Making Moves Around Fort Worth: Segway Adventure of a Lifetime with Great Customer Service with Tim Ballard
This is a podcast about the successes and achievements of those that have risen to the top in their field and want to make a positive impact on their communities. In our third episode of Everything is Up, host Tammera Hollerich interviews Tim Ballard the owner of Cowtown Segway Adventures, one of the top ranked tours in Fort Worth, Texas. Tim is originally from the Metroplex area of Fort Worth and is known for his gregarious personality and energy. Tim shares his experiences of leading people and building success in his business. Most notably, he recounts the surprise of being invited to work by the tour guide on a Segway tour he attended after being laid off.
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Topics Discussed and Key Points:
●How Tim got his unexpected start in the segway tour business
●In today's fast-paced world, it can be difficult to find the time to have fun and make memories.
●Teamwork is an essential part of any successful venture
●By working together and leveraging each other's strengths, teams can come up with creative solutions to difficult challenges.
●Remember that People are good at heart
●Tim's advice to his 18-year-old self is "stay the course." Stay focused and keep going even when things get tough.
●Never forget to be kind and help our fellow man
Timestamps
[00:00:47] Tim introduces himself and his business
[00:03:45] Have fun and make memories.
[00:08:09] Teamwork leads to success.
[00:23:19] People are good and happy.
[00:27:17] Stay the course and be kind.
[00:33:22] Everything is possible.
Notable Quotes
“People are good at heart. This is a statement that I firmly believe in and one that I have seen proven time and time again.”
“I mean, that last part of that sentence, people bring me hope. People are good. At the end of the day, people are a whole lot better than we give them credit for. And when we have to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, then we do bond a little bit.”
“If I were to give my 18-year-old self some advice it would just be stay the course. And you know, naturally, maybe I was a little naive at the time and stayed the course that I was on because it was in front of me. But in so many ways, it kept me from getting bloodied and scarred up and damaged. We step in puddles, we fall in buckets of water at times. But if we stay honest with ourselves and we have a good spirit about us, then we're going to spread that a little bit. So just stay the course and see where it goes. Everything seems to work out.”
“You can get a pretty good feel for how much somebody cares about you within the first minute you have them on the phone. So I hope my kids would see all these things that people write about on Yelp and the way that we do business, because if you do business that way, you do your personal life that way. And it's who you are.”
Resources
● The Everything is Up Podcast
Connect with Tammera Hollerich
●Website
Connect with Tim Ballard
●Website
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