59 min
The Harder I Fall, The Higher I Bounce, an interview with serial entrepreneur/author Max James Awakened Nation
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What does it take to fail multiple times, yet come back better than ever?
"This is not something most people want to hear, but you'll learn more from failure than success."
Max James shares his secrets to life, business and success. From growing up on a farm, and the life-lessons learned through his father, to rescue pilot in Vietnam—shot down twice and lived to tell about it—to building a billion-dollar company from the ground up.
Your will be entertained, inspired, and feel a sense of camaraderie as Max shares the lessons learned from failure, and the real-world steps it takes to bounce back.
Website: www.maxjamesauthor.com
About Max James:
Max James is an American author and serial entrepreneur, best known as the founder and owner of The American Kiosk Management Corporation, a global front-line retail company with over 400 staffed locations, 1800 employees and 800 automated stores throughout North America, Australia, and New Zealand, which achieved $1.8 billion in sales. This is why Fortune Magazine dubbed him, "The King of Kiosks.”
Max grew up on a farm, the son of a sharecropper, volunteered for Vietnam as a rescue pilot—shot down twice and lived to tell about it. He earned an MBA from Stanford University, and through trial and error, built dozens of companies from the ground up. He is also the author of an international award-winning book The Harder I Fall, The Higher I Bounce, a business memoir for today’s entrepreneur and business executives that packs Max’s 60 years of experience of failures, success and humorous turns into 294 pages of empowering business advice.
Max is a USAF Academy Graduate and the recipient of the United States Air Force Academy’s Distinguished Graduate Award.
Max lives in Las Vegas with his wife Linda Johansen-James.
About your Host, Brad Szollose:
Fueled by the passion to ignite game-changing conversations, award-winning author Brad Szollose created Awakened Nation®—a podcast dedicated to deeper conversations with today's cutting edge entrepreneurs, idea makers and disruptors, bestselling authors, activists, healers, spiritual leaders, professional athletes, celebrities, politicians and rock stars...conversations that take a deep dive into the extraordinary. This podcast will challenge your beliefs.
Think Art Bell meets Joe Rogan.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awakenednation/support
What does it take to fail multiple times, yet come back better than ever?
"This is not something most people want to hear, but you'll learn more from failure than success."
Max James shares his secrets to life, business and success. From growing up on a farm, and the life-lessons learned through his father, to rescue pilot in Vietnam—shot down twice and lived to tell about it—to building a billion-dollar company from the ground up.
Your will be entertained, inspired, and feel a sense of camaraderie as Max shares the lessons learned from failure, and the real-world steps it takes to bounce back.
Website: www.maxjamesauthor.com
About Max James:
Max James is an American author and serial entrepreneur, best known as the founder and owner of The American Kiosk Management Corporation, a global front-line retail company with over 400 staffed locations, 1800 employees and 800 automated stores throughout North America, Australia, and New Zealand, which achieved $1.8 billion in sales. This is why Fortune Magazine dubbed him, "The King of Kiosks.”
Max grew up on a farm, the son of a sharecropper, volunteered for Vietnam as a rescue pilot—shot down twice and lived to tell about it. He earned an MBA from Stanford University, and through trial and error, built dozens of companies from the ground up. He is also the author of an international award-winning book The Harder I Fall, The Higher I Bounce, a business memoir for today’s entrepreneur and business executives that packs Max’s 60 years of experience of failures, success and humorous turns into 294 pages of empowering business advice.
Max is a USAF Academy Graduate and the recipient of the United States Air Force Academy’s Distinguished Graduate Award.
Max lives in Las Vegas with his wife Linda Johansen-James.
About your Host, Brad Szollose:
Fueled by the passion to ignite game-changing conversations, award-winning author Brad Szollose created Awakened Nation®—a podcast dedicated to deeper conversations with today's cutting edge entrepreneurs, idea makers and disruptors, bestselling authors, activists, healers, spiritual leaders, professional athletes, celebrities, politicians and rock stars...conversations that take a deep dive into the extraordinary. This podcast will challenge your beliefs.
Think Art Bell meets Joe Rogan.
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/awakenednation/support
59 min