Struggling to Focus While Writing? Adam Leeb’s "Freewrite" is the Solution | #Marketing - Ep. 118
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Do you have a funnel but it's not converting? The problem 99.9% of the time is that your funnel is good but you suck at selling. If you want to learn how to sell so your funnels will actually convert, then get a ticket to my next Selling Online event by going to sellingonline.com slash podcast. That's sellingonline.com slash podcast. This is the Russell Brunson Show. What's up, everybody? Welcome back to the show. I've got a really interesting special guest today that I'm excited to introduce. This is actually the first time I had a chance to meet him personally, but I've been a fan of his products for a long, long time. In fact, you can see a couple of them here on my desk. If you're watching on YouTube or Spotify or whatever, if you're audio only, you can imagine I'm holding something that looks kind of like a typewriter, but there's no monitor.
And it's this interesting little thing that I'm kind of mildly obsessed with. And so we've got the founder and the creator, Adam Lieb, who's here today to talk to him about what he created, why he created it. He's got a really fascinating story as an entrepreneur, but also this is a product that I think a lot of us entrepreneurs need to be using to help you to get more done, to be a better writer, and a whole bunch of other stuff. So Adam, how are you doing, man? I'm awesome. Thanks for having me on Russell. I really appreciate it. Yeah. I'm excited to get to know you a lot better. Um, I heard that before you built this whole thing, you were like one of your earlier entrepreneur journeys was like actually creating supplements and things like that.
Is that correct? Yeah, that is. I've had an interesting route on my entrepreneurial journey. We can talk about that more if you're interested. But yeah, I mean, I actually studied engineering and product design and always knew I'd come back there. But I ended up going into corporate finance. So I worked on Wall Street as a banker. I quit that job after four years. That was during the recession, but this is kind of shocking to people. I actually really enjoyed that job. It was an incredible experience and wouldn't trade it for anything, but I knew it wasn't going to be my career. And yeah, I started my first like real company after that, a little bit after that. And it was a nutritional supplement brand, but it kind of, it did okay.
But really it was, that was my sort of like business school almost. The test, yeah. I think it cost about as much as business school and learned maybe better lessons. I'm not sure, but definitely less partying than business school. And the result was that I kind of, that business stalled and The funny thing is that I really just wanted to make something with my hands. And so I'd come back to this idea that I had had just coming out of a conversation about making a distraction-free writing tool. And I was never thinking that I would turn this into a company even. It was just like, oh, this is kind of a fun concept, kind of marrying an e-ink screen and a keyboard, a really nice mechanical keyboard, and then focusing on the drafting process so that people could just kind of get their words out.
Kind of like a Kindle for writing almost. And that was just like stuck in my head. And I'm like, I should just make this. It'll be fun to make. That was it. That was as far as I thought about it. And here I am over 10 years later after many successful crowdfunding campaigns, almost a billion words written on our products worldwide since we started. And yeah, it's just been a wild, wild journey.
What inspired Adam Leeb to create a distraction-free writing tool?
So interesting. When you said you had a convert, do you remember like the conversation you had when you first had the idea or who you were talking to or when that situation was more like a lot of conversations over time is where the idea kind of sprouted up from? It was one specific conversation with a friend of mine named Patrick who ended up being my co-founder. He was telling me about some software that he used to help him stay focused while writing. And so he's a software developer.
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