Jeff Krauss
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129 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Feb 2025
Jeff Krauss’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm doing great, man. Thank you so much for having me. How are you doing?
By the way, first and foremost, thank you for having me on today. And that actually means a lot for you to say that kind introduction. As far as my because and my why, I have always just adapted the mindset of it's never over till it's over. It's just not. There's a difference between saying, okay, you know what?
This project isn't going to suit my needs because I am not able to accomplish X, Y, and Z. And the reason I can't accomplish X, Y, and Z is because it's not fitting within what I can do, whatever the obstacles are, So I will push as hard as I can to make those obstacles disappear. But if they don't disappear and you get knocked down, just get back up. Find another project. Everybody has talent.
Everybody has motivation. The thing that I see is that people get knocked down. And then when they get knocked down, what they do is they say, oh, the world is going to look at me this way. Or whatever the case is, whatever their reasoning is that they're disappointed in themselves. But the truth is, is that Rome wasn't built in a day. That's right.
So you just have to look at it like, hey, I'm going to take my strengths, whatever they are, and apply them toward things that I can do, that I'm confident that I can do, that I enjoy doing. maybe delegate some other things to some other partners. Just keep it moving. I mean, not every project is going to work out, unfortunately. Absolutely. You just have to keep going.
But it's mental resiliency. That's right. It's mental. Right. Because again, half of the battle is mental.
Here's the thing. The way I look at it is you have many different facets of the event, as you said. You have the guests. You have the people that are working the event. And then you have the talent or the DJ or the speaker or whatever type of event it is. And then you have the miscellaneous stuff, right? So the way I look at it is this. Why would anybody want to do an event with me
come to an event that i'm producing or have any involvement if they're not treated well why would they that's the way that i look at it why would they come back to me why would they refer me to people why would they they wouldn't so my my philosophy is make the experience great
for everybody involved if you can just nail that and people are like hey you know what i'm excited to do this event with jeff i'm excited to work the event i'm excited to attend the event that's that's where the the magic is in my in my opinion i mean that's how you grow long-term businesses by having long-term relationships and if you have long-term relationships
People will remember that because you gave them an experience that is much deeper than them just going or working any event.
That means a lot for you to say. That's very...
Kind of as a dare in a way. I was online at a nightclub with a group of my guy friends. I'm personally a little bit introverted or actually very introverted at times. My friend, on the other hand, is very extroverted. And we're just standing there and promoter comes up and cuts the line, walks in with all these girls, right? So my friend says to me, Jeff, that's what we got to do.
We got to become promoters. And I said to him, no. Oh, I don't want to do that. Like, no. So he kept pressing me for weeks. Jeff, you don't understand. This could be so cool. We can make all this money and we can cut the line and meet all these girls. And like for weeks and weeks, he was pressing me. And so finally I said to him, okay, look, I will try this once if possible. I like it.
We'll do it again. But if I don't like it, don't bother me about this ever again. So I call my sister. She knew a promoter, connected us. We start calling everybody in our phone book. My friend is calling people from tennis camp from 10 years ago that he hadn't spoken to in years. I'm calling people from my college. You know, we're calling everybody we know to come out to this party.
And now I'm underage at the time. Show up. I show my ID and the bouncer immediately looks at it and says, this isn't you. Now, mind you, I've never had a problem getting into a nightclub before this. Just so happens, first time I'm throwing a party, the bouncer realizes that I'm underage. Go figure. So my partner goes inside. He's ranting and raving to the people running the place.
My partner and I busted our butts to fill this place, and he's going crazy to get me in, right? So finally, one of the people that's running the place says, look, we'll let him in, but he cannot drink. So I said, fine, no problem. I don't have to drink. No problem. I go in. It's a zoo outside of people trying to get in. Some of our friends didn't get in.
My sister came and she brought a whole bunch of friends with her. But one of the I guess the bouncer or the door guy knew one of her friends. So they didn't count that for us. And it was just one of those things where we didn't get paid.
because they said we didn't bring anybody that or whatever or we didn't bring anybody that paid or whatever their excuse was and we got into a whole fight with the promoter and whatever but the way i looked at it was the people that got inside had such a great time they were asking when's the next one and that that made me feel really good that i was able to putting the the the
the internal drama and money and all that stuff aside, what really made me feel good was that everybody had a great experience. So I said, look, we'll try this one more time, but I want to do this in a venue with another promoter that it's not the hottest place in Manhattan and we could just
do our thing, and we're going to have the rope that we need, the tools that we need to succeed and learn the business. I found somebody, Donnie and Tina. They taught me a lot of stuff. They gave me a lot of leeway, do whatever, and I just fell in love with it. However, as the years went on, I did open up a lounge that I was a partner in that didn't Work out in the end, which is fine.
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