Oct 4, 2022
When an underdog entrepreneur is furloughed from work and falls
into a pattern of destructive behavior, he decides to take control
and change his life for the better.
"I realized now I started to find purpose in life because I
wasn't the best musician, I wasn't the best drummer. I played
guitar, drums, this and that. But my real sweet spot was handing
out flyers, talking to people, connecting with people, and that's
where
Ben Albert is the owner of Balbert Marketing, LLC and the curator
of the Real Business Connections Network. He is a successful
entrepreneur who is passionate about helping other underdogs
achieve their dreams.
This is Ben Albert's story...
I was always a shy, reclusive kid, and my dad taught me to hide my
problems and not speak up when I needed help. As a result, I
developed some addictions that I hid from everyone. I had a good
job, but when COVID hit and I was laid off, I started binge
drinking and it got out of control. I looked in the mirror and I
knew I needed to make a change. I started stacking values and
stacking skills, and I slowly began to turn my life around. I'm now
sober, and I'm living my life as an entrepreneur. I'm in the mud
learning as I go, but I'm loving every minute of it.
Chapter Summaries:
[00:04:08] - Ben albert won a contest to get on justin's podcast.
He was furloughed from work two years ago, and now he hosts a
business network with over 220 shows in two years. Justin reached
out to ben albert to offer him a spot on his show. Ben albert is an
entrepreneur, learning as he goes.
[00:06:25] - Two years ago, Ben got laid off. He came from an
alcoholic father and his mom has a mental disability. He was
working two jobs his whole life. He thought he was happy in his
corporate job, but he was miserable. Covid hit, and he started
drinking a lot. He used to take half Xanax every Monday because he
couldn't handle the stress. He drank a bottle of Gym Beam whiskey
every weekend and he looked bad. He decided to change his
lifestyle.
[00:08:58] - As a kid, he was taught to hide his problems by his
alcoholic father. Now he wants to slow down and improve his life.
He wants to focus on values and skills instead of alcohol and drug
abuse. He is going to get into the business side of things too. As
a kid, he wanted to be a basketball player, but he was bullied. In
high school, he became obsessed with music and marketing. He hosted
a music podcast, did sales for a marketing firm, and started a
business rated podcast in November 2020. Now he's a podcaster
marketer. Freddy Vasquez is a former guest on the show. Freddy
started with bands and MySpace pages, and now he's got a successful
branding company and marketing company.
[00:19:33] - Ben started a business podcast called Rochester
business connections. It's going to do an episode every 52 weeks
for a year. He believes that people missed the boat on podcasting
and the power of networking that you can create with it. Justin is
a SUNY Brockport alumnus and new business owner. Just showing up is
half the battle. People get caught up or overwhelmed with the big
vision and don't take the first step. Interviewing people is a
great networking tool for you and from that standpoint as well as a
business tool for your marketing business.
[00:25:12] - In podcasting. You reach out to people with a big
vision and you want to collaborate with them. You can do this in
anything in life. In this case, it's potential customersconnections
and it's anybody that I would pay to learn from.
[00:28:39] - Marketing is a natural process for him. He doesn't
want to be overly pitchy. He uses LinkedIn to build relationships
with people. His approach is very soft, and he prefers to give more
than he asks for more than 20 times. He believes that the universe
will provide when it wants to.
[00:31:25] - Ben's definition of success
[00:35:26] - Justin Schenck is being interviewed on his show.
Before the interview, he explains how people can find him on
LinkedIn and how they can connect with him on
Realbusinessconnections.com. He recommends listening to the episode
number 27 of his show with Justin Schenck
[00:39:15] - Ben's biggest moment of growth was launching the local
business podcast and rebranding it to a national
audience.
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