x Meet Josh at his WEBSITE: bit.ly/JoshFelber Read Josh’s BLOG on: bit.ly/JoshF_BLOG Follow Josh on TWITTER: bit.ly/JoshF_TWITTER Follow Josh on LINKEDIN: bit.ly/JoshF_LINKEDIN

"What happens when a couple of pseudo intellectual hacks attempt to create a worthwhile entrepreneurial community?" Taken DIRECTLY from the Baby Bathwater About Page and placed here to grab your attention. Intro brought to you & Sponsored by one of the fabulous founders of our NEW NED (CBD) PARTNERSHIP -> GO HERE TO SUPPORT TOO! Want his name? Tune in to find out! Connect with Hollis Carter TODAY - Check It BELOW! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/hollisc/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/holliscarter WEBSITE: https://babybathwater.com/   Connect with Daniel Eisenman BELOW! Listen to the full version! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/t... _ STAY IN TOUCH ↣WEBSITE: http://breakingnormal.com ↣FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/DanielEisenman ↣INSTAGRAM: https://instagram.com/DanielEisenman ↣TWITTER: https://twitter.com/DanielEisenman _ Daniel wrote a book! Get the book on Amazon! https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071SBC7NC/...

Hollis Carter ~ Co-Founder of The Baby Bathwater Institute ~ Current Series ~ 100 Interviews with 100 Major Influencers Hey podcast listeners, today we are hopping on the mic with Hollis Carter. Hollis is an internet marketer from back in the day when it was a Wild Wild West show. He has had quite a bit of success and one of the first people to create a video sales letter. Throughout his years as an entrepreneur, he kept going to these conferences that were all about “pitching and selling”. After many different conferences, his now partner Michael Lovich and he got to talking about creating a community of high-level entrepreneurs and high-caliber people that forbid ‘pitching and selling' at their events. Thus, they created a community of entrepreneurs called Baby Bathwater Institute. Each year, they have an event on an island in Croatia called Baby Bathwater Island. Last year, I attended and I was blown away by the content. A friend of mine said it was kind of like Mario Bros. the video game, and warping from Level 2 to Level 12 in a matter of a few short days. I couldn't agree more, and as soon as I left the event last year, I knew I wanted to attend again this year. That event is coming up soon, at the end of June on an Island in Croatia. On the show today, Hollis and I chat about the experience of being on the island and what it like running a community of high-profile entrepreneurs, influencers and thought leaders. One thing that I really like about their events, is that there are no paid professional speakers. If someone is sharing their content, it is because they have proven their methods, and they are there to share and be a part of the community. 02.55:  A Bit About Baby Bathwater Island & Hollis 08:10:  What is it like on Baby Bathwater Island? 16:35:  Having No Sales Community 18:05:  Spoilers for Workshops on the Island in 2019 21:05:  A Business Mastermind Like Summer Camp 23:30:  Curating a Community of Influential People   Contact Info: https://babybathwater.com/

Alex Brown is a Canadian born frother and pioneer to the modern day beard for men around the world.His business, The Beard Club is a viral success with 200+ million video views and over 10 million in revenue in their first year.As a result of this and grinding his way through his 20’s across many fields of business and life experience, Alex now spends his time cruising the world in radical party shirts meeting radical people to help them learn and grow, while he does much of the same.We discuss the pivotal frothers in his life and how big a musical influence has been. Bands like the Beatles connect him to his past and continue to inspire his future and it’s a beautiful thing to behold.We also take a look at Alex’s close group of anchoring mentors and their habits and traits that have inspired many of his successes.Check out the links below for where to find everyone and everything from the discussion with a maestro.Finding the Frothers Playlist: https://spoti.fi/2Dva5jrConnect with Alex:Website:http://thealexbrown.com/Acceleratorhttps://www.sexynerd.co/Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/eh.brown/Linkedin:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alextbrown/Connect with Benny:Website: https://www.bennywallington.com/Linkedin: https://au.linkedin.com/in/bennywallingtonInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/bennywallington/Medium: https://medium.com/@BennyDubyaFrothy Notes: Ron Lynchhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-lynch-8115a57/Ron with Future guest Chris Reynolds - CRACKING!!!https://thebusinessmethod.podbean.com/e/ep372-taking-gopro-from-600k-to-650-million-ron-lynch/Paul McCartney - Let it Be (live)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6T5C-jzSH0Mike Dillard - Powerhousehttps://mikedillard.com/The Beard Clubhttps://thebeardclub.com/Where we methttps://babybathwater.com/Hollis Carter (Cofounder BBW)http://holliscarter.com/System of A Down (the classic)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSvFpBOe8eYTay Tayhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfWlot6h_JMBackstreet Boys - Greatest Hits / stop it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-hmJMgyZicPlastic Free Mermaidhttp://iquitplastics.com/

It's the first Real Dirt Hempisode! The legal hemp industry is taking off faster than some entrepreneurs can handle. While some are already struggling to stay afloat, many are capitalizing on the new legal industry, establishing the ground work for a new, multi-billion dollar industry. In the first Hmepisode, Chip talks with Graham Carlson, Mike Leago and Hollis Carter. Graham is one of the originators of Charlotte's Web CBD, one of the first CBD companies in the United States. Mike Leago created the International Hemp Exchange, an international marketplace for hemp farmers, breeders, and processors. Hollis Carter has created a top-shelf, smokeable hemp flower product that helps people quit smoking cigarettes, or just enjoy the flavors of quality hemp without the THC high. Roll one up and dive into the future of the legal hemp industry with this episode of The Real Dirt Podcast!

Hollis Carter is a serial entrepreneur from the digital space with an incredible background in internet marketing, sales, and strategy, with? a modern-day philosopher’s outlook on life, and zest for living. Today, Hollis talks about the Baby Bathwater Institute, maintaining balance when working with a partner, transparency in leadership, the importance of quality over quantity, establishing a brand personality, and why we need to be physically present and truly connect with people.On today’s podcast:What is the Baby Bathwater Institute?Maintaining balance when working with a partnerTransparency in leadershipQuality over quantityEstablishing a brand personalityThe importance of connection and being truly present with othersLinks:BabyBathwater.comBabyBathwaterInstitute.comFull show notes at: http://corporateunplugged.com/podcast/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hollis Carter, Co-Founder of Baby Bath Water and the Video Sales Letter ~ Current Series ~ 100 Interviews with 100 Location-Independent Entrepreneurs that have over $1,000,000 in Annual Revenue Hey podcast junkies welcome back to the show and we are excited to share what we have in store for you today! Today the co-founder of Baby Bath Water Institute and internet marketing pro Hollis Carter is joining us on the show!  I know many of you are thinking…”Wait! Did he just say ‘Baby Bathwater Institute' and what does it have to do with internet marketing?” Let me explain.   Our guest today ‘Hollis' is an internet marketer from back in the day and today we chat on a variety of things from the Internet Marketing Wild Wild West, being the original creator of the video sales letter, and earning $4,000,000 then losing $250,000. He is also the co-founder of Baby Bathwater Institute, a private community of entrepreneurs making 7-figures and higher that also host conferences for 7-figure entrepreneurs and higher.   Currently, Baby Bath Water is hosting a retreat on an island in Croatia coming up on June 6th-11th and it will be full of incredible talks, masterminds and fun activities. I will be going and recommend if you can make it to join also. Later in the show Hollis and I chat about the formation of Baby Bathwater and the incredible company it has become today.   “We like feedback. We have really tough skin and we like negative feedback if we can get it, so we can make adjustments from it.” Hollis Carter   03:00: Boulder, Colorado 04:55: Who is Hollis Carter? 11:22: Hollis Creates The First Video Sales Letter Ever, Earns $4 Million and Loses $250,000 18:22: The Formation of Baby Bath Water 22:12: The Internet Marketing Wild Wild West 24:22: The Quit Picking Your Booger Niche 26:51: Understanding Your Learning Style 28:12: Gaining the Privilege of Ethics 35:21: Baby Bathwater Institute Rents an Island in Croatia for 7-Figure Entrepreneurs   “I've noticed when working with entrepreneurs...knowing your learning style is crazy important to figure out how to have success!” Hollis Carter Honorable Mentions:   Product Launch Formula https://jeffwalker.com/programs/   Dry Farm Wines https://www.dryfarmwines.com/   OnnIt Supplements https://www.onnit.com/ Contact Info:   https://babybathwater.com/

Hollis Carter shows you how you can connect with your dream clients and future biz partners... without slogging through boring "business conferences." (And why he takes Baby Bath Water co-founder Michael Lovitch to "marriage counseling." No joke.)

Today we have Michael Lovitch who went from founding the Hypnosis Network to coFounder of Real Dose Nutrition that has had over 360,000 customers to the co founder of Baby BathWater Institute. Our mutual friend David Gonzalez introduced us and said... "Michael has been a friend for many years, he started a seven-figure publishing company and an eight-figure nutritional supplement company. But more importantly, the time and care that he and Hollis put into the Baby BathWater event is nuts…" Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn: [0:55] Jeremy introduces his guest, Michael Lovitch. [2:00] Michael tells his story, the cliff notes version. [5:30] What drove Michael to create Baby BathWater? [10:00] Events that get crazy! [12:00] Lessons learned from the first Baby BathWater event. [21:00] Great advice that Michael has learned along the way. [23:30] Speakers who have made an impact at Baby BathWater events. [28:00] How Michael and his business partner divide their work. [30:30] Filters Michael uses to sort who comes to his events. [35:30] Michael talks about his work with supplements. [40:00] The vision for the future of Baby BathWater. [45:00] Michael talks about how he became a hotwings champion. [48:30] How does Michael’s family fit into his business? In this episode… What would it mean for you to be part of a close knit and transformative entrepreneurial community? Imagine joining a community that cuts through all the clutter and typical bells and whistles that most masterminds have, doesn’t that sound nice? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from entrepreneur and business leader, Michael Lovitch. Michael looked out at the masterminds and networking opportunities available to entrepreneurs like him and got angry that there wasn’t a place that was fun, relaxing, and actually worth his time. That anger fueled his pursuit of a dream called Baby BathWater. To hear more about Michael’s story and what Baby BathWater is all about, make sure to listen to this episode! What is Baby BathWater? Why should busy entrepreneurs and business leaders take the time to join? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from Baby BathWater co-founder, Michael Lovitch. Michael explains how he came to dream up Baby BathWater with his business partner, Hollis Carter and how they got their experiment off the ground with mixed results. It's fascinating to hear such a fresh and out of the box approach to an event model that many business leaders have become disinterested in. Catch all of Michael’s insights and enthusiasm for what they’ve created on this episode! How comfortable are you with sharing your shortcomings? Do you know what they are? Have you taken steps to mitigate the damage they can cause both personally and professionally? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from business leader and entrepreneur Michael Lovitch. Michael talks about his career leading successful businesses and endeavors but he’s not one to shy away from where he’s made mistakes. He goes on to explain how he has been able to understand which areas of business that he’s not able to manage well and how he has been able to make some wonderful connections to help shore up those deficiencies. If you’d like to hear more about Michael’s journey, make sure to listen to this episode! What does teamwork mean to you? How about partnership? Is it an equal division of labor or is something more complicated than that? Imagine approaching a partnership in a way that breeds creativity and freedom. On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from business leader Michael Lovitch. Michael opens up about how his business partnership with Hollis Carter works and how they both come to the partnership with the idea that they want to help free up the other person to do what they excel at. It’s fascinating to hear Michael’s approach to building and maintaining a partnership - make sure you don’t miss this opportunity to hear all about it! Do you have a vision for where you’d like to be personally and professionally in the next five years? Does your company have a vision that they’ve developed and worked to get everyone on board with? On this episode of Inspired Insider, you’ll hear from business leader and entrepreneur Michael Lovitch. Michael goes over how he has set a vision and plan in place that will take his company, Baby BathWater into the next stage of growth and experimentation. Find out what kind of leader it takes to move forward such an innovative and radical new concept like Baby BathWater - leaders like you will find lots of value in what Michael has to offer! Resources Mentioned on this episode Baby BathWater’s website: babybathwater.com Man vs. Food Hypnosis Network   Sponsor for this episode Rise25 is where entrepreneurs of 6,7, and 8 figure businesses come together live and in person every few months to solve their biggest business challenges through this high-level Mastermind group. Each member leaves each week with lifelong friendships and actionable steps to take their business to the next level. Check out Rise25.com - a group run by myself and cofounder John Corcoran. Rise 25 is application only.

Hollis Carter is a speaker and author with special expertise in business development and strategic marketing. He is also the co-founder of the Baby Bathwater Institute Entrepreneur's Mastermind, which is a gathering of like-minded people who discuss paid traffic, conversion, team building, and social media in a setting that is much different than your average summit event.

Hollis is the Founder of 4 successful online businesses – all bootstrapped and turned into 6-7 figure virtual businesses in less than a year. He’s been involved in Internet marketing for 10+ years in various facets. He spends most of his time working on growing the Baby Bathwater Institute and figuring out how to live a happy, healthy life.

Listen to The Top if you want to hear from the worlds TOP entrepreneurs on how much they sold last month, how they are selling it, and what they are selling - 7 days a week in 20 minute interviews! Join the Top Tribe at NathanLatka.com/TheTop   The Top is FOR YOU if you are:   A STUDENT who wants to become the CEO of a $10m company in under 24 months (episode #4)   STUCK in the CORPORATE grind and looking to create a $10k/mo side business so you can quit (episode #7)   An influencer or BLOGGER who wants to make $27k/mo in monthly RECURRING revenue to have the life you want and full CONTROL (episode #1)   The Software as a Service (SaaS) entrepreneur who wants to grow to a $100m+ valuation (episode #14).    Your host, Nathan Latka is a 25 year old software entrepreneur who has driven over $4.5 million in revenue and built a 25 person team as he dropped out of school, raised $2.5million from a Forbes Billionaire, and attracted over 10,000 paying customers from 160+ different countries.   Oprah gets 60 minutes or more to make her guests comfortable to then ask tough questions. Nathan does it all in less than 15 minutes in this daily podcast that's like an audio version of Pat Flynn's monthly income report. Join the Top Tribe at NathanLatka.com/TheTop  

Hollis is the Founder of 4 successful online businesses - all bootstrapped and turned into 6-7 figure virtual businesses in less than a year. He’s been involved in Internet marketing for 10+ years in various facets. He spends most of his time working on growing the Baby Bathwater Institute and figuring out how to live a happy, healthy life.

Hollis has started four successful businesses from scratch, focusing primarily on marketing and innovation through the creation of Joint Venture opportunities. He is currently the founder of Velocity House Publishing and loves shredding fresh powder at ever opportunity.

Hollis Carter is an online marketing superstar. As a product creator, marketer, consultant, and coach, he's worked on several million-dollar online product launches. Hollis has appeared on Mixergy, Entrepreneur on Fire, Smart Passive Income, and other major podcast shows on online outlets for entrepreneurs. For the past few years, Hollis has taken his experience in […] The post 030: Hollis Carter Shares His Online Marketing System for Success appeared first on TCK Publishing.

Hollis is the founder of Velocity House Publishing. He desires to help anyone with a passion for their message to have the ability to bring it to the world in the form of a book.

Hollis Carter is cofounder of Velocity House Publishing. They help authors get to best seller status on Amazon Kindle. He talks about 5 Simple Rules to make any decision. Watch Full Video Interview Here>> http://www.inspiredinsider.com/hollis-carter-5-simple-rules/

Hollis has started four successful businesses from scratch, focusing primarily on marketing and innovation through the creation of Joint Venture opportunities. He is currently the founder of Velocity House Publishing and loves shredding fresh powder at ever opportunity.

I’m kind of fascinated by entrepreneurs who create businesses that are truly ground-breaking. Apparently others are too, because the blog post I wrote about “8 Entrepreneurs Who Identified A Common Pain & Invented a New Business Category” has received a ton of traffic and has been retweeted and shared a number of times. One of […] The post 009: Hollis Carter and Jonny Andrews Of Perfect Publishing System | How They Reinvent the Publishing Business appeared first on Smart Business Revolution.