When I first graduated, my first year I was making 40,000 a year.

I had no concept of where I wanted to go, what I wanted to be doing,

how I was going to get to the type of life that I wanted.

One of the biggest misconceptions of modern times is that stability comes in employment from a big company and a stable job.

I've seen so many high quality killers just lose their jobs over things out of their control.

And you don't have any stability or control over your own life if you're working for somebody else, truly.

Also, we didn't even mention this. First business, million dollars a year, zero marketing.

Everything in this industry is so fragmented. It's been cool to see what a little bit of focused effort can do.

$167,000 take home two deals

14 months what did me and you pull off two deals uh the first about a year ago the second one just

closed about two weeks ago um combined the businesses and now we're on track to absolutely take off.

Dude, and now we're looking at what, $500,000, about $485,000 STE, take like profit, you know,

as with you as the business owner?

Oh yeah.

And that's as it is today.

That's without any growth and that's, yeah, I'm in it full time now.

We're going to take off. Let's freaking go, man. So tell people, like introduce yourself to the people,

like, who are you? What do you do today? And then let's go into your backstory and what you did

in corporate. And then let's kind of dissect each piece of this journey of you exiting.

Because in the very beginning, me meeting you a year ago

you had a completely different strategy to leave than what we had like last year at the end of the

year and then we actually pulled off and executed because after you and I bought our first business

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