Episode Description:
Straight from the ready fire aim to school of hard knocks, Mick Spencer started his first business at age 22. On-the-go, a sports branded apparel business started literally in his garage and became a multi-million-dollar business challenging the status quo in a traditional market.

Just when he thought he cracked it, COVID appeared and put pay to his plans of world domination, rather painfully, Mick had to call in the liquidator. Yet, even after all that he managed to get back on the horse in true troubleshooter fashion and started his latest venture Gravity Seltzer, a company which is thriving.

Points of Interest:

Getting started at age 21 2:09

The role of Tech 8:41

Shark Tank 9:25

Next steps & scaling up 11:47

Covid ramifications 14:30

Survival long term amid rising tensions 17:12

Difficult but amazing long-term learnings 18:24

Being a sole founder is lonely 23:49

Writing a book-start before you’re ready 24:33

Bouncing back 26:10

Why I am not the CEO of Gravity Seltzer 30:00

Taking a family break 36:00

What’s next? 37:00
About Mick
Mick Spencer is the Co-Founder & Chairman of high growth Seltzer brand Gravity Seltzer Co. He is also author of best seller, Start Before You're Ready!

Get in touch with Mick:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mickspencer247/

Gravity Seltzer: https://www.gravityseltzer.com/
Transcript
Note: This has been automatically transcribed so is likely to have errors! It may however help you navigate the points of interests for you.

Mike: Welcome to the troubleshooter’s podcast with me your host Mike McGrath. Now in today's episode, we speak to a genuine entrepreneur. Straight from the ready fire aim to school of hard knocks, Mick Spencer started his first business at age 22. On the go, a sports branded apparel business started literally in his garage and became a multi-million-dollar business challenging the status quo in a fairly traditional market. Just when he thought he cracked it COVID appeared and put pay to his plans of world domination, rather painfully, make had to call in the liquidator. Yet, even after all that he managed to get back on the horse in true troubleshooter fashion and started his latest venture that gravity sells a company which is thriving. So without further ado, sit back and learn how Mick Spencer refused to lie down and go quietly. Mick Spencer Welcome to the troubleshooter’s podcast. You're very welcome.

 

Mick Spencer:  Thanks for having me in this beautiful city.

Mike:  No, I'm very delighted to be talking to you. My daughter Becky said you must talk to Mick Spencer. He's got a great story. So, you are the ultimate Troubleshooter for me because you not only did you start early. So, you're you're extremely young by my standards, but most people are but you started the business at just 22

Mick Spencer: 

Yeah, 21/22. Dropped out a year 12 volunteered in Hawaii for a year trying to figure out what I wanted to do and came back at 20 went to university and then had an idea to start a business and dropped out of uni at 21 and went for

Mike: You moved into the kind of branded sports apparel world. Where did you get the genesis for that idea?

Mick Spencer:  Yeah, well, whilst I was at university, I was in a lot of social groups, sports groups, touch 40, comps, and all of that. Yeah. And I was the captain of one of these kind of committees and had the job of ordering uni

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