Investors & Operators Ep. 14 Jason Reid, Serial Entrepreneur & Founder of ChooseLife.org
We go deeeeeeeep in this episode about the life of an entrepreneur, managing crisis, losing a child, and finding hope through taking action.
Jason is a serial entrepreneur, has been a board advisor to 50 companies, and coaches CEOs. He is also the founder of ChooseLife.org, which he started in 2018 after losing his 14 year old son to suicide. Their goal is to end teen suicide by 2030.
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Jason is the co-founder of National Services group. NSG is the majority owner of College Work Painting and Empire Construction and Painting. College Works employs college students to paint residential homes across the USA. Operating in thirty states, CWP employs over 2,000 people at the peak of its season every year. CWP is the largest exterior non-franchise residential repaint contractor in the country. Empire operates across the western USA and works with HOA, apartment and commercial clients to fulfill their reconstruction and painting needs. Empire employs over 400 people year round.
As a serial entrepreneur, Jason has also been an owner in other businesses over the last 25 years. A few of them include: Platinum Capital, a leading national mortgage bank; Codeit Computing, a software firm with offices on the east and west coasts which did business with the likes of Cisco and the United Nations; New Image, a Home Depot installation partner covering over 900 stores nationwide. And there are others.
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Jason has been a Vistage member for 18 years as well as a member of YEO, YPO and currently WPO This has put him on the board of advisors for over 50 businesses ranging in size from a few million in sales to well over a billion.
Balance
In the last ten years, Jason has earned his Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do. He has also competed in Ironman races around the world, competing in seven 70.3 Ironmans, as well as two full books, and is currently working on his sixth screenplay. He enjoys playing guitar, cooking and spending time with his wife of 25+ years and children.