Addison LaBonte

I was working in finance, was suddenly working from home.

And that was the moment for me when I saw what living in fear looked like.

granted a lot of it was justified but there were a lot of people who suddenly their their life was completely different day and night they stopped living they stopped leaving their house and i thought if this is what living in fear is like i never ever want to do that so that prompted my move to dallas which prompted the start of this business and i just made a a goal for myself is to never let fear hold me back it's to to push through to have courage in the face of fear and i

again i think all the time what if i what if i didn't start this what if i was scared about what people thought or if it cost too much money or this or that like my life would be so much more boring and less fulfilling and less joyful well said yeah i live every day with the thought of like if i'm on my deathbed what regrets do i have oh my goodness i think about my deathbed every day yeah because you never know people are dying young these days so i'm actively trying to like just not have regrets

That's funny that you say that, and maybe that's why we're entrepreneurs, is I think every single day when I'm 100 years old and I can't get out of bed and I can't run, what stories do I want to look back on my life and tell?

When I'm hopefully, God willing, surrounded by children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren, I have my family there.

Do I want to say, oh, I played it safe and I was fearful about what people thought and I never really pursued my dreams.

I never took that trip, started that business, reached out to that person.

Or do I want to say, man, I did it all.

And maybe I didn't succeed at this.

Maybe I failed at this.

But I tried and I pursued those dreams.

So it's funny you say deathbed because I call it my deathbed mentality.

And I feel like it has completely changed my life.

Talk about courageous.

I mean, I can imagine how fearful he was putting himself out there like that, but he had this greater purpose and he pushed through that fear and his, his death really affected me as I don't think I've ever cried about someone else's death that I didn't know personally, but that also really changed my thinking.

And I thought if he could go out there and be that courageous and that bold, then I can do the same thing.

Yes.

Yeah.

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