What's up everybody? Welcome back to the podcast. So glad you're with me. The format of this, what I do is I answer your questions if you have anything about any subject, email podcast at Dranger Smith.com. We'll put it in the cube and man will arrange this and try to put together

the best questions we can so that I could answer them like we're just sitting in the cab of a truck or

sitting around a campfire and they really could be about any subject.

Just ask that you keep it about a phone length long so that it doesn't get overwhelming.

But what I want to do first is I want to answer a question that I got in person.

About a guy named Blake Mykowski. Blake is the founder of Tom's shoes and you might remember Tom's it started 2006-ish mid-2000s something like that and ended up being wildly successful. He sold shoes and he was

inspired by going to Argentina and seeing all the kids there without shoes and he decided to start a shoe company that when you bought a pair of shoes,

Tom's is the name of the shoes. He would donate one pair of shoes to children that didn't have any and it took off.

I mean people loved to buy a product and knowing they were helping kids and they were

putting shoes on kids.

I mean, who wouldn't?

It is and still is a great cause.

As time goes on, Blake ends up having a lot of competition with a lot of other companies that, bigger companies that try to push them out and are taking

the idea and saying, hey, this is, we could do this too, we could do philanthropy and give back. And people buy into that customers go hey I want my dollar to

matter and if I'm gonna buy shoes anyway I want it to matter well a lot of

other companies decided to compete some of them even came in and said, well, we'll give two pairs of shoes for everyone, you know.

So through all this, Blake making hundreds of millions of dollars on Toms, he begins to struggle over time.

And this is where the question came to me from a lady the other day who asked me thoughts on this.

She talked about possibly sending her boyfriend who was struggling a little

bit with life evidently to this retreat that Blake put on evidently and the reason for this retreat is

because Blake began to struggle and this is what I kind of want to think about today. He began to struggle with the idea of if I'm going and I'm doing, I'm helping people out and I'm helping all these kids, thousands and thousands of kids, and I'm doing good for all these worldly things

and I'm helping poverty, but I'm not feeling any better about myself. I'm not feeling fulfilled myself through all of this good

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