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The whole reason they stifled innovation was because of fossil fuel

and the way they're currently producing energy, and it is not sustainable.

It comes a So I want everybody to imagine, right? Your neighbors, your friends, your family, people around you that you love are getting sick they're getting cancer they're

getting leukemia they're having brain tumors at a higher rate than normal this is

what was going on for me early in 2015 2016 I lived in a neighborhood in Lake

Norman North Carolina started my third business with my business partner, getting into solar at the time.

And I started the solar business thinking that I would allow and empower people to own their power, not rent their power, that I would help create energy independence.

Because we all know we get tired of paying the

utility company right the power outages and all that so I thought hey this is a great

thing to get into it's the future but we were struggling year one we lost money for

22 months we didn't get a paycheck me and my partner with no paycheck for 22 months

building this business.

Had 34 employees thought about closing in 2015, sat down with my family. I'm like, what do I do?

We're going to have to shut down shop. We're losing money. This has never happened before.

You know, I've always felt like I hit lightning. I was working hard. I was

grinding. I was making things happen and I just hit a wall. And at the same time, my wife,

while we were living on this lake, had a pick line in her arm. Having antibiotics going into

her body and the doctor said, I think she got a staff infection. My son's eyes were all dark.

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