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What was your why?

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What's your drive behind your day to day now?

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Yeah, now, yeah, right.

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So I've overcome the anxiety of not having money, right?

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Which is, I mean, you know,

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so cause like I'm comfortable in my income.

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I'm comfortable in my income.

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I don't worry about it.

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I don't worry about the little stuff.

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This morning I just bought like,

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I'm going up to see my girlfriend in Minnesota

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and I bought these two like little fishing poles

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to go up there with her.

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And I'm like, didn't even think about it, just bought it.

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You know, I'm gonna go send her

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like this beautiful gift later this afternoon

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for her birthday, stuff like that, you know,

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going out to eat.

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And I've talked to a lot of other entrepreneurs

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who get to this point too, where it's like,

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Dave Ramsey talks about this with people, you know,

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where he talks about like,

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you should pay off your house first before anything,

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because like something will happen in your brain

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when you don't have that anxiety of a mortgage anymore.

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Something will happen to you in your sort of soul.

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And it's true.

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All of a sudden then once that's out of the way,

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you know, it kind of proved to me that like,

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money is not an end goal at the end of it.

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Like we're still, and now with the rise of like AI

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and automation, I've been thinking too a lot about like,

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well, people still want purpose.

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There's still an innate purpose that God gave us

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on this earth.

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And that that's what drives us.

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So now it's for me, it is putting myself

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and keeping myself in this position

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to be able to come on shows like this,

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like pull myself away from the work

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to spread the good word about the vision

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that we're trying to accomplish ourselves

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and then push it outward in society.

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And I just think we would have

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a better built environment overall.

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So there's always that driving factor for sure.

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But I love every little aspect too about what I do.

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I love being the salesman.

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I love actually still designing and drawing with my staff.

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I love mentoring my staff and bringing them up

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and coddling them and helping facilitate their careers

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in a positive way.

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As architects, as we have carpenters,

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we have superintendents that work for us,

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I teach at CU Boulder and try to bring that sort

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of messaging back and forth

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between the college universities as well.

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And then I have a nonprofit,

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Longmont Community Gardens,

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where we just won a USDA federal grant for $86,000

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and we're going to double the amount of urban farming

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that we offer in the city I operate in.

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So I just have a lot of passion

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for doing positive things for myself

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and then everybody else who is within my umbrella

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or my peripheries.