Surviving the Shark Tank Pressure and Innovating for Good with Rob Yonover
What does it take to turn a simple idea into a life-saving innovation?
In this episode, Rob Yonover shares his journey from Hawaii’s waves to Shark Tank, where he pitched his invention, See Rescue, a device now saving lives worldwide.
Rob's story is a powerful testament to perseverance and innovation. He discusses the inspiration behind See Rescue, a simple yet effective device used by the military, astronauts, and search-and-rescue teams. Rob also reveals his challenges, from balancing his day job to the long process of getting his invention to market.
In addition to the technical aspects of invention, Rob shares insights on the importance of patience, persistence, and networking.
He emphasizes the need for entrepreneurs to embrace both the slow and fast parts of the journey and how even small steps can lead to big successes.
Must-Hear Insights and Key Moments
Rob Yonover shares his experience as a Shark Tank entrepreneur, highlighting the pressure of the pitch and the reality behind the scenes.
The creation of the See Rescue Streamer, a life-saving device, and how it’s revolutionizing search and rescue efforts.
Insights into how Rob turned his idea into a patented, military-approved product used by astronauts and military personnel.
The importance of perseverance and grit when facing failure and how to keep pushing forward.
How to balance day jobs with building a business and why taking small steps is important.
Lessons learned from years of hard work and never quitting—entrepreneurship is a long-term journey.
Words of Wisdom: Standout Quotes from This Episode
”You can't just invent or start a business and think it's going to go wild. You need a lot of time to let it grow.” - Rob Yonover
"It takes 10 times as much money and time to get a business off the ground than you think, but don't quit if you believe in it." - Rob Yonover
”If you want to become an inventor, you have to do the homework, and you get to know your industry. So before you can charge in, you have to train.” - Rob Yonover
“Don't be afraid to try new things and take a risk. Change is okay, and then make sure you crawl, you walk, you run before you sprint, and there's a reason behind the process.” - Courtney Turich
“ You have to persevere, you have to have grit, and you have to stay at the forefront because if you don't, guess what? No one else is.” - Courtney Turich
”You also have to be realistic about what you're trying to achieve. It takes money to move forward with your idea. It's not cheap.” - Courtney Turich
Mentioned in the Episode
Hardcore Inventing: Invent, Protect, Promote, and Profit From Your Inventions
Caregiver's Survival Guide: Caring for Yourself While Caring for a Loved One
About Rob Yonover
Dr. Robert Yonover is a Ph.D. geochemist and volcanologist with an extensive background in scientific innovation, technologies, and patents. His groundbreaking work includes multiple ALVIN submersible dives to two miles deep off the Galapagos Islands to collect submarine lava samples, with laboratory research conducted at NASA Johnson Space Center and MIT.
An avid North Shore big wave surfer and Molokai Channel rough-water fisherman, Dr. Yonover has harnessed the ocean as his laboratory to create survival technologies, earning U.S. Military/DARPA funding and multiple U.S. patents. His notable inventions include the military-approved SeeRescue® Streamer, Pocket Flotation technology, Portable Emergency DeSalinator, Video Search and Rescue (vSAR) technology, Inflatable Rescue Board, and Inflatable Paddleboards used globally.
A respected media figure, Dr. Yonover has been featured on CNN, PBS, and the Discovery Channel and is the author of Hardcore Inventing and Brainstorm Islands. Passionate about education, he is dedicated to nurturing creativity and innovation across generations. Dr. Yonover continues to inspire and empower people to embrace the spirit of invention and resilience.
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BLOG TRANSCRIPT
Note: We use AI transcription so there may be some inaccuracies
Courtney Turich: All right. Hey, friends. Today's episode is packed with three powerful takeaways. What nobody tells you about Shark Tank, the bold move that changed everything for our guests, and the one piece of advice they give their 18-year-old self. So this guest is extremely fascinating, and I'm going to tell you right here, also a shark tank entrepreneur.
Dr. Robert Yonover is a Ph. D. geochemist and volcano expert with a history of groundbreaking innovations, including multiple U. S. patents and military-approved survival technologies, like See Rescue, which was featured on Shark Tank.
His research includes deep sea dives off the Galapagos Islands with lab work at NASA and MIT, a North shore, big wave surfer, and Malachi channel fishermen. He uses the ocean as his laboratory. Dr. Yonover has appeared on Shark Tank, CNN, PBS, and the Discovery Channel and is the author of multiple books, including Hardcore Inventing and Brainstorm Islands.
He's passionate about education, and he champions creativity and innovation for all ages. S, without further ado, I am super excited to introduce Dr. Rob Over.
Rob Yonover: Hey, thank you, Courtney. That's sweet. That was a nice intro.
Courtney Turich: Of course, it's so great to have you and a fellow Shark Tank entrepreneur.
Rob Yonover: Yes, we were in the tank. Not together, but we were in the tank.
Courtney Turich: Hey, we still went through the same rigmarole to get there. So, man, have respect for you.
Rob Yonover: Thank you. Same here. Ditto. I know what it takes, and it's not easy at all. Were you solo there, too? It was just you against all five.
Courtney Turich: No, I actually had a business partner with me. So, I had a crutch.
Rob Yonover: Okay, that's okay. I won't hold it against you. No problem
Courtney Turich: Thanks, Rob. I appreciate that So I'm gonna start with you,u like all my guests, and can you just give us a little bit more about yourself?
Behind the Scenes of Shark Tank with Rob Yonover
Rob Yonover: Sure, I'm a scientist and inventor, and I'm originally a volcanologist I came to Hawaii to get my PhD a long time ago working on submarine volcanoes, And I surf big waves, I fish rough water, I'm always on the edge of dying it seems, so I invent survival gear for the military.
And one of my inventions went all the way, my See Rescue Streamer. And I'm still surfing and fishing in rough water, but I'm still trying not to die. So, I do not even carry my own streamers just in case I get lost at sea or on the volcano.
Courtney Turich: Well, I'm glad you're here with us today. And it sounds like you need to have See Rescue with you all the time. So, along those lines. Tell us what nobody talks about when you're on Shark Tank. Can you share some insight?
Rob Yonover: One thing: they gave me a chance to pick who I wanted to demo the streamer with. And I said, let me get Mr. Wonderful because I knew he was short, and he always pisses me off how rude he is to the people.
So I knew he would have to come to get the streamer from me to unfurl it. So he stood next to me, and I could look straight down on his short bald head. Not that bald is bad or short, but for him, I wanted to give him a little grief. And the other thing is the stare-down. I don't know if you remember, but they want you to do the stare-down like a prize fight.
So, like 40 seconds, I'm looking at Mark Cuban, I'm looking at Mr. Wonderful. And I just kind of.
It's like, okay, okay. I'm ready. Let's go. So that was pretty trippy because I was so nervous about getting ready to speak, but you have to stall. You have to take a break. So that was something.
Courtney Turich: Yeah, that 60-second waiting period feels like 10 hours.
Rob Yonover: Exactly. And it's, you're so amped up, and you're trying to relax, and it's hard. But there were so many I could talk about that experience forever. I mean, I know we're not supposed to talk about certain things, but, Well, Rob,
Courtney Turich: How about this? Can you actually share with our audience what See Rescue is?
The Simple, Life-Saving Innovation Behind See Rescue
Rob Yonover: Sure, when you're lost at sea or lost in the mountains, typically you have smoke signals, flares, sea dye markers, even E herbs, or electronic devices like a phone telling you where you are.
But if you ever ask anyone who's searched for anyone, especially search pilots, the number one thing they need is a visual target. So See Rescue is a long orange piece of plastic with patented struts in it, so it's like a centipede; it doesn't twist, and it gives you a long orange tail. It's so simple.
It's stupidly simple. You know, Kiss, keep it simple, stupid? Yes! I'll be in the dictionary one day with this; this is the best Kiss idea ever because it is so stupid. A little kid could have thought of it. If I'm lost at sea, I want to have a 25 or 40-foot-long orange tail. Because I had struts in it, it won't twist up.
It stays flat. There's one right behind me. And it's just a simple device, and it's gone through many iterations. It's used by militaries all over the world. It's even used by the astronauts. It's under their ass on the SpaceX flights in case they splash down and get lost. It's used on fighter jets, and we have more sophisticated versions than just the regular one that manually unfurls.
I have one. Dissolves when it hits the water. S,to the fighter pilot, if he's unconscious or dead, the pouch dissolved opens up, and it starts signaling immediately whether the pilot is dead, unconscious, or asleep. And the other thing the military loves about it is it's discretionary. Meaning if the enemy comes around, you can put it away.
Then, you can redeploy it. You can't do that with smoke signals or flares. And the other thing is it's continuous. S,o like I said, you could go to sleep in your raft or boat or the mountain, and you know, it's working for you. You're hoping that someone sees this little orange stripe, and it's as small as a cell phone.
Courtney Turich: It's so simple in theory. So, if you haven't watched the episode, if you're listening again, it's season eight, and episode 22 is where Rob.
You can see the See Rescue. It is super simple and makes so much sense in so many ways.
Rob Yonover: Thank you. Thank you. You know, it's crazy. I mean, it was hard to make it work. It's so simple looking, but the struts were the breakthrough. Every strong thing in nature, like your vertebrae, is segmented. So I made it segmented. The way I attached the struts was critical too to make it not get pulled down by the water. It is simple and simple as a compliment. Don't get me wrong. I like simple solutions the best. And that's what I always shoot for.
Courtney Turich: That's really amazing. I mean, I start to think of hikers and people really should just have this everywhere if they're out in nature or the wilderness.
Rob Yonover: I agree. And you know, it's such a no-brainer because again, there's no batteries, chemicals, or electronics. So anyone in the marine world or the hiking world knows stuff breaks all the time. So you don't have to worry about it breaking. And that was one of the big mistakes I made. I'm a scientist. I'm not a business person.
The big mistake I made to this day. Does it not wear out? So I sell it to someone who has it for the one I have on my boat's 40 and 30 years old And that's okay. I like that. That means I solve the problem unequivocally And indefinitely and I'll take that. I don't care about the money. I don't even care about the money. I mean, to care and I still care about it, but it's not one of those return products where you need to Buy a new battery or have it updated every year.
Courtney Turich: You're being good for the environment and we're going to leave it at that.
Rob Yonover: Exactly. No batteries, chemicals, or electronics. And those are all bad for the environment where you get them, how you dispose of them, everything. Absolutely.
Courtney Turich: So Rob, before we move on, did you get a deal? What happened when you walked away?
Rob Yonover: No, you know, it was incredible because they all loved it and thought it was going to save more lives than it already has. Every shark liked it. But they all went out and they thought I knew more about the military and technology and they didn't think they could help me, which was really ironic and they took a lot of grief for it after because I couldn't believe, first of all, that they didn't care about saving lives versus money.
They only cared about money. I was kind of in shock. I thought I was going to have a bidding war. The good news is they all liked it and on national TV and as you know, they do reruns. It's been on like a hundred times already and it's awesome. They show it over and over and I didn't, you know, they respected me a lot, which is cool.
Mark Cuban kind of had a crush on me, which is a little, maybe a little uncomfortable. I mean, I'm heterosexual. I'm not, that homosexual is a problem, but I've never winked at anyone in my life. I winked at him on the way out and said, give me a call. I'm still waiting for him to call me. It was shocking to me in real-time, but afterward, I'm like, okay, well, and my producer said, Oh, that went well.
Right. Really? no one invested. I go, well, yeah, you go, you did great. So I took it at that. They ended it, I was in there for like an hour and he'll show you seven minutes. Mark Cuban wouldn't leave me alone about my PhD working on submarine volcanoes. He wanted to know more about that. At one point, Mr.
Wonderful said, stop talking to him about volcanoes. Let's talk about the streamers. I could talk to this guy all day. So anyway, I think he was bored. Too many cookies and cupcake ideas. And the other irony is the hour show, if you go watch season 8 episode 22, the other three people, you get four typically in the hour, They all got funded, and they were like a wine sippy cup, booty pants that make your ass look bigger, and backpack that's hard to cut into.
and the people online were going crazy. They're going, you guys funded all three, and you invited me to fund this life-saving device? That was crazy.
Courtney Turich: The good news is, Rob, your product is still in business. You're still selling it and helping people across the world.
Rob Yonover: Yes. I'm not going anywhere. You know, tortoise and the hare, I'm the ultimate tortoise.
I've been doing this forever. I'm not giving up and I'm slow and methodical. And if you keep your overhead low that's the thing about investors. I kind of afterward, I'm like, is Mark Cuban really going to work with me? Or is it going to be some 30-year-old, admin person from his office hassling me about, you got to move from Hawaii?
You need to go to this trade show. You need to go to this military. I'm like, I don't need all that. I'm on like a mission because I save people and I've had people thank me for saving them like that's the mission, okay, to contribute something in society that matters and just make sure you don't overextend, take people as investors, and that's to me is overextending because they're gonna start telling you what to do.
They're your partners. And I don't like people telling me what to do, especially at this point. So if you keep it lean and mean, and you go for the duration, that's where I'm at. I'm going all the way.
Courtney Turich: Well, Rob, it's super cool. What you've been able to achieve and that you help so many people. I mean, it's really amazing. Now we've got to move on to some other big questions.
Rob Yonover: Anytime. Let's go.
Courtney Turich: We're going to get deep now. So what would you say was the bold move or confident choice that took things to the next level for you?
Rob Yonover: There's so many, but one thing was believing in this thing 30 years ago when I thought of it and I'm struggling, we have little kids, my wife got MS, so she's in a wheelchair and I'm eventually building this piece of plastic.
And she said, Stop playing with this piece of plastic and get a real job, which Eventually she ate those words, but that whole sticking with something. And I realized a long time ago that any venture business invention, anything takes, even up to 10 times as much money as money and 10 times as much time as you think.
So again, back to the tortoise and the hare. I could have quit so many times, but I'm like, don't quit if you believe it and keep going, but don't quit your day job. You have to have another source of income. You can't just invent or start a business and think it's going to go wild. You need a lot of time to let it grow.
And sometimes things grow slowly and with the military and the government, it takes a long time to do things but I kept getting good input. So people encouraged me. There were people that put me down. There are still people who think you're crazy, you're ridiculous, but not anymore, really, because it's proven by the military, it's approved, it's saved lives, patents, the whole thing.
But it's still a tough slog to keep it going, but I have vision and it's just beneficial, and I don't want to quit, ever, and it defines me at this point, and I have all these other inventions, but, you know, just have to watch your time budget, right?
Courtney Turich: Right. So two things come to mind. Can you share with the audience how you came up with this idea, Rob?
Rob Yonover: Absolutely. Absolutely. I was a student and my friend rented a plane and we flew to the neighboring island, Kauai. And have you ever been in a rented plane? It sounds like a Volkswagen that's, it was not really well maintained. So it didn't sound too good.
I'm looking down at all that blue water going and my wife and his girlfriend were with them. I'm like, if this thing crashes, it's not going to sink right away, but it's going to sink. I could probably swim a mile or two to the shore, but they can't. They're all going to die. I started thinking about it and then flares, smoked, he died, and all went away.
And then a couple weeks later I flew to Miami where I grew up. And have you ever heard of Christo, the artist? Yeah. He wrapped those islands in Miami in pink plastic. And just a couple weeks after that plane ride, I flew over that and said, That's it. I need pink plastic. And then I thought if I had a long pink plastic tail, those were the early days, my neighbor was a Navy captain.
He goes, Hey, you got to lose the pink. You know, the Navy doesn't like pink. So we went to International Orange and then it just kind of took me years. I was teaching and I had to figure out how to make it with the struts. That was the key. So it was a bunch of events, but it was those two events, the plane ride that might've crashed.
And then flying over these fluorescent lights, you can go online and look at Christo Miami Islands pink and you'll see it and it was so visual from like five, 10, 000 feet coming in for a landing. I'm like, Oh my God, that's it. So that's the story.
Courtney Turich: That was your aha moment.
Rob Yonover: Absolutely. just, there are so many, but that was the original one. And then just try to get people interested. That's the other thing. My brother who's an advertising guy used to tell me there's editors sitting on their asses every day, wondering what to write about. You need to tell them about this. So I made a one-page fax. I'm an old-timer. Do you know what a fax machine is? Oh, I do.
Courtney Turich: I do rob. Nope. I know fax machines.
Rob Yonover: Okay. Well at 11 o'clock at night in Hawaii 1101 the phone calls were so much cheaper than all day So every night at 11 o'clock I would send this one fax to all these editors and military people And just keep sending it. So it's like fishing. If you put one line in the water, you might catch a fish, but if you put a hundred lines in the water.
So, I got the Miami Herald and wrote about it first, then I took that article, and I did that with it, wrote, and then, I'm a polite pain in the ass, and Perseverance is off the chart. So like, Outside Magazine, it took me three years to get in there, and I go, you know, take notes and say, can I call you back?
Oh, we can't do anything about it, call me back in a couple months. Make a note, and I will call them in a couple months. Finally, they wrote about it. And also let people have a little ownership in their creativity. So men's journals wrote about it and they've said something really funny and great, which I love, which was.
Gillian's Island would have been one episode if they had the See Rescue Streamer. I love that. So you say you don't want to micromanage everyone, right?
Courtney Turich: Right. So what you're saying is entrepreneurship is not easy, right? That was your big bold move you just talked about was actually taking the leap into your aha making it happen.
Sales 101, you have to persevere. You got to have grit and you got to stay at the forefront because if you don't, guess what? No one else is
Rob Yonover: exactly, again, the day job bill is critical. I think most people think I don't care how good your ideas are. You need to make money.
So I say don't quit your day job. So you can quit your day job, So the beauty of a day job is you get your check you go nine to five But I talk to kids a lot and if you do the math, there's like 120 hours in a week, 40 hours of your day job, that leaves 80, another 40 for sleeping, that's still another 40.
So you have 40 hours a week, nights, weekends, to work on your job, on your invention or business, till it can take over the day job. Then you calmly, gladly, go in and quit your day job. That's when you rely solely on your Entrepreneur
Courtney Turich: Rob, that's a very important point because you hear both philosophies, You hear that if you don't go all in, you're not committed. But in reality, you also have to be realistic about what you're trying to achieve. It takes money to move forward with your idea. It's not cheap. You invest a lot typically before you can start selling and bringing income in.
Rob Yonover: And then other people's money is what people talk about, but be careful.
Like I said earlier, If you take other people's money, those are kind of like partners if it's friends and family That's kind of worse because and then you feel bad about taking money for your family So that's why the day job you need to fund it I don't know if you're fan of poetry or writing, but you know, charles bukowski.
That's crazy writer
Courtney Turich: I've heard the name
Rob Yonover: Yeah, he's like a maniac writer. He's a crazy guy, but he passed away. But his whole thing was he got a job at the post office just so he had the paycheck to be an alcoholic writer. And I'm, I'm not condoning alcoholism, but that's what he did. He worked all night and every weekend he wrote, wrote, wrote, wrote until he could fund himself.
And his first book is called post office too. So. Also, other startups and Shark Tank encourage you to blow it up big, get all the money, get funding. That's risky because finance people want to see results right away and back to taking 10 years to really build something.
It takes too long for most ideas to build. And the investors get impatient and they blow the company up and have people all the time. Every time I do anything people Email me and say get money. Can I invest? I'm like, no, I don't need money. You know, I used to tell people I need your rolodex. I don't need your money.
Courtney Turich: Oh, I love that I need your Rolodex Yes. Not your money.
Rob Yonover: That's what I would say to Cuban and any of those guys. I don't really need you guys. Tell me how you connect me to someone that knows an admiral or someone that, has TV spots that can bring me on Good Morning America or whatever it is, you
Courtney Turich: Our network is the most powerful thing we can have. And if we can lean into that and really nurture those relationships, it'll take us far.
Rob Yonover: also looks small too. Some products are niche products. So if you're a niche product, start in your community. And if you want to get press for it, start in the local paper or local website.
Local things. You know, everyone thinks they're going to hit the home run and they just put a website up or get on Amazon and that's it. No, you've got to network like you're saying. commonly it's small things. And you know, that whole crowd sourcing. I was doing that before they called it crowdsourcing.
I go eat bean burritos at Taco Bell, and I ask those guys what they think of this. I ask everyone what they think of things. I take it with a grain of salt, some people's opinions, but opinions are good, and it's also a form of networking.
Courtney Turich: For sure. Back to, it's okay to crawl, walk, run.
There's a reason behind that whole philosophy. I know we all experienced it a little in Shark Tank. We kind of were crawling and then we got sprinting once we aired on Shark Tank, but we figured it out.
Rob Yonover: It's, it's overwhelming. but that philosophy my son just had a baby and they got this kid, they're trying to stand her up to walk.
Thank you. And I'm like, they push people too fast. Crawling is really good for setting your brain. And there's something about crawling and a lot of parents try to get their kids to walk before they crawl. And I mean, it's apropos to business, but I think it's apropos to child development too.
It's something about crawling that is important. And getting dirty too. When you crawl, you get dirty. Yeah.
Courtney Turich: And we forget as parents, once they start walking, then they can go anywhere really fast. So let's keep calling for a while.
Rob Yonover: Absolutely.
Courtney Turich: So Rob, I've got to jump into this next question and that is what piece of advice would you give to your 18-year-old self today?
Rob's Advice for His 18-Year-Old Self
Rob Yonover: one of the few people who crystallized what I wanted to do when I was 18. I lived in Miami and the waves were terrible. And the women were mean to me, and I wanted to become a surfer. I was a surfer, but the waves are tiny, so I wanted to live on a tropical island with beautiful ways, women, multicultural, and I just stuck to it.
So I think sometimes you have to stick to that mindset at 18. I would tell someone myself to respect those feelings. you like science, you like surfing, you like inventing, you like travel, you like music, that is your blueprint. Don't think that just because you're old and I'm old now, I'm the same person, really.
There's nothing really has changed, except, I'm a full on adult, I'm responsible. But I'm waiting to go surfing the next time I can. Listen to music, travel, talk to beautiful women. I mean, that's secondary. I'm a, I'm a widower at this point. So unfortunately, but I would also say what I just said about the tortoise and the hare.
Take your time, also try things on. I tell that to all kids, my kids, any kids, try it on. You want to be an engineer? Try it on. Go take a class, go I'll volunteer, but try things on just like clothes. And if they don't fit, you take them off and you try something else.
It's not the end of the world, but instead of jumping into it and making a firm life commitment to something, get a taste of it. If you think you want to be a doctor, go hang out in a hospital for a couple days. You might change your mind, And it's better early to experiment with things than later, because later you start making choices and your choices get more refined and more limited.
Courtney Turich: Right. So Rob, what I hear you say is be the best you can be as in yourself, like embrace who you are.
Rob Yonover: For sure.
Courtney Turich: don't be afraid to try new things and take risks. Change is okay. And then make sure you crawl. You walk, you run before you sprint, and there's a reason behind the process.
Rob Yonover: Right, and even in that progression, you might crawl, fall, walk, fall and crawl again, sprint, fall, crawl, walk.
Now, once you stop crawling, that doesn't mean you're not going to crawl again at some time in your life, and we've all had tough moments where you have to revert to crawling. Such a great, no, it's
Courtney Turich: a great point. I'm glad you brought that back around because we've all crawled, we've all walked, we've fallen so many times, especially us who have that entrepreneurial spirit.
That's what keeps us going.
Rob Yonover: when I was in high school, I took a class that blew my mind. It still changed my life. And it was like, Freshman English or literature and the guy made us read all these classic books and the thing that really struck me was that all these books blew my mind because I wasn't much of a reader early on Emerson and Thoreau self-reliance.
And on Walden Pond, nature. So those two things, and I've always been a solitary nature person. That's where I go to revive myself, to think deeply. The kids and the people are too connected with all these devices, which. I've been railing against it since the first Apple phone. Everyone's saying how great it is.
I'm saying, no, this is the worst thing that's ever happened. And I think I've been validated because they're horrible. I mean, they're good if you know how to use them and you're disciplined enough to use them, but we're too connected, you need to learn about yourself. Be able to rely on yourself and be in nature with yourself.
That's why, again, young people are always like, Oh, I got a bond here. I got to work with groups. You have to learn to be alone because ultimately every big decision you make, you kind of make it alone. So you have to revert back to being self reliant
Courtney Turich: for sure. And Rob, I can't believe we're coming to an end here. And when people, if they want to reach out to or find you, where do they go?
Rob Yonover: Rob, y'all know, or just my name, I'm on Instagram and Facebook and LinkedIn and. Amazon has See Rescue Streamer, or Rob Yonover on Amazon has my books. I wrote a bunch of little books. Hardcore Inventing, Caregiver's Survival Guide, Hardcore Health, and Brainstorm Islands, which is a children's book. Just drop me a line. You know, I'm not the greatest social media guy, but I'm there. You can find my stuff.
Courtney Turich: Rob, we'll make sure to have all your products in the show notes. So if you want to see what Rob has invented and the books he's written, definitely put the notes there.
And then Rob, before we leave, is there any one last thing you want to leave us with today?
The Key to Momentum in Life and Business
Rob Yonover: Well, think that again, there are so many little colloquialisms about charging, you have to charge forward, that's kind of like falling back. The whole thing is momentum, right? And the attitude of you charge, like in surfing, you know, the whole thing about surfing is dropping in and the bigger the waves get, the scarier it is.
So to take the drop, you've got to go. you got to paddle hard and not be scared. I call it board speed and ball weight and ball weight is, it can be women too, but you got out of the board speed to get fast enough to charge into what you're trying to do. And then of the balls, or guts, let's say board speed and guts to go.
You've got to go. in surfing, you're not afraid because you fall into water. Typically there's a reef and you can drown, but still it's not like concrete. But in life and business, you have to charge hard again, you have to train for it. You don't just go out to the pipeline and think you're going to take over the peak, just like in life.
If you want to become an inventor, you have to do the homework. You got to know your industry. So before you can charge in, you have to train. And that's where people lose their traction. They're not disciplined enough to train. and again, back to self-reliance. Yourself has to say, you need to do this, this, and this.
To try this and even if you fail at least you gave it a good shot just like shark tank. How much prep did you do before you went on? You didn't just go there and do it, right? And then while you're in it You're trained because you've gone through so many iterations of pitching that when something goes wrong, you revert back to something else.
So all about experience, you know, the only way to get experience. To go for experience. So,
Courtney Turich: Well, Rob, thank you for today and everyone keeps pushing forward. You got this. And as always be bold, be confident, be you. And thanks for being here today.
