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My name is Clay Clark.

I'm the former U.S.S.B.A. entrepreneur of the year.

What does that mean?

It means that my company DJ Connection did really well and at some point I got nominated

by different business owners, the small business administration, then they said, well, you've

been nominated.

I said, that's awesome.

And then they said, we'd like to audit your financials to make sure that what we hear

is true.

And I thought, that's cool.

And then it turned out to not be cool because that's a lot of paperwork back and forth.

It's like trying to get a loan app, let's try to get a loan app approved.

And then it keeps happening.

Remember, the small business administration is the organization that awards, probably

90% of the small business loans out there.

If you get a small business loan, it's typically called an SBA loan, and that loan is guaranteed

by the small business administration, which is a wing of the federal government.

And so I realized, oh no, I might be getting an award from the federal government, which

means I'm going to be audited, which means I'm going to have a lot of paperwork.

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