Oliver Trevena
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The Money Mondays
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Everyone told me don't do a beverage and everyone was right. And then I'd beg them to make me some cans and they'd be like, no, you have to make half a million cans. I'm like, I don't even know if I want to do this yet. I just want some cans.
The Money Mondays
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So basically I should have come and done this podcast about two years, three years ago, and then I would have been fine.
The Money Mondays
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I mean, I've enjoyed it and I've not enjoyed it. I think the enjoyable part is I generally like to pay it forward. Like I would not have a business if people didn't believe in me. And I like hearing a founder and believing in their vision. I think it has to be what I've learned, right? Because I've had investments go wrong is the founder has to know how hard it's going to be.
The Money Mondays
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I've invested in what I think is some of the most incredible stuff and it just fell apart because the founder just wasn't in it. And I've invested in things that had the potential, but the founder wouldn't step away. And I learned a lot through that, which is why when I did Caliwater, as soon as I had the momentum, I was like, I'm getting a president. And I work for my president.
The Money Mondays
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He tells me what I need to do for him because he knows beverage. I don't know beverage. And I think that's what I've learned is like the ego of a founder can really crush. It doesn't matter how good the product is, how innovative it is, how creative it is, how brilliant it is.
The Money Mondays
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without the right founder evil evil to run the company or to step away from the company when it's time it will crush it and that's why you know i've had some that have done well and some that you know haven't gone under touchwood but i've kind of wrote off my investment you know like i'm like if i probably never see this money again um i'm close to saying which ones they are but maybe i shouldn't um
The Money Mondays
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But it's it's been it's been interesting. It's been interesting. But I'm grateful for the lessons because that every every, you know, investment I made and learned led me up to then when I founded a company, what I wanted to do and what I didn't want to do, you know. So, you know, there's always there's always a value in the lessons, whether they're good or bad.
The Money Mondays
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And I like to enjoy what I invest in. That's the other key. Because then you're in, like, I love going to Next Health. I enjoy it, you know? Worst case, if for some reason, I mean, that company's doing incredibly well, but if worst case something happened, I've enjoyed it. I've had a good run, you know? So enjoy what you're investing in as well.
The Money Mondays
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What's up?
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it's really ready to go to war 100% and to your point that's exactly what I've been learning it's like there's stress in the beginning it's stressful to launch then it's stressful when you launch then as you get bigger it's more stressful and then as you continue to like scale it's
The Money Mondays
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You want the bio from me?
The Money Mondays
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more stressful you know and i think we're in a we're in a time where it's really hard to to find your people as well finding those ride or die people that believe in your vision as much as you do i think that's changed now because everyone just wants to do it themselves you know it's a it's a quick quick fix world of being like well i just want to do my own company it's like well that's not how it works right now you're like you learn a lot with another company and then you go and do your own thing i think it's hard to find people that really want to put in the hours and the time and the blood sweat and tears when it's not their company
The Money Mondays
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I'm about to lose your drop-off rate. That's about to go down. I mean, look, I grew up in entertainment, so I grew up in a town just south of London. Theatre and dance was my upbringing. found myself moving to America 20 years ago, was meant to be in music, kind of failed in music, fell into a TV hosting gig, did that for many, many years, probably about 12 years.
The Money Mondays
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Um, I want to, I want to try the product, whatever that is, obviously. Um, I want to know how they got to where they are, um, like their own journey. I think, you know, just to, just to gauge like how much work it's taken them. And I don't mean this in a nasty way, but you know, if some, if they were like, oh yeah, my, uh,
The Money Mondays
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My dad gave me half a million dollars and I started a protein bar company and this is where I'm at. You're like, oh, if they've, you know, put the work in. And by the way, that could be the case that that could have given half a million and they put blood, sweat and tears and turned it into two million. Great. I'm all ears. So I want to hear their story.
The Money Mondays
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I want to hear the founder's story away from the product. I want to hear the founder's story of what they've done with the product and where it's at now. And then I want to try the product and then hear their vision for it ahead.
The Money Mondays
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And hear those like kind of flags of like, you know, if they're if they're holding on to this company for dear life forever, you know, if they hold on to their equity for dear life forever, all those things that, you know, can really bite you in the ass.
The Money Mondays
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So.
The Money Mondays
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I mean, the first thing I'll probably say is why are you picking me? Because there's more bankable actors right now. Yeah, I mean, once again, I'd be like... I'd try and dissect it and be like, what are we making? Why are we making it? What's the end goal? You know, it really is. It's you know, it's it's it's sadly it's referred to as the movie business.
The Money Mondays
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But I think people just refer to it in their mind as movies. People forget the business part. So I think the same way I would, you know, I wouldn't ask the questions of how they found it and all that. But I would ask the guy, why do you want to put this money in? What kind of movie do you want to make? And I think that's the other thing with movies. Like sadly, it is what it is, right?
The Money Mondays
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Like thriller, action, horror, you know, they're movies that tend to return your money because you can make them for less. If someone came to me and was like, I've got this amazing story, you know, I love making amazing stories. I'd love to be an actor in an Oscar winning drama. There's a lot of risk there.
The Money Mondays
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You know, when people make an $80 million movie that's talking about climate change, it's needed to be made.
The Money Mondays
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is the return on that gonna come back it's tough you know um so i think looking at it from a business it would be be a lot of that it'd be like what story what story do you want to tell where's the script how good's the script who's telling who's directing it who's doing it's it's exactly the same package it's it there really are so many similarities when you think about when you start a brand and you've got the president and the team of people around it and then it's the same thing
The Money Mondays
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You know, if you've got a good team and you've got a good package and you've got a path to profitability,
The Money Mondays
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invest whether it's a movie whether it's you know man wipes um whatever it is you know i think i think it just it has to make sense and obviously nothing's ever going to make there's risk with everything you know um and that's just the nature of the beast and that's because the world we live in who knows what's around the corner you know they're another covid then shipping costs go through the roof and then your margins slashed no one knows there's risk
The Money Mondays
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But that's the exciting thing about investments is there is risk. Of course, there's risk. If there wasn't risk, there wouldn't be any investments. Everyone would just put their own money in, you know. So it's exciting. But yeah, I would I would ask him a lot of the same questions as I'm asking someone who's making a product.
The Money Mondays
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So I want to hear their story. I want to hear the founder's story away from the product. I want to hear the founder's story of what they've done with the product and where it's at now. And then I want to try the product. If you've got a good team and you've got a good package and you've got a path to profitability, invest.
The Money Mondays
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Yeah, 12 years of that. And then while that was happening, simultaneously started investing in companies and was, you know, kind of part of companies in different ways as an ambassador. And I just started to love that kind of
The Money Mondays
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have you ever thought about or would you consider taking on passion projects in between 100 yeah i've got i mean there's a couple of things that i'm working on right now um i guess i'm just more um i like to be transparent right so if i'm sitting with an investor or someone that's going to put money into my movie and it's a passion project i'm saying exactly that yeah i'm saying mate this is a passion project read the story if it resonates with you as well i believe we can make something amazing here but obviously
The Money Mondays
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it's not a story that suddenly brings in sales because it's not, you know, a Blumhouse horror film. Sure. Um, I think just transparency, if you, if you're transparent and you, you communicate, no one can ever, you know, bite back at you for that, you know?
The Money Mondays
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And I think that's the, you'll find your people, you'll find your people that are like, you know, I'm just trying to think of something like very passionate. Just say it was like a, Story of a footballer, right? And it was, you know, half the world still doesn't know. I mean, the world knows football, but, you know, over in the US, as in soccer, it's still trying to get there.
The Money Mondays
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So as as much as it's a big sport, people try soccer movies a lot and sometimes they just don't work. But if I found this story of a soccer player and I wanted to make this story, I deep down, I know there's a risk there because. It's still not, you know, the soccer movies have never taken out. But if it was my passion and I sat with someone and said, look, mate, I know you love football.
The Money Mondays
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You know, you've got a few hundred million. Are you prepared to lose a few million? Maybe I say, yeah, maybe we take a shot. A hundred percent believe you've got to do with most things in life or life in general. You have to have a balance of the stuff that.
The Money Mondays
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pays your rent and the stuff that makes you happy, you know, because otherwise what happens is, and I've been there, I don't know why that just made me a bit, get a bit emotional because I've literally been there where you're too busy thinking about the money stuff and you, and even if you're lucky enough to get the money stuff, you're fucking miserable.
The Money Mondays
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i guess the way a company grows and how you grow it and how you tell the story the same as i love you know acting and and the same thing of how you tell the story and so i started doing that kind of went well gave me the freedom to make the jump out of hosting back into acting and now at the same time the acting started taking off i've started to produce a bunch as well oh really yeah very cool so okay
The Money Mondays
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Because you're lacking that soul, the passion, the things that we as kids dream about, the things that really wake us up in the morning. And I don't mean wake us up in the morning with an alarm. I mean the stuff that jumps us out of bed, yeah, without any fear attached.
The Money Mondays
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Yeah, exactly. And I think that's the stuff that for me, I've been on both paths. I've been on the path where I've chased money and got what I dreamed of.
The Money Mondays
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and realized it did fucking nothing for me and i was miserable and i was sad so i am always conscious of juggling in life enough that i can still live the life that i want and have the success but i'm not going too far down that path where i forget what actually makes me feel good and what actually makes me feel alive and i think to you know reason we're here today when i walked into the the toy drive i was blown away because
The Money Mondays
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And that, you know, the give back stuff and the paying it forward stuff people bring up to me all the time. Be like, why do you do so much of that? And I'm like, because I am a self-obsessed prick if I am not treating that. And by treating that, I mean, it's the most simplest thing. It's not not therapy. Therapy is good. It's not I'm not saying it's not, but it's not therapy. It's not.
The Money Mondays
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Anything like that, it's just doing something for someone else without wanting anything in return. That is it. That cures my overthinking. It stops the self-obsessed mind. It stops the fear of, am I good enough? Is my business good enough? It cures all that because you're suddenly doing something else for someone else that has a lot less for you and they're probably smiling and happy.
The Money Mondays
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you know so that for me is the balance in life that i'm always constantly trying to get and don't get me wrong i'll have a few weeks where i completely veer off track and i'll have a moment i'll be like what am i doing what am i spinning about you know it's mind-blowing and it is you know that's the other thing it's we're always a work in progress just when you think you've got it figured out something happens in life
The Money Mondays
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slaps you around the head and and i'm like where did all that you know all those life courses and therapy and everything and all those books i read and now i'm suddenly a 13 year old again spinning about the most stupid you know so um understanding that it's always still a work in progress speaking of the toy drive we have to go back out there but one final thought so we're going into 2025 there's
The Money Mondays
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I would say pick something that you're ready to give your everything to and is going to make you happy even if it takes you a long time to make money from it. That's what I'd say.
The Money Mondays
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Just my name at Oliver Trevina. That's it.
The Money Mondays
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I just finished one in Budapest, a comedy that I produced that we're really excited about. Parrish Jackson, Rory Culkin, Crispin Glover, amazing cast. Mark Boone Jr., Will Peltz. I'm excited about that. And then next year have two more movies start in January and February that I won't say because we haven't announced them yet. I don't know the timing of this thing, but it's exciting.
The Money Mondays
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Hopefully that was on the spot. No one told me I was going to have to do my own bio.
The Money Mondays
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I'm honestly I'm very feel very excited and lucky and grateful to be going into ending this year and going into next year.
The Money Mondays
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I mean, I kind of always say, because it's been my story, like, I think there are some people that, you know, luck is a massive element in our industry. And I think some people just get lucky, right? It's just any business, any industry, but especially entertainment, there's an element of luck. That wasn't the case for me. It wasn't an overnight success.
The Money Mondays
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It took a grind and it was just like, keep pushing. I think you have to be your own biggest workhorse. You know, you have agents, you have managers, you have people around you. But at the end of the day, no one cares about your own career as much as you have to care. No one's going to work harder for your own career as much as you have to work.
The Money Mondays
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And so I think the mistake that a lot of people make and I made early on was, you know, I got myself an agent. I got myself a manager when I first moved to the US and I was like, oh, my God, I've made it. It meant nothing. You know, I you have to be the one. knocking on doors, pushing yourself, continue to train your craft.
The Money Mondays
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Just when you think you've got it, you haven't got it and you try a bit harder. And I think that's why it's like, it's really just a daily, a daily grind always. Cause as you know, as we all know, you know, you've got to be your own biggest fan.
The Money Mondays
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I think for me, the same way I started to then, you know, when I founded a company, there's so many similarities, at least in my mind, the way that When you start a company, it kind of crosses over into the way that you start a movie, right? You find a script. The script is like the product.
The Money Mondays
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You've got to decide how you're going to tell the story of the product, who you're going to tell it with, what the story is. There's a lot of that that goes into the industry of filmmaking as well, what I'd experienced in my world of investing and creating brands.
The Money Mondays
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you know I just wanted to kind of bring that into the movie stuff obviously my hosting days I met a lot of people I've seen a lot of people come up a lot of people come down um and and met people that I like working with and I think that was it I was like more than anything I was like I want to make movies and I want to do it with people that I enjoy working with um because it is like a bubble you know you end up in I mean this year alone I've done Bulgaria I've done Serbia I've done
The Money Mondays
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Budapest, Atlanta, Mississippi, you know, these aren't places that you, I mean, maybe some of them, but they're not, they don't pop up on lastminute.com. They're not the most desirable places to go and spend three months. So you've got to make sure you're with people that you like and you want to be around.
The Money Mondays
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So I love making movies because I get to like build my own train set, you know, from the director to the cast, you know, you get to have fun doing it. And I think that's more important than anything. You've got to enjoy what you're doing. And normally if you create that kind of environment where people are enjoying it,
The Money Mondays
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you're gonna get the best work out of people, you're gonna get the best mindset, and then you're gonna make money. And I think, you know, movie industry especially has a horrible reputation because it's a horrible industry. There's a lot of dodgy people in it. There's a lot of people, especially in the producing world, that think very short term.
The Money Mondays
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You know, it's like, how can I raise the money for this movie make money and it doesn't matter if I get my investors money back because I would have made the movie. Well, the trouble with that is once you've made that movie and you've made your money, you've got to find a whole new set of investors to go out to because you've burned that current pack of investors.
The Money Mondays
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So there's a way to do it differently, a way to treat it like a business before the movie's been made, like to actually do the numbers and be like, what are the chances? Obviously, no one ever knows. Nothing's 100 percent. There's risk in anything. But how do you kind of remove the risk? How do you, you know, it's pre-sale.
The Money Mondays
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How do you, you know, make sure that the actors you've got, you know, they've got a big year, not the year current year, but the year ahead when you're actually releasing the movie, what have they got happening then? So I think there's a lot of things you can put into play that boost your chances and boost the movie's chances of success.
The Money Mondays
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And then hopefully make your investors their money back and then make more movies.
The Money Mondays
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So I'm still learning a lot. I'm trying to surround myself with people that know more than me, which in the movie business, there's people that I really respect and I'm asking them a lot of questions. And I think that's the key, right, is listening, learning from people that you respect and you trust, whether it's movies, whether it's business, whether it's brands, you know, whatever it is.
The Money Mondays
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COVID had hit. And I was kind of twiddling my thumbs. And I love the health and wellness space. I had already invested in Next Health, as you know. And so health and wellness for my own journey had become a big part of my life. And I was at Next Health and I would have my blood testing done. And my sugar levels kept coming back really high. And basically, long story short, that was coconut water.
The Money Mondays
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I was drinking about three coconut waters a day, one in the morning, one after a workout, one in the evening. And that was about 60 to 70 grams of sugar. Oh, wow. Obviously, they're good sugars, but no one needs that much good sugar. And I went down this rabbit hole of what else is out there. You know, what else could be...
The Money Mondays
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as a drink, what else could be done that has the same benefits, but has less sugar and less calories and came across Prickly Pear. Vanessa, my business partner, Vanessa Hudgens, had already talked about Prickly Pear margaritas a ton. So I knew there was something there in that space.
The Money Mondays
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And that's when we came up with this kind of, you know, doing this together thing, because it does have that, like it's a health beverage, it's digestion, skin, immunity, hydration, half the calories and sugar of coconut water.
The Money Mondays
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and it's 100 sustainable because the prickly pear naturally drains its juice so obviously you know especially now i think it's working in our favor because coconut drinks or coconut based drinks are struggling because they can't keep up with supply and demand of coconut you know to harvest the coconut now with climate change and everything takes a lot lot longer than what it used to and so we have you know cactus that's just naturally draining its juices and we're just you know amplifying that and
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and building that. So I think timing is in our favor, but yeah, that was during COVID. Everyone told me don't do a beverage. Everyone said it's a pain, it's a complete pain in the ass and everyone was right. It really is a tough business, but I think we've tried to create something different by having talent actually invested in the brand, having talent be a part of the brand.
The Money Mondays
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We're not wasting money on marketing where other brands do it differently. But it was a grind. I mean, literally, I remember there was this co-packer in Camarillo and I would drive there, which from my house was about two and a half hours. And I'd drive up there during COVID and I would have the flavor house do a tasting. We'd take it up there. They'd mix the flavor a little bit.
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We'd get the sugar count. You know, we'd get all the stuff that happens when you're trying to make a beverage. And then I'd beg them to make me some cans. And they'd be like, no, you have to make half a million cans. I'm like, I don't even know if I want to do this yet. I just want some cans. And I would end up paying them.
The Money Mondays
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I think at one point I was paying them like a hundred bucks a can to make a drink. And I would make 20 cans. And I found this, I found this black suitcase. I've still got it in my closet in the kitchen. It's like a, it looks like a briefcase, but it's got foil on the inside. And so I'd rock up to like some meetings with like friends or people that knew beverage.
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And I would guard these cans with my life. Like I'd feel, feel the people out. Like if I felt like it was a Tinder swindler meeting, I just wouldn't let them try the drink. Right. And if I felt like there was something there, I'd be like, try a can. And I'd pull out a can from this briefcase like James Bond. Yeah.
The Money Mondays
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Which I still think I have PTSD because I open up my fridge now and I see Cali water and there's something in me that still thinks I'm not allowed to drink one. Yeah. But that was it. And it was a grind. And then we'd drive back and forth and I'd bring the drink to Vanessa and she'd taste it and she'd have notes on the flavor and I'd drive back.
The Money Mondays
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And then they'd be like, oh, our forklift driver got COVID. The factory is now shut for four weeks. And it was... It was the biggest headache ever, but there was just something in me that, and maybe it, by the way, maybe all the people telling me that it was hard and I shouldn't do it probably helped me because I have one of those minds, you know, someone tells me not to do something.
The Money Mondays
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I'll find every reason why I've proven wrong. So I think in a weird messed up way, the fact that I got told by so many people do not do this, it's a headache, probably helped me.
The Money Mondays
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That's where we're at. The crazy thing is, I'm just going to share this. Before the podcast, I said to Dan, I've never really looked into Dan. We just connected on socials and I just loved everything he was doing. But I haven't looked into Dan to know his story. And this is nuts. I had no idea.
The Money Mondays
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It's a grind. And in the early days as well, I will say there's so much that doesn't make sense. I remember trying to get a distribution company to bring us on and they'd say, we love the drink, but you need to get 60 stores yourself or 50 stores yourself. And I'm like, okay, we can do that.
The Money Mondays
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And then every store we would go in, literally me and Vanessa would show up and they'd be like, oh my God, we'd love to take your drink on. Who's your distributor? And we'd be like, we haven't got one. We'll come back when you've got one. We're like, well, we can't get one until we've got the stores. And it literally was the most mind blowing thing. I was like, what? You can't win this.
The Money Mondays
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Like you can't. Everything is set up to make a beverage fail. Every way of working, every way they do a contract, every way, as you say, the terms, everything. And that all then started to come back to my mind of,
The Money Mondays
These Simple Investment Strategies Are All You Need w/ Oliver Trevena 💵 EP100
Man wipes. But yeah, it's tough. But I'm glad, you know, we've started to get nice momentum now. And we've, you know, we're growing and growing. And I think that's a lot to do with the fact that, you know, we really focus on the product first.
The Money Mondays
These Simple Investment Strategies Are All You Need w/ Oliver Trevena 💵 EP100
And now we have kids pouches as well, which is amazing.