Interview with the entrepreneur Bennet Maxwell
Hello Bennet , welcome to BrandEducation! Please tell us about yourself.
I grew up in Utah, I have been married for 6 years and have 3 kids.
I have a door to door sales background where I have built teams and sold different products, always doing $1 million+ in revenue during the summer selling season.
I co-founded Switch to Solar, and using the principles found in the book, E-myth, was able to work myself out of the business after a year and had a successful exit after 18 months from starting the company.
I believe in having purposed based business
• What do you like to do in your spare time?
Dinner with my family every night at 6pm.
Date nights with my wife every friday night.
Gym, pickleball and spikeball.
• Can you tell us a little bit about your journey?
I have always focused on learning over earning. I have made all my job choices on what I would learn and how I would personally progress.
I have seen what is it like to work for a company just for the company and working for a company to promote something you believe in. I will always work in purpose driven companies that align with my beliefs.
• If you had to describe yourself in three words, what would they be?
Visionary, Dependable, Balanced
• What inspires you?
Making an impact in the world, positively affecting people lives at a large scale.
• Share something our readers wouldn’t know about you.
I believe too many people are searching for happiness through financial success or achievements. I focus on finding happiness through increasing your mental health.
• Are you working on anything at the present you would like to share?
I am franchising my cookie company, Dirty Dough. It was build to lower the barrier to entry for potential business owners to give more people the opportunity to build multiple streams of wealth to ultimately provide time freedom.
What are your goals and aspirations?
Open 1,000 Dirty Dough locations, provide mental health coaching services to Dirty Dough 20,000+ employees, build 2,000 wellness rooms in k-12 schools.
. Where can our listeners connect with you online?