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Travis Rosbach is currently running the Tumalo Group where he advises and consults for first-time inventors or entrepreneurs.

Prior to that, Travis founded Hydro Flask, the company that creates insulated, stainless steel water bottles. The vacuum insulation can stop heat conduction from inside to outside, or from outside to inside so the liquid inside stays cold/hot for at least 24 hours.

In this interview, we talk about:

- Travis’s early childhood with his parents getting divorced and having a stepfather

- Travis’s journey to becoming a SCUBA dive Master/Instructor, US Marine Boat Captain and Commercial Airline Pilot

- Travis’s journey with founding Hydroflask and eventually selling the company

- Losing his brother to a heroin overdose

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Travis's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travisrosbach/

Tumalo Group Website: https://www.tumalogroup.com/

Hydro Flask's Website: https://www.hydroflask.com/

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Grateful Living Info:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9Bo0LHtRJJNJBUYIceg27w

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3Hn4ttttmbWfVqAhWh4Jhi

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1503185956

My Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aroy81547/?hl=en

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/gratefulliving4

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Time Stamps:

0:00 Intro

0:40 Travis’ summary of his childhood and adult life

6:53 Having grown up in a family where your parents divorced, is there any advice you would give to a child growing up with divorced parents?

10:40 Any advice to stepdad’s on bonding with a child?

13:07 Why didn’t you go to college? Was that intentional?

17:14 Any thoughts on college and whether parents should look at it differently?

19:48 What was the incentive to join your father’s dive shop business after high school?

23:19 Did working your father’s small business help with your business knowledge?

26:40 Advice on working in a family business?

29:15 What’s amazing thing about scuba diving?

32:06 Becoming a commercial airline pilot

37:47 What’s great about aviation?

40:09 Why’d you move to Hawaii?

43:42 How was running a signs company?

48:45 What’s your relationship with fear?

53:35 Talk to us about the forming of Hydro Flask.

57:42 How was the patent process?

1:01:49 Were sales hard?

1:05:40 How was managing the growth?

1:09:02 How was it being in a personal relationship with a business partner?

1:12:10 Do you have any advice to your younger self? Would have done anything different?

1:16:00 How was your experience selling the business?

1:19:30 Any advice on selling a business?

1:22:30 How was life after selling?

1:25:01 How was managing the money you got from the sale of the business?

1:28:40 What’s it like not dealing with financial stress

1:35:00 Do you think about your legacy especially with how popular Hydro Flask has gotten?

1:39:44 How has fatherhood changed you?

1:43:45 How was losing your brother to a heroin addiction? What would you pass onto others about that experience?

1:52:00 How can people support you?