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Our guest today is an Inventor Speaker, Coach, Author, Radio Host, and proud Husband and Father. He has written two books, You And Your Big Ideas and Invention Secrets Revealed. He has his own successful podcast called Got Invention Radio, where he interviews, resources for inventors as well as other successful inventors, and is also the host of the Got Invention Show. This house where our kitchen and lifestyle interventions have been featured retailers across the Us, including Walmart Target and Home Goods, and have been shown on QVC. His latest invention is the Paper Towel Topper, a new product that will keep the top of paper towel rolls from getting covered in water, food, and other dirt is the chief invention officer at inventorsmart.com.
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turnkey solution to make your dreams a real. further ado. Let me introduce the one and only Brian Fried
Thank You very much, Greg. You forgot one of the most important things
Let's hear it.
I have to qualify to be on your show. Thanks for telling everybody I'm over 40.
Sorry. I wasn't going to bring that up.
I'm 47. I'll be 48.
it happens to the best of us.
Thank you for having me, Greg. I appreciate it.
My pleasure now, can you take a few moments and fill in the gaps from that intro, Brian, and bring us up to speed with what's going on in your world today.
Absolutely. So I'm an inventor myself. I have over a dozen patents I've, licensed my inventions, which means that I earn royalties from them. Some I've manufactured. So I work with the factories. I make them and I have my own distribution and sell them that way. Um, and I've been doing the same thing for other inventors for over 15 plus years now.
And like you mentioned, I've authored a couple of. Um, I've been on QVC for, uh, about three years, uh, with my own inventions and representing other inventors products, um, as an on-air guest, uh, as well. And I've. Uh, hosted those radio shows. So one who was Got Invention Radio. Now it's Got Invention show and, um, and basically it's inventors.
When you have an idea, you want to promote it, got invention, shows the place to be out there and get the word out. I also have a National Inventor Club I've been running Inventor clubs for over 15 years. When COVID hit, I ended up converting it cause I was inviting everybody around the country.
Anyway, online, I might as well invite everybody nationally. So I changed it to the National Inventor Club where, uh, I've had some really great guests on there and continue to have it. And it's a really great community for inventors, entrepreneurs, startups, uh, resources for inventors or entrepreneurs to be involved.
Great information out there and really have a nice lineup and support staff, uh, to really give people information, to keep them moving forward with their ideas or their businesses. And there's plenty of other, other things. I have some of my inventions here. Uh, I'd love to share maybe some tips and tricks on when you do have an idea, um, what to do, but, uh, thank you again for, uh, fabbing me.
My pleasure. Now, did you come from an entrepreneurial or inventors background at all? Did anyone in your family while you were growing up, invent anything or have a business of.
Hmm. I was the type of kid that would ask a lot of questions, curious, uh, and look how things were made and kind of like sit back and watch what people do. How they handle themselves. And I was just that kind of guy, uh, but in a, in a normal way, I think. Um,
but, um, as I was progressing in my life, um, I started to realize that the things that I was coming up. We're from things that kind of annoyed me. And maybe I saw that word being done a certain way that could be done differently. So I started to jot them down and from a marketing perspective, think about how others might use my idea, and if it's something that's relevant and going to make me money in the market.
And then I kind of just started to sift through there and cut a bunch of them out and keeps them on on there. And then I started to work on them. And, uh, as I worked on them, some were, uh, winners somewhere partial, winning, you know? Okay. Some didn't work out at all, but I ended up just building a portfolio of intellectual property and products that I've licensed and manufactured and, and, uh, keep going even just recently, like you mentioned, they came up with, uh, with a product called the paper towel.
Yeah, that just ticks me off because I felt like that that should already have been invented. It was like, why didn't I think of that?
