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Acquiring Minds

Buying a $40m Business as a 49-Year-Old First-Timer

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So I'm for yin to yang, opposites attract, whatever you want to call it. I'm a good balancer for him too. Sometimes, you know, you got to keep each other out of a ditch, so to speak.

But I also don't want to be a dream killer. Right. That's not my goal either. But there's reality, right?

And we're just living our lives. We're a family like everybody else. So the, the root word in, in reality is real.

So you have to be real about the, where you're at. And coming to that compromise isn't through always comfortable discussions. We'll say politely, but you know, you have to have those.

And that's relationships, I guess that's a whole nother podcast, but.

Well, hold on, that sounds interesting. Were there 10, were there tense conversations? Was there agreement? Was there disagreement?

Yes. I mean, just. Okay, it's just because it's stressful, right?

Scary. Well, it's scary as hell. I mean, you're just. It's. If, if I may. You know, I say this a lot, but I think people think it's figurative, but it's literal.

If you're doing this and you don't kind of find yourself balled up in a corner somewhere at some point, just kind of needing a minute. Right? I mean, everybody loves to talk about how it's so sexy. It is not. It is hard and weird and yuck half the time.

All that being said, he pushes, you know, he is, he pushed. I am risk adverse. I probably pull reins more. Try not to kill dreams. But he pushes our family in a good way too, so.

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