I also had a bachelor party that I had planned, spent like 10 grand on for my best friend,

that was like right in the middle of this.

And so I couldn't just like not go, but I'd go, still not sleeping, went out with him night one,

and then night two still couldn't sleep, but I would start to drift off and I started to have suicidal hallucinations that were very vivid.

It was me jumping off.

We had this like really nice suite at the top of the Virgin Hotel that I paid for for the whole crew. And it was like 30

stories up. And I had these like vivid hallucinations of me going in, going up the elevator,

fucking jumping off the balcony. What's up guys? Welcome back to the part two episode of Aaron and I's stories. And the

stories I'm going to cover today are ones that are deeply vulnerable and honest and raw. So

buckle up. And Aaron would be with me here today. We were going to record this together, but we

actually got into a big fight. And so, yeah, I'm running on about four hours of sleep,

sitting here, shirt off in my podcast studio,

feeling like shit. And so it's like the most raw, I guess honest form to sit here and just record

a podcast like this. She would be sitting next to me, but we're not really talking right now. And

you know, it's like building a business with your spouse is very hard. And it gets even harder

as kids come into the picture and priorities change. And if you're not both actively working on yourselves first in the relationship, uh, as your main priority, not just the business, it becomes a problem. Okay. So that's just a lesson. I'm not going to get into any, uh, any specifics or get any deeper. Um, because I have a lot of respect for my wife. And yeah, I just wanted

to be honest with you guys. That's why she's not here. So what I want to do is in part one, we covered a lot of Aaron's story, but didn't really touch on mine. So I'm going to cover some parts of my story. But then I'm going to talk about this 2022 mental health crisis that I had and how the business almost crumbled in 2022, but then turned around to have two of our best years ever.

And then I'll cover some a recent crisis that we're going to be. that I had and how the business almost crumbled in 2022, but then turned around to have two of our

best years ever. And then I'll cover some, a recent crisis that we had and the pattern. Okay,

so let's get into it. For those of you guys who don't know my background, I come from a very

small town, farm town in Ohio. I kind of bounced between there, which is southern Ohio, and the hollers of

Kentucky, Ines, Kentucky, Tomah County, where my family lived. And the reality is I'm not supposed to be here.

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