Driven & Co.

Marcus Sheridan, president at The Sales Lion and partner at River Pools and Spas joins host Justin Gray in this episode of Driven: How Did I Get Here?". What did you want to be when you grew up? I wanted to be a football coach. When I got to college I wanted to be a gym teacher.  I realized if I was going to support my family, that salary probably wouldn't cut it. So I ended up majoring in Spanish and minoring in physical education. After college, I went home where I grew up and where two of my buddies had opened a pool company. To make a long story short, I became a third partner in the company and it became River Pools. No one ever says they want to be a pool guy, but that's exactly what I ended up becoming.  What's the background of River Pools? We started the company in 2001. Things were going okay until the market collapsed in 2008. There was a period in early 2009 where we were all overdrawn on our accounts. We had 16 employees that were just sitting around. We met with business consultants wh