
The Barefoot Spirit
How Hardship, Hustle, and Heart Built America's #1 Wine Brand
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Alamada Karatihy
From the New York Times best seller, The Barefoot Spirit, comes a new style of audiobook....
Learn valuable lessons while Hollywood actors voice the parts in this entertaining and true story of Barefoot Wine.
A Sherwood Players Production featuring a full ensemble cast including Hollywood Legends Ed Asner and Gigi Perreau, an original cinematic score, sound effects, and behind the scenes interviews with the real Michael Houlihan and Bonnie Harvey (creators of Barefoot Wine) with author Rick Kushman.
It is amazing that such an iconic brand as Barefoot Wines began as a startup in the laundry room of a rented farmhouse. Even more surprising is that it was started by a business couple with no money and no knowledge of the wine industry.
They regularly ran into difficulties that nearly killed the brand. It was their unshakable belief in Barefoot's potential that kept it going, along with the use of classic business principles, and a never-say-die outlook. Hardship, hustle, and heart are the essence of The Barefoot Spirit.
This book is a testament to the power of out-of-the-box thinking. It is a guide for anyone in business, and a great listen for everyone who loves a rags-to-riches story. Filled with encouragement, inspiration, and empowerment, including:
- How worthy cause marketing out performed paid advertising
- How boot-strapping was used instead of conventional financing
- The surprising advantages of being small and broke
- How creating a fun, yet hardworking company culture encouraged innovative leadership
If you like wine, the wine country, or a story about how a plucky couple disrupted an industry, if you want to know what it takes to really succeed in the face of adversity, if you want to know how to use your core beliefs to build a national brand, then The Barefoot Spirit is for you.
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Business to my ears
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I had no idea Barefoot had a riveting story. What a journey Michael and Bonnie went on: taking a pile of debt and some leftover product and grinding it over years to turn it into the brand it is today.
The format is unique, the book is both read by actors and there are also cutaway interviews with the founders. Really refreshing way to break up the chapters and brought an authenticity to the story.
Great business and life story
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A business book fun and enjoyable listening to
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An amazing listen!
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Loved this !
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GREAT STORY
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The authors also claimed in a podcast where I heard about this book that it was filled with business insights transferable to any business. while it's true there are some business lessons to be learned in here I would argue you have to dig to get anything that would apply to another business. Things aren't pointed out or identified as business strategies. It's just a story.
In the end this felt more like a reminiscence and a love story between the two authors, which isn't very interesting to me, but if you find that interesting it was probably well done.
Disappointing
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