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Real Business Owners Don't Avoid Pain Trevor Cowley and Kale Goodman, serial entrepreneurs and business partners, share how surviving tough financial times prepare an entrepreneur for future successes.

By David Meltzer

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Trevor Cowley and Kale Goodman, serial entrepreneurs and business partners, talk about some valuable lessons they've learned about financial stability while launching businesses like Easier Accounting and 60 Day Credit Repair, as well as how they are working to help small business owners of all kinds to grow and develop.

Cowley, Goodman and The Playbook host David Meltzer chat about a variety of topics, including why schools neglect to teach students basic skills like budgeting, why you need to evaluate your lifestyle and business operations during tough times and how to create a partnership agreement that ensures equitable profit distribution.

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David Meltzer

Co-Founder of Sports 1 Marketing, Speaker, Author and Business Coach

David Meltzer, co-founder of Sports 1 Marketing and host of Entrepreneur's podcast, “The Playbook”, is a Top 100 Business Coach, global public speaker and three-time international best-selling author who has been honored by Variety as “Sports Humanitarian of the Year”.

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