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What's going on, everybody?

Welcome back to the Flip Lifestyle podcast.

It is great to be back with you again this week.

We are super excited to welcome another member of the Flip Your Life community onto the

show so that we can work with them and help them take their business to the next level and

let you guys listen in so you can pick out some tips, tactics and strategies to help you take

your business to the next level as well. And we are super excited today to welcome Brad May to the show. Brad, welcome to the program. Hey, thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. Yeah, it is great to talk to you today. You have some really good questions that we can't wait to dive into. But before we do that, let's talk a little bit about you, your family, and your background. Originally, I'm from Louisiana. I've moved down to Mobile, Alabama, and I've been here about seven years or so. I met my wife here. We've been married for about five years. We actually met at church, and so that's kind of the turning point of, you know, online business and everything came out of that. And so I've been playing guitar since the year 2001, so I don't know how many years that is, but quite a while. And most of that time I've been playing guitar in a church setting. And so that's where I got the idea from my online business to help people play acoustic worship guitar in new and better in different ways. Do you have any kids? How long have you all been married? We've married for five years. We don't have any kids just yet, but my wife actually recently decided to quit her job and stay at home so that we can kind of work towards that so she can keep the things around the home moving well. And she's been helped me a lot with online business stuff and other things as well. That's awesome. What made her want to quit her job and like transition more into that

home role? Was it distress or just she wanted to do something different or what happened there?

Yeah, it was mostly kind of a stressful situation in her job. She had a position where she was

in the middle of a lot of different things where, you know, a lot of interruptions and different tasks all

the time. And so it just got to be a thing to where she was coming home tired so much to where our time spent together was not as valuable as we thought it could be if she was able to focus more on us in our house and doing things that way. This is amazing. First of all, like, kudos to you because most people would be scared to give up that second income. Oh, it was scary. Oh, yeah. But you did it anyway, and that's amazing. And you deserve to be commended for that just because you made a choice that you wanted your life to look different. And you were willing to do what it took to make that happen. Yeah, we kind of already lived below our means. So we had the room to do that. Of course, to kind of tighten

things up a little bit, but it was just something that we prayed about together and we felt

peace about it. So that's what we did. And since that time, like so many things have gotten

better. And I see the difference that she's able to make by, you know, devoting more of her

headspace to what we're working on together. So it's amazing. Yeah, that's really cool. And I like how you guys said that you're going to try this and things got better, which is awesome. I think so many times we think we're so scared to do something. And when we finally do it, we're like, oh, well, that wasn't so bad. It's not as bad as I thought it was, right?

Yeah, and that happened to us.

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