Learn from the people around you so you can create a successful business with Steve Gallion

The Jake Dunlap Show

California Southern Law School graduate with a passion for business, Steve Gallion comes on the Jake Dunlap Show and offers his vision about the importance of mentorship and surrounding yourself with the right people in order to create a successful business. Steve’s passion for people and eye for market opportunities have led him to build several companies, MedTrainner being the fruit of over 15 years dedicated to transforming the healthcare industry.

MedTrainer offers a wide range of training and compliance services and the structure and support that healthcare staff in the medical, dental, pharmaceutical, and veterinary fields need to develop effective compliance strategies.

Time stamps:

00:48- Introducing Steve Gallion

01:48- Did somebody say “doughnuts”?!

03:37- Growing up, memories, influences and inspiration

09:18- Entrepreneur beginnings- facing hardships while building his business

12:26- Motivation to grow and acknowledging his responsibilities

16:51- MedTrainer-getting the company off the ground and discovering their niche

26:21- Finding mentors and learning from other people's experiences

30:43- Creating a great team- surround yourself with smart people

40:45- Next chapters

Quotes:

“ I break up mentors into three different buckets and one of them is a bucket that I call practical mentor, so people who directly influence you but may not be directly related to your field of interest.”

“ I truly believe it’s in your blood or it’s not. I think you can teach people to do certain things (but) entrepreneurship, creating your own business, that kind of live and die by your own sword mentality is something that is pretty tough to teach.”

“Success carries very similar patterns when you talk about working with people. I think (my) passion for people began working in a Target meeting, getting to know everybody on the team, which is highly diverse, from race to age to gender, and really getting those people to believe in you, to trust you.”

“ I want to talk to people who have seen the journey to a hundred million dollars company (...) and what lessons have they learned. Sometimes you can shortcut your way by learning from their successes as well as their failures.”

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Jake Dunlap, CEO and Founder of Skaled Consulting, is an industry influencer and C-Level Sales leader with more than a decade of experience. Jake has developed and led high-performing sales and operational functions for Fortune 500, Global 2000, and start-up organizations. Jake and the team at Skaled specialize in building out repeatable, sustainable processes.

As a thought-leader with more than 60,000 followers across his platforms, Jake's audience gains valuable insights into scaling an organization, sales best practices, and general career motivation.

Prior to Skaled, Jake was the first sales hire and VP of Sales at Glassdoor which was acquired by Recruit Holdings for $1.2Billion in 2018.