Joining me all the way from New Zealand is the founder of GLUZ. GLUZ as in you bring together a community, a tribe. GLUZ, it's a mobile sports app that I've just started. I've also just started GLUZ Tech, which is an AI automation innovation for small businesses, businesses alike to drive business into the industry. Why is it important for an entrepreneur to just let loose and have a conversation network. If you're a CEO or if you're a founder of some particular companies, if you're playing sport, you relax, you're out in the open, I think that's where the deals are done. 60-year-old man building his own app. What are you doing building apps, sir? Age is not a limitation at all. I think for myself, you can see that you can start your entrepreneurship at whatever age. For those people who are young and looking at it now, hopefully I'm inspiring you to say, you know what, I can do that as well. My name's Rudy Moore, host of Living the Red Life podcast, and I'm here to change the way you see your life in your earpiece every single week. If you're ready to start living the red life, ditch the blue pill, take the red pill, join me in Wonderland and change your life. Welcome back to another episode of the Living the Red Life podcast for Inside Success. I'm your host, Ray Gutierrez. Joining me all the way from New Zealand is the founder of Glues. No, no, no, not glues as something you tape together, but glues as in you bring together a community, a tribe. How are you, my friend? Please take a moment, introduce yourself. I'm feeling fantastic. I'm really excited to be here. It's something that I've anticipated for a while since the invite and the introduction by Rudy. So it's been absolutely fantastic. Jason Skipworth. He skipped over his own name. Yeah, so my name is Jason Skipworth. I'm from Gloos. It's a mobile sports app that I've just started. And in addition, I've also just started Gloos Tech, which is an AI automation innovation for small businesses, businesses alike, to drive business into the industry. Very cool. So let's talk about the industry. Before we talk about filming your episode, We are literally in quite a unique paradigm shift. Mastermind week. We did your episode. We did a great photo shoot. And now we're doing a Red Life podcast. It's quite the journey, my friend, all the way from New Zealand. How does that feel sitting in South Beach in Miami at this moment? Well, it's extremely hot. I would say that, right? It's definitely hot. That we're not used to. Although I am from New Zealand, but we do live in London. I've been in London for the last 30 years plus. And again, the weather's not so good there, but it's getting better. Well, your ultimate why was you were looking for golfing buddies. I got to ask before I begin, what is the difference between playing golf in London versus playing golf in Miami? Is there any difference? I think from a golfing perspective, probably not. There are some beautiful courses there, but there's also some stunning courses in the U.S. as well. Right on. But what I do is that I look at people who are looking for golf, to look for partners, but also to do it anywhere in the world. So if you're on a business trip and you're in Miami, you can say, look, I want to look for someone to play golf with. I don't want to play on my own. So I've got the ability to go onto the app and then search for people and say, look, I'm down at this course. Who wants to join me? I speak English. Sure. that'll be fine let's connect connecting and it's all about eccentric extravagant places to connect being born and raised in miami i can tell you tons of stories but on the golf course entrepreneurs you know they all like to talk shit you know they all like to challenge each other real business is happening on this golf course you know i i used to work at playstation take a shot every time i say that on a podcast and day two the ceo jack treden huge golfer goes i'm in trouble i was playing golf with my buddy, the CEO of GameStop, and I'm going to put him out of business because I've got to launch PlayStation Network. And they're boys. Talk about the conversations that happen in these golf courses and who there why it important Why is it important for an entrepreneur to just let loose and have a conversation and network I totally agree. I can remember a time when I was working for a company and there was a multi-million pound deal that was going on. And we all had our part to play on who we wanted to have as the vendor into our business. But I remember that the deal was done on a golf course in Denver. And again, I think it just looks at what people do when they're relaxed. And even if you're a CEO or if you're a founder of some particular companies, if you're playing sport, you relax, you're out in the open. I think that's where the deals are done as well. So how does one go from the golf course to building an app? And I don't mind you bragged about this on your interview. 60, 60 year old man building his own app. What are you doing building apps, sir? absolutely i think when i think about it i'm i'm thinking yeah so you're 60 let's make a mobile app yeah age is not a limitation at all i think for myself you can see that you can start your entrepreneurship at whatever age sure for for those people who are young are looking at it now hopefully i'm inspiring you to say you know what i can do that as well and also a lot who are my age why not start that so it's yeah age is not a limitation at all but to do a mobile app though there is a process you need to go through you do need to filter and screen all of the mobile app developers and where do you start because there's there's a whole range of people who say yeah i can do this you know it's going to cost you 10 grand another one was that's going going to cost you 20 grand, et cetera, et cetera. So what do you do for the butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers? I am here to be able to help people on making that choice rather than just stepping into an unknown. It sounds like the number one challenge of every entrepreneur is they crawl so you can run. How does that feel to be working on a groundbreaking app that is a simple simple idea but yet it's going to help and network so many folks that thought that they were outdated because they didn't know how to use an app yeah i think it it was it was the thought that i that i did but when i was actually playing on the golf course and i was playing on my own and um i'm a person who is quite outgoing so i can go up to people and i can ask them you know do you mind if I join you in a two ball, three ball, et cetera, et cetera. I think having a mobile app gives the opportunity for people who are not so outgoing, that allows them to be able to sit behind an app and have this opportunity on your terms, not someone else's terms. So if you are a little bit shy, you can say, you know what, I'm looking to play golf with somebody. I'm not that good. Maybe I can look at someone that is on the same type of caliber as I am. Why don't you come and join me? I think that was my vision. So you mentioned filters. Like I said earlier, we're live on Instagram. Instagram just launched something that Snapchat's been doing where you can find your friends on a Google map. Talk about some of the cool features that your app brings that only golfers or folks that would appreciate your design philosophies would admire. Absolutely. I think one of the main things I wanted to function on was having a community hub. It's a feature that we have on the Glues mobile app. What that does, it allows people who are either fitness instructors or gym owners who have their own members, but they don't have a platform. So Glues provides that platform. You can go on that, you can brand your own logo onto it, you can become the administrator, and this is where the ambassador program comes in. This is something that we're very, very keen on ensuring that we can get ambassadors in any location in any city or town in the world What that does it allows your own community to be part of it You can invite your members and you can close the group as well If you want it to be just a closed group and then you can do all the socials on there You can message, you can video, you can do all the pictures, take pictures, etc. That's a feature that I wanted to sort of build and it's trending. These things are in mobile apps at the moment. If you've got a social element to it, a lot more people, even from the ranges of 20 to 30 years old, that's what they're looking for. They don't want to go into an app and then go out to WhatsApp and text somebody out there. WhatsApp's a closed group. You can't... Exactly. Because you can't expand out of that. There's nobody else that you can talk to except for the ones in your WhatsApp. What we do is it allows it to exposure to anybody. So we have over 60 sports on the mobile app. So anyone who is into cycling, for example, in your location, the notifications are for everybody. So people can join in. Very cool. Talk about notifications. Notifications can be very helpful, but also very annoying. What are your notifications like? What do golfers or sports folks that are on your app get notified about? Walk me through this process. I wake up and I want to play a sport and what happens? Absolutely. And I think it's important to allow people to be notified. So what we do on the Glue Sports app is that if you and I like golf, we're in the same location, we're in Miami, we're both subscribed to it. I'm looking at playing some golf course two or three miles away from us. I'm not too sure who you are as well. So I will set up an event and I will say, this is the golf course that I want to play. This is the time. I will then post that on. It sends the notifications out to anybody in the location. It sends them out. It'll ping up on your mobile app through Gloos and it'll say, listen, Jay's got a game. This Saturday, do you want to join in? Yeah, bring it on. That's the notification comes up. When you're interested in that, you can say, yeah, I want to do that. It automatically puts that notification into your mobile phone calendar. It allows you. So it's already there. So when the time comes, if it's a Saturday, half an hour before your calendar will ping and say, Jay's got a golf game. Oh, yeah, I remember that. Okay, I'm going to come. Also notify me as well to say, you're interested, ready to play. I'm going, great. Right on. We're on. We're on. I was going to say, is there a chart system? Is it gamified? Is there rankings? Everyone likes to be competitive, clearly in a sports app. How do you keep folks on the app rating each other? Is there a point system? Talk about this. That's a good question. And moving forward, that's something that Galoos is absolutely looking forward to do. You're welcome. There's lots of things that you can do for scoring. I mean, you can start looking at prizes, you know, for example, if you do… Well, I want to play with amateurs or novice or pros, or I want to take a snowboard on a black three diamond. Absolutely. And then you can throw in prizes as well. Let's show you go and have a game and say whoever wins this game, get a box of ball. Right. Or come over for skiing and show us your app that your glues member get 10% off and it will track you with something unique and you get a unique avatar with something here and boom, boom, boom. yeah dude and keep the ascension going and there's also some expansion you can do with clubs as well so yeah for sure if i'm going to push traffic to these golf clubs then golf clubs can say you know what if you send us 10 people we'll have the limit of the person coming for free right on i want to talk about branding because i'm i'm more creative uh than authoritarian Orange. Why orange? What's the deal with the orange? Well, firstly, I think orange is a very, very warm color. For me it also creates some type of energy as well It sort of it bright but it also creates the energy And we wanted Galoo brand to be orange to show people that it an energetic thing And it's related to sports, right? People could see that. That was the main reason. But yeah, sunshine, all that. So we're in Miami, right? I was going to say, you're probably hotter than you, Phil, because you're in a red room with a lot of bills behind you and you're an orange. Absolutely. But how does it feel that you're clearly, you're literally on fire, sir. You've got quite the momentum. I'm excited for you to head back to London. What are you going to tell your friends when they see you with an extra bit of a tan? Well, I do have a natural tan as well. Yes, you do, sir. It was very fun to light you. I'm not making that. Yeah, it's been fun here. And with the mastermind stuff with Rudy, there's so much to learn. I would highly recommend anybody to be involved, reach out, but it's been an immensely great, great time in there. And also you're meeting other entrepreneurs as well. Oh, yeah. So we're all feeding off each other. We're all talking to each other. We're all networking. We're also putting lots of information out of the seminars as well. And meeting Rudy was fantastic. Right on. Yeah. I call him my baby brother. Love the dude. and it's quite an honor to take the helm and kind of ride the ship while he's out and hosting the Red Life podcast because this is kind of where the red hashtag red began so it's quite the honor let's talk about inside success we filmed your legacy makers episode what are we going to learn in this 22 minute epic give us a teaser absolutely you're going to learn my journey my journey from when I first started I mentioned earlier about the idea of looking at the mobile up and stepping through that process all the way through. It's something that I feel that anyone can do at any time in their careers. I've had a very long career working for established companies, meeting great people, lifelong friends along the way. But as a person, there's something in you to say, you know what, there's time in my life where I feel like I want to do something for me. I want to do something and show the world case what I can do. With all the knowledge I've had over all the years is an arson of energy and experiences to be able to create. I'm a creator as well. Right on, dude. I mean, I do love it. So the legacy really is to help people look at health, well-being through the app and through Gloos Tech, extend that under the glue's umbrella by looking at automation, AI automation, using our AI agents. So I'm really excited about that part as well. I was going to say, I can dive into AI and talk about it forever. That would be a completely different podcast and a completely different set. But I'll stop us there. How can folks find your app? How can folks connect with you directly? Absolutely. So I'm on Apple Store and I'm on Google Store. Yes, so the app through Gloos, you can download that. We have a website. We have a landing page, gloos.com. Gloos is a name that I decided to use because of gluing things together. But because the name Gloo, G-L-U-E, has been taken and domain names taken, whatever. So I wanted to create a name that's a talking point. so g l l u z can be called gloves or whatever but it's glues.com and that's what i wanted to do is have something that is unique like uber or etc sure sure sure right on brother so what's that dot com one more time glues.com and glues tech.com is what i'm also very excited about i'm excited for you glues tech.com sounds very exciting my friend jay such an honor your time and energy That was awesome. Thank you very much. For another Red Live podcast and for Inside Success, I am Ray Gutierrez.
