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And you know, fast forward to graduation day. My wife, my grandmother, my mom, my younger brother, and then also my in laws. So my wife's father and mother, and her father in particular, I'm pretty close with.

I made like a little speech and you know, about the support and everything about my dad not being there. But I, I did make a proclamation. I was like, hey, like, you know, as some of you may know or not know, like, I'm gonna go down this other path and really kind of make a name for myself.

And Robert, don't want to beat this to death, but just when you're like his passing made you kind of reassess your path. It wasn't, it was, it doesn't sound like it was like a carpe diem, you know, life is short thing. It sounds like actually it was.

My dad had a lot of impact on people. Yeah, I want to have impact on people. So this was, that was the why of this, of this, of his, of his, of his passing.

Yeah, I would, I would agree with that. I Would give a little caveat. I do think there was a little bit of life is short because you know, prior you, you just naturally, especially like when you're in business school, like oh, okay, I'll get the job because I made the investment, I'll kick it down the road to kind of do XYZ thing. And you just bank on years, right?

Yep.

Without even thinking about it. And that framework really changed my mind to where like no, it's like now, you know, it was a very unexpected passing. He was Young and his mid-50s, so that's.

That calculus really changed where I was not counting years anymore. I was trying to act now.

And so when you envision impact, how did you envision that buying a business could manifest your desire for impact?

Yeah, I feel like I have a relatively good head on my shoulder and like good morals and all that kind of stuff. So I just wanted to be in the seat to like make those decisions to position people for success. Whether that's like, you know, maybe not being the most micromanaging boss or whether that's like really empowering people and kind of challenging them and like getting something out of them…

And then yeah, just trying to, you know, it sounds really basic but making people feel good about what they're doing and that how it's like pushing the needle forward. Right. Because everyone's for the most part in some kind of ways, everyone's has highs and lows and everyone's struggling with their own thing and just trying to be there for them.