S4E22 | The truth about small business funding & pivoting
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S4E22 | The truth about small business funding & pivoting

He ran a food truck. Then a bank teller's seat. Now he sits on both sides of the lending desk, and he's not holding back.

Travious Shanklin takes us inside the real cost of starting a food business: the wrong cart, the wrong location, and the brutal truth about getting funded with zero business history.

In this episode, we talk market research, tariffs reshaping the Pacific Northwest economy, which industries are thriving right now, and why Travious still dreams of building a business that creates real opportunity for local youth. Because not everything that ships creates impact, sometimes the lesson is the impact.

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