Kyle Guilfoyle - Marketing Strategist & Creative Leader

Hi, I'm Kyle Guilfoyle.

I sing, host a podcast, and run a bartending school called Nimble Bar Co.

I’m on a mission to equip as many people as I can with the skills of entrepreneurship.

If you want something bad enough, and have no choice, you learn how to fight.
Getting hit by an 18-wheeler at 10 years old was a good way to get a fighting spirit for life
When you can’t go anywhere for 4 months, you get good at being by yourself and thinking.
I became dangerously good at N64… And flirting with nurses.
Shoutout to my mom, doctors, and Make A Wish for saving my life!

This might be someone’s dream. It was my nightmare. And I didn’t even know it.

Raised with the idea that post-secondary school was the ultimate ‘ticket’ in life, I obliged.

I got into a good school and enrolled in its BA program. After one year, I realized I wasn’t learning anything I could apply.

I grew up singing in choirs, so I auditioned at the school’s music program, and got in.

“Now I’ll be learning a SKILL!” I thought.

While in music school, I started working in bars.

Enamored by the idea that the bar is a stage—one on which you could make great money—I became obsessed.

I would take the bus from Montreal to Toronto for auditions. I wasn’t thinking about my music. I was watching cocktail videos on YouTube.

I’ve done most things the hard way. Starting my business was no exception.

(I like to think this makes me a better teacher)

We made a nice logo, website, got a trailer, shoes… Basically everything except figure out what we were actually selling.

Takeaway: It does not matter how, just start making the switch from consumer to producer today.

Not sure this will ever change, but I begin each day by reading and writing. I share my best findings in my fortnightly newsletter.