What was your why?
What's your drive behind your day to day now?
Yeah, now, yeah, right.
So I've overcome the anxiety of not having money, right?
Which is, I mean, you know,
so cause like I'm comfortable in my income.
I'm comfortable in my income.
I don't worry about it.
I don't worry about the little stuff.
This morning I just bought like,
I'm going up to see my girlfriend in Minnesota
and I bought these two like little fishing poles
to go up there with her.
And I'm like, didn't even think about it, just bought it.
You know, I'm gonna go send her
like this beautiful gift later this afternoon
for her birthday, stuff like that, you know,
going out to eat.
And I've talked to a lot of other entrepreneurs
who get to this point too, where it's like,
Dave Ramsey talks about this with people, you know,
where he talks about like,
you should pay off your house first before anything,
because like something will happen in your brain
when you don't have that anxiety of a mortgage anymore.
Something will happen to you in your sort of soul.
And it's true.
All of a sudden then once that's out of the way,
you know, it kind of proved to me that like,
money is not an end goal at the end of it.
Like we're still, and now with the rise of like AI
and automation, I've been thinking too a lot about like,
well, people still want purpose.
There's still an innate purpose that God gave us
on this earth.
And that that's what drives us.
So now it's for me, it is putting myself
and keeping myself in this position
to be able to come on shows like this,
like pull myself away from the work
to spread the good word about the vision
that we're trying to accomplish ourselves
and then push it outward in society.
And I just think we would have
a better built environment overall.
So there's always that driving factor for sure.
But I love every little aspect too about what I do.
I love being the salesman.
I love actually still designing and drawing with my staff.
I love mentoring my staff and bringing them up
and coddling them and helping facilitate their careers
in a positive way.
As architects, as we have carpenters,
we have superintendents that work for us,
I teach at CU Boulder and try to bring that sort
of messaging back and forth
between the college universities as well.
And then I have a nonprofit,
Longmont Community Gardens,
where we just won a USDA federal grant for $86,000
and we're going to double the amount of urban farming
that we offer in the city I operate in.
So I just have a lot of passion
for doing positive things for myself
and then everybody else who is within my umbrella
or my peripheries.