Lean InWith Casey Grey
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Meet Chris Castillo, serial entrepreneur, part owner of Ottawa’s Koichi Ramen and Mechanic to You. He’s been a business mentor of Casey’s for over 6 years as part of his Master Entrepreneur consulting group and recently launched a second coaching company called Fire Within.
In this episode we learn how Chris developed his entrepreneurial skills as a kid living with a single mom growing up in the desert of Chile to how he made his first $500 in consulting services at the age of 18. Chris has a ton to offer in this podcast. Everything from goal setting to good business principles to how to be innovative and creative and how to use other people’s money. As usual, he over delivers! A lot of new businesses get into the practice of getting the wrong stuff. A new desk, new phone, website, business cards, logo... Get the customer first and THEN grow it! “
You wouldn’t guess that Chad has 10 years on Casey, his half brother, they were even wrestling partners growing up, so it comes with much excitement that Casey finally sits down for a conversation with his brother, Chad St-Louis.
Chad shares stories beginning with his early childhood. Born with hearing loss and a heart arrhythmia and living with a single mom, Chad’s situations were influential in developing that sense of empathy for others. This has been a key factor to his success and life’s work. From being a mechanical engineer to starting and running his own engineering consulting firm, to joining Casey at The Conscious Builder and now partnering on their newest company, Gingko, Chad is a force for good. Chad shares his life changing experience and Christmas miracle that occurred on December 21st, 2018. He talks about the factors that led up to this event, what happened and how it has changed his work and family life for the better. He shares some of these changes and ideas that we can take advantage of and start implementing in our own daily practices. Understanding that we have different strengths and respecting those strengths of the other person, so we’re not competing and there is no ego involved, we’re not about being right, it’s about doing what’s best for everybody, whether that’s the team, the homeowners, youtube viewers or the listeners of this podcast, its how do we make it better for the people that we’re doing this for.
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