From Small Acquisition to $30m Industry Leader

But, you know, if. If, you know, if there's opportunity in US there's. There's just as much opportunity in Canada. And I encourage a lot of people to try and search.

And I think especially, you know, we. You always talk about this. There's so many Businesses and baby boomers who are retiring, they're just going to be such a wealth transfer.

Are you plugged into the search ecosystem in Canada, Robin?

I am a little bit. To be honest, I've been like heads down building a family and a business for the last kind of 10 years. But now that we're at the stage where I do have a great facility, team and system, I will be coming up with bit more and so I'll probably be trying to get more involved in this, this industry that's emerged.

Okay, just a couple questions to close us out on your search journey here. First, just your overall goal that when you were approaching 30 and wanted flexibility, has this realized that goal of fulfilling professional ambition while also giving you flexibility?

Such a good question. Probably not. I mean, I think, I think one of the tough things about being a high achiever and an ambitious person is that my goalpost keeps shifting. So, you know, at one point I just wanted my freedom and to make decisions on my own.

And certainly I have that. And that also comes with a lot of risk and sleepless nights and other things that are challenging. You know, eventually when I started, I just wanted work, life balance.

I wanted to be the kind of mom, you know, that would pick up their kids from school and take the summer off with their kids kids. You know, the reality was that the business that I acquired didn't enable that one day it might, it provides that for my husband, which is great. So as a family, it's working.

You know, there's definitely like money goals that you set along the way. I want to earn, you know, in the beginning you just want to replace your salary that you're losing. And I would say, I don't know, I never feel like I'm meeting my goals.

But I think that's kind of the curse of, you know, being an ambitious high achiever and, and probably I need to take more time to look back and celebrate. But yeah, I don't know. I don't feel successful and I don't feel like I've hit my goals.

And it sounds like your dad was a big influence on you and positively and has started as a, as a, not a, not a mentor maybe, but some sort of business guide is certainly an early one. Are your. Do you. I don't know how old your kids are, so I guess in their early teenage years. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.