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Hi, and welcome back.

I'm so excited to introduce you to my new friend, Jason.

He is a founder of Power, Home, Solar, three-time entrepreneur of the year winner. And he's got this amazing new podcast that I was actually just a guest on. It's the true underdog podcast. Thank you for being here. Hey, thanks for having me. And the weather's better here than where I'm usually at. Oh, my gosh. And you flew in. I'm so excited to actually be seeing a human being in person. This is really exciting.

Are it great? COVID's happening, but we're here in the studio doing the podcast. Isn't that great?

It really, it is so great. It's so nice. So take us back. Right now, you are at the top of the world. I mean, literally three-time entrepreneur of the year winner. I'm so jealous.

You started from nothing. So you need to take me back to started at the bottom, and now you're here. How did that happen? Well, my parents are blue-collar parents. I mean, you know, most of us have that story. Our parents work hard. We kind of learn from them. But my dad stayed with AT&T until he could retire. and my mom worked at bakeries, decorating cakes,

and we moved, we grew up in Arizona. We didn't have, I wouldn't say we were poor, but we were less than middle class, right? My parents had to work two jobs. We struggled. When we moved to North Carolina in 94, I was going to be a freshman. So I had to start a new high school. That's hard. It is hard. And I was very upset. I was like, why are we leaving Arizona? You know, that's what I was used to. That's where I grew up. And it was a whole different culture there compared to what I was used to. And when we moved in, and, you know, in Arizona, people really didn't judge you on, at least where I went to school, because maybe we were a little less than middle class. There was no measurement of what do you have, what don't you have. And when I moved to North Carolina, my dad bought a trailer, a double wide, and we lived in a trailer park. In Arizona, I don't think I would have been judged. But going to school and trying to make friends are like, where do you live? I'm like, oh, I'm in Southbrook. They're like, oh, the trailer park. I'm like, yeah, they're like, oh, it was kind of that feeling in school where a lot of judgment was going on. That had to stink. Oh, yeah, it hurts your feelings because you're like, it ain't my fault. like I live there. I mean, I'm still a person, right? So the other thing was...

Did you feel ashamed?

I was never ashamed.

I just felt less... because you're like, it ain't my fault. Like, I live there. I'm still a person, right? So the other thing was...

Did you feel ashamed?

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