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So, let's talk about your why. What keeps you going? What gets you up in the morning

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and keeps you pushing forward? What's your why behind you getting up and going?

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When I was in Hawaii, I got laid off on my very first day at my brand new hotel job.

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And I didn't qualify for unemployment, moved to Hawaii on a one-way ticket with my girlfriend,

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got laid off on my very first day and didn't qualify for unemployment, had to figure everything

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out myself. So I started flipping furniture on Facebook. I started driving food delivery.

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I started just doing everything you can imagine to make a buck. And at one point I was on

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my bed. I had $500 in my bank account. Rent, which was $2,000, was due in a week. And I

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just looked at my girlfriend. I said, if we ever get out of this, you know, we're going

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to go out there and we're going to help other people because we really need help right now.

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And luckily we got help on that month and rent was paid and like, you know, everything

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was fine. But now I remember that like viscerally, like, Hey, we got to help other people. Like

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people get into a really hard place and not through a lot of fault of their own. Yeah.

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We made some maybe wrong decisions and stuff, but nothing too bad. I mean, we were, me and

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my girlfriend, we were at the height of the hospitality industry. We number one in the

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industry for 2019 and then life happens and things didn't go as planned. And you know,

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nobody was there to help us, you know, not many people are, and there wasn't really a

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path. And so I said, wow, I can really empathize with other people who have maybe gone through

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a similar experience, done the right things in life, but then things go wrong. And who

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do you reach out to? Who can help you? And there's not a lot of options out there. So

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I'm really want to help people and specifically in the financial area of things. Right. And

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now I have the experience of going from a hotel manager who you work all the time as

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a hotel manager, you know, the fire alarm goes off at 2am, you go in now I'm on the

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other side of it. I'm an entrepreneur. I have total time, freedom, total location, freedom,

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you know, in some ways financial freedom at this point too. And it's completely different

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life. And it's a lot. I mean, a lot of more, a lot of advantages to it. You know, it's

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a lot, I enjoyed a lot more than, you know, working at a hotel. I still like working at

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hotels, but I don't know if I do it full time or really do it as a career anymore.