Happy Thursday morning, everybody. Welcome back to the Tropical MBA podcast. I'm going to nail this intro. I am not going to hit restart. Bossman, welcome to the podcast. You did it. Congratulations. I did it. We are the OG pod for lifestyle entrepreneurship. Today we are going to review our 2025. We can do a little bit of behind the scenes. Take a look at the businesses, what we're working on, what we're excited about the themes for the year, some personal updates requested by the listeners, and also what we're working on in

2006. We'll cover some of our highlights of the past year, what's changed, some low lights,

as well as some personal updates and plans for the future.

Ian, yes.

If this is your first time listening to this podcast,

the name of the game,

location independence, mobility, time freedom,

it all starts with starting a business.

It's remarkable when you look at wealthy people in America, if you started not wealthy and then you end up wealthy, small business. That's the answer. And so that's what we're

talking about. We've been talking about it for 15 years. Wealthy in time, like you said,

money, freedom, all the things, not just money just money though that's for sure i think

that's what sets this podcast apart speaking of which did you make any new year's resolutions

or do you just resolve every morning i just resolve every morning with my regrets and my

ambitions i don't need to do it really. You? My thing is, I thought I'd

bring it up because I think the primordial ooze of entrepreneurship is personal finance. So if

you're wondering like, oh, I want to become an entrepreneur in 2026. It's like the process is start with

your personal finances. So you're going to start with the expense column. And eventually you're

going to come around to that income column. And you're going to want to look at ways to improve

that over time. Am I in the right career? Am I in the right industry? Do I have the right, you know,

leadership and mentorship around me? That's the right career. Am I in the right industry? Do I have the right, you know, leadership and

mentorship around me? That's the first step. I think these are like the primordial moments before we

start. And right adjacent to that is your network. Like who can you call in your career? Is your boss

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