craig bundren

Craig Bundren is the Founder of the Bundren Building Arts Foundation. Craig’s vision for the foundation is a vibrant future for communities and local artists. It’s his view that art reflects life, where people work, play, and live. He aims to work with community leaders, artists, and building owners to collaborate to make our environments more vibrant now and into the future.

Craig is also the host of the show The Chromatic Podcast.

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Title: Nick May | Pro Painter Network

In 1999 Nick May started a painting business, Walls by Design, and over the years he has worked with a lot of interior designers. Many of them have been good designers, but often time, their business skills were a bit lacking. In 2013, Nick started a series of live events in Denver with a handful of companies to educated designers on the business of interior design. They would host lunch and learns and bring in a speaker. His hope was to help them grow their businesses and in turn, they might use Walls by Design for their painting needs.

In 2014, Nick married this idea with another passion of mine...podcasting. He launched ‘The Chaise Lounge Podcast’ with the hopes to expand his impact on the interior design community nationally. Little did Nick know that they would soon be downloaded and listened to in over 100 countries and become one of the top interior design podcasts on iTunes.

In 2016, he was asked to start covering markets and live events for interior designers… The Chaise Lounge hit the road! This has to lead to increased exposure and network into the larger interior design community, and he has now interviewed some of the biggest names in interior design.

JOIN NICK MAY AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:

00:47 - Coming up with, with, with all the new, exciting, different things that the ideas

01:34 - They started that podcast like three years ago 

02:01 - He remembers being in college and going down to Kinko's

02:47 - He started podcasting, eight or nine years ago. And nobody knew what the heck podcasting was

03:40 - A mix of entrepreneurs that they would read about

04:22 - Got lots of sponsorship traveled the world, went to Spain and Italy through that podcast

05:29 - He ran a painting business all through college

06:11 - What the hell is he going to do the rest of his life? 

07:18 - He remembers all the tricks of the trade from painters 

07:32 - That's how he got into the painting business.

19:50 - They’re doing things that haven't been done in our industry

20:40 - His wife told him in the conversations with him sometimes are torture

21:10 - There are too many, too many ideas

21:55 - They’ve really created something that's affordable

22:58 - You want to call the crazy time that we're in

23:53 - Break-even is acceptable, but there's an opportunity out there

24:29 - Everybody's chasing the same skinny rabbit

25:09 - Hi is actually going to start pulling all these triggers for these things

26:03 - Traction has been pushed in front of his face and, um, and scaling up

27:33 - All of a sudden he was afforded the opportunity

37:17 - His first introduction to a book that was teaching about business

37:48 - They actually came up with the idea to do a virtual conference

38:38 - His whole story together in one place

39:24 - He would love to do a book with Gary 

40:22 - Until some other problem shows up

40:47 - Like when you're the guy it's like, you're the worst boss

41:33 - Because they have systems and processes

42:17 - Freedom to handle those problems

43:09 - Bob is the oldest one that works for Nick

44:05 - Has has already given you the solution

44:50 - They want to save the world for everybody

CONNECT WITH AMELIA ROSE EARHART:

PROPAINTERNETWORK.COM/#

NICKMAYDENVER

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LEARN MORE ABOUT CRAIG BUNDREN AND THE CRAIG BUNDREN ART FOUNDATION:

Chromatic Podcast Site: www.Bundren.fm

Chroma Magazine: www.ChromaMag.com

Bundren Building Arts Foundation: www.Bundren.org

Bundren Painting: www.Bundren.com

Host: www.CraigBundren.com

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Title: Amelia Earhart | Creating A Flight Plan To Clear Any Goal For Take-Off

Amelia Rose Earhart, namesaked after the famed Amelia Mary Earhart who attempted to fly around the world in 1937, is one of the youngest women to fly around the world in a single-engine aircraft. In 2014, Amelia flew a Pilatus PC12-NG 28,000 miles, crossing the equator six times, through fourteen countries to complete a circumnavigation of the globe. Her parents, sharing the Earhart surname, wanted their daughter to have a name that would inspire her to live a life of passion and adventure.

Amelia is the President of the Fly With Amelia Foundation, a non-profit organization that grants flight-training scholarships to young women, aged sixteen to eighteen. The Fly With Amelia Foundation also fosters aviation and aerospace opportunities for people of all ages through aviation-based educational STEM opportunities, in partnership with Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum in Denver, CO.

Amelia has been a passionate aviatrix since her first flight lesson at the age of twenty-one, a seeker of all things adventurous, and is an accomplished public speaker, spending the last 8 years working as a television news anchor, covering breaking news, traffic, and weather in Denver and Los Angeles. Amelia was given the Amelia Earhart Pioneering Achievement Award in 2013 and in 2014 was named by the Jaycees as one of the "Top Ten Young Americans".

JOIN AMELIA ROSE EARHART AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:

00:40 - Fantastic story about a girl who was given the name

01:06 - Authentic person that you're going to want to spend some time

01:52 - Your actual name is Amelia Rose Earhart

03:00 - Amelia Mary Earhart left behind such a legacy

03:20 - Amelia can grow up and be whatever she wants

03:51 - The fact that Amelia Rose Earhart is not related to Amelia Mary Earhart. And for a long time, she thought she was.

04:35 - They think there's a lot of people in the world that look to for things to criticize

05:07 - It's not a lack of resources. It's a lack of resourcefulness.

06:39 - Amelia gets chills because she thinks how on earth did she pull that off?

07:56 - Amelia had to save up and she would work five jobs at a time

10:11 - When Amelia flew about 10 hours a day with her co-pilot Shane Jordan

12:08 - That was the first time Amelia was crossing any ocean where you have no option to land

15:04 - Amelia is starting to break down her survival gear as she starts to work towards publishing her book

17:15 - Amelia’s co-pilot allowed her to be the true pilot and command of that journey

20:02 - The real benefit of flying around the world.

58:40 - Helping people become artists in the same way that Amelia did

39:18 - Putting the logos of 28 different corporations on the outside of an airplane that needs to fly through crazy changes in air temperature.

1:01:32 - Having a weird name puts you in weird situations 

1:03:I4 - Amelia got these 16 paintings and I'm going through the lobby 

1:05:04 - As it catches the light and it changes and it's dynamically moving.

CONNECT WITH AMELIA ROSE EARHART:

FLYWITHAMELIA.ORG

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LEARN MORE ABOUT CRAIG BUNDREN AND THE CRAIG BUNDREN ART FOUNDATION:

Chromatic Podcast Site: www.Bundren.fm

Chroma Magazine: www.ChromaMag.com

Bundren Building Arts Foundation: www.Bundren.org

Bundren Painting: www.Bundren.com

Host: www.CraigBundren.com

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“Start building a network of fellow entrepreneurs that understand your passion and don’t make you feel guilty about always chasing it.”

~ Cameron Herold

Cameron Herold is an international speaker and author of Meetings Suck and the best-selling book Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years or Less, which is currently in its seventh printing. He is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth and has built a dynamic consultancy, including his time as COO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK?. His current clients include a 'Big 4' wireless carrier and a monarchy. He is the founder of COO Alliance, which helps COO’s become better leaders.

JOIN CAMERON HEROLD AND CRAIG BUNDREN AS THEY DISCUSS:

00:56 Cameron’s Book, “Double Double” 

01:07 The way the book was written was different than anything Craig has read

02:10 College Pro Painters (The Cheat Sheet on How to Grow Quickly)

04:45 The painting business and creating a system

07:04 “We avoided all the busy work and focused on growth”

07:56 It’s no longer about being the smartest person in the room...

09:40 You don’t need an MBA to run a business, because business is simple

11:46 Growing up with the Boston hustle 

14:10 Never reveal where you got your product

16:00 How to grow when it’s slow

18:00 It’s cheaper to buy marketing during a downturn

19:50 Stepping out of tunnel vision

20:30 When the building’s on-fire, run towards it (Focus, Faith, and Effort)

24:54 They only had 4 pieces of marketing collateral that he started with and the importance of google reviews

29:19 How does the media make money? The media outlets need good content (use the phone)

32:00 The different kinds of stories you can pitch 

35:00 What is culture?

36:00 Getting rid of the toxic people in your culture

43:00 If you’re going to be a leader, you’re going to have to do the difficult things

48:00 Just because you let somebody go, doesn’t mean you can’t support them forward

54:00 The owner’s job is to dream, and it’s the team’s job to make it happen

56:00 The importance of core values

1:00:00 What Craig wants his business to be 

1:03:00 Why impact the COO? Giving them a space

CONNECT WITH CAMERON HEROLD (AND BE SURE TO ORDER HIS BOOK, DOUBLE, DOUBLE):

WEBSITE

BOOKS

PODCAST

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LEARN MORE ABOUT CRAIG BUNDREN AND THE CRAIG BUNDREN ART FOUNDATION:

Chromatic Podcast Site: www.Bundren.fm

Chroma Magazine: www.ChromaMag.com

Bundren Building Arts Foundation: www.Bundren.org

Bundren Painting: www.Bundren.com

Host: www.CraigBundren.com

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