I've literally presented to the board of a bank at like 26 years old.

I'm like, y'all give me a couple million bucks.

They're like, why? I said, because I'm the horse you want to bet on. Recent appraisal, 1.1 million. We owe $562,000. $500,000 in a year. Boom, 600K equity. Yeah. Everything's hard. All of it's hard. So it's like, if we're all going to do hard stuff regardless, like you can't get around it.

So I'm like, how can I like bake the circumstances to have as much fun doing hard stuff as possible so that I could just do hard stuff more sustainably than anybody else? The only reason I tell people to buy a bigger business, go buy a business that's like three million bucks, four million bucks is, yes, maybe you don't have 100% equity. Maybe you've got a business partner and somebody else like me coming in on the cap table. But like, dude, you've got so much more support. And the people that you're able to hire with that amount of money is so much better because that's all that matters to a certain level of the game. All right, all right.

We got Hunter Frouchet in the building.

What's up, brother?

What's up, my man?

Dude, long time coming.

Excited to have this conversation, excited to have this podcast.

And so before we get into you, your background, what you've accomplished in such a short time and what you're

building because I really think that you're one of those guys that is just you've got it figured

out over the next decade. You're going to be dangerous doing what you're doing. And so I'm excited to

share kind of your game plan, how you think about

investing, how you think about wealth and what your kind of vision is. But first, I kind of want to go

backwards a little bit because in 2022, going into 2023, we founded Action Academy. And I had a small

select group of people because I just realized I couldn't do it on my own. And I didn't

want to be the person that was in there talking about deals that I wasn't doing. And so I thought to

myself, well, you know, my buddies are doing a lot of deals. I'm just going to throw them in there for

free. And then everyone can just hang out and have a really good time. And I may be added, I think,

30 to 50 guys into that

Facebook group that became Action Academy now across 47 states with over 500 members. And out of all of

them, you're maybe the one that actually did something with it and everyone else kind of fizzled out,

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