Veteran Trees
In this episode, we talk to Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate.
He has made stunning commissions for big organisations such as Edgar Brothers and the British MoD, private customers in special forces and elite military units, the US military and the wider veteran-owned business and enterprise community
We discuss how organic word-of-mouth has helped his business grow, the power of LinkedIn and Instagram, the importance of research and development, optimising the production process and managing customer communications.
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00:00:01 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hi, I'm Chris, founder, senior brand designer and growth marketing strategist at House of hiatus brand Growth Studio, who wants to document innovative and disruptive ideas from successful small to medium sized enterprises. Tell startups to get strong market position as quickly as possible. In this episode, we talked to Dan Harper Jones, a former Royal Marine reservist.
00:00:21 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Royal Signal Soldier and the founder of veteran trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts, and naturally felled wood.
00:00:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And slate. He has made selling commissions for big organisations such as Edgar Brothers and the British MOD, and a wider, better known business and enterprise community who discuss how organic word of mouth has helped his business grow. The pair of LinkedIn and Instagram and managing customer communication.
00:00:57 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Hey, Dan, mate, it's nice to finally meet you after talking online for so long.
00:01:03 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Mate, how are you doing?
00:01:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I I'm doing fantastic. It's I'm I'm. I'm still on the come down to be honest. From my my recent ventures, being DSI.
00:01:14 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:01:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And and and that's kind of snowballed into something I've only dreamt about.
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Hmm.
00:01:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And it's it's, yeah, it's just trying to get a grasp on everything.
00:01:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:01:30 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Organise, you know, sort out the admin and obviously daily life and family, you know, throw, throw that.
00:01:33 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:01:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:01:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Into the mix.
00:01:39 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, mate. Well, I'll tell you what I've I've I've got real bad FOMO from seeing everyone going to DSEI on, like social media and and LinkedIn and stuff that I was like, I've missed a massive trick here. It's my my girlfriend's birthday the same week. So I'm like, right, I need to prioritise her, her birthday. And then I was like, I was like, it seems to be the biggest DSC I ever so.
00:01:59 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The next ones in Japan. So I'm like, right, I'm going to start making plans.
00:02:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
To go to Japan, then into east.
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Yeah.
00:02:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, I I I didn't physically go.
00:02:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
One, I don't necessarily like London.
00:02:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's a bit too crowded for me, but it was. Oh, I was fortunate that Edgar Brothers had commissioned me to do to do a piece.
00:02:13 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:02:24 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. So it was very, very cool. So.
00:02:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:02:27 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Maybe just just before I'm, I realise it might might not be some. Some listeners might not actually understand.
00:02:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Well, that's important. Can you just tell me a little bit about more about the business? Like where did the idea for veteran trees come from and what what actually?
00:02:41 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Is it cause? Yeah.
00:02:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
OK, so when our.
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Right.
00:02:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Got out. I sort of moved back down to Poole and that that's where half my family's from and I jumped into a security business to help out. And Oppo and I was pretty shocked on how.
00:03:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
A standard security business, whether it's mobile, static, whatever, and how they.
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Yeah.
00:03:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Perform is quite shocking, especially if somebody has just left the military and within about six months I I was sick of it because I got screwed over on my resettlement, so I wanted to do locksmith of course, but they were like I'll we've handed the chip in too late. Why don't you do Dorman?
00:03:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:03:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Which I laughed at cause I'm 5 foot five on a good day with combat high heels. Yeah, you know and.
00:03:34 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's.
00:03:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In was CCTV and things like that and I just wasn't interested in it.
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Yeah.
00:03:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So after about six months, I know it's like my hands and feet start getting webbed from, you know, staying down pool too long.
00:03:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:03:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So I I popped smoke and moved up to Leicester and then.
00:03:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:03:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Went to college.
00:03:57 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Smashed smashed out two year course in a year. Yeah, whilst working 40 hours I had my first born born all within the same week so it was it was a busy 18 months from, you know, being a nod to then being a.
00:04:07 Speaker 4
Wow.
00:04:17 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Newly qualified tree surgeon.
00:04:20 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And that that was the kind of route which I went because I didn't want to be indoors. I still wanted to be.
00:04:20 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:04:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Physically.
00:04:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Active.
00:04:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But I I needed a new skill, so veteran trees came along after about a year of being a tree surgeon, climbing up, trees swinging around, enjoying my life. And I I just looked at. I was taking down the tree and I was just looking at it going right. It's getting chipped or it's been being split split for firewood.
00:04:32 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:04:40 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:04:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But what does it? What does this particular tree look like on the inside? What could I make from it?
00:04:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So it literally went on eBay 5 LB. Hand Gouges went to B&Q, found the cheapest for sale.
00:04:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:05:07 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Sandy Mouse there was, and that's kind of how it developed, you know, making a handle for a hand saw for another lad that that I knew who he was, a tree surgeon and it.
00:05:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:05:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It went from that to.
00:05:24 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Going back to sort of my roots. So I grew up in a military. I was in the military.
00:05:32 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And that was a big part part of my life. So it's it was looking around and obviously, you know, you've got all the gizzard shots, whether it's veteran owned.
00:05:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:05:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
C You know CCTC and or civilian owned and it's like, what can I do? That's just a bit different.
00:05:48 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:05:54 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because people laser carve, you know, laser engrave and things like that, and there's a big business in that, but that just didn't interest me.
00:06:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And.
00:06:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:06:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Slowly but surely, after about six years of leaving, I just went downhill.
00:06:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So that that's my first sort of.
00:06:15 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Realisation of having PTSD in you know all these other bits and bobs. So I was still getting my fizz in, you know, 10 hours climbing whatever it is.
00:06:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:06:27 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But I just needed to switch off and I found out.
00:06:31 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That doing something with my hands because I'm a very hands on person. I'm not a word. I'm not a wordsmith. You know, I hate writing.
00:06:35 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:06:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Don't particularly like talking. You know, things like that, but it.
00:06:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Just putting in your earphones, listen some tunes and just creating something helped me sort of get out of that first phase.
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Yeah.
00:06:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:06:58 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's it's, it's it's fascinating cause I've seen just for, for people who are listening. Like your your work is is is incredible like it's it's exquisitely kind of carved wood and I think you moved into slate as well now haven't you so you you do use kind of a few different media but the the stuff that I see on your social media and on on your.
00:07:20 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
On on Instagram is is just beautiful works of art, which I think you're saying. This starts off as as kind of like like cap badges and and military stuff. And then you you're able to just kind of expand it out into all sorts of of things after that, weren't you? It's.
00:07:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, it's.
00:07:39 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I've I've I've not been shy in trying something new so.
00:07:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
When I started out and I was using using the scalpel blades or the hang gauges.
00:07:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
To make those lines, I would have to hand draw it or transfer it using that transfer paper. You know all and try trying to provide a visualisation to the person that wanted something made. I was going on word and then.
00:07:59 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:08:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Finding an image and just trying to put it on top of each other and looking at it back now. It was a solution to a problem because some people aren't.
00:08:14 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:08:20 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
They can't visualise something when you use. When you speak to them. So you need and then another means.
00:08:22 Speaker 4
Yes. Yeah.
00:08:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
To go it will look like this, but here's my previous work so you can sort of relate to the two.
00:08:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Compare the two. Yeah, yeah.
00:08:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then that'll be the outcome. So going from that and I I did that for about eight years.
00:08:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes. And in and just developed going from the hand carving to pyrography. So wood burning, I bought my dream lathe, so I was doing wood turning using the wood from the trees that I climbed.
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Uh-huh.
00:08:57 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That were heavily storm damaged or pest diseased. You know things like that. So I was I.
00:09:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:09:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Was.
00:09:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Reusing that material, which would only just get chipped as mulch or being burnt.
00:09:11 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In giving it like another another life, it in essence. Yeah, yeah. And then it was only until.
00:09:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
About two weeks before.
00:09:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
The original COVID opened. I was like my body's shot and I started to get arthritis in both shoulders and I was like, yeah, I think my climbing days are over because I can climb solid for a day. But I need two or three days to recover. So I was like, why don't I?
00:09:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Mm-hmm.
00:09:35 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Here.
00:09:39 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That's yeah.
00:09:44 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:09:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Try and put my hobby which it was at the time.
00:09:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Use my current commissions to flow into.
00:09:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
A business.
00:09:58 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:09:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And I'm not business minded at all. I'm most probably the worst business person out there because all I enjoy is going to my cabin.
00:10:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Creating something being on the phone, speaking to somebody and trying to withdraw more information from them.
00:10:17 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, it's because I've noticed. Looking back, it's my system most probably isn't the most perfect system to run a business, but.
00:10:17 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:10:30 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'm there to provide a unique bespoke custom piece for that person or the business. Yeah. Or as as as a gift. You know, it gives it somebody.
00:10:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So I need that information I need to put that time in with the with the customer. For example you know you, you you message me on LinkedIn and say damn that Globe and Laurel with the dog behind it. I'll see you whooping. How much?
00:10:49 Speaker 4
Yes, yeah, yeah.
00:10:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And they're like when you're free.
00:11:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Give me a bell. We get talking and then all of a sudden I now know.
00:11:02 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:11:07 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That you were for example AML or a PPW one or what whatever it could be some like why don't we put that into that piece?
00:11:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:11:17 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know.
00:11:18 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
So so you you always have a part in the creative process as well because you can see you can see what they're the kind of the end state, the thing they're after. And actually you've got the depth of experience to say this, this is something we also did, which looks pretty cool. And and why don't you think about this as well because that's that's that's what I find when I designed people's logos is that.
00:11:38 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Now come to me with an idea for a logo, for example, and then I'll I'll say.
00:11:42 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's good, but this all this worked for this other customer who's in like kind of a similar a similar sector or like a similar challenger to a scope. So you end up having as a designer as a creator having an input as well into it, which it sounds like you do as well.
00:11:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, definitely. It's because.
00:11:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:11:59 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
If if I.
00:12:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Just.
00:12:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Created a PDF.
00:12:04 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Is somebody really going to sit down and give me the same information or the amount of information?
00:12:13 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In that PDF file and send it back to me. Then they are talking to me.
00:12:16 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:12:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And.
00:12:19
In.
00:12:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I I just find people will open up more.
00:12:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
If I was to make an effort so right, when are you free? And I'll give you a call. You, you know, and it's that flow of conversation and it's that immediate.
00:12:30 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Connection of cause predominantly.
00:12:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
People that I create for are within the military or former in some shape, way or form, and so there's always that connection straight away.
00:12:46 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:12:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And do you normally spend about the 1st 10 minutes bumping your gums, having bantering, you know?
00:12:58
Yeah.
00:13:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, spend debts and and yeah.
00:13:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Look as as we as we had before before with the the head, the headphones. Yeah.
00:13:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it just breaks down all those barriers because I found initially when, for example, a director of a company.
00:13:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Would be interested in peace. I'll be like.
00:13:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'm I'm speaking to a director in blah blah and that kind of built up a barrier between me and them because I wasn't really too sure the time on how I should.
00:13:30 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:13:35 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Professionally up.
00:13:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, and and and come forward with them.
00:13:37 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:13:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But over time, it's just.
00:13:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, I've I've worked with colonels and that's still serving in brigadiers in.
00:13:50 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:13:50 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Just just speak to him like a normal person.
00:13:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know they are.
00:13:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's, you know, that they're ranks within the military.
00:13:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:14:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'm not in the military anymore, you know, but they're interested in my work. They may have seen something. So.
00:14:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, just. But I mean it, it does get me on to actually my my my first question actually is kind of you've alluded to it already, but how how do your customers find you because you mentioned LinkedIn, I've seen you you've got like an incredible your your Instagram profiles almost like a A portfolio but like mine. So I was wondering.
00:14:29 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
How do how do your customers actually reach out to you and and kind of like become aware?
00:14:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Of you. So.
00:14:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's always by word of mouth.
00:14:39 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, very nice. They're awesome.
00:14:40 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Word of mouth. I've never paid for a promo trying to boost the post or anything like that. Everything is organic and when I do a post, whether it's on because I used to be on Twitter, but for some reason my page got taken down. So I'm like, right?
00:14:46 Speaker 4
Save it.
00:14:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:14:59 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'm not gonna invest my time into that.
00:15:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Same. Yeah, it would be fun. Much coming from Twitter either.
00:15:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Fake.
00:15:04 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, Facebook, initially when I started I.
00:15:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I gained all my commissions through Facebook, so like in in 2015, 2016, 17 and then it went from 100% to 0% and I was like, right, I'll still try with Facebook.
00:15:12 Speaker 4
Hi everybody.
00:15:23 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But I'm gonna go into Instagram.
00:15:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And as as you said, it's a, it's a fantastic tool in platform for creators.
00:15:35 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
To be able to show off.
00:15:39 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Their work.
00:15:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That are, you know, like yourself and.
00:15:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:15:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It doesn't matter if it's at the start of the project, the middle or the end, and there's like two months in between it because you can fill it with other things.
00:15:57 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And yes, and and and when I'm doing the post, instead of being that person.
00:15:59 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:16:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Of doing all the hashtags in the world are try and.
00:16:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Only use the relatable hashtags to that piece because there's no point if I did a of Royal Marine piece, there's no point me going #beekeepers.
00:16:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:16:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's there, there's there. There's no connection to that whatsoever, you know, and I've, I've, I've spent the last 18 months, two years.
00:16:22 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:16:26
Yes.
00:16:32 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Uh, predominantly hitting LinkedIn in the way, yeah?
00:16:36 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Huh. Really. So you. Sorry. So. So you you could have switched your focus from Instagram to LinkedIn in the last few years.
00:16:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes, and yeah, predominantly. Now it's LinkedIn where I'll get my Commission through.
00:16:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And I might occasionally get something from Instagram. Very rarely now from Facebook and.
00:17:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, the the.
00:17:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Way that I used it was I just.
00:17:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Opened up a standard profile.
00:17:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then as you do with, you'll receive an e-mail from LinkedIn saying, hey, we'll give you a free month of business.
00:17:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Account. You know, tap this button and you can crack up. So when I first used it, I used it a week before Christmas leave.
00:17:19 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:17:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then a week after.
00:17:32
MHM.
00:17:32 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So I knew whilst people were still at work, they're going to be winding down, they're going to be using LinkedIn.
00:17:39 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:17:40 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
A bit more than there's more business related stuff, but they're going to be looking around and saying, right, I'm just gonna browse ohh Daniel Jones, he's created this. I've not seen him before. Let's give him a follow.
00:17:40 Speaker 4
Good, you're thinking.
00:17:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Well, a connection and then you've got the week during, you know, Christmas week.
00:17:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
People are off.
00:18:02 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:18:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
The board. So they're going to be looking on their mobile phones on these different social media platforms.
00:18:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And that worked really well for myself. So within that two week period I ended up.
00:18:15 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
With I think it was about 15 Globe and Laurel and Duggers to carve up.
00:18:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, just from utilising that three, two or four week.
00:18:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Thing from LinkedIn, so I do that almost every year now. If if if I don't get that free length then I'll just pay for the month and then I'll cancel it. Excuse me.
00:18:36 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:18:37 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Fascinating.
00:18:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So yeah, going back to your question, it is.
00:18:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Word of mouth and using the right hashtags for the piece and then just let in.
00:18:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It you know, being released out into the ether.
00:18:57
Yeah.
00:18:59 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then things like which we've just briefly touched on, DSI and you know there was a write up on that as well as egg brothers and they they were fantastic to work for and that's just opened up more doors now for myself.
00:19:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:19:16 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
With some.
00:19:17 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes, so.
00:19:19 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Oh, sorry, I didn't mean to. It sounds like like collaboration, so collaboration has come from the social media. So people gained like initial awareness of through social media and then people like Edgar Brothers reached out for those collaborations for the piece you made for the is it the the the new rifle announcement? I think wasn't it?
00:19:38 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah. The. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The KS 1, yes.
00:19:40 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So.
00:19:43 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. And that's and that all came essentially kind of originated from social media awareness, I'm guessing then.
00:19:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes. Yeah.
00:19:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes, yes. So it was again LinkedIn.
00:19:54 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And there's a gentleman.
00:19:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That works for Edgar Brothers he connected with myself and said right?
00:20:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:20:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You're you're you. The stuff that you produce is hoof and blah blah. I'm gonna.
00:20:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Pass you on to somebody else.
00:20:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And see if we can get something working. So I obviously had no clue on what was.
00:20:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:20:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Going to be needed and next thing I know, I I I speak with the I'm I'm speaking with the senior manager and it's like, yeah, it's like top secret. It's between us, blah, blah, blah. Nobody else can know.
00:20:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, 'cause, yeah.
00:20:34 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But here's some pictures.
00:20:34 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:20:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Can you make a 3D model of this rifle?
00:20:41 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Awesome. Yes. Wow.
00:20:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So so it it, I think it was over 4-4 or five months.
00:20:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:48 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
The the actual 3D model.
00:20:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Sort of came to fruition fruition because.
00:20:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
They weren't 100% sure on what the MOD wanted as a standard package, so will or will it not come with the suppressor or you know, the RDS on top of the vortex once 10 scope and and and stuff like that. So I had to keep doing little changes.
00:21:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:21:13 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Is over that period and it was literally within two weeks of when I had to hand the piece over.
00:21:20 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
The the the model the model was finalised and then it's like right, I need to get.
00:21:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Cracking.
00:21:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So I I started carving it.
00:21:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then there was a big void within the slate.
00:21:32 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And I try I I try and use the materials natural as possible. So if there's a knot in the woods, I'll leave it in there. I'm not that type of person of let's cut it out and plug it up, you know.
00:21:40 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:21:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And.
00:21:44 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:21:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I I try and leave, leave it as natural as possible, but this void was just too big.
00:21:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Authentic.
00:21:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
For me to do anything about sounds like right bend that. Let's start again.
00:21:54 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:21:57 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And yeah, it it was just a manic sort of week of getting it carved, sanded, finished, dry, brushed, you know, not all this lot but.
00:22:03
Yeah.
00:22:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But yeah, the reception I got from the team up in Macclesfield, it it was, uh, it it.
00:22:16 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's great. It was great and then obviously.
00:22:17 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, it look, I guess it looked, it looked fantastic from from LinkedIn and yeah just you know, I saw the photos of it and I was like that's that's a it's a real win as well because I I know what it's like when you've got like long Lego projects. I come sat on maybe like two logos that I can't like announce or share you know because the.
00:22:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's.
00:22:37 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The company is still, you know, still going through the rebranding and the activation when they want to activate the logo and it's like, and I'm just like I.
00:22:45 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Just wanna tell someone about it, it's.
00:22:48 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Awesome. You know, so yeah, I completely empathise with how much, how hard it is to be.
00:22:52 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I can't say anything, but we're doing something incredible at the moment. So yeah, I mean, I don't know that feels.
00:22:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Especially when the raw marine recruitment video came out and it showed the cares one and then all of a sudden there was that high flight. What the hell is this? I bet it's this and and everything else. And then I I was just sending pictures to mark the senior manager and I was just like, laugh out loud. And he's like, yeah, if you read this.
00:23:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:23:18
That's.
00:23:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And and you know you you just gotta sit back and go right your times come.
00:23:23
Yeah.
00:23:24 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And.
00:23:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, just uh, just concentrate on the project, get it done at a high quality and then we'll we'll go from there.
00:23:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:23:29
Just waiting.
00:23:34 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, I mean it's it's, it's great. It's great advice actually for startups cause this is one of the things we wanted to make the podcast for startups was kind of capturing those moments where it's like it can feel like a never ending battle to get, like your work recognised or, you know, clients in essentially what you're saying there is, is that you will see the.
00:23:55 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The successes from it, just sometimes they just take a long time to to kind of like get realised.
00:24:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, definitely it's.
00:24:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Especially in the creative world.
00:24:07 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because.
00:24:09
Well.
00:24:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
What you do might not be.
00:24:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Aesthetically pleasing to the eye, you know of somebody that's looking at your post.
00:24:18 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:24:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You.
00:24:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, it could be completely out there remit and.
00:24:24 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It it was.
00:24:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Quite a few years ago now I I was sort of asked an open-ended question and a few of the lads were saying, well, why don't you go into still do the military side?
00:24:39 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But do more civilian sort of calves, you know, just everyday normal calves and and I tried it. I did all the social media under a different name, but I was only showing.
00:24:45 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:24:54 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Wood.
00:24:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Products, you know that might have been a bumblebee or a flower or a Green Man face card and things. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I I soon realised after about because I I must have only given it about three or four months.
00:25:01 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:25:03 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Like a complete different audience, isn't it?
00:25:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:25:15 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It was just I.
00:25:17 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Didn't enjoy it.
00:25:19 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:25:20 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I don't mind doing those cars.
00:25:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But day in, day out, it doesn't interest me.
00:25:27 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And that and that shows in your work so.
00:25:27 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:25:30 Speaker 4
Yeah, I agree.
00:25:31 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
From from the get go it's it's finding something that you love and you enjoy doing.
00:25:38 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because if you're gonna start that business.
00:25:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You're putting. You need to put everything into it.
00:25:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:25:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So it's the lack lack of sleep, more time on the job.
00:25:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You, you know, at at one point I was in three different time zones. I was working on some projects in America as well as the UK and then New Zealand and Australia.
00:26:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
How did you work across three times as there? Because I I can just about deal with two at most.
00:26:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's it's finding the the time where the client has got more spare time on their hunt, so if it's at lunch time in Texas, then that's gonna be 18-19 hundred UK time.
00:26:17
Yeah.
00:26:25 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:26:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You, you know? But then in Australia, they're 1012 hours ahead.
00:26:32 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So you know if they can jump on the call.
00:26:35 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
At 9:00 in the evening.
00:26:38 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Then I'm going to get up early doors.
00:26:42
To.
00:26:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Jump on the zoom or you know WhatsApp or signal call. Yeah, you know, so you just make it work if you don't put the time and effort into it, you're not going to reap any rewards from it.
00:26:48 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:26:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You you know, so it's again, it's like I I had major issues last year.
00:26:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:27:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And even maybe the year before with.
00:27:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Shipping out.
00:27:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Commissioned.
00:27:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And they're going missing, or they've been returned back to me after about three or three to six months and things like that. So you've got to be able to again bounce back from that.
00:27:16
Alrighty.
00:27:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And though it puts a spanner in the works because you've already, you're already on. Maybe the second or third Commission after that piece has already been sent out.
00:27:32 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, is.
00:27:33 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But when it hasn't turned up, it's like, right. I've gotta remake that again.
00:27:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because I'd try to remake it. Exactly. Yeah. You know, there's time, material costs and everything else, so.
00:27:39 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And also all the costs and.
00:27:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
On most of them, I've walked away with nothing in the pocket.
00:27:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, but I'd rather that person received what they ordered.
00:27:57 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Then going ohh well, here's a refund, you know, cause that that makes me look like.
00:28:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:28:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I don't give a damn about, you know, the whole project.
00:28:08 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah. And obviously it impacts your impacts your brand as well, doesn't it cause of people, people.
00:28:11 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:28:12 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Trust.
00:28:13 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
To an extent this this is a kind of one of the challenging things that I, you know, I've had to figure out was that you can be, you can be your brand and that people trust the brand and then you, you know, was almost the kind of the.
00:28:27 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The face of it, or the OR the the the push behind it. So I know what you mean. Like it's like you you got you don't feel like you can never let customers down with anything even if that ends up with a disproportionate cost back on on you or the business.
00:28:40 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes.
00:28:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And then, you know, in some cases, I found that they've come back to me.
00:28:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And said right.
00:28:48 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Next project is this.
00:28:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, so it's. I'm, I'm lucky where I've had.
00:28:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I've stayed in touch with.
00:28:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Initially were clients.
00:29:00
Mm-hmm.
00:29:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But now grown into friends.
00:29:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:29:04 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You, you you know so and again it's not all military.
00:29:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But it's E standard units to FS units to uh, uh, firearms police around the country, you know, uh delegates working in embassies, you know, all sorts. So it's a massive range.
00:29:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Furia.
00:29:30 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Fantastic. Where? Where do you? Sorry. Yeah, that's gonna say like the the, the the community is is, is strong across the veterans, isn't it? Like we're both part of a few kind of veteran owned business groups which is I think kind of how how we end up kind of getting to know each other.
00:29:30 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Though.
00:29:47 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
UM.
00:29:49 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
But it's it's. It's cool. It's cool to hear that. It obviously then brings in like elements like that that aren't police, probably other emergency services as well. I'm guessing it's it's we've got a lot in common obviously with the police and fire and and you know kind of.
00:30:05 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Emergency medicine community as well. So I'm guessing you must get maybe commissions from them as well or or interest from them.
00:30:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, definitely. It's I think it's kind of helped with.
00:30:15 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Say the NHS side because my other half she's a nurse and a midwife.
00:30:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So. And she's been doing that for a long, long time now, you know. So if I post something up, she'll share it, which might be in connection to them. You know, it could be that another midwife has got two Frenchies and it's their birthday.
00:30:27 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:30:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Day or it's her birthday. What can the girls get her? Is that right? We'll get her a slate carve of two Frenchies.
00:30:46
Yeah.
00:30:50 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Ohh, I love. I love French cheese.
00:30:50 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Fishing tax.
00:30:54 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, so it anything can always be spun into a product and then it can be solved. You know, it's just that you've got to remain.
00:30:59 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:31:04 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Flexible and being on your feet whilst you're on that call and saying yes, do you want this? But have you thought about this or we could add another element into it which isn't going to look like something off Etsy or you know, some other stuff. This is going to be a.
00:31:14 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
OK.
00:31:21 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:31:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Unique piece and it's just for you.
00:31:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You, you you know, so it's. But yeah, within the veteran sort of owned network, I'm really happy just looking from when I left because that it's been about 1516 years now and and there was nothing that back then you know I struggled I.
00:31:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:41
Yeah.
00:31:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:31:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I was applying for police as an ambulance driver as a paramedic or rejected.
00:31:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Even even in, like telecommunications and stuff like that, which I've I've got all these skills in qualifications for, but yeah, just rejected, rejected on all of them. Hence why I went into tree surgery. But but nowadays it's so easy to find these groups and nine times out of 10.
00:31:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:15 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
If not ten times out of 10 people are very helpful there. You, you, you, you know, and they're there to help this other person potentially find their initial job once they've left the the forces. Yeah, you know.
00:32:18 Speaker 4
Yeah, that's I agree.
00:32:32 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah. Fascinating. I was. I was gonna ask what one thing I wanted to make a connection on was so. So you told me you have an issue. You got into the wood side of things from the tree surgery. And then we've. We spoke about your slate sort of thing. So I'm. I'm guessing you kind of bought the you said you bought the lathe you then.
00:32:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:32:53 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
What the the tools for making their the the wood carvings. How did you make the jump into Slate is that that's almost like a different like not different service, but it's almost like a an evolution of the same service, isn't it? But it's new and it kind of, you know kind of it it communicates something different. You know I think.
00:33:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Slate people will look at Slate and they go well. That's that's really exquisite, you know, that's that's almost like another another level higher than wood.
00:33:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah. I I think with myself it's and I think anybody else really they shouldn't be comfortable.
00:33:27 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In what they do, they should take those chances and.
00:33:31 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah.
00:33:32 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
The the whole thing about the slate was.
00:33:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It it may have been about 18 months ago. Two years ago, I was noticing a lot of businesses, laser engraving, slate coaster.
00:33:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Or or or.
00:33:45 Speaker 4
Yes. Yeah.
00:33:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Laser engraving port bottles and you know the standard sort of gives it that you're getting the mess.
00:33:52 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:33:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And I was look.
00:33:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And it it, it's just something about myself where I'll look into and mark it and then try and find holes where where where are those gaps and the the gap was you could laser engrave it.
00:34:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah. Yeah, good. Yeah.
00:34:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You could carve carve into it like a standard house sign, but nothing really gave you the option to purchase something that had the relief carve where you could touch and feel and see the curvature of what, what, what, whatever's being carved. Unless you went to.
00:34:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:34:33 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
The stone Mason that specialised in monuments. Yes. Yeah. You know, for gravestones or something like that. And so I literally spent about four months of my own R&D in between comma.
00:34:48 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Regions snapping slates, snapping bits, thinking because I'd just go back one when when it was COVID I've received my first CNC machine. Yeah, so there was a whole nother learning level learning machine then learning the software, learning how they both interact with each other.
00:34:49
Mm-hmm.
00:35:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then learning the 3D software so I could start making my own models because there are people out there.
00:35:08
Yes.
00:35:14 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, and that's.
00:35:17 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Sorry, I didn't. I didn't interrupt interrupt again. That's that's kind of CNC. What's what's what I'm looking for when you when you're when you're cutting into the wood it's using a CNC machine isn't it's. You need to numerically controlled to to essentially.
00:35:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:35:33 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Kind of carve out the the detail in the in the sculpture it, it looks incredible, but I I know the the software is complicated you know cause it's it kind of sometimes reads into what we do in, in design and stuff so.
00:35:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, it it. It can be. It can be. But again, if you want something to work, you're gonna be watch.
00:35:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So.
00:35:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Big respect.
00:35:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In every YouTube video there is out there and you're just going to go out on the machine and just press a button and see what it does. Yeah. You know, until until you get it right. And that was kind of how the slate happened.
00:35:56 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes.
00:36:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, it's good.
00:36:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:36:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because obviously it's a totally different material.
00:36:11 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
To work so much harder. And so you've got to build a different strategy on how to carve it without it cracking or breaking a machine or the bits or whatever it is. And after about four months, I was happy. And then I produced my first.
00:36:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:36:31 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Coaster, which was the global Laurel and you know it took like 45 minutes to carve, but over over time it went from coasters to place, months to then all of a sudden veteran business wanted.
00:36:35 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:36:46 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I think it was almost a metre long slate, uh business sign.
00:36:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And it's like, yeah, I can do it. And it's like, right? How the hell do I do it? You know? But in in the.
00:36:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah. Yes.
00:36:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Background it's like.
00:36:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Saying yes, but then going away finding out to do.
00:36:59
Well.
00:37:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I love that cause you you hear if you ever, ever watch any of the Richard Branson stuff, he says the same thing. You know, he he was well, I think is when he's selling music or or vinyl records and he had the same thing. Someone came to him and said can you do this? And he's like, yeah, of course I can. And then got this car and drove across Europe.
00:37:21 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
The records came back to the UK and I was like, I like that kind of that spirit that's, you know, it's kind of, it's the same spirit as the military, but then just reapplying it to business. So I, yeah, I've got. Yeah, I think it's brilliant.
00:37:33 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah. Yeah, it's. I mean from from from. It doesn't matter what service you've been.
00:37:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Then you know you've got those core values and elements.
00:37:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know whether you've been in for your three years to 22 years, you're gonna take away something from the military. And it's as I've grown older. And the longer time from me being out, the more I'm falling back onto those values in ethos, you know, so and it and it just helps.
00:37:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:37:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:37:59 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:38:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
With building up better brand. You know if I say yes, I'm going to do it, I'm going to go away and do.
00:38:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It.
00:38:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It doesn't matter if it's taking me four goes to get it done. I've said I'm going to do it, so I'm going to provide you with it, you know, because yes, it's extra time. It's extra materials. But I've also learned.
00:38:09 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:38:16 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:38:17 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:38:23 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Something from it said the next time somebody wants something similar.
00:38:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's, you know, hopefully it's just going to take that one time to do it.
00:38:33 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:38:34 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:38:34 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In.
00:38:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Especially with the slate, you know, every now and.
00:38:38 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Then.
00:38:38 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'll have. I'll have you know some **** ups or whatever.
00:38:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But it's days heavily. Yeah, I'll say it's more heavily reduced now.
00:38:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because I'm using Welsh late.
00:38:55 Speaker 4
Yeah. Yeah, right.
00:38:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know the directly from the the open minds and pits and everything else from there, yeah.
00:39:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Awesome.
00:39:04 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I was gonna ask. I was gonna ask, actually, what? UM, if you don't mind kind of saying, like, do you have any plans to to launch any new services or any new kind of products and and obviously feel free to you know to to avoid that question if you know if you like. Yes, but it's something secret that's that's cool, I guess yeah. If you is there anything you guys.
00:39:23 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Guys are looking into doing that.
00:39:26 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Not at this minute in time.
00:39:30 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because the the slate side of life is still relatively new.
00:39:36
Mm-hmm.
00:39:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And so I still want to be able to do as much or as many calves as I can in slate.
00:39:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In different formats and then push it out there.
00:39:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because.
00:39:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'm.
00:39:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'm pretty much booked up for the next 18 months.
00:39:54 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. Oh, wow. Wow, that's.
00:39:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Just just with Egg brothers and.
00:39:59 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah. Awesome.
00:40:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And the snowball effect from that is.
00:40:07 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Say if they were the.
00:40:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Operations manager.
00:40:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Mm-hmm. And then as it disseminates, they've got all these other businesses and companies that will, you know, it could be vortex. It could be Reptilia coal, which is American brand, but they've got got a unit over here in, you know, in all all these other brands.
00:40:29 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:40:35 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So doing something for Eger, brothers is now opened up my world to all these other companies and slow but surely I'm getting more messages saying, right, we want a sign for our state side office, our UK office.
00:40:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:40:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And and we want gifts as well, you know, to hand out.
00:40:59 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I was going to say Christmas, Christmas coming up. It sounds like the IT sounds like this is probably your busiest time, isn't it? In the lead up to Christmas because they make such cool gifts and.
00:41:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'd say over the last sort of 18 months it's.
00:41:14 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I've been trickling constantly, so I've been I've been lucky enough where I've just managed to bounce from one Commission to the next.
00:41:17 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:41:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But I'm finding now more.
00:41:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Especially with what's been happening is I need a second machine.
00:41:34 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:41:34 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
To be able to keep up with those orders and you know for the last couple of years, I've only taken Christmas Day off and maybe a week off in October.
00:41:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
U.
00:41:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Your area.
00:41:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
M.
00:41:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because.
00:41:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I get bored. I need to be doing something and.
00:41:49 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:41:51 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Same, yeah.
00:41:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And so OK.
00:41:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
After Christmas Day, I might do a couple of days of my own R&D or I've made a model which nobody's seen yet that isn't military or orientated, so they'll give me a chance to carve.
00:42:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then show off that piece. So yeah, it's at the minute I've what I already know where I'm going to to have this machine built.
00:42:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:21 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:42:24 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But it's fun then. So as you know, you get paid for a job, you know, it goes on bills, it goes on everything else back in. Yeah, it goes back into the business, but it's getting there. So hopefully in the next sort of month or two.
00:42:31 Speaker 4
Yeah, it's function.
00:42:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'll be able to, you know, hit that green button and say right, build me that machine and then in the next buy Christmas, I should have it and then that should alleviate the production times.
00:42:45 Speaker 4
Second machine.
00:42:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So so if it was a mixed slate and wood piece that needed to be made, I could have both machines running at the same time.
00:42:53 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:43:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
On the two different materials.
00:43:05 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:43:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Or.
00:43:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Go into.
00:43:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
More of a production role.
00:43:13 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Uh, for, I don't know, a shop that wanted Slate coasters and just have that machine solely.
00:43:20 Speaker 4
Just, yeah.
00:43:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Running on that whilst I'm doing my main commissions.
00:43:24 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, I think it's probably in some ways that's quite a good strategy, isn't it? If you if you got one stable income source that's that's just constantly turning over, it then means you can take that R&D time like you said and go and say like right, let's try, you know 3D printing or carving in.
00:43:47 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I'll try and think.
00:43:47 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Of.
00:43:48 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Rock, rock. Rock. Well, I guess, yeah, I'd.
00:43:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Say.
00:43:53 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Or I think, yeah, government.
00:43:55 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I've I've.
00:43:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, I've, I've. I've done stale brass, you know, all all those sort of things. So I think if it's to try another material.
00:44:07 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'll most probably go to marble.
00:44:11 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That.
00:44:11 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes. Yeah.
00:44:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah. And then do some gold.
00:44:15 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Building in in things like that into it.
00:44:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:44:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But that that that's going to be for another.
00:44:23 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Day. Yeah as.
00:44:24 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, that's.
00:44:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, mate. No, I I guess the the thing I can think is is that it's cool how you sell off in wood, you know and it and it was almost like you know you you saw that you saw this problem in that this wood was just being turned into mulch or compost.
00:44:42 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You're saying like, well, I can make something out of that and then that that turned into obviously learning some new skills, which you then start making these these, you know, cool wooden things. Then you're like, I can make it in Slate as well. So it's almost. It's whole. This whole path has started off from just noticing a a specific problem.
00:44:59 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
And then seeing, you know, seeing how you could solve it, which is is it's the fundamentals we could design thinking as well. I see the same. I see myself, you know having followed almost like a similar path. You know we sort of been branding doing logos and then we was like hang on a minute thing to stop us doing websites as well. You know websites you know just an extension of.
00:45:20 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You know, designing style, communicating semiotics from a market. And I was like, well, there's nothing to stop us really going to apps or.
00:45:28 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You know from there, from from there. I'm just like, OK, I need to hold on and just, you know, do one thing well for the time being and then be like, right. OK, let's let's let's think about this in maybe like a year's time. So yeah, I I I can see a very similar journey to to the way we've gone as well. So it's it's inspiring. It's cool.
00:45:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, it's. I mean it's it. It's so easy to be able to run before you can actually walk and being comfortable with what you can do and being certain that for a you know 100% you can provide that service because.
00:45:54
MHM.
00:45:59 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:46:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's very easy to for me to go to the bank and say right, I need 20 grand.
00:46:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
As as a loan and all of a sudden, that plan doesn't work out and I'm 20 grand in debt, you, you know. And so with with myself, it's always been self funded, which is a slower journey.
00:46:08 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:46:15 Speaker 4
Yes. Yeah.
00:46:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But it's mine.
00:46:27 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yes, yeah, I I fully agree that mines mines exactly the same. I'm I'm, I take that same strategy cause I'm just like, it's less risky, but I I find I learn more from doing it rather than, you know, applying for investment or, you know, getting a loan out or something like that. I'm just like now I want.
00:46:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And.
00:46:46 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
I want to grow this thing organically as well.
00:46:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, I mean I've, I've, I've had offers from gentlemen.
00:46:52 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That the veterans that are in the whole investment.
00:46:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, world and it's been very tempting.
00:46:56 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:47:01 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But but again, it's down to if it doesn't work.
00:47:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
They've got to be paid first.
00:47:08 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:47:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And then what do I provide my family with?
00:47:13 Speaker 4
Yes. Yeah.
00:47:13 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You, you you know, because the family should always come first.
00:47:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You, you know, I've got three sons, so. And. And they eat anything and everything, you know it's it's ridiculous and.
00:47:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, I agree.
00:47:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Just trying to feed them is enough, let alone trying to.
00:47:30 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Pay.
00:47:31 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You, you know the investor because that investment could affect him or his family. It's not just the money you're taking. It's the responsibility of.
00:47:32 Speaker 4
Investors. Yeah, yeah.
00:47:40 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:47:41 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know him or his family and things like that. So so.
00:47:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:47:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I think with.
00:47:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:47:47 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
With that, it's just that constant hunger of.
00:47:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Finding gaps in the market and then working out if you can provide that solution to that problem.
00:48:00 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:48:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Because.
00:48:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's it. I I'd say the the kind of cars I do in slate is is unique in the sense that there aren't that many businesses.
00:48:16 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That I could fall back on and look in the background and say right, they've done this. How how they kind of running their business, what's their social media like in you know in just trying to take the points, the good points from them. So you you kind of.
00:48:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:48:34 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:48:36 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Stubborn in the dark. Going right. I'll try this. Ohh, that didn't work, right? Let's let's bounce onto this next idea.
00:48:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah, totally agree.
00:48:44 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
So so yeah, it it. It could be a bit nerve wracking, especially when you haven't got a a set model.
00:48:54 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
To look out.
00:48:54 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, a path. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, that same feeling.
00:48:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
In you know with the whole branding thing, it's.
00:49:04 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I mean it.
00:49:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Veterans like veteran trees. Excuse me, I'm sure I added something else onto it, like woodworking and something else. It was a really, really long name.
00:49:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That was whilst I was doing the tree surgery.
00:49:22 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And it's not.
00:49:24 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Just make it short and you know simple so that it it it would remain in the mind of that person you've spoken to and what what I used to do and it's it. It was a bit naughty in in, in in a sense. But there was a huge huge tree surgery firm.
00:49:28 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:33 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Communicable, yeah.
00:49:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And they have their own separate guard that would go around doing the quotes. So if I spotted them.
00:49:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I'll then just knock on a door or pop a wood carved business card.
00:49:56 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
With my logo and details on it and just and just post it in.
00:49:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:50:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Just having a wooden business card brought me in so much business side business.
00:50:10 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
From others which have the you know what they call Vista or whatever it is you know, printed cars.
00:50:16 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah. Like a like, a unique a unique business guy that was made out of wood.
00:50:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah. Oak. Yeah. Yeah. So it's like 5 mil oak laser engraved or carved into it. And it just made me stand out. So something as simple as that. And then when you go to meet them because they want you to come in, quote, to do whatever tree work it was, it was like.
00:50:23 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Awesome.
00:50:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:50:30 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes, like.
00:50:39 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
I thought you were a bigger business than what you are.
00:50:42 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Is that?
00:50:44 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It's. I mean, it's like it's it's, it's what I say to companies all the time. Is is if you're going to like a crowded marketplace, you need to have a USP, you know, to make yourself discernible from, you know, all the other, you know, we see it in the security sector all the time. There's always variations of the, you know, the Trojan.
00:51:02 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Spartan Helmet Trojan helmet, shield. You know it's you must see it all the time as well. The same. The same things that you used over again. I'm just like, no, let's we to be different. We need to make you stand up hiring people's people's minds.
00:51:08 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:51:15 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
This but one thing I realise you must be like absolutely busy with commissions right now. So it's gonna they're gonna kind of just raise them to my last question and ask is is there any words of advice you can give to startups and particularly veteran owned ones you know who are just entering the marketplace now in terms of you know what?
00:51:35 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
If you know what how you might do it differently or what you think they would want to hear, there's like a closing closing piece of advice.
00:51:45 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Don't be afraid. Afraid to ask.
00:51:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:51:49 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Any questions? So you know there's the gender network on LinkedIn, you know? Go on there, ask well, search for the question first before you ask is somebody else.
00:51:55 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:52:03 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Nine times out of 10 has already asked that.
00:52:04 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Question.
00:52:05 Speaker 4
Yes.
00:52:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, and then you can read, read those replies, or maybe ask that question in a different way to receive a different answer.
00:52:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Sure.
00:52:15 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
If you're gonna, if you've left and you're going into business, just make sure.
00:52:21 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You gonna get out of bed.
00:52:23 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Every day and work your **** off and.
00:52:26 Speaker 4
Yeah, yeah.
00:52:27 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It doesn't matter if you come home dirty, stinking tired, whatever it is, if you can walk away and you've enjoyed that day.
00:52:37 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Then all those other issues or problems, they're just going to fade away into the background and it's it's and it's like just be true to yourself. So if you see.
00:52:43 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yes.
00:52:48 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
That you wanna go down route A, somebody suggests. Why don't you do Route B?
00:52:53 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Try it. Don't ever be afraid to try new things and being open to new things. But if it doesn't work, revert back to that original plan.
00:52:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, yeah.
00:53:04 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah.
00:53:05 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
But with the mindset of you've just you've just learned something. So how can you develop route again?
00:53:12 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You you know.
00:53:12 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, I completely agree.
00:53:18 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, I I think I see it. Just trying to keep it short, sweet and simple.
00:53:21 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. No, I I like it. I think it's like you say it's it's like not not having, like, having the humility to try something which other people were recommending or ideas. New ideas like you're saying and then but then not having the fear about, OK, if this isn't working, calling it after, you know, a period of time and then saying, well, we'll go back to this other.
00:53:41 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Other way and if that doesn't work, we'll try a different different method that almost kind of growth mindset. I think it's it's kind of generally referred to as of just trying these these new things and seeing what the the feedback is that comes from them, so.
00:53:55 Speaker 4
Yeah.
00:53:57 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, definitely. Definitely. So, yeah, just just remain open.
00:53:58 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
It's very cool, yeah.
00:54:02 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You know, set yourself a high standard.
00:54:06 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
And communication.
00:54:09 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Put the effort into communicating with your client. If you're able to hand it in person, do that because that is going to have so much.
00:54:19 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
More effect than having the post he handing it to him.
00:54:25 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah, yeah, I completely agree.
00:54:25 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
You you know.
00:54:27
Completely.
00:54:28 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
No, but but yeah, obviously we could go on and on football caller.
00:54:36 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
Yeah. No, mate, I think that's that's epic. Thank you so much for for joining us today. And it's, yeah, there'll be tonnes of good advice and insight here for start up getting out, getting getting started. So yeah, cheers.
00:54:48 Dan Earp-Jones, a former Royal Marines Reservist, Royal Signals soldier and the founder of Veteran Trees, a 3D design enterprise that makes beautiful bespoke signage and gifts from naturally felled wood and slate
Yeah, no problem. I've I've enjoyed listening to the.
00:54:52 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
It was great chance to Dan, hearing his fascinating story about how he grew his brand. If you want to hear more about veteran tries, check out his account using links below and I'll see.
00:55:00 Chris Shirley, Website Developer, Digital Marketing Specialist and Brand Designer at Haus of Hiatus, website and brand design studio
You next time.
