I am young, but I got started in business in 2017.
Tell me a little bit about that.
So you started basically in high school.
Yeah.
Well, you know, funny enough that we're doing a show for podcasts, right?
Like RSS, like that's awesome.
Um, one of my first ever ventures was having a podcast and I was this kid.
I was going through some issues at home.
Um, you know, I don't come from money.
I came from a single parent household.
I watched my mom work really obnoxious shifts at Taco Bell and, um, you
know, she would come home at night.
And I mean, it was great getting free Taco Bell at the end of the day, but
it's like, I can barely see her.
And so I was raised by my grandmother a lot in my early years.
And, uh, you know, late, she later on got remarried and, and, you know,
whatever you bring in another adult, another father figure that can oftentimes
lead to animosity, chaos, hard feelings, tension, stress, et cetera.
And that's exactly what happened with me.
And, uh, amidst those troubled times, I fell in love with the, the idea
of entrepreneurship, like finding a business because up until that point,
I was a great student, straight A's.
I had one C in my life.
And the moment I got that report card that said C plus or C minus, it was like
end of the world, I had to go to school to get a tutor.
Like I had to stay after.
And, um, I never got a C in my life again, but at the end of the day, my mom said,
go to school to get good grades, to get a scholarship.
And I was one SAT test away from that.
But I saw her not using her own degree because she later on got her master's
in business and I'm like, you're not even using it.
So, and I love her to death.
I'm not speaking down about her, but I saw that combined with these young
20, 22 year old kids making $10,000 a month, traveling, doing things that nobody
in my life and my family had ever done before.
And I saw that as a way to, you know, jump in and do something different,
do something new.
And so my senior year of high school, um, I took some of those entrepreneurial
tendencies that I had.
I was a kid who had the idea of running my own pin company.
I had a lawn business, a couple of different things when I was younger.
And, um, it wasn't until 2017 when I finally was able to define what exactly
I was and what exactly I did.
Well, you know, Leah said it best, age ain't nothing but a number.
Well, yeah.
Yeah.
But I actually liked the fact that, that you started in high school because it
definitely speaks to the way that things are now that it's not just about you go
to school and then you go to school again and then you get a job and you stay there
for, you know, until you get the gold watch, it's very much a gig economy.
It's very much a, the entrepreneurs are the ones that are basically
paving the way right now.
And so I think it's perfect that, um, that you started that way.
So now you mentioned that you, one of your first ventures was actually
podcasting and you podcast now.
So why did you start your podcast and, um, how do you promote it?
You know, my first ever podcast was called the Isaac Mashman show, and I scrubbed
the internet clean of it.
You can only find one episode of it right now.
And that was when I re-released it with my current podcast, Chase the Vision
with Isaac Mashman, but I launched it.
I don't even know quite why, why I launched it.
That was during the period where Alice Bodding's other entrepreneurs who had
strong personal brands and starting to reverse engineer what they did.
You know, some of the people that I've started following, they got on Twitter
first, so I started a Twitter account.
I started building Twitter.
I saw that they had a podcast and I'm like, well, they did it.
So why can't I do it?
And now the production sucks.
It was a very rocky beginning, but I would be in computer class editing my
audios on, on a free Audacity download.
And to this day, I still use Audacity because why not?
Or I have my, my head of audio, um, edit the episodes, but it started out
sharing it with my friends at school.
I mean, I remember getting screenshots from my friends at the time, listening
to my podcast in the car and I'm like, all right, this is kind of cool.
And then from there, I kind of latched onto that emotional feeling of, okay,
I'm doing something and other people are engaging with it.
This is kind of cool.
Is this scalable?
And then from there, that's when I started to build out my personal brand online
outside of just my free group and, you know, starting to connect on LinkedIn
with more people and Twitter and build out my audience and continue that content creation.
So the podcast that you have now, did that start before or after
you began the branding company?
So, um, chase the vision with eyes of magic.
So, um, chase the vision with eyes of mashman ash actually was launched in
2019, an entire year almost before I launched mashman ventures and I've incorporated that.
Now mashman ventures is a public relations firm, but it had a couple of
different iterations actually prior to getting incorporated, it went from being
mashman media and then I was like mash coaching and I was like mash ventures.
Because I wanted to do something that I was going through this evolutionary
process of I want to do something that is scalable and also something that.
It has not been done before or isn't easily duplicatable because I see a
lot of these other entrepreneurs that focus on a couple of different services,
couple of different business models.
And I'm like, I don't want to put myself in a box.
I don't want to, I don't want to put myself in the only field of media.
I don't want to put myself only as coach because I'm not a coach.
And so actually if you go to my Twitter account for mash ventures, you'll see
that it was launched and created in 2018, way before, two years before my company.
Because the handle at the time was at mash vent media.
And so it's been a really, really fun process.
I know it sounds a little bit all over the place, but I think that sometimes
when you're doing something that's never been done before, you don't have that
firm path, that firm direction, that blueprint, so the speaker, that mentorship.
It is going to be chaotic.
And then from there, that chaos is going to bring about something that's great.
And I think that's, that's what happened over the past couple of years.