Leaving Wall Street to Buy a $1m Manufacturing Business

So it was just a lot of time spent. My family was Always supportive. There was, I'm not going to say that it worked out perfectly.

I mean there was times where yeah I would hear, you know, my kids got older and they became those difficult teenagers are like you're not here. They would yell at me and stuff. But you know, back in my.

They would come up on the weekends and we'd ski. So that was awesome. But you know I, I put together some of the sacrifices I made.

I mean I, I work on average with the Travel time probably 80 hour weeks and, and I, I logged in 360,000 miles of, of, of of driving and over the nine year till I closed it little under nine. But which is, do you want the, the, the metrics to that it's like

yes, this is in your document. How many, how many trips around the Earth is that?

It's 15 and a half trips around the Earth and to the moon and on three quarters of the way back. So that's a lot of miles and but it's a great time to listen to podcasts. Plug Plug and but it's also, it's it also time to get time to reflect.

But it's, it was, yeah, it was difficult and it's, it was learning I. From a perspective that those are things that you know, made me more appreciative and made me, make me, help me make decisions going forward but it also made me better and the same point, you know, it, it's. Yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's the climb as we, as we talk about.

Not the pit, the climb. Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for that, Brian. I mean that, that, that is a real, I mean 12 and 16 hour days for years and a lot of that away from the family. That's, that's a serious, serious sacrifice.

And and so we're going to hear more about your kind of reflections on what you do differently and, but the value, the benefits that was kind of the negative. But there's been so many benefits to this journey. Let's just wrap up the story piece. Why do you decide to sell and how do you pull that off?

Well, I think the decision to sell was at this point what's next? And it kind of came upon me one time when I was reflecting with Deco and the new CEO on board and that was part of help to help decision. But I said to myself I'm like what is the most undervalued asset here.