In this episode of the Franchise My Business podcast, Kevin features Cliff Kennedy, CEO of Frios Gourmet Pops. Cliff shares his passion for entrepreneurship and how he fell in love with Frios Pops, so much so that he went from the brand’s newest franchisee to its franchisor in 8 months.
He talks about meeting the challenge of the pandemic and making the leap out of brick-and-mortar to go fully mobile. For Cliff, franchising as a business model and mental toughness are the secrets to entrepreneurial success. He talks about having a shared vision as a franchisor and making dreams come true as a result of that.
HIGHLIGHT QUOTES
Training mental capacity through business and marathons – Cliff: “As we found these entrepreneurs, they’re all nervous or can I do this? And so for me, this is my way that I’m just of a mindset that we are capable of so much more mentally, but we get so comfortable.”
“And if it’s business, and I tell everyone, you can test yourself every day with your education and your smarts through business or training your body physically through going for a run or working out or a walk, whatever it is, but we rarely test our mental capacity of what we’re truly capable of.”
Being a franchisor means you make dreams come true – Cliff: “That’s what I love… like I know that when I’m bringing on new entrepreneurs into our system, as we scale and hopefully hit 500 territories in years to come… that’s what I love to do is like I get to see it and I get to speak from an experience like you’re capable of so much more, giving them their tangible goals and knowing that we’re chipping away and meeting their dreams.”
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