My name is Mickey Mahalek and I own Capital Waste Solutions.

You know, jumping out on my own was my biggest fear.

I really love that corporate safety net of a consistent paycheck, knowing that we had the corporate

background structure to stay there, the standard operating procedures, you know, everything

had a book and a policy of how things had to be done.

Unfortunately, that puts you in a box sometimes.

And Clay helped me to release that and understand that, hey, go, take off, explore, find new areas.

And it was really the confidence to jump outside the box.

Any time you start something newer, you have to reach out, I feel it brings a level of exposure

by admitting maybe I don't know as much as I put off about sales or marketing.

When Clay came to speak with me, he said, it's okay to not know everything.

And that really was a game changer for me.

You know, Clay's helped me probably the most with our graphic design on our website.

That's one thing that I do not claim to know anything about.

In fact, I'm better off throwing the computer out the window than I am using it.

What was nice about working with the guys at Thrive 15 and working with Clay was I could go in

with a silly sketch on paper, pencil and paper and I could say, hey, this is what I want to look like, or they would make it so simple. They'd pull up my phone and say, hey, FaceTime with me real quick and point to what you don't like, and they worked on my level instead of me having to meet them at their level. And not only that, but the atmosphere is fun. You come in and it's all about you.

And it's nice to be the one that gets to drink from the fountain instead of constantly pouring into someone else.

Why not learn something new? Why not admit to yourself that, hey, I can learn more. I can be better. I can be greater.

You know, as a basketball player in college, I was nothing without the coaches that invested me

day after day after day to help me work

on a move or a play that I maybe I wasn't the best at,

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