Mar 29, 2021
Brent Hunter knows that when you’re working for a dream, things don’t always go one hundred percent according to plan.
When Brent’s wife of 24 years unexpectedly lost her job in 2017, that’s when the couple decided it was time to make good on their dream of being entrepreneurs. “It was time for us to do for us, instead of doing for someone else,” he says. “So we took that opportunity.”
Months of market research, backed by his wife’s love of cooking, pointed them in the direction of opening their food truck. Hawaiian food had always been their favorite, and there wasn’t much of it to be found near where they lived in Oregon. After buying and driving a former t-shirt vending truck across the country, the Hunters were ready to turn their dream into a reality. But whereas Brent has friends who’ve taken nine months to build out a food truck, he and his wife were dealing with a much shorter deadline — they needed the truck to be ready in nine days, to be exact.
In this episode of the Working For a Dream Podcast, Patrick and Brent talk about what it took to build his dream from scratch — literally — and what it’s like to run Grindz Food Truck as a family.
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Favorite Quote:
“You’ve got to put in the work is the first and foremost thing. Put in the work. It's a job, and it can become a career.”
— Brent Hunter
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