Hiring a CEO to Run Things (and Get Life Back)

It felt like we were entering into. He jumped in, and he was like, guys, Jeremy made two really crazy decisions in the last few years, and one is buying this business, and one is realizing the things he's really good at and wanting the best for you guys and the things that he's not really good at. And it was like a sweet moment where he was sort of actually able to slightly pat me on the back.

And, like, he did a crazy thing. And he's been doing a crazy thing for you all these last few years. Yeah, in a way that I never could.

He's doing all the things that he wants to do, which is like an owner's dream. And it was sort of sweet for him to be able to communicate that, because it's weird telling your employees, like, I'm actually just doing the things now that I want to do, and you guys don't actually have that same control that I do.

So it's a weird thing to say yourself, but it was a really sweet thing to have somebody else communicate it to a team that at this point, had really grown to respect me so. Well, so is point one, I think, that he made, which is that it's a crazy thing to buy a business which. Which so often employees don't appreciate, like, the amount of risk and total.

And just kind of the adventure that the business buyer is going on, which, of course, we celebrate here. But.

But. But the employees just kind of see it through the lens of. Sure. How it's going to affect them. And. And they. They just assume that if you're buying the business that you're just, you know, some fat cat or somehow.

Totally. This is easy for you. Yes.

And I think it was nice to have someone else say. I think he mentioned all the debt I took on, all the sleepless nights I took on, all the lack of paychecks that I took on while they took on bigger paychecks than me. I think he mentioned those things, and again, a way that I never could, but in a way that they all sort of nodded along, like, yeah, he did do that.

That was pretty crazy of him. And still it is pretty crazy of him.

It's awesome. So it was. That was a very sweet moment. I was very nervous to tell them, and it went, praise God so well. And that's the season we're in now.

He was an answer to so many prayers. I could have never even thought to pray. I was like, just find me a 30 something with some experience that I can afford nonetheless of a guy who's done the things that he has done and already knew my business.