Juan Marcos Rancano is the man behind @brickell_living @sweetcarolinebar @miamibarcrawls and other ventures. And on today’s episode, he shares his unlikely journey into entrepreneurship, past business failures, the lessons he learned from those experiences and also speaks about the importance of getting comfortable with the uncomfortable in order to achieve anything meaningful in life.
Show Notes
Juan Marcos Rancano is the man behind @brickell_living @sweetcarolinebar @miamibarcrawls and other ventures. And on today’s episode, he shares his unlikely journey into entrepreneurship, past business failures, the lessons he learned from those experiences and also speaks about the importance of getting comfortable with the uncomfortable in order to achieve anything meaningful in life.
Outline of This Episode
- 01:15 – Introduction to Juan Marcos Rancano
- 02:30 – Juan’s journey into entrepreneurship
- 04:25 – The story of how Brickell Living got started
- 08:22 – Growing and monetizing the Brickell Living platform
- 11:40 – Brickell Living Real Estate Division, Project Crosswalk and Scooter Etiquette
- 17:20 – The one big business failure led Juan to launch one of Brickell’s most popular bar
- 22:08 – Lessons learned from business failures
- 24:15 – The story of how Miami Bar Crawls got started
- 26:14 – Brickell’s biggest current challenges and opportunities
- 29:28 – What got Juan into books/reading
- 31:24 – Top 3 books that shaped Juan’s approach to business
- 32:52 – Which 3 books best describe Juan’s approach to life
- 36:05 – The story of how Juan learned he had a 1 year old son
- 38:59 – Getting comfortable being uncomfortable
- 43:20 – How Juan’s life has turned out differently than he expected it to
- 44:50 – Miami/Brickell Rapid Fire
- 47:36 – Juan’s closing thoughts and advice to listeners
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