April 9, 2024 • 27 mins
In this episode, we sat down with Nick Barrett, the founder of CordBrick, a company that provides a simple yet innovative solution for managing phone cords.
Nick shares his journey from struggling with alcoholism and legal troubles to finding his purpose through entrepreneurship. He explains how the idea for Cordbrick - a weighted brick that keeps phone cords from falling off surfaces - came from his personal annoyance with his phone cord always dropping to the floor.
Throughout the conversation, Nick discusses the importance of starting with your entrepreneurial idea, the value of sharing that idea, and the challenges he faced in turning his concept into a viable product.
Nick also delves into his sober journey, describing it as a turning point that led to a broader personal transformation and commitment to help others.
Listen through to the end for Nick's latest CordBrick product and the exciting future of CordBrick.
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Chapters:
00:00 Kickstarting Your Idea: The Journey Begins 00:18 Introduction to Nick Barrett 02:10 From Concept to Market: The Birth of Cordbrick 04:33 Entrepreneurial Insights: Navigating Challenges and Success 07:54 The Power of Sobriety: A Personal and Professional Rebirth 09:40 Imposter Syndrome and Overcoming Self-Doubt 18:21 The Build Something Initiative: Giving Back and Moving Forward 20:51 Rapid Fire Questions: Getting Personal with Nick 23:40 Final Thoughts 24:28 The Exciting Future of Cordbrick: A Sneak Peek
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You have to begin and you're goingto have to solve a lot of problems.
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along the way.
So you need to get started gettingsome of those questions answered.
I think people get held up sometimesbecause what happens is they think,
oh, I don't want to tell people myidea because they might take it.
But let me tell you, no one'sgoing to take your idea.
Nick Barrett's life wasa mess until he was 30.
He stumbled about without purpose andslowly killing himself from alcoholism.
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Ungratefully resentfully and lustfully.
Then through legal trouble slash dividedintervention, he had an awakening.
And has been on a journey ofself-improvement that continues daily.
Nick found a chord brick in 2020,and they've been growing ever since.
Recently featured on the todayshow and soon entering major
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retailers, his goal is to build alasting brand of quality products.
Before court break, he had zeroproduct development experience.
In four years, he's earned a utilitypatent by the us PTO and won 10,000.
And the coolest product at NRF 2023.
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Checkout chord breck@chordbrick.comor at chord brick on social media.
The links will be in the show notes.
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Hey Nick, thanks for joining me today.
Hey Teri, glad to be here.
So I want to start withyour idea for Cordbrick.
How did this idea come to you?
Because I think it's so fascinating whenpeople create a product out of an idea
and can bring it into the marketplace.
So that's, that's where I'd like to
start today.
Yeah, so, I'm a guy and I'm 37.
And so, I'm a millennial too,and I would call myself lazy.
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So that's, that's,that's, that's a me thing.
But the reason that I thought of theidea is because really I was lazy.
I was in bed and my phone cordjust kept falling on the floor.
I'd be, you know, wanting to go tosleep and then someone would text me
a girlfriend or something like that.
At the time.
And my phone cord would fall on the floorand I thought it was annoying and go
under the nightstand or under the bed andI'd have to get on, you know, get out of
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bed, turn on the light, wake myself up,move some furniture around or something,
at least depending on where I was orwhat my bedside charging situation was.
And I thought, man, I could justuse a brick that I would put on my
nightstand or my bed sheet anywhere.
And then you could even wrapyour cord around the brick
and, you know, because you.
Travel with these phone cords now Andthen now we've got several other devices
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because this was back in 2015 whenI originally, you know had the idea
for cord brick and So now, you know,I decided to create the actual brick
That's amazing.
It's, you know, it's funny, becausewhen I was, when we were connecting for
this interview, and I was, of course,checking out your website and stuff, I was
like, I need to order like 10 of these.
I need them in every part of myhouse, because you're right, like
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that is, I'm looking at the cablefor my phone hanging on my desk, and
it's always falling on the floor.
So it's a, what a great product.
And it's solving a problem that Ididn't even realize I had until I
was looking at all of your stuff.
And I was like, this is, this isa huge annoyance for me every day.
And so I'm definitelygoing to be getting some.
Yeah.
Thanks.
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I mean, I hear that all the time.
Like people always say tome man, it's so simple.
Like I should have thought of this.
And I think that's actually agreat compliment because they
see the idea and they're like,Oh yeah, there's no adhesive.
It's reusable, movable.
I need these all at every chargingstation all over the house.
You know?
Yeah.
It seems like a minor inconvenience,cord falling behind, whatever,
but you're doing it every day.
You're needing a little battery,a little juice here and there,
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wherever you are, in the kitchen,at the desk something like that.
And so just convenient to grab the cord,move the cord brick wherever you need it
nearby, and then you can even use it forother stuff like standing your phone too.
So that's kind of a littleadded benefit of having
them around.
That's very cool.
So for, for someone listening whomaybe has an idea and they don't know
where to start, what would you suggest
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for them?
Yeah, I get this question allthe time on other podcasts.
I speak at FGCU to theentrepreneurship school there.
You know, people have connectedme with local entrepreneurs just
in my geographic area that want totalk about products and, you know,
particularly products because that's,you know, what I have experience in.
I would say the first thing is.
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To it's, this sounds crazy, but tostart, okay, you've got to actually start
building or doing whatever your idea is.
And that can be a lot ofdifferent things, right?
It could be just writing down a certainamount of ideas that could be some
research related to processes involvedthat maybe you don't know, but you know
that you're going to have to learn about.
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That could be talking to someone inthat industry or someone who's already
doing that if you can get access tothat person even better you know for
me the best people to talk to areother entrepreneurs and particularly
for me the best people to talk to areproduct focused and people with product
companies because that's what I have soBecause they've been through the ringer.
They've done this the hard way andyou know learned a lot of lessons They
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can tell me you know what I need to doand how realistic my idea is Another,
you know, way to do that is to youknow, reach out to different volunteer
organizations in my local local city.
We have a chapter of SCORE, whichis a volunteer organization.
So there's people like that andorganizations like that, people that want
to share their knowledge and that's free.
So I would say you have tobegin and you're going to have
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to solve a lot of problems.
Along the way so you need to get startgetting some of those questions answered
I think people get held up sometimesbecause what happens is they think oh,
I don't want to tell people my ideabecause they might Right, but let me
tell you no one's gonna take your idea.
First of all you know eventually Yes,someone's going to take your idea, right?
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Competition and capitalismin our marketplace allows
for different variations.
And if you are successfulenough, eventually somebody will.
But that won't happen until you'remaking enough money to make it worth
it for someone else to copy you.
And then they're going tohave to compete with you.
And so they're going to have to dosomething to differentiate themselves
from you, whether that be a lowerprice, Higher price, more features.
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So it's going to besomething different anyways.
So I'm never really that worriedabout, and I always encourage other
entrepreneurs to share their ideas.
Tell people their ideas becausepeople are going to poke holes in
it that you didn't think of as well.
And it's going to help you developyour ideas and figure out a lot
of the problems ahead of time.
And so then that'll change whatyou do and spend your time on.
Oh,
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that's, you know, because I'm thinkingabout myself and I've had Product ideas
in the past where I've done the exactopposite and I've kept it to myself
and then never did anything with it.
So this is making a lot
of sense.
Yeah, write it down too, because youdon't know when you'll pursue those
ideas and it might not be the righttime and new technology or new uses or.
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Just you know, the way people aredoing things might change and it
might become like, oh, this isreally a much better time as time
goes along for that old idea I had.
Now it makes even more sense.
So I always keep a little notebook ofmy other ideas that I have too, in case
you know, I want to act on them later.
That's a great idea.
And can you tell us a bit more aboutyour journey in terms of creating
this product and maybe what some ofthe challenges were that you faced?
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Yeah.
So, as I mentioned at the beginning ofthis interview, I'm 37 years old and
I started this company four years ago.
So that leaves a littlebit of time between then.
And the beginning of my life, right?
So, yeah.
You know, growing up a great childhood,went to Penn State for college.
I'd grown up in the Philly suburbs area.
So Pennsylvania was PennState was in school for me.
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Had several different jobs inmarketing and property management.
Eventually when I turned 30, Igotten a little bit of trouble.
I had a problem with alcoholand I stopped drinking.
So actually coming up on March 11thif I can continue it, it'll be seven
straight years of no drinks for me.
So.
That's been a huge differenceand change in my life.
I really think I resonate with alot of the younger people today.
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I think that see so muchgoing on in the world and they
think, where's the room for me?
You know, everything's already been done.
Everything's already been invented.
What new or great could I add?
And you know, am I worth it?
Am I worthy?
And you're seeing, of course,everyone's best face being put
forward online and stuff like that.
So, you know, I, I myself had a lowself esteem and low self confidence.
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You know, getting sober was thefirst part of changing that for me.
But then doing this startup and kindof teaching myself along the way,
learning the product developmentgetting success in sales and then
giving affirmation from people thatit was something really useful.
And they thought Ishould go on Shark Tank.
I've heard thousands of times.
So, you know, you hear that.
It can't help but kindof boost your confidence.
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So, that's been, that's been myjourney and it's been a complete
personal transformation for me.
I personally was so lazy asI described myself, right?
I, I, you know, didn't think I wascapable of having the willpower
that it really takes, you know,working 60, 70, 80 hours a week.
On something as an entrepreneuras you pretty much have to to be
to get where you want to get to
did you ever struggle with thingslike imposter syndrome or doubts?
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And what are some of theways that you overcame them?
And do you still struggle withany of those things today?
Yeah, I'm making faces as you say that.
Like, absolutely.
I just said to someone lastweek, I feel like I have imposter
syndrome going to this big event.
I just joined this groupcalled Board of Advisors.
You can check them out, BoardOfAdvisors.
com.
It's a bunch of entrepreneurs because Irealized that, I think I actually said
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already, entrepreneurs are the best peoplefor me to learn from because they've been
where I am or where I want to go anyways.
And so this is a network group ofentrepreneurs and they help each other.
And we've got, you know,quarterly meetings and whatnot.
So, but when I was going to that just acouple of weeks ago, I thought, Oh man,
I'm, I can't fit in with these guys.
These are all really successful peopleand I'm, you know, just growing my
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startup and we're just getting there.
But you know, they all welcomedme in and they loved the idea.
We're maybe a little bit morecritical than the average person
is because they know how hard itis to launch and, and, and grow a
business, scale a business, but yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you still, still deal with it.
Yeah, I have absolutely felt that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
100%.
So I, I know the feeling.
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Yeah, and that's, you know, somethingthat everyone that I talk to, every
entrepreneur at every stage of business,it seems to still come up for them.
And I find that so fascinatingthat no matter where we are,
yeah, there's always someone that you'regoing to look up to and idolize and
think this person that's larger thanlife, you know, so, yeah, I wouldn't,
I mean, at the end of the day, I thinknobody knows what's going on here really.
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So we're all just figuring it outand going along the way with the
best information we have at hand.
And I think my, I myself used tokind of make the mistake of thinking
that people know what's going on inmy head more than they actually do.
And that gives you a littlebit of self doubt when you're
dealing with other people.
But, you know, you don't have toreveal as much uncertainty as you have.
And people will realize thatyou don't have that uncertainty.
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And they'll just begin to kindof share little tidbits that
they think might help you.
At that stage,
that's amazing.
That's really a great insight.
Can you tell us a bit more toabout your, your sober journey and
how that's changed your life andchange the course of your life?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
At first I was humbled extremely by Thelaw I had three DUIs and luckily I never
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got in the accident and hurt anybody.
So that was very fortunate butI completely regret, you know,
making the decisions to do that.
And, you know, alcohol had takenme completely out of control
from a self control perspective.
And, you know, before that I had, youknow, You know, before I got sober,
I remember looking at myself in themirror and screaming at myself, please
don't do this again another day.
And then I literally couldn't controlmy body from walking to buy alcohol
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at eight o'clock in the morning, youknow, at the very end of it, that was,
that was really where it led to me.
And then you know, that third DUIyou know, getting out of jail, they
put an alcohol ankle monitor on me.
And basically what that is, is.
It's unbelievable if this is true, butit can sense alcohol from your pores.
So if you have even one drink, itwill go off or record that data.
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And then I would, I had to sleepwith a wireless transmitting device
within 30 feet of me for three or fourmonths after that as a court order.
So, you know, that was part ofme getting bailed out from jail.
Otherwise I would have had tostay in jail if I refused that.
And so I figured thatwas probably worth it.
And so I had pretty high incentiveto not drink at that point.
My court date was upcoming, and that,you know, if I failed that I definitely
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would have been going to jail for alot longer than I did, which I was
still sentenced to 60 days, and, youknow, serve 40 of those days, you get
a certain percentage off for that.
And but I had went to rehab duringthat time and, and, you know, took
it very seriously because I knewthe consequences at that point.
And I'm not sure if it wasn't forsomething like that and the law to
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step in and, you know, that particulardevice you know, that I would have
been so eager to actually do it.
You know, I think in the back ofmy mind, I definitely knew that
this was a major problem for me.
And I, didn't have self controland the willpower to stop.
But this, I knew this was myopportunity, you know, as soon as
that, that that day occurred and Idove in, I went to AA, I was going
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to three and four meetings a day.
I was praying a lot and getting,you know, just asking a lot of
people who just like I mentionedin, in, you know, as entrepreneurs.
I like talking to other entrepreneursbecause they've been there before.
I like talking to other alcoholicsbecause they understand what it's like
to, you know, have those problems.
And, and, you know, mystory was not unique.
I found, you know, I thought thatI was some person that was the
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only one suffering from theseproblems and no one understood.
And it was like me.
But no, actually, a lot of thepeople were like me and had done way
worse and had come back from it andlived very successful, happy lives.
And I think the other thing is justbeing more at peace with themselves.
Because at the end of the day, the reasonthat people drink or use substances or
have any addiction whatsoever is to changethe way that they feel inside, right?
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They need to do somethingdifferent to change a feeling.
And so, You know, once I realized thatit's been you know, a whole you know,
transformation of my personal self.
And I feel like it's continued intoa personal and self improvement
journey that has been ongoing.
And I'm just extremely fortunate for everyperson, you know, that was involved in me
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being able to have these opportunities tostill go and do these things after, you
know, getting into some serious trouble.
Yeah,
absolutely.
I, I saw in your, your write up thatI was reading that you refer to it
as a divine intervention, and that'sexactly what it sounds like to me.
I'm not a fan of people saying thingshappen for a reason, because I think
some things are just shitty, butI do, I do believe that sometimes
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life intervenes with us, and thereis a divine intervention that sets
us on the right course, and that'sexactly, I think, what it sounds like.
Yeah, I think you make the reasonthe reason is what happens.
I think I think you're absolutely right.
You know, there's there isfree will in this world.
But because of that, Ithink that you're right.
Not everything does happen for a reason.
And I think that's the harsh reality.
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And unfortunately, you know, but whatthat does, you know, what that does
make happen is it means that, you know,you need to go out and get what So,
you know, if you think that you deservebetter, it's, it's there for you.
So, you know, go, go and try and there'sgoing to be things in everybody's way.
Everyone has unexpectedthings happen to them.
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The level of that justis, you know, is random.
It does seem so.
Just try to keep puttingyourself in the best position.
And my, some of the learnings from,from AA I would say is you know,
surround yourself with the five peoplewho you want to emulate, who are
living a life that is, is one thatyou would be envious of, you know.
So, you know, try tobe around those people.
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And it tends to happen that yourlife becomes more like that.
You pick little things up that they'redoing that you don't even know that
they're doing that are resulting in.
The things happening for them.
Yeah,
I, I love that insight.
Thank you for that.
How has that shift in your mindset andyour thinking, how do you think that's
led to your success as an entrepreneur?
In a lot of ways.
The first one would be the humility way.
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And you know, there's a paragraph in theAA big book that talks about acceptance.
And so, before you get to acceptanceand people know this from the
five stages of grief, right?
It's, It's denial and I was living indenial about everything in my life really.
And so what I've started to dois try to move to acceptance.
And so I equate it to you know,something I've heard lately, which
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is that, you know, certain peopleseem to be able to lie to themselves.
It's like, how do they do that?
And I was one of those people.
So I will tell you how I know,and I I've heard other people say
this and I think what happens is.
If you practice anything,you'll get better at it.
And if you practice lying toyourself, you're going to get
better at lying to yourself.
And it was going to come to a pointwhere you're so good at rationalizing
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and people say this word rationalizing.
Yeah, it's rationalizing.
All right.
Because you're not hearing theother side of the argument, right?
You're, you're shutting out thatother side of the argument when you're
rationalizing and you're practicinglying to yourself and convincing
yourself of something that may notbe completely purely the truth.
And so, you know, by becoming, notpracticing and accepting the truth
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and living in denial in a fantasyworld, you don't move to that
second stage and you get stuck.
So, it's, it's really hard to nothave success when you are constantly
accepting the truth because then yougo to the third step, which is action.
Right?
You take that action and startdoing something to change whatever
you need to change based on thetrue thing, which is the acceptance
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that you've been able to see then.
Oh,
that's great.
Thank you.
Can you tell us about the theBuild Something initiative?
I'm curious to hear
about that.
Yeah, thanks.
That's like my personal mission.
It's something I'm very passionate about.
I mentioned that I speak to entrepreneurs,students at FGCU, a local school here
in the southwest part Florida, but my,my main mission, you know, to be the
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first part of that mission started whenI was building these bricks, right?
These cord bricks.
Yeah.
And I thought, okay I really wantto give back to the people that have
given so back so much back to me toallow me this journey of sobriety.
And so what would I, what could I do?
Oh, I could build something.
I could build the housing becausewhen you're early in recovery,
you know, a lot of times you'vebeen kicked out of your house.
You don't have anywhere to live.
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The people that you're living with areeven part of the problem a lot of times.
Enablers, or they don't really knowhow maybe they're drinkers themselves.
And so you need a place to go thatis So, a sober house, basically.
In Naples in particular,there's a, 501c3 called St.
Matthew's House, a nonprofit, and theyhave housing and they take in homeless
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people people in early recovery.
And in order to get to get andkeep that housing, you've got
to commit to go to meetings.
You've got to commit to working ajob and they check in with you and
manage the housing and, and justoversee you and make sure you're safe.
And so.
I wanted to contribute to that.
So a small part of everybrick that we sell goes to St.
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Matt's or similar 501c3s to helpbuild those physical structures,
to, you know, how's people in earlyrecovery and getting their life back.
And then the other part of thatmission is me building something
by offering to mentor youngentrepreneurs, inspiring other people
to create something themselves.
So I offer my own time and anyonereally to talk about entrepreneurship.
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Because, you know, like I said,entrepreneurs have been so helpful for me.
I want to help other entrepreneurs,happy to talk to any entrepreneur, free,
one hour long conversation anytime, andit would possibly more particularly if
I can really help you or network youwith someone that would help you, happy
to spend more time than that as well.
That sounds absolutely amazing.
How would people learn moreabout that initiative and,
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and also more about Cordbrick?
Yeah, so, you can go to Chordbrick.
com, you can find my story and thenour our brick blog where we talk
about our Build Something initiative.
In our swag, you can grab a BuildSomething t shirt that we've got.
We've got some other Chordbrickmagnets and hats and whatnot, right?
So, but mainly just grab a Chordbrickand then you know, share it with other
people or follow us at at Cordbrick.
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We're on all the main social mediaaccounts and YouTube and all that.
And yeah.
That sounds great, and I'll haveall those links in the show notes.
Now I want to move on tomy rapid fire questions.
This is something I've juststarted doing recently.
It's just a little bit of fun.
What is your
favorite book?
Shogun which I heard by James Cavell,which I saw Hulu Coming out with the
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show so I may have to re get my, reup my Hulu subscription to watch that.
Fantastic book.
Incredible story.
Oh, I haven't even heard
about that one.
Yeah, it's an incredible love story.
You've got to check it out.
Oh, I will for sure.
Favorite food?
Got to go with friedchicken, old trusty, so good.
Can't go wrong.
Nice.
What's your biggest
pet peeve?
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I would say a lack of patience as itrelates to not understanding you know,
where people came from or you know, theirpersonal journey through life, right?
I think, you know, name callinginstead of kind of, you know, seeing
that there's, there's more to peoplethan meets the eye most of the time.
I
love that.
Who inspires you?
Oh man, there's so many people these days.
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It's great.
At the beginning of the pandemic,I'm like, where is everybody?
Like we, we need somepeople to step up, honestly.
Like, well, this is madness.
What is going on here?
So for me, those people include peoplelike Elon, people like Jordan Peterson.
Obviously they're Rogan.
I, you know, I, I personallyhave loved these people.
Chris Williamson has an incredible podcastcalled Modern Wisdom that just gets great
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little nuggets for men in particular.
You know, there's a lot of LexFreeman and whatnot, you know, Tucker,
I am, as you can, you know, see.
Probably guess you know, my particularleanings by some of these people.
But I, I particularly just enjoytruth and, and finding out, you know,
what is, what is really going on.
So that, I think that's wheremy personal motivations lie.
And so those people have done agreat job in my view of, of kind
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of uncovering some of those things.
Awesome.
I think that's a great list.
Three things you would take with you to a
deserted island.
Oh, man.
You're actually, you're askinga perfectionist to pick some
life saving critical items ina very short period of time.
This is a really tough one for me.
I think you gotta, you gotta havesome kind of knife or axe, right?
Maybe I'll just mergethose into a machete.
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How about that?
Nice.
Okay, so I got a machete.
Rope is extremely handy when you're ona deserted island and then I gotta get,
you gotta go with something like someflint or something to light a fire.
Yeah.
Oh, smart.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good answer.
Yeah.
A celebrity you would liketo have dinner with, dead
or alive?
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Currently, definitely Jordan Peterson.
Let's, let's talk, bro.
Come on.
Sit down.
Yeah.
Let's eat some steak.
Tomahawk.
Yes.
That's all he eats, sothat's Yeah, that's right.
That's what you'd get.
That's right.
And your go to karaoke
song?
This might be a shocker.
Lil Wayne, A Milli, for sure.
Yeah.
Oh,
that is a shocker.
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Did not expect that.
Yeah,
back in 2007, college days.
Heck yeah.
Nice.
That's awesome.
Lil
Weezy.
Great.
So, do you have any final thoughts?
That you'd like to share withthe audience before we sign off.
You know, just people always say,like, authentically be yourself, right?
And I think what that is, is youknow, not being afraid of what other
people think of you, because it reallydoesn't matter at the end of the day.
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So, you know, being your true self,saying your true things, talking, trying
to figure out what the real truth is,not being afraid of people's reactions.
And if they react, youknow, try to make peace.
Thanks.
Bye.
But be okay with not everybodyliking you because not everybody is.
There's a lot of people in this world.
We're not designed, I don't think,for groups of more than 150 at a time.
So be willing to let a lot ofpeople go quickly and not you know,
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worry too much about a few folks.
Excellent advice.
Thank you so much for coming on today.
I really appreciate this conversation.
Thanks for having me, Teri.
Yeah, but wait, there's more, don't goaway yet because as soon as we stopped
recording Nick and I kept talking.
And he started sharing where chordbrick was going and his newest product.
(24:39):
And I said, we should be recording this.
So I hit the record button again,and here's what came out of it.
And if you want to see the demothat Nick does in this next segment,
go to my YouTube channel andwatch the video where you can see
exactly what he's talking about.
It's also linked in the show notes.
Tell us, tell us all about it.
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Yeah.
So, uh, I just wanted to quick giveyou, uh, also a little Cordbrick
demo, if that's all right here.
Yes.
Yeah.
So we've got, uh, your cordwrapped around Cordbrick.
So the reason this is supercool is because it always
unwraps untangled in an instant.
So you snap, wrap, and trap, and youuse Cordbrick's end channels, which
are the patented part of Cordbrick.
And it just drops unwrapped,untangled, just like that.
(25:23):
And so then you put cord brick,this weighted brick anywhere, right?
And so I wanted to show you aswell, which I have a, I have a
brand new product called desk brick.
And one of the reasons this is coolis because you've got a cord space and
gap underneath in the middle too, aswell as on top to fit even more cords.
Plus you've got these little, whatI call corner pockets, which are
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Silicone little doors where you canwedge in like your phone and you can
even get it at a different angle.
That's awesome.
Um, you know, to stand it vertically orhorizontally in what I call a desk brick.
So my new product.
Um, and I wanted to mention too that,um, uh, I had Damon John from Shark Tank
actually take out his own personal phoneand video cord brick, uh, at a promotional
(26:05):
products trade show, because it's sucha great promotional product with logos
on it by people's nightstands and desk.
And so he videoed me in person.
It was completely.
It's completely surreal.
And then, um, through this, throughthis, uh, event I went to, uh, last week,
I'm actually going to meet with KevinHarrington, who's another former shark.
Um, and, uh, you know, we'll see whatthe discussions are, but it's, uh, it's
(26:25):
called a day with the shark and, youknow, potentially at the end of the event,
you know, they may consider investing.
So it's something that we're lookingforward to here in the future.
That's awesome.
Thanks.
Very exciting.
Yeah.
Super stoked about it.
So if you enjoyed this episode,which I hope you did, make sure
that you go check out Chordbrick andeverything that Nick has going on.
(26:47):
All the links are ofcourse in the show notes.
And if you know someone who has anidea that they would like to bring
to life, please Make sure you sharethis episode with that friend.
And as always, please leaveyour five star review.
It helps more people like you to findthis show and to benefit from it.
Thank you so much for being here today.
I look forward to seeing you againon Thursday with another episode.
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Have a great week.
Bye for now.
You have to begin and you're goingto have to solve a lot of problems.
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along the way.
So you need to get started gettingsome of those questions answered.
I think people get held up sometimesbecause what happens is they think,
oh, I don't want to tell people myidea because they might take it.
But let me tell you, no one'sgoing to take your idea.
Nick Barrett's life wasa mess until he was 30.
He stumbled about without purpose andslowly killing himself from alcoholism.
(00:26):
Ungratefully resentfully and lustfully.
Then through legal trouble slash dividedintervention, he had an awakening.
And has been on a journey ofself-improvement that continues daily.
Nick found a chord brick in 2020,and they've been growing ever since.
Recently featured on the todayshow and soon entering major
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retailers, his goal is to build alasting brand of quality products.
Before court break, he had zeroproduct development experience.
In four years, he's earned a utilitypatent by the us PTO and won 10,000.
And the coolest product at NRF 2023.
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Checkout chord breck@chordbrick.comor at chord brick on social media.
The links will be in the show notes.
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Hey Nick, thanks for joining me today.
Hey Teri, glad to be here.
So I want to start withyour idea for Cordbrick.
How did this idea come to you?
Because I think it's so fascinating whenpeople create a product out of an idea
and can bring it into the marketplace.
So that's, that's where I'd like to
start today.
Yeah, so, I'm a guy and I'm 37.
And so, I'm a millennial too,and I would call myself lazy.
(02:29):
So that's, that's,that's, that's a me thing.
But the reason that I thought of theidea is because really I was lazy.
I was in bed and my phone cordjust kept falling on the floor.
I'd be, you know, wanting to go tosleep and then someone would text me
a girlfriend or something like that.
At the time.
And my phone cord would fall on the floorand I thought it was annoying and go
under the nightstand or under the bed andI'd have to get on, you know, get out of
(02:52):
bed, turn on the light, wake myself up,move some furniture around or something,
at least depending on where I was orwhat my bedside charging situation was.
And I thought, man, I could justuse a brick that I would put on my
nightstand or my bed sheet anywhere.
And then you could even wrapyour cord around the brick
and, you know, because you.
Travel with these phone cords now Andthen now we've got several other devices
(03:14):
because this was back in 2015 whenI originally, you know had the idea
for cord brick and So now, you know,I decided to create the actual brick
That's amazing.
It's, you know, it's funny, becausewhen I was, when we were connecting for
this interview, and I was, of course,checking out your website and stuff, I was
like, I need to order like 10 of these.
I need them in every part of myhouse, because you're right, like
(03:38):
that is, I'm looking at the cablefor my phone hanging on my desk, and
it's always falling on the floor.
So it's a, what a great product.
And it's solving a problem that Ididn't even realize I had until I
was looking at all of your stuff.
And I was like, this is, this isa huge annoyance for me every day.
And so I'm definitelygoing to be getting some.
Yeah.
Thanks.
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I mean, I hear that all the time.
Like people always say tome man, it's so simple.
Like I should have thought of this.
And I think that's actually agreat compliment because they
see the idea and they're like,Oh yeah, there's no adhesive.
It's reusable, movable.
I need these all at every chargingstation all over the house.
You know?
Yeah.
It seems like a minor inconvenience,cord falling behind, whatever,
but you're doing it every day.
You're needing a little battery,a little juice here and there,
(04:19):
wherever you are, in the kitchen,at the desk something like that.
And so just convenient to grab the cord,move the cord brick wherever you need it
nearby, and then you can even use it forother stuff like standing your phone too.
So that's kind of a littleadded benefit of having
them around.
That's very cool.
So for, for someone listening whomaybe has an idea and they don't know
where to start, what would you suggest
(04:40):
for them?
Yeah, I get this question allthe time on other podcasts.
I speak at FGCU to theentrepreneurship school there.
You know, people have connectedme with local entrepreneurs just
in my geographic area that want totalk about products and, you know,
particularly products because that's,you know, what I have experience in.
I would say the first thing is.
(05:01):
To it's, this sounds crazy, but tostart, okay, you've got to actually start
building or doing whatever your idea is.
And that can be a lot ofdifferent things, right?
It could be just writing down a certainamount of ideas that could be some
research related to processes involvedthat maybe you don't know, but you know
that you're going to have to learn about.
(05:22):
That could be talking to someone inthat industry or someone who's already
doing that if you can get access tothat person even better you know for
me the best people to talk to areother entrepreneurs and particularly
for me the best people to talk to areproduct focused and people with product
companies because that's what I have soBecause they've been through the ringer.
They've done this the hard way andyou know learned a lot of lessons They
(05:44):
can tell me you know what I need to doand how realistic my idea is Another,
you know, way to do that is to youknow, reach out to different volunteer
organizations in my local local city.
We have a chapter of SCORE, whichis a volunteer organization.
So there's people like that andorganizations like that, people that want
to share their knowledge and that's free.
So I would say you have tobegin and you're going to have
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to solve a lot of problems.
Along the way so you need to get startgetting some of those questions answered
I think people get held up sometimesbecause what happens is they think oh,
I don't want to tell people my ideabecause they might Right, but let me
tell you no one's gonna take your idea.
First of all you know eventually Yes,someone's going to take your idea, right?
(06:27):
Competition and capitalismin our marketplace allows
for different variations.
And if you are successfulenough, eventually somebody will.
But that won't happen until you'remaking enough money to make it worth
it for someone else to copy you.
And then they're going tohave to compete with you.
And so they're going to have to dosomething to differentiate themselves
from you, whether that be a lowerprice, Higher price, more features.
(06:49):
So it's going to besomething different anyways.
So I'm never really that worriedabout, and I always encourage other
entrepreneurs to share their ideas.
Tell people their ideas becausepeople are going to poke holes in
it that you didn't think of as well.
And it's going to help you developyour ideas and figure out a lot
of the problems ahead of time.
And so then that'll change whatyou do and spend your time on.
Oh,
(07:09):
that's, you know, because I'm thinkingabout myself and I've had Product ideas
in the past where I've done the exactopposite and I've kept it to myself
and then never did anything with it.
So this is making a lot
of sense.
Yeah, write it down too, because youdon't know when you'll pursue those
ideas and it might not be the righttime and new technology or new uses or.
(07:30):
Just you know, the way people aredoing things might change and it
might become like, oh, this isreally a much better time as time
goes along for that old idea I had.
Now it makes even more sense.
So I always keep a little notebook ofmy other ideas that I have too, in case
you know, I want to act on them later.
That's a great idea.
And can you tell us a bit more aboutyour journey in terms of creating
this product and maybe what some ofthe challenges were that you faced?
(07:54):
Yeah.
So, as I mentioned at the beginning ofthis interview, I'm 37 years old and
I started this company four years ago.
So that leaves a littlebit of time between then.
And the beginning of my life, right?
So, yeah.
You know, growing up a great childhood,went to Penn State for college.
I'd grown up in the Philly suburbs area.
So Pennsylvania was PennState was in school for me.
(08:16):
Had several different jobs inmarketing and property management.
Eventually when I turned 30, Igotten a little bit of trouble.
I had a problem with alcoholand I stopped drinking.
So actually coming up on March 11thif I can continue it, it'll be seven
straight years of no drinks for me.
So.
That's been a huge differenceand change in my life.
I really think I resonate with alot of the younger people today.
(08:39):
I think that see so muchgoing on in the world and they
think, where's the room for me?
You know, everything's already been done.
Everything's already been invented.
What new or great could I add?
And you know, am I worth it?
Am I worthy?
And you're seeing, of course,everyone's best face being put
forward online and stuff like that.
So, you know, I, I myself had a lowself esteem and low self confidence.
(09:01):
You know, getting sober was thefirst part of changing that for me.
But then doing this startup and kindof teaching myself along the way,
learning the product developmentgetting success in sales and then
giving affirmation from people thatit was something really useful.
And they thought Ishould go on Shark Tank.
I've heard thousands of times.
So, you know, you hear that.
It can't help but kindof boost your confidence.
(09:21):
So, that's been, that's been myjourney and it's been a complete
personal transformation for me.
I personally was so lazy asI described myself, right?
I, I, you know, didn't think I wascapable of having the willpower
that it really takes, you know,working 60, 70, 80 hours a week.
On something as an entrepreneuras you pretty much have to to be
to get where you want to get to
did you ever struggle with thingslike imposter syndrome or doubts?
(09:46):
And what are some of theways that you overcame them?
And do you still struggle withany of those things today?
Yeah, I'm making faces as you say that.
Like, absolutely.
I just said to someone lastweek, I feel like I have imposter
syndrome going to this big event.
I just joined this groupcalled Board of Advisors.
You can check them out, BoardOfAdvisors.
com.
It's a bunch of entrepreneurs because Irealized that, I think I actually said
(10:07):
already, entrepreneurs are the best peoplefor me to learn from because they've been
where I am or where I want to go anyways.
And so this is a network group ofentrepreneurs and they help each other.
And we've got, you know,quarterly meetings and whatnot.
So, but when I was going to that just acouple of weeks ago, I thought, Oh man,
I'm, I can't fit in with these guys.
These are all really successful peopleand I'm, you know, just growing my
(10:30):
startup and we're just getting there.
But you know, they all welcomedme in and they loved the idea.
We're maybe a little bit morecritical than the average person
is because they know how hard itis to launch and, and, and grow a
business, scale a business, but yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you still, still deal with it.
Yeah, I have absolutely felt that.
Yeah.
Yeah.
100%.
So I, I know the feeling.
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Yeah, and that's, you know, somethingthat everyone that I talk to, every
entrepreneur at every stage of business,it seems to still come up for them.
And I find that so fascinatingthat no matter where we are,
yeah, there's always someone that you'regoing to look up to and idolize and
think this person that's larger thanlife, you know, so, yeah, I wouldn't,
I mean, at the end of the day, I thinknobody knows what's going on here really.
(11:15):
So we're all just figuring it outand going along the way with the
best information we have at hand.
And I think my, I myself used tokind of make the mistake of thinking
that people know what's going on inmy head more than they actually do.
And that gives you a littlebit of self doubt when you're
dealing with other people.
But, you know, you don't have toreveal as much uncertainty as you have.
And people will realize thatyou don't have that uncertainty.
(11:37):
And they'll just begin to kindof share little tidbits that
they think might help you.
At that stage,
that's amazing.
That's really a great insight.
Can you tell us a bit more toabout your, your sober journey and
how that's changed your life andchange the course of your life?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
At first I was humbled extremely by Thelaw I had three DUIs and luckily I never
(12:02):
got in the accident and hurt anybody.
So that was very fortunate butI completely regret, you know,
making the decisions to do that.
And, you know, alcohol had takenme completely out of control
from a self control perspective.
And, you know, before that I had, youknow, You know, before I got sober,
I remember looking at myself in themirror and screaming at myself, please
don't do this again another day.
And then I literally couldn't controlmy body from walking to buy alcohol
(12:25):
at eight o'clock in the morning, youknow, at the very end of it, that was,
that was really where it led to me.
And then you know, that third DUIyou know, getting out of jail, they
put an alcohol ankle monitor on me.
And basically what that is, is.
It's unbelievable if this is true, butit can sense alcohol from your pores.
So if you have even one drink, itwill go off or record that data.
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And then I would, I had to sleepwith a wireless transmitting device
within 30 feet of me for three or fourmonths after that as a court order.
So, you know, that was part ofme getting bailed out from jail.
Otherwise I would have had tostay in jail if I refused that.
And so I figured thatwas probably worth it.
And so I had pretty high incentiveto not drink at that point.
My court date was upcoming, and that,you know, if I failed that I definitely
(13:08):
would have been going to jail for alot longer than I did, which I was
still sentenced to 60 days, and, youknow, serve 40 of those days, you get
a certain percentage off for that.
And but I had went to rehab duringthat time and, and, you know, took
it very seriously because I knewthe consequences at that point.
And I'm not sure if it wasn't forsomething like that and the law to
(13:29):
step in and, you know, that particulardevice you know, that I would have
been so eager to actually do it.
You know, I think in the back ofmy mind, I definitely knew that
this was a major problem for me.
And I, didn't have self controland the willpower to stop.
But this, I knew this was myopportunity, you know, as soon as
that, that that day occurred and Idove in, I went to AA, I was going
(13:52):
to three and four meetings a day.
I was praying a lot and getting,you know, just asking a lot of
people who just like I mentionedin, in, you know, as entrepreneurs.
I like talking to other entrepreneursbecause they've been there before.
I like talking to other alcoholicsbecause they understand what it's like
to, you know, have those problems.
And, and, you know, mystory was not unique.
I found, you know, I thought thatI was some person that was the
(14:15):
only one suffering from theseproblems and no one understood.
And it was like me.
But no, actually, a lot of thepeople were like me and had done way
worse and had come back from it andlived very successful, happy lives.
And I think the other thing is justbeing more at peace with themselves.
Because at the end of the day, the reasonthat people drink or use substances or
have any addiction whatsoever is to changethe way that they feel inside, right?
(14:35):
They need to do somethingdifferent to change a feeling.
And so, You know, once I realized thatit's been you know, a whole you know,
transformation of my personal self.
And I feel like it's continued intoa personal and self improvement
journey that has been ongoing.
And I'm just extremely fortunate for everyperson, you know, that was involved in me
(14:56):
being able to have these opportunities tostill go and do these things after, you
know, getting into some serious trouble.
Yeah,
absolutely.
I, I saw in your, your write up thatI was reading that you refer to it
as a divine intervention, and that'sexactly what it sounds like to me.
I'm not a fan of people saying thingshappen for a reason, because I think
some things are just shitty, butI do, I do believe that sometimes
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life intervenes with us, and thereis a divine intervention that sets
us on the right course, and that'sexactly, I think, what it sounds like.
Yeah, I think you make the reasonthe reason is what happens.
I think I think you're absolutely right.
You know, there's there isfree will in this world.
But because of that, Ithink that you're right.
Not everything does happen for a reason.
And I think that's the harsh reality.
(15:44):
And unfortunately, you know, but whatthat does, you know, what that does
make happen is it means that, you know,you need to go out and get what So,
you know, if you think that you deservebetter, it's, it's there for you.
So, you know, go, go and try and there'sgoing to be things in everybody's way.
Everyone has unexpectedthings happen to them.
(16:05):
The level of that justis, you know, is random.
It does seem so.
Just try to keep puttingyourself in the best position.
And my, some of the learnings from,from AA I would say is you know,
surround yourself with the five peoplewho you want to emulate, who are
living a life that is, is one thatyou would be envious of, you know.
So, you know, try tobe around those people.
(16:27):
And it tends to happen that yourlife becomes more like that.
You pick little things up that they'redoing that you don't even know that
they're doing that are resulting in.
The things happening for them.
Yeah,
I, I love that insight.
Thank you for that.
How has that shift in your mindset andyour thinking, how do you think that's
led to your success as an entrepreneur?
In a lot of ways.
The first one would be the humility way.
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And you know, there's a paragraph in theAA big book that talks about acceptance.
And so, before you get to acceptanceand people know this from the
five stages of grief, right?
It's, It's denial and I was living indenial about everything in my life really.
And so what I've started to dois try to move to acceptance.
And so I equate it to you know,something I've heard lately, which
(17:10):
is that, you know, certain peopleseem to be able to lie to themselves.
It's like, how do they do that?
And I was one of those people.
So I will tell you how I know,and I I've heard other people say
this and I think what happens is.
If you practice anything,you'll get better at it.
And if you practice lying toyourself, you're going to get
better at lying to yourself.
And it was going to come to a pointwhere you're so good at rationalizing
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and people say this word rationalizing.
Yeah, it's rationalizing.
All right.
Because you're not hearing theother side of the argument, right?
You're, you're shutting out thatother side of the argument when you're
rationalizing and you're practicinglying to yourself and convincing
yourself of something that may notbe completely purely the truth.
And so, you know, by becoming, notpracticing and accepting the truth
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and living in denial in a fantasyworld, you don't move to that
second stage and you get stuck.
So, it's, it's really hard to nothave success when you are constantly
accepting the truth because then yougo to the third step, which is action.
Right?
You take that action and startdoing something to change whatever
you need to change based on thetrue thing, which is the acceptance
(18:16):
that you've been able to see then.
Oh,
that's great.
Thank you.
Can you tell us about the theBuild Something initiative?
I'm curious to hear
about that.
Yeah, thanks.
That's like my personal mission.
It's something I'm very passionate about.
I mentioned that I speak to entrepreneurs,students at FGCU, a local school here
in the southwest part Florida, but my,my main mission, you know, to be the
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first part of that mission started whenI was building these bricks, right?
These cord bricks.
Yeah.
And I thought, okay I really wantto give back to the people that have
given so back so much back to me toallow me this journey of sobriety.
And so what would I, what could I do?
Oh, I could build something.
I could build the housing becausewhen you're early in recovery,
you know, a lot of times you'vebeen kicked out of your house.
You don't have anywhere to live.
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The people that you're living with areeven part of the problem a lot of times.
Enablers, or they don't really knowhow maybe they're drinkers themselves.
And so you need a place to go thatis So, a sober house, basically.
In Naples in particular,there's a, 501c3 called St.
Matthew's House, a nonprofit, and theyhave housing and they take in homeless
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people people in early recovery.
And in order to get to get andkeep that housing, you've got
to commit to go to meetings.
You've got to commit to working ajob and they check in with you and
manage the housing and, and justoversee you and make sure you're safe.
And so.
I wanted to contribute to that.
So a small part of everybrick that we sell goes to St.
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Matt's or similar 501c3s to helpbuild those physical structures,
to, you know, how's people in earlyrecovery and getting their life back.
And then the other part of thatmission is me building something
by offering to mentor youngentrepreneurs, inspiring other people
to create something themselves.
So I offer my own time and anyonereally to talk about entrepreneurship.
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Because, you know, like I said,entrepreneurs have been so helpful for me.
I want to help other entrepreneurs,happy to talk to any entrepreneur, free,
one hour long conversation anytime, andit would possibly more particularly if
I can really help you or network youwith someone that would help you, happy
to spend more time than that as well.
That sounds absolutely amazing.
How would people learn moreabout that initiative and,
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and also more about Cordbrick?
Yeah, so, you can go to Chordbrick.
com, you can find my story and thenour our brick blog where we talk
about our Build Something initiative.
In our swag, you can grab a BuildSomething t shirt that we've got.
We've got some other Chordbrickmagnets and hats and whatnot, right?
So, but mainly just grab a Chordbrickand then you know, share it with other
people or follow us at at Cordbrick.
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We're on all the main social mediaaccounts and YouTube and all that.
And yeah.
That sounds great, and I'll haveall those links in the show notes.
Now I want to move on tomy rapid fire questions.
This is something I've juststarted doing recently.
It's just a little bit of fun.
What is your
favorite book?
Shogun which I heard by James Cavell,which I saw Hulu Coming out with the
(21:04):
show so I may have to re get my, reup my Hulu subscription to watch that.
Fantastic book.
Incredible story.
Oh, I haven't even heard
about that one.
Yeah, it's an incredible love story.
You've got to check it out.
Oh, I will for sure.
Favorite food?
Got to go with friedchicken, old trusty, so good.
Can't go wrong.
Nice.
What's your biggest
pet peeve?
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I would say a lack of patience as itrelates to not understanding you know,
where people came from or you know, theirpersonal journey through life, right?
I think, you know, name callinginstead of kind of, you know, seeing
that there's, there's more to peoplethan meets the eye most of the time.
I
love that.
Who inspires you?
Oh man, there's so many people these days.
(21:47):
It's great.
At the beginning of the pandemic,I'm like, where is everybody?
Like we, we need somepeople to step up, honestly.
Like, well, this is madness.
What is going on here?
So for me, those people include peoplelike Elon, people like Jordan Peterson.
Obviously they're Rogan.
I, you know, I, I personallyhave loved these people.
Chris Williamson has an incredible podcastcalled Modern Wisdom that just gets great
(22:10):
little nuggets for men in particular.
You know, there's a lot of LexFreeman and whatnot, you know, Tucker,
I am, as you can, you know, see.
Probably guess you know, my particularleanings by some of these people.
But I, I particularly just enjoytruth and, and finding out, you know,
what is, what is really going on.
So that, I think that's wheremy personal motivations lie.
And so those people have done agreat job in my view of, of kind
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of uncovering some of those things.
Awesome.
I think that's a great list.
Three things you would take with you to a
deserted island.
Oh, man.
You're actually, you're askinga perfectionist to pick some
life saving critical items ina very short period of time.
This is a really tough one for me.
I think you gotta, you gotta havesome kind of knife or axe, right?
Maybe I'll just mergethose into a machete.
(22:52):
How about that?
Nice.
Okay, so I got a machete.
Rope is extremely handy when you're ona deserted island and then I gotta get,
you gotta go with something like someflint or something to light a fire.
Yeah.
Oh, smart.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Good answer.
Yeah.
A celebrity you would liketo have dinner with, dead
or alive?
(23:12):
Currently, definitely Jordan Peterson.
Let's, let's talk, bro.
Come on.
Sit down.
Yeah.
Let's eat some steak.
Tomahawk.
Yes.
That's all he eats, sothat's Yeah, that's right.
That's what you'd get.
That's right.
And your go to karaoke
song?
This might be a shocker.
Lil Wayne, A Milli, for sure.
Yeah.
Oh,
that is a shocker.
(23:32):
Did not expect that.
Yeah,
back in 2007, college days.
Heck yeah.
Nice.
That's awesome.
Lil
Weezy.
Great.
So, do you have any final thoughts?
That you'd like to share withthe audience before we sign off.
You know, just people always say,like, authentically be yourself, right?
And I think what that is, is youknow, not being afraid of what other
people think of you, because it reallydoesn't matter at the end of the day.
(23:55):
So, you know, being your true self,saying your true things, talking, trying
to figure out what the real truth is,not being afraid of people's reactions.
And if they react, youknow, try to make peace.
Thanks.
Bye.
But be okay with not everybodyliking you because not everybody is.
There's a lot of people in this world.
We're not designed, I don't think,for groups of more than 150 at a time.
So be willing to let a lot ofpeople go quickly and not you know,
(24:17):
worry too much about a few folks.
Excellent advice.
Thank you so much for coming on today.
I really appreciate this conversation.
Thanks for having me, Teri.
Yeah, but wait, there's more, don't goaway yet because as soon as we stopped
recording Nick and I kept talking.
And he started sharing where chordbrick was going and his newest product.
(24:39):
And I said, we should be recording this.
So I hit the record button again,and here's what came out of it.
And if you want to see the demothat Nick does in this next segment,
go to my YouTube channel andwatch the video where you can see
exactly what he's talking about.
It's also linked in the show notes.
Tell us, tell us all about it.
(25:01):
Yeah.
So, uh, I just wanted to quick giveyou, uh, also a little Cordbrick
demo, if that's all right here.
Yes.
Yeah.
So we've got, uh, your cordwrapped around Cordbrick.
So the reason this is supercool is because it always
unwraps untangled in an instant.
So you snap, wrap, and trap, and youuse Cordbrick's end channels, which
are the patented part of Cordbrick.
And it just drops unwrapped,untangled, just like that.
(25:23):
And so then you put cord brick,this weighted brick anywhere, right?
And so I wanted to show you aswell, which I have a, I have a
brand new product called desk brick.
And one of the reasons this is coolis because you've got a cord space and
gap underneath in the middle too, aswell as on top to fit even more cords.
Plus you've got these little, whatI call corner pockets, which are
(25:44):
Silicone little doors where you canwedge in like your phone and you can
even get it at a different angle.
That's awesome.
Um, you know, to stand it vertically orhorizontally in what I call a desk brick.
So my new product.
Um, and I wanted to mention too that,um, uh, I had Damon John from Shark Tank
actually take out his own personal phoneand video cord brick, uh, at a promotional
(26:05):
products trade show, because it's sucha great promotional product with logos
on it by people's nightstands and desk.
And so he videoed me in person.
It was completely.
It's completely surreal.
And then, um, through this, throughthis, uh, event I went to, uh, last week,
I'm actually going to meet with KevinHarrington, who's another former shark.
Um, and, uh, you know, we'll see whatthe discussions are, but it's, uh, it's
(26:25):
called a day with the shark and, youknow, potentially at the end of the event,
you know, they may consider investing.
So it's something that we're lookingforward to here in the future.
That's awesome.
Thanks.
Very exciting.
Yeah.
Super stoked about it.
So if you enjoyed this episode,which I hope you did, make sure
that you go check out Chordbrick andeverything that Nick has going on.
(26:47):
All the links are ofcourse in the show notes.
And if you know someone who has anidea that they would like to bring
to life, please Make sure you sharethis episode with that friend.
And as always, please leaveyour five star review.
It helps more people like you to findthis show and to benefit from it.
Thank you so much for being here today.
I look forward to seeing you againon Thursday with another episode.
(27:10):
Have a great week.
Bye for now.
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