The Few Will Hunt Show

If you want to build something, you have to sketch it first. In this episode, Joey and Drew sit down with Tim Galloway, former photojournalist and founder of Goodwerks, known for crafting premium everyday carry gear. Tim opens up about his journey from moving trucks and photography to building a purpose-driven brand, and his evolving relationship with Few Will Hunt. He shares how his past jobs shaped him for the challenges ahead and dives deep into the power of gratitude, pushing through fatigue, and manifesting success—all while staying true to a mission that's bigger than just business. Tune in to learn how manifesting can turn into reality.

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Creators & Guests

Host
Drew Beech
Drew Beech is an entrepreneur and cofounder of Few Will Hunt. He spent several years in the sales and marketing industry, grossing over several million dollars in sales. But his love for the entrepreneurial journey and desire to escape the rate race started with his personal training business in college. Today, Drew leads the Few Will Hunt community alongside his cousin and cofounder, Joey in their mission to restore the dignity of hard work through the highest-quality American-made apparel.
Host
Joey Bowen
Joey Bowen is co-founder of Few Will Hunt.

What is The Few Will Hunt Show?

The official podcast of Few Will Hunt, the world’s largest community of hard workers and 100% Made in the USA apparel brand. We’re on a mission to restore the dignity of hard work and help others live The Rules of The Few to strengthen ourselves and strengthen society. No entitlement or excuses are allowed here.

Tim Galloway:

Like there isn't a choice, but there is. And you could do the thing that's comfortable. You could do the thing that's safe. You could do the thing that doesn't challenge you. You could do this thing that just lets you stay where you're at.

Tim Galloway:

You don't have to change anything, and you could just be. Mhmm. Or you take this opportunity that's massive. Like, I like, I I told, you know, all my friends, like, this is a once in a lifetime thing.

Joey Bowen:

Welcome to the Fuel Hunt Show. What's going on, Eagles? Welcome to the Fuel Hunt Show. I'm Joey. I'm here joined with my cousin and cofounder, Drew.

Joey Bowen:

And today on the show, we have a special guest, Tim Galloway from Good Works. A lot I wanna talk about today. I wanna talk about the origins of Tim. I wanna talk about the origins of Good Works. I wanna talk about the origins of the fuel hunt and Good Works relationship.

Joey Bowen:

I wanna talk about what it's like being at HQ every day, with me. Absolutely terrible probably.

Tim Galloway:

Well, if you showed up, I I have I have, info for you on that, but you gotta show up.

Joey Bowen:

What what it's like being here every day, at HQ and, your time in Philly. Yeah. Yeah. I would get into the few fest, but we're gonna do a whole another episode on that. So maybe we'll touch on it a little bit, but we'll get into all the details of the FEW Fest on another, another episode.

Joey Bowen:

So if you've been for the Eagles, listening and watching, if you've been, living high up in your tree and you haven't been in touch with what's going on on the ground, Tim and Good Works have moved into, Fuel Hunt HQ as of June 15th. June 15th.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. The, to the day, the 4 year anniversary of Good Works.

Joey Bowen:

Super cool, man.

Tim Galloway:

So, like, that may or may not have been planned.

Joey Bowen:

Super cool. Super cool. So we'll get into how that all happened. On that day on June 15th, we both had the opportunity to do something that we used to do in our previous lives, which is move. Right?

Joey Bowen:

Move things, move heavy objects, and we're not talking about, like, weights.

Tim Galloway:

Not sandbags and No. Stuff like

Joey Bowen:

that. We're talking about, like, a laser.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Yeah. A 1000 shot. A £1,000 laser. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. That Drew was just, he just happened to not be here for that.

Joey Bowen:

I brought in I brought in the big guns.

Drew Beech:

I brought uncle Mark in. Uncle Mark

Joey Bowen:

came in. He we should have uncle Mark on the show. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Should have uncle Mark on the show.

Joey Bowen:

That'd be that'd be amazing. But, yeah, that day, I thought about that this morning actually because we were kinda guessing. We're like, hey. Look. Let's put this laser on the famous freight elevator, and let's all pile in, and will this elevator be able to bring us up?

Joey Bowen:

There is it, like, a small plaque on the back of the elevator. It says £2,000. So I think we're we're probably alright.

Tim Galloway:

We're we're probably close.

Joey Bowen:

Close. We were probably close.

Drew Beech:

Mark on there. We were close.

Joey Bowen:

I think

Tim Galloway:

was it just the 2 of us that or was was were Mark and Pete on there too? I think

Joey Bowen:

all 4 of us were on there.

Tim Galloway:

I think So we were probably in excess of.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah. Then you got the diamond plate that was on there. It stays on there. That adds

Tim Galloway:

a couple

Joey Bowen:

of pounds. So, yeah, probably in excess. But we got it up here.

Tim Galloway:

We did.

Joey Bowen:

We got it in. And you're all you're all set up. Shop looks great. Got your trust hard work flag flag hanging

Tim Galloway:

I do.

Joey Bowen:

Above the laser.

Tim Galloway:

Yep.

Joey Bowen:

Which we'll talk about that too. Let's start at the beginning. Arjun to Tim, what was it like growing up, for you? Where are you from? You know?

Tim Galloway:

Well, I'm not growing up.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. So I

Tim Galloway:

can't answer that question.

Drew Beech:

I was about to answer. Excellent. Excellent.

Tim Galloway:

So, so I'm I'm from Michigan. I was born in Royal Oak, a suburb of Detroit. I've spent the majority of my life in in Michigan. Mhmm. However, I have I've lived in Boston, lived in Seattle, lived in Columbus, Ohio.

Tim Galloway:

I do have a couple of interesting stories that we don't really need to need to get into.

Joey Bowen:

From your travels or

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Just from, you know, just there you know, there's some, like, catfish involved

Joey Bowen:

Oh, jeez.

Tim Galloway:

Cross country moves involved. Oh, god.

Joey Bowen:

So,

Tim Galloway:

like, there's what Before

Joey Bowen:

we have some time at the end,

Drew Beech:

we'll tell the catfish story. Sure. The community

Joey Bowen:

would love

Drew Beech:

to hear about catfish and get that.

Tim Galloway:

We can we can make an episode of that one.

Joey Bowen:

I mean, come on. Yeah. Probably.

Tim Galloway:

But, yeah. So, mainly in Michigan, but I've been fortunate enough that I've, I grew up in in Michigan, like I said. Yeah. And I got to spend a bunch of time with my brother who had a key he lived in Massachusetts, just outside of Boston. Okay.

Tim Galloway:

He had a company that would program, terminals for like, this was in so I was man, I was probably, like, early teens.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And his company would encrypt do you remember the old gray Vero phone credit card boxes?

Joey Bowen:

Oh, yeah. Of course.

Tim Galloway:

Like the old school ones?

Joey Bowen:

Uh-huh.

Tim Galloway:

So we would program those and encrypt those for when when states moved from paper food stamps Yeah. To the electronic benefits. So we would program those machines, and we would install them in in stores, like, all all over the place.

Joey Bowen:

And then they they spoke right on the Financial Network?

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. They do. It was, like, old school. They had the old school dial up modems in them. You know, we had to we had to, like, in instruct these retailers how to use them.

Tim Galloway:

Yep. So through that, like, I got to see, like, decent parts of the country. Sure. And I've I've traveled, like you said. So one of our shared kind of shared but not shared experiences in life is, like, I worked as a mover for a while.

Tim Galloway:

Which which you have? I was one of their only over the road drivers.

Joey Bowen:

Okay.

Tim Galloway:

So I got to I got to see a lot of the country

Joey Bowen:

doing that. Remind me, you were dry were you driving a cargo truck, or

Tim Galloway:

were you driving

Joey Bowen:

a 33?

Tim Galloway:

Bobtails. Okay. So, like, no, I didn't have my CDL. I had a chauffeur's license. So, technically, I couldn't I couldn't drive air brakes, but I may have.

Tim Galloway:

I may have had to dodge scales a few times.

Joey Bowen:

With which yeah. I'm sure the time with which you could be prosecuted for that has passed.

Tim Galloway:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Way way beyond. So, actually, we we did get shut down 1 night because I was beyond behind on my log book. And they're like, you know, you gotta shut down for 8 hours or whatever.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And they didn't did not give me a hard time for having a truck with air brakes, which Okay. I probably should not have been driving. Yeah. But, ironically, I drove a truck here with air brakes. So

Joey Bowen:

There you go. Full circle full circle.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

My, so talking about uncle Mark, uncle Mark drove the truck when I worked on the moving truck. So, like, for me, like, my dad kind of handed me over to my uncle Mark when I graduated when I graduated high school and he was kinda like, hey, look, like, I'm still on this journey of, like, making this this dude a man, but you're gonna do it in your unique way over the summer. And me, I'm like, everything's fine. Like, uncle Mark's like cool dude. Like, you know, life for the party all the time.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Oh, man. Uncle Mark is different on the moving truck.

Joey Bowen:

Come on. Bro, I used to come home, and I'm like, my own uncle doesn't love me. Mhmm. Like, that's how bad he broke me to build me back up.

Tim Galloway:

So

Joey Bowen:

the moving truck for me was was, really special, those years. And the funny thing is there's a lot of members, in the community that were movers too

Tim Galloway:

Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

Which when I told some of my stories about moving, I was surprised how many people wrote back, and they were like, I was a mover. Like, my time in moving truck was awesome. Blah blah blah. Because you learn, like think about it. It.

Joey Bowen:

It's like the best of both worlds. You're learning how to pick up heavy things and carry them for distance, and then you're learning how to interact with people. Yeah. Really.

Tim Galloway:

Be part of a team.

Joey Bowen:

Be part of a team. Yeah. Interacting with people during the one of the most stressful events of their lives. Yeah. Right?

Joey Bowen:

So they say, like, death and moving are, like, 2 of the most stressful events that people, you know, go through. So, yeah, super awesome, man.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

So wasn't like, when we started talking and then I learned that about you, it wasn't a surprise to me. Like, this this actually makes sense.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Totally.

Joey Bowen:

I can Totally. I understand, like, why vibe with this dude, like, be because of that shared experience.

Drew Beech:

Because you're moving together?

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. I think so. I think so. I mean, like, shared but not shared like you said. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. What if we were on the same truck together, man? That would've been Dude, that'd be a

Tim Galloway:

long time. Pretty rad, dude. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

I don't do much I did local stuff.

Drew Beech:

Say, I I do give kudos to anyone who has done that because moving is fucking It's horrible. Carrying, like, refrigerators and lights, even, like, heavy shit. And, like, when you're the the the guy going backwards up the steps, like, it's just Oh,

Tim Galloway:

no, dude. I'd I'd rather get backwards up the steps than be

Drew Beech:

on the bottom. Oh my god.

Tim Galloway:

You gotta drive bottom. Bottom is hard.

Joey Bowen:

The first the first couple times you're going backwards, though. Like, you have to learn how to walk backwards with weight.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

And going like, that's difficult to begin with. People are like, oh, oh, it's difficult. Mhmm. When something's heavy and awkward, like, £300 dresser, it's fine.

Drew Beech:

I almost fucked my shit up a few times, like, going backwards up steps, like, carrying something heavy, like or or even down. Like, because if you'd slip up, you just

Tim Galloway:

Well, so you know, like, when you're when you're driving that piece up the stairs, right, you're supposed to push. Right? Like, you're supposed to drive. I was working with my boss at the time. I'm not gonna say who it was.

Tim Galloway:

I was working with my boss, and we we were moving this house. We had an exercise bike that we were pushing upstairs.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And I was pushing a little too fast. He didn't he didn't communicate with me. He didn't calm anything, and, like, he fell onto the stairs. Like, no big deal. Like, he just, like, essentially, he's, like, he just took a fast seat on the stairs.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. He got so angry. This dude this dude had some, interesting qualities.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Okay.

Tim Galloway:

Wrong. Wrong. He got so angry. He took the handle the the the base of the bike, you know, which is like a steel bar, and he rammed it at me.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And, of course, like, I'm holding it on my chest because I'm trying to push up the stairs. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Like, chin, chin. It went

Tim Galloway:

no. Right in my mouth, dude. Ugh. Busted my lip just, like, blood, like, coming down my face. Ugh.

Tim Galloway:

And I'm, like, he's, like, you know, you shouldn't be doing that. I'm, like, bro, like, you didn't tell me not to, like, slow down. So, like, whatever. Later that day, we had those super long, like, you know, those 20 foot fiberglass loading ramps.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

You know, that we would you know, you

Joey Bowen:

The wallboard.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah. The wallboard.

Tim Galloway:

We're loading those in the belly in the belly boxes on the trailer.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And we didn't put him in exactly the same time, and he dropped his end. His end popped up and smacked him right in the face. And so I kinda Funny

Joey Bowen:

funny how that works out.

Tim Galloway:

It took me a minute, and I had to, like, calm down. You know, I'd be like, I didn't wanna say anything, but he's like so I guess, well, he's like, I guess, I deserve that for failure.

Drew Beech:

And I'm

Joey Bowen:

like Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

He comes back around, dude.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. For sure.

Tim Galloway:

But, yeah, there's definitely a lot of lessons to be learned, you know, you're spending, you know, depending, like, if you're over the road, you're spending a lot of time with people. Yeah. You're doing challenging things. I mean, we we would move people to Florida regularly.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And, you know, this was in the days of, you know, cargo shorts past the knees, you know, and Yeah. Yeah. I'd be like, my sweat would soak through the outside of the pockets. And, like, the, you know, big, you know, lot of work a lot of work, and it's just, you know, some of those some of those days are, you know, you're gonna have a 15 hour a day moving, and you're constantly moving moving heavy stuff in and out, in and out.

Joey Bowen:

A lot of people say, like, get a when they're coming up, they say, or or when they're giving advice to those that are coming up and they wanna build skills, they say get, like, a belly to belly sales job. Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Right?

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Drew Beech:

So

Joey Bowen:

you learn how to communicate. You learn how to persuade. You learn how to sell. You learn how to add value to people's lives, like, all that great stuff. I I'm a big advocate of, like, work on a moving truck.

Tim Galloway:

Oh, yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Sweet. It's belly to belly sales like that, plus, like, all the physical Yeah. Labor that's involved Mhmm. To push yourself. And it's different than picking up a barbell, man.

Joey Bowen:

You're picking up a dresser. The bottoms it's it's solid wood. It's from the freaking 19 thirties. The bottoms all splintered. The splinters are going in your hand.

Joey Bowen:

The guy on the other end is twerking it because he's carrying it wrong.

Drew Beech:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

You know, then you gotta drive the dude up the steps. Like, there's just so it's a lot of adversity on a daily basis.

Tim Galloway:

There isn't. And you'd and, you know, with the longer days you deal with that fatigue too.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

You know? You you start getting into that mindset. Mhmm. You start you learn to go beyond that mindset and keep your and keep your mind about you even though, like, you're not feeling so great or, like, you know, there's there's somebody said about, like, commiserating together for sure.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

But you still have to get a job done. You still have to get it done well. Yeah. So even though this piece is super heavy, you still have to get it through the door doorway without thrashing the doorway. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

You still have to communicate with the people, like, hey, this is a task we have to do. This is how we need to do it. Yep. So there's a lot of lessons.

Joey Bowen:

You gotta stay sharp. If you're tired, you still can't drop stuff. I mean, we used to get paid at the end of the job. Mhmm. I guess there is deposit in the beginning, but, like, the customer had to check at the end.

Joey Bowen:

Yep. You know what I mean? So, you know, as a as a company man, like, you know, I'm wanting to make sure that we're delivering on the promise that, you know, we made as employees. Like, we've gotta do a job great job from start to finish, like you're saying, so we can get that check at the end. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

You don't want you don't wanna be making those, 10 o'clock house calls trying to fix somebody scrape wood floors.

Joey Bowen:

Oh, man. My uncle put me to work so many times. Because, you know, if from childhood, like, I've always been interested in art. You know, I consider myself an artist. Was I ever, like, had really, like, amazing painter?

Tim Galloway:

No. But those hardwood floors, I could fix those up.

Joey Bowen:

Uncle put me to work between hardwood floors and walls. Because, you know, obviously, everybody's got the paint in their basement. Yeah. You know, that's where the you know, after the house gets finished, paint goes in the basement or paint it or whatever. You'd be like, hit the basement.

Joey Bowen:

You know what I mean? There's some you know, we had a little box, like a mover specialty box that had, like, you know, putty in it and almond sticks and, like, all sorts of, like, you know, fix fix fix the furniture, fix the walls and stuff. He used to put me to work, man. He used to put me to work. I was like home remodeler, dude.

Joey Bowen:

I would, I drive the dresser through the wall, and then I have to patch the wall and paint it. Cool. The same day.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Alright. So, so you did some you did some moving

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Around the country. Yep. Michigan raised, though, for the most part. Right?

Tim Galloway:

So I kinda I've had all sorts of different jobs. I fell in love with photography when I was in, like, you know, early 2000, which who hasn't at some point in their life? Who hasn't who hasn't gone well? Like, you know, there there is something really magical about making photos. Especially when I learned, I learned on film.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

So it wasn't this instant gratification. It was being mindful of the photos that you're making, and then you have to wait and figure out, like, what did I get?

Joey Bowen:

For sure.

Tim Galloway:

I still have one of the very first contact sheets from my 35 millimeter that I've ever made. Nice. So fell in love with that, and then I decided that I wanna pursue that. So I did. And I I I made photos for years years before I got, work as a professional.

Tim Galloway:

So I was a I was a photojournalist for 10 years or so in the Metro Detroit area. My major clients were, like, the Detroit Free Press, Detroit News. Toward the end of my career. I mean, I I I built that client base up quite a bit. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Excuse me. So I was, you know, I was working for, like, New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Associated Press, Elegy's Year of America, ESPN Magazine.

Joey Bowen:

Sure.

Tim Galloway:

So, like, I was getting, you know, local, local and national, clients and stuff, and, like, that was going that was going pretty well.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And then 2020 happens. Mhmm. So and I wasn't enough I wasn't in, like, tight enough with the in the rotation that I had as a freelancer, so I wasn't able to get a lot of access. Access was, like, really shutting down. People were afraid.

Tim Galloway:

Nobody wanted to expose themselves to anybody else.

Drew Beech:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Not to, you know, downplay the the significance of of, you know, being sick and people who, you know, who who got, you know, who are, like, fatally ill and and suck as that did happen. But, people were afraid, and all the all the commentary on it, all of the news on it, and everything was getting to people. Yep. And they got afraid real fast.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. So the well, you know, not not I mean, your network. The well It didn't

Tim Galloway:

dry up. It got it got shut off. It got closed over.

Joey Bowen:

Got closed over.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. So it wasn't it wasn't that the well was dry, but it was that. It was blockaded.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

So, and it my my career had been kind of dwindling. So I I had tried, I tried doing a a headshot studio, like a portrait studio

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

That failed, just because, like, the what I was what I was charging

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And for what I was delivering, I thought was appropriate. But in the the area that I was in, there was no real support for it.

Joey Bowen:

Sure. Sure.

Tim Galloway:

I tried doing, like, part of, like, one of the, it's not it's not a pyramid or Ponzi scheme, but, like like, one of those, kind of, like, coaching groups that also offers referral and stuff like that. So I tried doing that. That that didn't work.

Joey Bowen:

Sure.

Tim Galloway:

So I just, you know, I tried to change angles a few times. So then, once 2020 hit, like, that was the that was the last nail.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. I gotcha. It was done.

Drew Beech:

So you were changing angles before 2020? Or

Tim Galloway:

I was changing angles, but I was in the same arena.

Joey Bowen:

Okay. Geography. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. So I was I was still trying to work on, like, okay, like, can I, you know, can I shift to commercial? Can I shift to headshots? Can I shift to, you know, anything but Education? Can I Yeah?

Tim Galloway:

Some something like that. Actually, for a long time, ironically enough, I had a list. So I had these big pieces of paper that I had that I wrote. Mhmm. I'm like, man, like, these are the clients that I want.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And on there, I have, like, Rev Gear, SENABLE, Showa Roll Gotcha. Like, all these, you know, origin.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Combat Corner. Kings. Like I'm

Joey Bowen:

sure if you were hung, would have been on the list if we were around.

Tim Galloway:

It would have been.

Joey Bowen:

No. No. No. No.

Tim Galloway:

No. Like, no. It it would have been. And then I've I've actually thought about that a few times since I've been here.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And it's, like, whether it was, like, this role or my other role, like, there would have been a connection.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

So that was, something that I've kind of kinda had a laugh at.

Joey Bowen:

That's, it's something I call book of proof. I got that term from a a book, but, like, it's funny how you put those things out there. And if you're aware enough to reflect on your past and where you are presently, you see those connections.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. It's and it's wild. It's it's super crazy. Your higher power, the universe, whatever it is. Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

You know, it's listening, and it's conspiring to make the things true

Tim Galloway:

Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

That you're, I believe, especially writing down. So, you know, it it

Tim Galloway:

I think it sounds woo woo to a lot of people.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Right? Until it's not.

Tim Galloway:

Until it's not.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

So I I definitely think that the universe conspires.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And whether or not that's the universe doing it

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Or whether that's you shifting your mindset and what you're paying attention to.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Whether or not that's a a vibrational thing where vibrations attract vibrations. Whatever, like, whatever pathway you wanna go down. If you wanna call it faith, if you wanna call it religion, if you wanna call it, like, a higher being, whatever it happens to be, I think that what you're seeking, you come to find.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. I agree.

Tim Galloway:

So it's it's just yeah. Like, I I think that eventually, had fuel haven't been on, like, been either more prominent or on that, like, in the in the time, like, that would've that would've been

Joey Bowen:

the list for

Drew Beech:

sure. I'm fresh off re rereading the secret, so I'm 100% here for So

Joey Bowen:

you're in

Drew Beech:

you're in the first of the woo woo. So, yeah, yeah, we'll just leave it at that.

Joey Bowen:

You make such a great point, and we said we've it how many times have we said it on? We've probably said it 25 times in the past 20 episodes. Mhmm. Everything sounds woo woo or everything sounds cliche

Tim Galloway:

till it's till it's not.

Joey Bowen:

You know? It's it's it's such

Drew Beech:

And there are specific moments in your life too where things come full circle and hit you. Like, maybe when you came in here the 1st day, you know, you're with us, but that's like where you're like, damn. I I I prayed for this. You know what I mean? This is what I this is what I always hoped that would happen.

Tim Galloway:

Here's an interesting story that happened to me since I've been here. Yeah. So, like, there's there's I've I've had signs since I've been here. Like like, I I I know that I'm in the right place.

Joey Bowen:

We text back and forth all the time. Like, if there's one common phrase that you've texted me since we've become friends and since you've moved here, it's a sign that I'm in the right place.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Like, this is the right place.

Tim Galloway:

So there is so I moved into this building, in in lovely Port Richmond. Yes. It's a up and coming area.

Drew Beech:

Is that what Joey told you when when you were It's whatever

Joey Bowen:

your feelings your feelings are really nice. Your your unit's great and everything, but, you know

Tim Galloway:

So, I move in, and I'm having a difficult time getting my mail. And there there is issues with getting through the security system for the mail carriers getting into the mail room and delivering mail. So I'm kind of, like, well, I'll do my order stuff, whatever. I'm kinda, like, this is, like, when I first got in. So the mail carriers finally get in, and I get this stack of junk mail.

Tim Galloway:

And I'm, like, okay. Fine. Like but it's kinda weird because, like, we're the first tenants of this building. Like, this is the these all these units are new. We have when I got there, the building was only approximately 40 to 50% occupied.

Tim Galloway:

So I'm going through the stack, and I see something that's, like, that was kinda strange. So the building that we're in now is part of the Globe Dye Works building. Right? It's like a HQ. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

H h q is in globe in the Globe Dye Works building. So I was going through this junk mail at my place, and there's an address, my specific unit, and there's a company called Emerald Dye Works

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

At my unit. Yeah. Like, with my unit number, like, everything. And I was, like, this is really interesting.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And earlier, I had been going through the building, and I noticed that if there was a black tumbler in the deadbolts in these units, they were empty.

Drew Beech:

Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

So I

Tim Galloway:

was going and, like, looking in these units just to appease my curiosity. I'm like, what do these other spaces look like?

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And I had I had looked at, like, the blueprints and, like, the the floor plans of all these units before I chose 1. I spent hours looking at them. Like, making sure that I was, like, you know, if I'm gonna have a if I'm gonna be paying what I'm paying to live here Yeah. Yeah. I wanna I wanna place where I can go home.

Tim Galloway:

And, like, I'm home and, like, I can chill, and I'm happy with where where I'm at when I'm not here.

Joey Bowen:

For sure.

Tim Galloway:

And, all of them, I've just like, there's maybe, like, 1 or twos that I went into, and I went into, like, maybe, like, a dozen of them. And I was kinda, like, no. Mhmm. Like and I was, like, I'm in. Like, the unit I'm in is the unit that I'm in.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. And, like, I'm supposed to be there. And I have this this is another, like, really small silly thing, man. I have this I have this big canvas of Marcus Aurelius in my place. Like, I love I love the stoics, man, like, Seneca, Epicutus, Marcus Aurelius, daily stoic.

Tim Galloway:

Like, I'm I'm I'm big and, like, I try I try to read the stoic every day. It's definitely benefited my mind space, my my head space, my mindset, you know, so I try to I try to practice these things. And, of course, they're a practice, so we're always we're always working on it. Right? That's why they call it a practice.

Tim Galloway:

So I have this canvas, and I hung up. And the first time I hung it, it fell because I tried using, like, command strips,

Joey Bowen:

and it didn't work. Ditch every time.

Tim Galloway:

So I was, like, alright. Fine. So I finally in, like it's it's in, like, a brick the wall's brick. So, like, I just got, you know, some I just got a, you know, concrete. Yep.

Tim Galloway:

Exactly. And I hung it, like, just kinda measured it, figure out where I want it to be. And I was, like, okay. It looks good. One day, I was doing some mobility, and I look, and there's, like, a black line of paint that goes on the brick.

Tim Galloway:

And then it lines up I I never noticed it. It lines up perfectly with, like, a black edge that goes into the end of the canvas. So it's, like, it's it's Yeah. Really silly. And, like, you can look at it, like, oh, it's a coincidence, whatever.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

But it's, like,

Joey Bowen:

And it's aligned. In the right spot. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

That's where it's supposed to be. And, like, I noticed it. And, like,

Joey Bowen:

it's Simple. Simple alignment.

Tim Galloway:

It's woo woo. But, man, it's like and somebody could take that as, like, whatever. But I I choose to take it as, like, hey. This is a confirmation of where I'm at.

Joey Bowen:

Exactly. I mean, that that's the that's the whole thing with the woo woo stuff. Like, everybody will beat it down. No. That's woo woo.

Joey Bowen:

That's what but what's the alternative? To to think that you're just careening without any control? That's what I'm saying.

Tim Galloway:

Also, you have to, like, take take, you know, really, like, consider the source. Yeah. And really, you know, take a look at it. Like, the people who want to disparage and and talk negatively on that

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

They generally do that with so many, if not all other aspects of their life.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

So it's, like, man, let's just just let people go and, like, let let them do what they're gonna do. Yeah. And it's, like, we choose to have this outlook, and it's so like, once you, like, get there

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

It's so thoroughly beneficial to everything in your life.

Joey Bowen:

Agreed. Agreed. And I I think probably I speak for all of us. The people that are living lives that I aspire to live, they all think that way. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

They're choosing to see alignment instead of anxiety in their current situations. So, yeah, definitely not woo woo to me, man. I get it. Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

I get it. So,

Tim Galloway:

Drew wants to say something. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Go go.

Tim Galloway:

No. He might cueing himself up.

Drew Beech:

Was gonna say just to

Joey Bowen:

I feel like we're so close

Drew Beech:

to you back on that

Joey Bowen:

in our seating area, but I still just feel that you are just saying your own. So I'm sorry.

Drew Beech:

To piggyback on that, I just a rule of thumb I have for myself is just not take advice from people that aren't in the exact

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Situation that I wanna be in. Yep.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. So Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.

Drew Beech:

But you did actually just say that exact thing. And

Joey Bowen:

then Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. Like, you know, people like, my book approved thing, and that's a a concept that I got from a law of attraction book.

Tim Galloway:

Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

One of one of my favorite books on law of attraction by Michael Lacier. People wreck on me for that. Like, when when I see one of these connections, I write it down. And people are like, oh, like, you know, all this, like, universe stuff. And I'm like, yeah.

Joey Bowen:

But what's the alternative? Like, me just believing that I'm just careening on this rock with no control and no purpose. Like, I'd rather see the purpose in my days and see what's connecting so I can follow that thread and do more of that. Yeah. You know?

Joey Bowen:

Wreck on

Drew Beech:

Wreck on me just doesn't work. I would rather you throw a dollar in the in the bucket bucket.

Joey Bowen:

I know, man.

Drew Beech:

On me just does

Joey Bowen:

not work. I know. It does not work. Like, my censored let's talk about censorship. No.

Joey Bowen:

That's not yeah. It's it's true. Like, my my self censorship is diluting my personality.

Drew Beech:

I also have a a similar practice that I mean, I recommend to anyone to wants to experience the power of the law of attraction. But every morning, I write up in my journal, like, I am healthy. I am strong. Like, all the things I want to be and then want to become, and I act as if I have them already rather than

Joey Bowen:

Yes.

Drew Beech:

I'm becoming. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

You'd be where you wanna attract.

Tim Galloway:

And and it

Joey Bowen:

some days it sucks because you're in it. Absolutely.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Absolutely.

Joey Bowen:

You know what I mean? And that's where this whole, like, I feel like this whole, like, I don't like the term or the phrase is fake it till you make it because that's not what it is.

Tim Galloway:

No. You're being

Joey Bowen:

what you wanna attract. You're not faking anything. You're being what you wanna attract. And some days it sucks because it never happens on your timeline. It but

Tim Galloway:

there is the the it happens.

Drew Beech:

That is the the one important thing. Sorry. Not to cut you off, Tim. But, having done all this and even read things on, like, stoicism and attraction, the secret, etcetera, Like you said, they don't always happen on your timeline or exactly it's not you

Joey Bowen:

know what

Drew Beech:

I'm saying? I'm driving a Ferrari, and then you drive a Ferrari. Like, the the path to the Ferrari might be riddled with hurdles and eating glass and and just climbing mountains, but eventually you get there. And that's how the law of attraction work.

Joey Bowen:

Doesn't that

Drew Beech:

that's where you get it right away.

Joey Bowen:

You either you either get there or in the process of the eating glass, climbing mountains, jumping hurdles, climbing out of holes, everything, you realize that you wanted something different than the Ferrari. Mhmm. So then you still don't lose. You know?

Tim Galloway:

I had something that was, like, right there, and it just kinda just

Joey Bowen:

It's alright. We got some time. Yeah. We got some time.

Drew Beech:

Cut you off 10

Tim Galloway:

of the time. One of my practices is daily gratitude.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Is, you know, I I start and finish every day with gratitude. I, you know, I I like in my daily notebook. Someday, like, you know, of course, I miss it sometimes, but most days, and it it's simple, man. Like, it it doesn't have to be it doesn't have to be these, like, grandiose things where, like, they're, you know, like it doesn't have to be big, man. It's like, I'm alive.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. I'm taking breath.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

There's sunshine. Yep. I have hot coffee. Like, I've I have a quiet morning.

Drew Beech:

Oh, that's funny.

Tim Galloway:

It's it's having, like, these things that when you recognize that you have so much to be grateful for

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It changes everything in in in your pathway and in your vision. And it even allows you to be grateful for the struggle that you have. Mhmm. Like, this coming here has been exceedingly challenging. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

You know, I I moved 600 miles from where I was. I ended a relationship that I was in for a long period of time, which was exceedingly hard. And, you know, I I I I love her, but it just wasn't working. And it didn't it it I I was in a place where I felt and feel like it was an an unsalvageable position. So that was also exceedingly challenging.

Tim Galloway:

I haven't been on my own for, I don't know, like, a decade

Joey Bowen:

or something

Tim Galloway:

like that. You know? So it's been very scary. And, you know, that's anybody who says it wouldn't be, I'm sorry,

Joey Bowen:

is is is full of shit.

Tim Galloway:

It's full of shit. Yep. But, and, you know, there's there's other stuff coming that I know is gonna be really difficult to do. And, like, I have tasks that are coming that I know are gonna be really difficult and really uncomfortable to do. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

But I'm grateful for it. Yeah. Because without that without that struggle, without that uncertainty, without the risk, there's no growth.

Joey Bowen:

You'd say the same.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. It's stagnancy. Like, you don't you don't you don't allow yourself the opportunity to grow, to improve. And, talking speaking to the point of, like, the secret, the biggest thing that I think people make a mistake on with that is they think that when you say, you know, I'm gonna manifest these things in my life, like, manifest is like a big, like Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It's one of those words where it's like, oh, man. You're gonna manifest that,

Joey Bowen:

Sure.

Tim Galloway:

It's like, yeah. But what people don't get is that the thing in manifesting things in your life is not just the mindset of, like, hey, like, I'm gonna get there or I will get there. Man, Ferrari, no thanks. Audi RS 6, yes, please. So that'll happen.

Tim Galloway:

However, the the the manifesting isn't just thinking and being in the mindset of I'm there or I'm gonna get there. It's the work.

Joey Bowen:

Doing the work.

Tim Galloway:

It's it's using that mindset, that mentality to say, you know, I don't wanna do this, but I'm gonna do it anyway.

Joey Bowen:

Every Because

Tim Galloway:

that's what gets us there.

Joey Bowen:

Every guru you'll see on the Internet that sells you their manifestation course, it's stars and space and crystal balls and all this. The reality of it is, like, manifestation is really fucking messy because because there's a ton of work that needs to be done. And the hardest thing is keeping that mindset while you're doing all that messy work. It is super difficult. Super dis

Drew Beech:

One thing I wanna mention, I talked to Brianna about this the other day, but are you guys familiar with Johnny Gaudreau, the hockey player that just died? He's, like, one of the best hockey players. He's from our area, but perfect love. This guy had it all right. He beautiful family, top of the top of the league in the NHL.

Drew Beech:

I'm one of the best guys. Just signed a huge contract, 1,000,000 of dollars. And it's Tim reminded me of it when he said he's just grateful to be alive is because you need to be equally as grateful for just waking up today because you're in the fucking this is the game. Like, you're you're playing.

Joey Bowen:

You know

Drew Beech:

what I mean? Like, we have another chance. And he didn't get another chance. But, like, we a lot of people would look at him and say, oh, this guy had the perfect life. But now he has not like, nothing.

Drew Beech:

It's it's gone.

Tim Galloway:

You know, there's sense moving here. Like, I've lived in Detroit, like Detroit proper, in some areas of Detroit that were very, unsavory. Mhmm. So, like, I've I've lived in some areas that, you know, are similar to where where I'm living, where the shop is, where HQ is. Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And, if anybody has listened to you, like, my my previous podcast or knows anything about Philadelphia, there's a big opioid epidemic going on Yep. In the neighborhood that you grew up in. Mhmm. You know, and there there's a lot of folks who are really in a bad way big time. And we saw you know, we whenever we go out, we see them when we went on our ruck.

Tim Galloway:

Mhmm. We saw them. You know? And it's man, you're you're a breath away from that. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Like, it could happen to any of us. Yeah. And and, you know, I'm I'm fortunate that I get to wake up in in a nice bed

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

In a place that's climate controlled. And, you know, like, it's there's so many things that like, I go to my bathroom and I hit the tap and water comes out. Yeah. I could take a hot shower when I want to. Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

You know, I can I can get drinkable water? There's there's so many things that, like, I have a roof over my head. I don't have to I don't have to survive the elements. Like, there's so many things that if you just stop Mhmm. And, like, take a breath and you figure out, like, hey, man.

Tim Galloway:

Like, I can be grateful for all of this. Yeah. That it it translates to everything.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

To everything. To your struggles, to the things that have, like, gone wrong. Like, everything, like, you know, we can get cliche. Right? And we, you know, we can go with the everything happens for a reason, but there's truth to it.

Tim Galloway:

Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

And

Tim Galloway:

if you learn to see that and recognize that, then you go, oh, you know what? Maybe if I apply that to now Yeah. Then my later, if I'm lucky enough to have it, will be will benefit from that.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. For sure. For sure. When so let's let's rewind a little bit here. So 2020 happens.

Joey Bowen:

Yep. Commercial, photojournalism for you. Kaput. Kaput. Right?

Joey Bowen:

There's a lot going on in the world. Like, we're not gonna get in all that stuff.

Drew Beech:

Yep.

Joey Bowen:

That is so we're talking origins of Tim. We've kinda checked that box. Right? So let's get into the origins of good works. So I'm assuming that in and around that time, good works was born.

Tim Galloway:

It was. Yeah. So

Joey Bowen:

And and before we tell the story, let's just for those that have been living high, I'm not saying under a rock because eagles live. Yeah. Yeah. I understand. On the branches.

Joey Bowen:

High in the tree, in the branches. Yeah. What is Good Works? What is your company?

Tim Galloway:

So Good Works, it's Good Works with an e. Mhmm. There's also o's in there with the e r k s.

Drew Beech:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Good Works is I make, I am hand handmade EDC gear. So my primary product is the boogie bag. Man, the way I'm stumbling over this, you'd figure, like, I have no idea what I'm talking about. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

We got we got some we got some, some people coming in. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

And they do something awesome.

Drew Beech:

But it's a very, locally famous people.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's very distracting.

Drew Beech:

Celebs as well.

Tim Galloway:

If I if I do it wrong, I'll get my I'll get pounded. So, yeah. I make I make EDC gear. Yeah. I've been mainly by myself for 4 years.

Tim Galloway:

It's my my flagship product currently is called the Boogie Bag. It's an EDC hip pack that is I don't want I I hate saying this because it's gonna get me in trouble at some point. But it's

Joey Bowen:

You wanna say the f word? No. Oh, okay.

Tim Galloway:

Fuck no. But it's it's a it's it's a very hard used bag, that I would say is quote, unquote indestructible.

Drew Beech:

There we go.

Tim Galloway:

When I when I say that, I I say that with the the, the the fine print of with normal use.

Joey Bowen:

I wanna say it's bombproof. I'm just gonna go on the record and say

Tim Galloway:

it's bombproof. So that's that's what I mean.

Drew Beech:

Lifetime guarantee on it.

Tim Galloway:

So I do I I have, like, a limited warranty on it, so it's a case by case Yeah. Issue. So if somebody has some sort of problem that I created in the manufacturing of it, I'll either replace or repair it depending on what it is. I've had 0 people take me up on that. Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

And where where some some people in your community use them for, practical purposes and

Tim Galloway:

fashion purpose

Joey Bowen:

and fashion purposes, practical purposes. Yeah. There are many members of your community that have literally put these things through Through

Tim Galloway:

the ringer.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Through the ringer. Through trials.

Tim Galloway:

Yep. So so the history of of of Good Works is I was connected with the rucking community. Mhmm. I worked for as a as a photographer, I worked for the, the backpack company that puts on these rock based endurance events. And through that and I I've been part of that community for for now for a decade.

Tim Galloway:

So, through my one of their co leaders, was, Caitlin. She was influential in in in crucial to the growth of good works, especially in the early days.

Drew Beech:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

So I was connected in this rocking community. And for years years, they had been asking for a hit pack that was never delivered on.

Joey Bowen:

Sure.

Tim Galloway:

So 2020 happened instead of, like, sitting on my hands and waiting for a government check to come in. I said, you know, hey. What can I do? So I love gear, man. Like, I I love backpacks.

Tim Galloway:

I love organizers. I love knives. I love guns. I love, like I just I like stuff.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And I think about stuff critically quite often. And I say, you know, hey. What what could make this better? Or, like, I don't like this about something, you know, I wanna make this better. So I started thinking, like, maybe I can make some pouches or something.

Tim Galloway:

Like, I'll try it. So my mom and I, we did some research, and she bought me my first sewing machine. Like, just a I had

Drew Beech:

no idea how to how to ever

Tim Galloway:

I had never touched a sewing machine before 2020.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. You had That's crazy.

Joey Bowen:

Like we talked about, you had many jobs. Right? You had many jobs growing up, coming up. I'll say coming up because you haven't grown up yet. Right?

Joey Bowen:

You had many jobs, but none of them involved. Sewing. Sewing.

Drew Beech:

None. So You never touched a sewing machine until 4 years ago?

Tim Galloway:

Correct.

Joey Bowen:

Amazing. Wild.

Tim Galloway:

I've seen

Joey Bowen:

the seeing the product. Wild. Wild as

Tim Galloway:

well. Thank you. Yeah. I got my first it was, like, a domestic sewing machine, just like you would go to, like, Joanne and bought. Like, it wasn't from there.

Tim Galloway:

Like, we we did some research, and we found a heavier duty one that was made to sew denim.

Joey Bowen:

Sure.

Tim Galloway:

So it had, like, a metal shaft in it, so that way, like, the standard parts that break in them Yeah. Were weren't plastic.

Joey Bowen:

Do you have, like, do you have a story behind where it came from, or did you just get it from, like, a store? No.

Tim Galloway:

It was just a my my mom mom did research.

Drew Beech:

Mom always comes through the clothes, dude.

Tim Galloway:

So my mom's, like, she doesn't

Joey Bowen:

my mom

Tim Galloway:

does embroidery, so she has these monster, like, 12 16 needle embroidery machine and stuff. Yeah. So she had a little experience in that. So she was doing research for me, and then she she bought it for me. Amazing.

Tim Galloway:

So, I went to YouTube University. So I got the machine in May, 8 like, late April. I think it was, like, late April or early May of 2020.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And then I launched Good Works on June 15, 2020. So I essentially was just in my basement with my iPad and the sewing machine and fabric I bought from Joanne and a pair of a pair of scissors.

Drew Beech:

That's good.

Tim Galloway:

And then just just I went to work.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And that that was it.

Drew Beech:

Do you have the first bag that Good Works ever made?

Tim Galloway:

No, man. I I've I've, like, a bin of garbage that's, like, fabric that's stitched together. Yeah. But I don't have, like I do have one of the first boogie bags

Joey Bowen:

here. Mhmm.

Drew Beech:

But that was probably a pretty solid product, though.

Tim Galloway:

It it sure.

Drew Beech:

What I

Joey Bowen:

see is very high standard.

Drew Beech:

Would I see it and and be like, oh,

Tim Galloway:

this is pretty find out.

Joey Bowen:

We're similar in that product.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Do you

Drew Beech:

know where it is right now?

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. I do. But we'll we we can we can find out later. Yeah. We we can we can leave that later.

Tim Galloway:

But yeah. So, I started making basic pouches just like squares and pouches. Yeah. Just like basic pouches.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And I had a product called I I have a product called the ripcord ripcord rock straps. So it's just so you don't get sausage fingers when you rock. You just put them on the the the moly of your shoulder straps. So Steel City Rock Club made up, you know, 30 to 40% of all my sales.

Joey Bowen:

Wow.

Tim Galloway:

So they were buying that stuff up. And I became more and more comfortable with building this gear, and I was, like, you know, I can I can make a hip pack? I can figure this out. Yeah. So I got my graph paper, man.

Tim Galloway:

When I was a kid, my brother and my sister instilled in me, like, hey, if you wanna build something, they had, like,

Joey Bowen:

a they

Tim Galloway:

had, like, a house that was outside of Detroit, and they had, like, a barn and a pond and all that stuff.

Joey Bowen:

So if

Tim Galloway:

I ever wanted to build something, I had to sketch it first. I couldn't just go build something. They were like, you need to have a plan. Plan.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

So I was used to it.

Joey Bowen:

The field.

Drew Beech:

No plan. No problem.

Tim Galloway:

And, I I I rarely have a plan, guys. So I, you know, I got this the sketch the graph paper out

Drew Beech:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And just started drawing. And I came up with something. I sewed it. It was a disaster. Then I sewed it again and again and again and again and again, and I made who knows how many iterations of it, then I finally had something like, hey.

Tim Galloway:

This is, like, okay. Like, this is doable. Yeah. So, the

Joey Bowen:

How many how many, like we'll we'll call viable product. How many iterations do you think you had to go through to get to that, like, viable product rough. K.

Tim Galloway:

You mean, that that was, like, 4 years ago. I'm on the 3rd the 3rd iteration

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Of of the boogie bag now. I'm on the mark 3. So I I I don't know. Yeah. I don't know.

Tim Galloway:

There is, a lot. Yeah. A lot. Just, you know, it just, like, poorly sewn, not measured properly. Like, there's there's a lot to it.

Tim Galloway:

Build building building this stuff is very similar to, like, woodworking

Joey Bowen:

Yep. Where

Tim Galloway:

it's, like, if something is off a little bit, it can be off a lot on the other end. So you have to make sure that it's all, like, set up

Joey Bowen:

and Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And and and built properly.

Joey Bowen:

I've built, a bag or at least a a part of a bag with you. Yep. So I knew you had a high level of attention to detail. I knew you're very particular and put a lot of heart into what you make, But, like, actually going through a part of the process with you gave me a very good understanding of just how much you love what you do and how much your heart you put into what you make for other people.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. It's it's really important to me to make sure that, like, look. They're they're not all perfect. Mhmm. Right?

Tim Galloway:

Like, I had to let a lot of that go as I as I progress with my business

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Because I had to learn that, hey. Look. If this is off an eighth of an inch, it's still salable.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It's still it's still functional.

Joey Bowen:

Compromise the yeah. It doesn't compromise the good capability of it or the Correct. Durability of it.

Drew Beech:

Right? Being said, like, how long you told me this already, but how long does one bag take to me?

Tim Galloway:

I don't know. So, that's it's a super common question. So it's good that you asked that because so many because you're a top 25 show. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Actually, it could be higher than that now. I need to update that stats.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. I need to update

Joey Bowen:

that stats.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. I I don't know. I have no idea how long it takes, now, in so I went from that that original sewing machine, that domestic machine, I got, like, a kind of, like, a mid tier, industrial machine, which wasn't and that was that was, like, 4 to 6 months after I started Good Works. Like, I soon realized that going through the materials that I had this little machine couldn't handle it. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

So then I got, I had some help, and I got a semi semi industrial machine. Mhmm. I outworked that in, like, 2 or 3 months, then I got a proper industrial machine.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

So now I have 5:5 machines. How many do I have? I think 5:5 or 6 machines. Then I have and they're all, like, standard industrial, sewing machines. And I also have a laser cutter.

Tim Galloway:

So the laser cutter changed a lot for me. And that enabled me to have super precise cuts. It saved a ton of time because And

Joey Bowen:

were scissors. Well Well not for the panels.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. So I I did, I did everything with a I had a template made. There was a a glass shop that was near my old place, and I said, can you cut acrylic? And they were, like, yes. So I went ahead an an acrylic template made, and then I used the rotary cutter for for all my pieces.

Tim Galloway:

So I would trace everything with the rotary cutter, everything by hand. It would take me days days days to cut. So I got the laser, and I got the one that I did. It was the biggest laser I could possibly get that would fit through a doorway.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Because I can pull an entire roll of fabric onto it without having to cut the fabric before putting it on the machine. So save time and just, like, way more efficient. So that changed a lot. Yeah. That enabled me to cut faster, cut perfectly accurate pieces, so that way I could repeat.

Tim Galloway:

Because if you don't have a good foundation to what you're building, the repeatability is gonna be is gonna be poor. Yep. So with the with the laser, every piece is cut the same. So that means as I'm sewing it, I can sew it exactly the same or as close to it as possible.

Joey Bowen:

Systems.

Tim Galloway:

Correct. And the attention to detail comes in comes in big time. And, one of the one of the most important things that I learned as a photojournalist and that has stuck with me that I think really transcends a lot a lot of things in life. One of the editors, man, her name is Mary Schrader. She was amazing.

Tim Galloway:

She was one of Detroit's best sports photographers. She she was incredible. And she was the forgive me, but she was the old battle axe of the of the photo room, man.

Joey Bowen:

Sure.

Tim Galloway:

And she would give it to you straight.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Like, she like, I'd go shoot assignment, she'd be like, this is nothing but backs and asses. I don't care about this. Like, you need to do better. And she would, like, give it to you straight and tell you what you needed to do to improve, and that's how you got better. One thing that she taught me was eliminate variables.

Joey Bowen:

Before you

Tim Galloway:

go into any situation, eliminate variables. So as a photographer, that looks like, okay, am I shooting low light? So I need to adjust my ISO. What am I gonna be shooting? Am I gonna be shooting, like, groups of people or individuals?

Tim Galloway:

So I adjust my aperture and my shutter speed, and, like, all these things that you can adjust, like, what kind of light are we gonna be under?

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Like, so you're adjusting all of these things before you even step in. Mhmm. So it's it's similar to, you know, building the stuff. I mean, that that stuff can be that can be transferable to any aspect of life.

Joey Bowen:

For sure.

Tim Galloway:

So when I have a better foundation Yeah. I can build better product, and I can repeat it Sure. More easily and more frequently. So, yeah, attention to detail is is highly important.

Joey Bowen:

So you're you're building out this entire Good Works workshop in your basement. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

I

Joey Bowen:

mean, the laser cutter that you're talking about is the one we referred to in the beginning of the show, 1,000 over £1,000. Yes. You know, you're, I don't think you lived in a 20,000 square foot mansion. No. So you had, an a normal home with normal sized doorways.

Joey Bowen:

Yes. Getting that thing. So you're building this. You're amassing all these machines, all this experience, and building this in a basement.

Tim Galloway:

Yes.

Joey Bowen:

So you reach a point where, like, you're gonna outgrow it. So Or maybe you already you did.

Tim Galloway:

I I did. And I think I'd been I'd outgrown it for a period of time before, actually actually moving. And I'm I'm so incredibly grateful, and I'm I'm so fortunate that that I have the support that I do. And Yeah. It's it's wild to think that people are clamoring for things that I build.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. And when I say clamor, like, generally, when I have, I don't do drops any longer because I I really dislike drop culture. No offense, guys. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

We're not really

Drew Beech:

A lot taken.

Joey Bowen:

We're not really Good.

Tim Galloway:

Take it. I don't care. I'll fight you. So I'm really, like, anti drop culture. However, that's kind of how my business is is approached because I can only make so much.

Tim Galloway:

So I I've had help. Our mutual friend, Karen, has been helping me out. She's been amazing. And we're I'm the one of the goals of being here is to add more hands so we can get more product made and more, variety in product. So, I I think that I had outgrown that space, before.

Tim Galloway:

So people my my when I sell products, especially the boogie bags, they go in minutes. Mhmm. The the largest and fastest the largest, restock that I had done was 52 bags. Mhmm. And they had sold in 52 seconds.

Tim Galloway:

So they go quick.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And it had gotten to the point where it has gone to the point where a lot of people are online trying to get my stuff, and they get so upset that they can't get it that they start getting volatile. Mhmm. And, hey, if they're gonna do that, they're gonna do It's it it only helps me. Like, I can tell when there's a dumpster fire because every time it happens, my follower count goes up and my email newsletter my newsletter subscription go up. So, like, I'm I'm I'm I'm here for it.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. If they

Tim Galloway:

wanna do that, they can please please do that. Sure. So I I had been to that point for

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

A while.

Joey Bowen:

One of the items that you had in the workshop, tons of machines, tons of hard work, obviously, in the shop was our trust hard work flag. So that's kind of the, I don't know if I wanna call it. Lynchpin. Yeah. Adhesive, the link.

Joey Bowen:

You know? Yeah. As I talk with my hands, if you're not watching on YouTube, you can't see that, but it's me making, like, a link in a chain. That is the thing

Tim Galloway:

The thing.

Joey Bowen:

That brought us together.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. The thing. Yeah. So that, that that flag is very important to

Joey Bowen:

me. Yep.

Tim Galloway:

That was given to me by my my friend, Kalen, who who I mentioned earlier, who is, one of the the co leaders of the Steel Seater rock club. She's she's a very close friend of mine. Mhmm. And she helped me build good works big time. And, like, she's she's responsible for a lot of the growth.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. She's my ambassador for for a period of time, and she's always been, like, super supportive. And whether it was, like, providing critical feedback, you know, I don't wanna say pushing the gear, but, like, you know, going out with with with the gear testing it. I mean, she has a bag. It was one of the first bags built that's been through 100 and 100 of hours of endurance events.

Tim Galloway:

Mhmm. So for Christmas in 20 I think it was 20 Christmas 21, I think it was, I got a package in the mail. Mhmm. And it was a flag, and it was a blacked out flag that says trust hard work. And I'm like, this is amazing.

Tim Galloway:

Like, this is, like, this is, you know, this this resonates with me. Yeah. This is this is important to me. Sure. So, like, I hung that flag in my shop and, like, it was sent to me anonymously at first.

Tim Galloway:

Okay. But then but then I figured out, like, okay.

Joey Bowen:

It's It was. Like, it was a deal.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. And then, of course, like anything else, like, I'm on social. I had to take a picture of it and post it on social. Yeah. Tag you guys, and then we started talking.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. And Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

You know, and that was and it was light, you know. It was just, like, cool. Thanks for flying with us. Eagle emoji.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Like,

Tim Galloway:

like, standard standard response. Like, perfect.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And then, it just kind of grew from there.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Like, you know, because, like, I started, like I'd known a few will hunt. So through Caitlin, actually. So she had had, like, the, the comfort patch on one of her boogies. Like, I have a photo of it, and, like, that's kind of and I had seen them before. Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And in the in the Rocky community, it's kind of, like, why we like patches. Yeah. So, like, that was there. So we had seen that, and I'd known about that. And then, it just went from there.

Tim Galloway:

I was like, man,

Drew Beech:

I like that. First, I wanna thank Caitlin for gifting you the flag

Joey Bowen:

and Yeah. Yeah.

Drew Beech:

And and spreading the view on movement and and the mission. So Yeah. Before I

Joey Bowen:

Absolutely. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. And unbeknownst to us, like, I don't know if we we knew that our patches were making it into that rock club and how they're being used and what they meant to people at the time.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. You

Joey Bowen:

know, now we now we do. But, yeah, it seems like it was just kinda casual for a little while. And then when did you and I start talking? So this was 23, maybe?

Drew Beech:

I do feel like I reach out because I want about doing a a hip pack.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. We we had spoken I can't remember I can't remember precisely, like Yeah. What what had happened.

Joey Bowen:

So we're back

Tim Galloway:

But we've been back and forth a little bit. I think, you know you know, what I did too is I remember this specifically because I just gotten some really good tacos, and I was sitting in the parking lot Yeah. At this point, my favorite taco joint back in Michigan. I sent a message because I had I had seen that you guys were doing a promo Mhmm. For a for a Rook.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And I sent a message, and I was like, hey. What do I have to do to, like, get good work and fuel hunt? And they're, like, yeah. One of you was, like, can you do, like, a 150 or 200 bags? I'm, like, holy shit.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Holy shit. I was,

Tim Galloway:

like, I don't know about that. Maybe, like, 50?

Joey Bowen:

Well, that kinda started the conversation, though. For sure. Then I remember Yep. Us talking about it, then we spoke, and then it kinda got me curious. Mhmm.

Joey Bowen:

And I think that that was and then you gave me some insight into, like, the inner workings of good words.

Drew Beech:

How ignorant I was like, oh, I don't know. They can't do all the feedback, but I don't know why. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's it's well, it's like you know, if if you're I think a lot of people don't understand

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

That it's, until recently, just been me. Yeah. You know, I would get messages all the time like, hey, guys.

Joey Bowen:

Plus, we have the mindset of, like, if you're doing 60, what's different? Let's do a 120. Like Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

No big deal.

Joey Bowen:

Anything's we have that anything's possible type of mindset, which you do too. But you see what it is.

Tim Galloway:

It is. But there there are sometimes concerns. Trying to

Joey Bowen:

be, ignorant.

Tim Galloway:

No. Not at all. Not at all. Yeah. And, like, and that's I don't expect anything from anybody, man.

Tim Galloway:

Like, so it's, like, it's it's normal for me to get, hey hey, guys. Can you do this?

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Sure.

Tim Galloway:

And it's, like, well, I

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah. Me. You have that that, that post on your account. It's, like, meet the team.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. And it's like,

Drew Beech:

Tim's fine.

Joey Bowen:

I do that, so I do meet him. Me, Tim, me, Tim.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

But it that question started the conversation because it got me curious into the inner workings of what you were doing. We were in the middle of our own. We're at the tail end of our own transition to made in the USA. Yep. Yep.

Joey Bowen:

For, you know, all of our gear, it got me curious. And I think that's where that first connection between you and I, my voice started to happen. Yep. And my offer to you, like, hey. Look.

Joey Bowen:

Like, now I understand

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Why you can only do 50 at the moment Yeah. Yeah. If there's anything I can do to help you.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. And and that that offer was, you know, it wasn't it was a it was kind of open, but I I I don't think that it was, not in the manner in which we're sitting here today.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. I don't I I mean, I

Tim Galloway:

I feel like

Joey Bowen:

we talked about, like, us having some additional space in HQ and stuff, but I don't Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It was I feel like that was space.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It was it was, hey. You know, can, like you know, do you need or want warehousing?

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Do you need or want can you take advantage of

Joey Bowen:

your shipping?

Tim Galloway:

Or yeah. You know, stuff like that. And, you know, we and and I remember I remember having a conversation with Caitlin, actually, about that conversation that you and I had had. Yeah. And I was like I'm like I'm like, are you fucking kidding me right now?

Tim Galloway:

Like, is this, like, this is, like, I'm talking with Joy if you want. Like, really? Like, is this happening? Like like, this is crazy. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And I was, like, this is just kinda wild. So then I think that was in, like, November of last year

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And and that that time frame.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It was around November. Yep. And, I was, like and I and and earlier this year, I've been thinking about it, and I was just kind of, like, you know, well, what can you know, like, maybe, like, maybe I can take him up on that. Like, maybe it's, like, it's time, man. Like like, things here aren't ideal.

Tim Galloway:

I don't think that they're to the point where they'll be salvageable. This is gonna be a point in which is, like, it's scary. Yeah. And and and and it's risky, but I think it's time to jump. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

So then, yeah, I mean, I I sent you a message and was like, so Hey.

Joey Bowen:

Remember that offer?

Tim Galloway:

Gonna call you up on that. Yeah. And

Joey Bowen:

then things kind of accelerated quickly, pretty quick, I would say. Yeah. Probably quicker if I was more responsive. But

Tim Galloway:

No. I don't think so. I I I think that, I trust in the timing. Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

We talked about timing. Right?

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

I trust in

Joey Bowen:

the time. Move in date probably.

Tim Galloway:

It wouldn't have been on the anniversary. So but, like, I I I trust the I trust the timeline. Like, I I I'm not I I I need to work on my focus and diligence, and my discipline with time. However, with that, I I I trust how things work as they work. So, I came out what was it?

Tim Galloway:

Was it April? Yes.

Joey Bowen:

They came

Tim Galloway:

out in April or or early May, something like that. Mhmm.

Drew Beech:

We

Tim Galloway:

had some really good barbecue. Dude, I was I was really, like, I wasn't surprised. Yeah. But it kind of took me a moment to, like, process the fact that, like, we met at, like, 9:45, and then it was, like, 2:30.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Like, in a blink.

Joey Bowen:

Yep. And

Tim Galloway:

I was, like, okay. Like He's kicking his hand.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It was it was easy. It was it was it was fluid, and that said a lot. Like, and and I'm I'm big on, the feelings and and vibes that I get with people. Like, I'm big I'm big on that. And if I, like, if I feel, like, at all, like, if I have to make myself small or if I get tense around people, like, I just I eliminate it now.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Like, I I don't have room or space for that. For sure. So it's, like, I I won't allow myself to do that, but I felt open.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And, like, our conversation was everything.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

It was it was work. It was funeral. It was good works.

Joey Bowen:

It was

Tim Galloway:

barbecue. It was jujitsu. It was it was everything.

Joey Bowen:

It was and it had to be. Yeah. You know what I mean? It had to be.

Drew Beech:

And vibrations are are real. Like, they're a real thing. Like, that is, like, no like, the sign like, the science behind that. Mhmm. But I just posted about this yesterday.

Drew Beech:

Like, we've been, as a company and a brand, overlooked for the past however many years. Like, every other brand grows faster, does like, gets better endorsements, whatever. But everyone that and my belief is that everyone that has worked with us or around us or with us cannot say anything poorly about us because we've always done 1 like, 2 things. Like, work hard and serve others and just be good people. You know what I mean?

Drew Beech:

Mhmm. And we surround ourselves with other people doing the same. Yep. Mhmm. So a lot of times when we're in those situations and maybe why you felt that, like, that's why those vibrations feel that way.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Because we truly put out what we wanna get back.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. And, like, one of the one of the things so one of my favorite shirts from you guys has always been the heart hands hard work shirt. That's always been one of my favorite shirts.

Drew Beech:

Keep telling Joey that one has to come back.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. I know. We need we need brick by brick, guys. Yeah. That's the last We we we need brick by brick.

Tim Galloway:

We need that one back, please. Yeah. Preferably, like, guys black.

Joey Bowen:

As theater at the end with its current design?

Drew Beech:

Are you saying in

Tim Galloway:

black? Black shirt, but with, like, red.

Drew Beech:

This is our I mean and, again, please comment, whatever. Like

Joey Bowen:

YouTube comments, please.

Drew Beech:

We put everything's black on our site. And then we put out some white or some different colors, and people ask for black. But people when we put out black, people ask for

Tim Galloway:

I mean, personally, I can't do the oatmeal. That's just that's just me.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. I love you.

Tim Galloway:

But yeah. The the vibes thing, was was really and, like, you know, one thing that I've been thinking about a lot lately is leading with a servant heart.

Drew Beech:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And with Good Works, it was never just about the business. It was never just about the money. Like, do I wanna make money? Yeah. Hell, yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Like, do I wanna get the car that I wanna get? Hell, yeah. Do I not wanna have to worry about paying, like, where I live? Like, just have it be automatic? Hell, yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Like, that's but the more money that we can leverage, the more of more help we can affect and change. Right? And so Good Works is called Good Works because, like, I didn't want it to be just about the business. So I do I do raffles regularly. I try to do them regularly that benefit nonprofits.

Tim Galloway:

They're mainly, veteran based nonprofits. I think I'm I think we're around, like, a $100,000 raised and donated to various nonprofits. We're gonna have I'm gonna have one coming up. So, our friend, JT, Consequence of Habit. So I'm gonna be doing my my next my first raffle nonprofit here is gonna be benefiting Consequence Habit.

Joey Bowen:

I appreciate that.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. It's and that and that's that's part of it, man. Like Mhmm. More more people that are leading and serving in their community, which is, like, those are the people that we wanna benefit. And then, you know, we just had few fest, which, you know, we got a bunch of donations in for filling unknown Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Which is a which is a huge deal, and we're gonna continue to, continue to be in contact with Brit. We we have to get all that stuff to him still. But Yeah. It's like leading with the servant heart is is hugely important to me too. So, like, that that's another another way in which, like, we connected and we're able to, like, come together.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah. That, when we had that energy meeting, like, that was one of the things that stood out to me. That's similar to Drew and I. You started a business that aligned with the impact that you wanted to have on the world.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Like, that's what we did. Mhmm. You know? There's nothing wrong with making money.

Tim Galloway:

No. Absolutely not.

Joey Bowen:

What I mean? There's absolutely nothing wrong with it, but in order to do that, to get, you have to give. Absolutely. Another role with you. So, having a positive impact on the people in your community and in the world, is, in my opinion, much more much more rewarding than the money.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah. But the money follows that.

Tim Galloway:

You know

Joey Bowen:

what I mean?

Tim Galloway:

So There's there's been you know, I've had people in my community post about how they've taken their bags for, like, their cancer treatments, and they've, like, been cancer. And, like like, seeing stuff like that

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Is wild. They're, somebody posted recently about their their their carry, like, their EDC for their wedding, and it was a boogie bag. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

It's amazing.

Tim Galloway:

Like, there there's and, you know, I'm seeing, like, one of my one of my friends, his his daughter is in the young marines program, and she has a m eighty one, and it matches her her BDUs, like, her her uniform. So she, like, wears that to young marines. And, like, I love, like, seeing that is, like and and, my friend Meg, she just finished a 5 day adventure race in Alaska, and she had her bag with her. And, like, it is it that thing is just beat the piss. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

But it's, like, that is, like that's, like, that's the whole point. Like, I wanna I wanna build a product that's gonna support what people really wanna do Yeah. And something that they can rely on.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And then at the same time, build that community and have that community step up and do good things that benefit other communities. Like, that's that's hugely important to me. For sure. So it's, like, yeah, man. The more that I can grow that Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

The more money that I can get flowing Mhmm. The more effect I can the more the more change I can affect.

Joey Bowen:

Of course.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

So we had our meeting in April. Fast forward, June 15th, 4 year anniversary of good works. The flag comes back home. The flag comes with it.

Tim Galloway:

The flag is here, man. It brought me and it brought me with it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

So the flag returns.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Actually, since when that flag was fulfilled, we were probably in your basement maybe.

Drew Beech:

Yeah. Yeah. 2020? Or

Tim Galloway:

no. It was it was the end of 21.

Joey Bowen:

Maybe we were in Cambria, maybe, or your basement. Yeah. Yeah. But, anyway, I came back home

Tim Galloway:

Came back home.

Joey Bowen:

To our home now. Yeah. Which is amazing. We, you know, we love having you here. There's been so much just outside of this made in America and made in the USA mission that we're on and the mission of doing good, right, and being a a force for good, in the world and a positive impact on people.

Joey Bowen:

Outside of all of that, there's been other amazing stuff that has come from you being here. Thank you. You know, your impact on the Few Fest, which we'll talk about on another episode. You'll join us for Yeah. The Few Fest, what you've brought to the team at Martinez since you're on the on the team now with me there Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Starting jujitsu again. Right? So your journey again.

Tim Galloway:

It's been amazing.

Joey Bowen:

The energy that you're bringing in here every single day. You know what I mean? Not just your personal energy, but the energy of making, you know, and creating Yeah. You know, products in the US. There there's just been so much, positive, impact that your long distance journey to Philadelphia has has brought to us.

Joey Bowen:

So we're grateful Yeah. For you.

Tim Galloway:

And So

Joey Bowen:

thank you. That's my long winded way of saying thank you.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. Thank you.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Like, this is a this is an opportunity that's been, like all the people that I had spoken with, like, all all, like, the people that I'm close with, like, before this before this, like, came to fruition, it was, like, I cannot pass this. Like like, every now and then, like, there's something in life that happens where it's like it's it's a it's a crux. It's like it's it's a a linchpin. It's a it's a point where it's like, this is a distinct fork in the road. Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And you need and, like, the choice. Like, there isn't a choice, but there is. Mhmm. And you could do the thing that's comfortable. You could do the thing that's safe.

Tim Galloway:

You could do the thing that doesn't challenge you. You could do this thing that just lets you stay where you're at. You don't have to change anything, and you could just be. Mhmm. Or you take this opportunity that's massive.

Tim Galloway:

Like, I like, I I told, you know, all my friends, like, this is a once in a lifetime thing because we've we've we've grown to know each other more. Mhmm. Well, I'll get to know Drew once we get rolling with him. That's how you that's how you learn. That's how that's really how you get to know people.

Tim Galloway:

But, you know, before that, it was, like, holy shit. This is fuel hunt. Like, this isn't, like, a a a dude, you know, a a screen printing shop in a in a in a storage unit. And, like, you know, like, this is, like, a big business. Like, this is a legit group of people who have you know, they're they're getting into the fight game, who have, to me, meaningful meaningful product and meaningful message.

Tim Galloway:

And, you know, Drew said something on a previous podcast about, you know, the people who wear the gear, like, the few like, don't necessarily believe that they're part of the few, but they want they want to get there. Right? And that's how I felt. You know? And, you know, so when this opportunity was, like, here Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

I was like, well, like, I have to. Mhmm. And then I had a friend of mine, my my friend, Christie, she was like, you know, look. Like, you've earned your seat at the table. Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

Like, you've earned that. Like, this this isn't, like, this isn't an accident. It's not it's not, like, chance. Like, this is, like, you know, this is, like, something that you've earned through your work.

Joey Bowen:

Mhmm.

Tim Galloway:

And so I was like, yeah. It is. And, like, it's something that needs to be continually earned. Mhmm. However, it was it was I couldn't say no.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

I I couldn't. Like, there there if I would have said no, I wouldn't be in the right place. Yeah. Yeah. So, like, my, like I guess, come through those doors.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Oh, yeah. For sure. For sure.

Tim Galloway:

I get to come through them in the morning, like, the lights coming in.

Joey Bowen:

And it's, like,

Tim Galloway:

it's it's beautiful in here in the morning. You it's quiet. Yeah. And it's it's gratitude.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Place, it's it's peaceful. Yeah, man. It's peaceful. We're gonna work on getting you some more light in the evening.

Joey Bowen:

So you're burning the midnight oil in the back. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

We gotta

Joey Bowen:

we gotta

Drew Beech:

get you some more light. We gotta get

Tim Galloway:

those lights up.

Joey Bowen:

We're gonna get you some light. It's, it's I say this all the time, and it's becoming a a quotable, but it's just the beginning. Yeah. It's just

Tim Galloway:

the beginning.

Joey Bowen:

You know, I've probably said that. If if you've said to me a 100 times since you've been here, this is a sign that I'm in the right place. Yep. I've said to you twice as twice as many times. The beginning.

Joey Bowen:

It's just the beginning. And and it really is. Let's start to bring this in for Orlando. We're gonna have you back on the show. We're gonna talk to you fast, and, we're gonna have you back on the show also to talk about made in America Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

And the importance of making things in USA. We didn't really get to touch on that

Tim Galloway:

Yep.

Joey Bowen:

But we'll have you back on Yeah. Since you're you're kinda here with us.

Drew Beech:

Look. You're here

Tim Galloway:

with us. Look. I I was expecting to be lauded for my commute here. Okay? Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. It was it was like I had a very arduous trek here.

Joey Bowen:

It's 10,000 square feet. So, I mean, look. Yeah. I mean, there

Tim Galloway:

was a little bit

Joey Bowen:

of walk, I guess.

Tim Galloway:

It's a

Joey Bowen:

So talking about thank you. So talking thank you. So talking about it's just the beginning. Can we do you feel comfortable talking about maybe what's gonna happen soon?

Drew Beech:

Sure.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. So the like I said fuel 1 and GoodWork.

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. So, like, we we had, you know, I've stated earlier, like, the goal goal one of the one of the main reasons to for me being here is that I now have a space that I can bring employees into. Mhmm. Whereas before, having random people in my home to work is icky. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Like, no thank you. Horrible. Yeah. No thank you. However, now that I have a space where, I can I can bring people in, the the goal is to really increase increase production and to also add more variability and and more and more product?

Tim Galloway:

Eventually, I wanna I'm gonna be adding some sort of backpack whether that's an EDC or a rocking backpack. We'll see. I wanna get I've been working on thinking about getting a dopp kit going, stuff like that.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

But as far as fuel hunt goes, we have been talking

Joey Bowen:

We don't have to give away all the juicy details.

Tim Galloway:

What we're not going to it it'll be very, in line with the the fuel hunt aesthetic. It'll be a boogie bag. It'll be a Mercury boogie bag. I think we're gonna also work on a little bit of apparel to go to go with it, which I am personally, like, super stoked on. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

And so I think that we're gonna have a I think we're gonna have a fun little run this winter.

Joey Bowen:

We are. We are.

Tim Galloway:

So and and then, too, like, eventually, like, down the line, like, once once I get once I get to the tasks of getting production up and learning, because I really don't know anything about what I'm doing. Mhmm. I'm just figuring it out as I go. Once we get that going, then we're gonna start we'll start introducing stuff that is fuel hunt specific from Good Works.

Joey Bowen:

Yep.

Tim Galloway:

And we will have some not only made in America, made in Philadelphia.

Joey Bowen:

At HQ.

Tim Galloway:

Made in fuel hunt HQ gear.

Joey Bowen:

Oh, chills.

Tim Galloway:

So we will have, we will have some, high quality Yeah. American made, Philadelphia made, the few made

Joey Bowen:

Yes.

Tim Galloway:

Product. Yes. Absolutely. We'll we'll work together on on on building.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. First one, like you said, coming this winter in time for the holidays.

Tim Galloway:

Yes. Yeah. We will

Joey Bowen:

have for Christmas.

Tim Galloway:

We will have a, we will have a few one hunt boogie Yep. And and and ample time Let's go. And ample time for Christmas. Yes.

Joey Bowen:

Let's go. I being part of your community now and carrying, my boogie or wearing my boogie day in and day out, I like as excited as I am for this first collaboration project project of ours, like, I'm also, like, a little bit sad that I have to give up that first one that you What

Tim Galloway:

do you have to give it? Gave me.

Joey Bowen:

Well, I don't have to give it up, but I'm gonna wanna wear the other

Tim Galloway:

one more, I think. No. But you can you can rotate them, man.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. You can rotate them.

Tim Galloway:

You can rotate them.

Joey Bowen:

You have one more. My extra special one too. Yeah. And being displayed, which I know you don't enjoy.

Tim Galloway:

I don't. That needs to be worn, dude.

Joey Bowen:

There's that bag, the tiger stripe camo.

Drew Beech:

Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

Very special bag, and, I have it on display. Why are you so special? Tim, we give you the

Tim Galloway:

Yeah. So, I went down to the, core medical military appreciation weekend. Like, I know you guys are somewhat connected. Like, you know, Nick and Johnny, from Johnny Slick's. By the way, they make great products.

Joey Bowen:

If you

Tim Galloway:

need any hygiene products, get some Johnny Slick's. Yeah. So so, I went down to Core Medical. I've been on TRT for, probably 6 or 8 months now. It's been hugely beneficial to me.

Tim Galloway:

It really helps, like the the biggest thing for me is, like, the mental, mental acuity that it's it's helped with, and get my, like, all my, like, systems leveled out and everything. So I went down to the military appreciation weekend because I did a raffle that benefited, guys who needed guys and gals who needed their blood work done. So I worked with Core Medical. We raised, $11,500

Joey Bowen:

Uh-huh.

Tim Galloway:

As a fund. So that way veterans could get their blood tested at no cost, and they would get discounted rounds of HRT. So that way, it was more accessible to them. So, like, that has been since used. Thankfully, we're I'm really excited about that.

Tim Galloway:

Sid Gordon, the CEO, invited me down to the military appreciation weekend, so I was like, I can't say no. Yeah. So, I went down, and I met this this dude named Paul O'Keefe who has a company called Anvil's Cache, and they make all this I'm not a jewelry person

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

But they make this rad jewelry. Like, they're they're jewelers, and they make these really cool pieces. So I had him make me some zipper pulls out of, cast, casings bullet casings.

Drew Beech:

Wow.

Tim Galloway:

And it's his I got your 6, that are

Joey Bowen:

on him.

Tim Galloway:

So I only made a handful of those, and, you know, a a couple were a few were sold, a few were a few were given as gifts. Yeah. So, like, it was, kind of one of those things where they're, like, they're the only bags that have those pulls on them. Yeah. So So Yeah.

Joey Bowen:

So So it's on display temporarily.

Tim Galloway:

I'm gonna It better be temporary. I'm gonna put it

Joey Bowen:

to use. I'm gonna put it to use.

Tim Galloway:

Uh-huh. Hopefully, you're gonna see it.

Joey Bowen:

But we're really gonna bring it in for a landing. Yeah. Yeah. So, tell the community where they can find you. I mean, they can find you if you want HQ, but True.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

Here's the ad or not.

Joey Bowen:

Yeah. Exactly. Tell them, where they can find you, on social. We did enough teasing for what's coming up. So tell them where they can find you, on social.

Tim Galloway:

So, good works, g o o d w e r k s on Instagram. Yep. I do have a Facebook presence, but I load Facebook, so I don't interact there. So, like, if you have any questions, it's mainly just my Goodworks Instagram. My website is good dash works, w e r k s dot com.

Joey Bowen:

Don't forget the dash.

Tim Galloway:

Don't forget the dash.

Joey Bowen:

Good Dash Works

Tim Galloway:

works with a name. I I need to I've been talking to the I've talked spoken with those people, like, once, and they they want, like, a stack

Joey Bowen:

of money. Yeah. The other good works.com.

Tim Galloway:

Yes. Yeah. And they want, like, a stack of money, so maybe someday I'll acquire that. Yeah. Alright.

Tim Galloway:

So we'll see.

Joey Bowen:

We're gonna put it out there. Yeah.

Tim Galloway:

They We're gonna put it out there. Instagram Instagram is the way you can send me a DM. Cool. I will answer I will answer any DM as long as it's not spam. Gotcha.

Tim Galloway:

Yep. Cool. Cool.

Joey Bowen:

Alright. It's blessed having you on. It's blessed having you here. We're gonna have you back on to talk about Made in the USA and the Few Fest. The Few Fest first this afternoon.

Joey Bowen:

We filmed multiple shows in a day, so it's gonna be this afternoon when you come back. I'll I'll leave a few with a reminder. Always choose hard work over handouts. Always choose effort over entitlement. Remember, no one owns you.

Joey Bowen:

No one owes you. You're one of the few. Now let's hunt.

Tim Galloway:

Thank you, guys.