Disruption Is The New Black: How To Rock Your Vision (Even If It’s Weird AF) — The Ruby Hour With Charleston’s First “Rage Room” Founder, Cole Wadsten (Audio)

Going through a rough break-up? Angry at your business partner/printer/boyfriend/toy poodle named Alfred that keeps pooping on your brand new rug? Have an idea that's a little "out there" and you're scared to launch? Are you a millennial launching a business but you think you’re too young, too inexperienced, too _____ to launch your concept?

If any of this is hitting home, this episode is meant for you.

Meet Cole Wadsten, twenty-something millennial entrepreneur, innovator, and founder of The Break Room: Charleston's first ever "rage room." 

What's a Rage Room, you ask?

It's exactly what you think it is -- A safe place where you go and smash shit. Choose your unique weapon of choice (crowbar, screwdriver, golf club, baseball bat-- you know, the things fantasies are made of) and then proceed to wail on items such as microwaves, box fans, china, TV's; even cars. 

Offering Something A Little Counter-Culture In A Traditional Market

Now, I needn't remind you we're in good ole Charleston, South Carolina -- a land laden with rich Southern tradition and heritage (which overall is a beautiful, beautiful thing), but at times can come with an undercurrent of conformity. So we've got parts of our community still dripping with nepotism, small-minded thinking, and strong resistance to anything considered "different;" then we've got Cole Wadsten over here launching a business that freely encourages letting out not-so-southern-charming emotions while listening to Ludacris. Think he may have ran into a little resistance?

If you have a trail you're meant to blaze in your heart, this episode is for you. 

 

Low on time? Jump to the sections of the episode that appeal to you! Be sure to share in the comments your favorite take away!

1:00 How did The Break Room get started?

1:49 What exactly is a Rage Room?

2:40 What are the biggest take-aways

6:15 Why this doesn't encourage aggressive behavior.

8:42 Instrument of Choice- What you can choose to smash with

10:10 What are the responses from the public from opening a “rage room”?

11:25 How did this idea come about?

14:25 What other things are you up to?

15:10 How do you find and choose people to train who will facilitate the Rage Room?

16:45 The Key to running a tight ship- Don’t Be Weird!

17:50 “Don’t let your food get cold looking at someone else’s plate”

19:10 What is a moment in your life that has contributed most to where you are now?

21:00 Staying in your lane as a millennial: How to avoid getting caught comparing your life with your millennial friends

25:45 Being a twenty-something in 2020:

26:35 1990s Babies - How to cope with being in "young" and in business

27:49 The one question you should be asking yourself about running your business as a twenty-something year old.

31:00 Playing on Neopets in 2002 as a 12 year old compared to sexting in 2020

33:28 How being young in business is an ASSET, not a liability, and the power of picking up the phone

34:00 the most sought after skillset for the next generation's workforce

37:00 Ditching your phone in social situations, and mocktails: The lost social skillset and upcoming trends of the millennial generation

38:30 Why YOLO is bullshit: Stewarding your life well

39:05 What’s been your journey having a disruptive company in a culturally conservative market?

42:00 What advice do you have for someone who has their own disruptive idea?

46:30 How to find Cole Wadsten and Rage Charleston?

Visit The Break Room and schedule your smash party online or social -- @ragecharleston or on their website: https://www.tbrcharleston.com