Transcript
A (0:00)
Welcome to the Impact Podcast. I'm Eddie Wilson, here to help you visualize what others cannot see, create opportunities where others have failed, and push you to build empires where once there was empty space. Let's embark on this journey together and make a difference in this world. Hey guys, Eddie Wilson here with the Impact Podcast. We got a special guest today and an episode for you. As always, the Impact Podcast is here to teach you something. The reason I built the podcast was primarily to help all the people that were reaching out, saying, hey, help me with my business, help with leadership, help with growth, help with exiting, and I don't have the time to do it. So we decided to build the podcast so I bring in great guests that can also help you teach. So our guest today is Justin Block. Justin, thanks so much for joining us on the podcast today.
B (0:46)
Thanks for having me.
A (0:47)
Yeah, absolutely. Justin is local. He reached out to me on social a couple months ago or whenever it was. And, um, Justin's family is a, a very well entrenched family in the Jacksonville market for sure because of some of the businesses you guys bought and are built and have sold. And so if you don't mind, just walk us back because I think that my, my audience primarily are budding entrepreneurs, people building businesses, looking for like that tip, that trick, how do I get to the next level? And then ultimately they're all looking for purpose. Right. Like that's what we're here on earth looking for, is that purpose, purpose element. And so, you know, if you don't mind, kind of step back. Rubik's Foods, founded by your grandfather. Great grandfather. Grandfather, grandfather. But your great grandfather was co founder of Ready Whip.
B (1:36)
Correct.
A (1:36)
And your great great grandfather was in Chicago building other food brands. So you've had basically five generations of, of similar businesses. You've had four businesses in that space, but five exits. Right. And so kind of just give us the backstory.
B (1:55)
Yeah, So I just come from a family of entrepreneurs, all in the food and beverage space. And you know, most recently we sold our business last year, which was a B2B food and beverage manufacturer. And so, yeah, just basically my backstory is come from a long line of entrepreneurs. Sort of knew I wanted to be an entrepreneur when I was a six year old kid and sort of ended up here today and was working in the family business right out of college and helped grow and scale it and exit it. And over the past year we've been not sort of chilling, but you know, just doing our own thing and now probably going to get back in here in the game soon and a bunch of other cool stuff.
