Welcome to the How of Business with David Begin and Henry Lopez, the podcast that offers practical advice and tips on how to run and grow your small business.

The How of Business helps aspiring entrepreneurs and small business owners achieve their definition of success and overcome challenges that get in their way.

This podcast series focuses on the everyday common business issues,

challenges, and opportunities that face the small business owner. So here now are your hosts of

the how of business, David and Henry. Welcome to this episode of the how of business. This is

Henry Lopez with you today and my special

guest, Vance. Vance Morris, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. I appreciate Henry. I look forward to it.

Absolutely. Vance. Let me give you a bit of background on Vance and I'm extremely excited about having him

here. You'll understand why in a moment. Vance spent 10 years working at Walt Disney World in Orlando,

Florida, my personal favorite place in the world. He started his career at Disney on the opening

team of the Yacht and Beach Club Resorts and then progressed through the management ranks as

the nightclub manager at Pleasure Island. That doesn't exist anymore, but it was a

great fun nightclub area in downtown Disney, or what is now part of downtown Disney. Then he was a

service trainer aboard the Empress Lily, which is a restaurant on a boat there at the lake,

and on the revitalization team of the contemporary resort in the mid-1990s.

It was during that project that he achieved his crowning achievement at Disney, as he says,

which was designing, opening, and operating chef Mickey's, which is Disney's flagship

character dining experience.

And it is magical.

I've taken my daughter there back when she was younger,

and we had a great experience there, so thank you.

And then after leaving Disney, and yes, some people do leave Disney,

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