Clinton Senkow is the Co-Founder & COO of Influencive. Influence is an online platform that shares unconventional around entrepreneurship, success, and blockchain that reaches millions of people per week. Influencive has been featured in: Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The Huffington Post, Mashable, and Shopify as a top media platform for current and aspiring entrepreneurs. He is also the VP of Partnerships at ShipChain, a Member of the Forbes Business Development Council, Ambassador of Daymond John’s, Columnist at Thrive Global, Advisor for The Blockchain Hub, and Canadian Delegate to G20 Young Entrepreneur’s Alliance. Clinton grew up the youngest of a big family in Canada (five kids). Like most Canadians, he grew up playing hockey and watching it almost religiously. It started to become his #1 thing in life and he started to excel at the sport at all levels. He had the opportunity to play AAA to college hockey.   When he was 15 years old he tore the ACL in his knee and was told he needed surgery to reconstruct the ligament. The surgical team ended up taking a piece of his hamstring and reconstructing his ACL so he could continue to use his ligament like he did before. The rehabilitation period took 6 months, and he actually made it back on the ice just over 5 months after his surgery, ahead of what most doctors told him would be possible.   From a young age he’s been a fighter and someone that wants to show others what is actually possible when you set your mind on something.   A few months after he came back from his knee surgery he ended up spraining his wrist, doing, yes you guessed it, playing hockey. Well, at least he thought it was a sprain. After weeks went by and it didn't heal he ended up going to the doctor and after a few set of x-rays, he told him that his scaphoid bone was broken, which is a very tiny bone in your wrist.   The doctor told him that the scaphoid is one of the worst bones in your body to break because of poor blood supply to certain areas of the bone, meaning it would take a while to heal. The x-ray told him that he needed yet another surgery and this time they would have to take a piece of bone from his hip to reconstruct the scaphoid in his wrist.   The rehab was yet another 6 months with wires put in his wrist to hold the new reconstructed bone in place. Oh, and he would have to get a new cast every month for 6 months.   So he ended up having a different color cast each month for over half a year in grade eleven at the age of 16.   He could have easily quit hockey and decided it wasn't for him, but he chose to keep grinding. After his last year of junior hockey, he accepted a scholarship to attend NAIT in Edmonton, Canada to play college hockey for the NAIT Ooks while also pursuing his business degree.   He graduated in 2013 with a business administration degree in management and has since immersed himself in the startup, entrepreneurial, and tech ecosystems of North America and the world. His new found passion and where I'm really started to hit his stride. Watch the full episode here: https://projectegg.co/how-to-scale-a-media-company
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