As you gain experience, as you grow in business, you're going to become wiser.

You're going to smarten up and you're going to realize that like you've been undercharging

and not capturing time, resources, energy, material, and you're going to get better.

Tyler, today you want to swing it back 10 years.

Take a trip down memory lane, bro.

Is it you DMing me about the stain color on the door I did 12 years ago?

Yeah, I was just getting the juices flowing.

It was nice.

I like your profile picture.

Speaking to a couple of people in the industry a buddy who was looking

to go out on his own and being away on vacation i was thinking a lot about 10 15 years ago and

starting my business and the struggles that i face and how much different things are now and even

just a lot of the insight and communication that

we get from people within our community who are just starting out or a few years into business

and how helpful it's been so I wanted to talk a little bit about when Nick started his business

how what things looked like when I started my business some of the struggles what we do

differently and just dive into that a little bit it's been a while since we've really

talked a lot about the past and how much things have changed but that was the goal for

today's podcast episode just a little bit of a blast from the past, some reflection, you know, see how far

we've come. This podcast is brought to you by Anderson Windows. Wait, hold on. All right,

so for this, Anderson, Anderson. Anderson, our connection at Anderson is Ellie Kineps. That was the original, right? Like I think

she went from another company to Anderson. We knew her husband, Casey, which you all probably

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