Hey, everybody, welcome back to the find out podcast. I am very excited about this episode today because it's going to be all about my home state of Maine. We had a little talk about Maine last week, which I got a lot of friends from home saying how much they liked the bath talk. So we decided to bring on one of the newest entrance into the Senate race against Susan Collins. Dan Klebin is with us today,

who is the owner of the main beer company and is now a candidate for U.S. Senate. So, Dan,

thank you for joining us. Hey, thanks for having me on, Tim. Great. Well, let's just kick off with the

what. Actually, let's step back from that.

Let's give our audience a little bit of your background, because your story is actually really,

really amazing as somebody who started a business from the ground and is now, you know, across the

country. Like, just give us a little bit about who you are and how you came to be a successful

brewery owner.

Yeah, I mean, I think the, I think my, my backstory is kind of intrinsically kind of

intertwined with, with the why I'm doing this.

I love if I can separate the two, but I'll give it a whirl.

You know, I was, I met my wife in 2000 in Maine and she's a nurse from Lou Beck,

Washington County. We got married. I went to law school in Boston. We're lucky enough,

I found a job. We wanted to start a family back up here in Maine, so we moved back up here to

Maine. I started my, my first job in 2007 as an attorney.

The great recession hit, and I about laid off.

And, you know, my wife and I, sure a lot of the listeners can sympathize.

We were, I think, almost $200,000 in debt after undergrad in law school.

And we had just bought our first home, kind of a starter home.

We scraped together all the money we could and bought that, bought our home.

And we were thinking about having kids.

And I wanted to come home.

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