Buying a Business to Balance Ambition and Kids

And, you know, and we love it because I think that the difference is anyone can do this in theory, but in practical terms, that's when it starts failing. That's the thing that I kept telling my friends, like, in theory, I knew what it was to be a mother. In practical terms, I had no idea what I was getting into.

You can study everything you want, you can, and try to do the vibe coding, but there's just way more things that are involved and you need to have the right mindset to really put the requirements properly and build it. So, yeah, we really are enjoying that. And I do think that eventually that will do a spinoff into helping other small Businesses with their tech stack in a way that is very…

It actually does sound like probably not nearly as accessible for the average listener of this podcast.

I think it's a little bit harder and built. Yeah. But I think with the right guidance and the right mindset, it is definitely so much more achievable than it was before. And still I am a proponent always to buy off the shelf, if you can.

The reason we didn't buy off the shelf is because we would have needed like three or four different products and you know, to, to get all of the functionalities we wanted at incredible high prices and it still wouldn't have covered everything we, we needed. And I, I dare to say that I'm probably one of the few, if not the only landscaper out there that has a dashboard that automatically updates…

Although Nick Kashka is pretty technical, he's built some stuff too.

I'll ask him. I tried to reach out to listening answer my LinkedIn. No, yeah, I would like to ask him that. I mean you can do dashboards and stuff with QuickBooks, right?

But operations are hard to track and I know some that have done it at a lot of money with Salesforce and things. I've done it with no money and it gives me the same functionality.

Well, the other thing here is even if the listener gets into their business and they're not technical enough to build as you and your husband have built, the point still is for technical people, how quickly you did build what you build means that the cost of software is coming down quickly. And so a non technical person could find on upwork or wherever somebody like you with your skill set to…

And such a person should be able to build this software for way, way less than even two years ago, I would expect. I don't want the, I wouldn't want, I don't want the listeners to think that this is out of reach for them them if they can't do it themselves. We hear a lot in the press about people just building their own stuff with AI and that's great.

And powerful and it is happening more and more and people should learn it. But short of that, you can still hire AI consultants to do it for you and the hours that it takes them to build something will be far less than it was just two short years ago. So there's still opportunity here, even if.