 do you pay yourself um i just started paying me i just started paying myself um congratulations thanks yeah i know it but it was a hard decision because it's like i mean you can relate like you just want to put everything back into the business um but you don't want to be homeless so exactly and you went exactly and you want to take care of like everyone else before you know but you have to take care of yourself and like otherwise it's not gonna be sustainable and this is your full-time job now it is yeah i left my corporate job a year actually like exactly a year ago end of september what made so what was the decision to leave was it something that happened with the company or you just said this will never grow until yeah it was pretty much like this will never grow i was i was working both like my schedule looking back my schedule was just insane i was working my whole time working at an accounting firm yeah insane schedule well so i was like i was working like 40 plus hours a week at the accounting firm i would work more like we i travel a lot and put on events for them and so i was a lot of travel hours too and then trying to do this like i would wake up at like five a.m go to the gym then like work on veg out then commute to work or sometimes work from home but work a full work day and then you're just at the end of like a corporate job work day you just don't want to do anything it's tough to so but then i would work veg out again i would work veg out on lunch break and i just had like no time for anything else sure and then i just realized on i just realized like the opportunities i was missing out on because i would be invited to different things tastings and events and i couldn't go because it was during the day when i was working and so so did you save i guess a little bit of money um and sort of that would have been nice um no i mean i i didn't have a lot of savings i really was working a job to just pay for like my nice car and my nice apartment and had no plan really and just like i'm just doing this and i didn't being from the midwest i didn't really see another option it was like everyone goes to like a good university and then gets a good job and then you like buy nice things and like that's just like everyone's life you know that's the treadmill yeah and so i was just doing that and then it just hit me one day and i was like i can do my mom was living in orange county she just moved out here go mom yeah support yeah yeah and so i was like i could move in with my mom for a little while and not pay rent my pride took a hit because i was like 27 at the time so it's like it's tough to day yeah and being like south oc like i did not want to live there like it wasn't it was like two hours to get to the city so i had to make sacrifices like i had to make and like these are very like nice sacrifice like i was living at like a nice place like you know what i mean but there were sacrifices like giving up some of my independence and um i just caught like all my expenses gave up my equinox gym membership and like all these nice things that i had great gym by the way just i loved i loved it i actually yeah but yeah i just like traded a lot of those financial things that's where like my paycheck was going they were holding you back yeah and now i traded that for basically freedom and and doing what i wanted to pursue that's a good and i actually just sold my i actually just sold my um lexus like two weeks ago and took my sister's like old um Chevy it's like it's the 2009 but i'm driving that around now so it's really amazing what happens when there's an awakening as it relates to you start to view money as a way to fuel your growth and your company and you start to you realize like things are nothing but they're kind of speed bumps that you've placed in front of yourself because you've bought them yeah but they hold you back in a lot of ways but it's tough to make that switch because society and everybody around you is living large right i didn't even see it as an option like which sounds silly um i can almost relate it to veganism where i didn't even see like being vegan as an option like you're just it's so ingrained in you you're just going along and then you're like wait why am i doing this like why am i why do i have a car payment i don't need to have a car payment there's like my sister's like car that is perfectly fine like sitting in my mom's driveway like i don't need a car payment i'll just take that one i think people just are going and they don't they don't think of the other option it's tough i mean it's tough to make the connection and i think once you do you're kind of like weird or you're afraid yeah um i lived at home for two years when i graduated college i had some student loans and i for sure didn't i didn't want them and so i lived at home and fortunate or unfortunate the stock market crashed at that time yeah and so then i was able to buy a property in boston because everything was like on sale and uncle obama was giving out eight thousand dollars to first-time home buyers and so that kind of it all worked out but while i was living at home i'll never forget this my mom after like a year and a half said are you gonna start contributing financially and i said no like you're my mom why would i start she's like that's not how this works and so i said all right let's go to cosco so went to cosco and i think i spent six hundred dollars in groceries or something and i was like i'll pay for this this is my contribution and then i moved out like two months later i was like i'm never doing that i don't know there was so it's so weird my mom was my roommate basically and i was like this is so terrible it's it is and it's yeah but i think you just make if you're an entrepreneur or you're someone who's like super passionate about you know making your business work or making your dream work i think you'll take the you'll take those temporary couple steps backward that's what i always tell people couple steps backward to take you know big steps forward yeah it's just temporary sacrifices for long-term goals yeah totally