Andy Stumpf

When I first got out of the military, it was almost crisis mode.

I was working for this strength and conditioning company as my initial bridge out, and I'd been doing so on the weekends, moonlighting.

So I had from an economic off-ramp, I went from making what I was making in the military to what I was making for that company.

There was a slight increase as opposed to a decrease, which is great.

until that ended 16 months later when I quit without having another job lined up whatsoever and then went into the garage and started selling things on Craigslist, which is a really good way to meet really weird people.

If you haven't tried it, give it a give it a go.

Maybe meet them away from your house, you know, down the street somewhere.

But it was for years, am I gonna have enough money to pay the bills?

Am I gonna have enough money for the mortgage?

What am I gonna do?

What am I gonna do if somebody doesn't reach out with an opportunity?

Built, I would say more, I mean, I was gonna say a tool, a toolkit or a skillset, but it's more a mentality than anything.

to realize that you can solve what does come out and you can kind of build on your foundation of the work that you have done and that can slowly build out over time.

It takes time.

This is not something that happened in a matter of one year.

This is well over a decade at this point.

But getting out of that survival mode and just having the ability to assess opportunities from a place of, do I even want to do this?

As opposed to a place of, I feel like I have to.

Man, you want to talk about a sleep score difference.

And you've earned it.