The best thing you can really do is bet on yourself in holding yourself accountable.

Like I'm a huge believer in self-development, continuous learning, staying curious like that has really

allowed me to do everything that I've done because I've just, I've never stopped learning.

And I, you know, I listen books and podcasts and stuff all the time.

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This is an issue that so many of us deal with Payton taxes, planning correctly for our small

businesses so that we don't get into trouble because we're not filing things on time.

We're not paying the right

taxes depending on how complex our business structure is. So Payton's Quires, I'm really excited to

have you on to talk about and unravel these issues for us. We are in Q4 and thinking about

building our organizations, but also going from building them to then going into

the C-suite and acting as CEOs of our organizations, all of the different things that we need

to consider. So thank you for being here. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to

be on here and maybe share a little information.

Yeah. So talk to us about your interest. Have you always been a numbers guy, always interested in financial setting, wealth planning?

Yeah, well, yeah, let me tell you a little bit of my story. So I grew up in central Missouri, pretty rural area. You know, I'm located in Columbia, Missouri now. But I grew up in central Missouri, a pretty rural area. You know, I'm located in Columbia,

Missouri now, but I grew up even in a tiny little town outside of Columbia, Missouri. You know,

I grew up in single mom household, some financial insecurity around some of that stuff. I remember

as a kid my mom losing her job and being like, hey, you know, oh my gosh, what's going to happen kind of thing? And that was burned in my head as like a 10-year-old, you know, of just kind of like financial insecurity a little bit, right? So I knew that. As a kid, I never wanted that, right? I never wanted to be poor. And it says unknowable of probably as a motivation that is, it was my motivation, right? And so, you know, ultimately that led me in, you know,

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