Hello and welcome. I'm Patrick Curtis, your host and Chief Monkey, and this is the Wall Street Oasis podcast. Join me as I talk to some of the community's most successful and inspirational members to gain valuable insight into different career paths and life in general. Let's get to it.

In this episode, Jeff Sands, a veteran of corporate turnarounds, shares his winding path. Learn why a

graduate from the South moved to Alaska for 10 years, why he got his MBA, how he transitioned to

his family business, and what he did when they

were wiped out by Hurricane Katrina. This is a very interesting episode, especially in light

of how COVID-19 is rocking financial markets and economies around the world. Enjoy. All right, Jeff, thanks so much for joining the Wall Streetoises podcast.

You bet. Great to be here.

To be great, if you could give the listeners just a short summary of your bio.

So real quickly, grew up in a family manufacturing business and in a long line of entrepreneurs

and was always determined to be an entrepreneur myself.

Economics degree, MBA, worked outside the family business for 12 years, went back, worked

in the family business, experienced my first turnaround there.

What did you guys make?

We printed textiles.

So we took raw polyester, printed artistic designs on it, and sold it.

Stuff your mom would buy to decorate the house, pillows, the decorative flag in front of

the home, stuff like like that and it was a

family business your your dad started it your yeah my dad started from scratch my mom

wouldn't let him put it in the garage so he started with a very small rented space

and one little heat transfer machine and built it to about 280 employees at its peak

great so then you joined right out of school.

No, I, I, um, school and then afterwards, I spent eight years working out of the, uh, you know,

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