In this episode, I had the privilege to speak with Army Veteran entrepreneur and founder of Carbliss Vodka Drink, Adam Kroener. This was a fun interview where we discuss military life, overcoming addiction and becoming an entrepreneur. During the interview, Adam explains how he had to lay everything out on the line to make his dream a reality.(3:00) Growing up, Adam screwed around a lot and didn’t really apply himself to much. Was doing drugs and decided to go into the military. At the time, they had a sign on bonus, and Adam thought to himself, “I could buy a lot of weed with that!” Shortly after signing up and passing a drug test, He found out that he would be a father.(7:00) Working at a cheese factory, Adam moved his way up to a supervisory position. At a young age, his he was an unexperienced leader and it showed. To get people to do what he wanted, he would find himself yelling all the time. Adam realized that his leadership sucked and he wanted to get better. After picking up the Book “How to win friends and Influence people”, Adam realized that he had to change.(12:00) Starting his military career in 2005, Adam continued the family tradition of the military. His father was an infantryman. Since this was only a few years into the war, Adam’s dad wouldn’t sign paperwork for a combat job. After going through a list of jobs, finally a job was accepted by Adam and his dad.(15:00) Reflecting back on the military, Adam explains that he learned your body and mind can take more than you anticipate.(18:00) Military talk. Trey talks about how the military helped him to be more effective with time management. We would have calendars to look forward 30/90/180 days out. Trey uses that in his life now to help stay focused on tasks.(27:00) Realizing he needed to make a shift in his medicine habits, Adam reached out to a place and see about a process to get off the medication he was on. When Adam asked what they would do to help, the doctors told him that they would place him on another medicine typically prescribed to heroin addicts. Adam was all to familiar with that drug because he used to take it for fun and decided not to follow through with that help.(29:00) Finally being off the medication, Adam was in another motorcycle accident and put back onto the medicine. His now wife, commented that she thinks he is just taking the pills to take them. Adams father had commented on the constant pill popping too. After doing the research, Adam understood exactly how these pills were affecting his decision making and drive to continue taking it.(38:00) Adam used his operations background from the military towards his business now. He explains how Carbliss was started. At the time, there was seltzer drinks that were popular. After much research and talking with people in the bars, Adam, would ask people why they drink what they drink.(43:00) There was a lot of hurdles that Adam had to overcome. “If someone said, here’s how much money you will lose, you’ll work 24 hours a day, and no financial benefit, how does that sound?”This is the path most entrepreneurs take.(45:00) SN food and beverage is the company Adam has created and it came from a friend he originally had the first thoughts of being an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur, Adam had to put everything on the line to make Carbliss a reality. Everything from the design of the can to the liquid inside was created by Adam and his wife.Carbliss is now available in Wisconsin, Nebraska Colorado, Tennessee, Louisiana, New Jersey, and coming soon to Maryland, and California. Go to www.drinkcarbliss.com to find out more information and 38 other states that will soon be able to have Carbliss sent to you.You can follow up with Adam through email at [email protected]  or reach out at 920-286-3159. #entrepreneur #carbliss #veteran

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