So, let's talk about your why. What keeps you going? What gets you up in the morning
and keeps you pushing forward? What's your why behind you getting up and going?
When I was in Hawaii, I got laid off on my very first day at my brand new hotel job.
And I didn't qualify for unemployment, moved to Hawaii on a one-way ticket with my girlfriend,
got laid off on my very first day and didn't qualify for unemployment, had to figure everything
out myself. So I started flipping furniture on Facebook. I started driving food delivery.
I started just doing everything you can imagine to make a buck. And at one point I was on
my bed. I had $500 in my bank account. Rent, which was $2,000, was due in a week. And I
just looked at my girlfriend. I said, if we ever get out of this, you know, we're going
to go out there and we're going to help other people because we really need help right now.
And luckily we got help on that month and rent was paid and like, you know, everything
was fine. But now I remember that like viscerally, like, Hey, we got to help other people. Like
people get into a really hard place and not through a lot of fault of their own. Yeah.
We made some maybe wrong decisions and stuff, but nothing too bad. I mean, we were, me and
my girlfriend, we were at the height of the hospitality industry. We number one in the
industry for 2019 and then life happens and things didn't go as planned. And you know,
nobody was there to help us, you know, not many people are, and there wasn't really a
path. And so I said, wow, I can really empathize with other people who have maybe gone through
a similar experience, done the right things in life, but then things go wrong. And who
do you reach out to? Who can help you? And there's not a lot of options out there. So
I'm really want to help people and specifically in the financial area of things. Right. And
now I have the experience of going from a hotel manager who you work all the time as
a hotel manager, you know, the fire alarm goes off at 2am, you go in now I'm on the
other side of it. I'm an entrepreneur. I have total time, freedom, total location, freedom,
you know, in some ways financial freedom at this point too. And it's completely different
life. And it's a lot. I mean, a lot of more, a lot of advantages to it. You know, it's
a lot, I enjoyed a lot more than, you know, working at a hotel. I still like working at
hotels, but I don't know if I do it full time or really do it as a career anymore.