This Is How He Makes $1M a Year Selling Fish
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Sometimes the best opportunities come from the places you least expect. For Ty Walker, it was trout farming. Like a lot of people chasing a better life, he and his wife were simply trying to put food on the table.
At the time, they were raising livestock on his grandparents’ land and doing everything they could to get by. Then one unexpected phone call changed their direction: an old trout farm in Newcastle was up for sale.
They knew almost nothing about trout fishing or running a fish farm. No investors. No safety net. Just savings, a big risk, and a belief that maybe this could change their future.
The early years were brutal. They cleaned neglected ponds, learned through expensive mistakes, and went completely broke before they had anything to sell. Ty even worked at a grocery store just to help keep things afloat. There were plenty of moments when quitting would’ve been easier… but they kept going.
In this episode, Ty shares how they built a debt-free seven-figure business from scratch, why fish farming is nothing like most people think, and how betting on yourself, even when the odds don’t make sense, can completely change your life.
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Timestamps:
00:00 - Start
00:58 - Hatchery from the ’30s
02:11 - A 100,000 fish and counting
03:03 - Daily routine
04:01 - Preserving a century-old tradition
04:38 - One unexpected opportunity
05:10 - Blessing in disguise
06:15 - Act. Iterate. Do it anyway!
06:51 - More work than you think
07:36 - So, why trout?
08:00 - The only way it could AND should work
09:12 - Hatching eggs
09:39 - The price of not knowing
11:29 - Sweat equity
12:04 - Pond vs. Raceway
12:55 - No pumps needed! Here’s how.
13:40 - What day 1 really looked like
14:08 - Operational expenses
14:51 - Pond maintenance
15:13 - Balance is everything
16:10 - A week in the grind
17:04 - Broke, but at least I had coffee!
18:10 - Fine dining? Yes. Farming? Not so much.
19:22 - Nothing but the best feed
20:31 - Let’s talk numbers!
22:54 - Stop counting pieces. Count bags.
24:07 - Scooping fish at scale
24:48 - Pro-level fish prep
26:11 - It’s all organic!
26:39 - Let the product close the deal
27:06 - A deal 2 years in the making
27:59 - From raw to smoked
29:28 - Expensive doesn’t mean unfair
31:43 - Keeping orders fresh
33:20 - What you fear defines your success
34:33 - Moment of truth
37:46 - Outro
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