I want to tell a little story about how I ended up exactly a week from today.

In fact, right at this time, I was in an ambulance on my way to an emergency room on the North Shore of Long Island.

And it was a police ambulance, which means I got an extra big needle for the IV to go in,

because they really don't play games.

I learned this.

You don't want an IV from a police ambulance if you have a choice.

But anyway, so, but I want to talk a little bit about what happened and how I view things and I'll try to keep this brief, but I think it's important.

So, let's rewind. September Chris informed me that we had approached

900 million dollars in assets under management as a as a firm and I am a child so as soon as I see 900 and the goal from when we

launched the firm was we should be a billion dollar RIA I said and of course

this is not the reality but I said and of course this is not the reality but I said to myself I am going to

single-handedly pour all of my willpower all of my will all of my will all of my energy, every shred of cosmic detritus that I can summon to my fingertips

and I am going to literally push the firm over the goal line and get us to

What is that nine figures Mike you're the director of research how many figures in a billion what is it it's nine

figures I'm gonna do it I mean of course everyone's gonna do it with me

ten all right so it's ten ten zeros so I said like, all right, this is it.

We're right there.

This is five years.

We had just passed our five-year milestone as a firm.

And I said we're at 900.

Watch this. We are going to pull together as a team and and run the ball over the goal

like I literally was looking at it that way I'm not sure why because I'm only 42 and

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