#8: Create a powerhouse business by following your bliss - Lessons from Chris Festa Founder of TBOX

The Chris Brodhead Show

This was a super fun interview with someone I’ve been a big fan of since I moved to Chicago in 2011. I previously met the founder of TBOX, Chris Festa, at a networking event where he was the headlining speaker. I thoroughly enjoyed his self deprecating honesty as well as the many valuable entrepreneurial lessons he shared. I knew I had to hear more. And as luck would have it he agreed to be on the podcast. Chris Festa talks about earning his economics degree from Stanford, the Bartman effect on his Cubs t-shirt business, and finally how his TBOX bar crawl regularly attracts over twenty thousand people per event. If you are interested in how quitting your job and following your bliss can create an incredibly successful and well known business, this is the episode for you. Enjoy! 0:45 Background on Chris Festa 1:15 How the t-shirt business has helped TBOX 1:30 What Chris F has learned from running TBOX 4:00 Instead of focusing on growth why Chris F just wants to make TBOX the best ba