Hello again fellow escapees. I'd like to thank everybody who listened, shared and reached

out to me during the release period of the last four episodes of this series and most of all the people who became escape collective members off the back of it.

I can't thank you enough. The more members who support us the more of this type of content we can produce.

In this final episode, we opened the floor to member questions.

There were so many good ones that came through.

We could have gone on for hours.

So I chose a small selection that hit on topics that we hadn't covered yet.

Let's start again with one of the stars of the series, Ellery Slater, who is the owner of the independent bike shop,

Sports Garage in Boulder, Colorado.

Elery, it's good to speak with you again.

After listening, was there anything that anyone said in this podcast series

that came to you as a surprise?

Um, no, but that, I want to say no, not in a way. I don't want my no to be like self-important. My

know is more because what I was attuning to in myself when I was listening to the

podcast was this a sense of relief because I would hear like I wasn't talking to

Tay at QVP I wasn't talking to Tyler at 7 Mesh, even though Sports Garage has been a 7 mesh

like retailer for years. Oh, fantastic. Yeah, like we've had a little store within a store for a long time.

But I had never spoken to any of the other gentlemen that you interviewed.

And so when I was hearing their stories and there was alignment with how I perceived the marketplace as a

dealer because there was many instances where the block of questions you asked us,

there was alignment in our experiences.

Yeah.

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